T.C. Boyle // The Harder They Come
T.C. Boyle // The Harder They Come
 Amanda Filipacchi // The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty
Amanda Filipacchi // The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty
 T.C. Boyle // San Miguel
T.C. Boyle // San Miguel
 Mary Roach // Packing for Mars
Mary Roach // Packing for Mars
 T.C. Boyle // The Women
T.C. Boyle // The Women
 Bruce Machart // Wake of Forgiveness
Bruce Machart // Wake of Forgiveness
 T.C. Boyle // Stories II
T.C. Boyle // Stories II
 Dan Chaon // Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon // Await Your Reply
 T.C. Boyle // Wild Child
T.C. Boyle // Wild Child
 T.C. Boyle // When The Killing's Done
T.C. Boyle // When The Killing's Done
T.C. Boyle // The Harder They ComeWhen Sara, an anti authoritarian activist, picks up a handsome unhinged hitchhiker, she’s got one thing on her mind: a jail break. For her dog. Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.
Amanda Filipacchi // The Unfortunate Importance of BeautyA witty feminist fable. With biting wit and offbeat charm, Amanda Filipacchi illuminates the labyrinthine relationship between beauty, desire, and identity, asking at every turn: what does it truly mean to allow oneself to be seen?
T.C. Boyle // San MiguelOn a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle's haunting new novel.
Mary Roach // Packing for MarsThe best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Mary Roach's hilarious new book, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, is in stores now.
T.C. Boyle // The WomenHaving brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle's incomparable account of Wright's life is told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. There's the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff, the passionate Southern belle Maude Miriam Noel, the tragic Mamah Cheney, and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin. Blazing with his trademark wit and inventiveness, Boyle deftly captures these very different women and the creative life in all its complexity.
Bruce Machart // Wake of ForgivenessTexas 1895. An ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of “the only woman he’s ever been fond of” when his wife dies during childbirth with the couple’s fourth son, Karel. The boy is forever haunted by thoughts of the mother he never knew, by the bloodshot blame in his father’s eyes, and permanently marked by the yoke he and his brothers are forced to wear to plow the family fields. From an early age, Karel proves so talented on horseback that his father enlists him to ride in acreage-staked horse races against his neighbors. In the winter of 1910, Karel rides in the ultimate high-stakes race against a powerful Spanish patriarch and his alluring daughters: hanging in the balance are his father’s fortune, his brothers' futures, and his own fate.
T.C. Boyle // Stories IIMordant wit, emotional power, exquisite prose: it is all here in abundance. Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the author's first four collections to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II gathers the work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form as well as a preface in which Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories and the art of making them.
Dan Chaon // Await Your ReplyThe lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways--and with unexpected consequences--in acclaimed author Dan Chaon’s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.
T.C. Boyle // Wild ChildThere may be no one better than T.C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying readers while at the same time testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance. The fourteen new stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. From "Wild Child," a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France, to "La Conchita," the tale of a catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his own humanity, these tales are by turns magical and moving, showcasing the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made Boyle one of the foremost living masters of the short story.
T.C. Boyle // When The Killing's DonePrincipally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the island's endangered native creatures from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert the plans of Alma and her colleagues. Their confrontation plays out in a series of escalating scenes in which these characters violently confront one another, and tempt the awesome destructive power of nature itself.
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