Montauk to Manhattan: An American Novel
Publication Date: 07/09/2024
A fun, provocative murder mystery about the making of a miniseries in the Hamptons during the summer of 2016 that involves today's streaming TV, #MeToo Hollywood, the rise of Donald Trump, Hamptons parties, the stealing of Native American lands, and a well-known New York newspaper. Author Thomas Maier (Showtime’s Masters…
Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times
Publication Date: 05/28/2024
Rich with authentic detail and insight, these compelling stories sweep the reader along on an intimate, uniquely Jewish journey from 1974 through the first decade of the new millennium as the characters wrestle with identity, independence, ambition, sexuality, faith, and love. The five compelling tales comprising Lolita at Leonard’s of Great…
The Circle Broken
Publication Date: 05/28/2024
A bold, sexy, true-to-life tale of what really happens inside the country music business. Cee Cee Porter came to Nashville as a young woman with a handful of love songs she’d written for her husband, Bucky, and a dream of joining the ranks of country music queens. After one of…
Curveball
Publication Date: 05/28/2024
A star rookie pitcher is making a statement in his first major league season—but will the secret he’s been keeping derail everything he’s been working toward? “Eric Goodman’s Curveball dwells in its details in the most fascinating way—and it reaches far beyond its baseball setting to become a first-rate intergenerational drama as…
Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here
Publication Date: 05/21/2024
“Vail’s subtle touches of magical realism enrich her insights about the difficulties of young womanhood without overwhelming them. This has charm to spare.” –Starred Publisher’s Weekly Review Her best friend is missing, her career is a disaster, she’s stuck living with her parents, and now her heart isn’t beating. Can…
The Accidental Joe: The Top-Secret Life of a Celebrity Chef
Publication Date: 05/14/2024
One of the Washington Post’s “5 mystery novels to savor this summer” A maverick celebrity chef reluctantly agrees to let the CIA use his hugely popular international food, culture, and travel TV series as cover for a dangerous espionage mission. When the CIA approaches celebrity chef Sebastian Pike about using…
Conditions of Precarity
Publication Date: 05/14/2024
This haunting collection reveals the inner longings of a wide swath of humanity—of differing ages, sexualities, ethnicities—who hover on the brink of life-altering realizations and face outcomes as dangerous as they are uncertain. An immigrant grandmother who sells roses to gay customers at a West Hollywood bar; a deaf-mute masseur…
Judessey
Publication Date: 05/07/2024
The journey of a Jewish partisan during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is an event greater than the sum of the survivor testimonies and the stories of its six million victims. It is an event beyond the capacity of the human brain to contain. It deserves to be described not only…
Morning Pages
Publication Date: 05/07/2024
When her professional and family life collide, a playwright starts journaling every morning to push through her writer’s block in this laugh-out-loud and fresh take on family, friendship, and the chaos of midlife. “[A] winning adult debut…” –Publishers Weekly “A heartwarming, sometimes hilarious meditation on writer’s block, expectations, and the…
American Inheritance: A Novel
Publication Date: 05/07/2024
As heard on the Glenn Beck radio show! A young socialist gets the chance to earn a multimillion-dollar inheritance from the conservative grandfather he’s never met, but to do so, he must complete a cross-country road trip designed to alter his cynical view of America. Tom Brock is a twenty-five-year-old…