A New York Times Bestseller  A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize “Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.” —Colson Whit...

While searching the Sea of Banda with his friends, hoping to find the third American atomic bomb stolen by the Japanese die-hards, Buck finds himself marooned on a small island. The good news is that it he has, in fact, found the secret base he was looking for. The bad news is that Devil's Island is...

Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won’t spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years and learned every trick of the trade—until a n...

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espous...

This imaginary training flight takes place at the height of the Cold War. The book describes the rationale, the pre-flight preparations and the flight itself. The sortie takes place mainly in UK airspace as well as over the Atlantic. It includes a simulated high level bomb run, celestial navigation ...

Billy Boy is a humorous story about an altar boy growing up in a small New England town and the many conflicts he encounters along the way. When the mysteries of faith, sex, and the world around him were rationalized with a young mind and an imagination that ran wild within his head. When trying to ...

Detonated Mirror is a hybrid text of poetry and poetic prose, situated in the otherworldly desert landscape of the Southwest, a place at once feral, magical, elemental and vast, while at the same time ubiquitously enclosed by brutal barbed wire fence. It is the place of aliens, the atom bomb, scorc...

Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern , John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern . Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscr...

WHAT IF THE C.I.A. HAD ALL THE NATION’S WITNESS PROTECTION LISTS? An ultra-secret unit of the Central Intelligence Agency forms an unholy alliance with vengeful mob bosses. In return for loads of cash, the unit’s agents bump off mob turncoats. The C.I.A. unit, feared even by other agency opera...

What are the odds of three serial killers all living in the same college town? Not as long as you might imagine, when two of them are twin brothers. The third killer being someone they unwittengly hire to do maintenance at the nursing homes they own. The brothers, who think some residents live too l...

DARK SECRETS LINK TWO WOMEN TO A MURDERED BANKER! A security guard apprehends Elizabeth Olsen fleeing a mansion with a revolver in her hand. Inside, John Denton, a prominent banker, lies dead. Elizabeth claims she is innocent. But she acknowledges that Denton was her lover, and her story has more ...

On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine's Day, the overturned hull of t...

The story of the RAF's versatile V-bomber and workhorse that was instrumental to victory in the Falkland Islands conflict After the success of the Halifax bomber that pulverized the Third Reich, Handley Page soon looked at new designs. In 1947, they developed a new bomber that could drop the at...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Empty Chair and The Devil's Teardrop, is back displaying his "ticking-bomb suspense" (People) in this never-before-published thriller. Every New York City neighborhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness al...

Supercharge your kitchen with 20 flavor bomb sauces, spices, relishes, and jams that unlock 100 fantastic dinner ideas in condiment-loving cookbook From A to Zhug. Featuring easy and delicious recipes based on bang-for-buck condiments – from harissa to chermoula, chicken salt to chocolate fudg...

Flying Safety, Vol 1 - Global Safety Primer. MONTY led the four-ship of F-111 E models from RAF Upper Heyford across the English Channel and low-level across the French terrain enroute to the Suippes bombing range. Finn McCool raised a sleepy eye toward the heavens as he handed-off Monty’s flight ...

Seeking to escape the insanity that plagued the nation in the late sixties, Spencer F. Schiffer and his young wife fled New York as soon as he graduated law school in 1971 to spend a winter ski-bumming in Aspen while trying to figure out what to do with their lives. By what he describes as simple tw...

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist.... What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal land...

The Belly of the Beast is Book II in the exciting Jungle War series picks up where Chasing Romeo-The Jungle War left off. It is a fast paced, action-packed tale of Company R's LRRP/Ranger (pronounced 'Lurp') five to six man teams in combat deep in enemy lines during the later stages of the Vietnam W...

We have a ton of cool stories that will inspire you and get you fired up to build this winter! In the last issue we gave you a glimpse of Amalgam’s unbelievable scale replica’s in our centerfold. In this issue we take a closer look at what it takes to turn out these big buck creations. You might...