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by Dave Publisher Comments Dave is a substitute teacher in Portland and tells his tales of woe. He goes to work not knowing what the day holds and tries to make the best out of it when people make fun of his glasses or threaten to fight him. He helps kids with their homework and... (read more) List Price $5.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mcsweeneys Publisher Comments Issue 15 is also known as the "Icelandic Issue." Printed in Iceland, half of the stories are written by actual Icelandic writers. And the kicker? It also comes with an Icelandic tabloid mini-mag filled with words you won't understand and images that... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jack Black Publisher Comments A legendary American cult classic, a best seller in 1926 when first published, and reprinted five times, this is the true story of criminal convict and hobo Jack Black.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joe Meno Powells.com Staff Pick The world Joe Meno creates in this book is one full of infinite possibilities. The protagonist, somewhat of a superhero with sleuthing powers, spends his childhood solving mysteries and fighting crime. His adulthood is spent being frightened by the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Ups Wimsatt Publisher Comments Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jamie S. Rich and Andi Watson Publisher Comments Novelist Jamie S. Rich returns to Oni Press with a new prose novella illustrated by Andi Watson! Hieronymus Zoo is a man no longer plagued by pain. He lives a life many dream about. His home is a serene island and his only companion is a loyal pooch.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ellen Ullman Publisher Comments Here is a candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business out of a live-work loft in San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Karen Green Publisher Comments In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines. On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roy Kesey Publisher Comments A restlessly inventive collection, as the best story collections so often are-comic and tender, ironic and earnest, deadpan and passionate. A distinctive new voice, from a distinctive new press.-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Includes Wait, a... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jonathan Messinger Publisher Comments Hiding Out is a collection of hilarious, sparkling stories about people avoiding the consequences of their poor decisions. A jilted lover dresses as a robot to win back the heart of an ex-girlfriend. A man builds a time machine to embrace the identity he... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Tom Blood Powells.com Staff Pick Blood's poems stand tall, arms wide apart, offering to embrace or engulf you. His words flutter and get stuck in your hair like static electricity. A delicate, abstract, and mysterious little book. Recommended by Kevin, Powells... (read more) Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles Bukowski Powells.com Staff Pick "Bukowski. You either love him or hate him. This is one of his best collections of short stories raunchy, sodden, and bloated. Enjoy." Chris F., Powells.com... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arthur Nersesian Publisher Comments Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life...and the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michelle Embree Publisher Comments Sixteen-year-old Angie is called "Lezzylard" by her classmates. Her best friend Shelby is an out dyke in a working-class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s while the third member of their trio can't shoplift because security guards always... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stewart Home Publisher Comments This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, and her sex life revolves around the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lucy Corin Publisher Comments In this refreshing, funny, and startling collection of stories, Lucy Corin veers far from the path of staid contemporary fiction. She masterfully weaves traditional and experimental topics and techniques, creating a fictional world where people behave... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Russell Kick Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Editors of McSweeney's Publisher Comments McSweeney's No. 16 presents new stories from McSweeney's regulars like Roddy Doyle and Denis Johnson, and exploits a never-before-seen tripartite format to bring you a hilarious Ann Beattie novella and a special deck-of-cards story from Robert Coover... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Miscellaneous) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michelle Tea Publisher Comments Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Karen Finley Publisher Comments Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire,""We Keep Our Victims Ready,""It's Only Art,"and "The Black Sheep."Excoriating misogyny, homophobia... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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