Mp imprint: 249 books

We live in political times where it is impossible not to be involved, inspired, appalled, or motivated by the current administration. It seems like everyone has something to say about politics these days and fiction writers are no exception. This came to the forefront of Stephen Elliotts mind following...

From the Editor: An old friend of mine once said to me, “You oughta go ahead and get the graveyard people to cut your stone now. Have em write on there, If this is anything like his life, he wont be here long. ”Ive thought a dozen times to get a paperweight-size version of that very epitaph. Ill...

Uncompromising, often dark, and always insightful, 'Dying Light' explores the mysteries of duty, forgiveness, power, and love through a broad range of narrative voices. We meet a football coach who seeks to avenge his wifes affair, a delusional poet who escapes from a hospital as the bombing of Baghdad...

Available for the first time in three separate volumes, 'To the Edge of the World' is a seafaring adventure in the tradition of Patrick OBrian, chartering the lives of Captain Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin, their friendship, and the historical voyage that ultimately drove them apart. In 1831, FitzRoy...

Izzys eccentric, complicated mother committed suicide on her forty-first birthday. Now, on the night before Izzy herself is to turn forty-one, she struggles with the realization that she will be older than her mother ever was. And to make matters worse, her widowed father, unstable sister Ellie, and...

Cecil Durgin, a twelve-year-old African-American orphan, witnesses the perverse buildup to a brutal murder at an exclusive hunting camp in 1958. Decades later, the shame and guilt are still haunting him when fissures start forming in the lives of several characters unwittingly connected by a young womans...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed 'Torture the Artist', a fiercely funny novel about red-state politics, family traditions, and a common man who decides to fight back. Somewhere in the middle of America dwells Blue Gene Mapother, a mullet-headed patriot who staunchly supports the American...

If ignorance is bliss, then memory can be tortuous, until it reaches the level of redemption for the characters in this deeply-faceted Southern novel. Destin, Florida, has a reputation as the vacation town of the well-to-do. For Leigh, searching for the sense of belonging, it is the place of dreams...

A chilling, literary novel about a nomadic young woman who becomes tangled in the stories of her past and the search for a wild boy. Teenage runaway Jamie Hall — entrapped by circumstance and poverty — seems incapable of escaping the mountain-and-valley watershed that was the birthplace of her maternal...

An impressive overview of a writer whose career is still climbing, 'Worship of the Common Heart' allows us a rare opportunity to observe twenty years in the evolution of a writer of uncommon talent and heart. Emotionally complex, achingly real, these nineteen stories focus on the everyday, defining...

From the author of 'Superbad' and 'Superworse', a new collection of stories about giving, wanting, and the wonders of love. 'A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both' is a collection of stories about love, the most elusive and problematic of all phenomena. With a mix of traditional, literary prose and...

An engrossing novel about Mary Todd Lincoln — one of historys most misunderstood and enigmatic women. Writing from Bellevue asylum — where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night — a famous widow can finally share the story of her life in her own words. From her tempestuous childhood...

Though her neighbors in turn-of-the-century New York consider her a madwoman in the attic, Alice Pinkertons mind is razor-sharp, honed by a restless imagination, years of reading, and a profound contempt for her surroundings. Like her namesake in 'Through the Looking-Glass', Alice has a mirror through...

George Tibbits steps from the ferry on a Spring day in 1941, and Alice Daggett is there to watch his silent arrival with the other Islanders. He is a recluse in his forties and the owner of the Islands twin houses. She is a sixteen year old who spends her days attending the one-room schoolhouse, running...