Mp Publishing imprint: 244 books

A botched crime forces three men a sculptor, his son, and the son's septuagenarian friend to flee their small town in this tragic and moving account of survival in the face of one's own failures. A man kills his wifes lover… Almost. The criminal is Gideon Banks, a sculptor of modest success who has...

Ever since her father walked into the ocean eleven years ago, a young woman waits for him to return. Life in her coastal town is decidedly bleak. Her mother spends her time quietly monitoring the ocean for her missing husband. Her grandfather passes the days typesetting dictionaries that will never be...

Following the success of 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café' volumes I, II, and III, we are pleased to serve up another hearty helping of Southern writing in this fourth edition. Offering the best in contemporary Southern fiction, from a tale inspired by a sculpture to another written by a popular Nashville...

Its Christmas Eve, 1940. Along an isolated stretch of railway between Meridian, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, two locomotives travel toward one another through the dark winter landscape. A.P. Dunn, engineer aboard the 4512 southbound freight, reminisces about the last trip he made through...

Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and that traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café' presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing. Readers need not ever have set foot south of the Mason-Dixon...

The author who took readers into the strange and fascinating world of Salt Lake City escort services now returns to New York, where a single woman becomes inexplicably drawn to a college student accused of murder. Grace drinks alone in the same bar every night, confides in her longtime bartender, and...

Farewell to Prague' is a memoir set against the turbulent events of the Nazi era in Germany and World War II England. It is the story of a girl who, at the age of six, witnesses a murder being committed by German Storm Troopers. From that moment, the happy life she has known disintegrates.

Amnesiac Eric Norton wakes up in a police interrogation room burned from a meth lab explosion. As he tries to remember his past, his criminal employers and the police track his every move, both hoping to discover what Eric knows. However, Eric's confused memories are so entrenched in obscure drug-related...

An aging Andrew Woodman stumbles through a snowstorm, slowly losing his strength, his language, and his memories of the once-familiar island landscape around him. When Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers Andrews body frozen in the ice later that winter, the rich narrative tapestry...

Above the Thunder' tells the mesmerizing story of three generations of women confronting the emotional turmoil of abandonment, and the men with whom their lives converge. Young and ambitious Anna puts her career on hold to support her husband through medical school, only to find out shes pregnant...

In this twentieth anniversary edition of the feminist classic 'In My Mothers House', Kim Chernin tells the brave and ultimately triumphant story of Rose Chernin, Russian immigrant and passionate old left activist, and her daughter Kim, the narrator of this riveting memoir of conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation among four generations of Chernin women.

In the summer, Snow Island is overrun by New Englands well-heeled families looking for recreation and relaxation. With the coming of theoff-season, the island is left to its hardscrabble residents, an eclectic and stoic community bound by connections that run deep. In thefall of 1990, the islanders include...

The passengers boarding the 'Twilight Limited' — a newly graduated physician, a retired couple finally taking the leisurely vacation theyve always dreamed of, and a lonely writer — are unaware they are speeding toward an unfathomable disaster and possibly their doom. Nor is a friendly tugboat captain...

Spinning a new twist to the legal drama genre, Frank Turner Hollon explores the moral and the controversial in his third novel, 'A Thin Difference'. Jack Skinner is a criminal defense attorney in a small town in Southern Alabama. His personal life has declined into a battlefield of divorces, bitter children,...