Mp Publishing imprint: 244 books

For generations they have known how to deal, when to fold, and how not to get backed into corners. They communicate with signs and quiet symbolism, and what they say is not what they mean. Like his father and brother, Charlie spends his young life manipulating everyone he meets into handing over just...

How can an eighteen year old who is haunted by the worlds problems possibly concentrate on chemistry and algebra? Raine Rassaby is a senior at St. Ursulas Academy in New York City, but rather than study, she rescues wounded birds, arranges pilgrimages to nuclear missile silos, befriends street people,...

A debut novel about a young girl at the center of the secret world of professional mourners, where women are trained extensively and paid handsomely to attend the funerals of strangers. Mem is a wailer, a professional mourner hired to cry at funerals. One of the few remaining American girls in this secret,...

Racial tensions and the plight of immigrant life in 1970s England create the backdrop for the story of a soccer players act of violence that will haunt his son for years to come. At nineteen, Geoffhurst is getting along just fine. He has his own flat away from his family, eight jars to divide his weekly...

Eric B. Martins sweeping and highly praised debut novel of young love and family feuds lays bare the new race and class wars of a swiftly changing south. By turns lyrical and brutal, 'Luck' echoes with the voices of unexpected characters: the self-assured musings of Hermelinda Salmeron; local wise guy...

A series of contemporary fairy tales populated by wolves, witches, snakes, and an entirely new breed of heroine. In this Brothers Grimm-meets-Bridget Jones collection of linked stories, Danielle Wood introduces readers to Rosie Little, a thoroughly modern Little Red Riding Hood who offers her sharp,...

The seedy underbelly of small-town life is exposed in 'Water Wings', Kristen den Hartogs exuberant first novel, but beauty grows out of the decay and dark secrets. Beautiful, vampish Darlene is getting married again, to shoe-store Reg, a man tied to the family in ways few of them realize. Darlenes grown...

From the acclaimed author who has mastered his own genre of psychological mystery, 'Blood and Circumstance' takes on issues of mental illness, family bonds, and nature versus nurture. Told entirely through the pretrial interview sessions between an accused murderer and his court-appointed psychologist, this suspenseful tale leaves the reader wondering exactly whom they can trust.

After nearly fifteen years in a childless marriage, Michael Brace and his beautiful wife, Suzanne, live separate lives under the same roof. Suzanne suffers crippling headaches and is haunted by childhood memories of her father and the bloodlines of mental illness. Michael, meanwhile, sleeps on the couch,...

Ten-year-old Iva Giles believes her father is lost. His checks, which once arrived every week, become sporadically-mailed wadded dollar bills, then simply stop coming altogether. She lives with her mother and little sister, half in her present world, where the scenery alters and reality is erased a little...

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton — the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly — was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforths previous novel, 'Pinkertons Sister'. Now Ben steps out of the shadows and into the center of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood...

Pearl Starling is forty-five, a hermit with a 'colorful past' — a past filled with treachery and desire, death and survival — who makes her living weaving rugs in a North Carolina military town. For years she has been an object of curiosity and scorn, and now she has defied the societys conventions...

Bite the Stars' is the US debut of the gifted Canadian author Eliza Clark. Writing with a trademark use of rhythmic language and cinematic detail, 'Bite the Stars' is a mesmerizing story of the whirlwind forces of nature and the ravages — and glory — of love. In a uniquely personal voice, Grace Larson...

Fallen from grace and shunned by respectable society, Bobby Long is joyously content drowning his past in cheap hooch and bedding any woman with low standards and high tolerance. His partner, an unproductive writer named Byron Burns, is happy to join him for the long ride down. Their distant salvation...