Carol, a college-bred girl, marries a small town doctor. She tries to uplift the natives of the small town.

A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World. The widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle will tell anyone who will listen of her love for art, and in a quest to surround herself with her intellectual equals, she invites an entourage to an Italian palace. One guest, who supports his poetry habit by editing a magazine for rabbit fanciers, will become the target of her amorous advances. Another guest will use...

An entire day of the week has disappeared. That's normal, right? In What About Tuesday? Adam Wilson reminds us that should you ever wake up to find a day of the week missing due to a freak abnormality in the nature of space-time, it's probably a good idea not to mention it to anyone. Seriously. Just leave it alone. Definitely don't hire a private investigator. Oh, and definitely don't ask questions. Forget anything happened. Because, technically,...

Recounts the adventures of three friends and their dog traveling down the River Thames, told in graphic novel format.

A collection of three short stories by I.M. GerhiThese three short stories are all less than 1500 words in length. They deal with social conventions, culture, and the concessions we make to each other to be part of society.These three stories are also published in ABRUPTLY: a short story collection in four sets. Way Up Here"Sometimes, such as now, the stands are more than half empty. The stadium sound hollow with an intermittent lone cheer."Sitting...

Inside the rising tech microcosms of Seoul, Singapore, Japan, and India, far from the mendacity of Silicon Valley, a serial tech entrepreneur pursues a last-ditch attempt to build something great: COMPASS, an open-source network platform that Microsoft has labeled "reckless." At stake are his reputation, his dwindling bank account, and his fifteen-year relationship with the only woman he's ever loved-a woman in the midst of reckoning with who she...