INDIE
Released: Nov. 23, 2011
"Against a vivid sci-fi backdrop, Lange brings a light touch to heavy material, with a fast-paced, funny story to boot."
In this smart, entertaining sci-fi tale, conflict between men and women has reached interplanetary proportions.
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INDIE
Released: Nov. 10, 2011
"A subtle, absorbing portrait of the immigrant experience."
An illegal immigrant struggles to find a home in America in this moving tale of loneliness and belonging.
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INDIE
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Finch treats serious issues whimsically without being flippant, to deeply entertaining effect."
A fast-paced, bizarre, iconoclastic farce anchored by an endearing filial relationship between a journalist and his assistant.
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INDIE
Released: Sept. 29, 2011
"Taylor has taken his love for a specific film and turned it into something greater--a beautiful compendium of not just memorabilia, but commentary on the importance of community in the art of filmmaking."
Loaded with archival material, Taylor's coffee table book captures the impact a major Hollywood production can have on the area in which it was filmed, as well as the people who live there.
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INDIE
Released: Sept. 20, 2011
"If you can't afford a plane ticket to Tehran, visit the Daytons' House.
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A compelling family saga that spans nearly a century and paints a loving, true-to-life portrait of a nation.
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INDIE
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"An entertaining tale of an off-kilter mind coping with shady surroundings, told with literary flair."
Creeping schizophrenia takes the reins of a young doctor's mind in this subtle psychological mystery.
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INDIE
Released: Aug. 15, 2011
"A sharp coming-of-age story that makes history come alive."
In Pugh's debut novel, a young woman from California joins the Freedom Riders in 1961, gets arrested and jailed in Mississippi, and learns that not everyone appreciates a hero.
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INDIE
Released: July 26, 2011
"An absolutely wonderful debut with the potential to become a YA classic."
In a modern take on both Kafka and T.H. White, a young girl learns about life as a human by spending time in her pet ferret's world.
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INDIE
Released: July 22, 2011
"Fast-paced, energetic and fun; a dime novel for modern intellectuals."
Watt O'Hugh tangles with love, danger and high adventure in Drachman's engaging tale of Western science fiction and amazing fantasy.
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INDIE
Released: July 20, 2011
"An utterly winning, deceptively smart collection of mishaps, plot twists and grinning one-liners."
INDIE
Released: July 12, 2011
"A small book that could point readers toward big money they never knew they had."
A bantam-sized guidebook brimming with tips on how to search for unclaimed property that belongs to you.
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INDIE
Released: July 10, 2011
"A dense, somewhat unfocused historical tale that boasts compelling characters and a plot that ultimately packs a wallop."
Allen explores an early, largely uncelebrated patriot who helped bring about American independence.
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INDIE
Released: July 5, 2011
"A skillful blend of passion, mystery, politics and history, set in a perfectly rendered Provence."
INDIE
Released: July 1, 2011
"Nearly impossible to put down."
Wooten's novel is an earnest coming-of-age tale as well as an inventive look at the contested borderland between science and faith.
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INDIE
Released: June 27, 2011
"An accomplished, creative memoir by a writer with serious literary tools—West Virginia, we hardly knew your soulful depths."
Veteran short-story writer Ayer strikes gold with these enchanting sketches of the motley relatives and neighbors who peopled her mother's rural West Virginia girlhood—back when the 20th century was young and spry.
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INDIE
Released: June 24, 2011
"Memorable characters, macabre scenes and a dazzling portrayal of reality will leave readers anxious for book two in the Gabriel McCray series."
Detective Gabriel McCray, the prime suspect in the Malibu Canyon serial killings, grapples with the ghosts of his tormented past in Stevens' (Follow Your Dreams, 2009, etc.) dark murder mystery.
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INDIE
Released: June 17, 2011
"A well-crafted, sardonic look at university life."
LaRue's novel satirizes the backbiting politics and scandals of a mediocre Southern university through the eyes of its faculty.
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INDIE
Released: June 3, 2011
"Darkly entrancing tales whose pages bleed struggle, trauma and madness."
A new edition of the late author's macabre stories set along the Eastern Front during World War II.
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INDIE
Released: May 12, 2011
"On-target insights that will illuminate and enrage the average citizen."
Learsy (Over a Barrel, 2007) offers a chronological and critical perspective on the power wielded by Big Oil and Wall Street.
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INDIE
Released: May 5, 2011
"The wobbly science of its premise notwithstanding, this is a fascinating, enjoyable sci-fi yarn."
In this postapocalyptic science-fiction allegory, diminutive tribal humans share the world, and a deeply intertwined society, with hordes of insects.
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