The Book of Emmett

Deborah Forster

Emmett Brown was a charming young man who quoted poetry and read to his wife and young family from the great novels of the world. But he also had a 'system'. Emmett always had in mind that he was going to make a million for the family and continued to pursue his dream of 'the numbers' that would guarant...

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a bab...