Carrie Bell has led a remarkably stable existence in her Wisconsin home town: life is good and, perhaps more important, life doesn't change. Then her longtime fiancé is involved in an accident that leaves him paralyzed, and not only Carrie's life but her way of thinking about it changes drastically, and she knows that what she needs is to escape the future that threatens to trap her forever. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Both the freedom and the life of San Francisco PD Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer are at risk in this fourth installment of the bestselling Women's Murder Club series. An arrest goes terribly wrong, forcing Lindsay to fire her weapon in circumstances that lead to official accusations of police brutality. In an attempt to escape the reporters' unwelcome attentions, Lindsay seeks refuge at her sister's home in Half Moon Bay, only to be confronted by a series of brutal murders whose perpetrators soon target Lindsay.

Thomas Paine's classic treatise on government in general, and on life under English rule, was first published in January, 1776, and is one of the primary texts of the revolutionary period. In it, Paine argues for the need for independence from England.

Cult favorite Chuck Palahniuk outgrosses even himself in this series of grotesque tales about a group of writers at a three-month writing retreat at an old theater. In a scheme to become rich and famous when they later write about their ordeal, they embark on an experience of extreme communal brutality--eventually even consuming parts of each other's bodies. Amid all the horror, the stories they write at the retreat are scattered through the book: set in the actual world, they show another side of Palahniuk, one with considerably less gore and a less extreme focus on the macabre.

Cult favorite Chuck Palahniuk outgrosses even himself in this series of grotesque tales about a group of writers at a three-month writing retreat at an old theater. In a scheme to become rich and famous when they later write about their ordeal, they embark on an experience of extreme communal brutality--eventually even consuming parts of each other's bodies. Amid all the horror, the stories they write at the retreat are scattered through the book: set in the actual world, they show another side of Palahniuk, one with considerably less gore and a less extreme focus on the macabre.

Cult favorite Chuck Palahniuk outgrosses even himself in this series of grotesque tales about a group of writers at a three-month writing retreat at an old theater. In a scheme to become rich and famous when they later write about their ordeal, they embark on an experience of extreme communal brutality--eventually even consuming parts of each other's bodies. Amid all the horror, the stories they write at the retreat are scattered through the book: set in the actual world, they show another side of Palahniuk, one with considerably less gore and a less extreme focus on the macabre.

Chuck Palahniuk abandons fiction for fact in this collection of essays, which includes pieces on Marilyn Manson, his job as a hospice driver, submarines, college wrestling, his father's murder, and the making of the movie of his novel FIGHT CLUB.

Chuck Palahniuk abandons fiction for fact in this collection of essays, which includes pieces on Marilyn Manson, his job as a hospice driver, submarines, college wrestling, his father's murder, and the making of the movie of his novel FIGHT CLUB.

Shock novelist and scathingly satiric social commentator Chuck Palahniuk (FIGHT CLUB) gives his twisted take on the oral biography, using multiple first-person accounts to tell the short and brutish life story of Buster "Rant" Casey, a serial killing teenager who intentionally contracts rabies in order to spread the disease. Set in a dystopic future, laced with dark religious overtones, and filled with amphetamine-high humor, RANT will delight Palahniuk's fans and disturb those new to his gleefully bleak vision.

Shock novelist and scathingly satiric social commentator Chuck Palahniuk (FIGHT CLUB) gives his twisted take on the oral biography, using multiple first-person accounts to tell the short and brutish life story of Buster "Rant" Casey, a serial killing teenager who intentionally contracts rabies in order to spread the disease. Set in a dystopic future, laced with dark religious overtones, and filled with amphetamine-high humor, RANT will delight Palahniuk's fans and disturb those new to his gleefully bleak vision.

Ten stories from the 50s.