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Mona is twenty-three, emotionally adrift and cleaning houses to get by. While handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a man she calls Mr Disgusting, who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. In search of healing, she decamps to New Mexico for a fresh start, but always lurking just beneath the surface are the ghosts of her past, and the crushing legacy of a chaotic, destructive childhood. It seems running further away from her problems could just leave more inventive ways for them to find her.

From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life. Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke. Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend—a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story—and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. Dark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who—with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares—reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth, Mona winds up on an eccentric, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future. The only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of. Jen Beagin’s Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable, astonishing read, “by turns nutty and forlorn…Brash, deadpan, and achingly troubled” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Beagin is “a wonderfully funny writer who also happens to tackle serious subjects” (NPR).

Set in coloinal Trinidad, this powerfull intense novel explores the barriers between black and white in a higly stratified and racially deparcated society. Marcus in a young black village bo wh gets fatefully attracted by the strangeness and privileges of white children in hisneighbourhood and is befriended by the English overseer's son Anthony. The sense of insecurity and alienation, instilling in him an adult rage that leads ultimately to tragedy. "John Stewart draws a painful and all too credible picture of the squalor and injistice endured byt eh black community ... " - The Times Literary Supplement "The atmosphere and insight displayed in this book make it a considerable achievement." - The Irish Times "An impressive work, rich in symbolism and levels of meaning." - Meale Hodge

This volume is a record of an international conference on the place of wine in ritual, culture and society in the ancient world (including Near Eastern culture, Greek culture, Etruria and Italy, and Republican and Imperial Rome).

An anthology containing over 750 stories, legends, and folksongs.

Deserted by her husband on the Wyoming frontier, Faith Butler takes a housekeeping job to support her two children and becomes a challenge to her employer, Drake Rutledge, who is reminded of the love he lost. Original.

Adaptations for the theater, by an English character actor with the Old Vic company. (2.48).

Rainey McBride finds the love and affection that has been missing from her life following a dramatic encounter with her exotic second cousin, Ambrose--who embodies all the grace and glamor missing from her stolid small-town life.

"One of the finest achievements of the Roman imagination ... apparently a bewildering hodgepodge of genres and subjects ... clearly in the mainstream of ancient satire, it is also something recognizably apart and utterly original; visibly a novel, it is yet somehow not a novel at all ..."--P. v.