When you don"t talk, there"s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can"t help admitting, maybe he"s right.

A gripping wilderness adventure and survival story "It was getting colder. Johnny pulled the fur-lined hood of his parka over his head and walked towards his own cabin with the sound of snow crunching beneath his boots."

Meet Ed Kennedy--underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first Ace arrives. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. . . .

A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED.

Justin Case is convinced fate has in for him. And he's right.

A 2002 National Book Award Finalist! "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." So states Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been completely obliterated by his "feed, " a transmitter implanted directly into his brain.

When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.

"There was a man. He had a knife. He attacked us down by the river."