Blackbird Books

Dawn breaks, and Emily Williams awakens, hungover and alone in an unfamiliar park. A crazy night with too much to drink and not enough self-control. But, as she soon discovers, she's not quite alone...

An unexpected encounter on an airport layover gives two strangers a second chance. If a briefcase full of money doesn't get in the way.Author: Seth EdgardePublisher: Blackbird BooksPublication Date:...

Back in print for the first time in fifty years, this classic Donald Westlake bio of Elizabeth Taylor (written as John B. Allan) gives a fascinating look at the life of America's most talented...

The Days of Awe and the month leading up to them in the Hebrew calendar are truly a gift. Each day offers not only the opportunity to reflect back on the past year but also the chance to look forward...

A Wall Street felon serving his sentence at New York's Rikers Island Prison, Sterling Walsh desperately needs to set his life straight. But he gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an FBI...

I Prefer Girls makes its triumphant return! One of the true classics of the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction is back, complete with its captivating Robert Maguire cover and a window in on Greenwich...

When three friends start a salvage business on the New York waterfront, they aren't expecting to get caught in the crossfire between a Colombian drug lord, the Mafia, and Iranian terrorists. Enter...

Part mystery, part hospital soap opera, and part social commentary, Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1914 novel, K., is a look at a vanished world, a social artifact from the early 20th century, complete...

MY NAME'S MARK TAGGERT . . . I'm a drifter, a bum, a nobody. No job, no money, no future. I'm on the Thruway with a laundry bag over my shoulder and my thumb stuck out in the air. Then the most...

A story of innocence, sexuality, and finding your place in the world.Author: Seth EdgardePublisher: Blackbird BooksPublication Date: Dec 20, 2017Number of Pages: 62 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An old mansion with bedroom doors kept locked all night, always from the outside, a staff of servants summarily dismissed, and a family gripped by fear. Enter a young nurse, sent in to care for the...

Donald Westlake's nearly forgotten pulp sleaze classic, Man Hungry, is actually one of his first published novels, a 1959 literary take on the genre, complete with lesbians, prostitutes, a swinging...

For as long as the written word has existed, the Five Books of Moses has had the power to summon our unique and diverse voices. Its words have the power to stir our minds, our hearts, and our souls...

This captivating collection is at once perspicacious and playful--the wonder of a child combined with the profound musings of an old soul. From observations about nature to insightful reflections on...

Orrie Hitt's 1954 pulp classic is back and better than ever in a brand new acid-free trade paperback still sporting its original Walter Popp cover. From the original: Johnny Reagan quickly learned...

This collection of sixty-five bite-sized stories-none greater than 250 words-gives a window into many different lives, each with its own particular insight into the human experience.Author: Seth...

When a traveling saleswoman begins an affair with her road partner, there's more at stake than just her marriage. Or his. For anyone who has ever sung the blues, this short romance with a musical...

Set during the British Suffragette Movement, The Borrowed House mixes drama, comedy, and intrigue, as a group of women devoted to The Cause plot to kidnap the prime minister. With a handsome stranger...

A wealthy debutante disappears without a trace. What happened to her? Is she even still alive? A young, undercover nurse aims to find out.Author: Mary Roberts RinehartPublisher: Blackbird...

The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart's classic tale of murder and intrigue in a pre-World War I mansion, is evocative yet strangely modern, a sort of CSI: Downton Abbey, with butlers and...

In a land of unrelenting turmoil, in a city that's been laid siege by Mongols, Huns, Turks, Tartars, Germans, and Russians, a cop from Brooklyn joins the chase for a notebook with a mathematical...

Syd loves to eat all sorts of different foods and is always eager to try something new. A yellow tomato? No problem! Some slippery seaweed? Bring it on! But her sister Sunny is the opposite. Nothing...

The Man In Lower Ten - 9781610530200Author: Mary Roberts RinehartPublisher: Blackbird BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2023Number of Pages: 248 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

"As a guest gift for the wonderful wine, I will eat you last," yawns Polyphemus the Cyclops, in Joanne Keegan's wonderous, phantasmagoric comedy based on Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Laying down a...

Winston, New York-a nice town, a quiet town. Sure, there's corruption, but the streets are clean, everything works, and everyone has what they need. It's a deli-cate balance, all held together by...

The Lady Tickleworthy is not amused at the arrival of a baby brother. With her butt-ler and maid doing double-duty as footman and cook, she's already short-staffed! Then, one day, after a severe...

New York, 1960 . . . Take one lesbian editor, well-done, add one sexually curious intern, and one all-man co-editor. Mix thoroughly at a posh Park Avenue women's magazine, and you have another Donald...