Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective. His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession of jobs. Each job rapidly escalates into a lunatic adventure, a full-blown disaster; yet each has, like Don Quixote's, its own eerie logic. His girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff of the Bronx, thinks he needs sex. Ignatius is an intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt, and one-man war against everybody: Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times. A tragicomedy, set in New Orleans.

New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. In this case, it’s not just a lucky smoothie he’s craving—it’s the man who made it. Pro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he’s desperate to recreate the magic...and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter. Kip knew there was more to Scott’s frequent visits than blended fruit, but he never let himself imagine being invited back to Scott’s penthouse. Or kissed with reckless abandon, never mind touched everywhere all at once. When it happens it’s red-hot, incredible and frequent, but also only on Scott’s terms and always behind his closed apartment doors. Scott needs Kip in his life, but with playoff season approaching, the spotlight on him is suddenly brighter than ever. He can’t afford to do anything that might derail his career…like introducing the world to his boyfriend. Kip is ready to go all-in with Scott—but how much longer will he have to remain a secret?

The third in a tasty series, Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is a delight!Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious—unless it happens to be deadly. Lana Lee’s stake in her family’s Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she’s been made manager. So when she enters Ho-Lee into Cleveland’s Best Noodle Contest, Lana makes it her business to win—at all costs. But when a local food critic receives a threatening note in a fortune cookie and is later found dead, face-down in a bowl of lo mein, all bets are off. . . Now, along with her sweet-and-sour boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana decides to take matters into her own hands and dig into the lives of everyone involved in the contest. But when she receives an ill-fated fortune, Lana realizes that in order to save the reputation of her restaurant, she needs to save herself first. . . “Thoroughly entertaining...fun and delicious.”—RT Book Reviews

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A REAL AMERICAN SYSTEM, BUILT TO EXPLOIT AND ERASE THE VULNERABLE, CREATES THE ONE WOMAN DETERMINED TO BURN IT DOWN? In 1994, Rose Washington disappeared into the Alabama prison system, framed for a crime she did not commit by authorities who unwittingly exposed her to a secret powerful enough to bring down everything they protected. Inside, prison is not chaos; instead, it is control. A meticulously engineered economy of exploitation operated by gangs, corrupt officials, and corporate interests. In this world, incarceration is not the end of the pipeline. It is the beginning. Beyond the prison walls, Rose is pushed into a clandestine global network built on blackmail and erasure. Names vanish. Records are rewritten. Survival demands transformation. But they made one mistake. They let Rose escape. Thirty years later, she has resurfaced as something no one can identify or a famous celebrity, hardened soldier, and powerful philanthropist. Each identity is a carefully constructed mask worn by one woman with a single dismantling the empire that stole her name, her body, and her humanity, and now threatens to consume millions more. From sealed billionaire circles to modern battlefields, Rose follows a trail of corruption to the highest levels of corporate, legal, and political power. She is no longer running. She is hunting. The Price of a Rose is an unflinching, relentlessly tense literary revenge thriller that confronts mass incarceration, systemic exploitation, and the authoritarian machinery that preys on the vulnerable. A timely story of American revelation, reinvention, and rage asking us what happens when a woman the system tried to erase learns exactly how to destroy it.