Charles Benetto uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression, until he is given the chance to spend one more day with his mother's ghost.

"Bea is drawn back into the questionable doings of the members of the multi-billionaire Holland family, including an engagement with a fake diamond ring, an alleged suicide attempt, an abusive man who tries to put the frighteners on Bea, and the ambiguous behaviour of the black sheep of the family, who turns out to be the joker in the pack"--author's website.

"You think Alexander Portnoy had problems, wait 'til you meet Sheila Levine. Sheila is thirty--and Sheila can't get married. Now everyone knows that nice Jewish boys are supposed to grow up to be doctors or lawyers, but how many people ever stop to consider that nice Jewish girls are supposed to grow up to be brides? Which leads to just one of Sheila's many problems: How can a girl remain 'nice' and land a husband, particularly if she is not the raving...

"Is death really the end? On the night of his 35th birthday, Jared November sits with a shotgun under his jaw and hopes beyond hope that it is. He is a man in pain, chasing intoxication and distraction in a tightening spiral. The mask he wears to pretend he's a regular person is slipping, and he's arrived at a state of grim resolve. But when he pulls the trigger he finds himself cast into an endless void. There, a singular voice tells him: You are...

"Brandon Cossey is finishing his last semester as an undergrad when he learns his childhood best friend, Jacob Balfour, has committed suicide. The news about Jacob, who had long battled schizophrenia, does not come as a surprise--but the bizarre details surrounding his death do. Jacob was found several states away, in a quarry, burned alive. Brandon returns to his hometown and discovers Jacob had been moonlighting as an amateur DIY reporter. As sole...

"Her name is Orange, she's a young girl in high school, coming of age in the heart of the city. And she has decided she has nothing to live for. Not her shallow friends. Not her parents. Not school. Not even the empty promise of love. Her head filled with morbid fantasies of suicide, Orange finds herself standing at the edge of her rooftop when the drunken, enigmatic young man, Dashu, enters her world, changing it forever" -- p. [4] of cover.