Books written by Joe Coomer

  • The Loop

    Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter" ...

  • Der Papagei, das Telefon und die Bibliothekarin: Roman

    Lyman, 30 Jahre, Besucher unzähliger Collegekurse von Russisch bis Bogenschießen, hilft nachts gestrandeten Autofahrern weiter.

  • Pocketful of Names

    Pocketful of Names is a deeply human tale about the unpredictability of nature, art, family, and the flotsam and jetsam that comprise our lives.

  • Der Papagei, das Telefon und die Bibliothekarin

    Der Papagei, das Telefon und die Bibliothekarin

  • Der Papagei, das Telefon und die Bibliothekarin: Roman

    Der Papagei, das Telefon und die Bibliothekarin: Roman

  • Apologizing to Dogs: A Novel

    This is not to say, however, that it is by any means quiet on the Row, a place where bathtubs double as lawn furniture, and adultery, bribery and larceny are as commonplace as the glass eyeballs that pop up in every yard -- all that remains ...

  • Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God

    Three women set out on an open-sea voyage to Prince Edward Island in an attempt to escape the unpleasant circumstances of their lives

  • One Vacant Chair: A Novel

    As the novel turns from the oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, Sarah learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying.