Books from Zoland Books

  • The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man
    By Alfred Alcorn

    When Professor Humberto Ossmann and Dr. Clematis Woodley, who heartily despised each other in life, are found together in a mortal embrace, Norman de Ratour knows that evil once again...

  • Fool's Gold: A Novel
    By Jane S. Smith

    A hilarious first novel about pagan sacrifice, plundered gold, the Tour de France, and the artistic uses of a BarbieAn American family summering in an unexpectedly commercialized and traffic-choked Provence...

  • The Clairvoyant
    By Marian Thurm

    In her compelling fourth novel, Marian Thurm creates an unforgettable character: a clairvoyant blessed with powers he cannot deny, yearning for a life of ordinary happiness. With eerie and often...

  • Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir
    By William Corbett

    William Corbett's memoir of Philip Guston focuses on their friendship over the last eight years of Guston's life and on the paintings and drawings Guston made during those years. Guston's...

  • An Altogether Different Language: Poems, 1934-1994
    By Anne Porter

    An Altogether Different Language, a long-awaited first collection of poems written over the past sixty years, introduces Anne Porter as a poet of startling insight and wisdom. This is a...

  • Zombie Jet
    By Connie Deanovich

    Deanovich's second volume of poetry. "Zombie Jet is divided in three parts. "This is the Universe, " takes on big questions-time, space, countries of the world. "Silver Dress and Ukelele,...

  • Courting Disaster
    By Julie Edelson

    By taking Tolstoy's famous dictum that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and bending it to the service of the black-comic, Southern neo-gothic novel, Julie Edelson creates...

  • Seeing Eye: Stories
    By Michael Martone

    These stories, which are often set in the crossroads state of Indiana, focus on the strange connections between fact and fiction. The first section of Seeing Eye is composed of...

  • Murder in the Museum of Man
    By Alfred Alcorn

    Dean Cranston Fessing, dispatched from Wainscott University to investigate finances of the neighboring Museum of Man, has been murdered. Not only that, but his grisly remains bear the unmistakable mark...

  • Small Victories: A Novel
    By Sallie Bingham

    Two middle-aged sisters, Louise and Shelby, live together in a small, Southern town. Their cousin wants to institutionalize Shelby and their tragic family history is unraveled.

  • The United States of Jasper Johns
    By John Yau

    Johns is considered both the founder of Pop Art and Minimalism, as well as a hermetic figure whose work has confounded critics for nearly forty years. Yau's view of Johns's...

  • The Country Road: Poems
    By James Laughlin

    "James laughlin, with this collection, takes his place as one of the most original and accomplished contemporary American poets. With Laughlin, clarity is paramount. He uses no excess decoration. He...

  • To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor : Sung by the Author
    By Kevin Young

    '80s art-world phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and black American cultural icons. To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the...