This omnibus collects three tales of horror set in the town of Silent Hill all written by Tom Waltz: "Sinner's Reward" with art by Steph Stamb, "Past Life" with art by menton3, and "Downpour: Anne's Story" with art by Tristan Jones.

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.

Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, andFierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.

In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.

Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the Sixties psychedelic revolution, international roving before homeland security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he is known,Tibetan Peach Pie is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend.

"Little Al D'Arco was the quintessential wiseguy--and the mob's worst nightmare…A compelling book about the rise and decline of the American Mafia."--Nicholas Pileggi, author ofWiseguy and Casino
Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His testimony sent more than fifty Mafiosos to prison--and prompted many others to do the same, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano--and altered the course of New York's mob scene forever.

?"Fascinating." --The Village Voice

In Mob Boss, two award-winning news reporters offer an unparalleled account of D'Arco's life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D'Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D'Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on a century's worth of mob secrets--many of which are published in this riveting account for the very first time.

Sissy Hankshaw nasce a South Richmond, Virginia; 'erano gli anni di Eisenhower e nessuno sarebbe andato in nessun posto'. Lei invece prende e parte, su una Lincoln azzurra fermata levando un braccio, azzardando per la prima volta quello che poi e per sempre avrebbe fatto come nessuno mai: l'autostop. Perché Sissy nasce con un privilegio - due pollici giganteschi e superbi - per tutti un'anomalia da disarmare, per pochi totem da adorare, per lei sfacciata libertà di movimento. Così, discutendo delle cose del mondo mentre batte tutte le strade d'America, 'Il nuovo sesso: cowgirl' è un'orgia di chilometri e saggezza orientale, sacchi di peyote ed erotismo senza remore, pochi uomini ma tante, tante donne. Una storia sul resistere o morire dinanzi alla normalizzazione sociale; 'imbevuta di controcultura anni Sessanta' dalla penna di Tom Robbins, divenuta film nel '93 per mano di Gus Van Sant.

Capturing the rich contrasts of the land and the intimate history of generations in the Mississippi Delta, Into the Flatland, by Kathleen Robbins, is a series of photographs documenting the terrain, people, and culture of her ancestry. The photographer returned to her family's farm Belle Chase as an adult in 2001 after completing graduate studies in New Mexico. She and her brother then lived there for nearly two years, breathing life back into family properties that had been long dormant.

In this series, which won the Photo-NOLA prize in 2011, Robbins highlights the diversity of the landscape of the delta, from expansive, dusty cotton fields to green, vibrant swamps. Her photographs capture the people and the architecture that are present on the land and also reminiscent of a time long past, before the mechanization of farming and the exodus of her people from their native soil. The presence of Robbins's family in some of her photographs brings an intimacy to her portrait of the delta and shows the tension between past and present.

Including a short story by a National Endowment for the Arts recipient, Cynthia Shearer, Into the Flatland transports the reader into the rich history of Mississippi. At turns both colorful and gray, the photographs capture not only the delta landscape, but also the stark and rugged images of people and buildings that sink as deeply into the land as the roots of the trees in the woods and swamps. As large masses of birds flock to the vast blue sky, Robbins remains fixed on the ground, her lens trained on the home and the landscape of her past. The foreword is written by photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist Tom Rankin who serves as director of the Center for Documentary Studies and is an associate professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University.

The apocalyptic international comics sensation of an Earth turned to an icy hell is back with all new stories by co-creator Chuck Dixon and Butch Guice doing some of the best work of his illustrious artistic career as they take on the bleak and frozen future. Follow Scully and Wynn from their icy home of Wintersea into a killing wasteland where the coldest place is the human heart.

Shares stories from the author's unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his adventures around the world, that is as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.

Shares stories from the author's unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his adventures around the world, that is as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.

Una love story che si svolge dentro un pacchetto di Camel tra la principessa di un decaduto casato reale con velleità ecologiste e pseudo-mistiche e un colto terrorista-bombarolo (Picchio il suo nomignolo) che si diverte a provocare attentati qui e là per il pianeta senza uno scopo ben preciso. Un romanzo che rivela il significato della luna, spiega la differenza tra criminali e fuorilegge, esamina il conflitto tra attivismo sociale e individualismo romantico, discute se l'amore possa perdurare e disegna un ritratto della società contemporanea comprendente potenti arabi, reali in esilio e ragazze pompon.

The exciting re-launch of TMNT comics was a break-out success, and now the four issues of the 'Change is Constant' trade paperback are re-presented here, along with the full set of fully-rendered layouts by Kevin Eastman! Also includes additional sketches and preliminaries from the art team.

Master Splinter and the brothers search for the lost Raphael who is fending for himself on the streets of New York City, but they are sidetracked by a mutant alley cat and his band of criminals.

C'era una volta (più o meno oggi) un pianeta (forse il nostro?) i cui abitanti consumavano ogni anno 136.260.000.000 litri di birra (è vero, potete controllare su Google). In questo mondo di bollicine, rutti e schiuma vivevano una bambina intelligente, vivace e avventurosa di nome Gracie, la sua mamma distratta, il suo insensibile papà, il suo zio anticonformista e una magica intrusa proveniente da un'altra dimensione... Con 'B' come birra il vulcanico Tom Robbins è riuscito a creare un magico equilibrio tra un'ironica favola sul potere eversivo dell'infanzia e un imperdibile trattato sul significato ultimo di... un boccale bello colmo.

A Children's Book About Beer?

Yes, believe it or not—but B Is for Beer is also a book for adults, and bear in mind that it's the work of maverick bestselling novelist Tom Robbins, inter-nationally known for his ability to both seriously illuminate and comically entertain.

nce upon a time (right about now) there was a planet (how about this one?) whose inhabitants consumed thirty-six billion gallons of beer each year (it's a fact, you can Google it). Among those affected, each in his or her own way, by all the bubbles, burps, and foam, was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous kindergartner named Gracie; her distracted mommy; her insensitive dad; her non-conformist uncle; and a magical, butt-kicking intruder from a world within our world.

Populated by the aforementioned characters—and as charming as it may be subversive—B Is for Beer involves readers, young and old, in a surprising, far-reaching investigation into the limits of reality, the transformative powers of children, and, of course, the ultimate meaning of a tall, cold brewski.

In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.


From the Paperback edition.

Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Singularity 7, Fell) creates an all-eerie and humorous new series. Things are awakening in the city. Things that have a nasty habit of leaving mutilated bodies in their wake and it all reeks of demons and dark gods up to no good. Owing a favor to his lazy ghost cop buddy Trotsky, Wormwood, the gentleman corpse and his oddball entourage are brought in to investigate the case (or at least hopefully not stuff it up too much.)

Sono le sei del pomeriggio, più o meno, tic più tac meno, e l'attenzione del sole sta riducendosi rapidamente in ampiezza. Il sole ne ha visto abbastanza di voi per una giornata, e sta accarezzando altre opportunità. Anche le nubi modificano le loro priorità, raccogliendo forze, assumendo atteggiamenti. Per quando annotta potreste trovarvi sotto la pioggia. Forse pioggia gelata. Forse neve. Noi, ovviamente, non siamo al corrente della vostra ubicazione, né della stagione di competenza. Quello che invece sappiamo è che avete fra le mani il libro più recente del romanziere Tom Robbins e pur non essendo richiesta una speciale forza d'animo, non sarà male regolare un tantino il vostro termostato mentale. Nulla di drastico. Basta invertire le gomme. Però, mentre un gin tonic leggero potrebbe fare al caso con E. M. Forster o Virginia Woolf; mentre un bicchierozzo di bourbon potrebbe aiutarvi a inghiottire Faulkner, Robbins richiede un accompagnamento più esotico. Finalmente siete pronti. Appoggiate i piedi in alto (dovremmo sempre leggere a piedi sollevati) e afferrate il libro, saggiandone fra le mani il peso, la 'novità', la 'libritudine'. Solo per un istante chiudete gli occhi, sorseggiate la vostra bevanda e lasciatevi andare a domandarvi cosa avrà combinato stavolta Robbins. Su che falò - di zingari? guerriglieri? sciamani? - avrà arrostito le sue idee, le sue immagini? Se non vi inoltrerete più a fondo in questa modesta quanto insolita raccolta, che altro potete fare stasera, da soli con voi stessi?

Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins's shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper's, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original.

Whether rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso's Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Tom Robbins's briefer writings exhibit the five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for convention, a sweetly nasty eroticism, a mystical but keenly observant eye, and an irrepressible love of language. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are brand-new short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an offbeat assessment of our divided nation. Wherever you open Wild Ducks Flying Backward, you'll encounter the serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”

Hermann Hesse's classic novel Siddhartha has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book's debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hesse's time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for meaning.

It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom. On his journey, Siddhartha encounters wandering ascetics, Buddhist monks, and successful merchants, as well as a courtesan named Kamala and a simple ferryman who has attained enlightenment. Traveling among these people and experiencing life's vital passages–love, work, friendship, and fatherhood–Siddhartha discovers that true knowledge is guided from within.

Susan Bernofsky's magnificent new translation brings out Hesse's inspired lyricism and his elegant, melodious cadences, illuminating the novel's universal themes and timeless wisdom about the human condition.

This original Modern Library edition includes a lively new Introduction by Tom Robbins and a glossary of Indian terms.

Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create—a magically crafted work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. But no matter how hard you try, you’ll never imagine what you’ll find inside the Villa Incognito: a tilt-a-whirl of identity, masquerade, and disguise that dares to pull off “the false mustache of the world” and reveal the even greater mystery underneath. For neither the mists of Laos nor the Bangkok smog, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the pure linguistic phosphor that illuminates every page of one of America’s most consistently surprising and inventive writers.

New edition. Robbins is No Exit's strongest backlist author.

Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters's strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it's a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.