Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, "The quick brown fox jumps over...
Following the national success of 'Ella Minnow Pea', this second novel from Mark Dunn brings the same charm and love of good language to a small town in the South. 'Welcome to Higby' follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in ...
Pitcherville has been a weird place ever since a mysterious force field dropped over the town. First, the town was sudsy with thousands of bubbles, then all the words spoken and written down became numbers, and after that everything and everyone turn...
Thirteen-year-old twins Rodney and Wayne McCall and their friend Professor Johnson are the only people in Pitcherville who can see that all the natural laws of the universe have stopped applying to their town. When everyone in Pitcherville wakes up t...
What if Charles Dickens had written a contemporary thriller? In Under the Harrow, a group of Victorians live a semi-idyllic and unwitting, anachronistic existence, aided only by minimal trade-related contact with the supposedly plague-ridden Outland....
Thirteen-year-old twins Rodney and Wayne McCall and their friend Professor Johnson are the only people in Pitcherville who can see that all the natural laws of the universe have stopped applying to their town. When everyone in Pitcherville wakes up t...
What if Jane Austen had had a black-sheep brother? Let's call him Chad. Chad Austen. What if Chad had always chafed at the literary preciousness of his sister Jane's mannered tales? The kind of chat-filled tales of the heart w...
From the award-winning and highly acclaimed author of 'Ella Minnow Pea' comes Mark Dunn’s most ambitious novel to date. 'American Decameron' tells 100 stories spanning 100 years. A girl in Galveston is born on the eve of a great storm and the dawn ...
A serious comedy about the value of family and friendship, the importance of self-forgiveness, and the special healing joy that comes to those who know how to "drink life to the dregs"Deep in the Heart, adapted from the award-winning comedy-drama The...
A full-cast production by award-winning playwright Mark DunnPlayed out over the course of ten years, Dix Tableaux is a story of friendship between two women in their sixties. Each year represents another reunion for Beverly and Addie, two participant...
Althea Witlin has a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle among her large collection that she's never worked on. She has less than a day to finish it because poor health has forced her to move in with her sister ... without her puzzles.
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John Barron never felt at home in his own skin. Constantly moving from place to place, from job to job, he can never escape the nagging feeling that someone, or something, is coming for him, and that this predatory evil threatens all he holds most de...