Lee Maynard, a native of Crum (Wayne County), West Virginia, spins a sometimes shocking, often outrageous, always irreverent tale of his young protagonist's rebellion against the place he's from and the people he grew up with. Part Huckleberry Finn and part The Red and the Black, Maynard's novel Crum is a touching and humorous look at small-town life and the peculiar rituals of male adolescence. Ultimately, though, Crum is not about the town of Crum itself but about rejecting the comfort and familiarity of home and finding a place in the larger world.

Author of nationally acclaimed and locally banned novels Crum and Screaming with the Cannibals, Lee Maynard details an imaginative account of his journey through seventy years of hard living-from West Virginia, to Mexico, the Arctic Circle, and beyond.

n the third part of the Crum trilogy, Jesse hits the road and heads West, looking to experience something-anything-that will fulfill his intrinsic desires to escape, and to belong.

In this sequel to Crum, Jesse Stone is still on the move. He finds himself in a holy-roller church in Kentucky, on the other side of the Tug River from his native West Virginia, "screaming with the cannibals."

This story is the tale of Jesse Stone, who doesn't know where he's going, but knows he is leaving, and whose rebellion against the people and the place of his childhood allows him to reject the comfort and familiarity of his home in search of his place in a larger world.

"In Magnetic North an aging warrior and his best friend-perhaps his only friend-ride motorcycles to Alaska, with the ultimate goal of riding to the Arctic Circle. It is a ride that mirrors their lives, a ride that causes old stories, old trials, old darkness to come, once again, through the spinning wheels of the machines they are riding. Morgan is a man who can't give it up. His propensity toward violence has followed him through all the days of his life, and it follows him now. Slade has shared much of Morgan's life, and he has been the one of the rare stabilizing factors in that life....

Cinco Becknell is the story of a homeless man with no memory. Locked in the emptiness of his mind is a secret, a past, which will either keep him alive or get him killed. As Cinco staggers through a dangerous journey of rediscovery, he is hunted by psychopaths who want to kill him, and he has no idea why; he is shadowed by a woman who may keep him alive-or not; and he is finally helped by another woman who can bring back to him the light he looks for-if he can stay alive. But he is running out of time, and people around him are dying, always violently. Gradually, he begins to understand the...