Jesus cloned? From Kirkus Discoveries' review: "A jazzy story with holding power that enjoyably shuffles religion, mad science, fierce hopes and cleverly quotidian revenge... The end comes as a reckoning, a long-deferred accounting that turns the narrative on its head, not just wrapping things up but creating a fully realized tale."

Days from receiving his inheritance, young Nick hops in his truck and is California bound. Starved for a mentor/hero in his life, Nick hooks up with as canny a secret predator as ever was. One sizzling night on the town with babe-magnet Henry, and Nick flutters about him like a moth to flame. Enter Bunny Smart and gorgeous, she's an African-American filmmaker intent on making a documentary about Nick's deceased dad, a little-known novelist of a bygone day. But when Bunny and Nick strike up a flame of their own, a jealous Henry looking on -- there's death to pay Now Henry has not one but two...

A smart yet quirky study in race/gender relations, laughing even as it draws blood.

A novel about film and filmmakers. A seasonal and kaleidoscopic peek at screenwriters living desperately impassioned lives in lovely Cambria by the sea.

A trio of love stories: THE LAST SUNFLOWERS -- If global warming hasn't yet won, it's about to - and so artist Helen's last-ditch attempt to find love in a dying world. SADIE AND THE SCAMP -- Sadie falls hard for a jazz musician and no telling to what heights, or depths, she'll be swung. OF DOGS AND RAINBOWS -- All the prismatic delights of a dogfight: a love story.

Italian dad Tony Poliziano is a mess. He'd got his father's blood in him but his mother's soul. As brutal as he is tender, he's a man divided against himself. How then is he to react upon learning that his ten-year-old son has been targeted as "gay" at school? Immediately Tony is butting heads with the school's authorities, a war soon escalating onto L.A.'s gangland streets. Things only worsen after that in this tale of husband versus wife, father against son, and man fiercely at odds with his fellow man. All very macho don't you know, but beneath it all a most strange and maddened sense of...

A comprehensive collection of fact and stories about the American Pit Bull Terrier -- the original and genuine pit bulldog, not today's for the most part watered-down version of the breed. Included are Maffei's classic Red Tina and The Life of Humbug novels, a newer one titled Of Dogs and Rainbows, and two shorter pieces unpublished till now. Rounding off the collection are several essays from Maffei's Man Meets Bulldog. No more the hunting down of these old classics. They're all here, spruced up, re-edited, and making for one fat, rollicking, truth-telling, and non-fairytale bulldog book.