In chapters that alternate between the past and the present, Cat slowly recalls her life before she and her classmates were trapped inside School, where half of them are mutating, everyone is fearful, and self-destruction seems to be the only means of escape. Cat never leaves her high school: she lives there, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. Now things are changing: the hallways contract and expand along...

The all-female Norwegian quartet first stormed the States with their circus of a live show in Austin at SXSW last year, where they commanded the attention of industry types and music lovers alike with their raucous set consisting of the rotation of up to 29 instruments on which the women are self-taught.

Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks) (original: Max und Moritz - Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen) is a German language illustrated story in verse. This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865. Many familiar with comic strip history consider it to have been the direct inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids. Max and Moritz became...

Edward Joseph Whittaker is dead. He's lucky. A quick death in a car accident robbed his widow of the satisfaction of killing him slowly. After Helen Whittaker's husband dumped her for a much younger woman then is killed in an automobile accident, she learns that her finances are as dead as he is. How can a 56-year-old bridge player compete in today's competitive work force? Several failed interviews and one part-time job later, she starts her own...

Black Books concerns time-frittering techniques of raddled proprietor Bernard Black , his assistant Manny Bianco and their friend, Fran Katzenjammer. His dubious trio form a family of sorts to protect each other from the realities of modern London.