Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the seriocomic story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger and US Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man who knows no mercy and who does not know exactly who he is chasing as there is no apparent motive and virtually no clues. It encompasses themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.

The slightly ridiculous tragicomic odyssey of one Joe Perk, a young man alone: inarticulate, simple-hearted and naive; a humble coffee-jerk with a unique talent, as he travels from small town Oklahoma to New York City in order to realize his dream: to become a world champion coffee barista. Along the way he stumbles in and out of the lives of Cliff, his cruel half-brother who delights in stealing Joe's girls; Miguel, a farmhand with a secret bean; Cappuccino, the lovely coffee shop owner in love and in trouble; a crazed homeless man who drives an office chair, quotes movie dialogue and wants to kill Joe; Lou, the diner-owner with dyslexia; Graydon Froth, a coffee mogul with a serious inferiority complex; Macchiato, reigning barista champ and prize chump; and Shakes, the mysterious man who imparts to Joe a secret knowledge that will possibly make him a star.

A very influential New York City pop culture guru finds himself running for his life after his review of a mob-owned restaurant makes it the most popular, hippest place in town.

A rich playboy gets mixed-up with a depraved gambling club and finds himself in over his head with debt. In order to save himself he's forced to commit a series of horrible crimes.

A teenage boy runs away from a small Alabama town to Manhattan in order to live out his dad's rock 'n' roll dreams - and then he discovers a few of his own.

A clueless American ad executive unwittingly finds himself in the middle of political intrigue on the island of Costa San Rica when he's sent there to save the agency's banana account.

True tales from, and about, rock 'n' roll including the outrageously true, never-before-told, event that accidentally sparked the greatest rock rumor of all time: "Paul Is Dead."

Customer Service Manager Bob Thomassoulo gets more than he bargained for when he decides to go to Mexico and take revenge on the man who took his job in this absurd tale of revenge, gold lust, friendship, classic rock and political revolution.

The unbelievably comedic adventure of an unlikely friendship between a budding poetic genius, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and "England's Worst Poet" Colin Millaney. Set in 1919, it asks the question "What happens when a book of verse by England's worst poet accidentally becomes a runaway best-seller in America?"

When a gold coin heist turns out badly a pair of idiotic crooks hook-up with some moronic thieves (and a movie star) in order to steal the secret KFC chicken recipe. Along the way they reveal (among many other things) the connection between Gilligan's Island and the devil, what Salman Rushdie and Elvis have in common with Col. Sanders, why Betty was never a vitamin and what Bootsy Collins does in his spare time. It also deal with the whole "why did the chicken cross the road" conundrum.

Sex, drugs, scandals, murder, suicides and President Warren G. Harding. THE BLOVIATOR is a satirical novel, "a fiction fueled by fact," based on the true, last (and unbelievably bizarre) 6 months in the life of America's 29th President. THE BLOVIATOR is an epic, a massive and sprawling work - it is history as absurdity, as if it were being filtered through a cracked prism - but the prism is not cracked as most of the story told is based on fact.

A mild-mannered, small town barber steals a valuable necklace on a whim and then undergoes intense psychological turmoil as an insurance investigator turns the heat up on him. He ends up on the run and with the blood of multiple murder victims on his hands - or does he? Every piece may not fit as you might expect in this story-puzzle.

One night in a London pub in the 1990's I ran into a man who claimed to be the actor Michael Caine. The man said (in a thick Cockney accent): "'ere mate, if yer buy me a beer I will recite the bloomin' 'oole of Franz Kafka's classic tale of alienation, 'Metamorphosis, ' also known as 'Die Verwandlung.' If, however, yer chose not ter ffen I shall kick yer in the bleedin' balls." As I value my balls very much I agreed... And so here is Kafka's 'Metamorphosis, ' as retold by a man in a pub who looked like, and who said that he was, Michael Caine. He may have been Michael Caine, I don't know, it was hard to tell. The pub was really dark and well, I'd had a few pints.

The year is 2020. Can the President of the United States of America, and the President of the United Blue States of America, come together in order stop a giant asteroid before it destroys Earth in one month's time? Who is the mysterious Doctor Apophis? What is the "S.U.R.," and why is the President of the USA determined to defend it at all costs? What the hell is the Canadian army doing in North Dakota, and why does HRH Queen Kate of England want to wage war with the USA? And what is... "The Myoshi Effect"?

The behind-the-scenes story of how the Monty Python television series was created, comprised of material taken directly from the archives of founder-member Graham Chapman and written by the US Curator of the Graham Chapman Archives.