Books tagged: picaresque

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Calling Out Your Name    by Ned White
Price: $0.99 USD. 76200 words. Published on May 27, 2009. .

SILVER MEDALS, Foreword Reviews and IPPY Moonbeam Book of the Year; SEMIFINALIST, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2010. For 16 year-old Woody Elmont, life in rural Georgia is a tolerable routine of caring for his aging aunt and his mentally challenged younger brother, Tick. But when Tick disappears from a home for troubled youth, Woody sets off on a grand adventure to discover his brother's fate.
¿PícaresQué? (Picaresque)    by Jean Figueres
Price: $14.99 USD. 101910 words. Published on January 5, 2010. .

An antihero wanting to be hero Vinicio begs, borrows, lies and steals his way through life hoping that someone will listen and accept him. He eventually inspires those around him to succeed, fail and ultimately moderate their philosophy – Vinicio believes there are good people in the world and there are bad people in the world and no other distinctions need apply.
Prometheus Fit To Be Tied    by Paul Hawkins
Price: Free! 89830 words. Published on February 7, 2011. .

It's 1939, the USA is on the eve of leaving its sleepy childhood behind forever, and the world's last renaissance man has dragged his dissipated self back home to confront the tinpot gods who would rise to power by giving farmers alternating current. "Hawkins has written a big story for a big era, a comic requiem for the lost potential of the American Century."
Don Coyote de la Merika    by Kathryn Anthony
Price: Free! 11890 words. Published on October 7, 2011. .

When her mother is killed by a roving militia, Silende struggles to survive in a harsh world of scarcity, and sudden, violent death. She is taken in by the itinerant Don Coyote, but soon learns that his guise of easygoing detachment conceals far more calculating and complex motives.
The Polyphonic Ringtones of the Damned    by Alan Walsh
Price: $1.99 USD. 78060 words. Published on February 29, 2012. .

Madness, Paranoia, isolation, hot-desking. Welcome to the world of Moonbeam, a chain smoking, alcoholic Capuchin monkey trying to make it as a Web Designer in a London drained of all life and love. Hounded by a saboteur intent on ruining the little chance he has with life, Moonbeam struggles through the world of men. Can he break free of the madness?
Toccata and Fugue    by Colin Cohen
Price: $2.99 USD. 49380 words. Published by EIMI Press  on April 28, 2012. .

Rupert Kern is a libertine US senator fighting for his political survival, who, after introducing a historic bill reforming the Federal Reserve, wakes one morning in the middle of the Mojave Desert. With his hand around a dead woman's throat.