T. Coraghessan Boyle

Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures.

In this novel, the fictionalized Kinsey ("Prok") is seen through the eyes of John Milk, a naïve, obedient, yet conflicted researcher. As "scientific study" blurs into exhibitionism and voyeurism, Prok's clinical rigor gradually forces his inner circle into literally compromising positions.

A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife.

When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we...