Fiction - City Life

"This is a rare thing: an original, intelligent novel that's not just a perfect summer beach read, but one that deserves serious awards consideration as well. Put down your phone and pick it up. . . . A major accomplishment."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair / A FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back...

A 1999 LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOKDELUXE EDITION, WITH NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN RECOVERED CHAPTERS--Los Angeles, 1967--With gleaming detail and blinding precision, Lou Mathews freeze-frames a hidden corner of L.A.'s outlaw culture in the moments before it becomes extinct. The heart of the culture is the drive-in,...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia's greatest writers - "It's high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagination."--New York Times "The Children's...

Quarter-finalist, 2022 Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize: "The chemistry between Quinn and Jonathan runs the show, but the novel digs into deeper issues, too....Hot and deliciously steamy, Secretly will tantalize and captivate readers." Unquenchable chemistry. The rare gift of a second chance. Choices that could...

Daniel and Claire Morrow are newlyweds with different pasts-Daniel lived a life of privilege while Claire was born into poverty. But yet, they fell in love. When they move to Manhattan from their Midwestern college in the days leading up to the Great Recession,...

"The perfect quarantine read. It's funny, sweet, and beautifully written. The romance is so perfect it made me ache. --Alisha Rai, Bustle Kirkus Best Fiction Book of 2020 PopSugar Crazy Popular Books of 2020 Amazon Best Romance of the Month Top Ten Best Romances...

In Los Angeles, the only constant is change. Our lives go through cycles and rotations. We incorporate new ideas, people, workplaces, and patterns as we create the futures we have dreamed of since childhood. The stories we tell are malleable and shifting. We seek...

Finn's a piece of shit, but you'll root for him anyway. Faith's no better, but he loves her just the same.After years of writing songs for corporate labels, record producer extraordinaire Finn Fairlane moves from the Big Apple to The City Beautiful to redefine...

The C.O.B. organization has quietly been on the rise in the St. Louis underworld. With an ambitious leader and mastermind in Arlo "Stacks" Johnston, there are no limits for the organization. Stacks has the perfect scheme to catapult the organization to the top, as...

Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's award winning cult classic, Vurt. Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come from Vurt Feathers. Place a...

Poetry on the walls. Needles in the gutters. Preachers on the corners. Protesters on the roads. People begging on the streets. This is 21st century Melbourne. Johnny Lock - young and fragile, purposeless and paranoid - meets Jay Khan, a wanderer who writes letters...

Author: Kate ClaybornISBN-10: 8885789757ISBN-13: 9798885789752Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2023Pages: 520Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00dLarge Print

Finn's a piece of shit, but you'll root for him anyway. Faith's no better, but he loves her just the same.After years of writing songs for corporate labels, record producer extraordinaire Finn Fairlane moves from the Big Apple to The City Beautiful to redefine...

The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable debut following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and quickly discovers there's a dark side to being a #GirlBoss.After a series of go-nowhere jobs in the New...

With seven short stories, The Troll Garden is a comprehensive exploration of American artists, and the trials they face. In Flavia and Her Artists, a young woman named Imogen goes to visit her friend Flavia, who is a patron of artists. Joining Flavia's group...

A savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this "smart, haunting, and compulsively readable" (Amy Jones, author of We're All in This Together) debut novel about...

In this "brilliantly original" and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life (New York Times bestselling author Claire Mackintosh). Still reeling from the sudden...

In this follow-up volume to Big in Heaven and Secret Turning, we see the people of Saint Alexander the Whirling Dervish parish and those around them at their worst and at their best. We see God's grace shining into even the darkest corners of...

From an "exceptionally sensitive and perceptive" Turkish writer and human rights activist (Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature), the captivating story of a writer whose own autobiographical novel forces her to come to terms with the dichotomy of the city she...

A hilarious and poignant novel about growing up, buying in, selling out, and the death of irony.The Narcissism of Small Differences is one of Zadoorian's] best. He has become an essential chronicler of the life in Detroit at the beginning of our century.--Stateside, Michigan...

Twenty-three-year-old Sophia Destino is a small-town girl about to plunge into life in the big city of Toronto. Still hung up on her past heartbreak, she is desperate for a change by taking on a new graduate degree in education. While living it up...

In the near future, men and women are in a Federal prison facility. Jasp Odle incarcerated for race rioting, Rey Amin for treason, Turner for mass murder. They wonder if they have a future and hope for their lives. Jasp is paroled into the...

Daniel and Claire Morrow are newlyweds with different pasts-Daniel lived a life of privilege while Claire was born into poverty. But yet, they fell in love. When they move to Manhattan from their Midwestern college in the days leading up to the Great Recession,...

Welcome back to 42nd Street where nightmares become reality. Where a two-bit hustler can become a hero. The pimps and prostitute's platform shoes click and clack the block creating the native drumbeat of desire. Pete Chiarella takes you back to the most dangerous block...

An unnamed city in 2020: Haunted Texan journalist Devon meets genderqueer emancipated teen Garrett over tear gas. This pair needs to survive the riots and struggle with the intensity of emotions from being young, passionate, and political outlaws.Author: L. A. FieldsISBN-10: 159021756XISBN-13: 9781590217566Publisher: Lethe...

Complete editions of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920's America,...

Sams has created the Australian Bridget Jones in this hilarious story, an emotive trajectory that pushes the boundaries of rom-com fiction.Georgie Henderson doesn't want to have kids, but her best friend, Nina, has wanted to have a baby for as long as she can...

"A Florida magnum opus." -DAVID JAMES POISSANT, author of Lake LifeOrlando, Florida. Summer of 2009. The Magic are steamrolling through the NBA playoffs, but your life is falling apart. For years you were told that Orlando was the city of the future. Every new...

Unconventional Beginnings recounts the story of a young engineer's introduction to the cutthroat oil and gas business in the Canadian prairies. While Garth Gibbins longs to be a farmer and maintain his family's agrarian traditions, he discovers a real talent in his new career...

Careless People is a story of family and friends living in Corona del Mar, a small beach community in Southern California. It is set in a time when Orange County was transforming from quiet fields of orange trees into large developments and busy freeways.Life...

Lonely Brooklyn twentysomething David Gould has problems: blown work deadlines, an obsession with an Internet temptress he's never met in the flesh, and, worst of all, a hedonistic double attempting to steal his identity. Full of gripping characters, mood-altering detail, and a killer virtual...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is set at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age, and presents the complex characters and lyrical prose the great American novelist is known for. Anthony Patch is young, handsome, wealthy, and the heir to...

Welcome to Munks...home to the lost, the lonely, and those in perpetual limbo. A famous nightclub now in decline. New owners with wayward ideas are determined to redeem this place of moral bankruptcy. Amongst the rot, the depravity, the crime, and the hedonism -...

UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement -...

The story of an unstoppable, irresistible and electrifying modern heroine determined to climb the ladder at the newspaper where she works, no matter how many lives she ruins in the process.Author: Sarah MayISBN-10: 1529066913ISBN-13: 9781529066913Publisher: Picador UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x...

Eleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation. Salvatore Pane's The Neorealist in Winter is a collection of eleven short stories that explore what it means to be human in an age of media oversaturation. Utilizing methods of...

Jodi was only a child when she was orphaned and taken into the care of a religious organization that hated everything that she was. They abused her physically and emotionally, robbed her of her culture and identity, and left her with emotional scars. This...

"...the deep interplay between the two main characters adds a special intimacy to the novel." -Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize "...a fantastic story...with many surprises and exquisite intimacy. ...an excellent read for romance fans and anyone new to the genre." -Literary Titan A startling revelation....

A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...

Those everyday small moments that feel so big in our heartsA brother's ego getting in the way of a healthy relationship, a 50-year-old learning about depression from a teenager in an airport, a father's fading hope of rediscovering life's purpose as he awaits his...

In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with...

With a successful career in the City and a great love life, she had everything.Then she got married.What happened?Her husband knows... and he won't say.Prize-winning author Jill Anabona Smith was born on the Isle of Thanet, worked in most parts of Kent and London...

The novel is set in and around the iconic Art Students League in New York City where 20th Century stars of the art world studied and taught. Here, Bert Kossoff teaches painting when he is not cloistered in his studio. His wife Ruth defends...

As children, Minerva and her sister dreamed of opening a home where people could come and stay to find direction and catch their breath from the race of life. Their devotion to help others in need, and to assist them through the trials of...

Basically, the book relates to how easily affluent people can be taken advantage of and the steps they take to survive.The Caretaker is written by Glenn MacFarland. Author: Glenn MacfarlandISBN-10: 1645319717ISBN-13: 9781645319719Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2020Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d

Will vacation love survive in the real world? Or will life be our undoing?My French fling with Chris was only supposed to last two weeks... I was bad at relationships, worse at love. So I was leaving it all behind-the French wine, the sunsets,...

Houses, it turns out, know everything. They see with their windows, hear with their roofs, and know their new owners before they come up the walk. They recognize the others, not in bodies anymore, who travel through their walls, hover near the living. Actually,...

Blood in the Streetz is a story about three men that go by the names of Young Don, Trill, and G Money who are in a drug trade on the streets of Washington, DC. Their goal is to become kingpins of the city, who...

Ava Lewis can take care of herself. That's what she's determined to prove to herself, and to her well meaning, but sometimes overbearing family. And now that she's been provisionally accepted into NYU's law school, she's on her way to making all of her...