Fiction - City Life

Liz, a paralegal from New York, has all but resigned herself to a life of mediocrity. When she is reluctantly accompanies her friends on a trip to Las Vegas, she decides that her life must change, and she breaks her engagement. Ben, a screenwriter...

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a...

Venoans is a collection of stories interwoven by members of a community in Venoa Beach. From high school teenagers and grifters to mayors and policemen, Venoans live by a code only they truly understand-one of death and big risks. We follow characters like The...

The Pleasure Cats of Nova Playa is a story of sex, drugs, alcohol, violence and techno music. Set in the fictional sun soaked Mediterranean resort of Playa Nova where underground, under town, cats mirror the excesses of the sunseekers above. Into this bustling, vibrant...

'I loved her then, I love her now. Annie's back and she's better than ever! Fun, feel good and feisty - Annie Valentine is the woman you want to share a cocktail with!' Portia MacIntoshCan she make it big in the big apple?When Annie...

* A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Them * Debutiful * Literary Hub * Electric Literature * And Many More! * A searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era...

An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999. Published in 1999 and awarded that year's Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan's first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story....

"A collection of short stories about life in an inner-city Albanian Orthodox parish in Philadelphia"--Author: Stephen N. SiniariISBN-10: 195589017XISBN-13: 9781955890175Publisher: Ancient Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2022Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The...

New Orleans journalist Maggie McBride is fired from her job one hot summer afternoon for no apparent reason except being over fifty. As she struggles with her anger and tries to figure out her next move, a devastating hurricane threatens the city. In its...

From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York CityFailed in all his career aspirations, recently laid off from Kinko's, and burdened with a frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on...

After going for more than a year without a date -- a record in New York City -- Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain...

One of the biggest unsolved crimes of the 20th century, one that has baffled the FBI for decades, has now landed in the hands of Wyatt Earp. In present-day Boston, the renowned lawman of the Old West and his posse of masterminds must solve...

At thirty-five, Channing Hart was starting to reap the rewards of hard work and sound investing. He revelled in sitting around the big table at Clancy's Tavern. Talk radio without the microphones. The last place you could mouth off without being scolded. Weekends revolved...

Mickey is aware from an early age that the world is against him. This is a fact.Armed with this information, nothing can defeat his devil-may-care attitude, nor stop him getting exactly what he needs. Except perhaps for the fact that he can do nothing...

'Some days I feel like I've lived more than one lifetime, so, couldn't we be right for each other this time around?'Everyone is talking about this book: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'What an absolute page-turner!...keeps you guessing before pulling off THE PERFECT ending!' Anita'Such a warm, lovely read...

A no-nonsense tale of a college girl, a celebrity encounter, a sexy restaurant, wealthy men, savvy women and many moments of self-discovery.Valerie Imparato's corporate career path is nearly sideswiped as she becomes indoctrinated into the racy lifestyles of the affluent and sometimes famous patrons...

"In March, Saturn is coming into the House of the Sun. Saturn is strong and will bring trouble. [...] Wear a sapphire, then nothing can harm you," Bhai Sahib, the priest, warns Mrs Hathiramani, reading her horoscope in his temple.Forty years before, at the...

What is the value of an object once a person no longer uses it - that thing they once needed but now cannot seem to make space for? What makes a person relegate their belongings to a storage unit? Is it tragedy? Loss? Neurosis?...

Je n'ai pas écrit ... parce qu'il fallait que quelqu'un d'autre prouve que l'obsession des stylos est une maladie incurable... et que les gens obsédés ne sont que des sages qui se rencontrent sur les navires de la folie. Mais j'ai écrit... pour dire...

Reminiscent of Kurasawa's film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling Katzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He's strolling down the glinting avenues of Lima, branches crowning overhead, when he hears someone snickering from the shadows....

Shortlisted for 2024 Canada Reads Finalist for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library Association A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders Bringing together ink artwork and fiction,...

MollyEmotional damage? Check. Starting over after catching my husband nailing the yoga instructor next door? Check. Sexy as sin tattoo artist helping my heart and new ink heal? Check and check. What could go wrong?HawkLook, I'm happy with my grandma lifestyle. I've got the...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to...

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 at Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Literary...

"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." --Atlantic ReviewAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and...

"Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child of light." (Emerald Tablet of Thoth) An evolving immortal bloodline has now become something the supernatural world fears. Many in their world want their destruction, unwilling to execute the threat themselves...

As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed...

Wendy just wants to be a poet. So how comes she's on the run after an art heist?]'May well be the best book I've read in years' - Peter MayAn aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, Wendy is in a rut. She tries...

Michael Ferreira is a failed poet, not to mention depressed as hell. Mentally abused as a child, he spends his time travelling between England and Portugal, with a brief stop in Spain, wondering when he will find his own home, a place he belongs....

The end is arriving, or maybe not. Meanwhile, the poet Joanne Vanderberg, author of Semen and other classics, is worried about her age and decides to get lots of tattoos and have plenty of sex while reclusive author Seth Wolf finally decides to come...

A young poet travels to Lisbon and finds himself being pursued by an old widow without even knowing why. A man goes crazy and is hospitalized only to discover that his madness can make him rich. A security guard falls asleep at work and...

Only by traveling into the past can Jean find a happy future... Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts--secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in...

Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world's largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. After Danny's wife's infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the "white man's" world. Standing...

"A gorgeous riff of a New York City novel." --Wayne Johnson, Multiple Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Red Canoe, Don't Think Twice, and Six Crooked HighwaysNew York City, 1985, the scaffolded and torchless Statue of Liberty is under reconstruction, the Twin Towers hum with...

When eighteen-year-old Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she takes her small inheritance and leaves her sleepy hometown behind in search of a lifestyle better suited to her artistic temperament. She moves to London to pursue her single-minded dream of becoming, of...

An accessible, character-driven story set in 2003 New York City about a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block, as she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down...

Inspired by the poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, two young sisters face the trials and tribulations of the hood in this coming-of-age story about the harshness of living in South Central Los Angeles.Author: KjISBN-10: 8215801986ISBN-13: 9798215801987Publisher: Ms. KJLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2022Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize:...

San Francisco; The Bay. Known by many names and home to most notorious and most famous.Introducing Bay Bizzness.An anthology of four stories from four of the baddest authors from the Bay area.King Khatari, representing Oakland; Danae Braggs, representing Richmond; Lyrics Brown, representing San Francisco;...

From the internationally bestselling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game.A National Book Award Finalist hailed as a social treatise as well as a work of art (Alexandra Alter, New York Times), Kim Jiyoung,...

I don't remember what we were talking about, but my Granddaughter Kaity, her dad and I were talking about something and she said "There's always a story isn't there Bumpa." Upon reflection on that simple statement, I said, "Yes. There is." The more I...

In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen's Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan's modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes don't have to look any further than your own backyard.Beautiful, clever, and rich,...

A boy in his early 20s... who left his hometown to work on his dream of becoming an artist. One day, he decided to spend some time in the bar, and there he witnesses a performance of a girl who plays on the piano....

Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not earning a fortune as one of Hollywood's most sought after script writers, he is drinking, insulting and philandering his way through LA, 'successfully debunking the myth that men are unable...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century ManhattanRavage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side--the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century--in a dark mirror.Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish...

"A deftly crafted, deeply engaging, and memorably compulsive page turner." --Midwest Book Review No means no, except to the most powerful woman in fashion publishing. Kyle's been trying to forget her for eleven years. When the famous magazine editor reemerges for round two, Kyle's...

Under his touch, your every desire will...Bloom Today is the day Francesca Thomas was supposed to get married. All she wants is a stiff drink and a whole lot of distraction...which is exactly when she meets him. Tall, dark, and deliciously disguised, the man...

Kenya Wane is absolutely gorgeous, everything that a man could desire in a woman. However, there is one problem, she is only fourteen. Trial and tragedy will challenge her innocence, courage, and resilience. Betrayal is gift wrapped for her by the one person she...

Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man's reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn't do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has...

Jaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form-and quite possibly a new life. Cutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with...