Fiction - City Life

We as people have a hard time believing in God's full forgiveness. Because after all the wrong we have done, how can we be completely forgiven? 'Lord Please Forgive Me' is what we say. But, when the forgiveness is on our part, how far...

More than eighty years after his death, Liu Na'ou (1905-1940) remains a fascinating figure. Liu was born in Taiwan, but early on he wrote that his future lay in Shanghai and did indeed spend the entirety of his glittering but all-too-brief career in his...

New York City is unique, vibrant, exciting and a melting pot of cultures and values. But sometimes, living in the Big Apple can lead to twists, turns, and unexpected outcomes.The Big Apple Bites Back portrays life in NYC-the people, neighborhoods, the workplace, dashed dreams,...

When World War I breaks out, a young architecture student in Munich does everything in his power to avoid being enlisted into the German military in this perceptive, wickedly humorous novel by a prominent twentieth-century writer, journalist, and film critic. Siegfried Kracauer's Ginster is...

"Michael Deagler is the real deal." --Percival Everett, 2023 Windham Campbell Prize recipient and author of Dr. No Don't worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He's sober now, ready to rejoin the world of leases and paychecks, reciprocal friendships and...

Author and historian Darlene Wesenberg Rzezotarski has based this novel on personal experiences, supplemented by articles from a variety of small press newspapers including Kaleidoscope and Street Sheet. With a master's degree in comparative literature and many years of teaching and research experience to...

Fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang will adore this irresistibly engaging story of two Filipino celebrities caught between everything they want...and everything they are.How do you follow your heart when it's in two places?Filipino musician and producer Mon Mendoza has been in New...

Gabriel Staub is a writer adrift in his early 30s whose older sister, Becca, is a brilliant, tempestuous-and world-famous- artist. Gabriel has spent his life in the shadow of Becca's success, and he is haunted by a childhood incident that traumatized her. A chance...

From Perfectly Impossible author Elizabeth Topp comes an unforgettably searing novel about a band of mothers who are forced to reckon with themselves after the unexpected loss of one of their own.When beautiful and successful Susan Harris jumps from the roof of her apartment...

"This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a...

*"For fans of Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This (2021). An off-kilter, hauntingly hilarious debut novel." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] bonkers story . . . Despite the sobering material, this is a hoot." --Publishers Weekly In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike...

Two broke strangers.Two broken hearts.Two happily-ever-afters for the price of one?Isla and Leigh are starting to think love is not worth it.Until they both see an ad in the gazette for a new dating service, which vows to help skint singles 'find love for...

In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, 'Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.In "Manifest," a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in...

Stories about problem issues many people feel powerless to alter in our society like population, social change, development and domestic violence.But not everybody. A few people are prepared to take action...Author: Greg CornwellISBN-10: 1922788147ISBN-13: 9781922788146Publisher: Vivid PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2021Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x...

"Terrifically vivid. . . stirring." - New York Times A beautifully wrought novel on the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse. Now in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted...

In Chanel Cleeton's international, angst-fueled romance, Maggie Carpenter is a small-town Southern girl who has never been kissed. She's ready for a change--and to leave behind her ordinary life and a failed attempt to get into Harvard.She accepts a scholarship to the International School...

From the author of The World and the Zoo comes a new coming-of-age story as powerful as the Southern Plains landscape that surrounds it. With echoes of The Moviegoer, In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie follows Matt Bennet, a soulful yet aimless...

A cheeky chappy comedianCharlie is most comfortable playing the funny man in front of boisterous crowds in London's comedy clubs. But he's about to be swapping his routine for wedding speeches. And his new acquaintance Sarah, thinks he is anything but amusing.The woman who's...

From acclaimed poet and memoirist Jonathan Wells comes a raucous and aching New York novel about family derangement, Boomer laments and youthful revolt, rock and roll, and the sacrifices we make for what we love. Benjamin and Dita Stern are seasoned New Yorkers whose...

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money,...

In Chanel Cleeton's international, angst-fueled romance, Maggie Carpenter is a small-town Southern girl who has never been kissed. She's ready for a change--and to leave behind her ordinary life and a failed attempt to get into Harvard.She accepts a scholarship to the International School...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect comes an expanded edition of The Enemy--a laugh-out-loud romance about rekindling old flames, with a never-before-seen chapter. Enemies should never get a second chance. But this one might. It's been twelve years since...

"Baseball Dreams and Bikers" is a compelling collection of short stories that delves into the intricate lives of individuals entangled in the realm of dreams, family, and unforeseen circumstances. In "Someone Anonymous," the search for a missing piece of oneself takes center stage. As...

A wildly original debut, Maynard and Jennica is both a hilarious urban comedy and a captivating love story. In the summer of 2000, while riding the uptown number 6 train, the musician/filmmaker Maynard Gogarty first encounters the beautiful Jennica Green.Though their initial meeting is...

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila "Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit" Jonathan Franzen...

From prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin comes the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption.Haesoo is a successful therapist and regular guest on a popular TV program. But when she...

Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible-with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the pitilde;ata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR,...

Galen has lived every day trying to live up to non-existant standards. He is rarely successful and retreats into his quiet life. But when things come to a head, Galen escapes to South Korea. He lands in Pohang, a small town in the southeast...

Thomas Matthews is a sixty-year-old businessman who devised nonprofit programs in over fifteen major cities during his life. After setting up the foundation for successful nonprofit entities outside of Tulsa, Thomas chooses to relocate to the outskirts of Chicago's Southside because of a family...

Taking care of pampered pets seemed like easy cash until the bullets started flying...When a routine dog walk leads to a violent discovery, criminology student Jenna Stack finds herself caught in a web of international intrigue. Can she discover the truth and expose the...

In the present day, Blacks live in poverty in a run-down tenement building. With riots and a burning city, their modest livelihood and uncertain future are threatened by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan. Their only hope against them is a 95-year-old...

David Lazar, passionate, excessive, riddled with contradictions and soaring ambitions, is a compulsive gambler. He is hopelessly in debt and stuck in a humdrum job that can't support his addiction. He is fighting to keep the wife he idolizes who cannot live with his...

1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry's been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he heads to the beach to chat with the gulls. Or he wanders through the streets in...

The author of the "ethereal and brutally realistic" (The New York Times) Tuesday Nights in 1980 returns with a highly anticipated new novel exploring what it means to be a woman in all its many forms, including daughter, sister, friend, partner, lover, and mother.Emily...

Shortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022! Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is...

"[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you're left feeling close to dazzled." --Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic...

'Funny, touching and wise, I loved it' Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is LeonWendy is lonely, misunderstood but coping. After her mum died, all she wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to...

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...

A third generation Norwegian, Freddie with a gambling addiction and nostalgic for the sixties counterculture, inherits the low-budget motel on the city's outskirts. As Freddie struggles with his own problems after leaving the motel maid pregnant, he is caught up in the lives of...

A third generation Norwegian, Freddie with a gambling addiction and nostalgic for the sixties counterculture, inherits the low-budget motel on the city's outskirts. As Freddie struggles with his own problems after leaving the motel maid pregnant, he is caught up in the lives of...

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan and other places across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure,...

In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state. An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn...

A legendary Cuban-American storyteller enters the Library of America series with a volume gathering three seductive and profound novels about family, desire, music, and loss Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) is one of the most acclaimed Latino writers of the last half century. Here are three...

What do you do when being a part of the church makes it impossible to love like Jesus loved?Tim and Abby are called to leave their comfortable Christian community in Texas to help build a church in Baltimore. Tim is convinced they can help...

From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking debut novel set in New York City, following a sprawling cast of characters as they navigate life, love, loss, ambition, and spirituality--without ever looking up from their phones. It's the summer...

A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When...

"One of the year's most delightful rom-coms."--New York Times bestselling author Julia London on The Dachshund Wears PradaThe perfect romcom for dog lovers! Pets of Park Avenue is the story of a self-confessed hot mess who learns that life is more fun when things...

Sabrina and Greg are living the American dream. Young, successful, and madly in love, life couldn't be better. Storm clouds gather over their charmed life when Sabrina meets Shemar, a talented young artist who touches her in a way that shakes her world. She...

McNeil's consequential and enlightening tale channels the colorful world within the postal environment. Making up this vividly essential yarn are six intriguing stories that provide a different yet necessary spin on life-related issues: Freeman Souls' alcoholism plight, coupled with struggling to choose between his...

A compulsive work of fiction from an outstanding Australian writer. Redmond Campbell's luck has just taken a turn for the worse. His dog's dead, his wife, Bea, has landed in prison, and he has to look after Bea's sister, Lori - a wildly disinhibited...