Fiction - City Life

On the surface, Ariana knows how to command a room. Olga is still learning how to survive one.In New York City, Ariana has spent years turning beauty, silence, and instinct into a currency men understand. Olga Petrov is an ambitious NYU finance student with...

Roscoe lives on the streets of San Francisco, where he has become almost invisible-not because he is silent, but because the world has learned not to listen. He's one of those most of us choose not to see.Over the course of twelve hours, he...

Chicago, 1891-1896-a city expanding fast. Steam whistles, tenement stoups, the smell of coal, the clang of horsecars. Polish immigrants crowd the Near-west Side, carrying their language, saints, griefs, and hopes. In the midst of this restless, muscular city rises the most extraordinary and terrible...

A riveting historical mystery set in an alternate 1900 where the South won the Civil War In the sultry summer of 1900, New Orleans Detective Jean-Baptiste Delacroix faces the most impossible case of his career-one that will force him to choose between his badge...

From the bestselling author of I Hope This Finds You Well comes a sharply funny, surprisingly tender novel about a woman stuck in place, her nosy neighbors, and the journey to find where she belongs--with all the heart of a grown-up The Breakfast Club.Mona...

Author: Mark HelprinISBN-10: 1420538608ISBN-13: 9781420538601Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2026Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.59h x 5.52w x 0.95dLarge Print

A maximalist downtown party novel about insurgency and youthful revolutionary fervor, a paranoid and political meditation about intelligence services set on the brink of the collapse of the American empire From a rising talent, an epic literary thriller for readers of Catherine Lacey's Biography...

Roommates Jerry Smollens and Ike Bower are young, uninspired artists living in a rundown apartment on West Fourth Street in Greenwich Village. Ike is beautiful, beguiling, and driven by his libido. Jerry is shy and pines for his roommate, and in 1983, when the...

Amerikano tells the story of Todor, his wife Katia, and his son Luka (the narrator), ethnic Serbs from Croatia, who in 1999 flee under NATO bombs from Belgrade to San Francisco because of Todor's love for American poetry and culture (the Beats most of...

Twenty-four-year-old Gertie is starting her third job in under two years. This one has to stick. She can't run away from the harassment and unfair treatment like she did in her first two. She has to dig in and fight or she'll never get...

In the heart of New York, Alex Carter appears to have it all-a successful career as a marketing executive and a seemingly perfect life. But beneath the surface, Alex battles with doubts, fears, and insecurities that threaten to unravel everything. As Alex prepares for...

No Straight RoadBy Mark BoodieDwayne has learned to take life as it comes. Work is uncertain, money moves quickly, and most days are spent adjusting rather than planning. But at home, things are beginning to change. His mother's health demands more than he can...

The Last Embrace is a deeply moving psychological literary romance that explores the timeless questions of love, relationships, emotional healing, self-discovery, personal growth, identity, and inner fulfillment.Ananya believed, like many of us, that true happiness could be found in the love of another person....

The Silence of HillbrowThe Silence of Hillbrow is a gripping exploration of social realism and institutional decay, masterfully woven through the lens of Relational Realism. Set against the stark, shifting landscape of urban South Africa, the narrative peels back the layers of a society...

A man in Tallinn has found the one job no man is supposed to want. Paid companion for the lonely, the isolated, the elderly. The role exists in European legislation but not in culture, designed for women, borrowed from a practice that only makes...

Rusty Mandible used to be one of the colony's pathfinders. After a mistake involving human candy, Silkmaw the spider, and a lost portion of the colony, Rusty finds himself demoted and forced to prove he can still serve his fellow ants.But danger does not...

Rusty Mandible is still trapped inside the human ant farm, and the science fair has finally arrived.Timothy and Samantha are excited to show off their project, unaware that Rusty and the other captured ants are desperate to return home. Meanwhile, Twitch and Congo refuse...

DARK OBSESSION Eight years ago, the Marchetti and Calloway families were allies. Then a single betrayal turned one of them into a murderer-and the other into a dead man's daughter, left to inherit a name no one would say out loud again. Now Sienna...

Dwayne Wyatt is your typical average person. He had the perfect life; everything was perfect that's until he was diagnosed with a rare disease called Stellan's Syndrome. But when he first met Cinnamon she cured him an now the government wants her.Author: Michael VetoISBN-13:...

When Douglas Arceneaux helped build Crescent National Bank, he believed he was helping rebuild Louisiana.The bank rose from the uncertainty of post-Katrina New Orleans to become one of the fastest-growing financial institutions in the Gulf South. Its charismatic founder, Harrison Cole, was celebrated as...

Welcome to Critterpolis, a bustling city where merchants, inventors, inspectors, and everyday citizens are constantly finding themselves caught up in unexpected adventures.Follow Greg, a well-meaning but often overwhelmed frog, as he navigates tax troubles, unusual inventions, mysterious suppliers, troublesome scams, and citywide mysteries that...

For thirty years, Yassuda has been the voice in the dark.Every night from three to five, on a dying AM station, he takes the calls no one else will hear - the nurse's wife sending a song to a husband who will never hear...

Greg the frog thought he was finally going to have a quiet evening.Instead, he finds himself entrusted with a strange cleaning machine connected to a long-forgotten chapter of Critterpolis history. What begins as a simple favor soon draws Greg into a growing conflict involving...

Greg the frog is trying his best to live a quiet, responsible life in the bustling city of Critterpolis. Unfortunately, being a little sloppy has a way of attracting trouble.After falling victim to a clever scam involving a mysterious money-making machine, Greg finds himself...

Five years after the catastrophic breach on Triton moon base, humanity believes the nightmare of Sable Thorn is finally over.They are wrong.In the year 2705, former moon base commander Connor Bartholomew and his loyal robotic companion Zophiel now protect the sprawling casinos of dystopian...

THEY THOUGHT SHE WAS A "NOBODY" - UNTIL THE MOST FEARED KOREAN CRIME LORD CHOSE HER OVER EVERYTHINGShe wasn't supposed to matter. Then he chose her over everything.Lorraine Carter has survived things that were supposed to break her - a marriage that quietly dissolved...

Pursuing Potential: A New Masterpiece of Resilience by Chris Okey Nnokwam Now Available: The Latest Novel From the "Fiction with Integrity" Series The Journey of Self-Discovery and Purpose Order Pursuing Potential Today Winslow is a city shrouded in corruption and fear, ruled from the...

For two years, every morning at 6:17 AM, Aarav runs past the same bench.Nothing changes.Run.Work.Repeat.Until one morning, someone notices.Her name is Kiara.A freelance photographer and self-described collector of sunrises, she spends her mornings watching the quiet moments most people rush past.Aarav lives in a...

In Bellwick and Fontmere, nothing is ever what it seems.La Courbe Society is not just a community.It is a world of secrets, desire, power, and silent betrayals.Through elegance, tension, and emotional intensity, Season 1 introduces a group of individuals whose lives intertwine in unexpected...

Yancy Elias Vann thought he had finally left conflict behind.Life at the cabin has settled into a steady rhythm-quiet mornings, honest work at the farmers' market, and guiding others toward better choices. Matthew is finding his direction, and for the first time, things feel...

Love seems simple in a lot of stories. Boy meets girl, fall in love, so on and so forth. Life is often messier. Cassandra Thomas is a teenage girl trying to overcome a history of aggression and abuse. She has only one close friend...

In 2001, a struggling stand-up comic relocates to Brooklyn, where a rundown brownstone full of misfits and a haunted past force him to confront his demons - onstage and off. After a leap of faith comes the landing... And the place to make your...

Grace Morrison transferred back to Harlan Bay to be closer to family. She didn't expect Gunner Cutler.He's the most decorated officer at the precinct. Steady. Controlled. The kind of man who notices everything and says almost nothing. The kind of man you file away...

City of Paradox: A Heist That Became Survival is a taut crime thriller that flips into a claustrophobic psychological survival tale. When Isaac and his small-time crew, the Mighty Brothers, pull off a high-risk raid on a government vault guarded by the city's ruthless...

A Compelling family drama and story set in Bangalore on relationships modern city life and challenges of a family faced.Author: Suresh PatelISBN-13: 9798233037085Publisher: Suresh PatelLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2026Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.14d

What's Inside This Collection?Mechanical Hearts & Unexpected Connections is a full-length cozy science fiction romance collection set in 2040 Brooklyn. Across five interconnected love stories, humans and AI-enhanced robots discover what it truly means to connect beyond code, circuitry, and expectation.This collection includes: Multiple...

He turned his crypto into bricks. They turned his bricks into a cage.Young, idealistic, and armed with a fortune in digital currency, Mark arrives in Vientiane dreaming of building a legacy. He finds a mentor in Vinh, a soft-spoken "priest" of the Morning Market...

Told in chronological order, spanning the years 2016 to 2020, We Used to Dance Here is a portrait of both Dublin and Dubliners in flux. Together, these stories explore life on the margins, toxic masculinity and frustrated ambitions.There are dog tracks, bars and pubs,...

In 1990s California, two grieving brothers chase new beginnings, but as love, ambition, and family dysfunction collide, a devastating tragedy forces them to confront the lives they tried to leave behind. In 1995, after the death of their mother, four siblings-Braden, Vince, Ted, and...

Broken Chords is a brutal, unflinching coming-of-age novel set in the raw heart of 1981 Los Angeles-where punk isn't a style, but a lifeline.Twelve-year-old Jesse Fallon has already learned the first rule of surviving Nickerson Gardens: stay small, stay silent, and hope the world...

ROADRAGE: A Gonzo Rock-and-Roll RideWhiskey-stained nights, neon-lit streets, and the kind of music that makes your bones vibrate, welcome to the world of ROADRAGE. This isn't your mama's love story. This is sex, sin, and screaming guitars, a gonzo ride through a city that...

Justice has a price. In the Valley, it's usually paid in cash, blood, or black lung.Jack Harlan is a man living on the edge of a razor. Operating out of a cramped office above a Fortitude Valley pawn shop, he is a private investigator...

A casino never sleeps. It only changes shifts.Another Day in Paradise is a work of literary fiction set inside a casino, told through the quiet, intersecting lives of the people who keep it running. Dealers, servers, security, management, and maintenance move through artificial light...

The Harvest of Tears is a haunting work of Forensic Fiction by Davis Morena Motaung that deconstructs the cold, predatory mathematics of survival in a world governed by systemic debt. Set in a fractured society where every human breath is audited and even love...

Retirement was supposed to be simple: save enough, step away, enjoy the view. Then real life arrived - health questions, shifting plans, market mood swings, and the quiet fear of outliving both money and meaning.In The Retirement Club's Playbook: Playing for Keeps, a small...

Step into Manchester's rain-kissed streets, where the Christmas Markets glow with cinnamon warmth-and secrets long buried begin to stir.When Rose Merryweather discovers her great-aunt's century-old recipe book stolen and a mysterious ceramic tile left in its place, she is pulled into a quiet storm...

Two hearts. Two worlds. One unforgettable love.When city-raised Sana falls for Jamal, a quiet boy shaped by the deserts of Thar, their lives collide in a tender, deeply emotional journey.As rumors rise and families hesitate, their love grows stronger built on honesty, respect, and...

Taxi familiar tells the story of a father and daughter struggling to survive together, driving a taxi in the city of Marbella.When everything seems to be going smoothly, two events will shake up their lives.The river overflows and follows its course.Author: Miguel Gonzalez NavarroISBN-13:...

A Skinhead Christmas is a raw, unflinching, and unexpectedly tender collection of three interconnected short stories set against the grit, cold, and contradictions of a working-class British Christmas in the early 1980s.At its heart is the Iron Lasses-an all-girl skinhead crew bound not by...

The timeless dramas of our lives...... played out across the boroughs of New York City. In eight unforgettable stories, an array of robust Brooklyn characters confront pulsing conflicts and life-altering choices. Four teenage friends risk their lives in devotion to courageous adventure in and...