Fiction - City Life

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...

'Pemi Aguda opens her collection of twelve stories with the chilling tale of a woman who uncannily resembles her sinister, deceased grandmother. When the woman shows a capacity for deadly violence, she wonders--can evil be genetic, passed from generation to generation?Set in Lagos, Nigeria,...

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...

For readers of Emma Cline and Jennifer Egan: 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 guest...

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...

Author: Rob RoenschISBN-10: 1960215094ISBN-13: 9781960215093Publisher: Belle Point PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2023Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d

Author: Laura CarterISBN-10: 1785135600ISBN-13: 9781785135606Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2023Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.70d

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...

A blogger, a dream gig, an underground city-- what could go wrong?It seems like a dream gig when Daphne gets the job offer--live in Montreal's Underground City for a full year and blog about the experience. The flip side of the city has all...

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...

Author: Sarah AdamsISBN-10: 0593871731ISBN-13: 9780593871737Publisher: DellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 288Format: Paperback

Author: Douglas RobbinsISBN-10: 8223476215ISBN-13: 9798223476214Publisher: Rebel PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2023Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.53d

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...

Author: Eduardo MendozaISBN-10: 1529410088ISBN-13: 9781529410082Publisher: Quercus PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 496Format: Paperback

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 piñata 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...