Fiction - City Life

When Sara's husband, Mark, goes to law school on the East Coast, Sara moves in with her mercurial sister because she's just gotten promoted at her job and doesn't want to leave San Francisco. It's manageable. She and Mark will both focus on their...

In the heart of Bensonhurst, an Italian American family struggles to survive one explosive day-the nation's Bicentennial.The Agnello family wakes Bicentennial morning to the sound of fireworks. Outside their apartment, block party preparations are already underway. Paulie, husband and father, has been out on...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and f黎ed fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public--yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much.He's never taken other people half as...

New paperback edition of The Reservoir from author, actor, and musician David Duchovny includes a bonus, brand-new short story, "The Scare Owl"Author: David DuchovnyISBN-10: 163614165XISBN-13: 9781636141657Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2024Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.00w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 02/02/2024

This story begins where it ends, followed by a whimsical search for lucidity. The reader is taken for a particle infused gambol, a continuum circling spacetime. Isolation propels our hero, Thomas Sawyer. Exploring truth in blackholed fiction, our protagonist forages inward, where reflections of...

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind The Coin's narrator is...

In 2007, Christina Harris' bad luck starts when Jerry the Jerk slams into her bumper and he rudely blames her for the car accident. Christina is flabbergasted when she learns that Jerry is the Best Man at her sister's wedding the next day and...

1970s New York City is borderline bankrupt. Police departments, public schools and other municipalities are struggling under massive layoffs, buildings are abandoned, and the streets are rife with crime and drugs. For Johnny Alvarez, a precocious young runaway, the decay, and lawlessness offer camouflage...

This long-suffering assistant can't stand her terrible boss, billionaire Orion Lord. He's arrogant, unserious, and always takes her for granted. And sure, she lets him, and it's not because he's tall, handsome, and top-tier gorgeous. No. It's not that. Orion Lord can charm the...

Rudolph Fisher's outstanding debut novel The Walls of Jericho, published in 1928, explores race and class issues during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through the lens of Black lawyer Fred Merrit, who buys a home in a white neighborhood bordering Harlem. What progresses is a...

The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much; and was in a fair way of being reduced, for life, to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness by the ill usage he had received.Author: Charles DickensISBN-10:...

"Swoony, sexy, and melancholy. . . a tattered love letter to youth, music, and Nashville." --Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year In the sweaty music clubs and late-night house parties of Nashville, an aspiring songwriter tries to make friends, find love,...

Clubland has a new Voice Studio 54. The Hacienda. Tunnel. Limelight. CBGB. Ministry of Sound. Now it's Sydney's turn in Nathan Kirk's raw memoir of nightclub life under a glittering mirror ball sky. A late-night journey teeming with beats, sex, drugs and rock n...

Shekhar Tripathi's car gets slammed by an SUV while it is parked in front of his apartment building, leaving the car inoperative. He is already in grief, not having recovered from his wife's death three months ago. At the same time, his business, Westland...

A fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. The world of luxury real estate sales and cutthroat co-workers. A charismatic boss and an intriguing next-door neighbor...Thirty-year-old Sophie has longed to live in Manhattan but could never afford to do so--even with roommates. She has just been laid...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONA fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. The world of luxury real estate sales and a cutthroat co-worker. A charismatic boss and an intriguing next-door neighbor...Thirty-year-old Sophie has longed to live in Manhattan but could never afford to do so--even with roommates. She has...

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...