Fiction - City Life

*Deluxe Illustrated Edition* *Includes 19 full-color illustrations* "Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." --Los Angeles Times Set during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott...

"This is excellent reportage which says all that needs to be said in the best and simplest way possible." -- Kirkus James Mills, a reporter for Life magazine, drew upon his firsthand experience of New York City's junkie underworld to create this harrowing, fictionalized...

Experience the very best of Ruskin Bond's writings in one book. If only the world had no boundaries and we could move about without having to produce passports and documents everywhere, it really would be 'a great wide beautiful, wonderful world', says Ruskin Bond....

"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book...

HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS. HARD DEALS. HARD TIME. Back in New York City, Seven was the seventh child. But here in Charlotte he's number one on every ladies' list. Even behind bars, he managed to sex a female corrections officer, who lost...

"A lewd, impious and brilliant novel of contemporary Cuba. In the brutality of his honesty, Mr. Gutierrez reminds one of Jean Genet and Charles Bukowski." --New York Times Dirty Havana Trilogy chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living hand to...

In 2011 New York, Rachel is one step away from becoming invisible. Half a century earlier, confined in the clean, white walls of a mental hospital, Anna wishes she could be.Rachel and Anna's lives are woven together-one desperate to be seen, to find out...

Running private-investigator and funeral-home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the Skelf women take on their most perplexing, chilling cases yet in Book Two of the darkly funny, devastatingly tense and addictive Skelfs series! ***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of...

A thrilling tale of revenge set against the vibrant backdrop of sensationalist modern mediaSeasoned reporter Sanford "Fuse" Petty is old-school in every way--anti-technology, anti-Millennial (don't even mention Gen-Z), and anti-"gotcha" journalism. After Fuse is asked to leave his paper pending a disciplinary investigation, he...

'Meticulously plotted and UTTERLY chilling - everything you want from a contemporary thriller' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the TrainOne girl jumped.And then another followed...In the city of Bristol, young women are dying in mysterious circumstances. The deaths look like suicides -...

Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner...

Readers in Los Angeles are thirsty for stories that bring their city to life. This anthology features a diverse range of voices and genres. Like the City of Angels in which these stories were born, nothing is off-limits. Literary or contemporary, noir or ghost...

In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family...

Library of America presents an authoritative new text of Hemingway's classic novel, correcting errors, restoring key changes made to Hemingway's original punctuation--including to the novel's famous last line--and reinstating references to real people removed for fear of libel With the publication of The Sun...

"In her engaging SF novel, Grace Agnew offers a dual mother-son perspective that allows for thoughtfully complex explorations. Agnew is a skilled worldbuilder who pays attention to details, enriching the story. This is a tough-minded, compelling tale of how post-apocalyptic humans might find renewal."...

Bitch Chronicles is a Special Collector's Edition of the entire Bitch Series. If you've read Bitch The Beginning, Bitch Reloaded, The Bitch Is Back, Queen Bitch and Last Bitch Standing, here is an opportunity to have this captivating saga in one book. If you're...

Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing...

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time...

*GOLD MEDAL winner in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards in Literary Fiction* In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It's a question Meg Rhys doesn't think she's asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living...

An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate--the way so many of the city's residents already have--to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with...

A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness--or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate."A lonely ex-financier stuck in his apartment during the Covid-19 pandemic becomes obsessed with the Central Park Reservoir and slowly goes mad."--New York Times Book...

"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction."-The Daily BeastChristmas is over and a fog-draped Naples is preparing to celebrate the new year when, on stage, the famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a prop gun at his wife,...

Beauty and poverty; violence, addiction and brotherhood. Written with unstoppable flow, Wretchedness mixes high and low culture in an inimitable way. Author: Andrzej TichýISBN-10: 1911508768ISBN-13: 9781911508762Publisher: And Other StoriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2020Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60dAward: Man Booker International Prize -...

"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book...

#1 National Bestseller"A sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical, tense, and surprisingly touching, it is a portrait of a city onto which so many...

Lillian on Sunday: Stories of the Human Heart is an elegant collection of highly entertaining, provocative short stories exploring the rich nature of human existence. From love stories to city fables to ghost stories, these illuminating tales are filled with engaging individuals coming face-to-face...

Lillian on Sunday: Stories of the Human Heart is an elegant collection of highly entertaining, provocative short stories exploring the rich nature of human existence. From love stories to city fables to ghost stories, these illuminating tales are filled with engaging individuals coming face-to-face...

In this epic, ambitious, and deeply poignant novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse group of people whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and the activism of the 1980s to a...

"Those who have what it takes can make it right where God put them; going away is trying to hide your ineptitude among the strangers."With his brother's words permanently etched in his brain, Kostas, a headstrong Greek merchant seaman, jumps ship in America, determined...

Henry Miller's monumental venture in self-revelation was begun with his Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, which on their American publication were hailed as "miraculous," "superb," "ribald," "brilliant," and "shamelessly shocking." Sexus is the first volume of a series called The Rosy Crucifixion,...

The extraordinary new novel from Nordic Council Literature Prize-winning Au ur Ava lafsd ttir Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there...

After being diagnosed with mental illness, Keats wants nothing more than to get away. His first day in Rome he falls in love - and she steals his wallet and passport. See, this isn't the Rome of La Dolce Vita. This is the Rome...

A prize-winning novel about class, money, creativity, and motherhood, that ultimately reveals what happens when the hypocrisies we live by are exposed... Resi is a writer in her mid-forties, married to Sven, a painter. They live, with their four children, in an apartment building...

What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society that hated women? In this,...

Retirement was supposed to bring her time to paint. Instead, she would find a purpose.Carli Morris is ready for her next chapter. Selling her Madison Avenue ad agency for billions, the self-assured career woman pursues her love of art and spends her spare hours...

Described by Publishers Weekly as Cooley's "sharp latest", "Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers." In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a...

Voicy, heartfelt, hilarious, propulsive--this book is brilliant.--Christina Lauren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authorFor fans of Josie Silver and Emily Henry comes a debut romcom about the life-changing magic of second chances. This charming and quirky debut has it all: childhood friends,...

Set in Occupy-era New York City, this novel follows sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance in the lives of three women: A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The Not Wives traces the lives of...

The novel that launched the Beat Generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives lived by...

From hip hop kingpin and #1 New York Times bestselling author 50 Cent comes a gritty novel that dares to tell the truth about the Life on the Street: One man did his time...but now he wants payback. Who's gonna hire an ex-con? That's...

Nexus, the last book of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly recalls his many years as a down-and-out writer in New York City, his friends, mistresses, and...

"A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it." --John Updike"It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. Milan Kundera is an artist, clearly one of the best to be found...

In 2011 New York, Rachel is one step away from becoming invisible. Half a century earlier, confined in the clean, white walls of a mental hospital, Anna wishes she could be.Rachel and Anna's lives are woven together-one desperate to be seen, to find out...

Ragged Dick (1868) is the first in a series of six novels by American author Horatio Alger. In each, Alger uses the Protestant work ethic as a template to not only examine the harsh realities of urban poverty, but provide a hopeful, concrete moral...

A masterful novel illuminating the rich and hidden facets of human character among the residents of a senior residence in Montana--and "a cleansing antidote to the last few years of political and cultural turmoil . . . if you have anything in the way...

Gracie Allen breaks the Philo Phormula in a number of ways. First is its title: this is the only book in the series to modify "Murder Case" with more than one word, much less with the name of a character. And then there's that...

"Those who have what it takes can make it right where God put them; going away is trying to hide your ineptitude among the strangers."With his brother's words permanently etched in his brain, Kostas, a headstrong Greek merchant seaman, jumps ship in America, determined...

Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920's America, Fitzgerald's lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader. "Only...

Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror. Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their...

INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER - COMING SOON TO NETFLIX Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author. "One of the finest legal thrillers of the last...