Fiction - City Life

Sidebar

Availability

Price

$
to
$

Product type

Format

Author

Show all
Filter
  • 10
  • 15
  • 20
  • 25
  • 30
  • 50
  • Featured
  • Best selling
  • Alphabetically, A-Z
  • Alphabetically, Z-A
  • Price, low to high
  • Price, high to low
  • Date, old to new
  • Date, new to old
Sort

Sort by:

  • Featured
  • Best selling
  • Alphabetically, A-Z
  • Alphabetically, Z-A
  • Price, low to high
  • Price, high to low
  • Date, old to new
  • Date, new to old
  • Maximum Bob by Leonard, Elmore
    Elmore Leonard

    Maximum Bob

    A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sentenced to death--by alligator, if necessary. Maximum Bob is...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Old New York by Wharton, Edith
    Edith Wharton

    Old New York

    First published in 1924, "Old New York" is a collection of four short stories set in the New York of the 1840s, 50s, 60s, and 70s by American author Edith Wharton. These stories are often considered a companion to Wharton's celebrated novel "The Age...
    $10.99
    $10.99
    $10.99
  • Through Thorns by Vulliamy, Mark
    Mark Vulliamy

    Through Thorns

    It's 2007, and Sandra Treming has just served 25 years in prison on a terrorism and murder conviction stemming from her involvement in the "Berkman Brigade," an early 1980s political activist group. Described by the media as "the mastermind behind a monstrous terrorist act...
    $23.99
    $23.99
    $23.99
  • The Lonely Lady by Robbins, Harold
    Harold Robbins

    The Lonely Lady

    From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes the gutwrenching story of one woman's battle to break free of the male-dominated, sexual pay-to-play culture of Hollywood.... THE LONELY LADYJeriLee Randall is a young girl with dreams of being...
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • The Lonely Lady by Robbins, Harold
    Harold Robbins

    The Lonely Lady

    From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes the gutwrenching story of one woman's battle to break free of the male-dominated, sexual pay-to-play culture of Hollywood.... THE LONELY LADYJeriLee Randall is a young girl with dreams of being...
    $34.99
    $34.99
    $34.99
  • Secure the Shadow by Henson, Michael
    Michael Henson

    Secure the Shadow

    An interconnected web of lives in one midwestern city captures the surprising humanity of people searching for their authentic selves amid the 1990s drug crisis.Amy Taylor finds the inner-city streets around her high school vibrant and animated compared to the bland middle-class neighborhood where...
    $22.95
    $22.95
    $22.95
  • Faultland by Vitello, Suzy
    Suzy Vitello

    Faultland

    The Sparrow family is falling apart, and now their city is too. When Portland is hit by the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, siblings Morgan, Olivia, and Sherman are tasked with keeping their family alive following one of the worst natural disasters in living memory....
    $17.00
    $17.00
    $17.00
  • The Dishwasher by Larue, Stéphane
    Stéphane Larue

    The Dishwasher

    WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD - NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS - A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK - A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 - As heard on CBC's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright...
    $16.95
    $16.95
    $16.95
  • The Narcissism of Small Differences by Zadoorian, Michael
    Michael Zadoorian

    The Narcissism of Small Differences

    A hilarious and poignant novel about growing up, buying in, selling out, and the death of irony.The Narcissism of Small Differences is one of Zadoorian's] best. He has become an essential chronicler of the life in Detroit at the beginning of our century.--Stateside, Michigan...
    $16.95
    $16.95
    $16.95
  • Numbers by Rechy, John
    John Rechy

    Numbers

    Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the...
    $13.00
    $13.00
    $13.00
  • Locas by Murray, Yxta Maya
    Yxta Maya Murray

    Locas

    A rhythmic, terrifying raw plunge into East L.A. gang life, Locas is the story of two teenage girls, Lucia and Cecilia-the girlfriend and sister of a rising young gangster whose gun trade is about to explode into the big business of drugs. When their...
    $17.00
    $17.00
    $17.00
  • No Bones by Burns, Anna
    Anna Burns

    No Bones

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002 A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, Milkman. 'Marvellous: shocking, moving, evocative' Daily Mail Every single night and every single day...
    $11.99
    $11.99
    $11.99
  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    There Is Confusion (1924) is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. Published to resounding acclaim from such critics as Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, There Is Confusion was largely forgotten by the 1930s as the Great Depression and the Second World War shifted national...
    $16.99
    $16.99
    $16.99
  • The Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition by Hemingway, Ernest
    Ernest Hemingway

    The Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition

    New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway into the twenty-first century with vigor. For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway's masterworks, and is widely...
    $16.99
    $16.99
    $16.99
  • Not You Again by Osburn, Terri
    Terri Osburn

    Not You Again

    Four blind dates in five days. I can't believe I agreed to this.Actually, I can. That's what I do. I agree to things I don't want to do to make other people happy. In this case, my four best friends. They're worried about me...
    $10.99
    $10.99
    $10.99
  • The Wedding Party by Xinwu, Liu
    Liu Xinwu

    The Wedding Party

    In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you to an epic, riotous, and moving neighborhood feast.On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan--a lively quadrangle of homes--begins to stir. Auntie Xue's son Jiyue is getting...
    $34.99
    $34.99
    $34.99
  • Another Kind of Madness by Pavlic, Ed
    Ed Pavlic

    Another Kind of Madness

    "A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound." --KIESE LAYMONNdiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening,...
    $16.00
    $16.00
    $16.00
  • Blue Sky Gone by Farmer, J. S.
    J. S. Farmer

    Blue Sky Gone

    Audrey Moretti always knew she wanted to be a police officer, but she never expected it would take her on the most harrowing venture of her life-the search for her sister on September 11th, 2001...Audrey has made it to the final weeks of the...
    $32.99
    $32.99
    $32.99
  • The Wonders by Medel, Elena
    Elena Medel

    The Wonders

    A mesmerizing read . . . I was completely engrossed in this story, in the shadow each generation casts on the one that comes after it, in the tension between caring for oneself and caring for others. --Avni Doshi, author of the Booker Prize...
    $36.99
    $36.99
    $36.99
  • Carry the Dog by Gangi, Stephanie
    Stephanie Gangi

    Carry the Dog

    Powered by insight and true wit. --Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion I can't remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat...
    $46.99
    $46.99
    $46.99
  • Moscodelphia by Rafferty, Charles
    Charles Rafferty

    Moscodelphia

    "Moscodelphia is extraordinary. Terrifyingly spare in its language and pace, this debut novel by one of our best poets unfolds into a tale that holds dystopic caution and the hunger of love in two steady hands. Readers of Rafferty's poetry will know he is...
    $15.95
    $15.95
    $15.95
  • The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction by Danyan, Chen
    Chen Danyan

    The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction

    As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man's only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company's attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • Private Means by Lefavour, Cree
    Cree Lefavour

    Private Means

    "This feels like an Ian McEwan novel. Served on a bed of Cheever. I can't offer higher praise than that. But written by a woman. Which is even better."-- Elizabeth Gilbert Spanning the course of a single summer, Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree...
    $16.00
    $16.00
    $16.00
  • Through the Wall by Corcoran, Caroline
    Caroline Corcoran

    Through the Wall

    Pre-order Five Days Missing now! The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author Caroline Corcoran, coming February 2022.'A rival to Gone Girl for its addictive, twisted plot.' STYLISTLexie's got the perfect life. And someone else wants it...Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and...
    $12.99
    $12.99
    $12.99
  • A Woman Like Her by Levy, Marc
    Marc Levy

    A Woman Like Her

    An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world.It's been five years since fate upended resilient Chloe Bronstein's world. While she may be living with her father,...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • No Thoroughfare by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    No Thoroughfare

    A distraught mother is forced to abandon her baby to a foundling hospital and begs to know the name that the authorities have given her child. She's told that his name is Walter Wilding, and upon her returns a dozen years later, it's Walter...
    $5.00
    $5.00
    $5.00
  • Green Sun by Anderson, Kent
    Kent Anderson

    Green Sun

    "One of the unsung legends of crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune), Kent Anderson, returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself. Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with...
    $16.99
    $16.99
    $16.99
  • I Heart New York by Kelk, Lindsey
    Lindsey Kelk

    I Heart New York

    "I'll read anything she writes" -- Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe perfect book for Sex and the City and Emily in Paris fans, I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk truly celebrates the city that never sleeps.It's official. Angela Clarke is...
    $15.99
    $15.99
    $15.99
  • Here Comes Trouble by Macomber, Debbie
    Debbie Macomber

    Here Comes Trouble

    On Christmas Eve, Maryanne and Nolan Adams tell their kids the story they most want to hear - how Mom and Dad met and fell in love. It all started when they were reporters on rival Seattle papers . . . Maryanne Simpson is...
    $34.99
    $34.99
    $34.99
  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    There Is Confusion (1924) is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. Published to resounding acclaim from such critics as Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, There Is Confusion was largely forgotten by the 1930s as the Great Depression and the Second World War shifted national...
    $11.99
    $11.99
    $11.99
  • The Hated Ones by Fiorito, Mike
    Mike Fiorito

    The Hated Ones

    "The Hated Ones" is a vivid and elegant collection about coming of age in the rough-and-tumble world of New York City.Brimming with grit and vulnerability, The Hated Ones offers characters coming to terms with the expectations of masculinity in a distinctly urban world.Angela Mitchell,...
    $18.00
    $18.00
    $18.00
  • The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction by Fransisca, Hanna
    Hanna Fransisca

    The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction

    A young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged... A group of elderly women visit a famous amusement park for one last ride, but things don't go...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • Closure by Todd, Lindsey
    Lindsey Todd

    Closure

    "I hope, after this extremely long love letter, that you can appreciate the way all of our little moments fell together in the type of perfection I had once believed I'd only read about in books."For Morgan, Philadelphia isn't "just" a city. It can...
    $16.99
    $16.99
    $16.99
  • Pretty Revenge by Liebert, Emily
    Emily Liebert

    Pretty Revenge

    The name of the game is revenge--no matter the cost--in this emotionally charged thriller reminiscent of The Wife Between Us and The Perfect Nanny. Kerrie O'Malley, jobless and in an unfulfilling relationship, can isolate the singular moment in her life when things veered off...
    $16.00
    $16.00
    $16.00
  • Humiliation: Stories by Flores, Paulina
    Paulina Flores

    Humiliation: Stories

    "Humiliation is a brilliant book that captures the volatility of misunderstandings, the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them." --Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize...
    $16.95
    $16.95
    $16.95
  • Metropolitan Stories by Coulson, Christine
    Christine Coulson

    Metropolitan Stories

    "Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories." --Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than...
    $23.00
    $23.00
    $23.00
  • Shackling Water by Mansbach, Adam
    Adam Mansbach

    Shackling Water

    At the age of nineteen, saxophone prodigy Latif James-Pearson boards a bus to Manhattan to find his aging idol, the great Albert Van Horn. The centers of Latif's universe soon become a Harlem boarding house, where he spends his days practicing intensely, and the...
    $15.00
    $15.00
    $15.00
  • Star by Anderson, Pamela
    Pamela Anderson

    Star

    Pamela Anderson's life is the stuff of fairy tales and centerfolds. A champagne blonde who was discovered by a beer company, she moved from model to Playmate, from actress to star...and now she can add New York Times bestselling author to her resum ....
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • Life Without Children: Stories by Doyle, Roddy
    Roddy Doyle

    Life Without Children: Stories

    A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting short stories. Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten,...
    $30.99
    $30.99
    $30.99
  • A Case of Curiosities by Kurzweil, Allen
    Allen Kurzweil

    A Case of Curiosities

    In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Bright by Pimwana, Duanwad
    Duanwad Pimwana

    Bright

    When five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community,...
    $16.95
    $16.95
    $16.95
  • Good Man, Dalton by McQuestion, Karen
    Karen McQuestion

    Good Man, Dalton

    A chance encounter leads to an unpredictable Manhattan romance in an irresistible and heartwarming novel from the author of Hello Love.Greta Hansen has arrived in Manhattan to intern with the Vanderhaven Corporation, a company owned by distant and very wealthy relatives. But she soon...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • Promising Young Women by Scanlon, Suzanne
    Suzanne Scanlon

    Promising Young Women

    "Suzanne Scanlon enters the inverted space of grief and near-madness with courage, intelligence, and wit--and with a small, sharp light for us to follow." --Dawn Raffel A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties,...
    $16.95
    $16.95
    $16.95
  • In the City of Shy Hunters by Spanbauer, Tom
    Tom Spanbauer

    In the City of Shy Hunters

    Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first novel in ten years, is a "rich and colorful" portrait of New York in the 1980s, told with "raw power" (David Wiegand, San...
    $14.00
    $14.00
    $14.00
  • Sari Shop (Revised) by Bajwa, Rupa
    Rupa Bajwa

    Sari Shop (Revised)

    Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status families" and to the giggling girls who dream of dressing up in silk but can only afford cotton. When Ramchand...
    $21.95
    $21.95
    $21.95
  • Neon Line by Thompson, Tom
    Tom Thompson

    Neon Line

    Thompson's city is Sydney, and perhaps the most impressive feature of his writing is the way the physical reality of the city is caught throughout the prose, and the power with which Thompson draws the skin of human relationships over this brutal and jagged...
    $14.99
    $14.99
    $14.99
  • Make Believe by Epperson, Tom
    Tom Epperson

    Make Believe

    Make Believe is a light-hearted love story, set in the cynical, cutthroat world of Hollywood. Dustin Prewitt is a handsome screenwriter with a taste for women, money, big houses, and hot cars. His life is turned upside-down when Laura Keene, his beatiful but crazy...
    $26.55
    $26.55
    $26.55
  • The Longcut by Hall, Emily
    Emily Hall

    The Longcut

    From Museum of Modern Art editor Emily Hall, a debut novel in the first person about the place of art and the artist in the world.Author: Emily HallISBN-10: 1628973978ISBN-13: 9781628973976Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2022Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60dReview Citation(s):...
    $15.95
    $15.95
    $15.95
  • Yes, Daddy by Parks-Ramage, Jonathan
    Jonathan Parks-Ramage

    Yes, Daddy

    "A gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special." --Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead ThingsA propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Bartleby & Benito Cereno: American Tales by Melville, Herman
    Herman Melville

    Bartleby & Benito Cereno: American Tales

    "Bartleby, the Scrivener" - An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe...
    $5.90
    $5.90
    $5.90

Recently Viewed Products