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
  • Karoo by Tesich, Steve
    Steve Tesich

    Karoo

    Saul Karoo is a memorable creation. He is a successful Hollywood script doctor, a fixer of flawed films. He is fifty, overweight, a heavy drinker and chain smoker. He is at an age when things break down, but he has no health insurance. His...
    $14.00
    $14.00
    $14.00
  • The Limits of the World by Acker, Jennifer
    Jennifer Acker

    The Limits of the World

    The Chandaria family--emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi--have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their...
    $26.95
    $26.95
    $26.95
  • Loudmouth by Duncan, Robert
    Robert Duncan

    Loudmouth

    "Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks." --Craig Finn, The Hold Steady Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices...
    $15.00
    $15.00
    $15.00
  • The Divine Boys by Restrepo, Laura
    Laura Restrepo

    The Divine Boys

    From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege.Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogot bond over a shared...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • The Wild One by Burgess, Gemma
    Gemma Burgess

    The Wild One

    Sweet, innocent Coco has always been the good one. But when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she decides it's time to break bad. Coco swiftly goes from spending all her time baking and reading to working nights in (and dancing on) a...
    $22.99
    $22.99
    $22.99
  • Carnival by Antoni, Robert
    Robert Antoni

    Carnival

    Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His ambitious third novel, Carnival, takes us on an expedition that stretches from contemporary New York City to the glitter of Trinidadian Carnival, and...
    $13.00
    $13.00
    $13.00
  • The Long Night of White Chickens by Goldman, Francisco
    Francisco Goldman

    The Long Night of White Chickens

    Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman's internationally acclaimed writing career. The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • A Peculiar Grace by Lent, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Lent

    A Peculiar Grace

    An unforgettable tale of love, family secrets, and the hold of the past in a family of New England artists, A Peculiar Grace is the latest triumph from the author of In the Fall, hailed by The Christian Science Monitor and The New York...
    $15.00
    $15.00
    $15.00
  • No Saints or Angels by Klíma, Ivan
    Ivan Kl?a

    No Saints or Angels

    Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" and a "Czech master at the top of his game." In No Saints or Angels, a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Klima...
    $13.00
    $13.00
    $13.00
  • Crawling at Night by Power, Nani
    Nani Power

    Crawling at Night

    Hailed by The New York Times as a formidable young writer ... one who unpacks her characters' emotions with a firm, graceful hand, Nani Power garnered impressive acclaim for her profound debut last year. A darkly lyrical, charged exploration of the double-edged sword of...
    $13.00
    $13.00
    $13.00
  • Galahad and I Thought of Daisy by Wilson, Edmund
    Edmund Wilson

    Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

    From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad." Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson's I Thought of Daisy tells the...
    $27.00
    $27.00
    $27.00
  • I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle

    "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage,...
    $18.99
    $18.99
    $18.99
  • Goodnight Steve McQueen by Wener, Louise
    Louise Wener

    Goodnight Steve McQueen

    From the author of The Perfect Play comes a charminglyromantic-yet very edgy-novel set in the music industry about friendship, love, growing up, and always following your dreams. Danny McQueen has dreamed of being a pop star since he was thirteen-years-old. Now he's twenty-nine and...
    $13.95
    $13.95
    $13.95
  • Careering by Buchanan, Daisy
    Daisy Buchanan

    Careering

    Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs. careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely 2. moving in a way that feels...
    $17.00
    $17.00
    $17.00
  • 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...
    $41.99
    $41.99
    $41.99
  • The Blooming Of Alison Brennan by Engebretson, Kath
    Kath Engebretson

    The Blooming Of Alison Brennan

    A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...
    $17.19
    $17.19
    $17.19
  • 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...
    $51.99
    $51.99
    $51.99
  • Cover Story by Rigetti, Susan
    Susan Rigetti

    Cover Story

    Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, Fortune, PopSugar, and more![A] page-turner that's...
    $41.99
    $41.99
    $41.99
  • I Only Cry with Emoticons by Zalkow, Yuvi
    Yuvi Zalkow

    I Only Cry with Emoticons

    The Rumpus Book Club Pick, May 2022Most Anticipated Books of 2022, The Rumpus16 Upcoming Books from Indie Presses You'll Love, BuzzFeedBest Books of the Summer, Powell'sSaul doesn't get why he's misunderstood. At his high-tech day job, he hides in the bathroom writing a novel...
    $24.95
    $24.95
    $24.95
  • The Forgery by Barrera, Ave
    Ave Barrera

    The Forgery

    A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins--Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barragán, traversing late 20th Century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricity of an...
    $15.95
    $15.95
    $15.95
  • The Voids by O'Connor, Ryan
    Ryan O'Connor

    The Voids

    "After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night listening for human activity, for any sign of life at all. Voids are flats that have been vacated, that will never be lived in again. But...
    $17.00
    $17.00
    $17.00
  • Kyoto Stories by Alpert, Steve
    Steve Alpert

    Kyoto Stories

    a sardonic look at being a young and single American in Kyoto in the 1970s; it didn't happen just like this, but it could have before he wrote his successful memoir about working at Studio Ghibli, the author of Sharing a House with the...
    $19.95
    $19.95
    $19.95
  • Softer Than Steel by Topper, Jessica
    Jessica Topper

    Softer Than Steel

    From the author of Deeper than Dreams comes a story that proves you have to find yourself before you can find love... As rock star "Riff Rotten", Rick Rottenberg has enjoyed all the perks that fame can offer, especially now that he's reunited with...
    $15.99
    $15.99
    $15.99
  • Tales from the Cafe by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
    Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    Tales from the Cafe

    Over One Million Copies SoldNow an International Best SellerIf you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. Local legend says...
    $43.99
    $43.99
    $43.99
  • Changganli by Jiwen
    Jiwen

    Changganli

    This story received Chinese National Best Network Novel Award for 2019.In the fictional Chinese city of Nandu, the ancient walls have enclosed the neighborhood of Changganli for 600 years. In the 1950s, as the citizens wanted to develop as fast as possible, "relics" like...
    $24.99
    $24.99
    $24.99
  • Slow Vision by Bodenheim, Maxwell
    Maxwell Bodenheim

    Slow Vision

    Maxwell Bodenheim's 1934 novel Slow Vision depicts a young couple, a pair of average Americans swept up in labor struggles and reduced to painful subsistence, portraying the protagonists' gradual understanding of labor unions and the psychological, philosophical, and political trials that led to sympathetic...
    $15.99
    $15.99
    $15.99
  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. There Is Confusion centers on two families, the New York Marshalls and the Philadelphia Byes. In delineating their histories, Fauset stresses the significance of kinship and origins. She also shows the interconnectedness of the black and white races...
    $10.95
    $10.95
    $10.95
  • The Age of Innocence & Old New York: Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's Day by Wharton, Edith
    Edith Wharton

    The Age of Innocence & Old New York: Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's Day

    "The Age of Innocence" centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. The novel is noted for...
    $11.50
    $11.50
    $11.50
  • An Evening at the Hotel: An Affair in 51 Rooms by Laqueur, Suanne
    Suanne Laqueur

    An Evening at the Hotel: An Affair in 51 Rooms

    Two co-workers, long attracted but never acted. Over the years, he's only spoon-fed her details of his private life. Despite their easy rapport, even with all their playful and thrilling banter, most of his true feelings remain beyond her grasp. She can't quite tell...
    $6.99
    $6.99
    $6.99
  • Olvídame (Forget My Name - Spanish Edition) by Monroe, J. S.
    J. S. Monroe

    Olvídame

    CÓMO SABER EN QUIÉN CONFIAR CUANDO NI SIQUIERA SABES QUIÉN ERES?Ella está fuera, en la puerta.Entró en el tren después de una difícil semana en el trabajo. Le robaron el bolso y con él su identidad. Toda su vida estaba ahí dentro: pasaporte, cartera,...
    $18.99
    $18.99
    $18.99
  • Made in L.A. Vol. 3: Art of Transformation by Sisco, Cody
    Cody Sisco

    Made in L.A. Vol. 3: Art of Transformation

    The stories and dreams we share with each other are ever-evolving. The ground shifts beneath our feet. We return to familiar corners and find ourselves out of place and time. Art of Transformation explores interior states of emotional drift and the evolving place we...
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • The Eavesdroppers by Chard, Rosie
    Rosie Chard

    The Eavesdroppers

    When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for 'listeners' to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will discover previously untapped insights into public opinion.But as five eager listeners begin eavesdropping in the cafes,...
    $20.95
    $20.95
    $20.95
  • Lily Rose by Robinson, Deborah
    Deborah Robinson

    Lily Rose

    Is blood truly thicker than water? After a desperate search for her birth mother, fashionista Lily Rose is forced to confront her turbulent past. Love has set the tone for most of Lily Rose's young life in Cumberland Falls, high in the mountains of...
    $24.99
    $24.99
    $24.99
  • Lazarus Rising by Caldwell, Joseph
    Joseph Caldwell

    Lazarus Rising

    This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by the 92-year-old Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were every day events. One cold winter night, when the artist, Dempsey Coates, is on the way home to...
    $24.95
    $24.95
    $24.95
  • Warpaint: A Workplace Romantic Comedy by Maya, J. J.
    J. J. Maya

    Warpaint: A Workplace Romantic Comedy

    WARPAINT - An entertaining novel about love, finding home and following your dreams - BookBubWhen Scottish Makeup Artist Willow Campbell meets dashing New Yorker, Rick, and marries him after a whirlwind romance, her new life in NYC is far from the perfect fresh start...
    $12.99
    $12.99
    $12.99
  • Amnesty by Adiga, Aravind
    Aravind Adiga

    Amnesty

    "Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice"Author: Aravind AdigaISBN-10: 1432879782ISBN-13: 9781432879785Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2021Pages: 373Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90dLarge Print
    $31.99
    $31.99
    $31.99
  • The Woman in Black by Tarloff, Erik
    Erik Tarloff

    The Woman in Black

    Events in Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay AreaEmmy-nominated writerPossible mentions by Maureen Dowd, Jim Lehrer, Sally Quinn, and many more-these folks all mentioned Erik's previous titles in their columns and on the websites they write forAppearances as the Bay Area Book Festival,...
    $18.00
    $18.00
    $18.00
  • Sweet, Smart, and Struggling: Does a Dumpster Hold the Secret to Success by Klassen, Carmen
    Carmen Klassen

    Sweet, Smart, and Struggling: Does a Dumpster Hold the Secret to Success

    Single mom Carrie Bennet knows that her 'new' home in a run-down townhouse is a much better place than living with her cruel and controlling ex-husband, and she's determined to create a good life for herself and her two children.With a budget so tight...
    $14.99
    $14.99
    $14.99
  • Old New York by Wharton, Edith
    Edith Wharton

    Old New York

    The events in Old New York are set in the same New York as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, making this a prequel. In Old New York Wharton once again explores the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society. Unsurprisingly Old...
    $22.99
    $22.99
    $22.99
  • Terms and Conditions by Darling, Helen J.
    Helen J. Darling

    Terms and Conditions

    An ambitious single woman. A lifelong goal within reach. Will Manhattan's unexpected challenges turn her fantasy into a disaster? After ten lackluster years in a dead-end job, Jane Desmond can't wait to pursue her enduring ambition of a career in the glittering NYC literary...
    $14.99
    $14.99
    $14.99
  • The Sheltering Rain by Hanmura, Ryo
    Ryo Hanmura

    The Sheltering Rain

    A diverse cross-section of Japan passes through the bar Lui, and the bartender tends to them all, with all their hopes and their fears. Underneath the black suits--whether crumpled or designer--and the cosmetics, they're all people on the way to somewhere else in Tokyo's...
    $15.00
    $15.00
    $15.00
  • The Good Stranger by Meserve, Dete
    Dete Meserve

    The Good Stranger

    From the bestselling author of Good Sam--now a Netflix feature film--comes another Kate Bradley story about the nature of generosity and finding unexpected connections with strangers.TV reporter Kate Bradley arrives in Manhattan ready to take on a challenging new position as a national news...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • Cornelius Sky by Brandoff, Timothy
    Timothy Brandoff

    Cornelius Sky

    "The novel is set against a backdrop of a crumbling Manhattan, where tensions are high and things seem to be at a breaking point, mirroring the chaos in Sky's own life. Brandoff comes to the material honestly, having worked as a city doorman at...
    $15.95
    $15.95
    $15.95
  • The End. And Again by Back, Dino
    Dino Bauk

    The End. And Again

    The End. And Again is a novel about war, romance and rock 'n' roll. It takes us back to Ljubljana and the Balkans in late 1980s and early 1990s through the reminiscences of an embittered bureaucrat Peter, a corrupt manager Goran and eternal runaway...
    $15.00
    $15.00
    $15.00
  • Welcome to the Heady Heights by Ross, David F.
    David F. Ross

    Welcome to the Heady Heights

    It's the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial service and a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever. Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realised. In a bizarre brush with the...
    $15.95
    $15.95
    $15.95
  • Story Cities: A City Guide for the Imagination by Davies, Rosamund
    Kam Rehal

    Story Cities: flash fictions

    Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city.Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, caf駸, hotels, parks, stations and ports;...
    $15.00
    $15.00
    $15.00
  • No Thoroughfare by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    No Thoroughfare

    No Thoroughfare By Wilkie Collins, Charles DickensAuthor: Charles Dickens, Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1718951981ISBN-13: 9781718951983Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
    $6.99
    $6.99
    $6.99
  • Silas Dillon of Cary County by Schrage, Clifford
    Clifford Schrage

    Silas Dillon of Cary County

    A story about childhood homelessness and estrangement, and about the love and nurture that changed everything.Author: Clifford SchrageISBN-10: 1683502833ISBN-13: 9781683502838Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2017Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
    $16.95
    $16.95
    $16.95
  • My Friends by Bove, Emmanuel
    Emmanuel Bove

    My Friends

    Bove's tale of a World War I veteran living in postwar Paris, searching for friendship and warmth, is an ironic, entertaining masterpiece by one of France's favorite authors. My Friends is Emmanuel Bove's first and most famous book, and it begins simply, though unusually,...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • The Hive by Cela, Camilo José
    Camilo José Cela

    The Hive

    Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner...
    $17.95
    $17.95
    $17.95

Recently Viewed Products