Fiction - City Life

Once you find your muse, never let them go. Finn Fairlane is a music producer who has lost his inspiration to create. While jumping from one one-night stand to the next, his focus unexpectedly shifts when he crosses paths with his former college girlfriend,...

Pranav Rai never wanted to take over his father's company, Pyramid Housing. He wanted to be an actor. But little does he know that he is about to perform the role of a lifetime. The Acting MD is the story of a na?e young...

From one of France's most talented young authors, an urban thriller full of rage and raw emotion In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Saïd, was fifteen years old. And now he is dead.Mattia is...

Everything good in Joe Magellan's life--family, teaching career, sanity--has been undermined by his baffling compulsion: breaking the world record for flagpole-sitting. Through the years Joe has made seven attempts at the record, his best effort a measly eleven days. Oranges begins on January 20,...

"Rhythmic, incantatory . . . Vivid and painfully intimate." --The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Francisco Umbral Prize for Best Book of the Year A Finalist for the Finestres Award Now Translated into Fifteen Languages An international sensation, The Wonders follows...

"WITTY, STARTLINGLY ASTUTUE." --People Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative,...

Winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction--known as the "Arabic Booker Prize"-- this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness. After losing his job and refuge, Ibrahim al-Warraq, a bookseller, decides to live with the homeless people in his city...

In a psychosomatic masterpiece, John Gilmore explores the dichotomy of a young man and woman's wants and desires as opposed to harsh reality. What starts as a simple photo shoot with a beautiful girl, leads Eli Woodrow into a world he never dreamed of,...

When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left...

Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' --Guardian 'Constantly surprising' --Spectator A viciously occult murder. A curious clue left on the body. The soundtrack to the murder still playing... It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in...

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan and other places across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure,...

A tale of ambition, politics, and power, Manhattan Transfer is a masterpiece of modernist fiction and urban realism. From the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, John Dos Passos takes readers through a collage of characters chasing the American Dream, engulfed by the frenetic...

Twenty-five years after his high school graduation, David Halpert returns to a place that most people flee. But David is making his own escape--from his divorce and the death of his son. In Detroit, David learns about the double shooting of his high school...

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023THE TORONTO STAR 'MUST READ, HANDS DOWN BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR''Cat Person' meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity.An unnamed man is spending the evening with...

A book that left burn marks on night tables across continents, 'Lovers And Gamblers 'has become a Collins classic. It features two of her most memorable characters: Al King, the rock-and-roll superstud who is everything any sex-crazed groupie ever imagined her hero to be;...

"A dizzying yet powerful read." --Claire-Louise Bennett, author, Pond A sharp and witty debut novel that is at once a tender portrait of youth and an exploration of the emotional costs of social mobility, the possibilities of leaving and returning, the meanings of work...

Selected for Malala's Book Club"Imogen Crimp's enjoyable debut novel... is an all-too-real reminder of what it is to be a woman in your 20s..." - The New York Times"Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People."--Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and BlissA...

In "Northwest of Boston," Stephen O'Connor's characters live the human drama fully in stories that range from the humorous to the poignant. They go to the crossroads to face their demons, come to terms with the fleeting nature of life and love, and find...

Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland,...

In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen's Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan's modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes don't have to look any further than your own backyard. Beautiful, clever, and...

Sex. Drugs? And rock 'n' roll...With the tour underway and new ventures on the horizon, Finn Fairlane is optimistic about the future. Even as he continues to heal from the accident he senses possibility in the air, with his career, and in romance.But when...

When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket's glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at the Washington Post exclaimed, "The author pulled me in so deftly, moved me up an escalating...

Every day, Mercer Moore was reminded that it was all ending. It was The End of Television, of Civility, of The Planet. Maybe that's why it doesn't seem like the end for Mercer. Sure, his wife Alejandra had been blunt. She hadn't used the...

Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and...

Short Stories from the Jazz Age is a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best short stories, featuring his three masterful volumes: Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, and All the Sad Young Men. This collection provides an insightful overview of F. Scott...

One of the defining novels of Jazz Age literature, Carl Van Vechten's Firecrackers encapsulates the extravagance and freedom of New York City in the Roaring 20s. Paul Moody's life is almost completely uneventful. The gigolo is bored and desperately seeking a sense of purpose....

Handsome mechanics, struggling actresses, unhappy couples, and seemingly successful businessmen, Gigolo is an Edna Ferber short story collection that recounts the quiet private lives of everyday Americans. First published in 1922, Gigolo contains eight short stories that give a remarkable insight into life in...

A collection of short stories by the infamously witty Jazz Age writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber, including Buttered Side Down, Cheerful - By Request, Half Portions, and Gigolo. This volume features many of Edna Ferber's best works of fiction. The Algonquin Round...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber, this collection of short stories features the tales of many brave, charming women who will stay with you long after you've set this volume down. Set in Chicago in the early 1910s, these 12 short stories mostly...

This volume contains all three books in Edna Ferber's comedic Emma McChesney trilogy. Follow the titular head-strong single mother as she thrives in early 1910s America. Emma McChesney is a fiercely confident travelling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherbloom Petticoats. Having just gone through...

Hardworking and stylish, Edna Ferber's much-loved Emma McChesney returns in this sequel to Roast Beef, Medium. Now sharing her spotlight with her son, Jock, our heroine struggles to accept her child's newfound freedom. Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son,...

A seminal short story collection containing 12 humorous and dark tales from the prominent Jazz Age author, Edna Ferber. This 1912 volume highlights Edna Ferber's famous wit as well as her masterful control over tragedy. The 12 stories featured in this collection reflect early...

One of twentieth-century America's most politically influential novels, The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's hard-hitting exposé of the meat-packing industry. Journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair was a known muckraker who used his work to expose the horrific underbelly of the American government in the early...

Move over, Dickens--America's favorite storyteller has written a modern Christmas story for the ages. It's mid-December and for the fifth year, at the Sullivans' lonely brownstone in Harlem, stockings go un-stuffed, tinsel un-strewn, gifts un-bought, mistletoe un-hung, chestnuts un-roasted, carols un-played, cookies un-cooked and...

Is there such a thing as too much inspiration?On a world wide tour to promote the newest album of hot rock band Spear Fist, Finn Fairlane is still trying to make sense of his complicated love life. Ex-girlfriend Faith Siubhal went from the girl...

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles. Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley's "secretly legendary" novel is at once an homage to the thrillingly inventive spirit of Kathy Acker's cut-up novels...

An exciting second installment in the Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery Series, the endearing and unflappable Dr. Boudreau returns in this complex and nuanced portrait of psychology and a city. When Dr. Boudreau is contacted by the Vancouver Police and informed that her patient Danielle...

Leash extends the logic of S&M to its inexorable and startling conclusion, darkly and hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to disappear from the chores, obligations, and emotional vacuity of daily life.No more jobs, no more taxes, no more checkbook, no more...

LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love and madness. When he tired of Toronto's insular scene, art critic...

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...

Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris'...

Troost is a real street. East of it is where you can buy a house if you're Black. It's also where our middle-aged white narrator grew up-and where she has just returned to reboot her life. How will she fare in this vastly changed...

As Josie begins the summer before college with the dream of working at a coffee shop to save money and learn the business, she quickly realizes what she learns outside, around the dumpster, will become the foundation for her own coffee shop. Told through...

A woman who is suffering from a tragic loss is placed on a jury with her estranged ex-husband.Author: Cai EmmonsISBN-10: 1636280757ISBN-13: 9781636280752Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Ted and Diana Rutherford's dreams of a peaceful retirement go up in flames along with their furniture store one fateful night. Insured for the goods on consignment, but not the building itself, they desperately answer an employment ad in the Denver Post and find...

"Brett, who has written a critical study of postmodern fiction, has hit upon an immensely interesting concept for her debut novel, one that allows her to dig deep into psychology, philosophy, physics, and, most importantly, politics as Daphne shakes Garrett out of his indifference...

2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. Manhattan Transfer is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The...

2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s,...

Careless People is a story of family and friends living in Corona del Mar, a small beach community in Southern California. It is set in a time when Orange County was transforming from quiet fields of orange trees into large developments and busy freeways.Life...

What won't they do for family and Friend? How much can one family do to prepare for the worse? Is there a line that shouldn't be crossed? Did Phil Sr.; Phillip Jr.; or Pelgrin cross that line? Http: /lulu.com/spotlight/kmbe Read all the books: A...