Fiction - City Life

"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." --Atlantic ReviewAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and...

"Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child of light." (Emerald Tablet of Thoth) An evolving immortal bloodline has now become something the supernatural world fears. Many in their world want their destruction, unwilling to execute the threat themselves...

As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed...

Wendy just wants to be a poet. So how comes she's on the run after an art heist?]'May well be the best book I've read in years' - Peter MayAn aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, Wendy is in a rut. She tries...

Michael Ferreira is a failed poet, not to mention depressed as hell. Mentally abused as a child, he spends his time travelling between England and Portugal, with a brief stop in Spain, wondering when he will find his own home, a place he belongs....

The end is arriving, or maybe not. Meanwhile, the poet Joanne Vanderberg, author of Semen and other classics, is worried about her age and decides to get lots of tattoos and have plenty of sex while reclusive author Seth Wolf finally decides to come...

A young poet travels to Lisbon and finds himself being pursued by an old widow without even knowing why. A man goes crazy and is hospitalized only to discover that his madness can make him rich. A security guard falls asleep at work and...

Only by traveling into the past can Jean find a happy future... Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts--secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in...

Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world's largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. After Danny's wife's infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the "white man's" world. Standing...

"A gorgeous riff of a New York City novel." --Wayne Johnson, Multiple Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Red Canoe, Don't Think Twice, and Six Crooked HighwaysNew York City, 1985, the scaffolded and torchless Statue of Liberty is under reconstruction, the Twin Towers hum with...

When eighteen-year-old Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she takes her small inheritance and leaves her sleepy hometown behind in search of a lifestyle better suited to her artistic temperament. She moves to London to pursue her single-minded dream of becoming, of...

An accessible, character-driven story set in 2003 New York City about a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block, as she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down...

Inspired by the poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, two young sisters face the trials and tribulations of the hood in this coming-of-age story about the harshness of living in South Central Los Angeles.Author: KjISBN-10: 8215801986ISBN-13: 9798215801987Publisher: Ms. KJLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2022Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize:...

San Francisco; The Bay. Known by many names and home to most notorious and most famous.Introducing Bay Bizzness.An anthology of four stories from four of the baddest authors from the Bay area.King Khatari, representing Oakland; Danae Braggs, representing Richmond; Lyrics Brown, representing San Francisco;...

From the internationally bestselling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game.A National Book Award Finalist hailed as a social treatise as well as a work of art (Alexandra Alter, New York Times), Kim Jiyoung,...

I don't remember what we were talking about, but my Granddaughter Kaity, her dad and I were talking about something and she said "There's always a story isn't there Bumpa." Upon reflection on that simple statement, I said, "Yes. There is." The more I...

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 rich,...

A boy in his early 20s... who left his hometown to work on his dream of becoming an artist. One day, he decided to spend some time in the bar, and there he witnesses a performance of a girl who plays on the piano....

Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not earning a fortune as one of Hollywood's most sought after script writers, he is drinking, insulting and philandering his way through LA, 'successfully debunking the myth that men are unable...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century ManhattanRavage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side--the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century--in a dark mirror.Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish...

"A deftly crafted, deeply engaging, and memorably compulsive page turner." --Midwest Book Review No means no, except to the most powerful woman in fashion publishing. Kyle's been trying to forget her for eleven years. When the famous magazine editor reemerges for round two, Kyle's...

Under his touch, your every desire will...Bloom Today is the day Francesca Thomas was supposed to get married. All she wants is a stiff drink and a whole lot of distraction...which is exactly when she meets him. Tall, dark, and deliciously disguised, the man...

Kenya Wane is absolutely gorgeous, everything that a man could desire in a woman. However, there is one problem, she is only fourteen. Trial and tragedy will challenge her innocence, courage, and resilience. Betrayal is gift wrapped for her by the one person she...

Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man's reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn't do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has...

Jaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form-and quite possibly a new life. Cutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with...

In Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, early twentieth-century statesman of Black-American discourse W.E.B. Du Bois weaves autofiction with poetry, social essay, science fiction, and Afrofuturist storytelling that presages Butler, Due, Adjei-Brenyah, Shawl, and Jemisin. Three wise men gather as a Christ child of...

It is 1968 and everything about being a Black woman in America is changing. A society once walled off has begun opening doors. Against this backdrop, three young women meet at a New England college and form a friendship that endures, heals, and dramatically...

One of BuzzFeed's New Books You'll Love "Cairo Circles is a novel that proves literature needn't choose between pleasure and substance. You will tear through the pages of this delicious book, and you will be changed in the process. Doma Mahmoud is a tremendous...

After growing up with an alcoholic mother and an intermittent stepfather, Alex pines for connection, even as he sabotages his life with substances, and substitutes one failed relationship for the next. Shuffling from troubled home to chaotic institution, he narrates his strange search through...

Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his...

Cindy and Dave Knight got married too young. Several years later, they're trying to make the best of it. He's a salesman on the fast track with a prestigious corporation. She's the indispensable assistant to a prominent Broadway producer. They own an apartment in...