Fiction - City Life

Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's award winning cult classic, Vurt. Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come from Vurt Feathers. Place a...

Author: Kate ClaybornISBN-10: 8885789757ISBN-13: 9798885789752Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2023Pages: 520Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00dLarge Print

Finn's a piece of shit, but you'll root for him anyway. Faith's no better, but he loves her just the same.After years of writing songs for corporate labels, record producer extraordinaire Finn Fairlane moves from the Big Apple to The City Beautiful to redefine...

The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable debut following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and quickly discovers there's a dark side to being a #GirlBoss.After a series of go-nowhere jobs in the New...

With seven short stories, The Troll Garden is a comprehensive exploration of American artists, and the trials they face. In Flavia and Her Artists, a young woman named Imogen goes to visit her friend Flavia, who is a patron of artists. Joining Flavia's group...

A savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this "smart, haunting, and compulsively readable" (Amy Jones, author of We're All in This Together) debut novel about...

In this "brilliantly original" and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life (New York Times bestselling author Claire Mackintosh). Still reeling from the sudden...

In this follow-up volume to Big in Heaven and Secret Turning, we see the people of Saint Alexander the Whirling Dervish parish and those around them at their worst and at their best. We see God's grace shining into even the darkest corners of...

From an "exceptionally sensitive and perceptive" Turkish writer and human rights activist (Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature), the captivating story of a writer whose own autobiographical novel forces her to come to terms with the dichotomy of the city she...

Twenty-three-year-old Sophia Destino is a small-town girl about to plunge into life in the big city of Toronto. Still hung up on her past heartbreak, she is desperate for a change by taking on a new graduate degree in education. While living it up...

In the near future, men and women are in a Federal prison facility. Jasp Odle incarcerated for race rioting, Rey Amin for treason, Turner for mass murder. They wonder if they have a future and hope for their lives. Jasp is paroled into the...

Daniel and Claire Morrow are newlyweds with different pasts-Daniel lived a life of privilege while Claire was born into poverty. But yet, they fell in love. When they move to Manhattan from their Midwestern college in the days leading up to the Great Recession,...

Welcome back to 42nd Street where nightmares become reality. Where a two-bit hustler can become a hero. The pimps and prostitute's platform shoes click and clack the block creating the native drumbeat of desire. Pete Chiarella takes you back to the most dangerous block...

An unnamed city in 2020: Haunted Texan journalist Devon meets genderqueer emancipated teen Garrett over tear gas. This pair needs to survive the riots and struggle with the intensity of emotions from being young, passionate, and political outlaws.Author: L. A. FieldsISBN-10: 159021756XISBN-13: 9781590217566Publisher: Lethe...

Complete editions of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920's America,...

Sams has created the Australian Bridget Jones in this hilarious story, an emotive trajectory that pushes the boundaries of rom-com fiction.Georgie Henderson doesn't want to have kids, but her best friend, Nina, has wanted to have a baby for as long as she can...

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...

Lonely Brooklyn twentysomething David Gould has problems: blown work deadlines, an obsession with an Internet temptress he's never met in the flesh, and, worst of all, a hedonistic double attempting to steal his identity. Full of gripping characters, mood-altering detail, and a killer virtual...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is set at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age, and presents the complex characters and lyrical prose the great American novelist is known for. Anthony Patch is young, handsome, wealthy, and the heir to...

Welcome to Munks...home to the lost, the lonely, and those in perpetual limbo. A famous nightclub now in decline. New owners with wayward ideas are determined to redeem this place of moral bankruptcy. Amongst the rot, the depravity, the crime, and the hedonism -...

UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement -...

The story of an unstoppable, irresistible and electrifying modern heroine determined to climb the ladder at the newspaper where she works, no matter how many lives she ruins in the process.Author: Sarah MayISBN-10: 1529066913ISBN-13: 9781529066913Publisher: Picador UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x...

Eleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation. Salvatore Pane's The Neorealist in Winter is a collection of eleven short stories that explore what it means to be human in an age of media oversaturation. Utilizing methods of...

"...the deep interplay between the two main characters adds a special intimacy to the novel." -Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize "...a fantastic story...with many surprises and exquisite intimacy. ...an excellent read for romance fans and anyone new to the genre." -Literary Titan A startling revelation....

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...

Those everyday small moments that feel so big in our heartsA brother's ego getting in the way of a healthy relationship, a 50-year-old learning about depression from a teenager in an airport, a father's fading hope of rediscovering life's purpose as he awaits his...

In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with...

With a successful career in the City and a great love life, she had everything.Then she got married.What happened?Her husband knows... and he won't say.Prize-winning author Jill Anabona Smith was born on the Isle of Thanet, worked in most parts of Kent and London...

The novel is set in and around the iconic Art Students League in New York City where 20th Century stars of the art world studied and taught. Here, Bert Kossoff teaches painting when he is not cloistered in his studio. His wife Ruth defends...

Will vacation love survive in the real world? Or will life be our undoing?My French fling with Chris was only supposed to last two weeks... I was bad at relationships, worse at love. So I was leaving it all behind-the French wine, the sunsets,...

Ava Lewis can take care of herself. That's what she's determined to prove to herself, and to her well meaning, but sometimes overbearing family. And now that she's been provisionally accepted into NYU's law school, she's on her way to making all of her...

Accomplished New York book editor Rebecca Winters, on the threshold of forty and recently yet amiably divorced, looks into herself one day as never before and finds--nothing. Her contented life has gone empty.Bewildered and fraught, she vacantly buries herself in work, trying to hide...

Common Ground has been open one full year and is proving to be a successful and popular coffee shop. A group of misfits have become the cornerstone to Josie's success, which in turn, affords them opportunities to regain lost confidences. Josie keeps a journal...

Featuring work from Abby Beckel, Bob Beagrie, Cherry Potts, David Mathews, David McVey, Frances Gapper, Neil Brosnan, Pauline Walker, Sarah Evans, Sarah James and Wendy Gill with themes as various as friendships betrayed, birth, atheism, searching space, strangers in the night... and genres from...

"An eccentric outsider is baffled by contemporary Manhattan in this engrossing second novel ... another entrancing, deeply memorable offering from Pelzman." -Kirkus Reviews"How could anyone who has ever spent time in Manhattan resist taking a peek at a book with this title? Happily, The...

"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,...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is set at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age, and presents the complex characters and lyrical prose the great American novelist is known for. Anthony Patch is young, handsome, wealthy, and the heir to...

Jessica Hill is a pretty, spoiled rotten young woman. She's nosy, loud, annoying, a bit selfish. She's used to receiving everything and right away. A tornado of pink fabric, chestnut hair and the scent of strawberries and caramel. A beautiful, but hollow body that...

From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musicianFor three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her...

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a...

Venoans is a collection of stories interwoven by members of a community in Venoa Beach. From high school teenagers and grifters to mayors and policemen, Venoans live by a code only they truly understand-one of death and big risks. We follow characters like The...

'I loved her then, I love her now. Annie's back and she's better than ever! Fun, feel good and feisty - Annie Valentine is the woman you want to share a cocktail with!' Portia MacIntoshCan she make it big in the big apple?When Annie...

* A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Them * Debutiful * Literary Hub * Electric Literature * And Many More! * A searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era...

An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999. Published in 1999 and awarded that year's Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan's first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story....

"A collection of short stories about life in an inner-city Albanian Orthodox parish in Philadelphia"--Author: Stephen N. SiniariISBN-10: 195589017XISBN-13: 9781955890175Publisher: Ancient Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2022Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The...

New Orleans journalist Maggie McBride is fired from her job one hot summer afternoon for no apparent reason except being over fifty. As she struggles with her anger and tries to figure out her next move, a devastating hurricane threatens the city. In its...

From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York CityFailed in all his career aspirations, recently laid off from Kinko's, and burdened with a frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on...

After going for more than a year without a date -- a record in New York City -- Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain...

One of the biggest unsolved crimes of the 20th century, one that has baffled the FBI for decades, has now landed in the hands of Wyatt Earp. In present-day Boston, the renowned lawman of the Old West and his posse of masterminds must solve...