Fiction - City Life

Looney Toons meets Southpark. Talking animal creatures who mostly wanna get toastly. High powered highs and funny business. You have a 78.3% chance of laughing. Good luck!Author: Lucas DerangedISBN-10: 1304875490ISBN-13: 9781304875495Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2021Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.51d

Winifred Holtby's "Anderby Wold" offers a compelling glimpse into Yorkshire social life during the 20th century. This rediscovered work of English literature explores the intricacies of rural life and the experiences of women within a specific time and place. Set against the backdrop of...

Arnold Bennett's "Riceyman Steps: A Novel" offers a compelling glimpse into 20th-century London, specifically the Clerkenwell district. This work of urban fiction serves as potent social commentary, capturing the essence of city life in England. Bennett masterfully portrays the nuances of human experience against...

Step back in time with Sydney Watson's captivating novel, "In the twinkling of an eye," a journey into the heart of 20th-century London. This meticulously prepared edition invites you to experience the vibrant city life of a bygone era, where history and mystery intertwine....

Step into the opulent and corrupt world of 19th-century Paris with Émile Zola's "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curée"). This landmark of French literature paints a vivid portrait of Parisian social life, exposing the moral decay beneath the city's glittering facade. Zola masterfully...

Arnold Bennett's "Anna of the Five Towns" offers a compelling glimpse into life in the heart of industrial Staffordshire. Set amidst the backdrop of the Five Towns during the Industrial Revolution, this work of social realism paints a vivid portrait of a bygone era....

Step back in time to 19th-century San Francisco with Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton's "The Californians," a captivating work of historical fiction. Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of early California, brought to life through Atherton's meticulous detail and evocative prose. Explore the rich tapestry...

Step back in time to 18th-century New York City with Amelia E. Barr's captivating historical romance, "The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York." Immerse yourself in the vibrant city life of colonial America, brought to life through Barr's meticulous detail and...

Experience the vibrant tapestry of late 19th-century New York City in "A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part 4," by William Dean Howells. This carefully restored edition offers a compelling glimpse into urban life and the complexities of social change. Howells masterfully portrays the era's...

Upton Sinclair's "The Metropolis" offers a sharp, satirical look into the lives of the upper class and the stark realities of urban life. Through a compelling narrative, Sinclair delivers a powerful social commentary on wealth and social injustice. This meticulously prepared edition brings to...

Dive into the gritty underworld of turn-of-the-century New York City in "The Dock Rats of New York," a thrilling adventure from the master of pulp fiction, Old Sleuth Harlan Page Halsey. This classic detective story plunges readers into a world of hidden crime, where...

Arnold Bennett's "The Grim Smile of the Five Towns" offers a glimpse into the heart of industrial England through a collection of captivating short stories. Set in the potteries district of Stoke-on-Trent, also known as the "Five Towns," these tales paint a vivid picture...

Arnold Bennett's "Tales of the Five Towns" offers a powerful glimpse into life in the heart of England during the Industrial Revolution. These compelling short stories, steeped in social realism, paint a vivid portrait of the communities that comprised the "Five Towns" of Stoke-on-Trent....

Cash Onadele (Aiyeko-ooto) tells a social sardonic and emotional tale. It is colloquially explained away, but it is, in truth, contentious. You may grab your handkerchiefs and take a seat. Brungdee Heartaway is a dreamy wannabee. She is desperate for a better life for...

Author: Andrew J. GregorISBN-10: 391230470XISBN-13: 9783912304701Publisher: B. C. KraftLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2026Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.59d

In the heart of New York City, where dreams soar and despair festers, A Happy Death tells the haunting story of Dez-a man who once dared to dream but was ground down by a world that values profit over people. Homeless, invisible, and discarded,...

On 21st September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the WESTGATE MALL in Nairobi's Westlands area. Westlands is an upmarket suburb of Kenya's capital, . Nairobi. What followed was several days of total horror in which as many as 70 people were killed. The attack...

"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...

This is a book of stories in which the narrator Robert Bronson a head custodian for The Clearview school district, introduces himself and his world in an intimate, friendly way. One by one, you will experience the emotional range of the people that he...

This is a book of stories in which the narrator Robert Bronson a head custodian for The Clearview school district, introduces himself and his world in an intimate, friendly way. One by one, you will experience the emotional range of the people that he...

Grandchildren of the Ghetto (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career...

Step back in time to 19th-century Chicago with Henry Blake Fuller's "The Cliff-Dwellers," a compelling novel of urban life. Set against the backdrop of the city's burgeoning skyscraper district, this work of realism offers a glimpse into the social conditions of a rapidly evolving...

It's the final day of their probation period, and Sean, Sal, and Graham have one goal: finish their deliveries on time and prove they deserve the job.What they don't expect is everything that can possibly go wrong.From bizarre customer encounters and impossible apartment buildings...

"Abigail Savitch-Lew opens up doors to a Brooklyn world that most of us will never see. She reveals the convergence of cultures that is the real New York to life with flair and grace that make this an utterly enjoyable read." --James McBride, New...

Fiercely witty and sharply narrated, VESPER is an anti-romance literary novel about independence, love, and self-discovery through the eyes of consultant Vesper. Blending the cultural zeitgeist of Sex and the City with the philosophical depth of Milan Kundera, it's perfect for fans of Dolly...

"Jennifer Marra has created her own story in a brilliant first novel ... It brings alive the atmosphere of the traveling circus that was the scene as well as the inner lives of her characters." - Dennis McNally, Author of A Long Strange TripIn...

She's the reason I spent a year in a Siberian cage.Now she walks in like that one night with her didn't ruin me in ways the prison never could. She's destruction wrapped in silk. And I'd walk through fire just to taste the wreckage...

Would you fall for a man the Bratva says is beyond saving?Even if he's your patient?Even if he might be a monster?The syndicate assigned me to rehabilitate him.A fallen Bratva soldier.A man so dangerous, they locked him in a luxury cage-and handed me the...

Named one of the top books of 2025 by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Washington Independent Review of Books.Martha's Daughter is the brilliant and influential author David Haynes's first short story collection and the first time that Haynes's stories have ever been assembled in one...

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...

Foreword by Ismail MuhammadTragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellington's...

Everyone would spare a moment of kindness for a stranger when they were in trouble... wouldn't they? Supermarket delivery driver Charlie enjoys his new job, because he doesn't have to spend too long with people, who, he's found, are nothing but trouble. But when...

What is French for falling in love? When Del leaves small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris, she thinks it is just the next step on her five-year-plan. It's an exciting opportunity. What started out as just a dream for...

What begins as a personal journey of late-life reckoning becomes a noir-tinged meditation on memory, mortality, and the search for purpose. By turns darkly funny and melancholic, Fells Point captures a soul--and a city--at a crossroads. Daniel Doyle Jr., a jaded, middle-aged corporate communications...

"An ambitious sociopolitical epic." -- Rudy Ruiz, award-winning author of The Border Between Us Welcome to very-near-future Los Angeles, where the economic divide and culture wars have reached the tipping point. As neighborhood crime and homeless encampments infiltrate the fabric of idyllic suburbs, residents...

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown's early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.In 1965, Helen...

Younger meets Writers & Lovers in this rollicking, sparkling, and funny novel that spans decades and generations of a family in the publishing industry. In the post-pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a "hot desk" on different days of the...

Author: Suresh PatelISBN-13: 9798233888755Publisher: Suresh PatelLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2026Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.14d

Author: Suresh PatelISBN-13: 9798233704260Publisher: Suresh PatelLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2026Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d

Casey Fenton's life was practically perfect. At just forty-five years old, she had already taken a single aesthetics salon and built it up into Makeup Centres International (MCI), a publicly traded, multimillion-dollar enterprise, of which she was now CEO, president, and majority shareholder. Having...

A razor-sharp satire of the Jazz Age, Vile Bodies skewers London's "bright young things" with wit and bite. Evelyn Waugh exposes a world of glittering parties, empty ambitions, and moral drift, capturing the comedy and unease of a generation between wars.Author: Evelyn WaughISBN-13: 9798295596568Publisher:...

Bear stares at the pool of blood, chest so tight he can barely breathe. They'd told him piking lumpers would be no big thing, that serving his sentence would be like hashmarks on a wall. Now that he's standing over the woman's crumpled body,...

The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack--a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience."Was it January or February? The coconut fronds...

The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack--a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience."Was it January or February? The coconut fronds...

A suspense-thriller from Hal Johnson Killing a lot of people in a row isn't really that hard-the hard part is not getting caught. Colin Lang is a boring actuary with no intention of getting caught. He has a perfect plan. He has a perfect...

A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha--a resourceful gay Filipino sex worker barely getting by in New York--is determined...

This book is dedicated to every soul who ever felt trapped between survival and purpose.To the ones who grew up in the storm but still dared to dream of sunshine.To my brothers and sisters we lost too soon, whose voices still echo in my...

Frank Buck is a fat f*ck. A slob, a middle-aged loser, he's living in Chicagoland with his mother and collecting disability checks, drinking Svedka vodka and driving aimlessly through the nighttime city in the one thing in his life that brings him joy and...

Thomas Matthews is a sixty-year-old businessman who devised nonprofit programs in over fifteen major cities during his life. After setting up the foundation for successful nonprofit entities outside of Tulsa, Thomas chooses to relocate to the outskirts of Chicago's Southside because of a family...

John Dos Passos' ground breaking novel Manhattan Transfer is a landmark literary achievement. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary American urban life portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy restlessness and possibilities that too few will ultimately...