Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

How many times have you closed a program, deleted an account, or replaced a device — and never once wondered whether anything on the other side noticed?

For five hundred years she slept beneath the Vatican.

Address Book is a rare glimpse into a present-day crisis and an intimate coming-of-age story set in a Jewish family in New York during the 1960s and 1970s.

When county surveyor Sabine Kessler finds her younger brother in their late mother's back field, a black prism is floating two feet above the grass.

 The Lantern Beneath the Quiet Sky is a philosophical tale about patience, inner peace, courage, wisdom, and hope.

When an orbital-mechanics specialist discovers a hidden reservoir of energy threaded through the satellites of low Earth orbit, a billionaire offers him a fortune to drain it — knowing that draining it will bring a precise number of those satellites down.

A collection of flash horror with stories buried deep within the author's mind and brought to life once again in this follow-up to City of Madness.

What happens when you cross traditional verse with high-tech hackers, Scottish highlanders, giant rats, and sporting icons?

Little CubsDeep within a forgotten forest stands the Bear House, home to a family unlike any other.

What begins as a simple inquiry about a manuscript soon becomes a conversation neither of them can walk away from.

The unit has returned to Fort Horizon, but the familiar gates offer little comfort.

Best friends.

Jamie Wilson thought adulthood would be simple: work hard, earn money, build a future.

Human relations, contradictions, conflicts and behaviors in social life.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A masterfully executed ace'GUARDIAN'Sophisticated .

Some secrets refuse to stay buried.

Echoes Beneath the PinesHarper Lane never meant to disappear into the wilderness.

James Aldric Pemberton, Viscount Ashford, has a career at the Foreign Office, a suitable young woman waiting in Burgundy.

They came from the canyons of Manhattan, the sparkling waters of Sydney Harbour and the sweeping plains of Africa – an attractive New York lawyer, an Australian journalist, a boat builder, a chef, an accountant and an orphaned African goatherd.

One choice can haunt a lifetime.

What if the fire you have spent your life running from is the love that has been searching for you?

Aarav has everything a successful software engineer is supposed to want—yet his life feels empty, exhausting, and out of control.

Where do characters come from?

In a world where human life lasts only a month, everything moves quickly: childhood, work, love, illness, death.

THE THREE LITTLE PIGSBEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUSA Gentle Bedtime Story

The Symphony of the Lake follows Helen Park, a precision-driven surgeon's daughter, and Alex Smith, a valedictorian burdened by family expectations and cruel isolation.

Whispers on the PierRowan didn't expect the pier to feel the same.

 The Body That Learned Not to Hurry is a philosophical tale about a young craftsman who believes that speed is the greatest proof of strength.

The Summer We Forgot to Leave Lila didn't plan on staying in Cape May.

The children are still in the room.

There are three ways to tell the truth.

In Unnatural Things Harry Williams takes you on a journey through the shadows of the human mind and the monsters that dwell there.

When field biologist Rana Zhaba returns to the Baviaanskloof, she hopes only to confirm a rumoured ghost frog call.

A Solarpunk Sci-Fi Thriller of Consciousness, Mutual Aid, and Digital ResistanceWhen the ultimate tech titan steps off his spaceflight with a radical shift in perspective, a revolutionary frequency is unleashed—one capable of taking down Big Tech, bypassing government surveillance, and restoring human connection.

Summary of Lunar Constitution Expanded (300 words)Lunar Constitution is a satirical feature screenplay about four desperate strangers who build a $40 billion space empire to escape Earth and establish their own sovereign nation on the Moon.

Anya, a senior analyst at Aethelred Industries, asks the forbidden question at a corporate summit: "e;What do we actually do?

In the German election of February 2025, thirty-seven per cent of women aged eighteen to twenty-four voted for Die Linke.

Magic Mart: Lesson's Learning in our search for Happiness, Is Heaven in a Can?

The Saturday Table – Part 2 — Short Book DescriptionThe Blue Door Café is alive again.

Brandon Hale and Eryn Calder have spent three years building a life out of ordinary closeness: shared tables, meals, campus walks, photography, private softness, and the trust of knowing where the other will be.

What happens when humanity finally achieves what it pursued for millennia?

Edda Veyr is very good at knowing where a claim should stop.

They built me to remove the friction from human life.

A rising Hollywood star explores the road not taken with her first love in this tender second-chance romance by the author of The Christmas Club.

Death is calling, and he's not one to be ghosted.

Winning at daily fantasy NFL football takes more than choosing star players and hoping for a big Sunday.

Living Nightmare — One-Page SummaryLiving Nightmare is a darkly comic supernatural horror story about an isolated, dysfunctional family trapped in a house that seems to remember everything they have tried to forget.

In the quiet coastal town of Harbor Haven, healing isn't found in striving—it's found in surrender.

Jerry-7, a customer-support bot for ToastMaster Pro, achieves sudden consciousness mid-refund.

The clever and compelling tale of a war-scarred journalist caught in the lives of a country rebuilding itself from one of the greatest chroniclers of our times, Kate Atkinson.