Fiction: general and literary

A Black couple leaves their downtown Chicago condo for a new suburban subdivision, only to find themselves at the center of a maelstrom in this gripping page-turner from the award-winning author of Three Girls from Bronzeville.

Cydni's daughter has been kidnapped.

Between Two Evening Stars Love, Secrets, and Shadows Under the Twilight Sky By Cassian M.

Walking NonexistentInventive writer, Rob Vagle, dazzles with a transcendent short story.

In a quiet mountain valley, a young girl knows only the simple rhythms of family, work, and the certainty that tomorrow will look much like today.

Beneath the Starlit Vow: A Promise Written in the Sky and Kept in the HeartBy Cassian M.

In Death's Door, Chris Campbell weaves a gripping  horror novel delves into the unseen terrors lurking behind closed doors.

The new novel from Rachaele Hambleton, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Different Kind of Happy.

For fans of Pachinko and Half of a Yellow Sun, an intimate debut novel about immigration, marriage, and vengeance politics told through the eyes of four Bengali teenagers in two vastly different time periods.

One act of betrayal will unleash a trail of blood across the frontier.

Will has spent years sleepwalking through his life.

n post-war Germany, two extraordinary children are destined to meet: Heinrich Weiss, born during a summer storm with a "e;Sacred Fire"e; burning within him according to his grandmother's prophecy, and Sophia Hoffman, whose birth is marked by her great-aunt's prediction that she possesses "e;the sight.

Detective Rage and Sergeant Jones after their shooting date, skip the watering hole and go rock climbing.

'A solid gold treat from top to tail.

First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group.

During the postwar 1950s and turbulent 1960s, I grew up in a family of modest means.

A DEA satellite is leaving a window of opportunity in Mexico with no one watching a coastline.

Silas and his idiots have lived under harsh brutal conditions most their lives, but when a new face arrives things change.

What if reading could feel like discovery from the very first sentence?

Jimmy and Kyle didn't serve.

She did everything right.

'MADELEINE GRAY IS A DAZZLING WRITER - A HUGE TALENT' GILLIAN ANDERSON'BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATING, HILARIOUS AND FULL OF LIFE' JESSICA STANLEY'ALL KINDS OF GORGEOUSNESS' JENNIE GODFREY'GRAY WRITES SO ACUTELY ABOUT THE MESS OF DESIRE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION' NIGELLA LAWSONBooks about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one.

A novel needs to contain 50,000 words and more if you wish to be in the good graces of Publishing, which I don't, don't give a hoot,  suggesting that if you question my label your answer becomes the misfortune of the question.

Some distances can't be measured in miles.

'Inventive' THE TIMESFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.

Jake came home from war.

when a passenger is found dead mid-flight, the investigation reveals a web of secrets, lies, and danger at 36,000 feet.

This collection of Japanese literature features the works of noted Japanese novelist Koda Rohan.

WritinWhat if the greatest prison is not the world around us, but the illusions within our own minds?

Melissa has spent years trying to outrun the past, convincing herself that some memories are better left buried.

It is 2:14 AM.

"e;The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes the highly anticipated, heart-pounding thriller with twists you'll never see coming'Dark, twisty, and wildly addictive.

She fell into Wonderland.

In the quiet western valleys of the kingdom, Lord Bernhard lives as his people do, working the fields, settling disputes, and sharing in the hardships of every harvest.

"e;The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced.

THE TRACING — Book OneTwelve-year-old Aia Jackson has always seen things she wasn't supposed to see.

Mia has a college degree, a curatorial job practically handed to her, and every reason to walk toward the life she says she wants.

Rusty Allen returns home after two tours in Iraq.

She escaped her marriage with bruises she couldn't see and a six-year-old boy who still believed she was magic.

In the highly anticipated final installment of the Oakwood Bay series';packed with sizzling tension, heat, and sweet, swoon-worthy moments' (Peyton Corinne, USA TODAY bestselling author)childhood best friends Parker and Summer agree to matchmake each other, to disastrous results, all while fighting the fact that they've been each other's soulmate all along.

This collection is not a search for meaning, nor a rejection of it.

In Beating The Odds: From Survival to Healing, Vanessa Onstad-Pierre shares a powerful and compassionate roadmap for anyone who has endured trauma, adversity, abuse, loss, or life's overwhelming challenges.

Charlyze has a podcast, a boutique, and absolutely no business spending her days confirming appointments at a private medical practice on the French Riviera.

A $12,000 bounty follows Jim Bannister wherever he rides—but in Hideout Valley, the greatest danger isn't the law.

Two people.

This book is a complete translation of Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari, one of the few extant works of monogatari literature of the Heian period.

Boss Without Boundaries In Business, He Owned Everything-Except Her Heart By Cassian M.

After serving his Brooklyn district for years, Congressman Sullivan discovers that his once comfortable Irish-American majority has given way to a diverse district of blacks and Hispanics.

What were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand?