Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

The president's drinking again. The administration's falling apart. Can Sammy keep it together?  Read More >>

Samantha (Sammy) Joyce is hard-working, idealistic and extremely competent. She throws herself into her job as a...  Read More >>

When your name is Daisy, you get used to flower jokes. When your name is Daisy and your family owns a flower shop,...  Read More >>

Are you so sure you're the painter, and not the painting? Micah has a hangover, a looming deadline, and a very...  Read More >>

Ruperto Long's harrowing novel emerges from a time of xenophobia, persecution, war, and migration. However, the...  Read More >>

For readers of David Nicholls, Ann Patchett, and Colm Tóibín, Almost Life is a love story that begins when Erica...  Read More >>

The village of Oakhaven is a postcard of perfect, peaceful life-until a single, guttural sound shatters its tranquility....  Read More >>

Olivia never imagined she would be trapped in a car with her ex-boyfriend, Jace, much less fighting to stay alive...  Read More >>

An unnamed narrator attends an elite but perennially freezing private girls' school in New York City during the...  Read More >>

""Backstitch is a splendid, irreducible work of art - about making art, about time, about memory, about the stars...  Read More >>

Hey so, nobody panic or anything, but it looks like something might be wrong with Ellis's artificial intelligence...  Read More >>

Everyone should fear civilization slipping into a dystopia, but this has always been a very real possibility, and...  Read More >>

A fate-changing manuscript is at the center of a battle that could forever alter the course of humanity. Ashes,...  Read More >>

Best friends Blair and Maven just want a carefree weekend in New Orleans-three days of beignets, tarot readings,...  Read More >>

Ireland, 1920. As they take my baby away, I choke on my tears. I grew up alone, abandoned in a place like this....  Read More >>

The twenty-one stories in this collection were picked from among the more than one hundred Walter Cummins published...  Read More >>

Soline habite avec ses parents dans une maison en bois isolée du reste du monde et dont elle ne peut pas sortir....  Read More >>

C'est à Limoges, dans la splendide gare des Bénédictins, que prennent naissance ces Tentations limousines; elles...  Read More >>

Bluebird and Other Short Stories entangle the reader in tales of dark fantasy, romantasy, dystopian futures, and...  Read More >>

Yusuf Parish Jimmy: Two stories from the Heart of Texas and one from the Arkansas Delta collects three of Keith...  Read More >>

RETHABILE: The Thorns Under Her Feet is a literary crime thriller set in contemporary South Africa. The novel follows...  Read More >>

Keith Hale explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this sparse, moving story. Chris has...  Read More >>

When a young boy at a bowling alley has his cheeseburger delivered by a handsome future air force cadet, an infatuation...  Read More >>

The quiet village of The Forks Plantation, Maine, is a haven for tourists and locals alike-until greed and a thirst...  Read More >>

EL CRISTAL ROTO DE ELENAJuan Manuel Ronda Orcero Víctor vive una existencia serena, ordenada y aparentemente completa....  Read More >>