Contemporary Fiction

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....

A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives....

McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later....

Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned....

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter....

A week on an island sounds like the stuff of beach dreams, but for Paisley Royce, it's a nightmare. Her little sister is marrying her ex-college sweetheart, and Paisley is serving as maid of honor. To add insult to injury, nobody will let Paisley forget she's single.

There's a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do....

In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house....

The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister's voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar - and in trouble, again....

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John....

On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing....

The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell....

Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others....

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty...

For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son....

16-årige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevæbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og dræbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret...

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became....

The plot centres round Miss Barbara Buncle, a maiden lady who was obliged to write a book because – as she naively explained – her dividends were so poor....

Narciso no llegó con un arpón en la mano, sino con un girasol y un amor de cuento. Prendió la primera llama para luego salvarme del incendio y me sedujo con ese traje de príncipe que resguardaba a un dragón.

Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge - the discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light....

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well....

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints....

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski....

Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all.

In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece in a fabulous villa, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal....

Le retour de l'auteur japonais le plus lu en France. Parution le 2 janvier 2025 Evènement!!! Le grand retour du maître Murakami pour un roman éblouissant, dans la lignée de ses grandes œuvres – Kafka sur le rivage ou 1Q84 – et sept ans après son dernier roman – Le Meurtre du commandeur. Tu dis: La Cité est entourée de hauts murs et il est très difficile d'y pénétrer. Mais encore plus difficile d'en sortir. Comment pourrais-je y entrer, alors? Il suffit que tu le désires.

第171回芥川賞候補作。「俺を転売して下さい」喉の不調に悩む以内右手はカリスマ”転売ヤー”に魂を売った⁉　ミュージシャンの心裏を赤裸々に描き出す。

Wenn ein Mark Twain auf Reisen geht, dann ist nicht jedem vergönnt, dabei sein zu dürfen – uns schon! Ernest Hemingways berühmtes Zitat „Es gibt eine amerikanische Literatur vor Mark Twain und eine danach, denn nichts was davor da war noch etwas was danach kommt ist damit vergleichbar“ wird durch die Unterwegs und Daheim-Reihe wunderbar bestätigt.

第171回芥川賞候補作。踊る、それがわたしたちの自由海辺の老人ホームに集う女たちのゆるやかなつながり。いま最も注目される新鋭の最新作。

「心」を持ったボンネットバスの奇跡の旅。運転手の親子に愛されたことで「心」を持った瀬戸内海の小さな島のボンネットバスと、手にした者に勇気を与える不思議な青いビー玉が、時代を超え、運命に導かれながら旅をしていくファンタジー。

百年の刻を超える「こころ」の物語　ふるさと「弘前」を離れ、孤独な都会の底に沈みように暮らしていた陽一と七海。ふたりは運命に導かれるように出逢い、惹かれ合うが、やがて故郷の空へとそれぞれの切なる思いを募らせていく。

Per aiutarsi reciprocamente tre donne di mezz’età decidono di ritirarsi in una casa di paese con le rispettive anziane madri, bisognose di assistenza. La convivenza, sulla carta, è un incastro perfetto: cosa c’è di meglio della rusticità dei bei tempi andati per dividere spese, pensieri, incombenze, e magari risanare quel legame intimo tra madre e figlia, di accudimento e amore, che al momento è invertito? Ma il nido si mostra assai presto per quello che è: un covo di immaturità, risentimento, egocentrismo e disperazione che sfocia in un tragicomico delirio collettivo.

Sul giovane Tarare se ne dicono tante. Pare che abbia divorato ogni sorta di creatura: oggetti, animali, perfino una bambina. Ma lasciamo a lui l’onere...

El destino del ser humano se vuelve incierto cuando violenta la armonía del universo. Dos mujeres valientes entrelazan dos momentos históricos, el año 31 a.C. y el año 2055. En esos tiempos tan distantes entre sí, ambas transitan por una misma geografía, que hoy se conoce como el Camino de Santiago, en España. Es el futuro y las autoridades globales controlan las vidas de las personas. Como parte de un plan sistemático, ya no se ven adultos mayores en las calles: desaparecieron tras las últimas pandemias que azotaron el planeta. Eme perdió a sus padres y está sola, agobiada y sin trabajo.

Der renommierte niederländische Gehirnchirurg Jaap Hollander ist im Ruhestand, aber Ruhe findet er nicht. Seit seine Tochter zehn Jahre zuvor in Israel verschwunden ist, kehrt er jedes Jahr nach Tel Aviv und in die Wüste Negev zurück. Diesmal wird er dort unversehens gebeten, eine äußerst riskante Gehirnoperation durchzuführen. Er sagt zu, obwohl die Erfolgsaussichten verschwindend gering sind. Nicht nur das Leben seiner mächtigen Patientin hängt von der Operation ab, vielleicht eröffnet sie ihm sogar eine neue Spur zu seiner Tochter.