Literature & Fiction

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect....

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married....

A dance club full of bodies. Cause of death - a mystery. The lone survivor - a man, raving like a lunatic, wearing only a deerstalker hat. Now, the man who calls himself Sherman Holmes is being studied like a lab rat by a top-secret government agency....

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American....

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face....

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....

Sparks fly in this delightful novel about two burned out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside....

When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit....

Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on. Listen for more....

Stephanie Plum, New Jersey’s hardest working, most under-appreciated bounty hunter, returns with a bang in her latest adventure. While Stephanie’s personal life is hanging by a thread, a killer case lands on her doorstep that changes everything.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking....

Large chests are said to encompass all manner of hopes and dreams. Men covet them. Women envy them. But one fact holds true - everyone wants to get their hands on some big ones....

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate....

Margo Everson sees the call out for the cookbook club and knows she’s found her people. Recently dumped by her self-absorbed husband, she has little to show for her marriage but his "parting gift"—a dilapidated old farm house—and a collection of well-loved cookbooks....

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om....

If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn’t tip you off, you’ve just wandered into the city of “Undisclosed”. You don’t want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave....

Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us....

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him....

Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now as the Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross....

Finlay Donovan is killing it...except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head....

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good....

When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!)....

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....

A comedy - although with human trafficking. Also a tempest, a shipwreck or two (described by the actors but invisible to the audience - and thus perfectly adapted to an audioplay), a wallet with special trinkets lost at sea, and a special fishing line.... And of course the almost unpronounceable names of antiquity.

In the eccentric world of 'Pussy Productions,' a London-based porn production company, a motley crew of individuals find themselves inexplicably thrown together. How this incendiary mix of people came to converge is a curious tale in itself. Sir Stott, a knighted Etonian, longs for the elegant normality of his pre-Pussy Productions life. Meanwhile, Hazelhot, an ex-military psychopath, is hell-bent on sowing violent, bloody chaos wherever he goes.

Since the day the first caveman chiseled the wheel to the time of the automobile, man has been learning to merge. Okay, maybe not back to the Stone Age, but to at least the days of ancient chariots when Pharaoh first collided with one of his subjects. Okay, maybe that didn't happen, but back in the day of oxen and cart, when Shakespeare plowed his band of wandering minstrels into the sheriff of Nottingham's stagecoach, merging has been a problem." Alistair Cook-Rice - Suspect Historian

Turns out the SEAL I slept with is my best friend's older brother and my new boss...oops. The grumpy hot, tatted SEAL saved my life. So his reward was a night of unbelievable passion. I didn't know he was my best friend's older brother, and my new boss. He acts like he has a vendetta against me, but secretly kisses me in his office. Next thing you know I'm pinned up against the wall begging for more. But something doesn't seem right. Now I'm planning his best friend's wedding, and secrets are finally starting to be revealed. Can I rekindle this flame or has it been snuffed out before it ...

You can't blame me for letting, Jax my silver fox neighbor SEAL, into my bed. I'm new in town needing a fresh start with my two kids and he is more than happy to be my personal welcoming committee. And I'm more than happy to get kids to bed early. I can't stop my heart from racing when he pins me up against the wall. I'm ready to give whatever he wants to claim. But suddenly, my ex shows up. I need help and so I have to tell Jax. Turns out I'm not the only one running away from a troubled past. Jax's military past unexpectedly puts the kids and I in danger. We need some quick decisions, or ...

Ross was my best friend, my first crush. Then he became my enemy. I tried to make him my past but fate is calling him my future. A temporary future if I have any say in it, but he’s not making it easy. How on earth did we both become co-owners of the Wild Lights Resort? They say there is a fine line between love and hate. In this case, the line is a fish out of water (me), and a total grump (him) being forced to work together. I would love to throw a pinecone at him. Or a can of bear spray. That is if I don’t throw myself at him first. This heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedy is ...

Is it possible to stop yourself from aging? Growing old is inevitable. That’s what the residents of Orchid Lake Village, an assisted living facility, believe until Evergreen Life offers a unique proposition. The pharmaceutical company has a new all natural, organic supplement that promises to reverse the signs of aging. Eloise isn’t as lithe as she used to be. Gladys can’t remember the plot of her favorite TV show. Murray feels like the light inside of him has been blown out. After just a few weeks on the vitamin, they start to feel the effects. Laurel’s once-translucent hair has a ...

I slept with my new boss and he's my best friends dad.... oops. Or maybe it wasn't an accident after all. I left my last job to get away from this coworker that obsessed over me. When he shows up again, I'm faced with 1 option... "Confide in my new boss, former Navy SEAL silver fox so he can protect me." He does more than just protect me when he leaves me pinned up against a wall begging for more after hours in his office. We know this shouldn't be happening, he's 18 years older than me, but who's stopping this flame that's been ignited... neither of us. I want to follow my heart, but ...

I slept with my brother's best friend. Now he's back as my new boss. Jace was my first for everything. First crush. First boyfriend. First man I've ever been with. Then suddenly he was gone and it broke me. Now he's back, as head of his father's company. I tried to avoid him, but the feelings from the past are hard to ignore. We rekindle a flame I thought was long extinguished and now the fire is more intense than ever. But I have a secret that could ruin everything we've built. How could I tell him that he once was going to be a father without losing him forever?

Followed by millions of readers in hundreds of newspapers across America since 2015, The Good Folks of Lennox Valley is the story of growing up in a small farming town during the spring and summer of 1998. Readers soon learn that Lennox Valley was anything but quiet and peaceful in the spring and summer of 1998. With Raymond Cooper converting the town's only radio station to an "all talk" format in an effort to wage his unannounced campaign for town mayor, things were bound to turn a little unorthadox. Most folks considered Raymond a political nut case. Cooper realized, however, that nut ...

"Unexpectedly, my high school sweetheart, a former SEAL, has returned to town to coach youth football – and he's my son's coach! I've just moved back while finalizing a divorce, leaving me in emotional turmoil. Facing my first love in the same town is far from ideal. As I contemplate rekindling a friendship, I wonder if it's safe for my heart, given our past heartbreak when I left for college and he joined the Navy. I'm cautiously navigating a 'just friends' approach, but every time I see him, my heart yearns for him to touch and caress my body like old times, I refuse to endure ...

Written in a hospital tent to the sound of gunfire and shells falling, Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war. As brutal tragedy strikes, their attitude to both pacifism and patriotism is altered and their lives are changed forever.

Middle-aged governess Guinevere Pettigrew visits her employment agency one morning and is mistakenly sent to the glitzy home of a nightclub singer. Miss Pettigrew meets the glamorous Miss Delysia LaFosse and embarks on a whirlwind adventure. These two very different women soon become friends, and Miss Pettigrew proves to be the perfect companion. Instead of having to look after unruly children, Miss Pettigrew spends her evening at a party. But what will happen when the day finally ends?

Are you a fan of satire? If so, tears of laughter will stream down your legs as you read this book. But please, do not let this book get into the hands of any children. This is the worst children's book ever written. It breaks all the rules of good children's literature: it contains incredibly lengthy and complex words, like "prophylactic" and "radioactive decay"; it deals with disturbing themes, like osteoporosis and lung cancer; and it does not have a happy ending. This children's book has absolutely no place in the life of any child (or adult, for that matter). If you find pleasure from ...

A Dark Comedy about a Dysfunctional Family of Four of the World's Best Assassins The Charon/McIntosh clan is your typical dysfunctional family. They also happen to be four of the world’s best assassins. A mysterious and beautiful young woman arrives at the office of contract killer/mercenary Michael Charon and informs him the lost love of his life has been brutally murdered. This starts a wild chase to find the killer and along the way Michael discovers the identity of the man who had betrayed him years earlier and even more startling, the reason why. Rod Pennington last 15 titles have ...