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.

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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.

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....

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

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, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough....

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....

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

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book....

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.

Go deep inside Donald Trump's "very, very large brain" for a tongue-in-cheek look at the events that shaped his Presidency, from his bromance with Kim Jong Un to Trump single-handedly saving the U.S. Armed Forces from ruin by ordering more bullets. This humorous and fictional "unauthorized autobiography" sheds behind-the-scenes light on these and other seminal events from his chaotic term as Dotard-in-Chief, as his BFF Kim calls him in the love letters they share. Read about Trump's views on KellyAnne Conway: I like KellyAnne. She’s got long blonde hair and a trim body, and from a ...

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 ...

I had a feeling this goat yoga retreat was going to turn my life upside down, But I never imagined it would turn my infuriating neighbor upside down. What is Luke Tesson doing here, posed in downward dog? He usually avoids me. And I’ve always pretended I don’t notice him. But how am I supposed to look away when he’s got a baby goat balanced on his behind? From the first moment he moved in next door it was instant-sparks. If I were to be honest, it felt like insta-love. But insta-love is insane, and risky. I am highly risk-averse, so I quickly turned that longing into looking away. Due...

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?

Pretending to be Isaac’s fake fiancée should be a walk in the park, Hello, all expense paid trip to Lake Tahoe! Clearly we both have a lot of secrets, His is absurd family wealth, Mine is nine months of a growing waistline. That’s right, I'm secretly pregnant. But for now, I just have to help him out and put on a good show. I was a Broadway actress, this shouldn’t be that hard. But when it comes to Isaac, how much of this is really acting? The one thing that’s no secret is that we’ve liked each other for a while now. I should enjoy this while I can, because it’s temporary. ...

"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 ...

This second in the Big Huna series takes up where Spam Sushi left off. The Bunkers consists of seven, ten-year-old boys who sell dried seaweed as pot to military and tourist in Waikiki. One day while Chewy was pulling Mellon Head on his skateboard while holding on to the back of Chewy's mountain bike, Mellon Head grabbed a purse from an Asian lady on Kohio and away they went. A couple of blocks away they open the purse and find a kilo of Ice inside. The little boys are delighted and share the captured booty with the whole gang. But being only ten years old they have a problem--how to sell ...

The third in the Big Huna Series is the wildest yet. With a cast of characters right out of Oliver Twist. The little bunkers, a gang of ten year old boys, rob a bank wearing black rubber pygmy masks. Now that they have over ten thousand dollars, they want to go to Disneyland but have a problem. How to get on a plane with no ID. They enlist the aid of the Weasel to buy the tickets and accompany them as their uncle and rent their hotel rooms. Meanwhile back in Waikiki there is a serial killer loose and giving Big Huna and Pokey the blues. Outrageously funny! Scott Bayer, Indie Film Reporter

“You get to pick one, nephew… great location, the ideal time of day, or a crowd of hungry foxes, birds, and otters. Which do you pick?” “The third one every time, Uncle,” said the young otter. “If the foxes from the ministry had lunch at midnight, I would be there to sell.” Chip finally has come of age and as usual for an otter of his age, he wants to work for the Riverfolk Community Trust and Mercenary Company. He has been trying to pick up the trade from his uncle, selling fish to fox and bird nobles at the Yellowrock Bazaar, but when a few new competitors enter the scene ...