Literature & Fiction

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera....

A war is brewing in the Empire. Not the War in the East - that is a war everyone already knows about, the war that some wanted to end so badly that they murdered an Emperor to stop it. No, this is a different war....

Want to know the fastest way to get screwed out of a football career? Get photographed in a compromising position in a gay bar. My agent says he can fix my image. He wants me to become the poster boy for gay football players. I'll do anything to play for the NFL again....

At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents’ dull, limited life.

A story close to Sandi Toksvig's heart, Friends of Dorothy is a wonderful, funny, touching novel about making a family that is not biological, but logical.

Another year is winding down for the students of Pride High, but the drama is just ramping up....

Elaine's mission through the fairy ring went horribly wrong, and she finds herself in Pallos once again—over 20,000 years in the future....

Most people wouldn't consider East Tennessee University the big city. But when you come from a small town like Snow Tip Falls, it’s more than you can handle....

Orphia dreams of something more than the warrior crafts she's been forced to learn. Hidden away, her blood sings with poetry, but her father, the sun god Apollo, has forbidden her this art. A chance meeting with a young shield-maker, Eurydicius, gives her the courage to use her voice.

Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother....

When escort Ruby meets Mistress Media executive Yvonne in Vegas, she’s drawn to the beautiful but icy woman. So when Yvonne proposes a fake marriage with an irresistible payoff, Ruby can’t say no....

While she's lost in her biggest contract yet, freelance producer Emberlynn's comfy small-town life gets turned upside-down by the arrival of her best friend Paisley's older sister.

Each book can be listened to as a standalone, but why not listen to them all? See what trouble our bands get into next. Hot rockstars and the men who love them, what more could you ask for? Kick back, load up your kindle and enjoy the men of Rocktoberfest!

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work....

You Must Remember This is an eloquent jumble of a family story, as experienced by Grace, an elderly woman with dementia trying to get her moorings in a worsening storm.

What does a scruffy mechanic, a deaf Italian, and a hot flight attendant have in common? Each of these men accidentally fell in love. Cupid smacked them right in their hot little tushes, and the rest is history.

Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone....

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....

I left my family and tiny Texas hometown 15 years ago to escape small-town gossips and to give my mom and sister the chance at a better life. But when a phone call....

This week hasn’t gone the best for me unless you count Casimir, the sexy ancient vampire, bringing me back from the brink of death (and tying my fate to his in the process).

On the surface, Jensy Willett appears to have it all: a supportive family, good friends, and an outstanding high school and college basketball career. But beneath that surface she hides a situation that has destroyed every meaningful romantic relationship she's had.

The third novel in the Adrien English series finds the "ill-starred and bookish" mystery writer and bookseller battling demons - maybe literally....

Elias: Moving to Daleport City to work at the local fire station was going to be hard. Then I met Cade. Turns out, I’d met my new best friend, and for two years, he’s been by my side through everything....

Being a hit man has its perks, but I never thought getting an accidental mooning by an attractive PI while he’s caught on a fence would be one of them. While it’s not exactly love at first sight, he’s captured my interest and won’t let go....

You Must Remember This is an eloquent jumble of a family story, as experienced by Grace, an elderly woman with dementia trying to get her moorings in a worsening storm. It contemplates the perils of remembering and forgetting, making your own way in the world and how we seem bound to repeat the patterns of the past. Most profoundly it's about sensing what it's like to live on while your faculties dim, and about finding peace.

Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal, but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society.

The strangest thing about Annie's new reality isn't that she's now in the body of a seven-year-old child, the beloved Lillith, feared dead by her family after a particularly nasty bout of pneumonia. It's that she's constantly having to conceal her adult intellect, which is not only advanced but otherworldly. Sure, being a young woman and a grad student in twenty-first-century America had its challenges, but this life as Lillith presents even tougher obstacles. She must tread carefully to conceal her vast knowledge of biology, math, physics, and . . . being an adult.

On the surface, Jensy Willett appears to have it all: a supportive family, good friends, and an outstanding high school and college basketball career. But beneath that surface she hides a situation that has destroyed every meaningful romantic relationship she's had. As a result she has vowed to keep that secret locked deep within her. So when she begins graduate school, Jensy decides to shun possible romance to focus on her studies, and in that way, prevent any further relationship failures.

As a rising actor, Kanin's body is his career. His identity. His life. All that is taken from him when he dies and is reborn as a bottle of ink. Now living as the heart of a magical glass servant, Kanin's new purpose is to perform a senile wizard's yard work—a role this world's magic system seems intent on enforcing. All that might have been manageable if a murderous shadow monster wasn't hunting his very soul. But he's not in it alone.

At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents’ dull, limited life. When she meets Oscar Schmidt, a middle manager at a soap company, Vivian finds a partner she can guide to build the life she wants—not least because, more interested in men himself, Oscar will leave Vivian to tend to her own romances with women.

Book 1 of the Maritime Monsters adult spicy MM Monster romance series.

Up-and-coming stage actress Margaret Shoard has just taken a bow as Lady Macbeth, the role she has always believed was destined for her. At home, she plays wife to her best friend Wesley, even if she doesn’t hold his sole attention romantically. After a public breakdown threatens all she holds dear, Margaret’s doctor prescribes her uppers—just a little help to get through the days.

Scarlet Day, the magnetic lead singer of the all-female alt-rock band The Scarlet Begonias, is on the cusp of fame. Their first album just launched and they’ve landed a dream gig – performing on a luxury sapphic cruise to the Galapagos. To top it all off, during their first set on deck, she makes a connection with a mesmerizing woman in the crowd. Robin Barry is a solo traveler on a couples cruise, which has the potential to be painfully awkward. A veterinary researcher intent on focusing on the wildlife rather than the women, her plans change abruptly when she meets the sultry starlet.

The Robertsons, their friends, and family ask "what Jesus would do? Each considers how to respond to Louis’ infidelity. In this stand-alone novel, ONE, TWO, THREE: Time for ME?, readers note that choosing what is right for themselves and those they love is challenging for the people in this story. Their choices impact them personally, financially, socially, and spiritually. Equally, readers encounter scenes that challenge them about the choices they make and the attitudes they display as they observe the choices of others.

Kerryn Whitsig is at the end of her rope. In an act of desperation, she takes the last of her money and gambles it all away. Unskilled at cards, the casino she goes to sees people like her all the time. The house always wins. Tonight, though, Celia Harrison walks onto the casino floor and sees the woman, her desperation, determination, and possibilities. Kerryn’s luck changes in an instant.

Landon Griffin has everything going for him. He's a high school senior on the brink of receiving a football scholarship, his dad is running for mayor of Madison, Texas, and his future with his girlfriend looks bright. But his simple life shatters when feelings spark for a guy he's never met. Giving the stranger the codename Mystery Boy, Landon hesitates to step out of his comfort zone to solve the mystery. Living in a conservative town, he struggles to hide his new obsession while trying to figure out where he fits within the spectrum of sexuality.

Rosetta Reid just wanted to enjoy her anniversary with her girlfriend, Jessica Steele. The night started out fun, but ended in tragedy. A year later, Rosetta is trying to move past losing her lover and coping with what had happened that night. After thinking she had moved on, Jessica's killer returns, with the promise to take Rosetta down with him.

Escriba errante é uma jornada com as palavras e os amores. Jornada essa cheia de encruzilhadas. Sem GPS. O livro narra a vida de uma escriba mais inquieta do que correta. Mais errante do que linha reta na sua obsessão de fazer sentido ao escrever. Uma escritora trafegando na fronteira do analógico com o digital. Ora seguindo a manada, ora se insurgindo contra ela. Mas não só.

From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.