Contemporary Fiction

TWO BEST FRIENDS. ONE HUGE CRUSH.A YEAR THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING. . . El Evans is stuck in a dead-end job, hopelessly in unrequited love with her best friend, Ray, and in need of a major life change.After a New Year's resoluti…

Knowing the truth isn't enough. Nessa's sister disappeared ten years ago. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted her instincts.She knows that this is one man's doing: her sister's ex has gotten away with an unspeakable cri…

No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht the night their family loses everything. As her child s safety seems ever hard…

What have you got to lose when you fall in love? When Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college, she dislikes him immediately: an entitled guy in chinos, ready to take over the world. Meanwhile, Jess is almost always the o…

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who…

It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sits at odds with the salons and soir…

How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem - but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict.And yet they have one thing in common. Both are fathers; both a…

From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by …

Set in the author's native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel about a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father-a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the gossip mill of church, state, and the town square.

A beautifully observed and thrillingly honest novel about the dark corners of family life and the long, complicated search for understanding and grace. Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather The Fourth Child is k…

A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her former family homeand about what it means to be truly seen after becoming lost in life Eventually, every hidden thing is found. Elise…

Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead.When Sylvie Durand receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in the South of France, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a…

Dark secrets past and present collide in Sleepless, a haunting novel of guilt and retribution from Romy Hausmann, the international bestselling author of Dear Child.It's been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime.…

Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS. It's not that you're not like other girls. It's just th…

Does what you see change who you are? Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in h…

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White liesWhen Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark …

Molly Black has disappeared. She's been running away since her parents died. But this time, or so says her note, she's gone for good.There's Been a Little Incident is an award-winning debut about grief, family and the people who a…

As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not quite the life he had exp…

We'll laugh because we can, until the sun disintegrates and nighttime threatens to set us free just to capture us again, back into the things we can't escape. Kiara does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. …

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila Armstrong's debut novel is haunting, lyrical and darkly suspenseful.  On an isolated beach set against a …