Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

""A powerful, thought-provoking story that pulled me in from the start . . . with twists and turns like a roller...  Read More >>

""A powerful, thought-provoking story that pulled me in from the start . . . with twists and turns like a roller...  Read More >>

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Baseball, beaches, going barefoot at school... For Alan Cook, it's great to be a kid in early 1970s Hawaii. Recent...  Read More >>

The Bankrupt Circus & Other Misadventures gathers stories of people on the margins who turn the scraps of their...  Read More >>

The Nameless Land is a metaphysical novel blending stream-of-consciousness with surreal adventure. Following on...  Read More >>

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The Epic Life of Eusebio Francisco Kino In the heart of the 17th century, a young Jesuit's brush with death sparked...  Read More >>

When tragedy strikes through a horrible accident, JaQuan Miller finds himself on the run in the backstreets of Boston....  Read More >>

A signal has awakened beneath the silver silence of the Moon. Across the void between worlds, the ancient traveler...  Read More >>

Middle Ageish is what online dating is really like only with more LOLs.  Read More >>

Christmas in the small Montana town of Timberton is always filled with heartfelt camaraderie, exquisite cuisine,...  Read More >>

Spilled is a visceral, unflinching book of poems that explores heartbreak, place, survival, and spiritual grounding...  Read More >>

The Hunger Games meets Castaway as a group of disenfranchised teens are pushed to their limits by a deadly dystopian...  Read More >>

The final installment in the Big Island Saga . . . Throughout the chaos of recent months, Emma found unexpected...  Read More >>

The final installment in the Big Island Saga . . . Throughout the chaos of recent months, Emma found unexpected...  Read More >>

The Ticket is a contemporary suspense novel about an ordinary woman who wins an extraordinary fortune and has to...  Read More >>

When lightning strikes a second time... Years ago, when Taylor Cummings-Lonergan co-founded the Wild Widows with...  Read More >>

When lightning strikes a second time... Years ago, when Taylor Cummings-Lonergan co-founded the Wild Widows...  Read More >>

When lightning strikes a second time... Years ago, when Taylor Cummings-Lonergan co-founded the Wild Widows...  Read More >>

A story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and vision, follows Esra, a boy driven by a dream and marked by loss...  Read More >>

A monk leaves the monastery to search for his brother, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school...  Read More >>

After the war, the world is mean and dispiriting, lacking in meaning and full of vehemence. The returning ""hero,""...  Read More >>

Almost a film-noir, this novel is narrated by a collector of Hollywood memorabilia. A tale of haunted obsession...  Read More >>