Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

A mysterious meta-fictitional Gothic horror introduced by acclaimed writer Reuben.  Read More >>

A childhood promise blossoms into a lifelong love. When a teen pregnancy tests their bond, Kena and Deacon must...  Read More >>

The marabout, Hajji Omanah, is dying. Known throughout the vast deserts of Africa as a hermit and devout follower...  Read More >>

A car crash erases a man's adult life, leaving him with only his writing to piece together a past he fears. As he...  Read More >>

A mixed-race child's birth shatters a respected Black family, trapping mother and daughter in decades of silence...  Read More >>

A renegade Demonslayer crashes to earth. He falls in with a handful of humans, gets caught up in their problems,...  Read More >>

On the eve of the Gulf War, poet Delilah arrives in Tunis and enters a world of magic and unrest, guided by a mischievous...  Read More >>

A girls' trip to Glastonbury amplifies Lola Garnett's already wild psychic abilities. As everything shifts, she...  Read More >>

Nancy Keller's daughter disappears without a trace and the new house becomes a series of unanswered questions: missing...  Read More >>

Mythic gothic fantasy with literary and philosophical themes centered on grief, memory, and the afterlife.  Read More >>

Sometimes destiny has another plan-including upending your world. Esmeralda ""Esmie"" Morales always follows the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Family is a warm, humorous, and emotionally rich novel that captures the joys and challenges of modern...  Read More >>

A woman's connection to an ancient stone ship pits her against forces of preservation, asking if in saving the past,...  Read More >>

A warm, quietly devastating small-town romance about grief, new beginnings, and finding room in a heart you thought...  Read More >>

As the sun crests the indigo Lake District hills and blossom froths in the trees, midwife Zoe Padbury reaches for...  Read More >>

A friend-to-lovers slow burn set in a post-apocalyptic false utopian magical society. Where love can kill as quickly...  Read More >>

In a small, coastal Maine town, Amelia grapples with untold secrets and ghosts of the past as she risks breaking...  Read More >>

A former operative's quiet life shatters when a dystopian regime takes his son. To get him back, he must become...  Read More >>

Journeying through the oceans and deserts of the heart, the stories of Violin Making On Mars paint extraordinary...  Read More >>

After a life-altering tragedy, the beloved characters of the novel Thin Blue Smoke find hope in friendship, forgiveness,...  Read More >>

After a life-altering tragedy, the beloved characters of the novel Thin Blue Smoke find hope in friendship, forgiveness,...  Read More >>

An anthology of global voices revealing the profound, subtle revolutions that shape our inner lives. A sanctuary...  Read More >>

Two rare-book librarians become unlikely heroes as they race time, biblio-terrorists, and Homeland Security across...  Read More >>

In a sun baked Southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, a family saga reaches its conclusion. Amid the Covid...  Read More >>

In this collection, writers, poets, and artists explore who they would be in another life. From lives across centuries...  Read More >>