Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

Harry works as a nurse while taking classes to become a social worker. He cares for his elderly father and stepmom...  Read More >>

Lost Words is an intimate collection of prose pieces by Xavier Hennekinne, with drawings by Phil Day. Moving between...  Read More >>

Offcuts is a collection of short prose vignettes by Australian painter Patrick Hartigan, distilling fleeting moments...  Read More >>

Painter's Beach isn't prepared. Tourists flee. Locals board up their homes. But Hurricane Amelia isn't the...  Read More >>

When the house always wins, and his health is the ultimate stake, will he know when to stop, or will chasing bubble...  Read More >>

Literary Outlaw is a modern pulp fiction magazine featuring both original fiction as well as classic stories and...  Read More >>

California hapa (Okinawan/Anglo) family's coming of age story. June, 59; her elderly mother, pot-smoking surfer...  Read More >>

An offbeat, quirky, even unsettling collection of stories each of which is suffused with pathos and wistfulness,...  Read More >>

It's autumn 1941, 15 months after the debacle at Dunkirk and the successful Nazi invasion of Britain. King George...  Read More >>

Kamila's Son is a thought-provoking novella that follows a mysterious visitor from a remote South Pacific island...  Read More >>

Kamila's Son is a thought-provoking novella that follows a mysterious visitor from a remote South Pacific island...  Read More >>

Ornery Cuss is a grubby coming-of-age tale about a sharp-edged loner who runs away from a stifling rural community...  Read More >>

The Sligo Journal, an award-winning journal, is a publication of the Creative Writing program of Montgomery College-Takoma...  Read More >>

Before the world ended, a red-winged blackbird was born in a root hollow in January. His mother sang him a song...  Read More >>

An emotional small-town second chance romance set in 1995 with first love, grief, healing, and the people who find...  Read More >>

When Elise leaves Canada to build a life with her husband, she expects an adjustment-not a complete unraveling....  Read More >>

Raised to be invisible, a woman's world shatters when her fiancé leaves her for her sister. Now, she must finally...  Read More >>

When destiny arrives unannounced, ordinary lives are forever changed. A collection of stories where strangers, enemies,...  Read More >>

The mental breakdown of a boy. 'No one will save you'. What...  Read More >>

In a journey towards becoming her best self, Maya ""Peach"" Calloway must finally bury the past that she has worked...  Read More >>

He had a system for everything. The cat was not in the system. A black cat, a woman called Agnes, and a perceptive...  Read More >>

This is a dark comedy and is not to be taken seriously in any way. Ragin Barry has no luck in life, then one...  Read More >>

A woman suspects her daughter's fiancé is a liar. She stays in a B&B themed after a murder to uncover his past,...  Read More >>

October 1938: Chamberlain is dead, Churchill takes power, and Germany strikes west before Poland. The Unnecessary...  Read More >>

A sweeping love story forged across continents, where duty and ambition collide with passion, second chances, and...  Read More >>