New Literary Fiction

There is more to a princess than stunning looks, soprano pipes, and an inherent tenderness toward all creation. There is more to freeing a king’s daughter from a curse than riding up singing, lips puckered. Fairy stories leave out too much, true love is a complicated business, and for this there is not always an evil stepmother to blame. Princess stories are simply better when they are expanded, embellished, and arbitrarily annotated.

The Girl Who Invoked Fire continues the odyssey of Jian Byrne, an unassuming but gifted Irish orphan who bears the scars of lifetimes. Guided by unseen forces, Jian is shown visions of her mother as a young woman, which spurs her search into her family’s disappearance and beyond into life’s profound secrets.

James Dixon and Janice Atterly are making a go of their long-distance relationship. He visited her in San Diego, California, and now he’s invited her to come to his home in Summer County, South Carolina. James’ twin brother, Donald, is also interested in Janice’s best friend and condo mate, Dr. Cecile Jordon, but she’s not nearly as amenable as Janice. Of the women Donald has encountered, none were as difficult to get close to or half as intriguing as Cecile.

This book reveals, for the first time, the story behind the writing of ‘Desiderata’. Beloved by millions, the poem was first published in 1927, but its true origins, along with the life of its author, have largely been lost to literary history. This account by actor and author Tim Dalgleish includes not only the story of ‘Desiderata’ but two additional, previously unpublished, chapters from a forthcoming biography of Max Ehrmann. This new material helps bring Max Ehrmann, the author of 'Desiderata', out of the shadows.

The fates of three tormented men, born as many eras apart, come together in a rock cave on the Coromandel peninsula of New Zealand - Tama of the Ngatei Hei, Billy Green in the days of gold, and Dr. Sababa from across the ocean - seeking revenge, discovering treasure, and searching for redemption. Here their thrilling life and death stories of obsession begin by hurtling down the shoreline of the same beach and end in the fierce battles that left the coastal sands white with bones.

Three Lives continues the theme of T. Lobsang Rampa's previous book, I Believe, in that it is a further statement of his personal belief in life after death, and his thoughts on the nature of the afterlife. Free from prejudice, free the the dogmas of organized religion, Dr. Rampa's beliefs have been formed by years of study and experience - years of offering comfort and inspiration to his countless followers all over the world.

La novela ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2009. Todo un fenómeno literario que ha revolucionado el panorama editorial español. Cuando Liborio Uribe supo que iba a morir, quiso ver por última vez un cuadro de Aurelio Arteta. Pasó toda su vida en alta mar, surcó sus aguas a bordo del Dos amigos y, al igual que su hijo José, patrón del Toki Argia, protagonizó historias inolvidables, caídas para siempre en el olvido. Años después y frente a ese mismo cuadro, el nieto Kirmen, narrador y poeta, rastrea esos relatos familiares para escribir una novela.

After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex–high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth—to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter and to spread the wealth on the housing project that reared him. He begins teaching again, embarks on an affair with a married woman from the old neighborhood and becomes a mentor to a former student recently released from jail. Then, disaster: he is found beaten nearly to death in his own apartment.

无论在乱世，还是在治世，真文人都是率性的，从真里面求善，从善里面求美，从美里面求真，要看一个文人是不是真文人，就看他愿不愿走进这样的循环圈……無論在亂世，還是在治世，真文人都是率性的，從真裡面求善，從善裡面求美，從美裡面求真，要看一個文人是不是真文人，就看他願不願走進這樣的循環圈……

Bruno "Fence" Washington survived the apocalypse - emerging from a Sedona cave into a strange and terrible new world... 50 years later. Now, scouring for answers about the malevolent Strangers, the former extreme sportsman encounters a woman who calls to his every desire.

Alles über den berühmten jungen Zauberer, seine Fans und seine magische Erfolgsgeschichte...

Think of the greatest tech company in the world. Imagine getting a job there. Picture the perks: free gourmet food, free booze, a gym, a swimming pool, and a holiday bonus...every month. Brilliant coworkers. No dress code. Great parties. More money. Everyone's admiration. Vic is just like any other Harvard grad out there except that he just scored a job at tech empire SHOW. But in the hunt for success and happiness, he falls into a shady world of sex, drugs, and swindle.

This novel is about one of the most ungodlike but lovable divine characters in mythology anywhere. It takes off from where the rest of the legends about Krishna stop. Krishna is shown here more as the human avatara he assumes rather than the God behind the avatar.

The author of Monkeys and Evening focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths—about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again, about the disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don’t always know how to keep.

Monkeys is the remarkable story of a decade in the life of the Vincents, a colorful Irish Catholic family from the Boston suburbs. On the surface, they seem happy with their vivacious mother Rosie at the helm. But underneath, the Vincents struggle to maintain the appearance of wealth and stability while dealing with the effects of their father’s alcoholism. When a sudden accident strikes, their love for one another is tested like never before.

Tradotti per la prima volta in italiano, i racconti dell'antologia "Larisa Komarova trova l'amore" offrono l'occasione per leggere una delle migliori scrittrici russe di fantascienza e new weird. Ekaterina Sedia attinge a piene mani dalla cosiddetta "russkaya dusha" (l'anima russa) e, sebbene alcune storie contengano riferimenti alla storia e al folklore nazionale, è chiaro che i temi trattati trascendono i confini della Russia per affrontare questioni universali come lo spaesamento, la precarietà dell'esistenza, la perdita dell'identità e l'ambiguità del futuro.

Peggy Gilbert left the hustle and bustle of London for the beautiful blue skies and rugged cliffs of Pencarrow Bay three years ago with her husband, Ted. While Ted has immediately taken to life in their new corner of the world and Peggy feels as though he's leaving her behind, so she’s determined to find her own passion. Peggy will do everything from a sunrise swim to a salsa class and a fishing trip. Can Peggy find what she’s been looking for? Or has it always been closer to home than she thought?

Jess lives with her mum and younger brother on a rough estate. She is struggling with two major issues in her life: she is bullied at school, and her dad has moved out because of a drink problem. When their landlord threatens the family with eviction, everything seems to be falling apart, until Jess's mum receives a surprise letter. A new start brings hope, and Jess makes new friends at a church youth club. But not everything goes smoothly.... An exciting listen by a new author.

Book 3: The New World: In the days of the Comet in 1906 is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is exalted when a comet causes the nitrogen of the air, the old azote, to change out of itself and become a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain. The result The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men.

Pierre is a veteran bartender in a café in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go—the young man who drinks beer as he reads Primo Levi, the fellow who from time-to-time strips down and plunges into the nearby Seine, the few regulars who eat and drink there on credit—sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn’t look outside more than necessary; he prefers to let the world come to him.