Fiction - General

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" delves into the moral decay of its protagonist, Dorian Gray, who remains youthful while his portrait ages, serving as a chilling allegory for the corrupting influence of vanity and hedonism in Victorian society."The...

A woman gets arrested for the murder of her friend based on flimsy evidence. Then the murdered woman returns and leaves solid evidence as well as hints with various people, including a hard-nosed detective and his solicitor friend, who finally put...

The people of San Angela had no idea Mill Roth left his cattle empire to a woman by the name of Hattie Stamps, the widow of Beaver Stamps, who was Mill’s oldest and best friend. Until she showed up claiming the Roth Empire everything was fine. Some of...

A scathing criticism of social climbing underlies this unsettling story by Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister-in-law to Anthony and daughter-in-law to Frances Milton Trollope. Published in 1876, A Charming Fellow is a serious exploration of a bitterly...

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, who is struck on the head during a quarrel and...

'Every day is a perfect day to read this’ Shari LowAmy Piper is in need of a bit of luck. She’s lost her confidence, her mojo and her way.But one thing she has never lost is her total love for her thirteen-year-old son Joey, and for his sake she knows...

'At a time when I needed a lift, this novel came into my life.' 5* Reader ReviewAmy Piper is in need of a bit of luck. She’s lost her confidence, her mojo and her way.But one thing she has never lost is her total love for her thirteen-year-old son...

It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will entertain and enlighten you as few other books can. A novel, that leaves you yearning for more.A Moment of ClarityIn a small town, in the smallest county in the Florida panhandle, a...

A captivating tale about the wonders of wildlife and the trials of conservation. Wolf Vandengetz has the ideal post for an adventurous scientist, researching prides of lions. Then he gets a promotion. With a heavy heart, he leaves his fieldwork in the...

Single mother Sally Lachlan has a secret that has haunted her for a decade, although perhaps it is time to let it go. A chance meeting with a fellow scientist, the charismatic geneticist Anthony Blake, reawakens her desire for love. But as Sally...

‘Such a lovely, funny read. Smart, witty and full of heart.’ Ruth JonesNatalie and Carl are newlyweds, but the honeymoon period is over already.Carl has just announced he has bought their first home at auction without telling Natalie where it is,...

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. NO EXPECTATION, NO DISAPPOINTMENT was one of her mother's mantras, and it has served Greta well too....

I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it all. In the course of recounting my...

About the BookMarcie is devastated when her husband asks for a divorce at their twenty-fifth-anniversary dinner. She quit the job she loved to take care of their autistic son and support her husband's candidacies. He cuts off her social networks. She...

"A standout among the many novels set in this world-changing era." Kirkus Review, A STARRED Review. Duration - 11h 9m. Author - Irene Wittig. Narrator - Penelope Graham. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2020 Irene Wittig ©.

A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherhood, babies, dads, and youth. None of them long, they focus the listener on the blessings of life. - Summary by...

HOW TO RATTLE YOUR NEAREST AND DEAREST A resonant tale of love, loss, and learning how to let go Bette Gartner, a ninety-five-year-old widow, wakes up one morning and decides to throw a dinner party that night for her small family, staff, two...

It began as a simple flirtation . . .In September of 1963, Scott Stoddard, an American graduate student, is traveling to Switzerland, when he meets the Countess de Rovere, a French divorcee; he is smitten, and she is intrigued. What begins as a little...

Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recentcollege graduate until a harrowing robbery blasts her out of her funk andinto a job in the finance world of early-1980s Chicago. At first, it seems like a bad fit.But the world of...

The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes...

What if Emma isn’t the person she thought she was? Her younger son has just been diagnosed with autism. She’s accidentally quit her job. The marriage she was dedicated to suddenly seems like a sham. She’s pretty sure that she is going to have an...

Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen. Unemployed and living with her father, her existence is self-absorbed yet meaningless; her days absorbed by reality TV, social media and an obsession with her striking...

An irreverent black comedy about sex, drugs, murder… and children’s baseball.Dwayne Devero is just like you and me, except he simply doesn’t give a sh*t anymore. He’s had enough. He’s done with people living life wrong. You’ll do it right, or he’ll...

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is...