General & literary fiction Books

Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school and...

Have you ever suffered from FUNNY GIRL SYNDROME? Are you the gal who makes people laugh? Are you considered "a lot of fun" and "a good sport"? Do all your male friends bring you their troubles and ask for your advice--about their girlfriends? If so, you...

A unique voice, Melissa Jacobs delivers a second fun-filled, food-filled novel. Mimi's life is an open book, or rather, an open menu. A restaurant consultant, she's helped launch some of the best restaurants in Philly and around the world. And she even...

Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on...

When Moxie Brecker chose her kicky nickname back in college, it suited her perfectly. But now she feels it's one big misnomer. After graduation, she set out to command her own seventh-grade science class and was stunned to find the job too challenging...

Question: What do Amy, the new mom; Meriel, the West-Indian housekeeper; Claude and Naomi, the alternative couple; Faith, the elegant widow; and Talia, the super-skinny ballerina have in common?Answer: Abso-freakin'-lutely-nothing!Except that they all...

With her sharp wit and riveting style, Leslie Carroll plunges us deep into the world of the overscheduled children of New York, and the oversexed, over-lipoed, overpaid people who raise them -or pay their nannies!What happens when a trophy wife gets...

Go back to prom and watch bumbling, lovable Iley Gilbert try to get it right this time around in Eugénie Olson's endearing story of love, bad behavior, and sequins. At age 30, Iley Gilbert is thoroughly sick of trying to make it in the photo biz, and...

From the Bestselling Author of Friendship Cake Comes a Remarkable Story of Love, Loss, Infidelity, and Forgiveness

Hollywood publicity pro extraordinaire Emily Sanders is hitting thirty -- hard -- and she wants the life her best friends seem to have: house, kids, perfect man. But finding true love isn't easy in L.A., where image is everything, and where every beauty...

Dive into the sometimes sexy, sometimes sinister, always hilarious world of love and action figures in the toy industry with Eugenie Seifer, the quirky, smart new author for Avon Trade. Toby Morris is 25 and ready for some excitement. Her job at a...

Harlem entrepreneur and fitness superstar Nona Simms worked hard to make Brickhouse one of the hottest gyms in the city -- her gift to the community that has always been home. Now corrupt city politics is coming uptown, and Nona's dream is slated for the...

Envision an imaginary dial with which you can turn all sounds from your everyday experience onto the highest level of volume: that is the world of 13-year old Ship Sooner whose incredible ability to hear sounds normally indiscernible to the human ear...

Another great tale of love gone wild from author Michelle Cunnah, a favourite voice of Avon Trade fans whose loveable characters are creating a stir.A good relationship is like a pair of comfortable shoes, right?At first, they may pinch and squeeze, but...

Sharing Sean is a fabulously entertaining, and comedic debut novel in which four women in their late thirties-with no time, or desire for a full time relationship-hatch a plan to "share" a man. Not all women read bridal magazines, shop for dates on the...

When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother, Eddie, inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles.But something else is happening. Through...

Maggie Sweet has had it! For nineteen years, she's kept house, raised a pair of battling twin daughters, put up with her frugal husband, Steven, humored his impossible mother, and kept her mouth shut. But when Steven spends their life savings on a...

Samantha Ranvali can't sleep. Haunted by nightmares and the memory of a man who attacked her years ago, she seeks a cure for her insomnia through an experimental study called "Endymion's Circle." The treatment seems to be a success, but after her first...

Questo è il romanzo più noto dell'autrice (Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1926).Le vicende si svolgono nella Sardegna d'inizio XX secolo; povertà, onore e orgoglio, superstizione, emergono nelle vicende della famiglia Pintor: quattro figlie e un...

En el exilio neoyorkino coincidieron Volkov y Brodsky, y durante veinte años conversaron como los típicos emigrados que se encuentran en país ajeno: una mezcla de nostalgia, chismes sobreentendidos y private jokes. En el departamento de Brodsky en el...

Romantična priča u kojoj ni za koga nema srećnog kraja, pa ni za one sasvim nedužne. Priča o ljubavi koja oslepi, ogluvi i ojadi one koje je pohodila, bila ta ljubav roditeljska, ljubav prema bogu i nauci, ljubav prema umetnosti, ljubav prema muškarcu...

What is inside "President Obama" ? You'll be amazed by this unique collection of revelations. Moving, scandalous, shocking, salacious, it's a jaw dropping glimpse behind the face of a name that changed our world.

Tattered Tales is three short stories about family relationships, struggles, and love.

Meet Olivia Joules, a new heroine for the 21st century, from the bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason.

Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be...

Regina Rheda is a contemporary award-winning Brazilian writer whose original voice and style have won her many admirers. First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix presents some of her finest and most representative work to an...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

A collection of twenty-four short stories centered on the ideas and emotions of characters and explore various themes, including, isolation.

Qualcuno si chiederà: che cosa ha spinto l'Autrice a scrivere questo libro di filastrocche? La risposta è semplice: l'AMORE! L'amore per la natura, per gli animali, per la vita nella sua completezza. Un viaggio nella fantasia in cui traspare il rapporto...

The day before her 13th birthday (Halloween) Poppy is out shopping for her party with her mum and brother Ralph, when she sees HERSELF passing by on an escalator!This really scares her and excites her at the same time. How could this happen?All kinds of...

Life with Uncle Raymond is never straightforward, so when he generously takes his two nephews on a trip to Greece and Cyprus, it is unsurprising that things soon become complicated. Has Uncle Raymond's tendency to make much about very little put lives at...

Rosie Wilde, the beautiful, sensitive woman at the heart of this story, is stuck in an abusive, seemingly hopeless marriage, with no way out and unable to support her three children, Jill, David and Carla.After the children leave Rosie finds the courage...

In the depths of the countryside three children wait patiently for news of their parents, who have mysteriously gone missing in Paris.Then out of the blue a package arrives at the farm addressed to Karla Kemp, and then things really start to get a little...

The Cold War has never been colder than in 2020's Brexit-era Britain. The United Kingdom faces the prospect of becoming dis-united and there is sporadic violent civil unrest.A series of cyber-attacks of growing severity affects all areas of daily life...

Two young men, close friends Nicholas Hope, a painter of talent, and Timothy Sharp, a budding writer, are living in Avalon, a city in the South-West of England. Sworn to live free, they take nothing from the State, but support themselves by bar and...