Adult & Contemporary Fiction

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! The poems by T. S. Eliot that inspired the movie CatsCats! Some are sane and some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Meet magical Mr. Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy, and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be...

A gripping and powerful tale of resilience and courage set in Vienna on the brink of WWII, as two members of Freud’s Circle try to keep themselves and their loved ones safe as the SS closes in.Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna...

A heart-stopping military thriller from Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – betrayed, hunted and disavowed, Sam Fisher’s toughest mission has just begunInside North Korea, veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher finds himself on the...

From the world of the best-selling trilogy of books and the hit Netflix show comes a new chapter in the ALTERED CARBON universe! In the future, bodies can be changed like clothes, giving life an entirely new meaning—or lack of meaning.Takeshi...

In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay.For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped out and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you never die.However, some bodies are more...

The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They...

London Falling by Paul Cornell is an urban fantasy twist on the classic police procedural: London cops versus magical creatures of nightPolice officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross know the worst of London—or they think they do. While...

The award-winning author of the Revelation Space series continues his Poseidon's Children saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity’s future...Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary...

Here is the first-ever Polity novel, which kicks off the fast-paced science fiction adventures of far-future James Bond-esque Agent Ian Cormac—from Neal Asher, author of more than 20 books and nominee for both the Philip K. Dick and the British...

Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child'survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents...

Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.   Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to...

Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China...

"A knockout." —Publishers Weekly (Starred review)"A remarkable collection." —Kirkus ReviewsA collection of contemplative, lyrical stories examining the visible and invisible consequences of atomic power on Japanese...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize A sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope set in modern-day Tokyo—an “unflinching . . . powerful” showcase of the best in contemporary Japanese literature (Shelf Awareness)Divorced...

A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez   Trapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent...

Swan Lake meets The Last Unicorn by way of the Brothers Grimm in a dreamy, original fairytale by critically acclaimed author R.M. Romero.Bavaria. 1880. Hilde was dreamed into existence by the god Odin and, along with her five sisters,...

The romance of Becky Albertalli meets the nuanced family dynamics of Darius the Great is Not Okay in this YA novel from acclaimed author Sabina Khan. Mehar hasn't been back to India since she and her mother moved away when she was six. Her...

You’ve Got Mail gets a fresh YA twist in this irresistible rom-com that spotlights the power of activism and community organizing in the face of gentrification, perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and Yes No Maybe So...

You can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave.The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCour in this paranormal mystery YA about the ghosts we carry with us.Something is building, simmering just out of reach.The room is watching. But Mira and...

Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp.Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when you don’t feel “deaf...