Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The most daring -- and deadly -- terrorist plot of all time is about to unfold aboard the supercarrier USS United States . If it succeeds, the balance of nuclear...

What would you do if out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Sian Richards sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Callahan....

A collection of memoirs by Primo Levi, published in Italian as "Ii Sistema Periodico" in 1975. Regarded as his masterwork, it is a cycle of 21 autobiographical stories, each named...

Penniless and homeless, David Benediner, a young writer, arrives in Warsaw with two contacts: a young woman and a Zionist functionary who informs him that he has qualified for a...

FROM THE MOST REMOTE AND ONLY PAGAN BRITISH ISLE COMES MOONLITE MCDUFFIE, A PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ODDITY, WHOSE MATHEMATICAL AND LAY PREACHING TALENTS COMBINE TO GAIN HIM ADMISSION TO JESUS...

From the acclaimed author of Top Hook and Hostile Contact, the fifth exhilarating tale of modern espionage and military adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik -- sure to...

Maverick pilot Patrick McLanahan takes aerial warfare into unknown territory in an explosive new adventure from the bestselling author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG, WARRIOR CLASS and WINGS OF...

In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares -...

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...

Marie may be 'getting on a bit' but it's certainly not getting her down. Her family around her and a man who loves her means that life is good -...

Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty ... In a time of rage and confusion,...

For fans of Amy Tan and Kevin Kwan, this sharp and tender debut follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women - cursed to never know love or happiness - as...

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt- a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.No longer able to live on...

Frank Munro has had change thrust upon him. So he's changing. He's trying. An award winning journalist, now put out to pasture, Frank is looking to renew his purpose, renew...

Presents the tragic romance of Emma and a wounded buffalo soldier. When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them...

One man's journey - from fatherless, poverty-stricken child growing up in a Scottish fishing village in the 70s, through teenage angst, falling in love, going to London, living in squats,...

Spanning four decades of Chinese history, Wives of the East Wind is an epic tale of friendships, love, and idealism betrayed. Two couples - Wenya and Zhiying, Zhenzhen and Lao...

Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the...

"A Suggestion of Death" is a legal thriller novel by Marianne Wesson, published in 1999 (often cited as 2000), featuring protagonist Lucinda "Cinda" Hayes. It follows attorney Cinda Hayes as...

Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So, to make ends meet, alongside her job at the diner Mary Beth...

Based on the true story of the theft of Katherine Mansfield's letters. the life of the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield poses the central question of this exciting new novel...

TWO PEOPLE. TWO GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS. ONE DATE WITH DESTINY. ... set them on a collision course in a rapidly converging story, mix-in a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on a week-long...

Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image-White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail....

A witty debut novel about a housesitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong. A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum...

Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets, they could...

The story of Octave, one of the new Masters of the Universe. Octave seems to have everything going for him: a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish...

The story of three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter - narrated from their separate perspectives, and showing the complex relationships that exist between them

Joint winner (with Michael Ondaajte's Anil's Ghost) of the Giller Prize, Mercy Among the Children is reckoned by many to be the finest Canadian novel of 2000. The novel tells...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "Plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it...

A delightful novel in the vein of Younger and The Unbreakables, with a hint of Nora Ephron, about a journalist who stumbles into an unusual relationship with the woman married...

The much anticipated second novel from prize-winning Irish poet and novelist, Kerry Hardie. 'The Bird Woman' is a moving account of two marriages, a gift that feels like a curse,...

Denise and Nik grew up in the '70s LA music scene. Nik - handsome and gifted, with a knack for songwriting - was a star on the rise. Denise, his...

Thomas Dylan is an unlikely spy. Rejected by MI6 he joins the Ministry of Defence where his first mission is a total failure. Unexpectedly he is then sent to Rio...

Ambitious art photographer Gina lives a glamorous life in bustling Rome. Her edgy shots of refugees have been receiving rave reviews and commissions for future work, and things in her...

'Burton Rembrandt is a misunderstood little boy. A sensitive eight-year-old Burt is frightened by many things in the world around him... When I Was Five I Killed Myself is a...

Set in a Black Sea resort in Georgia in the dying days of the Soviet Empire, this is the story of Bronsky, a medical researcher haunted by the fate of...

The Greek's rule: she needs to make the first move... The secret to Galen Pallas's success is his laser-sharp focus. And young widow Roula Drakos, is disruption personified! Most disruptive...

Shockingly pregnant... with the wrong brother's babies! When Greek billionaire Constantine Kamaras's brother brings home waitress Morgan Stanfield to meet their family, Constantine is instantly suspicious. The only thing stronger...

Shortlisted, Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers, 1999 As the early dragonflies of the Dry chase each other, Cressida catches one. She cannot feel the filaments, although she can see...

Like any married couple, Allie and Tony have had their fair share of heartache. But when Tony's actions force Allie and her young sons out of their home, things take...