Modern Fiction

We Do!Emilia Sutton & Nathan Kentwell Cordially invite you to join them as they become husband & wife. Sort of… “I need to marry a billionaire.” Emilia knows what she wants. Family. As a teenager, she lost both parents. Now, she wants only the best for her beloved sorority sisters. Not a sorority house with lost power, leaky pipes, and last-minute inspections. She needs to fix her found family’s college home. She also wants to draw her reclusive uncle back into her life. But he’s so concerned she’ll become a target of gold-digging men, he stays away to keep her fortune a secret....

Rediscover The Pilgrim's Progress, one of the greatest works of Christian literature, now brought to life in a vibrant, modern translation. This beloved allegory has been faithfully retold with engaging, easy-to-understand storytelling while preserving all the original content and spiritual depth.

This is an updated version for all ages retold in wonderful storytelling fashion. John Bunyan was a simple maker and mender of pots and pans who received very little education. In spite of that, he penned the most successful allegory ever written. Embark on a perilous journey with Christian, the lead character, from the City of Destruction to the luminous safe haven of the Celestial City. The journey will encourage you to “set your hope fully on the grace to be given you” amidst the obstacles of life.

🔥 A man consumed by lust. A soul marked for destruction. A debt only God can collect. Elias thought he was untouchable. For years, he manipulated women, twisted scripture, and used New Age magick to feed his desires—power, control, and the rush of making women bend to his will. He thought he was winning. Until the spirits he once commanded turned against him. Now marked for judgment, Elias is about to learn what it truly means to reap what you sow. Every door he once opened to gain power now threatens to drag him under. His lust has become a prison. His pride, a curse. And the only ...

Sierra Cody is on fire. A rising star in women's professional downhill mountain bike racing, she has all the tools to become a world champion. All she needs to do is fully commit herself. Something far easier said than done. Dr. Kara Davies, a highly regarded and accomplished physician, is well on her way to achieving her dreams in chiropractic research. Commitment to her goals has never been an issue, but her personal life is a different story.

31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next 24 hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals caught up in the wreckage of war.

The English philosopher and physician John Locke (1632 - 1704) is widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. His work had a significant effect on the development of epistemology and political philosophy. The Second Treatise on Civil Government places sovereignty in the hands of the people, as Locke's fundamental argument is that people are equal and invested with natural rights in a state of nature in which they live free from outside rule.

Rome, 1955. The artists gather for a picture at a party in an ancient villa. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast canvases, larger than life, is at the center of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. From the side of the room watches little Pinch - their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, striving to live up to the Bavinsky name.

A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability".

My billionaire boss has fallen hard for me. But he doesn’t even know who I am. No one does. Brad is the perfect man. Tall, dark, rich, protective, and irresistibly hot. He’s hired me as his live-in personal chef. He could have any woman he wants, but his sights are set on me. Things heat up fast and before I know it, I’ve fallen into a life I’d never dare to dream of, And in love with a man I’m sure I don’t deserve. The person he knows me as is a complete lie. I hide dark secrets within my icy shell. When my past catches up with me and my life is threatened, my identity is in ...

Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she’s famous, stylish, gorgeous - and she’s an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Everyone loves her - until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world. Dragged by the media, and canceled by her fans, no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow Eloko.

En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy B. Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su médico en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar una velada tormentosa, decidieron que cada uno inventaría una historia de fantasmas. La más callada y reservada, Mary Shelley, dio vida así a quien sería su personaje más famoso: el doctor Frankenstein. Al cabo de un año completaría la novela.

As a hunter in post-apocalyptic central Texas, Scratch Sullivan has survived zombies, vampires, and rogue military units. Heck, he's even the only human ever known to go hand-to-hand with a werewolf, and survive. But what’s a man to do when the local ‘thrope pack destroys your town and abducts your best girl?

If “Knives Out” did dinner parties….. Take six bestselling Crime novelists, a dinner party of deadly delights, one retired Detective Inspector, one weird gardener, a brooding brother, and a mysterious Japanese blossom. Mix well at a dinner party, add a dash of sex and a pinch of intrigue and gently heat. When suitably simmering mix in a gruesome death and stir. Welcome to Burnham Manor, the Cotswold retreat of bestselling crime writer and television chef Max Wilde. Once a year Max hosts a lavish dinner party for the great and good of the crime writing world and this year is to be no ...

Lauded for the power of her writing and having attracted an online fan base of millions for her extraordinary spoken-word performances, Olivia Gatwood now weaves together her own coming-of-age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. Gatwood asks, How does a girl grow into a woman in a world racked by violence? Where is the line between perpetrator and victim?

This collection of masterful reinterpretations brilliantly demystifies and breathes new life into Shakespeare's work, demonstrating the continued resonance of a playwright whose popularity remains more than 400 years after his death. Now, the passion, heartbreak, deception, reconciliation, and mortality of Shakespeare’s originals can be understood by all, without the need to cross-reference to an enjoyment-sapping study guide.

On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules.

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; his Bullet Park neighbour, Paul Hammer, is a bastard named after a common household tool. The pair become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names.

I.L. Peretz, the acknowledged "Father of Yiddish Literature", captured the essence of Eastern European Jewish life. He wrote of the magical quality of kindness, and the bitter fruits of blind faith.

I’m Ross Kelly, one of Stormy’s closest friends. Tucker and Callum are the other two in our group. We all grew up here in Gusty Rock and the four of us have always been friends. The guys are like brothers, but they don’t really know my family life. They think they do, and they know most of it. But there are secrets they aren’t aware of. That no one’s aware of with one exception, my little sister, Shelby. My parents knew once upon a time, but they’re both dead now. I miss Mom, but not Dad. He doesn’t deserve being missed. The secrets have to do with that, but I’m not getting ...