New Literary Fiction

MR Z. A NEW RISING SUPERHERO - "The Journey to find the Superpower liquid" A series of 3 books, a thriller, science fiction, full of adventures and imagination AND new SUPERHERO. MR Z. A NEW RISING SUPERHERO, book 1 END AND BEGINNING of an exciting series, In a faraway galaxy, in a parallel dimension, lies a "special planet" where life was once perfect and peaceful. But everything changed when the evil forces from the black planet invaded. A catastrophic event left the planet in ruins, and only one survivor remains. The survivor, knowing the power of the Superpower liquid that grants ...

To Chinese American teenager Chuntao, New Lake is a beautiful haven where she can hunt for treasures once swallowed up by a big flood. But when she’s caught scavenging by her biology teacher, a woman whose own past has been swept away, Chuntao is faced with an imponderable question: Which world was better - the ideal one she never knew or the destroyed one that now belongs to her?

England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, is busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. And Mrs. O'Brien is visiting from America and causing trouble.

Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat". That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. To the contrary, she will stay and exact revenge - or would have if Claude had not had her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to patronize and advise, but Harriet only takes offense, and it’s easy to understand why.

Disappearing wasn’t going to be enough…they needed a plan…some answers…and a safe place where they couldn’t be found…and time to figure out what to do next….and why their pursuers are interested in Harper’s father…and are willing to do anything to draw her out. Now it appears that they have an unknown and unlikely ally…maybe two… Ailis Mulholland wasn’t expected…nor was the offer of assistance from her father. No one is quite certain what to make of it with one exception…Jackson Riley has known Cian Mulholland since they were kids.It’s the middle of the twenty-...

Self-made billionaire, Greg Cooper believes romance is best when it’s brief, fun and done. He rushes through life running from the past, playing in the present, and avoiding all commitments for the future. Tender-hearted Cassie Brewster, owner of Second Chance Ranch, devotes her life to helping at-risk juvenile delinquent boys grow up to be good men, not the arrogant, selfish, egotistical type she meets far too often. When Cassie & Greg are forced to work together, will the trials & tribulations they face with the boys teach everyone necessary life lessons? By summer's end, will they find...

The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, best-selling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America.

After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.

An eastern mystic, a western psychic, and a broken man who falls in love with them both at a holy, magnetic mountain. More than an unusual love story, Jonas and the Mountain is a quest for the deepest truth, an excursion into the nature of reality. Jonas has been living a half-life since he lost his marriage, his college teaching position, and his best friend all at once. In his darkest moment, he hears a voice in his head, and strange poems start to come to him.

What happens when a sheltered only child and a street-wise orphan are forced to work together in order to stay alive? Two strangers, Caleb and Jael, are thrown together under dire circumstances, joined at the hip, as their captors say. Their singular focus? Survival. A gripping story of courage, determination, sacrifice and survival. A pre-apocalyptic tale told in vivid terms by our hero, Caleb Wiseman.

When Gerald finds a yellow rose hidden in a drawer he suspects Maria might be having an affair. From being disinterested in her trip to Barcelona, he begins to wonder what has actually happened there. Noticing more and more changes in her, he finds clues that hint at some events. Finally he gets a hold of her private journal. Here he reads what happened to Maria when she threw a coin into the box of a gold mime artist. Published by Plato Press, The Gold Man is one of Keziah Shepherd's shorter novels.

There is very little that Lizzie Patterson wouldn’t do for those she cares about. That is especially true for her two neighbors in the quiet corner of the canyon that’s been her home for over fifty years and her refuge since she retired from the profession she loved but was more than ready to walk away from. Recently she’s accepted a role in a movie her first husband is producing after years of turning down all the other offers that came her way since her retirement. Many believe that her reason for doing so is because Clay Tobin has agreed to play the lead character in the same movie...

For over 300 years the conquistadors used El Camino Real, (The Royal Road). Bringing their plundered Inca gold across the Isthmus of Panama, from the Pacific to the Caribbean. October 1641, seven hundred kilograms of gold vanished from the trail without trace. In a captivating blend of history and suspense, a widower's discovery sparks a modern-day treasure hunt. The lure of stolen Inca gold, and the challenge to find it, soon became so much more than they had bargained for. After almost 400 years, former history professor Alex Poynter stumbles across a small clue, soon he is joined by four...

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books", each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early 20th-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna after World War I, but a pact she makes with a young man leads to a second death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband.

Having left behind his childhood town full of dead-end jobs and bleak prospects for a future, Rudy, a nineteen-year old runaway, arrives in Barcelona. Two days later, he finds himself outside a subway station half-naked and robbed of all his possessions. Trapped in a city whose language he doesn't speak, without a passport or anyone to turn to, Rudy is plunged into a world of hunger and homelessness. Yet, fighting off the ravages of slow starvation proves far easier than the struggle to maintain his own decency and humanity when he is forced to befriend a hostile thug who holds the only key...

One death. Five teens. Twenty years. Time passes, but guilt, blame, and shame remain. Then The rust belt town of Conway, Pennsylvania. An accident; a death; and five people who blame themselves and each other. Megan Richards was on the precipice of doing great things. She never got the chance. Five classmates were involved in the events of that night. For everyone but Megan, life goes on, and time moves forward. Now Conway is the same, but the five lives of those responsible have diverged. Until fate brings them together and forces them to remember the past, confront each other, and forgive...

Quigley Tree drops out of college. At age 23, she's been a complete failure. If she doesn't do something soon, her life will careen into a deep, dark, irrevocable void. Tick Tock. That soon is now. From the publisher: Five-Star Review from Readers' Favorite by Lorraine Cobcroft: Quigley Tree, the protagonist of Linda A. Lavid’s novel of the same name, is a young woman with an odd name. A college dropout from a dysfunctional home, and recently escaped from a relationship with a narcissist, Quigley needs to find a new place to live, quickly. A unique idea sets her on a path to find ...

For the Kilpatrick family of Cranberry Bay, the choice was really very simple. Their family had been torn apart by a heartbreaking tragedy…now they were coming together again determined that nothing else would.A recent tragedy reminds the Kilpatrick family what they have always known…that no matter how dark the future may look, family is everything…especially when so much of what was always taken for granted can be ripped away in a stolen moment. Marcus Kilpatrick and his adult children are learning that some of life’s greatest challenges are not always about the big choices or the ...

Disappearing wasn’t going to be enough…they needed a plan…some answers…and a safe place where they couldn’t be found…and time to figure out what to do next….and why their pursuers are interested in Harper’s father…and are willing to do anything to draw her out. Now it appears that they have an unknown and unlikely ally… Ava and Harper have reached out to one man in the hope that he can achieve what Simon believes they are unable to…unknowingly choosing the one man who is more than willing to take up their cause…It’s the middle of the twenty-third century and while ...

He’d made mistakes...more than a few and probably didn’t deserve the second chance he’d been given. But he was going to do everything he could to prove himself worthy of it. Ray didn’t have a single doubt that a number of individuals were wondering where he’d disappeared to. With luck it would stay that way...but if it didn’t he probably wouldn’t be around to worry about it. Not even a week ago he’d arrived on the island with a windfall of money to his name but no where to go. Being given another chance was the last thing he expected when he arrived...or that it came from ...