Life Fiction

It's show and tell day in Mobville Middle School, and Smalls has completely forgotten to bring anything! After “borrowing” Biggie’s beloved pet rock, Larry Jr., Smalls loses it immediately. Now, he’s got until lunchtime to steal it back… or face Biggie’s heartbroken wrath!

A DUEL? DON'T LOSE, HARUKA! Loner Haruka and his classmates set out for the Beast Kingdom as envoys for Diorelle amid the Theocracy-induced political turmoil. Their mission? Win the Beast Kingdom's support! But the beastfolk revere strength above all else and seem to distain the low-level Haruka. If that isn't bad enough, the strongest members of the tribe challenge Haruka to a duel!

Desperate to escape their high-pressure life in Los Angeles, the Finch family moves to rural Oregon. But it doesn’t take long to learn that “small town” is not code for “stress-free.” As the new owners of Applegate's one and only general store, the Finches find that the simple life’s anything but simple when your little store is the town's only grocery store, gas station, hardware store, fire station, and occasional dentist’s office.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and...

Returning Maveith's people home to Stone Mountain Island becomes a quest to heal Castile. After months on the island, Konstantin, Gilda, Eryk, and Raelia travel to the renowned city of Godok. Known by its residents as the greatest city on Desia, a massive sprawl where adventure finds you.

After her car breaks down along the rugged California coast, psychology graduate student Riley finds herself stranded in Big Sur at the exact moment her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Exhausted by academic pressure and the suffocating expectations of her influential psychologist father, she meets Ethan, a quiet mechanic who understands broken systems better than most people understand themselves. While repairing her damaged engine in a small coastal workshop, Riley begins questioning the future she has spent years building for someone else.

After losing his career and sense of purpose, former architect Max spends his days staring at a vacant lot in the heart of Berlin, convinced that some places and people are too broken to rebuild. Everything changes when he meets Lena, a weary social worker who refuses to accept decay as the final state of a neighborhood or a human life. Together, they begin transforming the abandoned wasteland into a spontaneous community garden, planting flowers and vegetables in soil buried beneath decades of rubble and neglect. As the garden slowly comes alive, so do the people around it.

He’s spent months watching my every move. Stalking me from the shadows, waiting for the right moment. When he strikes, I’m not ready. I’m surrounded by strangers, and far from anyone who might have cared, or at the very least, noticed if I suddenly disappeared.

A key figure in the metaphysical movement known as New Thought, Florence Scovel Shinn has influenced many modern spiritual leaders, including Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Deepak Chopra, May McCarthy, and Louise Hay. Through stories of real-life situations and biblical tenets, Shinn teaches that the empowering use of positive attitude and affirmations can create a path to wealth, good health, and loving relationships. Intuition, love, and prosperity can expand through intentional thoughts and prayer.

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Riley Fletcher’s morning run should have been ordinary—muscle memory, fresh air, home by breakfast. Instead, she wakes bound and bleeding in a lakeside cabin, her captor a ghost from her past: Dawson Miller, a former coworker with nothing left to lose. Escape seems simple until her injuries leave her dependent on the very man who took her. As he tends her wounds with unsettling care, Riley realizes this isn’t random violence. Dawson has a plan—one that’s been carefully constructed, methodically prepared. And somehow, she’s essential to it.

Cody’s life has always been a struggle. His degree hasn’t gotten him anywhere except deeper into debt, and his minimum wage job can’t keep up with the expenses. After bombing yet another interview, he encounters a homeless werewolf named Roscoe who turns an already challenging situation into absolute chaos. Lycanthropy doesn't just affect older teenagers, and after a night of regret, Cody discovers he’s turning into a dirty beast himself.

Thane is dying. His body is failing, his mind is fraying, and the world feels like a cruel joke. When a cutting-edge VR game promises an escape, Thane logs in to lose himself in its fantasy world, Arbelon—a land of fractured beauty, prophecies, and dangerous magic. But what begins as a way to vent his bitterness soon spirals into something he can’t explain. Arbelon feels real. Too real. The people call him the Chosen One, a savior sent to heal their breaking world. Thane dismisses them—just NPCs in a game.

Up in the attic, I sort through the boxes of old photos, broken airbeds and sun umbrellas. Why does my husband Giles refuse to throw anything away? Then my eyes fix upon a dusty stack of letters and a memory stabs at my chest. They’re all dated thirty years ago, but I’d recognise that handwriting anywhere, and seeing it again now makes my heart skip a beat… Back in our bedroom, I force myself to get ready for my birthday meal.

The remarkable new Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of the international sensation The Midnight Library ‘A beautiful novel full of life-affirming wonder and imagination' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . .' When...

It's Mother's Day! Smalls and the Zombie Bros try to come up with ways to celebrate their mom for Mother's Day, but they might just end up bringing their mom head first into their chaotic lifestyle. Packed with laugh-out-loud chaos, Minecraft mob mayhem, and a lesson in brotherly (pet rock) love, this fifth installment is perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

When the External Womb Programme is launched, the news is controversial. Hundreds take to the streets in protest, feeling strongly that growing a baby outside of the human body is "unnatural". But thousands more people rejoice: at last, an alternative for those who wish to have children but worry about the physical toll it may take. A chance that throwing a baby-shaped grenade into one's career path might not derail it entirely.

The Retired Hero of Humanity—the man who decided to hide in his woodland cottage after his bloody business was done—is not entirely enjoying his life at the moment. According to his lovely girlfriend Giselle, he is suffering from a strange ailment, but that doesn't make sense. Giselle is just overreacting. That said, it sure would be nice if he had some deadly delicious fruits to eat. But no, no, no, Giselle advocates for restraint.

Elmore Thaddeus Nix, it's retirement time. Take that final physical and then it's adios to your old life and hello to the new. Wait. Not so fast. Sorry, Elmore. Your plan's about to change. It's Elmore's last day of work. As part of his retirement, he heads to the family doctor for the follow-up to a routine physical. That's when the universe shifts on its axis. Cancer. Then we find out that Elmore's wife lies at home with only days to live. The stroke of injustice falls hard.

The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it.