Fiction eBooks
Browse our Fiction eBooks for the best in contemporary fiction by your favorite authors. Alexander and Alestria By Shan Sa Re-creating the lives of two of the most intriguing rulers in history, Shan Sa brings us a novel filled with the sound of hooves, the whistle of arrows, blood, passion, and betrayal. The familiar figure of Alexander the Great comes to new life in this richly imagined tale, Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ Angels & Demons By Dan Brown When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. Genre: Fiction Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Mobipocket, Kindle ________________________ American Rust By Philipp Meyer In his unrelentingly downbeat debut, Meyer offers up a character-driven near-noir set in Buell, a dying Pennsylvania steel town, where aimless friends Billy Poe and Isaac English are trapped by economic and personal circumstance. Just before their halfhearted escape to California, Isaac accidentally kills a transient who tries to rob Poe. The boys return to the crime scene the next day with plans to cover up the crime, setting the plot in motion. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Mobipocket, Kindle ________________________ The Best of Me By Nicholas Sparks THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: ePub, Kindle ________________________ The Camel Bookmobile By Masha Hamilton Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library. But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand the people she seeks to help. And she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle... Genre: Fiction Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwan - a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ The Drood By Dan Simmons On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Mobipocket, Kindle ________________________ Falling Man By Don Delillo Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. Genre: Fiction Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ The Good Thief By Hannah Tinti Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ The Help By Kathryn Stockett They are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, ePub, Kindle ________________________ Michael Tolliver Lives By Armistead Maupin Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contemporary fiction. Now, almost 20 years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm, Kindle ________________________ Night Road By Kristin Hannah Vivid, universal, and emotionally complex, NIGHT ROAD raises profound questions about motherhood, identity, love, and forgiveness. It is a luminous, heartbreaking novel that captures both the exquisite pain of loss and the stunning power of hope. This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the longing for family, the resilience of the human heart, and the courage it takes to forgive the people we love. Genre: Fiction eBooks Format: ePub, Kindle Page 1 2
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