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A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

I'm the outcast brother . . . I'm headed back to Riverton and the foster brothers I left behind. But this homecoming isn't going to be sweet. I left without a word to them after getting outed and disowned. The fences don't just need mending. They need rebuilding. My brothers and I had a code to always be there for one another, and I broke it. Now, I have the chance to step up and help them with their floundering business. To prove myself and make good.

When I walk into the chapel, ready to off the best man and collect my bounty, I don't expect to see Rhodes, and I sure don't expect to scent him as my mate. Now I have ten seconds to decide if I am going to pretend I'm a guest in the hopes of getting what I've always wanted or complete the job with the precision it requires.

Gene-editing has gone mainstream. Cancer can be erased, limbs regrown—but of course, people are mostly just using the tech for vanity, paying fortunes to become ‘Goblin Girls’, ‘Troll Men’, or Greek-God versions of themselves—just with a simple procedure.

Born to a teenage mother who never stopped trying, Nova Jean carries deep scars from a childhood laced with emotional neglect, confusion, and unanswered questions. Now in her twenties, Nova’s anger and resentment consume her. Her mother, Ava Simone, once broken herself, spent years doing her best to give Nova a life better than she ever had—but Nova can’t see past the pain.

In another life, I’d loved Nikki. In another life, he’d betrayed me. Brought back by a corrupt company who deals in souls and reincarnation, I was promised a chance for revenge. I wasn’t born a psychopath, but death made me into one. Nikki made me into the monster I am. The problem is, the man they say is Nikki is… different. His name is London, and he’s pure light and softness. I want to peel away his layers to see if the boy I knew—the boy who broke me—is still somewhere inside.

At once a hilarious-yet-tender coming of age story, a steamy, complicated romance, and an authentic celebration of queer joy, Long Island Girls is for anyone who has ever struggled to stop getting caught up in "what-ifs" and start appreciating what is.

Christopher hat endlich das erreicht, was er schon sein ganzes Leben wollte: Er betreibt ein kleines Café in einem Dorf in Wales und kann sich ganz auf das Backen konzentrieren. Und dann stolpert plötzlich ein ebenso attraktiver wie vorlauter Mann in sein Café, der ihm nur allzu bekannt vorkommt. Nash ist Schauspieler ... und hat Christophers Wohnung über die Feiertage gemietet, um die Ruhe und Einsamkeit zu genießen. Nun sitzen beide in einer viel zu kleinen Einzimmerwohnung fest, und die Funken fliegen ...

It was supposed to be nothing more than a relaxing drink to end a stressful day, but meeting John, Thomas and Evan changed all that. They were on their way to a party and getting talking to them ended in an invite. I decided to accept and see where it took me, but ending up with a bunch of swingers was the last thing I expected. It got me in the middle of the three men on a bed, with a baying crowd of watchers egging them on to make me be a bad boy and I gave in completely to let them do it.

“Em uma mistura intensa entre política, excitação e poesia, este audiolivro conta a história de dois homens que se veem entrelaçados em uma paixão muito maior do que a onda de incerteza e violência que tomou conta da Polônia em 1980. Ludwik e Janusz são, entre muitas coisas, um simbolismo atual sobre a infinitude do amar. Esta não é apenas uma arriscada história sobre se apaixonar.

Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers, who risk their health and safety daily, are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them, a condition they call “being lustertouched.” Marney Honeycutt, a lustertouched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns.

Sofie Muller can make you into a better writer. That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing class. Alice wants it. She wants Sofie's hand guiding hers to greatness, then the book deal, then the prizes and the plaudits. Still, there is gossip. Sofie will kill your darlings. Sofie will drive you too hard. Sofie's boundary-pushing is not just professional, it is personal. By the time Alice realizes the rumors may be true, is it too late to wriggle free? And if not, is it worth it to get what she always dreamed of?

Unprecedented Times captures the beauty, frustration, love, and pain that exists in relationships between best friends, between lovers, between mothers and daughters, and between storytellers and themselves. Malavika Kannan’s fresh, arresting novel captures the excitement and the terror of modern young adulthood through the eyes of an unforgettable, flawed, and lovable narrator.

One secret is deadly. The other will heal the world. But which is which? Caught stealing medication for her illegal sister, Yara is forced to participate in RePay — a terrifying TV game show that will determine her sentence. Her only hope for freedom lies in surviving a risky biotechnology trial within the sterile walls of Watch Over Me, where ruthlessly passionate head engineer, Ms Wilding, reveals an unnerving agenda.

The bargain between Laras and Chaos comes to bloody fruition, as their corrupted scions spread across the world, turning the night into a battlefield. Finally, Laras turns his attention to the first step in his revenge against House Tanek: to bring Rian into his dark fold. Rian, however, still has a few cards left to play, forging an uneasy alliance with Narissa, leader of the Magery’s secret police.

Yuki Tanaka is done playing it safe. A young reporter fed up with fluff pieces, she finally lands a real assignment: go undercover and expose the elusive Akira Sato, a powerful underworld figure feared across Tokyo. But the moment Yuki lays eyes on Akira’s file, something shifts. A strange, magnetic pull begins—one she can’t explain and dares not trust.

Following a corporate meltdown, she decides to start fresh in Mistaken Point, a small town known for two things—Mistaken Point University, where she and her best friend, Anastasia Lanes, are now enrolled, and the grisly murders of countless young women. At her new part-time arcade job, Lawrence meets Francesca "Franky" Delores—gritty, off-putting, and chronically serious, as opposite to Lawrence as her name would suggest.

Einst thronte Viva Jones an der Spitze der Tenniswelt, eine gefeierte Grand-Slam-Siegerin mit einer glänzenden Zukunft. Doch ein einziger umstrittener Pfiff und eine folgenschwere Verletzung ließen ihre Träume jäh zerplatzen. Was als kompliziertes Wiedersehen beginnt, entfesselt eine leidenschaftliche Anziehungskraft, die alle ungeschriebenen Gesetze des Profitennis in Frage stellt. Können Viva und Gabriela diese verbotene Liebe riskieren und für ihr Glück alle Regeln brechen?

In the cities and untamed wilds of Ireland, monsters are rising up against Unionists. Luckily. Sam and Hel aren't English. Samantha Harker and Dr. Helena Moriarty might have solved the Paris case, but that doesn't mean the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena trusts them. Sam's power to see into the minds of monsters is a slippery slope to corruption. Worse, Hel's uncanny habit of turning up wherever her notorious father's hand is felt has the Society questioning whether he exists at all . . . or whether it's been Hel all along.

As a favor to their friend Sasha, Daniel and Mal are looking for the husband she fled so she can get a divorce and marry again. Instead of a husband, they find a mystery that could see Daniel charged with murder. It turns out the husband wasn't who he said he was, and anyway he's dead. So who is living in the former marital home, and why is Daniel attacked after they visit? Then one of the people they've talked to is murdered, and the body is dumped on Daniel's doorstep. Daniel is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the local police have him in the frame for the killing.