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Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there’s the devil herself: Jane’s senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

Was, wenn das größte Abenteuer deines Lebens mit einer Lüge beginnt? Laura Babler plant gern. Am liebsten alles. Doch dann muss sie allein quer durch Deutschland fahren, zu ihrer eigenen Hochzeit, mit feuchten Händen am Lenkrad und einem großen Bogen um jede Autobahnauffahrt. Und dann springt ihr Sir Cat vors Auto. Ein theatralischer, struppiger schwarzer Kater auf einem persönlichen Rachefeldzug bringt ihre Reise zum Entgleisen, bevor sie überhaupt richtig begonnen hat.

Fresh off a sentence for a murder she didn't commit (this time), retired serial killer Carol Quinn investigates a murder in the likeliest of places...a wedding. Things are unexpectedly lively for the residents of Sheldon Oaks retirement home. Carol's been wrongfully convicted and is back in...

In an alternate America, JFK survived—and didn’t just win the Space Race. He never stopped. Now it’s 1972, and JFK’s ever-expanding space empire is ripping holes in space-time itself—erasing people, places, and entire histories from existence. The only ones who might be able to stop him? Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne), a former moon nurse lying low in Hoboken, New Jersey… and Richard Nixon, tangled in a conspiracy so bizarre it stretches from the Moon to a Shakey’s Pizza to a parallel-universe Watergate.

‘I am for women who are not done. Who are never done.’ Meet Punch Tillis. 2027’s most formidable heroine. Punch Tillis, a one-time homemaking icon who inspired women to embrace independence, ambition and self-belief - before she lost everything in disastrous circumstances - is now a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the Unified Human-Supernatural Territories, survival comes down to a single number on your wristband: your Human Score. Fail to blend in, fail to act human, and the system eliminates you. Enter Mira Thornfield, a Licensed Supernatural Integration...

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

Belfast 1990. The Troubles. Murder, identity and … biscuits. Everyone knows who they are and what side they are on. Or do they? Harry Burnard and The Squad are back looking for new criminal cases to work. They are not allowed to work terrorist cases, only crime. But there is no crime. Only terrorism.

Bloomsbury presents The Room of the Dead by M.R.C. Kasasian, read by Emma Gregory A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off...

Was haben ein angehender Burnout-Coach, ein Arbeitsloser und ein Pizzabäcker gemeinsam? Nicht viel – bis die drei beschließen, dem großen Mafioso der Stadt die Stirn zu bieten. Natürlich bleibt das nicht ohne Folgen. Sie erregen die Aufmerksamkeit von Frankie Corleone und geraten ins Visier von Kommissar Jago.

Sometimes love can be where you least expect it. You just have to put down your phone. Fran Tatlin has monetised her love life. By day, she wrangles content at viral media giant Viral Hive. By night, she's the anonymous voice behind "Swipe Right", a brutally honest dating column detailing all the perils of London's online dating scene.

A comedy of ambition, dreams, blackmail and daytime TV… Bella’s career as a TV presenter is ‘on hold’. To fill her days, she sits in a coffee shop and obsesses about a wedding dress in the neighbouring shop. Her luck changes when she gets the call from her old boss to present a pilot for...

増強された呪術の力で、次こそは現代人たちを呪い殺す……つもりが、またしても幸せにしてしまう!? 笑いと涙と怒濤の伏線回収に翻弄される、シリーズ第2弾！ お梅、ぱわああっぷ!!!!

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She's a financial journalist who spends all day writing articles on how to manage money wisely. Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and hope they'll disappear. Becky just can't stop shopping. She knows she has to do something: either Cut Back or Make More Money. Except Cutting Back seems impossible, and her attempts to Make More Money just get her into trouble. Her bank manager is sending her sterner and sterner letters, her credit cards are being declined, her Mum and Dad have no idea… what is she going to do?

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.

15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing.

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby...

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