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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.

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime - a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics - whom he swipes from his company's sales department.

New York Times Bestseller “Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn’t mean you have to be one. Mark Manson’s book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more needed right now.” — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and...

Choose from over 20 possible endings in this Pick Your Poison Adventure story! You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent, and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party . . . at an isolated mansion way out on Peyton's...

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

A short satirical thriller from bestselling author Freida McFadden. 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...

Hit Job follows Brynn Morris (Palmer), an aspiring artist desperate for a job to help her ailing grandmother.

お江戸は本所亀沢町にある貧乏長屋。万造、松吉の「万松」コンビを筆頭に、左官の八五郎・お里夫婦や後家女のお染、浪人の島田鉄斎ら個性的な面々が住んでいる。

Worcestershire, 1987: When cash-strapped Vale Television, the smallest station on the ITV network, goes bust, Victoria Bloom sees her career come to a crashing halt. Forty years later, happily retired, Vicky reminisces with her granddaughter as they watch a show she once worked on, now repeated on a nostalgia TV channel. Later, when a stranger offers her the chance to revisit the past, Vicky returns to the start of the year when it all went wrong.

Since their first trip to the beach, Masachika, Alya, and their friends have been through a lot together. From fiery debates and competing against rivals at the school festival to celebrating birthdays and revealing secrets—you think you’ve seen it all. These short stories offer a look...

The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times and global bestselling phenomenon, The Love Hypothesis. Olive Smith finally has her PhD, and she's living her happy ever after. Well, not quite her ever after, since postdoctoral fellowships are temporary by nature, but she doesn't mind...

Une mort annoncée. Une vérité reléguée en note de bas de page. Une bureaucratie en pleine panique. Decimus Flaccus n’était qu’un simple scribe. Discret, consciencieux et presque parfaitement oubliable… jusqu’au jour où il surprend par hasard un complot visant à assassiner Jules César. Le voilà désormais obligé de jongler avec des prophéties égarées, des augures corruptibles, une blanchisseuse particulièrement explosive et le secret le moins bien gardé de Rome. Sa mission ? Rédiger un rapport. Son plan ? Passer inaperçu. Son erreur ? Dire la vérité.

Small Pond, a new Fourth Estate book, full description to follow when available...

Becky Brandon (født Bloomwood) er ankommet til Hollywood!! Det er, som om hele hendes liv har ledt op til dette øjeblik. Hun skal hænge ud med de største stjerner - eller det kommer hun til, når hun endelig skal møde filmstjernen Sage Seymour, som hendes mand Luke skal være manager for...

Emma Reed vågner en morgen med et one-night stand ved sin side og indser panisk, at hun er sent på den til sin første arbejdsdag. Som om det ikke var nok, så overser en eller anden idiot rødt lys og kører direkte ind i hendes bil. Med nød og næppe når hun frem til tiden og møder sin...

A children’s party. A disputed teddy bear. An astonishing shortage of grown-up behavior. When little Ede Andros grabs another child’s toy at a suburban gathering, a small scuffle becomes a very adult affair. Wounded pride fuels sharp remarks, neighborly smiles give way to insults, and two...

Four authors. Four terrifying visions. One unforgettable descent into darkness. Enter a world of demons, possession, forbidden occult practices, and bloodthirsty werewolves in this chilling horror anthology featuring stories from four talented authors. Brought to life with dramatic narration...

Sleuths Book 2, a new Avon book, full description to follow when available...

Go ahead. Put on your pajamas, curl up next to the fireplace with a warm cup of cocoa and prepare for a nostalgic trip down memory lane .... but not with this book! THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AND FALL OF B.B. WOLFE is NOT the fairy tales of your childhood! While the names and faces may seem familiar, their personalities are not. Dreamed up under the light of the waning Flower Blue Moon, each character sprang to life, their thoughts, hopes and foibles delivered without mercy but with a touch of spicy innuendo and deadpan humor.

Told through the voice of Tommy Colozzo, Time Capsules is a humorous yetharrowing and imaginative depiction of a young boy struggling to find hisplace within his family, school, and the workplace. Beginning in the 1980sand spanning five decades, Time Capsules speaks to audiences of all ages. Easily distracted and often seeking dopamine boosts in the thrills of risktaking,Tommy listens to the guidance of an intrusive Voice residing in hismind. As he grows up, the Voice evolves just as his antics do.