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The cocaine export business has a new player, Hector de Oliveira—a highborn Brazilian aristocrat with an eye for new markets. When profits fall in Latin America, de Oliveira eyes a new frontier. In Australia, advertising mogul Frank Quinlivan has built a successful business empire, a beautiful life, a young wife, and a yacht. Being a player in the world of high-stakes business is challenging enough—until… A missing shipment sends Oliveira’s flawless drug smuggling operation off Sydney’s coast into chaos. Enter Quinlivan.

How far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home? 'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision. Public Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel' KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time 'Jane...

Thirteen stories. Plenty of laughs. A few surprises. And more than one twist you won't see coming. Welcome to Once Upon a Time, a collection of entertaining short stories for adults and grown-up children where ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary situations, family arguments take...

A farce, a short story revolving around the mysterious death in a nursing home, beginning with a growing sourdough starter left on the kitchen counter and a bizarre blue horse inside a British phone booth...

מכללת קורבין, לא־ממש־צפון מדינת ניו יורק, חורף 1959–1960: רוּבֶּן בלום, היסטוריון יהודי – אך לא היסטוריון של היהודים – מצורף לוועדה הבוחנת את מועמדותו של חוקר ישראלי...

ד'ר גארין, גבר נאה ורופא נמרץ, מוכרח להגיע לכפר מרוחק שמגפה מסוכנת מכה בו, כדי לשים לה קץ בעזרת החיסון שבידו. אבל בחוץ משתוללת סופה, ובלית ברירה הוא עולה על מגלשת שלג...

Sue, her husband, Luke, and their children, Caroline and Wheatley, present as a picture-perfect family living the American dream of ascendancy and affluence in their Brooklyn neighborhood. They purchase a brownstone at auction on a coveted tree-lined street with the intention of renovating it and moving in.

From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A...

The world's most intelligent and well-read dog, the famously mute Gromit, finally breaks his silence, presenting his memoir to Nick Park, the four-time Academy...

"A funny, horribly accurate portrait of a life in California in the Fifties."—Rolling Stone Jack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law Charlie, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his...

‘I could not put it down’ MADELINE CASH ‘Brilliant and enchanting’ NATHAN HILL ‘So full of life’ NEW YORK TIMES From the acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding comes a deeply felt story of friendship, art, love and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change...

At a sumptuous family wedding, two former friends rediscover their own love story and the lies that tore them apart in a chaotic and swoony second-chance romance by the author of Yours for the Season. Toronto attorney Dina Haq is looking forward to her influencer sister’s lavish South Asian...

During World War II, the Jewish people developed an intense cultural activity in concentration camps, extermination camps, and ghettos. Theater, music, cabaret, and opera were the pillars of the spiritual resistance that enabled their survival. This book is dedicated to Jewish humor and cabaret...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a collection of one short story by Oscar Wilde, performed by an AI voice. The title story is a witty, darkly comic tale about fate, duty, and the lengths a person may go to in order to escape a prophecy. Set amid the...

For seven years, HellTV has watched Lucian Voss work. The frightening part is that Hell never taught him how. Eighteen years on one perfect scheme: his father's empire, taken without force, without theft, without ever raising his voice. When the old man goes down on his own boardroom floor...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beyond a remote mountain range lies Erewhon, a mysterious land where the rules of society are unlike anything the outside world has ever known. When a curious young traveler discovers this isolated civilization, he encounters a world of astonishing...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm is a single short story presented here as a complete audiobook in English, narrated by an AI voice. It is a witty literary fantasy about ambition, reputation, and the longing to outlive one's own obscurity. The story follows...

Precedents in Piperock by W. C. Tuttle is a hilarious classic Western short story packed with cowboy humor, outrageous pranks, and small-town chaos. When Sheriff Magpie Simpkins attempts to organize a peaceful Fourth of July celebration, a runaway balloon, a disastrous baseball game, and the...

فنّانٌ جوّالٌ، وممثّلٌ، ومُغنٍّ، وبهلوانٌ، ومُهرّجٌ، ومُستفزٌّ، وغامضٌ، ومتمرّدٌ، ولمصافحته أثرٌ كملمس الشيطان، وابتسامته تشقّ الغيوم، يراقبك دائماً، ولا...

‘I’m a seventy-three-year-old woman, Tristan; I am practically invisible. I’m exactly the sort of person you need to pull off this caper. Oh my God, I can’t believe I just used the word “caper” in a sentence referring to myself!’ Tristan Barclay, art historian, minor TV celebrity...