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It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second-rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat, but...

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family. Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award...

"Angela Dawe's narration makes YA author Elle Cosimano's debut novel for grown-ups a wild and funny romp...Dawe offers Cosimano's laugh-out-loud moments with just the right sparkle." -- AudioFile Magazine IT’S MURDER BEING A HIT-MOM "Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole...

From Nico Walker, author of the New York Times bestseller Cherry, an extraordinary riches-to-rags novel about the circus, love, and a clown on a downward spiral Professional clown Eugene Lovecraft is once again down on his luck. Falling in love with the boss’s girl, Jackie, at his new carnival...

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality.

Kay Brazen used to be famous. Don't ask her what for, you won't hear the end of it—but not anymore. After being evicted from her penthouse apartment and being forgotten by all who previously loved her, she embarks on a series on confrontations with those who she's wronged (or wronged her), with increasingly hilarious and explosive results.

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A haunting, darkly funny novel about sisterhood, grief and the strange rituals we create to survive loss. Bee, a young mother, is stuck in limbo at her parents' rural Irish home long after the pandemic has ended. Unable to return to her life in London, she begins attending strangers' funerals, a...

An amateur herpetologist gets swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards, a dental hygienist takes a doomed trip to see a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk, a gruesome gag gift becomes the subject of morbid fascination for a grieving woman who can't stop sleeping with her...

Can three women of a certain age get the sex they want without blowing up their lives? Lila, a therapist with a long-buried secret, is about to join a sex club with her husband. Her friend Catherine, a divorced housewife who has never understood the point of sex, is dating for the first time in decades, never thinking that a girlfriend might be in her future. And Miriam, a medical actor fed up with her philandering husband, has decided to have an affair with Kevin, a much younger waiter at the three friends' favorite restaurant.

Lezi McGyver: Dos Sex Machina is a hilariously unhinged, sex-positive fever dream about a genius inventor put on trial by her own subconscious. Featuring sentient gadgets, a cartoon courtroom, and the uncomfortable question of why it’s easier to fix everyone else than yourself. Equal parts absurd comedy and emotional gut-punch.

An informant in hiding. Killers on a mission. This is the perfect time for cupcakes. Sterling Carter lives in Wandering Springs, a small Washington town on the Canadian border. During the day, Sterling toils in a local bakery, learning a new craft. In his free time, he reads mystery novels, listens to his favorite music, and plays with his cat.

Tedd hat vierundzwanzig Stunden, um die Menschheit zu retten. Die Menschheit hätte lieber jemand anderen. Die Atomraketen wurden bereits abgefeuert, die Welt geht bereits unter, und irgendwie ist das nicht einmal das größte Problem des Tages.

Janet, a final girl in an 80's slasher movie comes in to the real world and is a fish out of water. She is chased by her serial killer brother. It's Scary Movie meets Halloween. It's Scary Movie meets Halloween.

Ausgerechnet an Silvester muss der aufgekratzte Ex-Bürgermeister dem Eberhofer ins Telefon plärren. Schüsse will er gehört haben, und nein, ein Irrtum sei da ausgeschlossen. Bis ein paar Tage später tatsächlich eine Leiche aus dem Mühlsee gezogen wird. Herrschaftszeiten, eigentlich hat der Franz mit der Susi-Maus und den neuesten Fleischpflanzerl-Spinnereien vom Simmerl genug zu tun.

Angels of the Great Plains Motel is the story of what happens over two tumultuous weeks at a motel, restaurant, and nightclub in a small town in the upper Midwest. In the fall of 1975, America is in something like the half-slumber of a Saturday afternoon nap after a rough week. Leisure suits are everywhere, even on “The Tonight Show.” Gerald Ford is caretaker-in-chief of the White House. Olivia Newton-John warbles “Have You Never Been Mellow” and Glen Campbell belts out “Rhinestone Cowboy” on pop and country radio stations.

A witty and sharp-tongued novel about a writer and actress who finally comes to write the manuscript that is thirty-seven years overdue – for fans of We All Want Impossible Things and The Correspondent. Maria Astorini, once late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress...

She needs a toy maker. He needs a wife. The only problem? It's giving alarm bells instead of sleigh bells… Cora Quill’s Winter Wonderland festival is the gold standard of holiday magic, until her toy supplier implodes. Her only hope? Nick Bari—the infuriatingly hot but grumpy toymaker she...

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