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Qui est le vice-consul de Lahore ? Pourquoi a-t-il tiré de son balcon dans la direction des jardins de Shalimar où se réfugient les lépreux et les chiens ? Quel étrange attrait exerce sur lui Anne-Marie Stretter, ambassadrice à Calcutta ? Quelle est l'histoire de cette mendiante folle qui berce la rue de ses chants ? Un roman de l'extrême misère : celle de l'Inde, mais aussi et surtout celle du cœur.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior...

A New York Times Notable Book "Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time...

Jane Austen skewers the novelistic extremes of her day made popular in many 18th-century Gothic potboilers. Dilapidated castles, locked rooms, inexplicable chests, enigmatic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly sardonic twist.

Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness. ("If the shoe fits, get another just like it." "When you sneeze, all the numbers in your head go up by one.") Napalm & Silly Putty is just what his fans have been waiting for—another generous helping of notions, nonsense, assertions, assumptions, mockery, merriment, silliness, sarcasm, and, to be sure, plenty of disturbing references and toxic alienation.

Bro-Code Law 676: You never - under any circumstances - get involved with your best friend's little sister. I messed up - big-time. Two strangers in a foreign country, we said hello. Hello turned into a kiss. A kiss turned into a rendezvous. And a rendezvous turned into more than I'd ever imagined. But her unruly golden curls and beautiful body hid an important detail - he's my mouthiest billionaire best friend's forbidden little sister.

SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY AND THOMASIN MCKENZIE Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Oprah Daily, Reader's Digest, Polygon, and Paste “Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh out loud funny, Victorian Psycho speaks profoundly of horror both within and...

“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody’s happy.” In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need...

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. Joseph Heller revisits the unforgettable characters of Catch-22, now facing the twilight of their lives and the end of the century. The generation that fought in World War II—Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, along...

Aaron Rogers is a former two time IFL MVP who’s in a bit of a rut. He has been bounced around the league after legal issues, league wide suspension and his play becoming despicable at best. Ending up living a life of a loser. An assistant coach from the Bismarck Thunderbirds, Dom Capers, ends up seeing Aaron’s arm throwing lobs from his house. He gets pressed to find the gift he’s been given. The Thunderbirds are lacking a quarterback because of the league wide lockout, shortening the season and restricting the star players that could be picked up.

Gareth Bull has a problem. His brain, despite its good intentions, refuses to cooperate with the simplest goals: get up early, eat less junk, avoid pointless arguments, stop obsessively checking emails at midnight. Trapped in a tug-of-war between prehistoric instincts and modern expectations, Gareth finds himself endlessly sabotaged by the same irrational thoughts, awkward impulses and late-night snack decisions. As he lurches through a world of social dread, petty competitiveness and grand plans destined to fail, he begins to wonder if his mind is working against him entirely.

Danielle adopted a cat because the shelter photo made him look dignified and low-maintenance. Two weeks later, he told her, without preamble, that her date was going to cancel.He was right.Winston is blunt, unbothered, and always — infuriatingly — correct. He vets her dating app matches with...

When the trucks stop rolling, a retired pharmacist knows what comes next.Marty has spent forty years behind a pharmacy counter and a lifetime preparing for the day the official story falls apart. So when a virus out of Wuhan empties the roads and the airwaves fill with round-the-clock panic, he...

Megan Hamilton has a perfectly ordinary life.She works at a bookstore in Myrtle Beach, has a small circle of friends, and shares her apartment with Monty—a friendly black cat with three white hairs on his chest, an appetite for trouble, and absolutely no respect for personal property.Then one...

My entire life is a mess. My ex cheated. My job sucks. And my apartment smells like old takeout and despair. Enter: a 3 A.M. infomercial promising the Scrubbie Dubbie will change my life. Desperate and half-delirious, I order it. The next day, a sponge arrives—hot pink, dual-textured, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through seven countries, several spectacular wrong turns, and one very memorable safari. Now they’ve landed in Hawaii, where the ocean is blue beyond description, the volcanoes are alive, and—for once—nobody has a plan...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through ten countries, but Australia is about to turn their world upside down—quite literally. After leaving rainy London, Jen, Doug, Bev, Madison, and Max arrive in a Sydney summer so hot that their winter clothes become a...

A group of six Filipina New Yorkers—self-described “Third World witches” who grew up with fascists, goons, and torture apologists—find themselves entangled in a high-profile murder investigation. At a West Village restaurant after Trump’s first election, six friends gather to eat...