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Set during a doom-fated vacation to the Oregon coast, The Disappointment follows a couple trying to hold close to one another while a bent reality—warped by personal losses and an ever-increasing drift toward the surreal—threatens to unravel them It’s the night before a much-needed...

A dark, provocative, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction “Might be the most-anticipated debut novel of the year thanks in part to its perfect-for-Hollywood premise.”—Esquire “A...

Welcome to Pay to Stay, Los Angeles’s premier minimum-security facility where the privileged serve time Friday to Monday only. But this New Year’s weekend, seven inmates—including a driven campaign manager, a disgraced nurse, a party girl, and one mysterious male transfer—discover their abusive guard dead, wrapped in an ironic “Community Payback” vest. Now they must solve his murder before their cushy arrangement becomes a permanent stay in maximum security.

Brought to you by Penguin. Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it’s actually quite tricky... An electrifying, ultra-contemporary heist, a wild and hilarious story that is also dangerously prescient. When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian...

She needs nothing short of a miracle . . . Sister Agatha lies on her deathbed. But as she takes her final breath, the 124–year–old nun experiences a vision. At the Pearly Gates, St Peter will only allow her entry into heaven if she can atone for her past wrongdoings. And so, the Irish nun is...

Campground manager Kate returns in this supernatural, campy, funny horror tale filled with mysterious monsters and spine-chilling encounters – perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Welcome to Night Vale and You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight. Every year, Goat Valley Campground manager Kate sends...

A piercing satire about a journalist working the night shift at a tabloid and the explosive consequences of her “harmless” clickbait. Washed-up New York journalist Frankie Miller is getting desperate. Since the twenty-nine-year-old lost her dream job at a glossy magazine three months ago...

ONE NEEDS A STORY. THE OTHER IS THE STORY. THE FALLOUT COULD RUIN THEM BOTH. No story sells faster than a celebrity's downfall. . . Washed-up journalist Frankie Miller is desperate. Since losing her dream job at a glossy magazine, she's been drowning in rejection letters and overdue bills while...

From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years...

I've always known I was different. My name is Seven Grey, and I hang out with dead people. Yes, Seven like the number, and yes… literal dead people. I'm the only mortician in a small town tucked away in backwoods Maine, and I've known this was my dream job since the day they asked us on our first day of Kindergarten. I know who I am, and I don't apologize for it. Death is just different for me, which is why my second job works even better than my first. They call me "The Cleaning Lady".

One of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring” David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us. Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and...

When a middle-aged widowed loses her job at the butcher shop, she’s at a loss as to how to provide for her family—until she’s offered a position that puts her carving skills to new uses in this darkly humorous bestselling Korean thriller. Mrs. Shim needs money. She’s lost her husband and...

A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?... I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once plain-in-appearance as a woman, now ugly as a man...

He lived fast, he loved recklessly and every mistake was made at full throttle. When a pilot with a taste for danger and strip-club nightlife thinks he’s untouchable, the universe reminds him just how far a man can fall. Smoke in the cockpit. A marriage collapsing at the airport. Betrayal. Burned bridges. Scorched earth. And a past full of wounds he pretended didn’t exist.

Brought to you by Penguin. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to...

Steffie spends her days working in a dry-cleaner’s, trying to scrub the world clean one garment at a time. But no matter how spotless the clothes, she can’t rid herself of the guilt and grime she feels inside. Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, large fragments of which she can’t fully remember, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self-destruction, defiance, and shame.

The graduating class of Bishop Carlbus Prep has a secret. The Outing Party is a tradition at Bishop Carlbus, a semi-illicit party hosted by a senior student after the annual Outing, a weekend field trip taken by the graduating class every year. In 1995, Amy Keaton is determined to host a legendary Outing Party, but everything goes wrong.

Criminal defense lawyer Björn Diemel has been given an ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife will leave him—and take their daughter. He reluctantly starts a mindfulness course, and to his surprise, it’s a revelation. He becomes calmer, happier, and more focused as he starts to understand what’s really important in life. When his worst client, brutal kingpin Dragan Sergowicz, tries to interfere with his precious family time, Björn will stop at nothing—not even killing—to protect his peace.

Take a hilarious journey into the wonderful out of this world haunts of ghosts relaxing in their own fantastic crypts. We all know that ghosts can be scary, very frightening OR they can be fun in the right mood. These ghosts have all got together for parties to chat about how life was like when they were, well, alive. This audiobook contains four different books of their tales ranging from playful revenge to the confessions of the people who hear confessions as part of their earthly existence.come what may, these are all funny stories designed to share laughter.

Like most women, 46-year old hyper-competent tech CEO Ellie's already juggling too much. She’s got a promotion coming up and it’s an inconvenient time to be beset by mid-life symptoms: coarse hair in new places, hot flushes, insomnia, losing time, finding bloodstains on all her clothing, howling at the moon. Her doctor diagnoses perimenopause. But it's another 28-day cycle that's taking hold. One involving fur, and teeth, and a not insignificant amount of rage. Suddenly the troubles in her life...