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A dazzling literary debut that reimagines The Odyssey and asks what power do we have to control our own fate when destiny feels pre-determined and the systems of the world are broken? Eurick Ulysse is irrevocably trapped: by poverty, by class, and by his immigrant parents’ expectations...

An elderly man has just a month to leave his home. A young woman from his neighborhood is soon to be unhoused. Slowly but surely, the two form an unlikely yet transformational friendship in this warm and funny novel about love and community. Rey, a widower of 10 years, has lived on the same...

Class is back in session! New York Times bestselling authors of The Academy Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham return with The Thoroughbreds September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class—“sixth formers,” in Tiffin-speak—a season of college...

Jack Kelly and Paul Mann have survived one world war – will they survive another? When the Japanese threaten to invade the Pacific, the two men know that they must do everything in their power to protect their adopted country of Papua as well as their loved ones from an ambitious and merciless enemy. Lukas Kelly and Karl Mann are like brothers – just like their fathers – and both are determined to do their part for the Australian cause. While Karl works undercover in espionage, Lukas trains to be a pilot.

Emma bringt den Menschen das zurück, was sie einst verloren haben. Als ihr Chef sie damit beauftragt, den angeblich wertlosen Kram zu entsorgen, nimmt sie die lieb gewonnenen Schätze heimlich mit nach Hause und macht sich auf die Suche nach den Menschen, denen sie einst gehörten. Schnell merkt sie, dass hinter jedem Gegenstand eine Geschichte steckt und dass sie nicht nur die Fundsachen, sondern immer auch all das zurückbringt, was die Besitzer einst verloren haben – Erinnerungen, Träume und manchmal sogar die Hoffnung auf Glück.

On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris. This chance encounter ignites a close friendship between the two Englishmen, one that draws Bradshaw into the seedier quarters of the city. Here, Norris runs a dubious import–export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. Yet there is something sinister about Norris himself. Bradshaw’s new companion is a man of contradictions: heavily in debt but extraordinarily lavish, excessively polite but sexually deviant.

The word still echoes in Wayne’s mind—like a whisper from the dark. That October day never left him. The day the screaming started. The day Bad Arnold took his friends for the abandoned mine. Now, decades later, the past is clawing its way back up from the dirt. If Wayne wants peace, he’ll have to face what waits below.

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year—the first work of fiction to grace the list in fifteen years—a sweeping social novel about an unlikely friendship between two men and a plan that could change the world, unfolding over the first two decades of the...

Ready for her big break after publishing her first novel, Lila Everwood has two fresh book ideas and dreams of quitting her barista job. She’s hopeful about her future—until her writing catches her literary idol’s attention in all the wrong ways. Elizabeth Lancaster, the queen of regency romance, hasn’t written a word in three years. Her publisher’s solution? A ghostwriter. Specifically, her favorite coffee server. It’s either brilliance or madness—and her literary agent son Grady thinks it’s definitely the latter.

Pre-order this twisty psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden. Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself? Eilish Culpepper is a forensic psychologist and studies the minds of murderers every day. But she’s hiding a secret. Ten years ago, when she was a student at St...

Brought to you by Penguin. By the million-copy bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY, a Times bestseller and Time magazine Top 100 title From the three-times nominated author for the Japan Booksellers award: Volume Two of the Marble Cafe series, in which customers...

At Vassar, they were known as "the group"—eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. In the years that follow, they will each know accomplishment and loss in equal measure, pursuing careers and marriage, experiencing the joys and traumas of sexual awakening and motherhood, all while suffering through betrayals, infidelities, and sometimes madness. Some of them will drift apart. Some will play important roles in the personal dramas of others. But it is tragedy that will ultimately unite the group once again.

They're too "gross and nasty" for the shiny superhero leagues, but these mutant kids aren't giving up. Armed with their bizarre powers, they're taking on the "petty" criminals of the city, proving that even rejects can be heroes – and maybe even earn a little respect (or at least the title).

When new neighbors move into a close-knit, cul-de-sac community, they are welcomed into the fold. Julianna, a nervous newlywed, does her best to fit in among the established clutch. Wearing the perfect outfit to holiday gatherings. Bringing the perfect gift to children’s birthday parties. And making the perfect appetizer for barbecues. Perfect, perfect, perfect. But her neighbors soon learn that Julianna’s perfection is an illusion, a painfully sought façade. There is darkness beneath her glossy surface for she was raised in a dangerous cult she escaped from as a teenager.

For fans of Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane, and Simon Scarrow comes a spellbinding tale of adventure and unshakeable friendship from the author of the bestselling Wolf of Corwick Castle Series. If you liked Hadrack of Corwick, you will love Marcus Agrippa!

Adelaide Sinclair is six weeks away from her dream wedding - or so everyone thinks. Hailey Clark is a rule-following, itinerary-wielding maid of honour who'd rather be anywhere but Vegas. Evelyn Sinclair is finally twenty-one and ready to live it up. As secrets unravel and sparks fly, Addy, Hailey and Evie find themselves on unexpected paths of self-discovery, sisterhood, and maybe even love. What happens in Vegas might not stay in Vegas - but it just might change everything.

Becca Burnside finally has life heading in the right direction. She's loving her new job, writing magazine features about being a woman in her forties, her boys are happy, her romance with Conal O'Hagan is blossoming – and for once, she actually feels like she's got it together. But when Conal starts talking about the future, Becca's commitment collywobbles kick in with a vengeance.

Brought to you by Penguin. Three friends at life-changing crossroads . . . Matilda. Living the dream: presenting breakfast TV in Dublin and married to a man with a mega media career in the UK. But when she turns up in their London flat to surprise him for his birthday, it’s she who gets the...

Candice, la trentaine, est une jeune femme comme les autres. Elle travaille comme chargée de communication auprès de Roxane, styliste parisienne reconnue. Mais Candice est perdue. Sa réussite professionnelle, son succès auprès des hommes ne lui évite ni les échecs amoureux humiliants, ni le dénigrement de sa famille. Abandonnée par celui qu'elle aime, Candice sombre. Victime d'un accident de voiture, elle est conduite à l'hôpital. Là, elle fait la connaissance de Maria, une femme plus âgée, à qui elle va confier ses soucis et ses doutes. Une belle amitié se noue entre les deux femmes.

Alex has sworn off straight girls for good. After too many heartbreaks, she's determined to protect herself - even if that means shutting out love completely. But when she reluctantly attends her best friend's bachelorette weekend, Alex meets Lila - smart, gorgeous, and, predictably… straight. Despite her best efforts, Alex can't deny the spark between them.

The brilliant and beautiful new book from the author of Small Joys. A hymn to brotherly love and its transcendent power to heal. To the outside world, Teddy seems to have things sorted. A senior editor at a music magazine before turning 30, he's smart, practical and dependable: the one his...

They had found paradise. What would they do to keep it? With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue - a beautiful yacht with a wandering crew. They spend day after languorous day exploring the pristine, white beaches and swimming beneath the stars, and Lana drifts further away from the long-buried secrets of home. But the tide turns when death creeps quietly on deck.

Brought to you by Penguin. Bridget Jones, the world’s favourite singleton, is back with a bump in the irresistible Sunday Times bestseller – now a major film. 8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not...

**** As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime **** Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh. The three of them set up...

September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious...

On the eve of her wedding to Adam, Lily’s best friend Josh unexpectedly walked out of her life, and she hasn’t seen him since. Lily and Adam are blissfully happy, until he falls ill. As she cares for him in his final hours, Adam asks her to make a mysterious promise: to find Josh—and forgive them both.

Sometimes the biggest success stories aren’t found in boardrooms or bank accounts, but around a shared cup of coffee. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, RaeAnne Thayne, and Debbie Mason. (This is part of the Big Dune Island series but can be read as a standalone.) Chloe Beckett has always...

Freundschaften auf dem Prüfstand. Die Freundschaft zwischen Pat O‘Brian und Finn Murphy wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Ein Mord in Lafayette verursacht heftige Turbulenzen. Pat kann sich dem Geschehen nicht entziehen und wird vor manch schwere Entscheidung gestellt. John beweist, dass die Freundschaft zu Pat und Finn nicht nur ein leeres Wort für ihn ist. Ein Lichtblick für Pat ist das Wiedersehen mit seinem Sohn Sean. Doch wird es ihm gelingen, seine Zuneigung zu gewinnen? Und kann er die Leere, die Britta in seinem Herzen hinterlassen hat, mit einer neue Liebe füllen?

Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters kehrt Alma in ihre Heimatstadt Triest zurück – eine Stadt an der Grenze zwischen Ost und West. Hier begegnet sie Vili wieder, ihrer Jugendliebe, der ihr nun das väterliche Erbe übergeben soll. Zwischen den Erinnerungen an die Habsburger Kaffeehäuser ihrer Großeltern, an endlose Kindheitssommer und die Straße gen Osten, auf der ihr Vater einst immer wieder verschwand, wird Alma mit Fragen nach Herkunft, Liebe und Identität konfrontiert.

After being attacked by a disgruntled parent in the parking lot of the private San Francisco Bay Area high school where she has taught English for the past twelve years, traumatized Chelsea Garden flees to her hometown of Imperial Flats in the Northern California foothills. When Chelsea meets beleaguered principal of Imperial Flats High School, Nora Delgado, the two realize they might have found each other at an essential crossroads. To complicate matters, her former classmate and messy first love, Evan Dawkins, has also recently joined the faculty at IFHS to teach music.