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For listeners of Shark Heart and Hollow Kingdom, a funny, magical, and tender debut novel following a lonely, conflict-averse man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice.

But when the local council announces plans to turn the allotments into luxury housing, Germaine finds herself leading a battle to save the place that has become a sanctuary for fractured souls. Amidst crumbling sheds and overgrown paths, the ragtag band plans protests, forges alliances, and uncovers long-buried secrets.

Gory, sticky, creepy, with a dry humor, Maniac is an invitation into the 80's New York madness, which follows a disreputable man, Frank Zito... that we challenge you to meet!

When Harry Andrews meets Martin Haggerty, two human statues collide in a battle that will transform the Chelmsley High Street into a battlefield of the absurd. What starts as a simple act of jealous sabotage becomes a life-consuming obsession that will push them beyond the limits of dignity, sanity, and the law.

She could have any man she wanted—and she chose him. Roy wasn’t rich, ripped, or reckless—just ready to break. Elise offered her body, her rules… and then begged to surrender them. He tasted power for the first time—and wanted more. Much more.

What can you hide through a window? Annalyse never expected to make a friend through a window, but her talks with the guy who lives next to the bus stop have become a favorite part of her day. But when a sudden schedule change reveals a secret he hadn't meant to share, is there anything she can do to make things right? Or is their window friendship broken beyond repair?

There She is, devastated. Her long-term boyfriend Mike has just walked out on her unceremoniously. A fresh start calling out to her. She decides to take a leap into the unknown. With the throw of a dart determining her fate, she lets go of control. She doesn't really care where the dart lands. As long as it is anywhere other than Denver, Colorado. What's been revealed as her destined new chapter? New York City. The exact opposite of Denver. Doubt and resistance arises and yet she moves forward.

Scherben einer Zerbrochenen Seele ist die schonungslose Geschichte von Richard Bryght, einem angehenden Autor aus Seattle, dessen Träume zu groß für ein einziges Leben erscheinen — er navigiert durch Liebe, Verlust und dem Streben nach künstlerischer Erfüllung. Gequält von einer vergangenen Beziehung und dem geistigen Verfall seiner Mutter durch Alzheimer. Dann bietet sich ihm eine einmalige Chance - sein selbstveröffentlichtes Buch in einen Film zu verwandeln.

This trilogy is a modern reimagining of timeless fairy tales, where love is tested by passion, danger, and the unpredictable forces of fate. Will these couples defy the odds and find their happily ever afters, or will they be consumed by the shadows lurking in the city? Only the strongest hearts will prevail.

Als ihr das Geld ausgeht, nimmt sie einen Job in München an. Als sie drei Frauen kennenlernt, die sich ihren Lifestyle mit zweifelhaften Methoden finanzieren, ist sie fasziniert. Schnell findet Leonie ihr eigenes Geschäftsfeld: Menschen mit frisch gebrochenem Herzen bezahlen sie für raffinierte Racheaktionen. Doch nach einer Weile kommen ihr Zweifel: Wie viel Geld braucht man wirklich für ein gutes Leben? Und wie viel Risiko ist sie bereit, dafür einzugehen?

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

Yakov Gagarin was Bratva royalty. A ruthless tactician. A man built to destroy. Until the day it all went wrong—and the syndicate locked him in a cage. Dr. Mila Agapova is the one assigned to fix him. But Yakov doesn’t want fixing. He wants her. Sharp-tongued, unshakable, utterly off-limits—She’s everything he shouldn’t touch. But obsession doesn’t care about boundaries. And Yakov has never been a man who plays by the rules.

At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.

Younes veut croire en sa dernière chance. À vingt-trois ans, il sort de prison. Sa libération anticipée est assortie d'un placement sous surveillance électronique : chaque soir, après le travail, il devra rentrer à Berlioz, la cité de son enfance. Il reprend aussitôt du service comme coursier-moto chez Panam'Expres, où il s'apprête à revoir Serge, son meilleur ami. Ils ont grandi sur la même dalle de béton. Ont fait ensemble les quatre cents coups. Et, malgré le fossé qui se creusait entre les communautés, ils sont restés fidèles l'un à l'autre.

Den 16. juni 1904 vandrer Leopold Bloom rundt i Dublins gader, imens hans kone Molly morer sig på kryds og tværs med andre mænd hjemme i ægtesengen. Leopold Bloom er blevet gjort til en ufrivillig hanrej, og hvad andet kan han gøre end at lade sine skosåler slide af vejen, blive ydmyget mellem husmure og på beværtninger og gemme sig i den ene erindring efter den anden efterhånden som de dukker op i Dublins våde tåge. Leopold Bloom er det 20. århundredes Odysseus, men i modsætning til Homers antikke krigerhelt, er Bloom en moderne antihelt.

Jess is an Instafamous book blogger whose career is going from strength to strength, but she secretly harbours dreams of becoming a full-time novelist. Once a literary darling, former bestselling author Alex hasn't written a hit in years. With his final contracted book deadline looming and his creativity at an all-time low, he's on the brink of becoming yesterday's news. Both are stubborn and used to working alone, in exactly their own way – so, when they are coerced into writing together to try and fulfil both their bookish dreams, what could possibly go wrong?

The unmissable new novel of friendship and obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global bestselling sensation Butter.

Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and status. While he has little capacity to accurately assess his own abilities or prospects, he cruises through life on the sheer force of his own sense of entitlement, dropping out of college and landing in the early '90s in New York City, a place brimming with both prosperity and desperation.

Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928...

Un homme d'affaires en voyage s'installe dans une autre chambre de motel. Celle-ci est exactement comme toutes les autres. Les mêmes rideaux fades. Le même papier peint décoloré. La même odeur de renfermé. Alors que le monde poursuit sa course à l'extérieur de la porte du motel, il évalue sa carrière et sa vie, se demandant: "Où suis-je ?"