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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Matt Bomer's heart-rending narration in this new audiobook edition offers a fresh and poignant listening experience of Hanya Yanagihara's timeless modern classic. Perfect if you're an A Little Life fan or a new listener. 'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought...

“An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The Guardian Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker...

His days were spent running a multi-million-dollar software company and being a single father to his nine-year-old autistic daughter. Love wasn't on his mind. Love wasn't in his plans. Love was an afterthought… until he met his new nanny. Could the new nanny be the one to defrost his frigid heart? Life hadn't been kind to Onyx Score. In the blink of an eye, she lost everything she had worked hard for. Determined to figure it out on her own, she returned to her hometown of Ravenstone Creek to start over again. Love wasn't in her plans. Love was a distraction she didn't need.

¿Embarazada? ¡¿Cómo era posible?! Sí…, aquello era una pregunta retórica. Lindsay Madock tenía marcado a fuego en la memoria cómo y… con quién. El verdadero problema era otro: un bebé es cosa de dos y él… no tenía motivos ni para sospechar. Por desgracia, la gala centrada en la...

A 22 tale collection. Dark, introspective, grimy, urban, strange. “Like a puddle of blood in a back alley of New York City that whispers to you of what could have been via a static-slathered Bluetooth connection…” Art by Soren Häxan and Rachel...

Tonight is the night they auction off the Winter Alphas. And I’ve got my eyes on Declan WolfeThe #1 esports player at Knotlocke Academy. He’s also my stepbrother. I shouldn’t be fantasizing about what those big hands could do to me. Or the way he’d make me hurt so deliciously. But I’ve saved up for this moment. He’s all mine. I just hope I'm also his.

Liam always believed that his love for Kami could withstand any obstacle. But a shocking message threatens to unravel their lives, forcing them to confront hidden truths and the fragility of their relationship.

Quand la douceur du matcha apaise les blessures de l’âme… À Montmartre, Étienne, papa solo de jumeaux, tient une pharmacie de quartier pas comme les autres. Persuadé que la parole guérit autant que les médicaments, il propose aux habitués comme aux clients de passage de discuter...

This complete bundle brings together Books 1 and 2 of the Slave Pimp Saga in one powerful audiobook experience. In The Slave Pimp: Legend of Billy Mic, follow Billy Mic as he rises through chaos, survival, and power in a brutal and unpredictable world. His journey pushes him beyond limits, uncovering forces and abilities that begin to reshape his destiny. In The Slave Pimp 2: Return of the Mac, a new force takes center stage. Mac Sleazy emerges with his own mindset, ambition, and presence, bringing a different kind of power into the story.

Before they were the Real Housewives of Memphis, they were just five girls from Orange Mound trying to survive, dream, and find themselves in the streets of early 2000s Memphis Meet Shyanna, Jenna (Juice), Veronica, Shelby, and Juanita, five best friends who are trying to figure it out post high school, bound by loyalty, secrets, and struggle. Life in the Mound isn’t easy. Every choice has a consequence, every dream comes with a price, and every girl is fighting for a future bigger than what the hood has planned for her.

A Bed of Roses — Reloaded is not a dystopia and not a thriller—though it borrows the grammar of both. It is an audiobook about how modern power actually works: quietly, procedurally, without spectacle—and what happens when someone stops moving at the speed it expects.

Uma charmosa pousada no interior da Islândia está à sua espera para uma temporada de amor, aconchego na frente da lareira e toda a exuberância da Aurora Boreal. A jovem Lucy Smart está passando por um momento delicado. Acabou de sofrer uma decepção amorosa que se transformou, ao mesmo tempo, em uma desilusão profissional. Com o coração e a carreira em frangalhos, ela precisa se afastar da vida que tem em Bath, no interior da Inglaterra. Por isso, agarra com unhas e dentes a única oportunidade de emprego que consegue: uma vaga de gerente na pousada Aurora Boreal, na Islândia.

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.

The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series. **Pre-order Before I knew I loved you, the new book in the series, now!** What would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? Toshikazu...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'With Sisters in Yellow, [Kawakami] proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today' The Times 'Relentlessly riveting . . . My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always' Frances Cha, author of If I had Your Face...

From Rhonda Byrne, creator of the international bestselling movie and book, The Secret, comes Hero, her latest world-changing self-help project and the most important to date in the New Age and spirituality movement. FROM ZERO TO HERO...YOUR SECRET STEP-BY-STEP MAP TO A RICH LIFE. What is your...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

1594, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Within the walls and without, unease and uncertainty lurk beneath the noise and bustle of a smoky, teeming city. Matthew Cutler, newly widowed and caring for two spirited daughters, takes his position as constable for the parish of Spitalfields very seriously. So when Paulo Brisco, a quiet Venetian perfumer is found brutally murdered in his own shop, Cutler throws himself into his first major crime, and one which threatens to set all Bishopsgate alight.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock, Fleabag and Black Mirror, also known for his on-stage roles in Present Laughter and Hamlet. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce's first major work, written when...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ ELLE ‘Deliciously satisfying’ iPAPER ‘Enjoyable and addictive’ INDEPENDENT ‘Fantastically dark’ ERIN KELLY The thrilling new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the...

Read by Oscar, Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, Wicked Little Letters), and featuring an exclusive audio Q&A. 'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' - The Times 'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely...

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them. Set again in the beloved Japanese...

The Last Leaf is a short story by O. Henry published in his 1907 collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. The story first appeared on October 15, 1905, in the New York World. The scene of the story of The Last Leaf is the Greenwich artist colony in New York City. Over the past century, it has developed from a poor literati settlement to a world-famous art center and tourist attraction.

The second book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would...

Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married housewife, and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju - they all have disappointments in their past.

In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crowd the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; when a customer arrives, the owner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter.