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As Babbitt grapples with the suffocating monotony of suburban life, societal expectations, and his own unfulfilled desires, Lewis paints a timeless portrait of conformity, materialism, and self-deception. A biting critique of the American Dream, Babbitt explores the search for meaning in a world that seems more obsessed with status than substance.

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity. A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long distance lover, only to find he is not the same...

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.

He sits on a park bench talking to trees, listening carefully for their replies. He digs deeper inside himself, knowing that peace lies beyond the depths. Meanwhile, a woman watches him from afar, enjoying his every step towards realization.

William Randolph Marshall IV, widely regarded as the best plastic surgeon in the world for third-degree burn patients, believes he already has everything he could want in his privileged life: money, women, and the admiration of the medical community. Raised by parents who neither value nor acknowledge emotions, the tycoon can’t see himself in a long-term relationship. For him, physical satisfaction without deep attachment is the ideal arrangement with any partner.

In der Skyline von New York regieren Männer, die an der Spitze stehen – unerreichbar, unantastbar, gewohnt, dass die Welt nach ihren Regeln spielt. Die ultimative Boss-Romance mit Glamour, Drama und einem Hauch Cinderella-Magie.

Elio Rossi is a dream on paper. He's rich, handsome, and head of his family's multi-billion-dollar business. He's also a ruthless Mafia Don and my older brother's best friend. But even that isn't a huge issue to me. No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man. We've been betrothed since childhood. But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident. One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.

Camy has what you'd call a hopelessly in-love soul, so falling for the smooth-talking, laid-back playboy Malik is so easy for her to do. But now, she's faced with the problem of getting him to recognize her true love for him and taking claim of her heart, not just her bed.

Brought to you by Penguin. Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller. It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope...

Daniela Caballero y su hermano Luis viven de pequeñas estafas. Él busca a la víctima perfecta; ella la distrae con su belleza y encanto. Hasta ahora, la fórmula les ha funcionado... hasta que se topan con Bruno del Valle, un reconocido psiquiatra que ve a través del disfraz de inocencia de Daniela. Cuando Bruno descubre el engaño, no la delata. Al contrario, le hace una propuesta inesperada que pondrá a prueba todo lo que ella cree saber sobre el amor, la redención y sí misma.

When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he’s been assigned the case—and he doesn’t like it one bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper—something doesn’t add up.

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."

André Morgan’s life is stuck in a comfortable routine—until Ayana Fénix steps in and turns everything upside down. Vibrant, mysterious, and carrying secrets of elemental magic, Ayana draws André into a world where earth, wind, fire, and water are more than just forces of nature. As the Caribana festival brings Toronto to life, André finds himself torn between the safety of the familiar and the thrill of the unknown. But when magic stirs beneath the surface and danger looms, he’ll have to decide whether to take a leap of faith.

Sandy Eden, a Vietnam survivor turned charismatic barrister, has a taste for bourbon, blues, and the relentless pursuit of justice. Yet he often wonders—for what? The answer is his elixir: live music in Austin, where he and his love, Bev, follow the soulful bass lines of his longtime friend Dude from one club to another. But whiskey and blues can’t satisfy his deeper urge to give bullies their due—an itch born in the chaos of war and sharpened by his legal battles.

Sex bomb Así la guardaba en su móvil. Y es que Estela era una bomba de relojería y Poncho se derretía cada vez que la tenía cerca, por muy diferentes que fueran. Superpijo Así le llamaba. Y con razón. De buena familia, con un piso en la mejor zona de Madrid, un cochazo impresionante y Director General de una gran compañía, Poncho Álvarez era exactamente eso... un pijo arrogante y pagado de sí mismo que coleccionaba mujeres.

Electrifying, sharp, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's first novel, Bonding, is a story of sex, tech, and pharmaceuticals in the tangle of our digital age. This program is read by Ellie Kendrick, best known for roles in the BBC's The Diary of Anne Frank, the 2010's Upstairs Downstairs, and the...

Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century—framed by mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian. It’s 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of...

I ran from my Russian father to escape an arranged marriage and ended up handcuffed to an Italian mafia hitman … in his bed. He’s as intensely beautiful as he is ruthless. A dichotomy of callous yet kind that fascinates me, though I know it shouldn’t. The man’s a killer. But more than that, he suffers from compulsions—a need to control every aspect of his life. And now that I’ve entered his world, I’ve become his ultimate fixation.

De bonde ou a pé, Naziazeno atravessa ruas mergulhado em um estado de angústia existencial. Uma série de desencontros e rejeições reforça o cenário de vulnerabilidades, tanto sociais quanto psicológicas, que servem de motor para o romance. Em 28 capítulos curtos, escritos numa prosa descarnada, acompanhamos a perambulação do pobre homem por uma então provinciana Porto Alegre.

Charles Dickens ist bis heute einer der meistgelesenen Autoren Englands und seine famose Weihnachtsgeschichte läuft Jahr für Jahr in der xten Verfilmungsvariante pünktlich zum Geburtstag von Jesus plus minus 1-3 Tage beim Fernsehsender freier Wahl in den meisten bekannten Sprachregionen dieses Planeten.