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Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks who made up the Factory milieu.

Venice, California. 2014. Ryan Wilson, a once hopeful aspiring screenwriter is transitioning to hopelessness. The clock, the bank, the zodiac—they all point toward the exit door of this creative dream. Hapless and broke at 31-years-old, he finds himself one more sandbag for the hourglass, taking a job coaching middle school lacrosse in the affluent neighborhood of Brentwood. In a town and entertainment industry built on connections, a pool of wealthy parents is a great place to look for a guy with everything to gain.

The Bobbie Lamont Series continues in this newest addition. It was August of 1990 and Bobbie Lamont had arrived in New York City. She is ready to begin her new job as an associate editor at Black Springs Press and wants her past behind her. She soon realizes even though she has moved a thousand miles away from her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana, she can’t escape her past or her memories.

Tirso es un escritor de éxito de novela negra que quiere terminar un libro de cuentos infantiles antes de quitarse la vida. Mérida es una guía turística de la casa Sorolla a la que su compañera de piso le ha trastocado los planes por completo. Guzmán es un consultor señalado en mitad de una huelga a la que no quería acudir y empujado por su jefe a una propuesta que no puede rechazar. Coral es una periodista frustrada que quiere cambiar de vida antes de que su mejor amiga dé a luz. Y Ovidio necesita salvar su productora audiovisual mientras mantiene una relación con su gestor heterocurioso.

When San Remo County Acting Sheriff Buddy Steel is deputized by the California Coastal Commission to investigate a reclusive Russian billionaire who has repeatedly violated state law by obstructing public access to his vast beachfront property, he makes a shocking discovery. This makes Buddy, a former LAPD cop dragged home by his Sheriff father's ALS diagnosis to "temporarily" head the department, dig in his heels and face down the Russian's imported goon squad.

Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother’s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they’re pretty happy… But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.

After years behind bars, Alex is finally free and determined to go straight. No more trouble, no more deals—just a clean slate for him and his family and a legit life running his old pub. But the streets don’t forget, and neither do old enemies. Coming home isn’t the reunion he hoped for. With his daughter Deana missing, Alex discovers the kids have dragged the wrong kind of trouble to his doorstep. A turf war is brewing and for the first time in his life, Alex is on the losing side.

Mistake #1: One scorching night with Jacob Walker, Chicago Blade's notorious playboy and my brother's best friend. Mistake #2: Agreeing to be his fake fiancé to save his career. Mistake #3: Falling for the man who doesn't know he's about to become our baby's daddy. Jacob has a body forged in steel and a smile that can melt the ice… he's every woman's fantasy. I'm the team's new strait-laced PR executive tasked with cleaning up his image... while hiding my growing secret. Whenever he holds me close for the cameras, it feels less like pretend.

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. Malik loves the ladies, but he loves being single and free to do as he pleases just as much—if not more. He never wanted to settle down with just one, but he never wanted any of his girls to have options. With Camy and his forever sidekick, Shay, fighting for his love and affection, Malik is burned out by all the drama.

Verity Lockwood despises life at Far View House, where her father and mill owner, Jebediah Lockwood, drowns his fortune—and his wits—in drink. With debts mounting, whispers spread—how much longer can Lockwood’s Mill survive? The dark and dirty mills of Yorkshire are no place for a gently bred young woman, but when Verity learns that her father’s ruin threatens not only her home but the livelihoods of the workers who depend on it, she refuses to stand idly by.

My fiancé was found dead. I was on a hunt for the beast who murdered him. I didn't mean to fall into the devil's sculpted arms. Lorenzo Duretti's touch became my obsession—his darkness, my desire. Now, I'm torn between revenge and protection. I need both. Because the baby in my womb will be bound to his father's deadly empire. Lorenzo swears he'll keep us safe, but how can I trust a ruthless killer?

The title of this series is Free Me from You, but does Free really want to be freed from June?

The two of them have history. A bunch of ups and downs and tears, and everyone can agree that a lot of toxicity has taken place as well. Even through the bad, the two of them share a lot of good as well. If they would just put in the work to get it right, they have what it takes to form something beautiful, but both parties will have to want the same result.

When seemingly fragile Miss Ivy Cavendale takes the headmistress position in an orphanage, it is her chance to stay anonymous in society. But not all is what it seems with Miss Ivy. When an intruder breaks in one night, she’s quick to draw her weapon, and while fear—her constant companion—has mysteriously disappeared, one thing is very clear: she and her charges are the next target of The Devil’s Sons.

Jack was never “right,” but that’s a lot of what made him magnetic to other people. When he was younger, he was that guy that girls wanted to be around. People were drawn in by him, even later on when there wasn’t much of him left. I never understood that. He never really put a lot of energy into grooming and maintaining relationships with people. I guess when you see someone that is content spending their time alone, it creates a vacuum and people flood in like water choking a storm drain. Even as his deterioration became apparent, people threw him lifelines.

The Moonstomper series is a two-fisted, suited-and-booted tale that take the listener through Chicago’s dive bars, dark alleys, and smokey house-parties to deliver a curb-stomped world filled with Punks, Skins, Goths, Skaters and Metalheads. In Book 3, as dawn breaks across Chicago, Cheyenne, Joey Zion and Happy are tasked with completing a time-sensitive errand while Steve makes moves which may alter the course of his life and the lives of those around him.

Get your crimper out, your mohawk ready and your best punk pout on—the Queens of Noise have arrived! Set in 1980s London, this modern music drama charts the rise of a girl punk band. Packed with classic hits as well as the girls very own songs, this is a drama with punk power for any music lover. Writers and music industry veterans Louise Wener (ex-singer of Sleeper) and Roy Boulter (drummer with The Farm) bring their wealth of experience to this story of a young band chasing their dream and getting their big break.

When Bunny Linden abandons her three children with her older sister, Jayne, in 1972, she knows Jayne will be the perfect mother. The mother Bunny, a teen runaway, could never be. As months turn into years without word, Jayne and her husband, Rodger, a rising journalism star, strive to give the children the opportunity to flourish and feel loved. When Jayne and Rodger finally have a child of their own, a seemingly stable home is built. But then, after nearly a decade, Bunny resurfaces and sets a chain of events in motion that detonates all their lives.

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."

It's not that Curtis Carson is hating on the Latinos in his backyard dice games. He just happens to roll the dice better. But the Latinos don't see it that way, and when one of their brothers is brutally gunned down in a barroom shootout because of Curtis's dealings with the drug dealer Fat George, it's Curtis who ends up with a target on his back and his brother who ends up with a wrecked body far from the hoop dreams he once harbored. If things aren't tragic enough, Curtis is hellbent on setting things straight. He's on a deadly path of vengeance that will leave the streets running red...

ಶಾಂತಿನಾಥ ದೇಸಾಯಿ ಅವರು ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಕಥೆಗಳು ಮಾನವ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳ ವಿಷಯಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸಮಾಜದ ಸವಾಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳಿಂದ ಅದರ ದಿಕ್ಚ್ಯುತಿಯನ್ನು ಅನ್ವೇಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

ಶಾಂತಿನಾಥ ದೇಸಾಯಿ ಅವರು ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಕಥೆಗಳು ಮಾನವ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳ ವಿಷಯಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸಮಾಜದ ಸವಾಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳಿಂದ ಅದರ ದಿಕ್ಚ್ಯುತಿಯನ್ನು ಅನ್ವೇಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

ಶಾಂತಿನಾಥ ದೇಸಾಯಿ ಅವರು ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಕಥೆಗಳು ಮಾನವ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳ ವಿಷಯಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸಮಾಜದ ಸವಾಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳಿಂದ ಅದರ ದಿಕ್ಚ್ಯುತಿಯನ್ನು ಅನ್ವೇಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

With a traitor in their midst and an outside group continuing to attack them, Alex, Melissa, Luke, and Stan struggle to keep their neighborhood safe. This is book 3 in the EMP Collapse Series.

Nach Frau Yeoms kleiner Laden der großen Hoffnungen der neue warmherzige Roman von Kim Ho-yeon über den 24-Stunden-Laden von Frau Yeom. In einer schmalen Gasse in einem alten Stadtteil von Seoul befindet sich Frau Yeoms kleiner 24-Stunden-Laden. Dort lenkt seit Kurzem Seon-suk die Geschicke, unterstützt vom neuen Nachtschichtmitarbeiter Hwang Geun-bae, der wie sein Vorgänger schnell zum Trostspender wird und Kunden wie Kollegen hilft, ihre Probleme anzugehen und neue Hoffnung zu schöpfen.

Paris'in soğuk köprülerinin altında, Seine Nehri'nin kıyısında, yaşamını sürdürmeye çalışan bir ayyaş olan Andreas Kartak'ın hikayesi anlatılır. Andreas'ın hayatı, ona hiç ummadığı bir anda yardım eli uzatan gizemli bir yabancının verdiği iki yüz frankla değişir. Ancak bu para, Andreas'a bir yük ve bir sınav haline gelir; geçmişle yüzleşme, sözünü yerine getirme ve ruhsal bir kurtuluş yolculuğuna dönüşür.

In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens.

He’s a brutal mafia boss, my new patient… and soon to be the father of my child. After his car accident, I was the doctor assigned to the ruthless mafia boss, Sebastian Petrosky. His sinfully wicked smile drew me in, and those haunting blue eyes held me captive as I treated him. I became more than his doctor– I became his obsession. Soon, he claimed me. I come undone at the mere brush of his fingers against my flesh. He lured me deep into his shadowy world, blurring ethical lines that could cost me my medical career if anyone found out. Now I’m in so deep, I may never make it out alive.

Uncovered Justice takes the listener to the inside of a narcotics investigation unit in Western New York. Undercover operations, search warrants, surveillance, drug buys, corruption… The story reveals the passion and commitment required to build a court-ready drug case and the many avenues a meticulous investigation can take; both the expected and the unexpected.

Coronation Close survives the brutal Bristol Blitz but with rationing, call up papers and new rules and regulations everyone’s lives are changed forever. Resident do-gooder PC Percy Routledge's obsession with rules being upheld finds him spying and reporting fellow neighbours on the slightest infraction whilst his poor brow-beaten wife, Margaret can only watch on in shameful silence. It’s whispered that one day he’ll get his comeuppance…