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Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her. New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she...

'A great romp and an acute satire' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Such wicked fun. A darkly delicious mystery and sharply observed satire in one wildly entertaining package. Bella Mackie has outdone herself' LUCY FOLEY 'Bella Mackie's books are salacious, gripping and very funny' JOE LYCETT Meet Diana Leyland...

THE QUEEN OF LOVE STORIES IS BACK! ‘A warm, romantic summer read’ Woman&Home Melody has vowed never to fall in love again. Al is a hopeless romantic. So, when they quite literally bump into each other, there's no reason sparks should fly. But the world seems a little upside down lately. A...

Der kleine Markus schlägt die Warnung seiner Mutter in den Wind und füttert jeden Morgen am Waldrand eine streunende Schäferhündin mit seinem Schulbrot. Eines Tages passiert ein Unglück: Laika fällt einen Menschen an, und niemand glaubt Markus, dass sie ihn nur beschützen wollte. Der alte Förster Lothar Seidel soll sie jagen und erschießen. Doch zuerst müssen er und die Polizei Markus finden, der ebenso wie die Schäferhündin im Wald verschwunden ist.

Endlich ist es so weit und ich nehme mein Debütalbum auf. Der Produzent ist niemand anderes als der beste Freund meines Bruders, für den ich schon seit Jahren schwärme. Lorenzo DeLuca besitzt mit seinen dreißig Jahren nicht nur sein eigenes Plattenlabel, sondern war auch schon für einen Grammy nominiert. Der talentierte Musiker ist perfekt dafür geeignet, mein Debütalbum zu produzieren. Und da er im eigenen Haus ein Plattenstudio eingerichtet hat, liegt es nahe, dass ich bei ihm einziehe und wir so ungestört arbeiten können.

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

Rule #1: Don’t mess with the Mafia. Rule #2: Definitely don’t fall for three of them. Guess I like breaking rules. The Vegas Mafia’s hottest men weren’t part of my plan. Now they’re the only plan I’ve got. Three men — dangerous, demanding, and far too tempting. One is quiet, always watching. His gaze scorches, his touch burns. One is volatile, a storm I should avoid — until he drags me into the fire. And the last? He hides a filthy imagination behind an innocent smile. They’ve pulled me straight into Vegas’s darkest underworld. I should resist.

When Tara Silverthorne catches her husband with donuts in places donuts should never be, her twenty-year marriage implodes faster than a botched soufflé. Fleeing her suburban life for a trendy Richmond apartment, forty-two-year-old Tara thinks the hardest part of starting over will be learning to parallel park. She’s wrong. Landing a job at a high-end shoe company introduces her to torturous designer heels and her charming French boss, who’s still nursing a decades-old crush.

Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction. Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American...

Als Henrietta von New Jersey ins zauberhafte, kopfsteinbepflasterte Chelsea in West-London zieht, hat sie nur ein Ziel: einen Mann wie Hugh Grant zu finden. Mit schönem Haar, witzig, eloquent – einfach britisch. Schließlich liebt Henrietta seit jeher die RomComs der 90er und 00er Jahre und ist überzeugt, dass nur ein britischer Gentleman ihr Herz so erobern kann, wie es die Filme versprechen.

Eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt der Bücher – mit Booktalk, Wortgefechten und großen Gefühlen Josie Klein und Ryan Lawson betreiben Buchläden in derselben Bostoner Straße – sie mit ernster Literatur, er mit unterhaltenden Liebesromanen. Als der neue Besitzer beide Läden fusionieren...

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If you had to describe Minka Santos, it would depend on who you asked. To wives, she’s a home-wrecking, gold-digging whore. But to their husbands she’s the best they ever had. To her family, she’s simply Minka: a girl whose mother swept her under the rug so no one will ever know about her...

Elizabeth Hrib will have readers racing to the finish line when a Manhattan architect’s attempts to win over her office crush set her on a collision course with a personal trainer who’s got all the right moves. Lydia McKenzie is not a runner. Not even close. But in her quest to be taken...

Narrated by award winning actor Bill Nighy. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral...

Brought to you by Penguin. Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting...

What can cause an ordinary citizen to become a serial killer? After the death of his wife, children, and grandchildren in a highway accident, which also killed the drivers who were at fault, Barry Wilk has nothing to live for —until he receives a mysterious summons to visit Lark Castle, his former sweetheart and the great love of his life. Lark is dying; it’s too late for them to have a second chance. Forty years ago, during his freshman year at college, their romance had been derailed — accidentally, he’d thought at the time.

Broadfield Lane is the kind of estate that pretends everything is fine… even when it absolutely isn’t. When a series of strange incidents ripple through the neighborhood—fires, messages, shadows in the alleyways—Eunice finds herself dragged into a mystery that no one else wants to acknowledge. The estate shrugs, the neighbors argue, and life carries on as if chaos is just part of the weekly routine. But someone on Broadfield Lane is carrying something dangerous. Something they don’t fully understand. Something that reacts to instinct.

Survive the brutal flues of Victorian London in this harrowing historical drama of a child's fight for his life. Feel the claustrophobia of the dark chimneys and the biting cold of the icy streets as you embark on an intense, deep-focus listening experience. This gritty, immersive journey...

Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough not to need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates from a would-be assault. And yet that's exactly the quandary in which she finds herself...