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Isaac isn't looking for Prince Charming. All he wants is a nice guy who likes kids. Preferably someone with no drama. That's not too much to ask, right?

Brought to you by Penguin. Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She’s living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve...

Das Neonlicht flackert in den Clubs von San Francisco, und draußen wartet ein neues Leben auf die Barbary Lane 28. Die Achtziger haben San Francisco und seine Bewohner in ihren Bann gezogen. Mary Ann durchlebt wieder romantische Irrungen und Wirrungen und jagt einem charismatischen Psychopathen hinterher. DeDe wird unverhofft zu einer queeren Galionsfigur, und Brian richtet seinen Blick gen Zukunft.

Niemand würde Mary Ann als impulsiv bezeichnen, aber als sie sich eine Auszeit in San Francisco nimmt, beschließt sie kurzum, für immer zu bleiben. Hier an der sonnigen Westküste schillern die unterschiedlichsten Persönlichkeiten um die Wette. Auch die charismatische Anna Madrigal, die für jede verlorene Seele einen Joint und einen Platz in ihrer lebhaften Stadtvilla in der Barbary Lane parat hat. Die Schützlinge der Hausherrin zeigen Mary Ann das wilde Leben im bunten San Francisco.

Felix: What would happen if everyone you’d ever dated got together and plotted against you? For me, it’s glitter bombs. Lots and lots of glitter bombs. Okay, maybe I deserved the first one or two. Or three. But when things become less glitter and more grenade, I’m forced into hiding with the smokin’ hot older client I just had a sizzling one-night stand with.

A wry, tender and funny debut novel about art and love – and how the act of seeing lies at the heart of both. All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, that’s the easiest way to speak without actually having to say anything. But now she’s turning thirty...

Boston-born first-responder Alex Flynn gets called into the principal’s office in this short story set in rural Vermont, where poor roads and under-funded public services form a comfortable and familiar background. Explore the hidden links and community found in an ordinary New England town when local first responders might or might not have to engage with an active school shooter. Trowbridge Dispatch is part of the Trowbridge, Vermont series of novels and stories, wherein I.M. Aiken draws on her roots in public safety to narrate tales of the everyday heroes that every community depends on.

'Oh, by the way, Gabe. I know what happened with Seamus! Everybody at Kiss does.' How did Mitchell know any details about my breakup? I felt my jaw tense. Why did everybody at the third most popular bar in The Village also know? Did Seamus tell them? My heart rate switched from a pulse to a...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! WARNING! Under no circumstances must employees strike a deal with unauthorized personnel on Dark Enterprises property. Such behavior may result in death…or the end of the world. Colin is a low-level employee at Dark Enterprises, a Hell-like multinational corporation...

A THEM AND BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The “best woman” in her brother’s wedding tells a little white lie in her quest to get the girl—her lifelong crush and the maid of honor—in this wildly entertaining debut novel about bad decisions and life’s messiest transitions...

For Nicole Robinson, Christmas means returning to the family home in Hebden Bridge with her sister Beth and their brother Liam, who has lived with permanent delays since a childhood accident. Though Beth and Nicole have grown up and moved away, every December the Robinson kids reunite for a month of family and festive traditions.

A Library Journal Best Book of 2025 “[A] rollicking farce about the things we do for love...A perfect book for this moment.” —People “The genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) returns with a witty, insightful new novel about the joy...

AN AUDACIOUS, INVENTIVE DEBUT AND A CULT CLASSIC IN THE MAKING, FROM A THRILLING NEW TALENT IN FICTION 'CAMPY, EROTIC, PROVOCATIVE AND UTTERLY ESSENTIAL' LUCY ROSE 'A TOTALLY ORIGINAL, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD, HORRIFYING WORK OF ART' MARISA KASHINO 'I COULDN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT IT' TOMMY DORFMAN Martha...

After Harry Jones takes his life in the chilling waters of Vixens Mere, not one body is found by the police rescue team, but two. "A darkly humorous and deeply moving tale of community" - Ruth Hogan Tucked away in the English countryside, the run-down marina at Vixens Mere hosts a ragtag...

When my almost-wedding to a popular media influencer implodes and goes viral, we head to Vegas to drown our sorrows and hide from the paparazzi. Everything is under control. Right? But then I wake up naked, hungover, and married to my straight best friend. A quick annulment is the perfect solution. Until it’s not.

Eliot Weiner – snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive – is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history’, now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career – and there’s no depth to which he won’t stoop, no preposterous scheme he won’t undertake, to get at them.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Trowbridge Vermont EMT Brighid Doran delivers the region’s ambulance to a three-alarm house fire. Afterward, she sits in a warm truck with her girlfriend Sam, a US Army officer fresh from the battlefields of Iraq, as they watch a local volunteer firefighter battle the blast in subzero weather.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER For fans of Survivor and Less, this fast-paced debut novel shines an unflinching light on the drama of reality TV when a gay man returns to the cut-throat show he won in his youth after his adult life begins to unravel. "Come for the hijinks, furtive romances, and...

Ein melancholischer Wind weht durch die Straßen von San Francisco, aber die Familie hält zusammen. Das San Francisco der Achtzigerjahre ist im Wandel. Eine Epidemie verändert das Leben in der Stadt, die Clubszene und gerade die queeren Viertel. Mittendrin stecken Mary Ann und Brian tief in ihrer Familienplanung, Michael Tolliver ist in Trauer, und Anna Madrigal vermisst ihre Tochter. Unterdessen bereitet sich ganz San Francisco auf majestätischen Besuch vor: Queen Elizabeth II. besichtigt die Stadt an der Bucht.

in Frauenfestival ohne Männer. Ein Männercamp ohne Frauen. Und dazwischen die Clique aus der Barbary Lane. Chaos zieht ein in die majestätischen Redwood-Wälder nördlich von San Francisco, als ein lesbisches Musikfestival sein Lager flussabwärts von einem Rückzugsort für Geschäftsmänner aufschlägt. Bald schon geht es fröhlich drunter und drüber, quer durch Zuneigungen und Leidenschaften, doch auch in der Stadt bleibt es nicht ohne Trubel. Mary Ann versucht, ihren neuen Job als Talkshow-Host mit dem Familienleben in Einklang zu bringen, während Brian seinem Neffen das Leben als Mann erklärt.