Literature & Fiction

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone....

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse....

In this collection of humorous essays, Kendra Syrdal takes you along for the ride in the completely weird and sometimes messy life of another girl with a terrible case of resting bitch face....

Paradise is supposed to be a short-term stop. Until Thor shows up. Okay, not the real Thor. But replace the hammer with a dog who won't stop barking, and Adam Thomsen is definitely long-haired Thor's doppelganger. Too bad for me, he's decided I'm the villain in his story. Too bad for him, his...

When making it to congress means faking a marriage . . . fake it 'til you make it takes on a whole new meaning. Apparently, conservative Midwestern voters want more than my brains, connections, and good looks to vote me in as a congressman. That's right, to appear as the all-American family man...

Venedig. Enge Gassen, schimmernde Kanäle und ein Rätsel, das niemand ernst zu nehmen scheint. Als in ihrem Viertel mehrere Schildkröten verschwinden, beginnt Mafalda Cinquetti nachzuforschen. Was als kleine Merkwürdigkeit beginnt, führt sie mitten hinein in einen ungewöhnlichen Fall, der...

Ist das noch Reifeprozess oder schon Verfall? Dagmar Schönleber erzählt von den Schnäppchen und Schlaglöchern auf dem Weg in die zweite Lebenshälfte. Dieser buchgewordene Picknickkorb ist prall gefüllt mit rasanten Kurzgeschichten, Gedichten, Essays und Bühnentexten der erfolgreichen Kabarettistin. Mal philosophisch, mal haltlos überspitzt, mal tiefgründig, mal albern, aber immer humorvoll und selbstironisch spendet Dagmar Schönleber der »inneren Dreißig« Trost und bleibt doch rebellisch gegen eine Zukunft der Rückwärtsgewandten.

En la ya extensa y siempre regocijante obra de Alfonso Ussía, el marqués de Sotoancho es sin duda su personaje más célebre, protagonista de una saga que ha deparado infinidad de carcajadas entre sus fieles lectores. El inefable señorito andaluz habrá de vérselas en esta nueva entrega con la autoridad estatal, que pretende exhumar y trasladar de ubicación los restos de su difunto padre en aras de una corrección política que al señor marqués se la trae al pairo.

Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague, Suganuma, people raise eyebrows, but the two women quickly settle into their own soothing domestic routines. Yet escaping the pressures of romantic love isn't easy.

Benjie Cruz has a system for everything. Fourteen color-coded categories in his Google Calendar. A wireless mic named Celia. A van he drives to the deep provinces when clients want authenticity, which somehow always means his specific face, his voice, and his ability to make a room full of...

I matrimoni più duraturi sono quelli che non si fondano sull'amore romantico, parola di Elsa Tomei, da ventotto anni moglie di Vanni Gualandi. Affiatati, benestanti, di successo, Elsa e Vanni sono una coppia da ammirare in pubblico e detestare in privato. Lei è la produttrice del programma più amato dalle telespettatrici di Rai 3, lui l'editorialista del più prestigioso giornale italiano.

Courtes fictions écrites à quatre mains, qui vous transporteront dans des univers variés, explorant les relations humaines avec une sensibilité féminine d'un côté et l'humour noir au masculin de l'autre. De l'ancien criminel qui revient à ses vieilles habitudes pour mieux se sauver, de la dame dont le métier tranquille va se révéler plus dangereux qu'elle le pensait et même du monstre mythique qui a un regain de conscience, bienvenue dans mon monde, un monde riche en personnages pauvres... La nostalgie, la perte, les relations, la famille sont parmi des thèmes récurrents que j'explore.

Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. "Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family." —Kirkus Reviews on The Falcon...

Tiempo de silencio es sin duda una de las novelas en lengua castellana más importantes del siglo XX. Cuando se publicó en 1962 marcó un antes y un después en la narrativa española y se convirtió en un acontecimiento literario en todo el mundo a través de su traducción a más de veinte lenguas.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if every misfortune were a doorway, and every humiliation another step toward survival? In *The Adventures of Roderick Random*, Tobias Smollett delivers one of the great picaresque novels of the eighteenth century: a fierce, comic, and unsparing...

She planned everything. The universe had other ideas. She planned everything. The universe had other ideas. Mira Valencia does not believe in chaos. She believes in timelines, contingency plans, and emergency backups for the backups. So when a luxury wedding in Tagaytay unravels, starting with a...

In the late‑Victorian Edgeworth household, everything appears orderly: a prosperous country house, an upright master, a dutiful wife and well‑brought‑up children. Behind the decorum, Duncan Edgeworth rules by sarcasm and command, his quiet tyranny shaping every conversation. When illness, death and a hasty remarriage bring beautiful young Alison into the house, buried rivalries flare–over love, money and who will inherit. As secrets multiply and alliances shift, even the nursery becomes a battleground…

Bloomsbury presents The Room of the Dead by M.R.C. Kasasian, read by Emma Gregory A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off...

In her debut Audible memoir, Lady Miss Jacqueline (Oscar-winning child star, nightclub magnate, crystal empress, and self-proclaimed beacon of hope) finally tells her story in her own inimitable voice. From a gold-plated birth canal in Newport to surviving a shipwreck in nothing but a satin nightgown, from inspiring talk show legends to gifting Rolls Royces by Zeppelin to her nightclub staff in Ibiza, Lady Miss recounts the greatest moments of her lives (past and present) with the confidence of a woman who has never once been wrong, and the heart of one who occasionally suspects she might be.

'An absolute delight, full of warmth and human surprise' Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake 'An exquisitely written novel . . . full of big ideas, quietly and carefully explored' Jan Carson, author of The Firestarters Two women meet in an unassuming coffee shop in Belfast; they seem an unlikely...