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Welcome back to the Night Realm, where Queen Mortuana, Evil Mistress of the Night, rules with an iron fist and questionable judgment. When we last left our gloriously unhinged queen and her raven sidekick JoJo, the unlikely besties had fled to the woods for a simpler life. (Spoiler: it didn't last.) Now Mo's back on the throne, confronting her reign's greatest threat yet: turning 40 without an heir. No matriarch escapes the patriarchy.

From visionary creator Kenya Barris (beloved TV sitcom Black-ish and the podcast Unusual Suspects). Starring comedy legends Jenifer Lewis, Cedric the Entertainer, and Niecy Nash-Betts, Big Age follows recently retired couple Dot and Butch Watts' reluctant relocation to their new Floridian home, Sunset Gardens, a senior community that is anything but relaxing.

Amy Thomas is in the running to become CEO of First Comes Love. All she has to do is outmatch her conniving coworker. Maintaining her perfect matchmaking track record should be no problem, especially since her client is a hot Marine with bulging biceps and a killer smile.

Jim Wekle's first day as a trooper on an island in Alaska could have gone better. It was raining, the coffee was bad, and within hours of stepping off the seaplane, he found a bikini-clad girl floating in a kelp bed. As Jim investigates who might have put the bullet in her back, he stumbles across a uniquely diverse and extraordinarily hilarious batch of island inhabitants. Puffing on his imported cigars, Jim soon learns that no one on the island is more unique, diverse, or hilarious than his unlikely counterpart: a man simply known as Kram.

Brought to you by Penguin. *NARRATED BY FIONA SHAW (Harry Potter, Killing Eve, Bad Sisters)* The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year...

Choose from over 20 possible endings in this Pick Your Poison Adventure story! You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent, and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party . . . at an isolated mansion way out on Peyton's...

Audible prastut karta hai Darling Democracy, ek Audible Original, in association with Hind Yugm. Best-selling lekhak Nilotpal Mrinal ke shadb. Bilaiya naamak gaon me panchayat chunav ki sugbugahat ke saath jab gaon ki seat Adiwasi ghoshit hoti hai tab vartmaan mukhiya Rang Bahadur Singh pareshan ho uthta hai. Malum chalta hai ki uss gaon me ek vidhwa adiwasi mahila hai jo ab nirvirodh mukhiya chuni jayegi. Usi dauran ek baniya ke beta ek adiwasi ladki ko bhaga le jata hai. Tab use manakar wapas gaon me laya jata hai aur baniya samaj us ladki ko chunav ladane ki taiyari karne lagta hai. Udhar vartman mukhiya ko pandit Tribhuj ne salah diya ki wo kisi adiwasi mahila se shadi karke rajput dwara shaasan karne ki parampara ko bacha sakte hain. Mukhiya aisa hi karta hai. Tabhi pandit Tribhuj ka beta ek adiwasi girlfriend se court marriage karke wapas lautata hai. Ab Bilaiya gaon mein mukhiya ke 4 candidate taiyaar ho jate hain. Lekin tabhi khabar aati hai ki panchayat chunav abhi nahin hoga. Iss tarah sabke armanon par pani fhir jata hai. Disclaimer- Iss show mein apshabd aur kadi bhasha aur vayask shrotaayon ke liye vayask saamagri hai, jismein antrang drishya shaamil hain jo kahani ke anuroop hain. Yeh poori tarah kaalpanik hai aur vaastavik vyakityon, vyavsaayon, sthaanon ya ghatnaayon ke saath koi bhi samaanta maatr sanyog hai. Iss show ka uddyeshya kisi vyakti, sansthan, jaati, samudaay, nasl ya dharm ko thes pahunchaana ya badnaam karna ya kisi sansthan ya jeevit ya mrit vyakti ko badnaam karna nahin hai. Shrotaaon ko apne vivek ka istemaal karne ki bharpur salaah di jaati hai.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword written and read by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart. “To my mind, there have been two great American...

Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson, this funny and ewe-nique mystery starring a flock of sheep is a must-read, international bestseller. On a hillside near the quaint Irish village of Glennkill, the flock gathers around the dead body of their shepherd, George, who...

Brought to you by Penguin. **SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES** What if you could change husbands as easily as a lightbulb? One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right. And then...

Hettie Bagshot has bitten off more than any cat could chew. As soon as she launches her No. 2 Feline Detective Agency, she's bucketed into a case: Furcross, a home for slightly older cats, has a nasty spate of bodysnatching, and three of the residents have been stolen from their graves. Hettie and her sidekick, Tilly, set out to reveal the terrible truth. In a haze of catnip and pastry, Hettie steers the Furcross Case to its conclusion, but will she get there before the body count rises - and the pies sell out?

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.

A Reese Witherspoon book club pick! Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena How far would you go to make all your dreams come true? Amber Patterson is tired of being a nobody: an invisible woman who melts into the background. She deserves more. She deserves a life of...

Dee Blum has a plan. Or rather, her parents do. Graduate college. Go to law school. Become a divorce attorney. Be “successful.” But Dee wants more—more purpose, more passion, more than checking off someone else’s boxes. A surprise gig leading eco-tours of ethical coffee farms in Costa Rica offers a fresh start.

This wickedly fun debut is a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction.

Fed up with the playground mafia at her children’s school, Rachel Young is desperate for a change. With her family and various pets in tow, a picture-perfect village in the countryside beckons. There, Rachel’s children will be able to keep chickens and skip through fields and she’ll bid farewell to the botoxed, fake-Gucci wearing Mumzillas forever. But at the new school the mums are even worse, and before long, Rachel finds herself contending with a motley crew including Mrs High School Musical, The International Sex God and The Frisky Pensioner.

As the owner of Licked, an eclectic ice creamery and bar, Ryleigh Phillips doesn't have time for that love stuff. Serving up Nibble My Nuts sundaes and Drunken Sailor boozy shakes are as close to an orgasmic affair as she's had in months thanks to her expanding empire - until the night of her 10-year high-school reunion. When Ryleigh's crush, gorgeous ex-football god Cameron Mathis, comes streaking into her life (literally - streaking), she begins to wonder if she really can have it all. Enter Hunter Morgan, the contractor in charge of Licked's renovations....

In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach...

Meg Everman (Judy Greer) has spent her entire life putting herself second to everyone around her - and she’s over it.