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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK’ – BELLA MACKIE 'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT’ – STYLIST 'MADDENING, MESMERISING, INGENIOUS’ – NEW YORK TIMES 'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE’ – JENNIE GODFREY 'DERANGED, DARING...

A brilliant teenage boy teaches his dog to talk—and in West Texas, that’s enough to get them both killed. Danny is a mixed-race teen on the autism spectrum, still reeling from his mother’s murder, trying to make sense of a disconnected father, and a world, that rarely make sense back. Lido...

Doris Scagglethorpe é uma menina de dez anos que mora com os pais e as três irmãs na área rural da Inglaterra. Certo dia, enquanto brinca de pique-esconde, é raptada e levada de navio para a Grande Ambossa. Lá, é escravizada e perde o direito ao próprio nome—que agora é Omorenomwara. Submetida desde o primeiro dia a uma série de violências psicológicas, físicas e morais, ela sonha em conseguir fugir e voltar para casa.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if justice itself became a fog—creeping through London, swallowing lives, fortunes, secrets, and souls? In Bleak House, Charles Dickens creates one of his darkest and most ambitious visions of Victorian society. With fierce moral imagination...

As it is well known that the "wise men" came "from the East," and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it — Mr. B. was an editor. Irascibility was his sole foible; for in fact the obstinacy of which men accused him was anything but his foible, since he justly considered it his forte. It was his strong point — his virtue; and it would have required all the logic of a Brownson to convince him that it was "anything else.

Let me introduce you to Signora Psyche Zenobia. An adopted name of course, but for someone so flamboyant, appropriate. The good signora has aspirations. She would like to be a writer. At present she is the corresponding secretary to an interesting group of notables in Philadelphia which goes by a lengthy name with the initials of P.R.E.T.T.Y. B.L.U.E. B.A.T.C.H.! But how to get published? She travels to Edinburgh to meet with the esteemed proprietor and editor of 'Blackwood Magazine.' A real publication of the 1830s.

A runaway bride. A handsome stranger. Two pasts to put behind them. From the best-selling author of The Lucky Dress comes a story about love, finding yourself and living your dreams. Parker is ready to marry the man of her dreams. But he isn't ready to marry her. When she's dumped moments before walking down the aisle, she didn't expect to run into the arms of a handsome stranger. 

It was just supposed to be one night. No kissing. No feelings. A wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am tangle in the sheets and we go our own ways. Only it's a small town, and I was bound to run into the irresistible Porter Jones again. I just didn't expect it to be at my job interview...which he's conducting.

Ricky is joined by Diane Morgan, Danny Wallace, Kerry Godliman, Ben Bailey Smith, Sean McLoughlin, David Baddiel, Mark Watson and Robin Ince.

Ricky chats with Diane Morgan, Mark Watson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Daniel Sloss, Stephen Knight, Ben Smith and Andrew Doyle.

Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he's here. Yet his small acts of kindness, and exceptional cooking, quickly earn him acceptance from the locals. His new friends grow fond of Gabriel, who seems as reserved and benign as the toy panda he wins at the funfair. But unlike Gabriel, the fluffy toy is not haunted by his past….

Here's an irreverent and hilarious reference guide to all the people, ideas, and institutions that pollute our lives. Because you don't have to be old to be grumpy. Read by the stars of Channel 4's Green Wing.

Dans la vie... personne n'est à l'abri des GAFFES. On en a tous fait dans le passé et si on est tous assurés de continuer à en faire dans l'avenir c'est parce que l'étourderie et la maladresse sont inhérentes à la nature humaine. Grand amateur de l'humour involontaire, Alain Stanké, (créateur des émissions de la caméra cachée "Les insolences d'une caméra") s'est donné pour tâche de trouver les meilleures bourdes, impairs, dérapages, lapsus, faux-pas, boulettes, bévues et autres défis à la raison, afin de les réunir dans le vaste bêtisier que voici.