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Desperate to escape their high-pressure life in Los Angeles, the Finch family moves to rural Oregon. But it doesn’t take long to learn that “small town” is not code for “stress-free.” As the new owners of Applegate's one and only general store, the Finches find that the simple life’s anything but simple when your little store is the town's only grocery store, gas station, hardware store, fire station, and occasional dentist’s office.

Read by Sally Phillips Meet Nell. She’s like the thousands of women who’ve fallen in love with her story. Because most of us wonder why life isn’t turning out quite as we imagined. From bedside to poolside, this book is the perfect summer listen. It will make you laugh and it may make you...

One glowing sticky note. Four mischievous squirrels. One story waiting to be written. She has spent years helping everyone else bring their ideas to life while her own biggest dream keeps getting buried beneath snacks, scrolling, organizing, and an endless parade of shiny new ideas. Then one...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A Christmas cruise in your headphones. A storm that’s all too real. And one ten-year-old who read the whole program. When seventy-nine-year-old Nana Dot sells her house to buy the entire family an all-inclusive, Titanic-themed Christmas cruise, nobody...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ¿Y si el mayor peligro de un viaje a la otra punta del mundo no fuera perderse, sino encontrarse con algo peor que una serpiente en la selva? Adéntrate en el lado más absurdo, impredecible y desternillante de la vida de un expatriado. Desde Shanghái...

You know what Romance Is Like That didn't need? A sequel. You know what else it didn't need? A prequel about a civilization of microscopic gremlins living inside Caroline's rectum. Yet, here we are. And for that I am terribly sorry.The fantastical adventure of The Lost Gremlin World of Froglim...

It's not been a good morning for Thraxas. A vindictive judge has just fined him every guran he has, and two old enemies have threatened his life. And to cap it all, the rainy season has started and it's as wet as a mermaid's blanket in the magical city of Turai. He desperately needs a winner in the big chariot race. And he needs a job. But not even Thraxas with his sorcerous investigating skills could have predicted that his two requirements might just be connected in a strange and potentially disastrous way.

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed. As the...

¿Qué tienen en común un taxista llorón, una mujer dejada por wasap, un aprendiz de ladrón y una camarera aspirante a actriz? Que a todos ellos les va a cambiar la vida. En un solo día, y gracias a un sobre de azúcar. Si alguna vez has sentido que el destino ha sacado la patita y ha...

In sports, everybody loves redemption stories, the underdog who no one believes in but through sheer hard work wins it all. But no one tells the stories of the players who work hard and don’t make it. In pro football, 53 guys get on the roster. Ten make it to the practice squad. And then there’s the 64th Man - that’s Billy Logan (Cena), who seems to always be one spot from glory.

Wilhelmina “Billie” Bennett, red-haired daughter of American millionaire Rufus, loves golf, dogs and Tennyson—and is to marry Eustace Hignett, the weak, poetry-writing son of Mrs. Horace Hignett, the famous English writer on theosophy. Enter Sam Marlowe, Eustace's cousin, who plays...

Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter. Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient...

From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. "It’s pure entertainment, and the kind of audiobook...

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

Bertie Wooster is one of nature's gentlemen, so when Gussie Fink-Nottle gets himself into a spot of bother with the law, Bertie helps out - by impersonating Gussie! The plan seems to be working, until Gussie turns up - impersonating Bertie!

""A fully imagined world: propulsive, prophetic, dizzying"" - Jeet Thayil, author of Names of the Women ""An astonishing debut. An amazing imagination"" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of The Last Queen ""A masterwork-a book that is three great novels in one"" - Karan Mahajan, author of The...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies...

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah’s best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in...

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.

Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.

When Bingo falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there's work for a wet nurse. Who better than Jeeves? This is the first Jeeves and Wooster story the author ever wrote. Wodehouse weaves his wit through a wide collection of terrifying...