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When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris' upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.

Vijay's unsuspecting wife, Yashodhara, is caught off guard when, tired of the rigours of city life, he actually rents land and starts dairy farming! As if Yash didn't have enough going on already, what with her high-octane job, three children and multiple careers. As Vijay dives deeper into his quirky hobby, the family is plucked out of their comfortable life in the steel-and-chrome high-rises of Gurgaon and thrown headfirst into a startlingly unfamiliar world - complete with cows and crops, multiple dogs and eccentric farmhands, a shrewd landlady and the occasional rogue snake.

Pat Peoples knows that life doesn’t always go according to plan, but he’s determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always look for the silver lining...

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce, read by Steve Hartley. From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances...

Rustom Iraqiwalla, a once-rich, green-eyed Parsi man, is all set to blow his brains out at his best friend's wedding. Debt ridden and marked by the Mafia, this is the only way he can secure his family's future and atone for all the rotten choices he has made in his life. This extraordinary situation comes by way of his grandfather Fali's last will that states Rustom shall inherit the family fortune if he kills himself in a public place with the former's eponymous gun.

Hill Mansion wasn't really a mansion; it was just a ramshackle hut on a small hill. But for Robert Pereira, it was better than any place he had seen in his village, Golvada. His chaddi buddies Anand and Baloo lived there with their elder brother Dattya - his hero and the village cricket team captain. Robert had named their hut Hill Mansion, moved by love for his buddies. It didn't matter to him that they were the sons of a domestic help.

A thrillingly original story of the adventures of a small band of feral cats in Delhi who communicate by whisker mind-link and face an unprecedented threat to their tribe's survival; for listeners of Life of Pi and Philip Pullman. In the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi, India, lives a small band of cats.

It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop.

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain.

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.

New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series! Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest...

Violette Toussaint es la guarda del cementerio de un pequeño pueblo de Borgoña. Visitantes ocasionales y habituales acuden a la casa de esta mujer luminosa y de gran corazón a resguardarse del frío, compartir confidencias y reconfortarse con el café que ella les ofrece, entre risas y lágrimas. Su vida transcurre al ritmo de esas historias íntimas y sus días parecen destinados a ser así para siempre. Pero, de repente, todo cambia.

埋立地にある町では、夏と冬の年に二回ごみ拾いボランティアイベントが行われる。私たちは半年ぶりに集まってトングを握った。別々の中学に進学した四人の少女たちの心の機微を描く青春小説。

陽奈は、ルリハを尋ねてニューブリテン島にやってきた。大学の夏季休暇を利用した旅は、友人の朝霞の協力によるものだった。ルリハは、11年前に出会ったルリメタイハクオウム。陽奈は小学3年生だった──。

何を持っているかで、その人の輪郭が決まる。亡き父がよく言っていた。余計なものを持たない主義だった父が死んでからの二年間で、母は様々なものを家に持ち込んでいた。先ごろ亡くなった母の遺品整理をしながら両親の暮らしや関係性を思い返すうち、直美はあるやりとりに不安を覚え――。

Beatuicide（ビューティサイド）。ビューティ、サイド。美殺し。美殺人。美虐殺。クラシック・バレエを専攻する高校生の美鳥は、留学先のロシアで「美」と恩師の天沼先生について思いを巡らせる。

「小説だ。と確信する。そうだ、これは、小説だ。小説が始まったんだ」。婚約者の浮気現場に遭遇したことをきっかけに、私は小説の登場人物だったんだという確信を得た。その日から私は、小説の登場人物としての人生を歩み始める。

学校に行くのを〝じしゅてき〟にやめた小学四年生のシホは、絵描きの伯母・みどりさんの仕事を手伝うことになった。「心の中で強く願えば、空想のたねが芽吹いて、丘に魔法を咲かせられるの」とみどりさんから教わり、シホは空想から絵を描き始める。

雨の横浜。私はたまたま通りかかった骨董店に足を踏み入れ、主と思しき白髪の老婆に自分のわだかまりを吐き出す。大きな舞台で歌うことを夢見ながら、横浜のダンスホールで歌手として働く私に、声をかけてきた東京との男とのやりとりを。

若手建築家Hの才能に嫉妬する老建築家のJは、ある日Hの自邸に忍び込む。内部で目にしたのは、美しく緻密な空間と家族の生活だった。家の魅力に惹かれるほど、Jはこれまでの価値観や孤独が揺らいでいく。