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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...

A suspenseful story of three women who, in search of freedom from the lies that bind them, experience personal growth, discovery, and forgiveness. Ten years ago, Stuart Carpenter was killed in a single-car accident after retrieving his daughter, Reese, from college. The first responders to the...

When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is home. Having stormed out two years ago, it won't be easy. Nor will returning to the river alongside the house where words ripple beneath the muddy black water washing up all sorts of memories and disturbing prophecies. Joe turns to his sister, Birdee, the only person who has ever listened and to Tim Fysh, a local fisherman and longtime lover - but reviving their bond leads to trouble.

Akshay Saxena, an out of work editor of a defunct literary magazine in the UK, is told to move to India for a year to help shore up the value of Kalim, an ailing Indian publisher. Akshay finds himself in a job where he has to do the impossible. Angus Lee, the new owner of Thomson Lee Books, wants at least five bestsellers in the coming year, failing which the business would be wound up.

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available, it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative.

Brought to you by Penguin. The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three years...

Lena Abraham knows that love can end in only one way - disappointment. Her marriage to KK is perfect precisely because she is not in love with him, and their life on a tea plantation in the picturesque Anamalai hills is idyllic. Then, one rainy morning, a man arrives to take up temporary residence in the homestay they run. Shoola Pani is south Indian cinema's heartthrob, an actor in flight from his own superstardom, and the last thing he is looking for is emotional entanglement. But when Lena and he meet, something flares between them....

Brought to you by Penguin. From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past, comes a compulsive new novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to...

”Malin Haawind lyckas än en gång ge känslorna liv mellan raderna. Samla liv är hennes nionde bok och en varm berättelse om att vara människa.” Helhetsbetyg 4. BTJ Det är om hösten som museet på Lejonslätten på Djurgården är som vackrast. När växtligheten som klänger längs fasaden skiftar från grönt till eldflammors palett. Museets grundare Artur Hazelius hade ett motto för museet: Känn dig själv! Det är fint, men personligen är jag inte säker på att jag vill veta allt om mig. Vad jag vill, mer än något annat, är att känna mig utvald.

Mit präziser Leichtigkeit und schlichter Eleganz erzählt Martina Hefter von einer Frau, die in einer ehemaligen Tagebaulandschaft eine neue Zukunft findet. Sie erzählt von der Notwendigkeit, sich gegen die Zudringlichkeiten der Gegenwart zur Wehr zu setzen, sie erzählt von inneren Kämpfen und jenen Momenten, die uns aneinander binden – oder voneinander lösen. Die Installationskünstlerin Iona Bartschok zieht sich den Sommer über ins Leipziger Umland zurück.

Drei nicht mehr ganz so junge Männer versuchen auf unterschiedliche Weise nachzuholen, was sie bei ihrer Tochter versäumt haben. Dass sie sich dabei durch eine Verkettung – für den Zuschauer glücklicher – für die Handlung unglücklicher Umstände gegenseitig in die Quere kommen, macht...

Ein gemütliches Wochenende im Wellness-Bereich des Hotels Klostermühle sieht wahrlich anders aus. Dieter, erfolgreicher Waschmittelhersteller und Self-Made-Man, möchte seiner Lebensabschnittsgefährtin ein ganz besonderes Geschenk machen, was allerdings einige Überredungskünste verlangt...

The journey continues in ECs life. These are ideas and reflections that come through ECs life as he goes about his rounds going to church, going to work, visiting friends, teaching tennis, and playing tennis. He is a secretary that notes his reflections as he goes about his life. He keeps exploring ways to play and to learn the game of tennis. And he is interested in helping people find their swing, their serve, and their song in life. He is also interested in these things for himself. Oh, in this process, he hopes to hear the birds sing. 

Beaten and brutally raped, her body is never found. However, the killers make one mistake. They leave a witness, a witness who has nothing to live for except revenge. And when he crosses the boundaries of time to make the guilty pay, a whole lot of dark characters come to light. There is Valentine, the superstar brand ambassador who sells anything for a price; there is Medici, a pharmaceutical company fraudulently manufacturing banned drugs; there is the perverted and sinister-minded Dr Ranga....

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.

Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work...

God vergewe ons baie, maar God vergewe ons nie die kwaad wat ons ´n kind aandoen nie. Aan die een kant van die berg, in die Lange Kloof, woon Fiela Komoetie, verknog aan haar hanskind - deur die Here aan haar 'toebetrou' een nag toe sy hom as driejarige gekry het waar hy voor haar deur staan en huil, ´n weggooilam. Aan die ander kant van die berg, in die Bos, woon die houtkapper Elias van Rooyen en sy vrou Barta, wie se driejarige kind weggeraak het. Die een kind is Benjamin Komoetie, die ander Lukas van Rooyen.

Introducing Interviewing by William Seymour - the winning short story of the Bookseller Futurebook audio original competition 2019. When a young job applicant is overwhelmed with anxiety attacks about an impending interview, his world seems about to implode. Worse still, the calm voice of reason in his head is no help at all...Chosen for its unique writing approach and fascinating prose, Interviewing is a piece of writing that is enhanced by a fresh, forward approach to the audio format.

We all are mahi! This means, we are all loved by nature. We are nature's most beautiful creations. We are made to love and be loved. This is a story about individuals who came from different cities to Delhi in search of career and freedom. A story of friendship, love and loss. Despite the stress of earning a livelihood and paying day-to-day bills, the characters in this story manage to make a life for themselves. Their story is deeper and more intoxicating than the world's finest wine! So let's go on this roller coaster of emotions and experiences....

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE, WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Until Darren and Jodie move in, Lowland Way is a suburban paradise. Beautiful homes. Friendly neighbours. Kids playing out in the street. But Darren and Jodie don't follow the rules and soon disputes...