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Mona and Duncan used to be best friends. Now they can’t stand each other. Too bad that’s not a good enough excuse to miss their two families’ annual trip to the cabin. But things get really complicated when they accidentally drive through a wormhole together on the way. Look what playing nice and carpooling gets you. Now they’re stranded indoors by an epic storm and stuck in an alternate timeline where things are just slightly ... off.

Unstoppable is the fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova. In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no-one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just 700 dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right.

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 * * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD * * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH...

Brought to you by Penguin. The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying. Welcome back to Bayview High . . . It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a game of Truth or Dare. But this is no ordinary Truth or Dare. This game is lethal...

Set in the intoxicating world of 1990s New York fashion, The Model is a gripping psychological thriller about ambition, betrayal, and obsession. When supermodel Ewa Antol mysteriously vanishes at the height of her career, her childhood friend Marki becomes determined to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Set against the glamorous backdrop of 90s fashion—where beauty is the only currency and seventeen-year-old models earn $100,000 per day—this twisting narrative follows Marki's dangerous journey through the dark underbelly of the fashion industry.

Bloomsbury presents The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende, read by Maria Liatis and Edoardo Ballerini. THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' – KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' –...

Brought to you by Penguin. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the...

The last 60 years of dietary advice, warning women to avoid fat, have actually worsened women’s health. If you’re approaching menopause, in menopause, or are interested in improving your health naturally, here is a book that explains the history of menopause, the evolutionary benefits of this life event, and how to eat the right foods to help you enjoy what should be the longest and most fulfilling part of your life.

Armaan is a young television writer and seems to have it all - a dream job, ample money and a good place to live in Mumbai. Despite all that, his heart lies somewhere in his hometown, Indore. Merry and beaming through all of life’s ups and downs, Sara is a little desolate and now needs a different space to rethink her life as she joins a leading television channel in Mumbai. Armaan and Sara meet in FILMY style and quite obviously then cannot help but fall in love.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its...

Con men are artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Whether it's a suspicious-looking email or a multimillion-dollar global swindle, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of...

Lemberg, 1941. Die sechzehnjährige Nelka wird von Soldaten aufgegriffen und mit zahlreichen Mädchen und Frauen nach Westen verschleppt. Auf einem norddeutschen Gutshof werden sie zu schwerer Arbeit gezwungen. Ihr Vater hatte Nelka früh im Obstbau unterrichtet, und schon als Kind hatte sie ihm beim Veredeln der Apfelbäume geholfen.

Kærligheden har aldrig været stærkere, farerne aldrig større. Amalie og hr. Wickfall er endelig blevet sikre på kærligheden til hinanden og nyder livet som ægtefolk. Men ydre kræfter truer deres lykke. I sensommeren 1807 belejrer briterne København. De vil gå til angreb på byen, hvis...

Audible Studios presenta una produzione Audible Originals: Poirot a Styles Court, con Claudio Santamaria nel ruolo del leggendario Hercule Poirot. Un’audio serie corale che riunisce un cast d’eccezione, nell’adattamento del romanzo d’esordio di Agatha Christie. Inghilterra, 1914. Il mondo è precipitato in un conflitto senza precedenti. Ferito nel corpo e nell’animo, il capitano Hastings accetta l’invito a trascorrere la convalescenza a Styles Court, l’imponente dimora di campagna di un vecchio amico.

New York Times bestseller (The Biggest Buff, The Confidence Game, Mastermind) and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova delves into the mysterious ailment that she and 39 million others suffer from in the U.S. alone: Migraine, a disease that is still little understood, yet debilitating to its sufferers.

En sommarnatt, mitt under en bröllopsfest på hotell Duvert, hittas en av hotellets anställda död. Polisinspektör William Johnson, som själv är gäst på bröllopet, misstänker omedelbart att det inte rör sig om en naturlig död och tillkallar förstärkning.Offret tillhör familjen...

Det är oktober 2008 och kaos råder i världsekonomin. På en isländsk bank i Luxemburg kliver en sekreterare oväntat in på högste chefens kontor och störtar några minuter senare mot sin död i ett hisschakt. Samtidigt vänder sig uppretade belgiska småsparare till undersökningsdomaren...

Sarah sitter där hon sitter. Bokstavligt talat. En olycka har gjort henne rullstolsburen men längtan efter ett barn försvann inte med känseln. Hennes dröm tar henne till en fertilitetsklinik i Danmark, men en högst oplanerad dejt ställer till det - för vilken träff får egentligen...

I andras ögon är hon fortfarande mitt i livet, tryggt gift och ett praktexemplar när det gäller att bete sig rätt. Men inom henne växer sig tvivlet allt större. När hennes man visar sig vara långt ifrån den stabile och pålitlige make hon trott, får fasaden allt större och djupare...

Ett typiskt hyreshus. En trappuppgång med fyra lägenheter. På utsidan liknar det gula tegelstenshuset en folkhemsidyll, men innanför väggarna lurar ondskan. Astrid har alltid vetat att det var något fel på hennes son. Ingen trodde henne. De sade att hon var en dålig mor. Att det var...