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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.

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...

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...

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.

"Money is congealed energy," said Joseph Campbell, "and releasing it releases life's possibilities." The Energy of Money distills 15 years of nationally acclaimed workshops into a powerhouse of exercises and techniques for freeing this potent "congealed" energy so you can focus it on your most...

How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game Maria Konnikova had never actually...

* 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...

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...

'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times 'A masterpiece. Proceed with caution' Phoebe Bridger In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a...

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' –...

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.

Habrá quien afirme que "pensar el amor es matar al amor". O que hablar de una misma es olvidarse de lo común. Sin embargo, esta antología de ensayos, conformada por algunas de las voces más representativas de nuestra generación, demuestra lo contrario: cada una de las contribuciones respira, atravesadas por el cuerpo y la experiencia, y pasando siempre por la reflexión. Los ensayos de Cuando hablamos de amor están llenos de claroscuros, de propuestas, de apuestas.

Cidade grande no escuro, de Clara Averbuck, confirma o talento de uma das vozes mais originais e criativas de sua geração. As crônicas de Clara já conquistaram uma legião de leitores pela internet, e ficam ainda mais saborosas juntas, reunidas em livro. Seu olhar aguçado nos traz uma...

¿Y si te dijeran que no eres tus hábitos? ¿Que no eres tu ansiedad, ni tus manías, ni esas reacciones que ya diste por inevitables? ¿Que debajo de todo eso hay una versión de ti más auténtica, más libre, esperando vivir mejor? Este audiolibro es una invitación valiente a cuestionar lo que has dado por hecho sobre ti. A observarte con honestidad, pero sin juicio, y sobre todo a cambiar de forma genuina.

Betreten Sie das viktorianische London des Jahres 1897: Entdecken Sie Liebe und Intrigen mit der historischen Mystery-Serie „Tabitha & Wolf“, in der Mysterium auf Romantik mit einer Prise Humor trifft. Tabitha war es gewohnt, ein sozialer Paria zu sein. Könnte sich ihr Ansehen in der...

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR...

The diabolical collection of short stories that inspired the Netflix series My Sad Dead, directed by Pablo Larraín. In these twelve spellbinding short stories, including “My Sad Dead” and the other stories behind the Netflix series, achingly human characters encounter ghosts, goblins, and...

Fighting God is a firebrand manifesto from one of the most recognizable faces of atheism. In his audiobook, Silverman—a walking, talking atheist billboard known for his appearances on Fox News—discusses the effectiveness, ethics, and impact of the in-your-face-atheist who refuses to be...

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.

In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.