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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.

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.

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...

* 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 * * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, GOOD...

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...

Sie sind zurück – cooler, chaotischer und (fast) geschniegelt wie nie zuvor: Mr. Wolf und seine legendäre Gangster Gang! Doch gerade als sich Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha und Hacker-Genie Ms. Tarantula an ihr neues Leben auf der guten Seite gewöhnen, geraten sie mitten hinein in einen spektakulären Mega-Coup. Und hinter diesem genialen Plan steckt eine brandneue, hochgefährliche Truppe: Die Gangster Girls. Angeführt von der eiskalt-eleganten Schneeleopardin Kitty Kat stellt diese Truppe die Gangster Gang vor ihre bisher größte Herausforderung.

Das Hörspiel zum Blockbuster – mit Christoph Maria Herbst als Erzähler. Christoph Maria Herbst hat für die Verkörperung der Titelfigur in der Serie Stromberg den Deutschen Fernsehpreis, den Grimme-Preis, den Bayerischen Fernsehpreis und siebenmal den Deutschen Comedypreis erhalten.

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.

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it...

Do you ever have trouble getting someone to agree with you on something? Reaching your goals can sometimes be hard if someone doesn't see eye-to-eye with you! Learn some tips to improve your persuasion skills as you follow along with two children as they try to convince their parents to get a family pet.

In Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing, the author―a psychotherapist, university professor, educator, and researcher―takes the listener into a thought-provoking and heartfelt journey. She offers original perspectives and vulnerable stories from her clients, students, and personal life. Drawing on, among others, ethnographic and autoethnographic accounts, Lehmann serves the listener with psychological insights, offering a timely, critical, and thorough viewpoint to contrast with an overload of misinformation about what silence is and how people should feel when quiet.

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 harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles.

In Art Money Success, Maria tells personal stories of her own business deals, successes, and failures while sharing unconventional wisdom that will explode your art sales. If you are interested in generating more money and success from your art, then this audiobook is for you!

Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte. Now, hounded by the state, she has 10 arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for - while she stands trial for speaking the truth. 

Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers — and never stop dreaming.

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 the confidence game and the profile of both the con artist and his mark.

By day, Celeste Morgan is a world-renowned cellist whose performances bring audiences to tears. By night, she’s a covert assassin whose silence brings her targets to their knees. For years, international intelligence agencies have relied on Celeste Morgan's unparalleled discipline, flawless precision, and constant travel schedule with the New York Symphony to eliminate the world’s most dangerous figures—quietly, cleanly, invisibly. To her colleagues, she’s a virtuoso with icy poise. To her handlers, she’s the perfect weapon. But perfection shatters.

Ever since her brother Razo introduced her to the trees, Rin has turned to them for peace or reassurance, even direction--that is, until the day they seem to reject her. Rin is sure something is wrong with her, something that is keeping her from feeling at home in the Forest, from trusting herself with anyone at all. Determined to find a new sense of self, Rin accompanies Razo into the city, where she discovers that a mysterious threat haunts Bayern. She joins with three magical girls--Isi, Enna, and Dasha--as they venture towards the kingdom of Kel... where someone wants them dead.

Una joven es brutalmente asesinada en Estocolmo, y todas las pistas apuntan a su violento excompañero. Frank se adentra en los rincones más oscuros de internet, descubriendo una creciente red de hombres que buscan castigar a las mujeres: los "incels", célibes involuntarios unidos por una violenta misoginia. Cuando una sobreviviente emerge, vinculando varios ataques impactantes, Vanessa comprende que no solo se enfrenta a asesinos solitarios, sino a una guerra de género.

Amy Taylor thought she knew her husband, Craig. A quiet tech expert, devoted father, and reliable partner in their suburban life. But then she finds the photo that changes everything. Craig is away on business for the weekend. So Amy has 72 hours to figure out who she's living with. Yes, he does have a second family. But as she digs further, she realizes that's the least of her worries. Because it's what Craig does on Mondays that is truly terrifying.