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From TikTok sensation Lauren Asher comes the final book in the Dreamland Billionaires series. Meet the new Dreamland Billionaire...CALLAHANI'm the Kane brother everyone gossips about behind closed doors. Trust fund brat. Washed-up athlete.High-functioning alcoholic. No one know the real me but her. Lana Castillo - my childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved. When I broke her heart six years ago, I promised to never return to Lake Wisteria. I kept my word until mygrandfather's will changed everything. To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer at the family lake house before selling it. The request was simple in theory, until my entire my plan blew up on the very first day. Turns out Lanadoesn't just live at the house, but she claims to own it too.ALANA Falling in love with Callahan Kane was a mistake. He told me so before destroying my heart and our friendship six summers ago. When he promised never to come back, I foolishly believedhim. But then Cal showed up again, intending to sell his grandfather's lake house. The biggest flaw in his plan? My name is on the deed.

The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress - passive, yet beautiful - but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an apereflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.'Resonant and frightening...totally original' Observer'Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing' The Times

Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over her immortal consort Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. ButZoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn't it? Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same - andher relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim? The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey,would be okay with their relationship? Does he betray his father or his heart?

A true story of the Berlin Tunnel or Operation Gold, the abortive brainchild of the CIA and MI6.

The Shadow of the Wind is a stunning literary thriller in which the discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an elusive author who may or may not still be alive...

Read the book behind the upcoming NETFLIX movie launching on 3rd March 2021, directed by and starring Amy Poehler.'I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!' Zoella'... this is my new favorite book. I'm proud to be a Moxie girl!' Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the UniverseWhen an unlikely teenager stands up to sexism in her high school she unwittingly starts a feminist revolution that shakes her whole town. It's time to fight like a girl! Perfect for fans of Holly Bourne.Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with alwaysfollowing the rules.Viv's mum was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates Moxie, a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respondand spread the Moxie message. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realises that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.TIME TO FIGHT LIKE A GIRLA page-turning read with a feminist message, for anyone who has ever had to deal with #everydaysexism'MOXIE is sweet funny and fierce. Read this and then join the fight!' AMY POEHLERAlso by Jennifer Mathieu:The Liars: Perfect for fans of We Were Liars - two siblings wrestle with the secrets and lies that threaten to destroy their future.The Truth About Alice: Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why will love this powerful book about stereotypes, secrets and standing up for gender equality.Devoted: An empowering, feminist coming-of-age story about self-discovery, as a girl with a controlling family realizes that her life is her own - if only she can find the courage to fight for it.Afterward: A tragic kidnapping leads to an unlikely friendship in this novel about finding light in the midst of darkness.

Something's not right here. In the house. With the family. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly-graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple form a powerful dynasty of mill owners, shehopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beau, mysterious Mrs England. Ostracised by the other servants and feeling increasinglyuneasy, soon a series of strange events will force Ruby to question everything she thought she knew... Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, weaving an enthralling story of men and women, power andcontrol, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. Set against the atmospheric West Yorkshire landscape, Stacey Halls' third novel proves her one of the most exciting and compelling new storytellers of our times.

NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, COMING VALENTINE'S DAY 2022'An absolute scorcher'Evening Standard'The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy'The Times'Intimate and ultimately moving... completely absorbing'Daily Mail'A gripping novel exploring the tensions in an apparently idyllic marriage'Financial Times'A must-read'Sydney Morning Herald'Devotion thrilled me, made me think and moved me deeply... Irresistible'Jonathan Safran FoerCarlo, a part-time professor of creative writing, and Margherita, an architect-turned-real estate-agent: a happily married couple in their mid-thirties, perfectly attuned to each other's restlessness. They are in love, but they also harbour desires thatstray beyond the confines of their bedroom: Carlo longs for the quiet beauty of one of his students, Sofia

Una historia de profundas connotaciones humanas que recupera los sólidos valores que la frenética sociedad actual parece haber olvidado.Un accidente trunca brutalmente la idílica relación entre una nina y su caballo. La madre deberá recurrir a un hombre muy especial, de quien se dice que posee poderes para comunicarse con los caballos y sanar su espíritu...La solidaridad entre las personas, la armonía con la naturaleza y la fuerza de los sentimientos subyacen como motor de esta novela inolvidable, adaptada al cine en una superproducción dirigida y protagonizada por Robert Redford.

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There s no identification on thebody. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it s morethan a year before the man is identified. Andt hat s just the beginning of the mystery.Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it animpossible crime? Or something stranger still...?A 2005-ben megjelent könyv retro új kiadása,

Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta... Nesta Archeron has always been prickly - proud, swift to anger and slow to forgive. And since the war - since being madeHigh Fae against her will - she's struggled to forget the horrors she endured and find a place for herself within the strange and deadly Night Court. The person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred, winged warrior whois there at Nesta's every turn. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. And when they are forced to train in battle together, sparks become flame. As the threat of war casts its shadow over them once again, Nesta and Cassian must fightmonsters from within and without if they are to stand a chance of halting the enemies of their court. But the ultimate risk will be searching for acceptance - and healing - in each other's arms.

The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved cult classic about family, friendship and first love, from award-winning author Benjamin Alire Saenz. This lyrical novel will enrapture readers of Love, Simon, John Green and Call me by your Name.A love story like no other.In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence.Ari has spent all of high school hiding who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can't go back. Suddenly he finds himselfreaching out to new friends, standing up to bullies and making his voice heard. And, always, there is Dante - dreamy, witty Dante - who can get on Ari's nerves and fill him with desire all at once.The boys are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn't understand them. But when Ari is faced with a shocking loss, he'll have to fight like never before to create a life that is truthfully, joyfully his own.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn his highly acclaimed debut, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter.Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer night in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy womanreduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.A második világháború után lassan újjáéledő, magára találó Japán és a közelmúlt Angliája: a főszereplő Ecuko mindkét - egymásra semmiben sem hasonlító - világ részese. A szűkszavúan, visszafogott stílusban elbeszélt, mégis a történelem és a lélekmélységeit feltáró történet két szálon játszódik: Ecuko angol vidéki házában, ahol látogatóba érkezett lányával beszélget, valamint a háború utáni Nagaszakiban, ahol összebarátkozik a nála idősebb Szacsikóval, segít neki a gyereknevelésben, és férje megapósa közt őrlődve éli a gyermekvárás mindennapjait.Ishiguro az olvasóra bízza, mit tart fontosnak a fojtott légkörből, a szereplők álmaiból, kisszerű és töredékes párbeszédeiből. Csak halványan sejlenek fel az árnyak: az erőskezű apa, akinek tekintélyéből már alig maradt valami, a tiszteletet, sőtszolgai alázatot követelő férj, a gazdag család maradéka és a nevelés felelőssége elől egy semmirekellő amerikai ígéreteibe menekülő barátnő, a sérült kislány - a háború pusztítását túlélt városnegyedek, emberek körvonalai. Halvány látkép, de azolvasóban örökre megmarad.A dombok halvány képe, a japán származású angol író első regénye 1982-ben született, és rögtön komoly elismerést hozott szerzőjének. Második regénye, A lebegő világ művésze még szélesebb körben tette ismertté írója nevét, majd a világhírt a Napok romjaihozta meg számára, amelyből emlékezetes film készült. Negyvennél is több nyelvre lefordított műveit számtalan irodalmi díjjal jutalmazták, 2017-ben Nobel-díjat kapott.A dombok halvány képe

The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the BeagleIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride overVictorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across themoth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle ofAmerica to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman.Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his deeply funny new memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. It was ahappy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. But in Bryson's hands, it becomes everyone's story, one that will speak volumes - especiallyto anyone who has ever been young.

The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying.Welcome back to Bayview High . It's been a year since the events of One Of Us Is Lying. But nothing has settled for the residents of Bayview. Not now someone has started playing a sinistergame of Truth or Dare. Choose truth? You must reveal your darkest secret. Choose dare? Well, that could be even more dangerous. Even deadly.

A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell andmore, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron.When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people.Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables.In March of 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fictionfrom some of the finest writers working today help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction?These twenty-nine new stories, from authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and David Mitchell vary widely in texture and tone. Their work will be remembered as a historical tribute to a time and place unlike any other in ourlifetimes, and offer perspective and solace to the reader now and in a future where coronavirus is, hopefully, just a memory.Table of Contents:Preface by Caitlin RoperIntroduction by Rivka GalchenRecognition by Victor LaValleA Blue Sky Like This by Mona AwadThe Walk by Kamila ShamsieTales from the LA River by Colm ToibinClinical Notes by Liz MooreThe Team by Tommy OrangeThe Rock by Leila SlimaniImpatient Griselda by Margaret AtwoodUnder the Magnolia by Yiyun LiOutside by Etgar KeretKeepsakes by Andrew O'HaganThe Girl with the Big Red Suitcase by Rachel KushnerThe Morningside by Tea ObrehtScreen Time by Alejandro ZambraHow We Used to Play by Dinaw MengestuLine 19 Woodstock/Glisan by Karen RussellIf Wishes Was Horses by David MitchellSystems by Charles YuThe Perfect Travel Buddy by Paolo GiordanoAn Obliging Robber by Mia CuotoSleep by Uzodinma IwealaPrudent Girls by Rivers SolomonThat Time at My Brother's Wedding by Laila LalamiA Time of Death, The Death of Time by Julian FuksThe Cellar by Dina NayeliOrigin Story by Matthew BakerTo the Wall by Esi EdugyanBarcelona: Open City by John WrayOne Thing by Edwidge Danticat

After solving murders in her Cotswold village, pushy retired PR agent Agatha Raisin opens her own agency, but jealous secretary Emma 67 has romantic fantasies that rival her employer's. Posh Catherine Laggat-Brown hires Agatha after death threats againstannouncing her daughter's engagement at a dance. Only Agatha sees the glint of a gun in an upstairs window - and pulls the three targets into the swimming pool with herself.

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper may not be the prettiest girl in her high school, but she has a loyal group of friends, biting wit, and a spot-on BS detector. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of a man-slut and slimy school hottie WesleyRush, who calls Bianca the Duff - the designated ugly fat friend - of her crew.But things aren't so great at home and Bianca, desperate for a distraction, ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a secret enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar-and maybe snag him as aprom date-even befriend Wes Bennet. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz's butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawngnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz's in. But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she's shocked to discover that shelikes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love-and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.

Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the Ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but fewpeople are willing to talk.He needs to solve a crime and avoid a scandalWhen Harry lays hands on some incriminating CCTV footage, things only get more complicated. The man who gave him the tape goes missing, and Harry realises that failing to solve a murder case is by no means the only danger that faces the unwary.But in an unfamiliar city, who can you trust?

Una donna ancora giovane, serena e appagata viene abbandonata all'improvviso dal marito e precipita in un gorgo scuro e antico. Rimasta con i due figli e il cane, profondamente segnata dal dolore e dall'umiliazione, Olga, dalla tranquilla Torino dove sic trasferita da qualche anno, c risucchiata tra i fantasmi della sua infanzia napoletana, che si impossessano del presente e la chiudono in una alienata e intermittente percezione di sé. Comincia cosi una caduta rovinosa

Cassie Greenberg needs a new place to live, and fast. When she finds an affordable apartment in a beautiful neighbourhood, she knows there must be a catch. Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is outat night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel. He is also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, always asks about her day, and doesn't look half bad shirtless on the rare occasions they're both home andawake. There's no denying there's a spark between them - but there's also a secret. . . With true love at stake, will Frederick come clean?

Meet Nathan Byrn . . .He's half White Witch, half Black Witch.His mother was a healer, his father is a killer.He's been kept in a cage since he was fourteen.But if White Witches are good and Black Witches are evil, what happens if you are both?'A book about witches with no owls and not a pair of round spectacles in sight. The new Hunger Games,I suspect... Brilliant and utterly compelling - I loved it.' Kate Atkinson, author of Life after Lifeand Behind the Scenes of the Museum'Teens rejoice: the inheritor to Stephenie Meyer's crown has arrived.' Fiona Wilson, The Times'Edgy, arresting and brilliantly written, Half Bad grips you from the first page and doesn't let go.' Michael Grant, author of Gone'A brilliant debut that is both deeply unique and unsettling, one that chilled me to the bone and broke my heart even as I sped through its pages. This will haunt you.' Marie Lu, author of Legend'Take our word for it, this book is going to be huge.' Stylist'Brilliantly paced with more than a few nasty surprises, Half Bad is a wickedly addictive read that will capture the imagination of any fan of YA fiction.' Starburst'Not since the Harry Potter books - yes, I said it! - have I felt so fully immersed in an author's creation... I couldn't be more stoked over Half Bad, and this launch novel of a trilogy truly deserves all the hype surrounding it - and much more...'Amanda Hurley, Inkwood Books

In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination withsimpl