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The brilliant new summer bestseller from Lindsey Kelk, author of the I Heart series Everyone loves a bridesmaid. Except Maddie, who’s perpetually asked to be one. Everyone loves a wedding. Except Maddie’s best friend, who’s getting divorced. And everyone loves the way Maddie’s so happy...

She thought she'd seen the back of the Delaneys. How wrong could she be . . . Ruthless is the fifth book in the compelling Annie Carter series by hit crime writer Jessie Keane, read by actress Karen Cass. Annie Carter should have demanded to see their bodies lying on a slab in the morgue, but...

As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I, life on Weaver Street in 1924 is blessedly peaceful. But as the Depression begins to bite, and the arrival of the Muller family on Weaver Street signals the worrying drumbeats of conflict coming from Germany, the fragile happiness and peace Liverpool has been enjoying looks destined to end. And as the neighbours pull together in the toughest of times, the women on Weaver Street face the prospect of waving their menfolk off to war.

Quand la douceur du matcha apaise les blessures de l’âme… À Montmartre, Étienne, papa solo de jumeaux, tient une pharmacie de quartier pas comme les autres. Persuadé que la parole guérit autant que les médicaments, il propose aux habitués comme aux clients de passage de discuter...

This complete bundle brings together Books 1 and 2 of the Slave Pimp Saga in one powerful audiobook experience. In The Slave Pimp: Legend of Billy Mic, follow Billy Mic as he rises through chaos, survival, and power in a brutal and unpredictable world. His journey pushes him beyond limits, uncovering forces and abilities that begin to reshape his destiny. In The Slave Pimp 2: Return of the Mac, a new force takes center stage. Mac Sleazy emerges with his own mindset, ambition, and presence, bringing a different kind of power into the story.

Before they were the Real Housewives of Memphis, they were just five girls from Orange Mound trying to survive, dream, and find themselves in the streets of early 2000s Memphis Meet Shyanna, Jenna (Juice), Veronica, Shelby, and Juanita, five best friends who are trying to figure it out post high school, bound by loyalty, secrets, and struggle. Life in the Mound isn’t easy. Every choice has a consequence, every dream comes with a price, and every girl is fighting for a future bigger than what the hood has planned for her.

A Bed of Roses — Reloaded is not a dystopia and not a thriller—though it borrows the grammar of both. It is an audiobook about how modern power actually works: quietly, procedurally, without spectacle—and what happens when someone stops moving at the speed it expects.

Alibi by Teri Woods is a gripping urban thriller that plunges readers into the gritty streets of North Philadelphia in 1986, where loyalty, betrayal, and survival collide. Lance and Jeremy, two desperate men looking for a way out of their struggles, thought they'd found the perfect...

Alibi II: Nard's Revenge is a raw, unflinching chronicle of how one courtroom betrayal unravels across decades, leaving a trail of shattered lives, cold vengeance, and a final, devastating reckoning. In the tradition of great urban crime fiction, it asks the question every survivor must face...

Uma charmosa pousada no interior da Islândia está à sua espera para uma temporada de amor, aconchego na frente da lareira e toda a exuberância da Aurora Boreal. A jovem Lucy Smart está passando por um momento delicado. Acabou de sofrer uma decepção amorosa que se transformou, ao mesmo tempo, em uma desilusão profissional. Com o coração e a carreira em frangalhos, ela precisa se afastar da vida que tem em Bath, no interior da Inglaterra. Por isso, agarra com unhas e dentes a única oportunidade de emprego que consegue: uma vaga de gerente na pousada Aurora Boreal, na Islândia.

Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family's hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends—each of whom...

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you...

“A funny and moving commentary on that point in a woman's life when everything seems to come into question." —Camille Perri, The New York Times "It's the superb insights and penetrating writing that make this book remarkable... An extraordinary debut." —The Guardian "Enthralling, sharply...

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something...

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable...

'Glorious' New York Times Book Review 'The compelling energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire' Guardian 'Whitehead's crime series is one of the most enjoyable streaks in recent fiction' Telegraph 'This novel has it all' Mail on Sunday A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful...

Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not least the birth of his brother Ulysses. Bertie had hoped that caring for a new baby would command all of his mother's attention, but he quickly sees that his dream of being left to his own devices is not destined to come true.

Normally little happens in these mixed streets of families, retirees, podcasters and gossips. A little group create a community garden. An ageing journalist writes nature columns. A left-wing Scotsman longs for the glory days when he interviewed Castro. A disabled professor plans a book clearance. Supine Mario takes far too many drugs. And Wilf Kelly decides to get a fox as a pet.

When Elsie and Bert Jones move with their children, Ann and Arthur, to Candle Lane, a modest street in Battersea, they miss their comfortable house in Wimbledon. But the move is the right thing to do, as it will enable Bert to finance his new removal business. They are a warmhearted family, and Elsie soon makes friends with her less fortunate neighbour, Ruth, and her daughter, Sally. But before long Elsie realises that all is not well in the house next door....