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She wanted the American dream. What she got was a nightmare, betrayal, and the fight of her life. When Tammy Mellows leaves England to join her estranged father in California, she's hopeful for a fresh start—and desperate to find her missing sister. But dreams fade fast when Tammy's forbidden relationship leads to heartbreak and her life takes a dangerous turn.

This audiobook is read by Lauryn Allman, narrator of The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. 'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing From the number one bestselling author of The Women, in Kristin Hannah’s Night Road, the...

It's the early 1990s and Ruby 'Red' McCoy dreams about one day leaving her weatherboard house on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where her best friend, Stevie, is loose with the truth, and her dad, Sid, is always on the wrong side of the law. But wild, whip-smart Red can't stay out of trouble to save her life, and Sid's latest hustle is more harebrained than usual. Meanwhile, Sergeant Trevor Healy seems to have a vendetta against every generation of the McCoys.

Hasta el momento en que su padre decide suicidarse, la vida de Marcos parece normal. Va al colegio, lee novelas de aventuras, tiene su grupo de amigos, de vez en cuando le ayuda a su viejo en la tienda de barrio que les da de comer. Sin embargo, a partir de ese día, Marcos debe convertirse en hombre y valerse por sí mismo. Una apasionante historia se desata cuando descubre que, en un oscuro y alejado centro para enfermos mentales, vive un hermano suyo del que no tenía noticia, un personaje luminoso que le cambiará la vida para siempre.

Luigi Bellandi, professeur et traducteur, se remémore l'été 1972. Il a alors « douze ans et quatre mois » lorsqu'il retrouve la maison de vacances que sa famille loue chaque année dans une station balnéaire de la côte toscane. Pour celui que l'on surnomme Gigio, c'est la saison des découvertes – la musique, la littérature et la naissance du désir. Les Jeux olympiques de Munich débutent et l'éclosion des premières amours pourrait être joyeuse si l'on ne pressentait pas l'avènement d'un drame intime, familial et politique. La « férocité du monde » frappera immanquablement le jeune garçon.

Home for the summer in Silicon Valley after his first year at Berkeley, Colin drifts through fading family ties, old friendships, and the bittersweet pull of first love—only to find that nothing feels quite the way it used to. But by the novel’s end, he knows he can’t go back. Packed with road trips, keggers, and the kind of nights that felt like they’d last forever, Mountain View captures the blur of a summer where everything changes.

Brought to you by Penguin. By the million-copy bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY, a Times bestseller and Time magazine Top 100 title From the three-times nominated author for the Japan Booksellers award: Volume Two of the Marble Cafe series, in which customers...

On New Year’s Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the 13-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger—his father died in the mines—but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed. From that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family.

C'est l'histoire d'une fille qui n'est pas d'accord avec l'ordre social. De l'enfance à l'écriture, en passant par un bar mystérieux, une maison abandonnée, un immeuble rempli de sectes, ou le sommet d'une montagne, la narratrice nous entraîne dans une odyssée parsemée de miroirs homériques, de chants d'aèdes qui nous montrent le livre en train de se faire. Les Forces reprend et détourne les motifs du roman d'apprentissage. Alternant le prosaïque et le théorique en un éclair, le livre se déploie dans une narration allant du tragique au comique.

Vanessa, vent'anni, decide di scappare di casa per intraprendere un viaggio sulle tracce del tragitto migratorio di una farfalla che porta il suo stesso nome, la Vanessa del Cardo: è una farfalla speciale che attraversa l'Europa partendo dalla Norvegia per arrivare, infine, in Marocco. Vanessa ha il cuore colmo di dolore e la convinzione di non meritare un posto nel mondo. L'impossibilità di accettare quel lutto la spinge a partire, a fuggire da coloro che ama per evitare di contagiarli con la sua "sfortuna", alla ricerca di un senso nella propria esistenza.

PRE-ORDER NOW Tess enters the prestigious and exclusive Ravensthorpe Writing College with dreams of literary greatness, but soon discovers that ambition comes at a cost. Drawn into a tight-knit group with fellow writers Ethan, Theo, and Jaz, Tess’s world is upended when a mysterious crime is...

L'un a été élevé pour régner, l'autre pour mourir. Dans la cité de Castellane, où tout le monde cherche à s'enrichir et à gagner du pouvoir, Kel est choisi pour devenir le Pare-Lame, la doublure du prince héritier Conor Aurélien. En tant que tel, son destin est de protéger celui...

The dragon’s attack didn’t just level the city—it poisoned the land, leaving nothing behind but ash and a curse that refuses to fade. Kai Renwick survived that day, but sometimes he wishes he hadn’t. He’s spent a decade trying to outrun the past. Trying to build a life in a city untouched by dragons. Trying to forget. When a desperate healing ritual re-awakens the lingering curse, Kai is struck by magic that should have killed him. Instead, it binds itself to his soul.

Talia has spent her life in hiding, unaware of the ancient power stirring within her. But when a violent magical attack tears her from Earth and strands her in a dying world, everything changes. Shadows answer her call, ancient symbols burn beneath her skin, and a voice whispers a name she never knew was hers. Across the mountains, in the gilded heart of the light elves’ court, Lyriana lives a life of obedience. But her dreams are haunted by a girl who looks just like her—one wrapped in shadow and sorrow.

Musa is a young man in Uganda who struggles to pay school fees and stay in school until he graduates as a doctor. It begins with his father’s desire to keep up appearances in an elite club and his mother’s ambition to become a nurse. Musa survives in school, doing well academically while trying to be the darling of girls, but he competes with rich boys and sugar daddies. They are in the difficult position of needing money but also wanting true love from a boy like Musa.

In the first of an extraordinary series from bestseller S.J.A. Turney, the fate of Empire hangs in the balance… Istanbul, 1481: The once great city of Constantine, a strange mix of Christians, Turks and Jews, now forms the heart of the Ottoman empire. The conquest, still a recent memory, means...

In 2008, Desiree, January, Monique and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood and of big city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood–overwhelming, mysterious and full of freedom and consequences–swoops in and stays.

In Saint-Pierre—where banners rise above stone keeps and villagers toil—17-year-old Etienne learns that loyalty is everything under the stern Lord Bertrand.

It's 1983 Dundee, Scotland. Smart lonely and raging with grief, Ella is done trying to fit in. Caught up in the post-punk scene and on the verge of going off the rails, she is packed off to St Cecilia's, a convent boarding school to keep her out of harm's way. But when her new classmates claim to have been visited by the Virgin Mary, Ella is drawn into a far darker world of chaos.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year... Jack is just twelve years old when he rushes down the hill after his mother's car on his bike, desperate to reach her before she reaches the lake. What happens next cannot be undone...