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In the summer of 1967, the Levitsky family convenes for a long weekend at their home in the suburbs—an idyllic holiday for the perfect family. But Nora has always known better. Growing up, she learned to tiptoe around her mother Lillian’s explosive temper. Her father did the same. Nora’s sole confidante was their housekeeper, Clara, and their bond has only strengthened through the years.

'Will stick with you long after you've left the page. A triumph!' Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST 'Combined my favourite things, art and Caribbean food, with beautiful, nuanced characters that I could have spent a lifetime with.' Nathan Bryon, screenwriter of RYE LANE In one tiny Caribbean...

Ally Hawkins has never had a Valentine’s Day date—but this is her year. She can feel it in her endlessly optimistic heart. So when she stumbles upon a love potion at a county fair, she figures…why not? It’s silly, it’s smelly, and she’s a grown woman. But then—bam—the very guy she’s been crushing on asks her to lunch. Coincidence? She thinks not.

“An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The Guardian Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker...

A powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong. One summer morning, college roommates, Ah Lei and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city...

Christian was the only son his parents had, but both died before he had the chance to know them. He grew up with friends who became part of his life for many years. They all had very tragic stories to tell and were all experiencing a Void within that none of them could explain. After years of trying different things and ways to live a better life, they always ended up in more pain and trouble than before. In the midst of their greatest confusion, something very mysterious happened to one of them and left the others extremely suspicious.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER Tender at the Bone meets Finlay Donovan is Killing It in this hilarious, fast-paced mystery about a feisty food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find the killer. Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice...

Trainee relationship counsellor Delilah Braithwaite is better at breaking couples up than bringing them together. But after one break-up too many, she’s suspended and ordered to get to grips with her own baggage if she hopes to get her job back. Desperate to prove she’s not the problem, Delilah accepts a challenge from her sister: track down five exes and make amends for dumping them all with no good reason. But when she runs into Noah - the fiancé she left at the altar - her plans take a complicated turn.

The MacGregors don’t back down from a fight—and they never forget a grudge. Known across Glasgow as The Bloody MacGregors, the family built their empire with bare fists and broken rules. Virgil MacGregor walked away from it all. He wanted peace. A quiet life. No more blood on his hands. But trouble doesn’t care what he wants - and neither do his family. Now his brothers are working for Toni McVay, the ruthless Queen of Glasgow, and chaos is spilling onto Virgil’s doorstep.

Dublin-born Sean O’Connor rules the streets of Kilburn with his charm and his fists. But the locals don’t take kindly to an Irishman muscling in on their patch—and they’re out for blood. As a turf war heats up, Sean digs in deeper, determined to protect his empire and his family. But every move he makes pulls him further from the life he promised his wife, Josie, and their young daughter, Orla. Josie just wants out—a quiet life far from the violence and vendettas. But with Sean risking it all, escape might no longer be an option.

Get ready for a wild ride through dark streets, where monsters roam, magic crackles, and heroes fight shadows at every turn. From wizards to vampires, gods to shapeshifters, these stories will drag you into a world where the impossible is just another day.

Roots in the Air is a journey of love and perseverance, the struggle of a family, a town, and a country for its identity. You will stop from time to time to laugh and feel as I do as I share this novella with you.

Bruce Munro’s first novel, The Burnt Lands, chronicles a summer in a small town on the outskirts of Ottawa. Through this true story, we follow two young delinquents, Bruce and Johnny, as they drop out of school with the promise of a life of freedom in a stolen car. As their misfit lifestyle becomes increasingly debaucherous the two find themselves living in a deserted forest trying to figure out what’s next.

When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he’s been assigned the case—and he doesn’t like it one bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper—something doesn’t add up.

Kora Caselli is the second oldest of the Caselli siblings. Right along with her brother, she’s had to grow up quicker than she wanted to. Sacrificing the life, she thought she would have to be there for her youngest siblings and step into a role that was always chosen for her. As a federal judge, Kora Caselli, or Judge Case, has built her career on being fair—sometimes, tough—and about business within her courtroom. At 34, she’s one of the youngest and most feared judges in the system, known mostly for the high-profile cases she has tried.

London is gripped by terror as a mastermind recreates history's most gruesome murders—without ever dirtying his hands. Paramedic Tom Freedman recruits his killers from the shadows of the internet, manipulating the broken and desperate to carry out his deadly vision. Emotionally damaged criminologist Ethan Marshall is dragged into the case, tasked with stopping a predator who thrives on control and chaos. When Tom's twisted game turns personal, Ethan receives chilling taunts and watches as the killer tightens his grip, pulling him further into the nightmare.

Soms brengt een verkeerde afslag je precies op de juiste bestemming Al tien jaar lang neemt Audrey elke dag dezelfde route naar haar werk. Zodra ze de rotonde naar het parkeerterrein nadert, verandert ze in Audrey van hr. Die Audrey is gemotiveerd en betrouwbaar, drinkt groene thee en maakt iedere dag to-dolijstjes. Maar eigenlijk staat ze op instorten. Elke ochtend wordt het moeilijker om uit bed te komen; ze gebruikt de snoozefunctie steeds vaker. En telkens als ze de rotonde ziet verschijnen, stelt ze zich voor hoe het zou zijn om gewoon door te rijden en een ander leven te beginnen.

Mado Kaaris rebelliert gegen ihre Familie, die Männer, gegen ein Leben, das sie in vorgepresste Bahnen lenkt. Nur, welche Chancen bieten sich ihr? Reicht es aus, nach Paris zu gehen, nachts durch die Clubs zu tanzen, Pillen zu werfen und sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs über Wasser zu halten? Nach fünf Jahren Paris fühlt sie sich um ihre Freiheit betrogen, von den Männern ausgenutzt und erniedrigt. Sie schlägt einen Boxer nieder, der sie aus Eifersucht in seinem Apartment einsperrt, und flüchtet nach Hause zu ihrer Großmutter, um ein paar Tage unterzutauchen.

A trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them. “The Shape of Dreams is a powerful prayer, a novel that indicts the injustice for which there is no quick solution. . . . [It is] a song of furor and tenderness that will leave its...

Sheriff Naya Largusa has spent her entire life in the peaceful, tight-knit community of a small town in rural Colorado. Everything is on track for her to have a great career, until she receives a life-altering phone call one Sunday afternoon. Naya’s brother Vance has just been diagnosed with cancer, and not the kind that the doctor thinks will improve. In fact, he’s slated to get worse. Having no one else in the family to help, Naya immediately packs up her simple life and heads to Denver, exchanging her Sheriff’s badge for a job as a detective.