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Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, it's only a minor crime. Nobody's going to get hurt. But other people do get hurt, because Natalie's actions do have consequences – tragic consequences.

Payback follows three naïve but ambitious young women chasing their professional dreams in late twentieth-century corporate America. Over the years, their growing friendship forms a tight-knit, supportive bond that sees them through challenges related to gender bias, assault, and racism—as well as the joys of discovering their sexual identity, falling in love, and raising children while navigating demanding careers.

The acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that won't stop changing. At 27...

In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into a world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York, a young woman struggles to protect her stroke-stricken charge as bruises multiply on the woman’s body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royals’ jazz-soaked townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the ’70s and ’80s.

Wie Begegnungen unser Leben verändern. Dieses Buch zeigt die unausweichliche Wahrheit auf, dass alle Leben miteinander verwoben und wir für unsere Handlungen verantwortlich sind, genauso wie für die Freude und das Leid der anderen. Nach dem Überraschungserfolg von 23 Leben kommt nun der 2. Band der außergewöhnlichen Buchreihe.

In the heart of Chicago, recently widowed forty-five-year-old Angie Sortino finds herself at a crossroads. After she discovers that her deceased husband has left her penniless, Angie's spirited niece, Gina, and Gina's best friend, Kim, approach her with the idea of starting a catering company targeting funeral parlors. Angie embarks on this new venture, discovering the challenges of the catering business.

When reporter Evelyn Drake turns up dead, Detective Declan Marr is assigned the kind of case nobody wants: no witnesses and no motive—at least not at first glance. The more Marr pulls at the threads Evelyn left behind, the more he uncovers a quiet network of men who move money, favors, and threats through the city without ever being seen. A network people whisper about but never name. And they’ve already marked their next target.

Prince Jael of the Severin never meant to unlock the Crimson Gateway beneath his parents’ castle. The portals had been sealed for millennia. Only the female Fae of Caldaen were meant to wield dream-sorcery. Jael forced himself into lucidity, crossed the gateway, and emerged in a mirrored Oxford. The Severin once roamed the ten Clone-Earths for ages, until a Pagan witch and a Catholic monk worked together to seal the Crimson Gateways centuries ago. Now Jael has reopened the path for his people to feed on souls once more—and reclaim their lost immortality.

Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect and security. Now Batter is in his early 20s, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some people and bores most. Poetry. And yet to him - and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck - poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.

The Gospel of Grit is a cinematic, emotionally charged urban fiction masterpiece that fuses street realism, spiritual depth, and poetic intensity into a modern classic. It follows Grit, a man molded by betrayal, loss, and the brutal laws of survival. Through his story, the novel becomes a living sermon about loyalty, legacy, and the price of peace when the streets refuse to stay quiet.

Already the gateway for illegal Canadian liquor during Prohibition, the Motor City becomes a crucible for American class conflict during the Great Depression, with an army of laid off Ford workers drifting into the ranks of the burgeoning union movement—Henry Ford's worst nightmare.

In the summer of 1977, Tom Hargrove loves his girlfriend Patty, The Grateful Dead, and playing bass with his band, The Hermits. Living in Newark, New Jersey, the lights of New York City just a river away, he's desperate for a change. There's a glimmer of hope when The Hermits are invited to LA for a once in a lifetime audition; at stake is more money than any of them have seen in their lives. Once in California, things are hardly idyllic. Tom's chance encounter with megastar Denise Peck could be their lucky break. As her interest grows, their connection threatens to unravel everything.

Asher Banks, with his honey-brown colored eyes and cocky attitude, has been at the top of my shit list since college. Nothing has changed in thirteen years. They call him the Boogeyman of Business because his marketing firm has single-handedly bankrupted several corporations with little to no effort. And because of my jealous ex, I’m now in Banks’ crosshairs.

When Florence, a bright London schoolgirl, confronts the sudden death of a teacher, her search for meaning leads her through churches, science fairs, and Hampstead's ancient landscapes. With Darren at her side, she begins piecing together the mysteries of life itself — from the structure of a single cell to the vast, unsettling question of why anything lives or dies at all.

Fourteen-year-old Rainey Royal—fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic—lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him. Her mother is gone. Her father's best friend hovers too close. And Rainey, left largely to her own devices, must learn to navigate desire, betrayal, and vulnerability in a city that shimmers with promise and threat. As she gathers friends and misfits into her orbit, Rainey tests the limits of who she can become—sometimes a rebel, sometimes a criminal, always a girl determined to recreate herself.

There was zero chance of seeing the Armani-clad stranger again. I didn't even catch his name—just that he was the hottest mistake of my life. But the universe? It loves a plot twist. Because Mr. Elevator Guy...He's Nick Ashford. My broody as hell brand-new boss.

Marcus Chen is thirty-five, unemployed, and drowning in jealousy. While he struggles to finish his novel and make rent on his studio apartment, his younger brother Ethan is building a tech empire, living in a penthouse, and planning a picture-perfect wedding. Every family dinner is a reminder of Marcus's failures. Every success Ethan achieves feels like a personal attack. The resentment that started in childhood has grown into something toxic something that's destroying their relationship and Marcus's sense of self-worth.

From the moment she was born, Tokyo was destined to lose. With drug addicts for parents, hope was scarce. But when her mother is sentenced to six years in prison, life luckily changes for the better. Moving in with her grandmother ended up being the best thing for both her and her little sister...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend...

Narrated by Tim McIlrath, the legendary front man and voice of the Chicago punk rock band, Rise Against, A Mild Form of Madness is a raw Chicago odyssey. This is not a quiet book. It's written in a full-throttle voice—part street philosophy part love letter to Chicago, part confession. Through strides strode through bustling or desolate streets, bike rides along frozen water, chance conversations with strangers and nights where music turns a crowd into something holy, the narrator wrestles with work, meaning, addiction, loyalty and loss.