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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...

A love story about a werewolf, a witch and an odd little New England town...Amy Linden has a boring job and lives a boring life...or so it seems. But secretly, Amy is a witch who was raised by a family of witchy women who taught her how to cast spells, chat with ghosts and how to brew a truly enchanting cup of coffee. Nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend just left her, Amy's feeling a little stifled by her small-town life. When her aunt sends her a letter asking Amy to come run her café in Wolf Town, Maine, while she vacations, Amy is prepared for some strong coffee.

Discover six clean and fun best-selling cozy mysteries by Abby Reede to enjoy! The Fern Grove Series: Carnations and Deadly Fixations, One Daisy and Two Crazy Funerals, White Lily and a Fatal Chili, Mistletoe and Deadly Kisses, Freesia and Lethal Amnesia, Daffodils and Poisonous Pills.

Day by day the sentient planet of Petaybee is learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech. But few outsiders truly care for the feelings and intelligence of what they perceive to be a giant hunk of rock or a mere oddity—and the Petaybeans have their hands full trying to protect their beloved planet from the sudden influx of visitors. Some of Petaybee's staunchest champions are kidnapped and held for ransom, and the Petaybeans are faced with an impossible decision.

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful novel which is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of...

Chosen as the Library of Congress's "Great Reads from Great Places" Michigan selection for 2023 "Moving and brave." —People Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which a young single mother and her ten-year-old daughter stand up to the...

Mesmerized by her beauty, I watched as she swayed to the music. Incomparable and exotic, her call to every cell in my body was louder than the 120 decibels of our last concert. Winning her should have been easy. But Aria Winters was unfazed by stardom and looked at me with disdain. She was the only girl I’d ever met who didn’t like rock stars. Challenge accepted.

Carolina Lancaster n'aurait jamais cru revoir West, ce garçon au sourire désarmant qu'elle a rencontré lors d'une chaude nuit d'été à Paris. Pourtant, dès son premier jour à Lancaster Prep, il est là, bien qu'il lui ait dit avoir terminé ses études. West est le seul à pouvoir la toucher sans qu'elle prenne la fuite, le seul qui ait réussi à briser la glace qui enserrait son cœur, qu'elle croyait insensible. Mais céder à ses sentiments pourrait tout compliquer.

This exciting and engaging collection of stories is the perfect way to learn Portuguese while immersing yourself in the fascinating culture and traditions of these amazing countries.

¿ES LA MUERTE EL FIN DE NUESTRA EXISTENCIA? «La gente tiene ansia y necesidad de una respuesta que dé sentido a su vida. El libro del Dr. Álex Gómez-Marín ayudará a abrir consciencias a mucha gente.» Del prólogo del Dr. Sans Segarra, autor de La supraconciencia existe Álex...

Un viajante, vendedor de lencería, espera ansioso al volante la reaparición del hijo huido y recibe la milagrosa ayuda de un héroe del rock. El misterio de la luz de un cuadro, La lechera de Vermeer, devuelve a un escritor al regazo de la madre. Un joven cuenta su historia de amor después de fallecer en un atraco frustrado. Un músico de saxo encuentra el don de la música en la mirada de una muchacha. Una amistad fraternal entre un escolar y un maestro anarquista, que nace de la mutua curiosidad por la vida de los animales, es destrozada por la brutalidad de 1936.

Dans un coin de campagne perdu, une jeune femme lutte contre ses démons : l'ennui des jours, le tourment des nuits, le sentiment d'aliénation – à soi-même et au monde –, les pulsions de désir et de violence qui sans cesse l'assaillent et viennent peu à peu fissurer le tableau d'une vie domestique en apparence sans histoires. On la trouve instable, ingérable ; on l'appelle l'étrangère ; l'hystérique ; la folle.

Mr. Darcy is in love with the beautiful and witty Miss Elizabeth Bennet, but she is entirely unaware of his affections. Determined to spend more time with the beguiling young woman, Mr. Darcy decides to pay a visit to his aunt when he learns that Miss Elizabeth's cousin will soon be hosting her as a guest. As Mr. Darcy decides that he means to secure his future happiness, his cousin and dearest friend Colonel Fitzwilliam comes to the same realization.

The beloved story collection from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit...

Two bitterly rival clans, the MacDonnells and the MacLeods, are forced into an uneasy alliance when something otherworldly crashes into their land. When Ruaridh of the MacDonnells stumbles upon the alien wreckage and witnesses the horror within, it’s clear the clans’ fiercest enemy yet has arrived from the skies, an entity indifferent to their feuds and eager to claim its first Highland prey. As warriors fall and tensions simmer, Hart MacLeod and Ruaridh must put their families' violent history aside, rallying their people against a monstrous force moving like mist and strikes without warning.

2026 Audie Awards winner for Best Science Fiction! "The three narrators' performances are so exquisitely skilled that this audiobook is irresistible...Ray Porter fully embraces the gruff, no-nonsense investigator, who's skeptical about therapy and time travel. Marin Ireland, as the therapist...

Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood to see his novel be adapted for the screen, but why does he get the feeling that the film project is a smokescreen for something else? Does Cassidy Carter, the troubled starlet due to play the lead, know something he doesn’t? And what is the truth about WAT-R, the synthetic water everyone drinks in LA?

When Tracy discovers that her first love is back in town, she's torn between what used to be and what is... her stable relationship with Detective Copeland. Things get further complicated when a member of the circus crew, that's rolled into town, is found dead. The small town of Fern Grove is tired of the awful antics of the circus folk and not many are bothered when this murder is revealed.

Un feel good plein d'espoir au pays du Loch Ness ! Zoe est une mère célibataire désespérée. Elle veut quitter Londres et construire une nouvelle vie avec son fils Hari. Entre le minuscule studio qu'elle peut à peine payer et les klaxons qui les empêchent de dormir, Zoe sent qu'elle est prête à exploser. Sur un coup de tête, elle répond à une annonce pour un emploi de nounou dans les Highlands écossais. La description de poste demande une personne capable de s'occuper de trois "enfants surdoués", dont deux se comportent comme des petits animaux sauvages.

The Monster series. Based on the most disturbing true cases! A killer stalks the streets of Belton. Targeting young kids, their bodies found mutilated, the actions of a savage. The task force hunting him have no clues, no witnesses, nothing. Yet impossibly, kids are still allowed to roam the streets alone at night making it easier for the killer. Or could he be doing the unthinkable; taking them from their own beds while they sleep? Then, as if this wasn’t bad enough, kids start to disappear, kidnapped, unlike the previous deaths. Meaning another copycat killer may be at work too.