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Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius — a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why does she...

In late 2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad dreams of owning a business. To accommodate his friends' passion, he opens a cricket shop. However, nothing comes easily in a turbulent city. To realise their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, calamities, unacceptable love and, above all, their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual's dreams overcome the nightmares of real life? Can we succeed despite mistakes?

From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies. 'This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ – The Times 'One of our finest novelists of constrained fury: nobody...

Haven Banks is the deadliest man in Jersey, and he loves it. The fear and pain he inflicts on people gives him a high he can’t come down from. However; he will meet his match in the last person he expected. Never backing down from another, things become chaotic and Haven will find out not...

'Silly, poignant, and utterly relatable' Mara Faye Lentham 'A charming, delightful gem' Susan Coll 'A wry read perfect for anyone who's ever worked in a customer facing job' Mackenzie Reed Kyoko Tanihara still loves books. Just about. But life at the Musashino Bookstore is starting to get her...

Novembre 1982. Tutto ebbe inizio con quel film, Il Poeta Scozzese. La vita di Lorenzo Bisetti, studente di violino presso il Conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano, da quella pellicola non fu più la stessa. Il primo viaggio del 1985 in terra californiana aprì una breccia "americana" nella sua anima: ma il successivo viaggio del 16 Marzo 1986 ne decretò la finale metamorfosi. Hollywood scardinò definitivamente l'equilibrio della sua giovane, già "instabile", esistenza, ma fu l'amore, o forse meglio la morte dell'amore, ad infliggergli una severa sentenza... eterna.

I'm a romance writer in a slump. All I did was tag along to a hockey game with my brother. The star player slams a guy into a wall and turns to give the crowd a thumbs-up. Just like that… a spark ignited in me. I went home and scribbled down a story idea, posting it to Instagram. The next morning, thousands of new followers and an avalanche of comments. People loved my idea. So, I followed the inspiration, bought season tickets to the Vipers games, and kept my new project a secret.

Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do—if they act quickly enough there will be no lasting damage, and Emery's heart can be restarted. But when this happens, she is briefly technically dead. Each time Emery's heart stops, she meets Nick. His purpose is to help people adjust to the fact that they are dead, to help them say goodbye, before they move on entirely. He does not usually meet people more than once—but with Emery, he is able to make a connection, and he finds himself drawn to her.

An emotional portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine’s day approaches, in 1941 wartime London ‘Life brought enough problems and upsets for young hearts, especially young female hearts, without them having to carry the added burden of the war….’ Tilly is passionately in love with the dashing American journalist, Drew. But he is harbouring a secret that threatens their burgeoning love.

As the Zoo Boyz brotherhood teeters on the brink of collapse, the story unfolds further as Preach grapples with the ultimate choice of siding with the streets or the pulpit. Between trying to be the perfect Preacher's kid and remaining a friend to his brothers, his faith never wavers. During the Zoo Boyz's quest to understand Chevy's inexplicable desire to travel, Preach crossed paths with an individual who would alter the course of his life in ways he never imagined. Navi enters Preach's heart like a thief in the night.

My irresponsible mother strikes again leaving me with a surprise sibling. I need the money in my trust fund to take care of this baby, fast. The only way to get it? I have to be married. Enter Brett Ratcliff, star player for the Vermont Vipers and my ridiculously hot client. He's all charm, easy smiles, and bad decisions. He offers to marry me. He thinks marriage is a fun game; I think it's fraud. Moving in with him is supposed to be temporary. But there's something about the way he holds the baby… and me. This fake marriage is starting to feel way too real.

In the latest and most surprising novel in the bestselling Leonid McGill series, Leonid finds himself caught between his sins of the past and an all-too-vivid present. Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8...

LEXI - The plan was simple. Walk in, settle my deadbeat dad's debt, walk out and finally wash my hands of my father once and for all. That was the plan at least. Until it goes all wrong and I'm left playing my cards right in a game of poker to win my freedom.

VJ found the woman of his dreams; unfortunately, they’re both attached to someone else. He realizes Armonie is where his heart lies and decides to end his relationship with Mecca. He informs Monie that’s its her he wants but something bad happens to her in front of his eyes. At the same time...

Just when Cherokee thought she was going to be done with her first love for good, she's hit with some news that throws a monkey wrench in her plans to rid herself of Dillinger Rivera. Dillinger is willing to do anything in his power to show Cherokee that she still holds his heart in her hands, even if that means getting rid of his wife, Carmilla. Only thing is, Carmilla is not going to just let go of the man she has dedicated the past five years of her life to that easily.  

When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at the Washington Post exclaimed, “The author pulled me in so deftly, moved me up an escalating scale of sly hyperbole so cunningly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system”; Florence King at the Dallas Times Herald, “The most exciting event in American letters for a very long time: a momentous book.”

Life’s beautiful for seventysomething influencer Gloria Rose, in her Upper West Side loft with rooftop garden and scores of Instagram followers - until she gets word that her old flame has been arrested for art theft and forgery, and, knowing her own involvement in his misdeeds decades earlier, decides to flee. But that plan is complicated when the nieces she raised are thrown into crises of their own.

A go-getter by nature, Amoni Cash always makes sure to obtain whatever his heart desires. That includes the women he sets his sights on. One has him by the history they share, and the other has his heart in a chokehold. Not sure which way he should go, Amoni figures he can have it his way and entertain them both. The plot thickens when a team player grows tired of not being the star player. In the blink of an eye, Amoni's ideal life is transformed into ruins when he finds himself losing control.

Time has started to move faster, with three years having passed in the blink of an eye. Jamie has used the time well, managing a gut renovation on a Victorian charmer just a block away. Ryan’s been chipping away at her dissertation. Not exactly the path she thought she’d be on, but she’s finally come to accept that she’s a happier person when she lets life happen. But even a laid-back Ryan is not a Ryan without plans, and she’s been nipping at Jamie’s heels on a routine basis, certain now is the time to start their family.