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Heaven is no paradise : Reflections on Contentment, Happiness and Success is an Audible Original audiobook by Devdutt Pattanaik, narrated by himself. Across twelve chapters, he explores why humans are wired to feel inadequate, how myths and tales shape societies, and how the East, West, and India each frame success differently.

Winner of the Young Adult Fiction Award • 2025 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. When Kieran was twelve, he crashed a "liberated" car deep in the suburban wilds. The accident left his cousin Lucas in hospital and Kieran pretty much done with breaking rules. Four years later, he's reconsidering. Lucas's Allocated recovery time is almost up, and if Kieran can't help him, Lucas is dead. Midnight hospital break-ins and dodgy internet remedies look a lot more tempting when you've tried everything else. Meanwhile, Kieran finds an accomplice in Mira, a girl hiding losses of her own.

When YouTube ghost hunters Sam and Colby head to Kauai for an annual bro trip with two childhood buddies, they’re dying for a break from paranormal investigations - instead, they find themselves at the center of their most horrifying mystery yet.

In 2132 AD, fifteen-year-old Kassiana’s life was royalty. Born on Nemal, the richest of the Paradise Planets, she had no idea how the people of Earth–the Gaians–suffered. But her idyllic and harmonious life was shattered when she was forcefully kidnapped and taken to live among them on a flooded Earth.

Three years after emerging from cryosleep, the survivors of the apocalypse don’t always agree on the best way to live together. Joanna and Levi travel between the bunker communities, fostering cooperation and trying to prevent conflicts. It’s harder than it looks. Just when Joanna thinks they’re making progress, she learns a cohort is missing.

Mei Lin Yu has never felt part of the Yu family or the world of technological marvels and genetic perfection the Founders created. All that will change the summer she spends at Mynyddamore, the home her ancestor Mabel Yu built in Western Caelestis. Here, living among the Ddaerans, the original inhabitants of New Eden, Mei will discover secrets about Mabel Yu her family wants to keep buried and a truth about herself that will forever change her own destiny.

In this short story by Kody Boye, a girl discovers the digital world her mother escaped into during her final days of life.

Four months shy of turning 16, Lexi Montoya was still trying to come to terms with her parents' divorce and her mom's marriage to a man she met online, relocating to Maui, Hawaii. Choosing to remain with her dad in Seattle, Lexi had planned to spend her first summer since the divorce hanging out with her boyfriend, Matt, and her best friend, Robin. But her dad had other plans, insisting she spend the summer visiting her mom and stepdad at his ranch called Paradise Ranch in Wailuku, west Maui.

Rival groups of local and wealthy teens in a small Everglades town confront the secrets that surface in the wake of a hurricane in this “atmospheric and suspenseful” (Kirkus Reviews) thriller from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young—perfect for fans of Outer Banks and The White...

Harrie, un’adolescente con grandi occhi blu e capelli rossi, vive in un mondo tutto suo fatto di sogni, favole, film e tanti interrogativi su una madre mai conosciuta. Paul, instabile e annoiato frontman dei Purple River, uno dei gruppi musicali del momento, si ritrova a fare i conti con il prezzo della celebrità tanto inseguita, che sfregia la sua giovane vita. Il loro incontro avviene per caso o per volere del destino: da quel momento i loro cuori esplodono «come stelle nella notte» e spontaneo nasce il desiderio di fuggire insieme a Nizza, città sdraiata sul mare, tanto luminosa ed elegante da sembrare il paradiso.

Tilley and Faith Hall are living with their grandmother Agnes Grasdon on the plantation they now owned near Smith Mountain in Bedford County, Virginia. Agnes had obtained the massive mansion and over a thousand acres for back taxes, giving her granddaughters the love and security they had never had in their young lives. As Marcie Hall is dying, she is taking a secret to her grave: She had signed over guardianship of her twins to Judge Joe and Beth Blackwell, the last people Agnes Grasdon would want her grandchildren raised by. Once again, Marcie's bad decision will cost her daughters.

Bloomsbury presents This Dark Paradise by Erin Luken, read by Patricia Rodriguez In this YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of Hotel Magnifique and These Violent Delights, a girl visits the enchanted island of her dreams only to discover that its magic is horribly cursed. An enchanted island. In...

When Anna discovers she’s with child, it doesn’t feel as wonderful as she’d imagined. She quickly feels trapped between the doctors blaming her for her morning sickness, older women wanting her to stay home, and very real risks to her baby. Anna’s new friend Elizabeth is reeling from an unexpected loss, and she believes her nervous tendencies are getting worse. Her thoughts have always been strange, and the threat of ending up in an insane asylum is never far from her mind. But when she develops a phobia, she’ll have to face her most dreaded fear to save what she loves most.