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From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her.

The compelling Number One bestseller from the author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and KEEPING FAITH. A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She doesn't know what she's doing there - or even who she is. She is rescued by a police officer, himself a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Hot Milk by Deborah Levy...

Peter Mandel is an 18-year-old private school senior who’s passionate about photography and bent on keeping his attractions secret. Enter Adam Algedi, a charming, worldly guy who doesn't do labels, but does want to do Peter.

This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes, an avid member of the Hitler Youth in the 1940s. After he is severely injured in a raid, he discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl called Elsa behind a false wall in their large house in Vienna. His initial horror turns to interest, then love and obsession. After the disappearance of his parents, Johannes finds he is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house, the only one responsible for her survival. 

Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart.

A gothic melodrama full of subtle impression and epigram, which tells a story about moral corruption. The Picture of Dorian Gray touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent to it.

Set in Canada with Greece in their not-distant memory, these linked stories resonate with emotional power and the inherent longing of being away from home. At turns funny and poignant, lyrical and straightforward, Nick Papandreou creates characters and situations that charm us with their wit, soul, language, and longing.

What if the body you always dreamed of came with a cost you couldn’t imagine? Adam Stenson’s quest for muscle turns into a deadly spiral of obsession, rage, and self-destruction. Power. Obsession. Betrayal. Adam has spent his whole life feeling small — physically, emotionally, mentally. When his fiancée’s affection starts to fade and his confidence crumbles under the weight of self-doubt, he turns to the one thing that promises power: steroids. What begins as a simple plan to bulk up becomes a full-blown addiction. The gym becomes his temple, the mirror his judge.

Patricia is a famous Christian singer who is rescued from a robbery by a man who seemingly comes out of nowhere. She's shaken up, but her savior is handsome and kind. As a budding romance ensues shortly thereafter....she thinks he's a gift from above...until she finds out that he was part of the paparazzi that was following her. Will she be able to look past that and accept their growing love for what it is?