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This audiobook is narrated with stunning authenticity by the author, Graeme Armstrong. The Times Top Ten Bestseller A Granta Best of Young British Novelist ‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent ‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny 2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s...

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta’s most notorious gentlemen's club and the woman committed to finding them. When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom...

Born under different stars—Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic—they should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds.

When his older brother gets gunned down, 14-year-old Junius Posey puts down the weed he’s pushing and grips a gun for the first time. As he makes his way into the Rindge Towers, a territory of vicious drug dealers, Junius is forced to defend his best friend to deadly effect. Now there’s no going back. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see his quest through to its end, he pushes ever farther into the towers to find a woman known as “The Oracle” who might have his answer.

Experience the charm of North Dakota's small-town life in "Being Young in Leeds," a collection of stories about children growing up in a close-knit community. Keith Ankenbauer captures the spirit of a bygone era where neighbors were friends, and kids roamed freely and safely.

In this suspenseful novel, young Bradford and Harper want a big house, can't afford it, scour the neighborhood, and change the address on their driver's licenses to that of the house, pack up their belongings into a rented moving van, drive to the house, and force their way in, saying it's their house. The original homeowners are forced out of their house.

After her mother's tragic death, Shayla is left to navigate her teenage years with little help from her neglectful, playboy father. Used and abused by the adults around her, Shayla makes some risky choices, taking a job as a waitress in one of Harlem's top strip clubs before she's even of legal age. She makes ends meet by running scams on unsuspecting patrons, but her luck soon runs out when she is raped and left for dead one night after work.

Falling for a man who only uses sex as a weapon won’t be easy. Trapped in a life of seduction and lies, Sal’s never had anything real. Sex was merely a weapon used to manipulate his family’s rivals. When Sal meets Bailey, everything changes. But when the intimacy and love Bailey offers is too much for Sal to take, he pushes her away.

When the goblin Aric Bramble is arrested for treason against his people, it’s up to Alyssum to rescue him from a dark fate. Saving him will come at a cost and Alyssum Bracken’s world shatters when they return to New York to escape. She discovered things she can’t unlearn, information that contradicts everything she believes in and turns her life into a lie. Abandoning what she’s been taught, Alyssum seeks peace, and attempts to find a way to bring the Gremalians and the Gobel together...

Young Lisa is caught off guard as she enters into a romantic relationship with Bobby, who she later finds out is addicted to drugs. Her battle with his lifestyle eventually takes an emotional toll on her. She has to decide whether her life is more important than his. A lot of people find themselves naïve to the real world of dating and relationships, especially when it comes to dating someone a lot older than themselves. Know that it’s never too late to leave once you find out the truth about who you’re dating.

Jeffrey Jacob was born with the world in his hands to a loving mother and a father who was practically a street Kingpin. His childhood life was one that every kid dreamed of. Unfortunately, years later, his dad was murdered from being caught up in a life of crime, and then his mom was gunned down from being robbed. Young Jeffrey is left behind to figure life out on his own.