City Life

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later....

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge....

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail....

There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Wedding Dress: An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewrite their own stories....

The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing....

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank....

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages....

Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn’t belong. Not with his mother’s new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father’s wife. Not at school, where he’s an outcast....

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power....

Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering addict adrift in the fragmenting landscape of America's middle class.

After a harrowing otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead....

Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts—secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city....

Yeongju is burned out. With her career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop....

Snow blankets Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey....

The best-selling legal thriller - and CBS TV series - has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy - but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life....

In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Birdpaints a picture of the perfect retirement. But it's a lie. In reality, Hubert's days are all the same, dragging on without him seeing a single soul. Until he receives some good news....

An old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life....

Two best-selling Agatha Christie novels in one great audiobook....

EVER WONDER WHAT GOES ON IN THE MIND OF A DOG? Buster: A Dog is the story of one dog's lifelong journey, as told by Buster himself.

After losing his marriage and his beloved retail plant business, Teddy Hughes is ready to drown his sorrows—or would be, if he could afford another beer in his favorite dive bar. He has no choice but to uproot his dreams and leave New York for good. And then a gorgeous stranger walks in....

Breasts & Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own....

Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop....

"This was no suicide," says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide - except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett....

With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwood’s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend....

Jo Waterstone knows what you should read next. She’s honed the skill of sizing up a person and recommending their next book in the decades she’s worked at Bruebaker’s Books. Her life has been shaped by the store, the bustle of customers exploring the stacks, and managing the eager staff. She can honestly say it’s the best job she’s ever had. Then the store’s elderly owner, Mr. Bruebaker, suffers a stroke, and just like that Jo’s perfect job is on the chopping block. Mr. B’s daughters and the bookstore’s icy CEO think the time is right to close for good, and they order Jo to lock up.

Kingsley Lynch fell to her death from a seven-story, downtown rooftop garden. Was it an accident, suicide, or was she pushed? The two detectives assigned to the case decided she jumped. Her husband, an influential city councilor disagrees, and six weeks later Kate Gazzara is assigned to reinvestigate.

Jenlena and Daphne are two aimless humanities grads living in a crumbling Montreal when animals besiege cities and towns across the world, terrorizing their human residents. Though shocking, the threat is quickly neutralized when the animals are killed en masse for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena is transformed, shaking off her characteristic passivity to capitalize on other people’s heartbreak and grief by selling plants that have come to replace pets, and impersonating dogs for pay.

Life doesn’t always turn out as expected...and as Katherine and her friends learn, sometimes it is more of a fruit salad than a bunch of lemons. Jessie is adjusting to married life...then finds out it isn’t the only thing she needs to adjust to. Erin closes an important chapter in her life...then opens the door and finds a much older chapter staring at her...slamming the door shut is her first inclination and probably the smartest thing she could do...but it is complicated...and she is soon to find out that it’s a lot more complicated than she could have ever imagined. The ladies at ...

In Colm Tóibín's masterful new novel, we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, twenty years on, in the 1970s, living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and her children in a house in Long Island, rather too close to her Fiorello in-laws. A shocking piece of news propels Eilis back to Ireland, to a world she thought she had long left behind and to ways of living, and loving, she thought she had lost.

I never pictured ending my wedding day heartbroken, certainly not in my ex-fiancé’s brother’s bed. This jerk cheated on me with my best friend—a bride’s worst nightmare. Alone in my white dress, I drown myself at the bar next to a stranger in a gray suit. But Alexander Grant isn’t any ordinary stranger, he’s my ex’s brother. Sharing my revenge scheme with him isn’t on the agenda. He offered his help, and our wild night made me forget the betrayal. After that night, my world takes a surprising turn. Alexander is now my new boss and working together isn’t easy. Yet he ...

Jenlena and her best friend Daphne are two humanities grads in their early 20s, trying to find their way in a society that has just eradicated all animals for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena transforms from an aspiring poet to a gig worker, capitalizing on other people’s grief by selling house plants that have come to replace pets and cosplaying as dogs for pay. Meanwhile Daphne, a once-promising student, flounders in a deep depression, smoking weed and ditching work to hang out with her once famous, now canceled boyfriend.

Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA, until one reckless night threatens to drive her out of the city. And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her. Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.

A tumultuous novel of beatnik love, unbridled lust, and the torrid world of the TV. It’s the late 1950s. Jane Martin’s skirt-chasing husband cheats on her, but she isn’t exactly faithful herself, feeding her insatiable passions by bedding her lusty boss at the TV station and indulging in forbidden ecstasy with an eager, teenage lover. It’s an unsustainable, high-wire act that will soon send her tumbling to ruin… A pulp classic, back in print for the first time in over 60 years.

England, 1940. Only given two days leave after barely escaping Nazi troops in Paris, Lily Baker visits her fiancé’s family and is dismayed to learn he’s still missing in action. And going from an exciting overseas telephonist post to a routine office assignment leaves her bored… until the Blitz begins. Joining the Air Raid Protection service, Lily’s perilous new role puts her on the chaotic frontlines of deadly shelling and scared crowds turning hostile. But despite her heroism, she is plagued by guilt when she starts feeling attracted to a fellow A.R.P. member.

Sacrificing one night with a ruthless Mafia Don was meant to save my family. Until his brother, Vito, captured my heart and ignited a war. Vito Vitali is Sin City's ultimate catch. Rich, dangerously handsome, and a god among men. He's the forbidden temptation I can't resist, Dominating both the Vegas Strip and my every thought. One night with his devilish brother was not only to clear my family's debt, It was my chance to uncover the truth behind my father's murder. Instead, it threw me into the arms of Vito, Sparking a fierce battle for loyalty and love. As Vito and I drew closer, his ...

The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages.

As a billionaire CEO, I’m used to getting my way—in business and pleasure. Until I hired my best friend's little sister as my assistant. Violet Carter challenges me in ways no woman has before. And her boldness impresses me as much as it infuriates me. I try to deny the magnetic pull between us, but when a work getaway turns into sharing a bed, resistance becomes impossible. I tell myself it’s just physical attraction that draws me to her, nothing more. Emotions only complicate things. But the more time we spend together, the harder it gets to ignore how right she feels in my arms. I ...

He’s a grumpy, sexy, blue-eyed billionaire. And now my boss. I had one task. Seal a deal for work. Apparently, he had the same task too. But I end up quitting my job, so he offers me one. I need the money, so I take it. We work together. Get the job done. Simple as that. I thought it’d be easy to deal with him. Well, I was wrong. One moment, I’m walking on eggshells around him—that darn attitude of his. The next, he’s cupping my face and pressing his lips against mine. And I end up in his bed. This is all so wrong. Because his icy facade hides a truth I'm desperate to unravel. Yet...

My boss hates me. Or does he? It's hard to tell with all the hot, angry glares and fiery banter between us. But falling for him? That's definitely not in my job description. I'm the nanny, and Oliver Burke is my best friend’s brother and off-limits. His kisses though? They make me forget all about my cheating ex-fiancé. And let me tell you, revenge has never tasted so sweet. Especially when Oliver’s intimate lessons awaken desires I never knew I had. But my ex is determined to ruin everything, and somehow, I'm caught in the crossfire. Oliver thinks I'm a traitor. He doesn't know I'd ...