City Life

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....

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

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....

I ran from my Russian father to escape an arranged marriage and ended up handcuffed to an Italian mafia hitman … in his bed. He’s as intensely beautiful as he is ruthless. A dichotomy of callous yet kind that fascinates me, though I know it shouldn’t. The man’s a killer.

What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of Under the Whispering Door with the high-stakes culinary world of Sweetbitter, Aftertaste is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.

With the secrets of Mello’s infidelity, Patsy is left with a baby, drinking problem and decision to make on her marriage. For years Patsy’s life has been about her husband. Will she be willing to work things out with the only man she has loved?

In part two of Homies, Lovers And Friends, Michelle is left with the fact that her life with Tasheem just might have caused her cousin to be murdered. When taking four steps forward, she feels as if she's pushed back fifteen.

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting....

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....

An all-new recording published for the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, this production presents the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with an introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

All around Albuquerque, New Mexico, young women are going missing, seemingly vanished into thin air. With no link between the victims, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is quickly plunged into a horrifying case with no obvious clues....

A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.

A gripping debut from an electrifying new voice about an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamourous parties and sudden consequences, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest.

A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut.

Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and many other publications, Convenience Store Woman is both delightfully strange and oddly heartwarming.

Summer in London stops for no one. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke.

In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen’s Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan’s modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes don’t have to look any further than your own backyard....

A dazzling novel about one young woman’s summer of infinite possibility . . .

From internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life.

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

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....

Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: most wanted....

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....

In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1 and 2, Beau L’Amour takes the listener on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime.

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

It’s 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of proudly fat vaudeville performer Evelyn Cross. Enter Thomas Gallier, the man behind the new palace of entertainment promising to be the apex of New York City’s theatrical scene. He’s in search of a star for his vaudeville spectacular, and when he hears Evelyn sing, he knows exactly who he needs to grace his stage.

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."

DEEP. RAW. EMOTIONAL. POWERFUL. He was down on his luck when an angel appeared.. She was like a sip of water in the middle of a desert, and he was shook. It was instant. He vowed to earn her. To have her. But then life threw them a curve ball, and he fell far, fast. Can she save him again. She did once... Will she want to after she discovers his secrets. His pain. Pain that includes her. Find out in this deep and emotionally compelling read. Get hooked from page one! **Trigger Warning!

As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle—“Lord Doyle” to his fellow players—descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking refuge in a series of louche and dimly lit hotels, he watches his fortune rise and fall as the cards decide his fate.

Elio Rossi is a dream on paper. He's rich, handsome, and head of his family's multi-billion-dollar business. He's also a ruthless Mafia Don and my older brother's best friend. But even that isn't a huge issue to me. No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man. We've been betrothed since childhood. But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident. One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.

I’ve fake-married a Mafia Don who killed a man at our wedding. Luca Moretti is lethal in a suit—eleven years older, colder, and carved from command. Ice cold eyes and a voice that makes kings kneel. Our marriage is a weapon—to keep me breathing and my family’s empire from collapse. No love. No future. Just survival. It’s supposed to be fake. Until his touch turns savage. Until I let him take me—while another man’s blood is still on his hands. Then everything unravels. My father is poisoned. The Bratva closes in. The fortune I was born to inherit begins to rot from within. From...

The Don wants revenge. So he kidnaps me and forces me into marriage. He’s almost fifteen years older than me. And he’s enraged at my family. When he sees me in a club, he ties me up and throws me in his car. And just like that, I’m forced to marry the enemy. Growing up in the Bratva toughened me up. So when he binds my hands, I fight him hard. But I don’t stand a chance. He carries me over his shoulder and tosses me on the bed. He’s the one in charge. He determines the rules. He releases my binds, but I know he’s got me chained to him. He’s got me cornered, playing my body ...

She innocently took my order for a drink. Next thing she knows, I claim her as my bride. She looks so delectable and miserable that something inside my cold chest explodes. When she accidentally gets shot instead of me, I know only getting married can protect her. Her plus-size curves are mine. Her innocence is mine. She will have my ring and my baby. I move around in the darkest corners of the underworld. In contrast, her world is innocent, and I will keep it that way. I will protect her life with mine. I will kill anyone who dares touch her. She may think she doesn’t want to, but our ...

I’m sold off as a bride to a cruel Bratva monster. I never thought Daddy would sell me. But he did. My new husband is a decade my senior and known for his ruthlessness. I try to fight it…but he now owns my body and knocks me up. Escaping him didn’t work. Instead, I’m dragged to the venue where the priest joins us. I hate being trapped in a union with someone as cruel as him. Someone who can break me with his bare hands. Someone who makes my body go soft without me wanting it. He says that if I think he’s cruel, he’ll be exactly what I want him to be. He lists a set of rules for ...

I have to marry my worst enemy…so that I can have my revenge. He betrayed me and broke my heart into a million pieces. Months later, my cousin has to enter an arranged marriage with him to unite our families. I offer myself as his bride instead. So that I can break him the way he did me. I’ve been yearning for the day I can make him suffer. But who was I kidding? He’s the Bratva, after all, and older and more experienced to boot. He picks me up, throws me over his shoulder, and takes me away. He locks me in a room and says I’m his now. His private possession. He rules my world again...

Come take a ride through your wildest fantasies! Slater I've been called a natural born leader, but really I'm just an ex-Marine turned biker who wants to see everyone just be happy. Of course, that doesn't always include myself. My first love lost her life in a senseless moment in time and I've never truly moved on. When the scared sweetheart Della calls the club, her voice shaking with every word, to find find her father, I'm the one who has to give her the bad news about him. But there's good news, I'm going save this angel and together we'll ride into the sunset. Della Sure, I'm scared,...

Agent Richard Chance is on a relentless mission to avenge his partner's murder by bringing down master counterfeiter Eric Masters. As Chance delves into the dangerous underworld of Los Angeles, he faces a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where every move could be his last.

Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks who made up the Factory milieu.

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I was walking into the heart of the Valenti mafia. I didn’t know the man behind the name was a billionaire crime boss who ...

As Babbitt grapples with the suffocating monotony of suburban life, societal expectations, and his own unfulfilled desires, Lewis paints a timeless portrait of conformity, materialism, and self-deception. A biting critique of the American Dream, Babbitt explores the search for meaning in a world that seems more obsessed with status than substance.

En ce mois de mars 1912, le Tout-Londres frissonne en attendant l'événement de l'année. Sally, Beth, Maggie et Rachel, qui font connaissance lors de leur entretien d'embauche, ont toutes la chance d'être recrutées. L'aventure commence pour ces petites mains qui vont devenir demoiselles de magasin. Entre peines de cœur et coups du destin, petites joies et grands espoirs, Rosie Clarke nous entraîne dans le sillage de ces jeunes femmes enthousiastes, bientôt soudées par une amitié indéfectible.

When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he’s been assigned the case—and he doesn’t like it one bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper—something doesn’t add up.

Un homme d'affaires en voyage s'installe dans une autre chambre de motel. Celle-ci est exactement comme toutes les autres. Les mêmes rideaux fades. Le même papier peint décoloré. La même odeur de renfermé. Alors que le monde poursuit sa course à l'extérieur de la porte du motel, il évalue sa carrière et sa vie, se demandant: "Où suis-je ?"

Sandy Eden, a Vietnam survivor turned charismatic barrister, has a taste for bourbon, blues, and the relentless pursuit of justice. Yet he often wonders—for what? The answer is his elixir: live music in Austin, where he and his love, Bev, follow the soulful bass lines of his longtime friend Dude from one club to another. But whiskey and blues can’t satisfy his deeper urge to give bullies their due—an itch born in the chaos of war and sharpened by his legal battles.