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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smart, likable Bernie Fine was the wonder boy of Wolff's, New York’s most glamorous department store. A senior VP on the way up, he arrives in San Francisco to open a West Coast store. His career is skyrocketing, but his life lacks a center. When he looks into the...

This collection of three titles from one of America's bestselling authors is available at a special value price. Fine Things Bernie Fine had everything, even what he wanted most, a family. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes and he has to rebuild his life, care for his children and cope with his own...

I'm in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late. People like me don't get happy endings. Not when we're destined to ruin them.

An instant New York Times bestseller From the bestselling author of The Cost of These Dreams The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a...

The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together. There are three things you...

Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, he’s going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave his fancy private high school, and live his life as a star of the stage—at least that’s the plan until he falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his foot in a way he can never recover from. With his dancing dreams dead on their feet, Luca loses his performing arts scholarship and transfers to the local public school, leaving behind all his ballet friends and his whole future on stage.

The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to...

Joanna Nell's life-affirming debut is a moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and community in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Grace and Frankie The life of 79-year-old pensioner PEGGY SMART is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around...

A brand new, unabridged recording of Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine. Trapped in the capital, they have no way of escape. But rumours abound of a...

A compelling dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's Booker Prize-nominated novel about India's underclass India, 1975. Desperate to preserve her independence from her abusive brother, Parsi widow Dina Dilal turns her cramped city apartment into a sweatshop. But when her eyesight begins to fail, she...

In A Fine Thing Murder, Malone, a private investigator, encounters again and again, a serial rapist with ghost-like, supernatural abilities. *Please Note: Some of the characters in A Fine Thing Murder may show (again) their hoary heads in BLOODPACT and Tell Me How You Feel Today by Valda de Dieu. Malone fights off a serial rapist, and it's business as usual for the tough private investigator. Only later does she realize that he is more--much more...He is a rogue Black Ops whose attack on her is part of a very elaborate deep cover plot to expose an International terrorist. When Malone ...

This audiobook will help you develop effective communication skills you can use in all aspects of your daily life: at home with your family, at work, with friends, and in every situation requiring interaction with other people. You will learn how to communicate lovingly and respectfully. You will develop self-confidence and influence. Above all, you will learn why just being an effective listener can instantly elevate your ability to communicate well.

Find honest relief from hidden overwhelm, in just one read, even if your teen (or you) seem “fine” on the outside. Are you worried your teen is quietly falling apart, even as they insist everything is “fine”? Do you see them excelling, or just getting by, but sense they’re under crushing pressure, comparing themselves to everyone online? Do you wish there were a safe, practical resource that doesn’t judge, oversimplify, or expect them to open up before they’re ready? If you answered “yes,” you’re not alone. Quietly Falling Apart (And Other Things We Don’t Post) is the ...

Malone fights off a serial rapist, and it's business as usual for the tough private investigator. Only later does she realize that he is more--much more...He is a rogue Black Ops whose attack on her may--or may not--be part of a very elaborate deep cover plot to expose an International terrorist. When Malone realizes that everything she has worked hard to build up--her business, her reputation, her relationships, even her very life -- is merely collateral damage to the 'powers that be', she gets mad--and even. Because when all hell breaks loose and the odds are against you, even murder ...

The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding (Cheryl Strayed). For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in...

The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over...

Without the Veil Between catches both the triumph and the tragedy of Anne's short but quietly courageous and determined life. This book gives us Anne. Not Anne, the "less gifted" sister of Charlotte and Emily, nor the Anne who "also wrote two novels", but Anne herself, courageous, committed, daring, and fiercely individual: a writer of remarkable insight, prescience and moral courage whose work can still astonish us today.

'Her best yet . . . a wonderful read about growing older and grabbing hold of life' Weekend Australian 'An intriguing, warm-hearted novel challenging age stereotypes' The Australian Women's Weekly 'Warm, insightful and funny . . . celebrates, so well, the treasures that life's later stages can...

TWO CHILLING TALES OF DEADLY OBSESSION...Get close to A Woman Stalked --if you dare! But be warned, our heroines are anything but easy prey. Two FULL novels for your reading pleasure by the incorrigible Valda de Dieu...(Author's note: Though still enjoyable reads, these are early titles and some of the tech is at least 15 years old. Remember 'Floppys'?) In A FINE THING MURDER: A female PI is the target of rogue Black Ops of an ultra-secret unit.... She has to outwit, out-think and out-flank him, using her own resources, while he has the full weight and authority of the United States ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Aged just five, Saroo Brierley was separated from his family in India when he boarded a train that took him 1500km from his hometown. After weeks surviving alone on the streets of Calcutta, he was eventually adopted by an Australian couple. As an adult, Saroo couldn't...