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A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Washington Post, Sun Sentinel A USA TODAY BESTSELLER AS RECOMMENDED ON THE TODAY SHOW AND CBS SUNDAY MORNING A suspenseful story about a vacation in the Hamptons that goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history From the New York...

For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally’s questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. 

"As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance." —Vulture A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks! A propulsive and uncommonly wise...

I was one of the lucky ones. I found my soulmate back in high school, when my next door neighbor wrote me a love note that changed my life - a love note that promised me "always". But apparently "always" ain't all it's cracked up to be, because here I am, a mere eight years later, planning my soulmate's dream wedding - the most romantic Valentine's Day wedding in O'Leary's history.

The Last Love Note will make listeners laugh, cry, and renew their faith in the resilience of the human heart—recognizing that while you may never stop loving the one you lost, you can always find love again.

From the author of the Read with Jenna pick The Wedding People, a ruefully funny debut novel that deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent suburban universe is Emily Vidal...

Field Notes from an Extinction follows the life and work of one Ignatius Green, a fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast. Green is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings, and other minutiae he can gather about the Great Auk (pinguinus impennis).

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR “Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie...

The beat. The cheers. The thrill of the unknown. I shouldn’t leave the safety of the music arena—my last name is McKallister, after all, and I’m intimately familiar with worst-case scenarios. But I’m drawn by the talent and the turmoil behind the weary eyes of the drummer on the streets. I’ve never seen anyone my age as wild and unrestrained, a lightning bolt of electricity that never hits the same spot on his bucket drums twice. He plays with such confidence, such rage. I have to know who he is and where he learned to bang out drum solos like he owns the night. I want to help him.

Imagine immersing yourself in the most powerful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex stories ever written-now curated into a single, comprehensive volume that brings Dostoevsky's brilliance to life like never before. The Complete Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection offers his most celebrated novels, novellas, and short stories, designed to captivate your mind and soul with timeless themes of guilt, redemption, madness, morality, and the human condition.

The author of the “brilliant” (Library Journal) An Academic Affair returns with a steamy romance about a recently separated single mom who’s absolutely not looking for another relationship...only to fall for the younger owner of her favorite wine bar. Fiona Fisher thought she had it all: a...

Traga a descrição no chat, já formatada com negritos e itálicos. 13:25 The complete text of both Alice novels — unabridged, carefully formatted, and followed by three critical essays that transform a childhood favorite into a book you'll never read the same way again. Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. Together, they've been translated into 174 languages, quoted in Supreme Court rulings, adopted by the Surrealists as secret scripture, and used in every logic textbook written since. They remain two of the strangest, ...

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.

From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they realized. Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been academic rivals since they first...

"It stole my breath and my heart. It’s a grand story of science and startups, and a simple story of first love and belonging." ―Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark and We Begin at the End “Laser's boldly confident tone is perfect for the sharp, privileged young woman who...

"One SIZZLING HOT Romance Book" - Reader's review I was raised to obey, and arranged to marry a monster. But one reckless night, I chose to fight back. And the wrong man became my husband. He saved me with one careless smile and a wine stain the size of Italy. Maximilian Knight—handsome, arrogant, sinfully unbothered. The kind of man who breaks hearts for sport. When my arranged fiancé tried to take what wasn't his, Max stepped between us… and my whole world shifted. Now the mafia wants war. My father wants silence. And the only way to survive is to pretend I belong in Max's bed. To ...

When Sarah’s only friend in her graduate program is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, Sarah is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her. A hurtling ride of a novel—darkly funny and propulsive. "A thriller’s bones, a satire’s glare, and a...

She was my first love—the girl who shattered me. And now she’s keeping a secret that calls me Daddy. Emma Reyes crashes back into my world the night a baseball bat caves in my ribs. My sunshine. My childhood best friend. The girl who vanished six years ago… now a nurse with secrets in her eyes. I should stay away. ‘Cuz I’m neck-deep in my father’s mafia debt. The Irish want blood payment—and mine’s at the top of their list. But one look at Emma and I’m seventeen again… stupid enough to beg fate for one more chance. Then I see her little boy. Hazel-green eyes. My goddamn ...

Every obsessive, destructive, unforgettable love interest in dark romance traces its DNA to Heathcliff. This is the edition that finally makes the source text fully readable. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) invented the dark romance hero before the category had a name. Heathcliff is not redeemable. He does not want to be. He returns from wherever he went transformed into something barely human, and spends the rest of his life methodically destroying everyone connected to the woman he loved — including her daughter, her memory, and himself. Modern dark romance has spent two ...

Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love, and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father.