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In this thrilling story from the world's #1 bestselling author, when a man falls to his death, it looks like a suicide—but Detective Michael Bennett finds evidence suggesting otherwise. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide, except the victim...

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a...

A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert “Maximum Bob” Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sentenced to death—by alligator, if necessary. Maximum...

A “raw, tensely plotted, profound high-wire act of a book” (Téa Obreht) on the intricacies of marriage, class, and race, and just how far one man will go to protect his family—and himself. Sharif is a good person. He knows that he is good because he’s aware of the privilege that he...

The Bratva enemy forces me into marriage and knocks me up. He’s fifteen years older than me and wants revenge on my family. First, he kidnaps me, not caring about the way I fight and struggle. Then, he marries me, not caring that it’s against my will. I’m the youngest in the family, protected and shielded from the Bratva life. But nobody is there to protect me when he forces me into his mansion. He locks me in and makes me his personal toy. He cuffs our hands together so that I can’t escape him. I know about the bad things he’s done, the things he’s capable of. He senses my ...

Anthony Trollope was one of Victorian England’s most popular and prolific authors. He worked for the Post Office while establishing himself as a writer, and is credited with introducing the pillar box to Britain. Best known for his ‘Barsetshire’ and ‘Palliser’ novels, he wrote over 50 works in total, including short stories, travel books, biographies and a posthumously published autobiography. Collected here are a selection of superb adaptations of his much-loved novels, as well as a fascinating documentary and an original radio play by Patricia Cumper.

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can be sold. As she sorts through a lifetime of memories, everything comes to a halt when she comes across something she just can’t part with: an old set of encyclopedias. To the world, the books are outdated and ready to be recycled. To Jess, they represent love and the future that her mother always wanted her to have.

From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins and award-winning suspense novelist Rebecca Cantrell comes a disturbing story of vengeance, bloodshed, and creatures that prowl the night. In the haunted, war-torn highlands of Afghanistan, amid the ruins of Shahr-e-Gholghol, an archaeology...

4 a.m., New York City. A silent disaster. There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block when the buildings all switch locations overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island—for now. The next night, it happens again. Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the City of New York’s Emergency Management team and are tasked with disaster response for “The Unmapping.”

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to...

I may be a shy letter carrier, but when my beloved apartment building is threatened by a mysterious and reclusive billionaire, I’m willing to push the envelope. I’m going to march right up to Malcolm Blackberg’s fortress of fierceness and deliver a cease-and-desist notice he can’t refuse. Except as soon as I get inside his gilded doors, things go sideways - I’m mistaken for Malcolm’s court-ordered emotional intelligence coach, as if I’m acting out a wacky postal carrier cosplay.

I slept with the HOT grump next door… then learned he’s my new boss. Simon Chaucer is a handsome, arrogant, Billionaire CEO playboy, who’s also my cousin’s grumpy neighbor. While I’m house sitting for my cousin, Simon’s noisy home renovation disturbs my sleep. So, I show up at his house and give him a piece of my mind. We bicker and clash until sparks ignite and we can’t keep our hands off each other. His touch is electric and makes every inch of my body heat up, like a fire burning inside of me. Things are about to get even hotter with him until I start my new job and meet my...

A much older mafia beast kidnapped me. The only way out is to marry him. He’s the cold one, the brutal one. The one who handles the interrogations. When his men force me into his interrogation room, there is only one way to save myself. I have to marry the mafia beast. Even if it means giving him my virginity. I’ve been used as a pawn my whole life, but now I’m the heir to the family business. When he kidnaps and overpowers me, I know exactly what to expect. His reputation as a Bratva beast is widely known. A marriage pact with this savage is the last thing I want. But I have no ...

I’m sold as a prize at a Bratva event…to my much older ex who broke my heart. I was always an obedient daughter, until my prosecutor daddy turned dirty. Next thing I know I’m kidnapped and offered as a prize to be claimed. I’m shocked when my ex buys me. I’m even more shocked when he forces me into marriage. I thought my ex loved me, but then he suddenly cut me loose and shattered my soul. He never told me that he’s with the Bratva, or that our love was forbidden. Now he looks at me as though I’m his to own and possess. As though he wants to kill every brute in the room for ...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

I’m drowning in debt, desperate for a way out. Rocco Mancini is my dead ex’s older brother—and my boss. Cold, brooding, and ten years my senior, he’s an alpha Mafia boss masquerading as a businessman. When he offers me a fake marriage to clear my debts, I have no choice but to agree. He’ll protect me, pay off Nico’s mistakes, and I’ll play the part of his wife. It’s supposed to be temporary. Then, I give in to the chemistry between us. One night in his bed changes everything. But Rocco has secrets—dangerous ones. After witnessing a brutal murder, I learn he's not just my ...

"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile...

After suffering a terrible loss, fighter pilot Zane North walks away from his military career and returns home to start a new life—one he’s determined to control. Instead, he’s confronted by his sister-in-law’s unpredictable best friend, the one woman he can’t ignore.

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.

Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh...