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Nell is 26 and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away before. Travelling abroad isn't really her thing. But when Nell's boyfriend fails to show up, she has the chance to prove to everyone, including herself, that she can be independent and intrepid. Alone in Paris, Nell finds a version of herself she never knew existed. In this collection of 11 unmissable short stories, Jojo Moyes introduces us to a cast of strong, relatable women in the midst of their everyday lives.

Meet Penelope Black. Podcaster, provocateur, and purveyor of the grotesque. Welcome to the Dead & Depraved, where stories are savage, the humor is dark, and your feelings aren't invited. Penelope's got a mic, a bad attitude, and a bottomless vault of vile tales. Things may not be wholesome or even legal, but they will be entertaining.

"Cada familia es un catálogo de las atrocidades de la historia. Y de sus sueños. Cada familia decide la extensión de su memoria: las ramas marchitas de su árbol genealógico, las raíces desaparecidas, la vida completa del sobrino o del tatarabuelo sucinta en tres cuartillas, las réplicas...

This bundle includes books four through six of Dirty Blood, a dark romantic fantasy series where a male vampire falls for a female human in the midst of a paranormal war: The Forsaken Vampire, The Broken Prince, and Clash of Kingdoms.

This audiobook box set includes the first three books of the Dirty Blood series, a enemies-to-lovers dark fantasy romance.

Enjoy 15 scintillating tales in this eclectic collection where characters seek honor, truth, retribution, and in one case, a place to sell 300-year-old Lavian brandy.

Six decades of history unfurl on a Wyoming ranch. Journey to untamed Wyoming where four generations of women experience love, loss, grace, adoption, struggles with the law, relationships with natives, and through it all, family bonds.

For fans of Jojo Moyes' The Girl You Left Behind, this is the prequel novella, Honeymoon in Paris. Sophie, a provincial girl, is swept up in the glamour of Belle époque Paris but discovers that loving an artist like Edouard brings undreamt of complications. Following in Sophie's footsteps 100 years later, Liv, after a whirlwind romance, finds her Parisian honeymoon is not quite the romantic getaway she had been hoping for....

Hannah French has always wanted more from life than her sleepy village in Devon can offer. And there are two men who are willing to give her that escape: William and Ralph Lawlor. They are brothers but their bloodline is all that they have in common. When events in Hannah’s life take a devastating turn, will somebody come to her rescue or will she have to accept that hope is all she has left?

l fait chaud, la ville est insupportable en été, surtout après si longtemps à contempler alternativement les murs de la maison et l'écran de l'ordinateur. Diane et Claudine, on les comprend, souhaitent désespérément s’évader en nature, que leur rosé ne soit pas seul à prendre le frais. Sauf que des chalets à portée de leur budget, ça n’existe tout simplement pas. Survient le miracle Madeleine : leur vieille amie est prête à leur prêter sa petite cabane au bord d’un lac–du moment qu’elle peut sortir de sa résidence sur-réglementée et être de l’aventure.

The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient, a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur, an Orpheus-like voyage through the subconscious daubed with the fantastic. But over the last 10 years, our scientific understanding of sleep has been revolutionised. No longer is sleep viewed as a time of simple rest and recuperation. Instead it is proving to be an intensely dynamic period of brain activity.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European* Franz...

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories gets beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate...

New York Times Bestselling Authors, Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward, bring you an all-star cast narrating three new, sexy short stories to heat up your holidays!

New York Times best-selling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward bring you three sexy short stories to heat up your holidays: "Get Sleighed", "Lights Out Love", and "Hot Item".

A heartwarming collection of four brand-new festive stories from favourite Australian authors about finding love on the farm this Christmas. The Christmas Contract by Pamela Cook Bridie has until Christmas to convince her dad not to pull the loan he gave her to set up her organic produce farm...

Vier prickelnde und romantische Liebesgeschichten zu Weihnachten. "Lights out Love": Cole ist absolut genervt von der üppigen Weihnachtsdekoration seiner Nachbarin Josie. Als dann auch noch der Strom ausfällt, steht er vor ihrer Tür, um ihr seine Meinung zu sagen. Sie verbringen den Abend gemeinsam, und Cole merkt bald, dass er vielleicht doch mehr für das Fest der Liebe empfindet, als er immer dachte - und für Josie.

It has been 50 years since Elizabeth fell in love with Tom, and just as many since she last saw him. She is still in love with him and is sure he still loves her, too, thanks to the small blue crocus delivered to her doorstep every year in line with a promise he once made. She has kept every little note bound to those flowers, each written as a wish for the life they could have shared. But when on the 50th anniversary the blue flower fails to arrive, she fears something has happened to the love of her life.

Christmas Eve, 1936. On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious. She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her memory, and cannot believe that the child is hers. It seems that the Nightingale nurses may need to perform a Christmas miracle.

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy. Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been ‘put to sleep’; a hanged horticulturist; a murdered rambler and a curate who meets his Maker somewhat sooner than expected.