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Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.

Brought to you by Penguin. A modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and humanity, by the acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White. It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at...

A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove. Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and...

A 50th anniversary audiobook of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road...

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the...

By day, Chloe Moon is a precocious middle schooler; by night, an investigative journalism podcast aficionado. She dreams of hosting her own true crime series, delivering justice to the bereaved and the wronged. So when she stumbles onto the revelation that her parents’ marriage is falling apart, she realizes this could upend her whole life. She turns her amateur investigative eye towards solving her parents’ marital issues and helping heal their rift.

Han pasado 15 años desde que Gwendy Peterson dejó Castle Rock. Ahora tiene 37, vive en Washington D. C. y apenas recuerda a la adolescente que volvía a casa en verano a través de las Escaleras de los Suicidios. Sin embargo, su caja de botones reaparece y Gwendy descubre que en Castle Rock han desaparecido dos chicas.

Sostener la sanidad pública, crear puestos de trabajo, dotarnos de infraestructuras modernas, luchar contra la desigualdad, prevenir el apocalipsis climático..., cualquier objetivo ambicioso inevitablemente se topa con la queja de cómo encontrar el dinero para financiar esos proyectos, enraizada en una serie de mitos sobre el déficit que nos obstaculizan de manera sistemática.

Als bei der Zwangsräumung der Wohnung seiner Mutter durch eine Verwechslung alles von Wert in die Müllverbrennungsanlage wandert, bleibt dem Erzähler wortwörtlich nur der Abfall der eigenen Familiengeschichte. Wie hat es so weit kommen können? Der Erzähler blickt auf die Biografie seiner...

Brought to you by Penguin. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone...

A young girl's tragic loss will shape her dreams and her future… 1930 - Douro Valley, Portugal Twelve-year-old Catherine is watching the Rabalo race in Porto when the sound of a shot being fired changes her life forever. Her beloved mother, mistress for some years to Walter Shellard, a Bristol...

Slay monsters. Steal powers. Become unstoppable. Rob was having a bad day even before the Integration struck. A bloodthirsty monster appeared in his living room. His supposedly dead brother was suddenly back alive. And a strange Victorian butler was trying to kill him. That all happened before...

A chilling, addictive psychological thriller from bestselling thriller writer Keri Beevis One sister murdered. One brother jailed. One love betrayed. Mead House was once our childhood home. Despite my fears, I always knew we would have to return to face the demons of our past. Back to the place...

Знаете ли вы, что чаи, заполняющие полки магазинов, в реальности не лучше соломы, а выращивание чайных кустов на террасах — профанация? Как же изготавливают настоящий чай? Это знает народ акха, на протяжении столетий занимавшийся изготовлением целебного пуэра. В горной деревне крестьяне ухаживают за чайными деревьями и свято хранят древние традиции. Этому же учили и девочку Лиянь, но, став свидетельницей ритуального убийства новорожденных близнецов, она не хочет больше поклоняться старым идолам.

Inspired by the hit manga and anime comes the highly-anticipated light novel adaptation of this quirky romance between two total opposites! Experience the world beyond the gaze of the story's usual narrator, Ichikawa Kyotaro--a dour teen hopelessly smitten with Yamada Anna, the prettiest girl in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education. “The climactic graduation-day battle will bring cheers, tears, and gasps as the second of the...

Often considered her most experimental work, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is a masterclass in modernist fiction, and a profound exploration of time, consciousness and the conflicting rhythms of individual lives. Published in 1931, The Waves unfolds through the soliloquies of six characters whose voices come and go – much like the sea tides they are surrounded by – in a blend of consciousness, tracing their journeys from childhood to old age. Around them drifts the unseen presence of a seventh figure, Percival, whose absence becomes a powerful refrain throughout the book.

The New Novel from the author of Lie With Me ‘Doomed youth, simmering desire and 100-proof nostalgia is what Besson does - and he does it very well . . . perfect reading for a heatwave . . . this novel made me nostalgic for the sultry summers I never had’ The Times ‘This is a poignant...

How much pain are you willing to endure for someone you love? Bold, charismatic, and charming Blu Henderson wears a fake smile every day, pushing through life because she has tonot because she wants to. Quiet, introverted, and mysterious Jace Boland catches her eye the second she sees him. After...

Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980: Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.