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Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of...

Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks.

The dour, Mr. Darcy is anything but popular with the Bennets, especially when he fancies a member of their clan. And as Elizabeth reluctantly deals with Mr. Darcy’s advances, their romance seems destined to fail. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set the standard for romantic comedies when it debuted in 1813, and it still speaks to audiences worldwide through countless adaptations.

Ai piedi del Monte Rosa c'è un piccolo albergo che ha fatto parlare giornali, radio e televisione fino a diventare un caso nazionale. Si chiama Mirtillo Rosso, è l'unico posto al mondo dove Natale arriva una volta al mese. La sua è una delle storie contenute in questo audiolibro. Sono storie di buona comunicazione raccontate da chi le ha vissute. Mostrano quali siano le informazioni che sanno suscitare l'attenzione su internet, spinte dai motori di ricerca e dai social media. Spiegano la rivoluzione digitale che ha investito la vita e la professione delle persone.

Several years in the future, an all-female astronaut team circumnavigates the globe once every 90 minutes aboard the International Space Station, prepared to be a powerful presence in space. When a surprise set of "everyday citizens" tags along for the ride, all protocol flies right out the proverbial...airlock.

In this candid, refreshingly honest exploration of faith and grief, Julie Taylor takes us on her transformative journey of walking away from belief—and choosing to come back on her own terms. With a blend of science and storytelling, Taylor reveals how our beliefs act as the ultimate gatekeepers of our brains, determining how we process every single stimulus. Through both heartbreak and hope, she shows how these gatekeepers shape not just our thoughts, but our experience of reality itself.

White wolf Devlin Moore has spent nearly the last century following his destiny: hunting rogue werewolves. His fate is to be the only one of his kind-hardened, feared, and brutally ruthless. Only now, Devlin's not alone. There are two others. And if that wasn't unsettling enough, Devlin is drawn to New York City for what appears to be a human . . .

Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. This book sets out to answer some of the questions that many people have about bisexuality. In Bi, Julia Shaw explores how people have defined and measured bisexuality during its long and important history. She looks at behavioural bisexuality in animals, and investigates whether there is a bi gene. She introduces some famous bi activists and scholars whom everyone should know.

I was supposed to write an exposé on billionaire Harrison Blackstone. The man who built an empire from nothing and doesn't believe in love. But the more I dig into his world, the more I want to stay. Especially when he looks at me like I'm the one secret he can't control. Then there's Rafael Mercer, his bodyguard. Quiet, protective, and dangerous in ways I can't resist. And Lucien Moreau, Harrison's French business partner and international playboy. A reckless investor with a wicked smile and a talent for sin. The four of us. No rules or limits. And one story I was never meant to tell.

The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic gothic stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an...

From the authors of Tiny Pretty Things - now a Netflix original series - comes a twisty, diverse, and fast-paced drama in the vein of We Were Liars, about a rumor that spirals out of control and sows chaos in a posh private school.

Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions; their voices are interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature.

It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.

Cassie Forrest has sworn she'll never let the world get the best of her again. She's chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive—and it's hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely.

The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria is at the heart of St Jude's Hospital. Staffed by successive generations of dedicated volunteers, for over 50 years, the beloved cafeteria has been serving up a kind word and sympathetic ear along with tea and scones. Hilary, the stalwart manageress, has worked her way up through the ranks, Jo, the latest recruit, is driving Hilary mad by arriving late every day and 17-year-old Chloe, the daughter of two successful surgeons, is volunteering in the holidays and bemused by the older women.

All Saints High - das heißeste College der gesamten Westküste. Als Lenora Astalis erfährt, dass Vaughn Spencer an der Akademie ihrer Eltern Kunst studieren wird, sieht sie ihre Chance gekommen: Endlich kann sie sich dafür rächen, dass Vaughn ihr an der Highschool das Leben zur Hölle gemacht hat. Doch je mehr sie über den talentierten Künstler erfährt, desto deutlicher wird, dass sich hinter seiner eiskalten Fassade mehr verbirgt als angenommen. Und bald kann Lenora das Prickeln, das sie in Vaughns Nähe spürt, nicht mehr länger ignorieren.

Mutig legt die Autorin ihre seelischen Wunden offen und gewährt in bewegenden Kurzgeschichten einen Einblick in den Alltag von Schwarzen Frauen. Sie bringt unter anderem ein Thema zur Sprache, das nach wie vor verleugnet wird: Alltagsrassismus und Mikroaggressionen. Die Leser*innen werden dazu eingeladen, Rassismus zu erkennen, ihre Stimmen gegen ihn zu erheben und ein Zeichen zu setzen.

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK An epic, decades-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy and charts a connection unlike any other. “INTOXICATING.”—TAYLOR JENKINS REID, author of Atmosphere “SMART AND ROMANTIC.”—GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow, and...

When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: No one will ever believe what she sees. When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding.