City Life

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge....

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of Under the Whispering Door with the high-stakes culinary world of Sweetbitter, Aftertaste is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City—a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again…

With the secrets of Mello’s infidelity, Patsy is left with a baby, drinking problem and decision to make on her marriage. For years Patsy’s life has been about her husband. Will she be willing to work things out with the only man she has loved?

In part two of Homies, Lovers And Friends, Michelle is left with the fact that her life with Tasheem just might have caused her cousin to be murdered. When taking four steps forward, she feels as if she's pushed back fifteen.

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail....

It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.

A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut.

Summer in London stops for no one. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke.

The best-selling legal thriller - and CBS TV series - has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy - but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life....

A gripping and elegant debut, Great Black Hope is about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power....

After serving a 10-year bid in prison, Taye "City" Savage was finally freed. However, once he was released, there was no time to chill and enjoy the riches that his brothers had acquired at his left and right hand at the king’s throne of the Savage empire....

An all-new recording published for the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, this production presents the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with an introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1 and 2, Beau L’Amour takes the listener on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime.

Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: most wanted....

Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and many other publications, Convenience Store Woman is both delightfully strange and oddly heartwarming.

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank....

West 86th Street knows its desserts. It’s the 1970s, and poppyseed strudel, praline ice cream cake, and New York cheesecake are as integral to Manhattan’s Upper West Side as clustered pigeons, suited doormen, and greasy diners.

All around Albuquerque, New Mexico, young women are going missing, seemingly vanished into thin air. With no link between the victims, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is quickly plunged into a horrifying case with no obvious clues....

When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. It’s old money versus new money, and neither family seems willing to compromise....

A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.

Burned out by her TV news writing job, Jungmin leaves in an attempt to salvage her life. When she stumbles upon a mysterious pottery studio, she feels immediately at home. The warmth, the smell of clay, and the incredible coffee awaken her senses and make her feel alive for the first time in months.

West 86th Street knows its desserts. It’s the 1970s, and poppyseed strudel, praline ice cream cake, and New York cheesecake are as integral to Manhattan’s Upper West Side as clustered pigeons, suited doormen, and greasy diners. That is, until Cato comes to town. Cato the Elder, a Roman born in 234 BCE, is credited with the earliest written recipe ever found. A recipe for . . . cheesecake. No cream cheese, no graham cracker crust, somehow savory and sweet, the recipe is enigmatic—and suddenly, it’s all anyone on West 86th Street can talk about.

The Bratva enemy kidnaps me, locks me in, and knocks me up. I’m the Don’s little sister, but I didn’t know anything about the family business. Until our much older Bratva enemy grabs me and throws me into his prison. And there he shows me what it truly means to be vulnerable…and pregnant. I tell him I’m innocent and that I have no idea what he wants from me. He responds that he’ll wait me out and expose me in more ways than one. He opens my prison door and keeps pushing until he breaks through my defenses. He traps my struggling body against the wall until I almost succumb. ...

On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be.

Ever since the accident that changed Sophie’s life, she sees numbers everywhere. From the leaves on a tree to the volume of a puddle, everything has its number. And every person she meets? Their number is counting down the number of days they have left. Despite being lonely, Sophie has decided she’s not dating anyone with a number smaller than 20,000 days: 55 years together should be plenty. Which is fine, until Adam—her first love and most definitely the one that got away—suddenly reappears. And his number? Just 24 days…

Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn’t be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream. However, things weren’t always this way, and her years spent as the ‘Italian Galleon’ of an East London comprehensive are ones she’d rather forget. So when James Fraser – the architect of Anna’s final humiliation at school – walks back into her life, her world is turned upside down. But James seems a changed man. Polite. Mature. Funny, even. People can change, right? So why does Anna feel like she’s a fool to trust him?

Dominic was not where he wanted to be in life... Struggling to be a good father and a man his children could look up to some day, he works hard to turn things around! But he fails miserably. He gets sent to prison. And there he meets Harmonie, the woman of his dreams! But Harmonie has a secret... A devastating reality that she lived with from birth. Something about herself that if revealed, could destroy him... them... her! A secret that eventually shatters his world until her doctors reveal the exlplosive truth to the shock of everyone! Read along in this passionate, deep and romantically ...

William Sanderson is very rich, but you can always be richer. He’s up for a huge promotion at investment giant Bedrock Capital, but there’s one crucial hurdle he must clear first―assuming he can keep the HR department at bay. He’s also looking for any string to pull to get his maddeningly indifferent daughter Ginny into Yale.

She showed up innocently at my nightclub. Next thing she knows, she’s mine. She says she’s still a virgin because of her delicious plus-size curves. So I take her to a hotel to break her V-card and teach her. After, I usually let them go. But not this one. I’m the Pakhan, twice her age, and I’m obsessed. She belongs to me. I’m known to be ice-cold. Ruthless. Brutal. No one defies me. So when I find out she’s sneaked out the morning after our wild night, I’m pissed. But the universe always bends to my will. She cannot escape me. So when a little while later, she “accidentally...

Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the city centre. This northern city has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre, bristling with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre the Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a place where you can get anything and see anything - a place teeming with life. The market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural and magnificent.

He stole me from the altar. But I was never the one being played. Adrian Kosarev is Bratva royalty—deadly, obsessive, and cold as the blade he keeps at his side. He ripped me from my wedding and shattered the alliance meant to lock his family out of Miami. I was supposed to be leverage. A message soaked in blood. But I’m not the pawn he thinks I am. And I didn’t just let him take me—I wanted him to. Because I’ve been planning this move for years. Every look I give him is calculated. Every touch? A weapon. He thinks he’s in control… But he walked straight into my trap. Now the ...

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 ...

Devaughn is losing himself. After removing his own wife from the picture, he tries to go on as if nothing happened. Daily life becomes a struggle without the love of the one woman that brought something to his life. Devaughn is unable to feel true guilt. He finds a way to blame her as he navigates through busy days and restless nights. But life has a surprise in store for him. It is hard to reap rewards when you live such a sullied life. And Devaughn is about to reap what he sowed! Read the dynamic and mind blowing conclusion in Part II of this epic drama and get the shocking end to a page ...

She walked in to expose me. Now I’m the one coming undone. JAXON Avery Monroe crashes into my world—loud, fearless, and holding a mic like a weapon. She’s here to film me, write her glossy story, then disappear. Instead, she’s in my space, testing my temper, and making me hard with a single look. I’m the playmaker. I don’t chase. I control. But the second I call her Little Benchwarmer and she gasps my name like a secret, I know I’ve already lost this game. *** AVERY He’s everything I hate—cocky, ruthless, and used to getting his way. And right now… he needs me. I’m ...

Thriller Psicológico / Suspense Psicológico ¿Hasta dónde llegarías por un hijo que todos dicen que está muerto? Irene Rivas lo tenía todo planeado: después de tres intentos de fecundación in vitro, finalmente sería madre. Pero la noche del 15 de mayo de 2023, su mundo se derrumba cuando le informan que su bebé ha muerto durante el parto. Diecisiete meses después, medicada hasta el borde de la inconsciencia y catalogada como paciente psiquiátrica, Irene no puede ignorar esa certeza que late en su interior: su hijo está vivo. Lo que comienza como la obsesión de una madre ...

Sumérgete en el ingenio y el suspenso con "La Cara de Mi Vecino", un relato magistral de la aclamada escritora brasileña Julia Lopes de Almeida. Con una pluma aguda y una observación perspicaz de la sociedad, Lopes de Almeida nos transporta a una narrativa donde lo cotidiano se entrelaza con el humor y la crítica social. En este cuento, serás testigo del peculiar desapego de un narrador ante el robo sufrido por su vecino Nuno, un incidente que, lejos de generar compasión, parece despertar una curiosidad casi científica sobre el alargamiento de su rostro. Julia Lopes de Almeida (1862-...

Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his little corner of Istanbul shift and transform. But as the area has become increasingly gentrified, Pericles has retreated into its shadowy corners. And when the pandemic hits, his isolation deepens.

Kash owes a lot of money. His restaurant, specialising in exotic meats and catering to New York’s elite, was doing well. Then business dried up, and now Boris the loan shark wants his investment back. But Kash has a plan. There’s a rumour of a dinner club, hosted in turns by billionaires. Lots of ego, and lots of money. If Kash can get the gig, it would pay off Boris and then some. He will need to offer something new, something that five of the richest men on the planet will have never tasted before. Something entirely unprecedented …

They rule the school. They own the town. They’ve marked her as theirs. Belle Holloway has always kept to the shadows—quiet, careful, and invisible by design. But when her car breaks down one stormy night and the notorious Ash Kings come to her rescue, everything changes. Asher, River, Mathers, and Hayes are powerful, untouchable, and feared. No one knows what they want—until they set their sights on her. Whispers follow her down the halls. Teachers look the other way. And the boys? They don’t just protect her… they claim her. But as Belle is pulled deeper into their world of smoke...

Decades after the Haywoodian Menace threatened our reality and safety and freedom… In Zenith City, a new hero rises with the assistance from his uncle and best friend as they protect the city's right to be different and special, which is being challenged by a tyrannical media mogul, Dr. Katz.

Jhilli has come to New York for a few months from Kolkata for training at the School of Social Sciences, staying with her childhood friend Shipra in Queens. Through Jhilli’s eyes, we see the wonders of New York, meet their Bengali friends, and experience their friendships and romances with native New Yorkers Gloria, Joshua, and Benjamin.