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My dad’s billionaire friend claimed my virgin plus-size body…and now I’m pregnant. I just landed my dream job at an elite company. But I didn’t know I’d be the PA of my daddy’s best friend. He’s completely off-limits, but when a blizzard traps us in a cabin with only one bed…he offers to teach me everything I need to know in bed for one night. I used to be the awkward nerd with the braces. He’s the hands-on boss with a player-reputation that precedes him. I try to be professional around him, but his wandering eyes light my body on fire. And when we’re forced together ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding—but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare...

“A tasty, dishy inside look at the world of publishing. Readers will be begging for a sequel!”—Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of Summers at the Saint A young romance writer makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos in this sharp, witty and entirely...

Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then they’re in a car accident. Devon is paralyzed for life, while James goes on to live the dream. For the Paynes, the tremulous repercussions of that evening never settled. Over the course of a decade, Devon decides to visit his seven siblings now scattered across the globe.

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey...

En la Nochevieja de 1937, Katey Kontent, mecanógrafa en un bufete de abogados de Wall Street, y Eve Ross, su compañera de pensión, salen dispuestas a exprimir a fondo la libertad que promete Nueva York. Se dirigen a The Hotspot, un bar de tercera fila donde se toman el jazz lo bastante en serio como para que nadie moleste a dos chicas de buen ver, y donde la ginebra es suficientemente barata como para beber un dry martini cada hora.

Mirthful, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly philosophical, The Fact Checker is a brilliant debut novel featuring a missing woman who might be perfectly fine, and a single-minded investigator yearning for meaning, morality, and accuracy in an increasingly post-truth world. It’s just a puff...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire—inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides...

1594, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Within the walls and without, unease and uncertainty lurk beneath the noise and bustle of a smoky, teeming city. Matthew Cutler, newly widowed and caring for two spirited daughters, takes his position as constable for the parish of Spitalfields very seriously. So when Paulo Brisco, a quiet Venetian perfumer is found brutally murdered in his own shop, Cutler throws himself into his first major crime, and one which threatens to set all Bishopsgate alight.

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. Exuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.

A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter “What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin, author of We Want What We Want A...

From the acclaimed author of the memoir Sink, a novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student. "Intoxicating, propulsive ... utterly mesmerizing." —Kaveh Akbar, bestselling author of Martyr! After a...

Devaughn Moore had transformed... No longer the bad kid who ended up a juvenile delinquent, his life is devoted to the ministries. And by his side is his beautiful and loyal wife Gabrielle. She stands by him through it all. But when she receives a phone call from one of their young female members, she goes running. The woman answers the door holding a child with eyes like her husband. The young woman tells dark tales. Secrets that would destroy him... her ... everything they've built! . Gabby wants to know who she's married to. The things the woman said could not possibly be true. But ...

It's 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with her dad to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a whole new neighbourhood full of different kinds of people to spy on. Audrey is a lot of things: articulate, disarming, forthright. And, as her father reminds her often, indecently nosy. Audrey scribbles every observation down in her notebooks—from which foods her new teacher eats for lunch, to how blue the water is in Greece, to what time the one-legged man across the street gets home. She is certain she will soon root out a murderer or uncover a mystery.

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...

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 ...

Here are twelve magnificent short stories from acclaimed author John Cheever, read by an incredible cast of celebrity narrators, as well as Cheever himself. As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still...

In late 2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad dreams of owning a business. To accommodate his friends' passion, he opens a cricket shop. However, nothing comes easily in a turbulent city. To realise their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, calamities, unacceptable love and, above all, their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual's dreams overcome the nightmares of real life? Can we succeed despite mistakes?

A Goodreads Best Romance “Fans of The Devil Wears Prada will flip over Love on Lexington Avenue.” —Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne comes the second delightfully charming installment in the Central Park Pact series...

The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa...