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The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television PLEASE NOTE The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand. Features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name is Barbra audiobook. Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “stunning” (People), “riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) historical novel, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself. “All of Allende’s books, My Name Is Emilia del Valle included, have the epic feel of...

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set...

Das Mädchen ist tot, die Haushälterin wird vernommen. Zum ersten Mal hören alle Estela zu. Szene um Szene offenbart sich ein schwindelerregendes Kammerspiel unüberbrückbarer Klassenunterschiede. Sieben Jahre hat Estela im Haus der fremden Familie gelebt, hat tagein, tagaus für sie gesorgt. Die weiße Schürze ist zu einer zweiten Haut geworden, die dünnen Wände ihres Zimmers rücken immer näher. Doch sie ist nicht die einzige Gefangene des Hauses: Im leeren Blick des Mädchens sieht Estela ihre eigene Einsamkeit gespiegelt.

The New York Times Bestseller New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, and The AV Club “One of the most...

Wem vertraust du, wenn du dir selbst nicht mehr trauen kannst? Was machst du, wenn du nach einem Autounfall ohne Erinnerungen am Rande einer Straße aufwachst? Was, wenn dich ein Mann, der sich als dein Vater ausgibt, von der Polizeistation abholen will? Er hat deine Dokumente, zeigt Familienfotos, alles passt so gut zusammen. Dein Name ist Mary. Das sagt er zumindest. Drew ist am Rande der Verzweiflung. Schon seit Wochen ist Lola verschwunden, und was läge da näher, als dass er, ihr Freund, sie ermordet hat?! Davon scheinen zumindest die Bewohner der Stadt überzeugt.

"Welche Gnade, dass wir nicht wissen, was uns im Leben erwartet." Der neue Erfolgsroman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin und Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Elizabeth Strout . Elizabeth Strout schreibt die Geschichte von Lucy Barton weiter, ihrer feinsinnigen, von den Härten des Lebens nicht immer verschonten Heldin. Mit ihrem Ex-Mann William sucht sie während des Lockdowns Zuflucht in Maine, in einem alten Haus am Meer. Eine unvergessliche Geschichte über Familie und Freundschaft, die Zerbrechlichkeit unserer Existenz und die Hoffnung, die uns am Leben erhält, selbst wenn die Welt aus den Fugen gerät.

Protecting him is my duty, but falling for him could be my undoing. I’ve spent five years burying my past, leaving behind the violence and bloodshed of my former life as a Bratva enforcer. Now, I’m just Luca—the quiet guy who keeps his head down, working security for a professional hockey team. I don’t get close to anyone, and I definitely don’t let anyone get close to me. But then I’m assigned to protect Max Ryan, the team’s star defenseman, and everything changes. He's my obsession. My crush.

Romance meets Thrill: Der neue Romantic Suspense Roman von Francis Eden. Er sollte sie nicht beobachten. Ihr nicht nachspionieren. Vor allem aber sollte er sich nicht in sie verlieben. Als Vida in einem Club auf Krystian trifft, bekommt sie gleich zwei Seiten von ihm zu sehen: eine charmante und einnehmende, die jedoch schnell von eisiger Abneigung abgelöst wird. Doch Krystian, dessen Blick aus der Dunkelheit durchweg auf ihr liegt, stellt sich am Ende der Nacht als ihr angeblicher Retter heraus. Aber ist er das wirklich

It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the...

An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift). Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War...

Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo - finally - Markham speaks! It's Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary's Annual Children's Christmas Party - attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is dispatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration” (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta...

Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business.

After the Sickness has killed off her parents and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral and ready to be taught all that Monster knows.

At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty and triumph.

A second chance stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a literary agent from NYC who returns to her Southern hometown and the cowboy high school sweetheart she left behind…

“I was riveted by this searing ode to the resiliency of the human psyche, rich in beauty and devastation.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood An unflinching and stunning debut memoir of an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age experiencing abuse, war, and superstition—and her survival through...