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Pure Colour is a galaxy of an audiobook: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she...

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Frustrated with his life and haunted by his past, everything changes for Uzi when he gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by feeding information to WikiLeaks. But once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man...

"On s’apercevra peut-être un jour que c’est là mon meilleur livre", disait-elle. De fait, Colette tenait énormément à cet ouvrage de 1932 qu’elle réécrivit en 1941, à 69 ans, et qui est à placer au même rang que "Sido" et "La Naissance du jour". Pionnière de l’autofiction, elle offre ici une enquête sur les femmes, le plaisir et les hommes, où l’on croise la femme cougar, le don Juan, le gay, la lesbienne, celles qui se travestissent ou revendiquent une identité masculine, et des thèmes comme le fait de mentir sur sa jouissance, la jalousie, le triolisme, etc.

As a teenaged war hero, Brax Rutledge decided to disappear, causing untold hurt to his family and damage to his soul. Now, having finally surrendered to Christ, he grapples to find his purpose in the life he nearly threw away. While he works to achieve fame as a record-setting pilot, an old friend begs him to take on a complicated rescue effort. Thrown together with the girl he could never have, he must choose between his goals or her wellbeing—time and time again.

Kisan Williams knew from the second he laid eyes on Solána Winters that he wanted her. But from wanting her to now loving her was something that he never expected to happen. And now that it has, Kisan is torn. Should he make things work with the woman he loves or stay with the woman who birthed his precious daughter? Solána Winters is still distraught from Kisan’s sudden end to their relationship. She knows she loves him and doesn’t want to be without him. Despite her mind telling her to forget all about him, her heart yearns for his presence.

"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices." --The New York Times Book Review "Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the...

The land of Condel is blessed, and Gaernod is not. Eofyn is king, and Spyre most certainly isn’t. When Spyre’s king threatens Eofyn’s kingdom and the source of its people’s power, Spyre sets out on a journey to save the Blessed Kingdom, not because he wants to, but because the other creatures of Curnen have threatened to kill him if he doesn't. It’s a long road ahead to save a kingdom he’s sure will hate him, and he’ll have to brave the many realms of Curnen to reach Condel and, regrettably, beyond to do it. The Fyre is going out, and the crystals are fading.

Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early 20s, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change.

A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation. Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he...

The three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi - mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly 60 years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations.

Mary Pershing's quest for the perfect man to complement her elite status as the mayor's beautiful daughter has stalled. Embarrassed that her younger sister will be married before her, she feels lost. Practically hopeless. Her failure to find a worthy husband has dampened her spirit. Almost. Dante Holbrook hits the sleepy town of Cutter's Creek, and Mary's world is immediately brighter. The high society man from Boston was most definitely worth waiting for. Dante is handsome and successful with practically every other trait Mary desires in a man.

"Je trouvai aimables la couleur sourde et rouge des lumières voilées, la blanche flamme en amande des lampes à opium, l'une toute proche de moi, les deux autres perdues comme des follets, au loin, dans une sorte d'alcôve ménagée sous la galerie à balustres. Une jeune tête se pencha au-dessus de cette balustrade, reçut le rayon rouge des lanternes suspendues, une manche blanche flotta et disparut avant que je pusse deviner si la tête, les cheveux dorés collés comme des cheveux de noyée, le bras vêtu de soie blanche appartenaient à une femme ou à un homme."
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In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood & Other Stories brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn, love and hurt.

A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past. A psychological crime novel about the past, the nature of justice, family secrets, the nature of forgiveness, revenge, identity, hunting, and predation.

Although small town English teacher, Leah Morgan, is committed to making a difference for her students both in and out of the classroom, she is playing charades with her life. She looks like a Christian, acts like a Christian, and talks like a Christian, but she is on the run from her Savior. After her fiancé was killed in a car wreck on their wedding day, Leah inadvertently buried her relationship with God along with her future.

Lia Wilder, a barista with a flair for inventing specialty coffee, always enjoys the annual Battle of the Flowers parade held each summer in Headley Cross. All the local businesses get involved in the competition and build a float made entirely of flowers and colored lights. Lia has a not-so-secret crush on the local Christian DJ, Jordan Tanner, so when first prize of the Miss Battle title is a date with Jordan, Lia is railroaded into entering the contest.

Ida has been taken away from her lovely childhood home, The Cottage on Ivy Lane, and forced to live with her unloving step sister. The only joy she has is going to school and church and believing that the boy next door will some day help her to return to the Cottage on Ivy Lane.

Historic preservation specialist Liberty Carmichael loves her position at the Library of Congress, caring for America’s oldest documents. So when she intercepts an inside threat by a radical group planning to steal part of Thomas Jefferson's original collection, she takes it to the highest authority - her father, the president. When he fails to take the threat seriously, she steals the books to keep them safe.

Sasha is a single mother and the youngest of her two sisters. Drama followers her everywhere and her sister, Stacey and Randi are fed up with her short temper and untamed tongue. Their relationship with Sasha seems toxic due to her unbearable irresponsible lifestyle. She faces many trails but relies on her good looks to get her out of trouble. Until she finally gets a wake up call.

Jethro Knerr should be happy. He has achieved his goal of seeing all seven of his sons happily married, and he has several grandchildren on the way. But everything around him feels suddenly empty, and far too quiet. His enormous house is too big for just himself. Jethro's friends try to convince him that what he needs is a companion with which to share his life and the wonderful times ahead with his grandchildren, but Jethro cannot even entertain the thought of loving another woman. His heart still belongs to his beloved Miriam, although she has been gone for more than 10 years.