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When seemingly fragile Miss Ivy Cavendale takes the headmistress position in an orphanage, it is her chance to stay anonymous in society. But not all is what it seems with Miss Ivy. When an intruder breaks in one night, she’s quick to draw her weapon, and while fear—her constant companion—has mysteriously disappeared, one thing is very clear: she and her charges are the next target of The Devil’s Sons.

Is the world ready for The Velveteens? An all-girl punk band try to make it to the top Get your crimper out, your mohawk ready and your best punk pout on - the Queens of Noise have arrived! Set in 1980s London, this modern music drama charts the rise of a girl punk band. Packed with classic hits...

Bienvenue à Greenwich, Connecticut, où les gazons et les femmes sont parfaitement entretenus, les mecs et les sodas forts, et où tout le monde a quelque chose à dire sur le nouveau voisin d'à côté. Ex-associée dans un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats de Manhattan, Miriam a depuis peu troqué sa robe contre des leggings hors de prix et commence les cocktails dès le matin. De quoi lui donner le temps d'accueillir dans cette banlieue huppée, où les pièges sont nombreux, Emily - ex-assistante de la grande Miranda Priestly - qui vit une mauvaise passe.

Eugène Sue (1804 -1857) è stato uno scrittore francese, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi d'appendice a carattere sociale: I misteri di Parigi furono pubblicati a puntate nel Journal des débats , nel 1842-1843 suscitando un enorme interesse, tanto in Francia che all'estero. Questa edizione italiana del 1935 è ridotta, per rispettare i gusti del pubblico italiano dell’epoca; ha mantenuto però intatta la struttura dell’opera e l’avvincente intreccio e caratterizzazione dei personaggi.

Ciudad de Dios es, a su vez, producto de un estudio de la antropóloga Alba Zaluar sobre la favela Ciudad de Dios, de donde el autor de esta obra fue su habitante. Asimismo, Lins fue integrante del equipo de investigación de Zaluar. De ahí que estas páginas sean una fiel mirada sociológica sobre el fenómeno que aquejó a la sociedad carioca en la década de los noventa, cuando explotó una caótica guerra por la droga.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of All the Good Things by Clare Fisher, read by Emily Atack. Twenty-one year old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn't deserve ever to feel good again. But her counsellor, Erika, won't give up on her. She asks...

Brought to you by Penguin The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic...

Gritty glamour in 1980s New York City doesn't come cheap. To afford even her fifth-floor walkup, Rose Leary needs a gig. Bartending at a neighborhood joint subsidizes her writing career, even if she does fill a dead woman's platforms. Rose speculates about who killed her predecessor, but her novel's looming deadline demands she dedicate all creativity to her fiction. When another bartender dies, Rose pictures her name scrawled at the top of the murderer's hit list. Even sarcasm can't shield her from this coming danger.

Detective Lola Harris is called to a local park where the body of a woman has been pulled out of the river. On the victim’s wrist is a tattoo. A dolphin and a heart. Lola knows who she is instantly – the woman half the Glasgow force have been searching for: missing juror, Kathryn Main. Kathryn was on the jury that convicted reality TV star Carter Craig of a double murder. Just weeks later, the verdict was overturned. Carter walked free. Three jurors were arrested for misconduct. A fourth, Kathryn Main, disappeared. Then, a witness comes forward with shocking new information.

“Perfectly balancing sweetness and steam.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Stuck in the Country with You She's a good girl trying to rebuild her restaurant. He's a felon trying to rebuild…everything. Second chances have never been so sweet. For Jamilah Carver, a by-the-books...

An aspiring makeup artist takes on predatory Hollywood in this addictive debut novel with bite—a sultry, thrilling blend of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Killing Eve, and A Promising Young Woman. It’s 1950 and Loretta Reynolds is newly arrived in Hollywood, fresh off a con that brought...

One New Year’s Eve, Georgie James and her friends come up with a genius plan to help them stick to their resolutions… They all write down secrets, seal them in envelopes and then post them to each other. The secrets will be revealed at the end of the year if they haven’t kept their resolutions. It’s perfect. Except…Georgie's secret is BIG... and revealing it could destroy their friendships. She has no idea why she chose that one to write down. There are plenty of innocent things she could have said – even admitting she finds newcomer Raf incredibly annoying would have been better.

Il postino di Girifalco è un uomo schivo e solitario, che ha il dono di saper imitare le grafie altrui e coltiva il vizio di entrare nelle vite dei compaesani leggendo le lettere prima di recapitarle. Così un giorno, mentre il lento scorrere della vita di provincia prosegue imperturbabile, una novità spunta inattesa dal sacco della posta: una lettera insolita, senza mittente, chiusa con un sigillo di ceralacca. Una carta d’amore, di quelle preferite dal portalettere, che ha tutta l’aria di nascondere un mistero.

‘Another perfect page-turner’ The Times ‘A triumph from the master thriller writer’ The Sun In this twisty thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author, a man desperately tries to track down his father in witness protection before his enemies can get to him. Your dad’s not a good...

As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I, life on Weaver Street in 1924 is blessedly peaceful. But as the Depression begins to bite, and the arrival of the Muller family on Weaver Street signals the worrying drumbeats of conflict coming from Germany, the fragile happiness and peace Liverpool has been enjoying looks destined to end. And as the neighbours pull together in the toughest of times, the women on Weaver Street face the prospect of waving their menfolk off to war.

The fast-talking glamorous musical drama set in a 1930s Chicago radio studio A radio caper set in Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Broadcast sees radio station WKAZ's most successful programme, 'The Hour of Charm', face trouble from gangsters, sponsors, moral guardians and politics, not to mention...

Amado amo es una novela sobre el poder, pero un poder con minúsculas, cotidiano y perfectamente reconocible: el que ejercen las empresas, el que sufren los asalariados, un poder risible que se mide en metros de despacho o en el número de veces que el feje se ha parado a hablar contigo.

‘Some days I feel like I’ve lived more than one lifetime, so, couldn’t we be right for each other this time around?’ Becca and Charlie have known each other since university. Becca and Charlies have also hated each other since university. Until now. Until Ally’s bucket list. The death...

Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her...

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.