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In the greatest novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, listeners can be transported back to that world to experience both the highs and lows of the time. These novels incorporated Fitzgerald’s own life experiences to give listeners a firsthand view of what life truly was like for his generation.

Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a few marks or a roof over their heads. Come nighttime, a rag-tag group descends on the Jolly Huntsman pub to dance and drown their cares in all the schnapps they can afford. But in this society on the brink, pleasure all too easily erupts into violence.

From a bold new voice in crime fiction, Lower City blends the gritty realism of S.A. Cosby with the page-turning pulse of Louise Penny. It’s October 2025 and Hamilton, Ontario is a city on edge—job insecurity, rising rents, and polarization combine in dangerous ways. When a series of...

Already the gateway for illegal Canadian liquor during Prohibition, the Motor City becomes a crucible for American class conflict during the Great Depression, with an army of laid off Ford workers drifting into the ranks of the burgeoning union movement—Henry Ford's worst nightmare. To keep...

Former heiress Willow Lennox is all that stands in the way of billionaire security mogul Ronan King getting revenge against her brother. My late father’s legacy means everything to me, and now it’s teetering on the edge of collapse. Not only is our family company in dire financial straits...

The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep . . . She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's out of control. She's innocent. She's guilty as...

Brought to life with dual narration by Jonathan Keeble and Emma Gregory From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, The Sea Change is a witty yet heart-rending story of a marriage in crisis. Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never...

Chelsea Wives, a new Avon book, full description to follow when available...

মণিকুন্তলা ভট্টাচাৰ্যৰ 'মই ডেচডিম'না হ'ব খোজোঁ' অসমৰ ভ্ৰাম্যমাণ থিয়েটাৰৰ পটভূমিত ৰচিত এখন বহুপঠিত উপন্যাস।...

Bernice has worked hard to fight for her career as a nanny in the face of her mother's disapproval. Despite her upper-class upbringing, she knows she is made for this job and loves the children she cares for. But when her family starts to crumble and her mother falls sick, the pressures mount, especially as her mother wants her daughter at her beck and call.

Le retour de votre auteur new-yorkais préféré. Orloff Trenchant, dit Or, est artiste peintre dans l'East Village. Après une rupture, il se retrouve à dormir dans son van, à vendre des livres dans la rue, et à tenter de finir le tableau qui peut-être, un jour, lui apportera le succès...

Quand Mary revient un soir dans son appartement de l’East Village, elle n’est pas surprise de trouver Primo, son nouveau petit ami, avachi devant la télé. Mais lorsqu’elle comprend qu’il est mort, une tout autre histoire débute. Avec le chien de Primo sur les bras, elle va tenter de...

Poppi survived the heart attack that should have killed him, but surviving isn't the same as living. Narrowly escaping death didn't make him careful. It caused him to question everything. The routine of daily life. His personal choices. The idea of playing it safe. But his first time gambling led him to an unexpected rhythm along the Las Vegas Strip. Casino to casino. Machine to machine. Dice rattled behind plexiglass. The illusion of control settled in his chest. A ritual that became his treadmill.

A full-cast BBC drama of an epic family saga based on the novel by Maisie Mosco This series follows one Jewish family as they set off to Manchester to escape persecution in Russia and to try to make a life elsewhere. It is a story told through a huge expanse of time, right up and through the...

Calvin M. Bennett came to New Orleans to disappear. Now the city knows his name—and Jazz Fest is about to make it impossible to hide. Nine days before the festival, Cal is dividing his time between Miss Jo’s kitchen and a street band that formed without anyone admitting it. Then someone from his former firm arrives with an offer: return with real authority, fewer clients, and the kind of money that can buy a quiet life. New Orleans has other plans.

A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence grips the public.First published in Hindi in 1998, Our City That Year is a novel that defies easy categorization―it's a time capsule, a...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, 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. ​ Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot...

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge to break her family's curse in this spellbinding contemporary fantasy debut. For centuries, generations of Everlys have seen their brightest and best disappear, taken as...

"Funny, wild, witty, and profound.”―Victor LaValle "A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art."—New York Times "Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly…hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s."—P. Djèlí Clark New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2022!...

From New York Times bestselling author Pete Hamill, preeminent chronicler of New York City, comes the story of 24 hours in the lives of a kaleidoscope of characters. In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of...