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Mackenzie Casper is a brilliant student. But she is best known for her mother, a best-selling author whose dark, twisted thrillers have a dedicated worldwide fanbase. When her mother dies in an accident, fans across the world are left grieving, and the investigators are asking: Was that really an accident?

Dickens wrote into life some of the most beloved and well-known characters in the history of English literature, introducing us to Pip, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Scrooge, Nicholas Nickleby, Miss Haversham, and many more who have lived in the imagination of generations of readers and listeners. In this definitive and beautifully curated collection, you discover not only Dickens’s most loved classics, but also hear a short introduction to his life and body of work from Dr Pete Orford.

De retour, après vingt-sept années, dans leur petite ville de Derry, les membres du " Club des ratés " (ainsi se nommaient-ils eux-mêmes sur les bancs de l’école) doivent affronter leurs plus terrifiants souvenirs, brutalement ressurgis. Ça : nul ne sait nommer autrement la chose inconnue qui semble devoir se réveiller cycliquement dans les entrailles de la ville, pour semer la mort et l’épouvante. Roman de l’enfance, tableau saisissant de la vie américaine, cette œuvre ambitieuse est une parabole du Mal enfoui, refoulé, et de la violence de ses réapparitions.

#1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! “Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams]...

Nell Gallows is the sole survivor of an elite dark forces squad, Riøt, after a detrimental attack two years ago. Unsurprisingly, she's being put up as the top candidate for the special ops team Malum, the squad that goes where no one else will or can. There's only one problem: Malum blames their one casualty from the Patagonia mission on the Riøt squad.

Les aventures d'Emil, mises en son et adaptées en fiction audio pour les enfants dès 3 ans ! Rejoins Emil dans une incroyable vente aux enchères remplie de porcelets et de poulets, puis dans une mission courageuse à travers une tempête de neige. Es-tu prêt à plonger dans les péripéties de ce jeune garçon qui n'en fait qu'à sa tête ? Cette version a été adaptée en fiction audio par l'écrivaine Eva Staaf, autrice maintes fois primée, et traduite par Aude Pasquier, spécialiste de littérature jeunesse scandinave.

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a...

One month after surviving the Under Trials, Emery Maves finds herself in a world she doesn't recognize―with a man whose cold eyes are haunted by secrets she can't remember. Stripped of her memories, Emery is tormented by dreams of danger, death, and deceit. The only constant is the lure of the experimental drug that shatters her mind but leaves her almost invincible―and the dangerous pull of the man called Mori.

The Nothing is a haunting science fiction short story by legendary author Frank Herbert that explores humanity’s confrontation with the unknowable. When scientists encounter a mysterious force known only as “the Nothing,” they discover a phenomenon that defies measurement, language, and reason itself. As attempts to understand and contain it fail, the true horror emerges—not destruction, but the collapse of meaning, certainty, and identity.

Step into the mind-bending worlds of The Selected Works of Philip K. Dick, a powerful collection of classic science-fiction stories from one of the genre’s most influential visionaries, Philip K. Dick. This expertly curated volume showcases Dick at his sharpest—probing the fragile boundaries between reality and illusion, power and freedom, humanity and the unknown.

Step into one of Sherlock Holmes’s most suspenseful cases in The Adventure of the Dying Detective, a gripping short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1913. When Dr. Watson is summoned urgently to Baker Street, he finds Holmes seemingly on his deathbed—ravaged by a mysterious and fatal tropical disease. Refusing medical treatment and behaving with alarming cruelty, Holmes insists instead on confronting Culverton Smith, a man linked to a suspicious and unresolved death.

Step into one of Sherlock Holmes’s most chilling investigations in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, a classic mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1893. When Miss Susan Cushing receives a horrifying parcel containing two severed human ears packed in salt, Scotland Yard hastily dismisses the incident as a tasteless prank. Sherlock Holmes, however, immediately recognizes the signs of a far more sinister crime.

Step into the visionary imagination of Ray Bradbury with this powerful collection of classic science fiction and speculative tales that helped define the Golden Age of the genre. The Selected Works of Ray Bradbury brings together seven unforgettable short stories that explore humanity’s hopes, fears, and moral crossroads against the vast backdrop of space, time, and the unknown.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! “In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York Times Over 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times)...

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.

When Clara inherits her family’s crumbling Victorian mansion, she expects creaky floorboards and dusty furniture—not whispers from the past. Hidden behind old portraits and antique furniture lies a chilling mystery. An ornate black key and a strange antique mirror reveal visions of a woman trapped by a sinister curse. As Clara follows the clues buried deep within the walls of the estate, she uncovers more than just family secrets

For three years, Penelope ruled her fishing boat and restaurant with an iron will and a sharp tongue, keeping her five-man crew firmly in line—and at a distance. She's ignored the heat simmering between them, burying her desires under long hours and a no-nonsense attitude. But when a devastating fire reduces her restaurant to ash and leaves her crew without a roof over their heads, everything changes.

I thought surviving the ruthless fae bridal competition would be my hardest challenge. I was wrong. Chosen by Vad—the dark, dangerously possessive Prince of Shadows—to stand at his side, I've become the prime target in a kingdom built on lies and blood. Rivals would rather see me buried than crowned.