Sanny is sweet, innocent, and yearning for love, trust, and a place to belong. When she meets Boris at the glittering Summer Party on the Beach, it feels like the start of something extraordinary. He’s striking, confident, and impossible to resist. But behind his magnetic charm lies a world darker and more dangerous than Sanny could ever imagine. What begins as a fleeting encounter spirals into a seductive game of power and control.Determined to reclaim her life, Sanny starts fresh...

Sanny is sweet, innocent, and yearning for love, trust, and a place to belong. When she meets Boris at the glittering Summer Party on the Beach, it feels like the start of something extraordinary. He's striking, confident, and impossible to resist. But behind his magnetic charm lies a world darker and more dangerous than Sanny could ever imagine. What begins as a fleeting encounter spirals into a seductive game of power and control. Determined to reclaim her life, Sanny starts fresh at a b...

Amber Hofman, a successful recruiter, is on the lookout for an attractive partner, someone to share her life with. Alongside her colleague Dusty, she ventures into the nightlife of Rotterdam and meets Dolf, who identifies with the philosophical insights of "The Discovery of Heaven" by Harry Mulisch, seeing it as his life's mission.Through social media, Amber gets in touch with Frederico, a handsome divine dandy, and they arrange to meet at the Witte Aap on a Sunday afternoon. Secur...

Who doesn't want to become rich and achieve fame? A dream that surpasses reality? Isn't that what many people strive for in life? Or does the cherished dream end in a nightmare? Micky and Dana form an ambitious couple. They are at the beginning of their careers and are willing to make sacrifices for it. Dana is a beautiful young woman who has her fair share of admirers but is also critical. She has mapped out a career path for herself, cleverly using her charms. This approach proves to be ...

Isn't it time is about the life story of a woman who distances herself from her origins and pursues a successful career. Sonja Plattel is an independent woman who has learned from an early age to stand up for herself and manage her own affairs. Her appearance attracts men who find her attractive. She realizes that she can wrap them around her finger when it suits her. It is their problem that they fall in love with her, and she consumes them as if enjoying a meal. She carefully weighs how ...

Black-box Testing An erotic triptych depicting sin, starting with the original sin, ending in hell. Inspired by the Haywain Triptych by the Dutch painter Jheronimus Bosch. How does the paradisiacal innocence relate to guilt? Lila, Péar, and Victoria Van Gelre are three sisters who have it all. They are attractive, highly intelligent, articulate, and have a strong appeal to men of status. However, the ladies are selective and only receptive to men of good lineage, who also have wealth to sp...

Paul Norton and Victor Bosch are bosom friends who would go to great lengths for each other. When they share a room during their studies, it's a party every night. They share the same love for music, enjoy playing pranks, and appreciate women. These two athletic and good-looking charmers quickly earn a reputation as womanizers. It seems that this only fuels women's interest in them. That is until Jackie appears. She is the woman who secretly orchestrates the love lives of both men, without...

Finalist, 2024 Giller PrizeEngrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by her past attracts thousands of followers on social media with her peacock jewellery. A hotel housekeeper up against a world of gender and class inequity quietly gets revenge on her chauvinist boss. And a foster child,...

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a wa...

It’s September, and summer break is now over. The last part of Kiyotaka’s training brings him to Komatsu’s detective agency, where everyone is surprised to find that his partner will be his longtime nemesis, Ensho. Their first request is a strange one: a client wants to know who “killed” him. Meanwhile in Gion, a geisha is being stalked and ghost sightings are on the rise. These curious mysteries have the troubling trio—Komatsu, Ensho, and Kiyotaka—running through the narrow streets of Kyo...

4th Revised Edition of JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE, the most popular Japanese language textbook series in the world. Audio recordings are embedded in this enhanced eBook edition.Since it was first published in 1984, the focus of the Japanese for Busy People series has always been to teach Japanese for effective communication.Japanese for Busy People II: The Workbook for the Revised 4th Edition helps learners to comprehend plain forms of verbs, time ex...

**A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn aspiring teen art curator who’s sworn off love spends a semester in India, where the first boy to give her butterflies again has a royally surprising secret—part of the international Love in Translation series of standalone YA romances.“A swoon-worthy romance about following your heart. I absolutely adored this book.” —Ann Liang, New York Times bestselling author of I Hope This Doesn’t Find You**A...