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A comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Alexander Skarsgård and Olivia Colman!In a small coastal village, a fish-gutter lives a lonely existence, shunned by neighbors and smelling of brine. Desperate for companionship, she trades her life savings — three gold coins — to a local basket-maker with a single request: make me a husband.Woven from willow, her new pa...

James is getting settled into his new life, stuck in the body of Emily, the daughter-in-law of his estranged friend, Robert. Pretending to be her is hard. Even harder when Lauren, Robert's wife, arrives with news that Robert is dead and she wants to move in.James is terrified of someone discovering that he's not actually Emily and throwing him back in jail. But he's still not quite comfortable in his new female body. Not quite feminine. And now Lauren is going to be around all the ...

**The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry.- Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions- JP Morgan NextList Pick**Eleven Madison Park was a struggling two-star brasserie when Will Guidara took the helm. Eleven years later, it had been named the best restaurant in the world, renowned for its “relentless, skillful campaign to spread joy” (Pete Wells, New York Time...

An unputdownable locked-room thriller about family, trust, and survival from the acclaimed author of the “utterly thrilling” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) First Born.When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica, it’s the start of a vacation of a lifetime with her new love, Pete. On their first night they explore the ship, eat, dance, make friends, but when Caz wakes the nex...

She left. You're still standing. Barely.The End Hurts is the book no one writes for men—because we're not supposed to need it. We're supposed to move on. Hit the gym. Get under someone else. Man up.But you're not moving on. You're replaying every argument at 3 AM. You're checking her social media like it's a second job. You're wondering what you did wrong—or worse, knowing you were right and still losing her.This isn't a book about getting her back....

Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author).Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the worl...

**A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America—written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York."Bardenwerper finds hope in the people and community around a former minor league baseball team.”—Washington Post"Will reveal more about the prospects fo...

“Immediate, intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Brilliantly written...terrifying.” —Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling authorA woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this “intense, dark, and utterly chilling” (Jennifer Hillier, author of Jar of He...

When J returns to Bethany, it's for a funeral, not a fresh start. He comes back carrying grief, unfinished guilt, and a past he thought distance could quiet. Three years away didn't loosen the block's grip. It made coming home more dangerous.Ashley never left. She stayed to protect her sisters, her home, and what little of the neighborhood hadn't been sold off yet. What she and J never said to each other still sits between them, heavy with love, regret, and promises neither knows h...

**The instant #1 New York Times bestseller!“It's the best memoir I've ever read.” —Oprah Winfrey**“Will Smith isn't holding back in his bravely inspiring new memoir . . . An ultimately heartwarming read, Will provides a humane glimpse of the man behind the actor, producer and musician, as he bares all his insecurities and trauma.” —USA TodayWinner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement**

‘Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas … The Status Game might be his best yet’ James Marriott, Books of the Year, The TimesWhat drives our political and moral beliefs? What makes us like some things and dislike others? What shapes how we behave, and misbehave, in groups? What makes you, you?For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and money. In

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNo Ordinary Dog is the powerful true story of a SEAL Team Operator and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life.Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a SEAL Team Operator whose life w...