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A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year -- A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year -- One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2024 -- One of NPR's "Books We Love" 2024 -- Named a Best Book of the Year by: The New Yorker -- Vogue -- Financial Times -- Oprah Daily -- Vulture -- Vox. The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life. "A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect...

Audiobook narrated by Elle Fanning! "The warmth of Thorpe's tone, together with the thoroughness of her imagination and the artfulness of her pacing, means that skepticism is kept at bay.

"A laugh-out-loud funny romance with depth and heart, readers will love this spellbinding novel!" —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Is he the real deal...or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as a potter in Woodstock, New York. The only thing missing is the perfect guy. Not that she needs one. She's definitely happy alone.

A funny and frank superhero story set in the world of Othergirl. Joseph 'Wilco' Wilkes is one of life's losers—he's picked on, pushed around, and bullied by the rugby boys at the posh private school he attends on a scholarship. But his life is about to change: Wilco learns he can move things with his mind. Will this be his chance to play the hero, get the girl, and finally stand up for himself? Or are things just going to come crashing down around his head? Becoming a proper hero will be quite the leap of faith...

In this “wildly funny” (People) novel, an eccentric cast of characters navigates a world obsessed with health and longevity—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. “Boyle’s send-up of dietary fanaticism cleverly reminds us of the extremes to which Americans will go in pursuit of perfection.” — Glamour. The year is 1907, and the boom town of Battle Creek, Michigan, is attracting a formidable array of visitors—the rich, the preposterously rich, and the merely famous, from California, Chicago, New York, and even Europe. What draws them to this place?

Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. How will he survive it?

Two novels from Nicola Barker, published together in a single volume. 'Small Holdings': it's all go in a little oasis of nature, in this stirring tale of subterfuge among the shrubbery – plus 'Reversed Forecast', the prize-winning first novel from England's greatest female comic novelist. 'Small Holdings' is set in an attractive park in north London. The protagonists are Phil, a chronically shy gardener; Doug, his imposing and unpredictable supervisor; and a malevolent one-legged ex-museum curator called Saleem.

The Mexican poet’s debut novel of an autistic woman whose way with sea creatures wins her fame “glows with . . . enticing charm and assurance” (Guardian, UK). Karen Nieto passed her earliest years as a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family’s failing tuna cannery. But when her aunt Isabelle comes to Mexico to take over the family business, she discovers a real girl amidst the squalor.

The Divine Comedy is a fugue and a black comedy. In delicious and bawdy detail, an unnamed narrator offers snapshots into the lives and loves of an astonishing cast of philanderers and misfits, while along the way, the evidence amasses for a comic, cosmic conspiracy. Craig Raine's second novel, The Divine Comedy, is a voyeuristic meditation on sex and insecurity, God, and the nature of the human body—its capacity for pleasure and pain, its desires, disappointments, and its many mortifying betrayals.

A New York Times Notable Book. Hang on to your ten gallon hats-Clyde Edgerton has taken his eye for detail, his ear for humor, and his nose for the odor of religious hypocrisy to the Wild West. In Redeye, he leads us back to turn-of-the-century Colorado, where a motley crew of innocents and scoundrels, visionaries and vultures, tells us How the West Was Made Safe for Free Enterprise. "A Hollywood pitchman might call Redeye Eudora Welty meets Mark Twain.