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It's early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project-which takes on the controversial topic of race in America-is Jacob's envisioned magnum opus, and likely his swan song. He selects David Levit to direct, a major opportunity for the classically trained actor/director whose own films, while garnering critical acclaim, have not resulted in box office success.

Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke.

Ein kleines Haus in einer Vorstadtsiedlung. Die Leute, die dort leben, sind ganz durchschnittliche Alltagsgeschöpfe. Zum Beispiel: Die Hausbesitzerin Frau Dillinger, ihr Mann, ihre Tochter und der Untermieter, Herr Perlmann, der sich in seiner Freizeit damit beschäftigt, seltene Insekten zu züchten und der fasziniert verfolgt, wie aus Raupen zuerst Puppen und dann prächtige Schmetterlinge werden. Die Symptome, die Herr Dillinger an sich entdeckt, scheinen zunächst auf eine ganz alltägliche Erkrankung hinzuweisen, aber der Arzt ist ratlos. Zudem gehen merkwürdige körperliche und seelische Veränderungen an ihm vor.

Ein Fremder trifft in einer kleinen norwegischen Hafenstadt ein. Johan Nilsen Nagel, der sich selbst als "Ausländer des Daseins", als "Fremdling unter Mitmenschen" bezeichnet, fällt durch ungewöhnliches und widersprüchliches Verhalten zwischen Bluff, Koketterie und tiefem Ernst auf. Er behauptet, Agronom zu sein und weist sich durch fingierte Telegramme als reicher Mann aus. In seinem gelben Anzug und stets einen Geigenkasten mit sich führend macht er jedoch den Eindruck eines Künstlers.

Lucy storms into my life, her fire matching mine, and suddenly, my carefully constructed walls start crumbling. Her curses in the elevator made my heart race, but damn, it's the way she challenges me that's breaking through. She's the forbidden fruit, my new assistant in this high-stakes world, and yet, her presence feels essential. Her sharp wit, challenging stare, and undeniable allure deepens my desire for her. Every moment with her chips away at my defenses, and makes me want her even more. As a billionaire and ex-military man, I thrive on control and order. But Lucy’s presence is a ...

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.

A man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found in canals and rivers across the city with high levels of Mandrax in their bloodstream. McCoy is asked to watch over a colleague's niece, who has left home young and is running with a bad crowd in Glasgow. DS Wattie is attempting to become a sergeant. Drugs in Glasgow have gotten darker and more dangerous. Glasgow, its music, and its inhabitants all have rough edges in this hard city fought over by gangs, organized crime, the forces of law and order, and ordinary people trying to get by.

Jo Waterstone knows what you should read next. She’s honed the skill of sizing up a person and recommending their next book in the decades she’s worked at Bruebaker’s Books. Her life has been shaped by the store, the bustle of customers exploring the stacks, and managing the eager staff. She can honestly say it’s the best job she’s ever had. Then the store’s elderly owner, Mr. Bruebaker, suffers a stroke, and just like that Jo’s perfect job is on the chopping block. Mr. B’s daughters and the bookstore’s icy CEO think the time is right to close for good, and they order Jo to lock up.

Buster, a strong and proud boxer, spends his early days with a loving family in a public housing complex in Washington, DC. Abruptly, he is taken away by an abusive, alcoholic man, plunging Buster into a challenging, nightmarish existence. Over the course of his life, he will experience homelessness, tragedy, a harrowing stay in a kill shelter, and acts of kindness, including his adoption by an older gentleman grieving the death of his wife.

Hidden away near the end of Long Island, New York, is a community where affluent African Americans, their friends, and the wannabes have secretly vacationed for more than 75 years. Unlike the bluffs of Martha’s Vineyard, black folks here own five miles of prime beachfront. With a mix of legacy families, new money, hangers-on, and thirsty developers, drama can never be far behind in a place called...the BLACK HAMPTONS.

Henry Franken has a problem with money-he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, thirty-three-year-old Henry inherits a massive estate, including an Upper East Side residential building. He must confront the reality of his new financial status, directly conflicting with his well-honed identity as a "progressive liberal."

Ryan Henderson is back in town for our best friends’ wedding, and I plan on showing him exactly how much I don’t care about him—or the almost kiss he dangled over me after graduation. But things have changed since then. I'm a successful bakery owner now, and I plan to rub every delicious detail of my life in his ugly face. There’s just one problem: his face is gorgeous. I have to stay strong until the wedding is over and Ryan scurries back into whatever universe he escaped from. His interest in me is nothing but a continuation of the games we played in high school...right?

A one night stand in Paris with a hot billionaire left me pregnant and alone. I went back to find him, instead I got stuck with my archenemy. And he’s the grumpy Navy SEAL next door. When my child's father rejects us, his broad shoulders become my refuge. Watching him hold my little girl melts my heart. He’s built like a truck, with rippling muscles that my hands beg to explore. Our once fiery fights are now explosive passionate nights. His whispered secrets leave me wanting more. His smoky gray eyes seem to look right into the depths of my soul…I'm falling for him. But I'm not sure ...

I needed protection, and the mob boss needed a fake fiancée. Waking up next to him, wearing nothing but a sultry smile, was not part of the plan. I witnessed a brutal murder, now the killer wants me dead before I can testify. Nick Falco steps in offering me his protection if I’ll do something for him in exchange. I must pretend to be his fiancée while I produce a priceless painting for him to solidify his power. The arrangement was simple enough until I moved in with him, and those haunting blue eyes began lingering upon me. His lightest touch sets me ablaze with desire for him. We must...

Mika was a girl who liked to have fun. Young and beautiful, her life was all about drinking, partying, hitting the club, and kicking it with whatever brother could take her to the next level physically. But it all changed in an instant when she found herself at the wrong place, at the wrong time – and with the wrong man. Having seen something she shouldn’t have, Mika goes on the run. But constantly looking over your shoulder takes its toll, and Mika soon finds herself beaten down by a life of perpetual vigilance

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.

My plan was to marry the kind of man I write about in my sweet romance novels, not lose my v-card to the ultimate bad boy… my brother’s best friend… Women always line up to be with Travis Ray—a handsome, arrogant, alpha, playboy, rodeo star, and billionaire cattle rancher. I can’t stand Travis, but my brother convinces me to work as his assistant while I get my writing career off the ground. So I meet with Travis, and our banter turns into him challenging me. Then kissing me and taking control of my body in ways I’ve never felt before. But that can’t happen again. He’s now ...

Kingsley Lynch fell to her death from a seven-story, downtown rooftop garden. Was it an accident, suicide, or was she pushed? The two detectives assigned to the case decided she jumped. Her husband, an influential city councilor disagrees, and six weeks later Kate Gazzara is assigned to reinvestigate.

Breasts & Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent.

Twenty years ago, his Chicago political column was syndicated in two hundred papers, but he had an affair—and a son—with his intern, and lost it all. Now he writes a local column and drives for Uber to pay his bills. Jake is playing out the string when his tranquil world is turned upside down. His biracial son—an ambitious entrepreneur—is marked for death by a street gangster, his alcoholic daughter is pregnant and wants an abortion.