Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves f...

Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. Now this classic story is a new audiobook read by Mara Wilson!Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up—exciting things are bound to happen. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all ...

"She hit me with her car. We're taking it slow."After a grueling shift at the ER, all Morgan Gatlin wants is to go home—easier said than done in the worst snowstorm to hit New York City in years. One moment, she’s ignoring the Christmas nonsense all around her, and the next, she’s crashing bumper first into unsuspecting pedestrian Elena Solorzano.Guilt-stricken, Morgan rushes Elena to the hospital, and, when the storm shuts down Elena’s only way ho...

After three years spent studying abroad, Ada returns to her rural village and is once again driving around with Vicen� Jr. and coming home giddy late in the summer night. She spends long days recounting stories and inventing some of her own: like the story of the farmer who lost two fingers in a combine and who loves to dance; the story of an attack by a cow; the story of earrings, angrily tossed them into the reservoir, swallowed by an enormous catfish, and how the old catfish, with gold ...

This book traces the evolution of Nepal's constitutional order through its history, politics, and social transformation, with particular emphasis on the 2015 Constitution, the country's seventh and current constitution. It examines the forces that have shaped constitutional change since Nepal's first experiments with constitutional democracy in the early 1950s.The book identifies three defining themes in Nepal's constitutional development.First, it explores...

The unbelievable true story of pilot Douglas Corrigan, who took off from New York to fly to California, but landed in Ireland instead.On July 17, 1938, American pilot Douglas Corrigan took off from New York City’s Floyd Bennett Field for a long-haul trip. He had 320 gallons of gas in a rickety Curtiss Robin airplane and a license to fly cross-country to California. But when he should have turned west for his route across America, Corrigan continued east. The follow...

**“Andrea Mara is fantastic!” —Freida McFaddenA house full of secrets. A mystery waiting to be solved. A twisty psychological thriller from Andrea Mara, #1 international bestselling author of Someone in the Attic, It Should Have Been You, and the hit streaming series ALL HER FAULT**The game of hide and seek is over, and everyone has gone home, but Lily Murphy hasn't been found. Her parents search the woods and try to stay positive, but their daughter remai...

**“Andrea Mara is fantastic!” —Freida McFaddenTwo children get on the train, but only one gets off in this gripping and twisty thriller from Andrea Mara, #1 international bestselling author of Someone in the Attic, It Should Have Been You, and the hit streaming series ALL HER FAULT**It’s a hot, sticky August morning on the London Underground platform. Sive pushes through the rush hour crowds and her two young daughters jump on the train ahead of her. As sh...

In 2029, Ethan Vale is a systems engineer who trusts models more than institutions. When a failed experiment strands him in San Francisco in May 1941 with a damaged offline AI named Ariadne, he knows the dates everyone else cannot believe: Pearl Harbor, Wannsee, Midway, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Ethan thinks the future can be corrected if he can make the right people listen. But every warning becomes leverage, every saved life exposes someone else, and every clean answer teaches the war how to ...

"Taking flight has never been more fun." —Nicholas Day, author of The Mona Lisa VanishesThe unbelievable true story of pilot Douglas Corrigan, who took off from New York to fly to California, but landed in Ireland instead.On July 17, 1938, American pilot Douglas Corrigan took off from New York City’s Floyd Bennett Field for a long-haul trip. He had 320 gallons of gas in a rickety Curtiss Robin airplane and a license to fly cross-co...

**“Andrea Mara is fantastic!” —Freida McFaddenA house full of secrets. A mystery waiting to be solved. A twisty psychological thriller from Andrea Mara, #1 international bestselling author of Someone in the Attic, It Should Have Been You, and the hit streaming series ALL HER FAULT**The game of hide and seek is over, and everyone has gone home, but Lily Murphy hasn't been found. Her parents search the woods and try to stay positive, but their daughter remai...

Discover the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller that will keep you hooked to the very end.*A NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK**SHORTLISTED FOR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH INDEPENDENT*'Impossible to put down'. Chris Whitaker'Andrea Mara is a star.' Lee Child'Probably the most suspenseful book I ...