Brought to you by Penguin.Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. Adequate performance gets a generous severance. And never, ever try to please your boss.These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 125 million fervent subscribers and a mark...

When Maggie Blackthorne returns to her hometown after nearly 20 years to serve as an Oregon State Police Sergeant, she expects to deal with the usual suspects—drunk drivers, oxy slingers, and the occasional rural scofflaw.But after she stumbles upon the bullet-ridden bodies of twin brothers, she realizes she's stepped into something much more sinister. With little homicide experience, Maggie and her partner, Trooper Hollis Jones, find themselves thrust into the mur...

“Emily Harding’s writing is fresh, romantic, full of wit! You can’t go wrong with one of her books!” —Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFor fans of Hello Stranger and Pictures of You, a modern amnesia romance about fresh starts, unexpected love, and what happens when forgetting your past sends you stumbling straight into your future.Growing up, Marnie Stephens believed that destiny was real and th...

A secret baby, royal Christmas romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews.From Christmas Eve arrival…to royal revelation!Aeryn isn’t very merry when King Vesuvius appears on her doorstep. She hasn’t forgotten a moment of their volcanic, doomed love affair—it led to the baby he’s never met. Yet it’s clear that injured Vesuvius doesn’t remember anything…except Aeryn!Vesuvius is sure the beautiful s...

A Christmas delight, ’Twas the Knife before Christmas will charm the stockings off readers of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier.It’s out of the cupcake tin, into the fire for Holly White’s best friend, Caroline. Can Holly clear Caroline’s name in time to go caroling?When a body turns up in the dumpster behind Caroline’s Cupcakes, Holly White is horrified to learn her best friend Caroline is the main suspect. Everyone in town, ...

The perfect life...or the perfect nightmare?Millie has just served a long sentence for a murder she didn't commit. It's her identical twin sister Eve who was the killer...and the person who framed her.Millie is willing to forgive Eve and hopes they can still be loving sisters. But when she is released, instead of welcoming her, Eve coldly rejects her. Now Millie only wants one thing: revenge.Eve seems to have the perfect life; plenty of money, a bea...

A stunning and unputdownable report of the US meat industry, the overwhelming disappointments of the country's food framework, and the developing frustration of elective meat makers professing to reform the fate of food. Ideal for fanatics of Kochland, The Meat Racket, and The Mysterious Existence of Food.A long time before Coronavirus cleared across the US and the director of Tyson Food varieties notoriously proclaimed that the food production network was perilously powerless, Ame...

Featuring multiple narrators, each story is brought vivdly to life.Desire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year’s volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “so good that they may be bad for you”: a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the presen...

Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider--a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontan...

If you want to get your manuscript published, listen to Imagine a Door.There's no secret handshake or golden key in this book, but Imagine a Door offers a more equitable and empowering prize: information delivered with gentleness. Author and publisher Laura Stanfill started working on this project in 2016, ultimately interviewing more than seventy-five authors and industry experts, including Wendy Chin-Tanner, Tove Danovich, Omar El Akkad, Erin Ha...

If you could pose one question to a dolphin, what would it be? And what might a dolphin ask you? For forty years, researcher and author Denise L. Herzing has investigated these and related questions of marine mammal communication. But the dolphins are not the only ones talking, and in this wide-ranging and accessible book, Herzing explores the astonishing realities of interspecies communication, a skill that humans currently lack.Is Anyone Listening? connects research on d...

Join the movement that celebrates single living with Peter McGraw's groundbreaking book, Solo.Amid the complexities of modern relationships, loneliness epidemics, and online dating burnout, there's a refreshing alternative: going Solo. "Solos," as coined by behavioral economist Peter McGraw, are people who choose to lead their lives authentically, purposefully, and passionately outside the confines of traditional relationship labels.In a world buil...