Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme A Penguin Classic When Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Sixty-five years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer! VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish 's stripped-down, non-stop style. VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish 's stripped-down, non-stop style.

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'It was the middle of November, I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about men, sex, werewolves and vampires. I should be concentrating on my dangerous situation - the ardeur between me and Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, my werewolf lover, is reaching new levels, evolving into something altogether new, acting with a will of its own.' But instead Anita Blake, preternatural expert and feared executioner, is less interested in vampire politics than in the ancient, ordinary dread that women down the ages have experienced: am I pregnant? And, if so, is the father a vampire, a werewolf or someone else entirely. And being a Federal Marshall, known for raising the dead and hunting vampires, is no way to bring up a baby.

The latest book by Greg Behrendt, author of the multi-million plus copy bestseller 'He's Just Not That Into You', is another hilarious, wry and wise take on relationships and how to move on when one goes sour. 'He's Just Not That Into You' is more than a book. It's a revolution. The phrase, coined by Behrendt for an episode of 'Sex and the City', has now entered the language: it features in ads, it's referred to in newspaper headlines and it has spawned spin-off spoof books and more. 'It's Called A Break-up Because It's Broken' promises to do this and more. It will help you get over anyone and move on. Behrendt's voice is unique - combining tell-it-like-it-is advice with humour and the 'guy's eye view'. The book is filled with solid advice to help you let go of your ex - for example: 'It's 3 am, the bottle of wine is empty, do you really want to make that call?' Each insightful chapter is complemented with a Q-and-A with Greg on what he's thinking, case studies, and games. Greg and Amiira tackle tough issues such as break-up sex, how not to lose your friends during a break-up, and 10 great places to cry. It's the ultimate read and reference for anyone who has ever been in a relationship.

It's 2012 and what happened in 2008 at the controversial Erotic City swingers club in Atlanta is a distant memory. Now, with a second club located in Miami, Milan Kennedy and her heavyweight boxer husband, Lavender Lewis, have moved to Miami to raise his son. Lavender's loony baby's mama is serving time in prison for the attempted murder of Milan. For now all seems quiet, that is until Milan and Lavender are served child custody papers, and also, a test of fidelity arises just as the couple plans to add to their family, and expand their thriving business. Milan questions the very meaning of the lifestyle itself, and doubts the purpose of her own career as a swinger's club owner, providing significant others a playground for fornication. Big Booty Trudy, Tamiko Kennedy, Jarod Hamilton, and Nancy Clark Kennedy all return, and a couple of freaky additions are added to the mix. The newest location, Erotic City: Miami, is a huge success, but at what cost? Will the wife-swapping lifestyle change Milan and Lavender forever, or will they survive the very temptations that their own sex business brings?

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTED FOR MALALA'S BOOK CLUB 'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS 'Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise' SUNDAY TIMES 'An absorbing debut about sex and power' GUARDIAN 'Elegant and witty ... A precursor to great things' THE TIMES 'One of the buzziest debut novels this spring' VOGUE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY VOGUE AND ESQUIRE _____________________________________________________________________________ A bitingly hone st, darkly funny debut about love, sex, power and desire, by a major new British talent Anna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the day, she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money, and in the evening she sings jazz at a bar in the City to make ends meet. It's there that she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna's intoxication oscillates between her hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city. But Anna's fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly - whether he necessarily wills it or not - so does Max... _____________________________________________________________________________ 'Touching on feminism, power, finances and the pleasures and dangers of a new relationship, this book is an assured debut' CLAIRE FULLER, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted UNSETTLED GROUND 'Imogen Crimp captures the glittering thrill of being young and choosing your own life with a dark, unflinching undercurrent of desire, power and control' JESSICA ANDREWS, author of SALTWATER 'A blazing, darkly funny debut that captures a young woman's search to find herself ... It has an honesty and tenderness that will stay with me for a long time' RACHEL JOYCE

'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the process, and may very well have had sex with your wife back in the eighties...' Elizabeth GilbertWhen she was seven, Rayya Elias and her upper-class family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in a suburb of Detroit. Bullied in school and caught between the world of her traditional family and her tough American classmates, she rebelled early. Rayya moved to New York City to become a musician and kept herself afloat with an uncommon talent for cutting hair. Eventually though, Elias's affairs with lovers of both sexes went awry, her (more than) occasional drug use turned to addiction and she found herself living on the streets - between visits to jail.Told with a keen sense of humour and a lack of self-pity in even the most harrowing situations, Harley Loco is a memoir about jumping in head-first, no questions asked. It's a book about living in the moment no matter what that might bring, and about pursuing, not always by choice, a life of extremes - highs and lows, pain and passion - until ultimately arriving at a place of contentment and peace.

Deutschlands berühmteste Sexkolumnistin meldet sich zu Wort Deutschlands Kultkolumnistin Paula Lambert über Männer, Frauen - und hemmungslosen Sex "Es gibt viele Menschen, die super im Bett sind. Aber seien wir ehrlich: Die Schlechten sind diejenigen, die einem die bleibenden Erinnerungen schenken." Paula Lambert Die Sexkolumnistin der Männerzeitschrift GQ führt durch das unübersichtliche Dickicht der Liebhabertypen, an die sie im Laufe ihres ausschweifenden Sexuallebens geraten ist: Wanderer, Exoten, Hochleistungssportler, Winzlinge, Rammler, Fetischisten und was da sonst noch alles draußen frei herumläuft. Wer mit ihr auf die Pirsch geht, wird nicht nur den einen oder anderen alten Bekannten wiedertreffen, sondern ganz nebenbei auch die wichtigsten Handgriffe, Tipps und Tricks im Umgang mit den gängigsten Lover-Typen erfahren. Und - auch wichtig - wie man die Kerle wieder loswird. Paula Lambert trifft mit ihrem unglaublich erfrischenden, zupackenden Stil den Nerv der Zeit - und kann es locker mit allen Samanthas und Carries aus Sex and the City aufnehmen. Bei dieser extrem unterhaltsamen und witzigen Lektüre kommen nicht nur Frauen voll auf ihre Kosten.

»Sex and the City« meets »The Great Gatsby« - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott. Patricia ist 24, als ihr Mann beschliesst, die Ehe mit ihr zu beenden. Vor den Kopf gestossen von dieser Entscheidung versucht sie zunächst, um ihren Mann zu kämpfen, merkt dann aber schnell, dass sie auch ohne ihn ein Leben führen und viel glücklicher sein kann. Zwischen Freundschaften, Affären, schmerzhaften Schicksalsschlägen und dem ekstatischen Leben in der flirrenden Metropole New York City in den goldenen 1920ern erlebt Patricia, was es bedeutet, als Frau mit den konventionellen Rollen zu brechen, zu trinken, zu flirten und das Leben ungeniert zu feiern. Doch auch der Gegenwind bleibt nicht aus: Was ist, wenn man die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt? Warum fällt ein Neuanfang umso schwerer, wenn man ständig allein für die Vergangenheit verurteilt wird? »Wilde Skandale, misogyne Machtstrukturen und eine vergessene Starautorin: Dieses Buch hat ein fulminantes Comeback verdient.« Mareike Fallwickl.

Neues von der Schnäppchen-Jägerin "Einfach zum Totlachen!" USA Today Die beliebte Schnäppchenjägerin Rebecca Bloomwood müßte überglücklich sein: Sie ist mit dem Mann ihrer Träume verheiratet und kehrt gerade - mit prall gefüllten Taschen - von ihrer ausgiebigen Hochzeitsreise heim. Zurück in London, landet sie unsanft auf dem Boden der Realität. Der Job ist weg, ihr Mann ist wegen ihrer überzogenen Konten sauer und ihre beste Freundin hat eine neue Busenfreundin. Irina von Bentheim, bekannt als Sprecherin der Carrie aus "Sex and the City", ist wieder ganz in ihrem Element - voller Witz und mit sehr viel Charme macht sie aus dem Bestseller aus England ein fantastisches Hörerlebnis.

Sex and the City meets The Great Gatsby – das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula ParrottPatricia ist 24, als ihr Mann beschließt, die Ehe mit ihr zu beenden. Vor den Kopf gestoßen von dieser Entscheidung versucht sie zunächst, um ihren Mann zu kämpfen, merkt dann aber schnell, dass sie auch ohne ihn ein Leben führen und viel glücklicher sein kann. Zwischen Freundschaften, Affären, schmerzhaften Schicksalsschlägen und dem ekstatischen Leben in der flirrenden Metropole New York City in den goldenen 1920ern erlebt Patricia, was es bedeutet, als Frau mit den konventionellen Rollen zu brechen, zu trinken, zu flirten und das Leben ungeniert zu feiern. Doch auch der Gegenwind bleibt nicht aus: Was ist, wenn man die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt? Warum fällt ein Neuanfang umso schwerer, wenn man ständig allein für die Vergangenheit verurteilt wird?»Wilde Skandale, misogyne Machtstrukturen und eine vergessene Starautorin: Dieses Buch hat ein fulminantes Comeback verdient.« Mareike Fallwickl

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Anxious to get into a Tokyo groove, both women are on the prowl for a funky and cheap place to live. But inexpensive apartments in Japan's capital city are hard to find. Thank goodness each Nana has a clique of cool friends willing to help out. Too bad these friends are a little wiggy!

Queenie ist Kult! Queenie Jenkins, die charmant-chaotische Hauptfigur aus Candice Carty-Williams' gefeiertem Bestseller, ist zurück, und zwar entschlossener und liebenswerter denn je! Queenie ist Schwarz, hat jamaikanische Wurzeln und lebt in Südlondon. Sie ist Journalistin beim The Good Sis-Magazin und hat seit einem Jahr Spaß mit Vin, auch wenn er noch immer kein Label auf ihre Quasi-Beziehung kleben will. Nur scheint die Zeit in jeder Hinsicht gegen sie zu laufen, ob es um ihre Fruchtbarkeit geht, eine gesettelte Beziehung oder die Gesundheit ihres Großvaters. Queenie ist verwirrt, frustriert, verängstigt ... aber sie arbeitet dran. Die preisgekrönte Autorin Candice Carty-Williams kehrt mit einem smarten, unglaublich lebendigen und urkomischen neuen Buch zurück, das ein erhellendes Licht auf die Realitäten des modernen Frauseins wirft. Eine düster-komische und bissig subversive Betrachtung des Lebens. 'Ein Muss für alle, die sich für Sex, Selbstfindung und beste Freundschaften interessieren, die uns durch alles hindurchhelfen.' Candace Bushnell, Autorin von 'Sex and the City'. 'Urkomisch, fesselnd, ehrlich. Ich habe es geliebt.' Dolly Alderton. 'Brillant, aktuell, witzig, herzzerreißend.' Jojo Moyes.

»Brillant, aktuell, witzig, herzzerreißend.« Jojo Moyes Queenie Jenkins, die charmant-chaotische Hauptfigur aus Candice Carty-Williams' gefeiertem Bestseller, ist zurück, und zwar entschlossener und liebenswerter denn je! Queenie ist Schwarz, hat jamaikanische Wurzeln und lebt in Südlondon. Sie ist Journalistin beim The Good Sis-Magazin und hat seit einem Jahr Spaß mit Vin, auch wenn er noch immer kein Label auf ihre Quasi-Beziehung kleben will. Nur scheint die Zeit in jeder Hinsicht gegen sie zu laufen, ob es um ihre Fruchtbarkeit geht, eine gesettelte Beziehung oder die Gesundheit ihres Großvaters. Queenie ist verwirrt, frustriert, verängstigt ... aber sie arbeitet dran. Die preisgekrönte Autorin Candice Carty-Williams kehrt mit einem smarten, unglaublich lebendigen und urkomischen neuen Buch zurück, das ein erhellendes Licht auf die Realitäten des modernen Frauseins wirft. Eine düster-komische und bissig subversive Betrachtung des Lebens. »Ein Muss für alle, die sich für Sex, Selbstfindung und beste Freundschaften interessieren, die uns durch alles hindurchhelfen.« Candace Bushnell, Autorin von »Sex and the City« »Urkomisch, fesselnd, ehrlich. Ich habe es geliebt.« Dolly Alderton

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections as a hotel, restaurant, and club owner that lead him to Studio 54. Inside Studio 54 takes the reader from Brazil to the heights of debauchery in the Virgin Islands and finally to New York City. A star-studded thrill ride through decadent and drug-fueled parties at the legendary Studio 54.

Deutschlands berühmteste Sexkolumnistin meldet sich zu Wort Deutschlands Kultkolumnistin Paula Lambert über Männer, Frauen – und hemmungslosen Sex "Es gibt viele Menschen, die super im Bett sind. Aber seien wir ehrlich: Die Schlechten sind diejenigen, die einem die bleibenden Erinnerungen schenken." Paula Lambert Die Sexkolumnistin der Männerzeitschrift GQ führt durch das unübersichtliche Dickicht der Liebhabertypen, an die sie im Laufe ihres ausschweifenden Sexuallebens geraten ist: Wanderer, Exoten, Hochleistungssportler, Winzlinge, Rammler, Fetischisten und was da sonst noch alles draußen frei herumläuft. Wer mit ihr auf die Pirsch geht, wird nicht nur den einen oder anderen alten Bekannten wiedertreffen, sondern ganz nebenbei auch die wichtigsten Handgriffe, Tipps und Tricks im Umgang mit den gängigsten Lover-Typen erfahren. Und – auch wichtig – wie man die Kerle wieder loswird. Paula Lambert trifft mit ihrem unglaublich erfrischenden, zupackenden Stil den Nerv der Zeit – und kann es locker mit allen Samanthas und Carries aus Sex and the City aufnehmen. Bei dieser extrem unterhaltsamen und witzigen Lektüre kommen nicht nur Frauen voll auf ihre Kosten.

Named one of the Best Thrillers and a Notable Book of 2025 by the New York Times A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York's cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she'd quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can't bring herself to leave him. Yet. And downstairs in 2A, Julian Sonnenberg-who has carved himself a successful niche in the art world, and led a good half-century of a full and satisfying, cosmopolitan life-has just received a devastating phone call that does nothing at all to alleviate his sense that, probably for better and worse, he has aged out and he's just not that useful to anyone any more. Meanwhile, gathered in the Bohemia's bowels, the building's almost entirely Black and Hispanic, working-class staff is taking in the news that that just a few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a demonstration, a counterdemonstration, and a long night of violence across the tinderbox city. As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonight's shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he'll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, but before he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows that there's more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyone's aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed-and lives will be lost.

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning." - F. Scott Fitzgerald A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that helps them come to truly know each other. Antonio is eighteen years old and on the cusp of adulthood. His father, a brilliant mathematician, hasn’t played a large part in his life since divorcing Antonio’s mother but when Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy, they travel to Marseille to visit a doctor who may hold the hope for an effective treatment. It is there, in a foreign city, under strained circumstances, that they will get to know each other and connect for the first time. A beautiful, gritty, and charming port city where French old-world charm meets modern bohemia, father and son stroll the streets sharing strained small talk. But as the hours pass and day gives way to night, the two find themselves caught in a series of caffeine-imbued adventures involving unexpected people (and unforeseen trysts) that connect father and son for the first time. As the two discuss poetry, family, sex, math, death, and dreams, their experience becomes a mesmerizing 48-hour microcosm of a lifetime relationship. Both learn much about illusions and regret, about talent and redemption, and, most of all, about love. Elegant, warm, and tender, set against the vivid backdrop of 1980s Marseille and its beautiful calanques—a series of cliffs and bays on the city’s outskirts—Three O’Clock in the Morning is a bewitching coming-of-age story imbued with nostalgia and a revelatory exploration of time and fate, youth and adulthood. Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Hachi tells herself that she's got her eye on the future and her life with Takumi, but she just can't let go of the past and her friendship with Nana and the rest of Blast--especially Nobu. And the tangle gets thicker when Hachi's wedding has to be postponed in favor of Nana and Ren's nuptials. Can Hachi handle another delay in her happily-ever-after?