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Miri thinks she has got her wife back when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp.

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic—with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor—The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed 20 Slam titles. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At 37 years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement in an attempt to reclaim her record.

Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no ornate illuminations, no fussy borders, only lines of plain text in hard black ink. The flowing handwriting was a bit difficult to follow at first; the writer's style of calligraphy had not been in common use for 300 years. No table of contents, but from the dates it looked to be some kind of history.

The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

O mestre e Margarida é um romance revolucionário. É uma obra com um estilo absolutamente original, sobre a liberdade da escrita e a força do amor em tempos adversos. É também uma sátira devastadora da vida sob o regime soviético, da censura e da repressão. Um dos livros mais importantes e cultuados do século XX.

In 1928, Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school's brightest star (and a cunning beauty for whom Emily would do anything), falls to her death on her eighteenth birthday. Emily and her buttoned-up rival Evelyn are, for once, in agreement: Violet's death was no accident. There's an obvious culprit, the French schoolmistress with whom Violet was getting a little too close - they just need to prove it.

Now, following a distressing series of events, the family ties are strained. Niamh receives drunken phone calls and messages from Peter who can't understand what derailed their burgeoning relationship three years ago. As a family wedding looms, and the women find themselves face to face, the knotty love that still binds Niamh, Helen and Kate might just bring them back together again.

Harlow muss sich beweisen – und gegen die Liebe ihres Lebens kämpfen: »Wenn ich dich wiedersehe, werde ich dich töten. Versprochen.« Von dem Mann hintergangen, für den sie alles geopfert hat, wurde Harlow aus ihrer Heimat verbannt. In einem tödlichen Wettkampf versucht sie, sich ihre Ehre zurückzuerkämpfen: Und ihr Widersacher ist ausgerechnet der Mann – der Gott –, dem sie unbedingt entfliehen wollte. Loki! Er ist die Liebe ihres Lebens … und ein Mörder.

Da Harold Fry, pensionist og gift med Maureen, modtager et brev fra en tidligere og nu døende kollega Queenie, ved han ikke, at han har taget hul på sit livs rejse: En 800 km lang vandring til fods fra Devon i Sydengland til det sydlige til Berwick-upon-Tweed i nord. Hans fravær får Maureen til at tænke over deres samliv, glæder og sorger, og gamle følelser vækkes til live igen. På sin vej op gennem England har Harold også tid til at reflektere over sit liv med Maureen. Harold deler sin historie om brevet til Queenie med de mennesker, han møder undervejs.

Annie and Hector have been hosting family friends in the guest house of their Connecticut home for many months. As a thank you, Annie is gifted French lessons with a twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. Hector, an actor, goes to Argentina to film on location, leaving Annie to single-parent their two kids. As life and the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen.

In the far reaches of the Territory of the Arctic, the Spahr family lives on a fjord accessible only by kayak and float plane, in a landscape rapidly changing as glaciers melt and sea levels rise. Their home is Jubilation House, aptly named: they are a family of free spirit and full-hearted love, descendants of the homesteaders who came to this place in a reckless scheme to civilize the Glacial Front. They live off the grid in a converted fisherman's shack, selling pickled octopus and sea crops, barely scraping by. With every day, their livelihood seems ever more precarious.

A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family’s rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators It's December 24, 1979, just before closing at Baker-Taylor's, and Fran (née Baker) is surveying her domain. Her husband, Fred, is charming customers in the front of the store, while last-minute shoppers in the toy aisle are fighting over the lone remaining Atari.

What If... – A Thrilling Blend of Horror, Humor, and Humanity A Riveting Collection of Stories from a Seasoned Entomologist Turned Storyteller What if the line between reality and imagination blurred? What if the eerie, the absurd, and the profound converged in unexpected ways? In What If..., accomplishedentomologist Joseph Mahar—a former Peace Corps volunteer and Integrated Pest Management expert—brings you a captivating collection of short stories inspired by real-life events.

Indulge the obsession of a dying man whose stubborn quest for an ecstatic send-off tests the liberating potentials of belief. Dare to believe in a rapturous transition between life and death that holds the potential to set us free.“Original ideas, strong prose, timelessness and universality . . . Dissolve offers a unique imagining of what might happen to the human soul after it’s left the body.” —Kirkus Reviews

Da en kvinde bliver fundet dræbt tæt ved Utterslev Mose, vækker det uhyggelige minder for drabsefterforsker Felix Jørgensen. Den samme morder var lige ved at slå hans kollega Kathrine Nymark ihjel, og hun er stadig præget af det sadistiske overfald. Alligevel beslutter hun sig for at arbejde sammen med Felix for at stoppe den bestialske morder i at myrde flere kvinder.

A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered police detectives debate their favourite weapons. A violent man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with.

A rat policeman comes to the startling realization that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian novelist whose work he's plagiarized for years, finally fall into confrontation. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included in The Insufferable Gaucho are some of Roberto Bolaño's best.

Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novella, Amulet is a potent stream of consciousness through which the poets of Mexico rage and swirl.