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Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by. Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.

O třech věcech jsem byla naprosto přesvědčená. Za prvé, Edward byl upír. Za druhé, část jeho osobnosti – a já nevěděla, nakolik byla tato část dominantní – žíznila po mé krvi. A za třetí, bezpodmínečně a neodvolatelně jsem ho milovala. Stmívání, hluboce svůdný a mimořádně napínavý příběh, je milostný příběh s tesáky.

Ich wusste, dass wir beide in Lebensgefahr schwebten. Dennoch fühlte ich mich in diesem Augenblick wohl. Ganz. Ich konnte wieder mein Herz in meiner Brust rasen fühlen, das Blut heiß und schnell durch meine Adern pulsieren. Meine Lungen füllten sich tief mit dem süßen Duft, der von seiner Haut ausging. Es war, als hätte es nie ein Loch in meiner Brust gegeben. Ich war vollkommen – nicht geheilt, sondern als hätte es von Anfang an nie eine Wunde gegeben. ICH FÜHLTE MICH, ALS WÄRE ICH IN EINEM DIESER FURCHTERREGENDEN ALBTRÄUME GEFANGEN, in denen man rennen muss, rennen, bis die Lungen platzen, aber den Körper nicht schnell genug bewegen kann ... Doch dies war kein Traum, und anders als im Albtraum rannte ich nicht um mein Leben; ich raste, um etwas unendlich Wertvolleres zu retten. Mein eigenes Leben bedeutete mir heute wenig. FÜR BELLA SWAN GIBT ES EINE SACHE, die wichtiger ist als das Leben selbst: Edward Cullen. Doch in einen Vampir verliebt zu sein, ist noch gefährlicher, als Bella es sich je hätte vorstellen können. Edward hat Bella bereits aus den Fängen eines bösen Vampirs gerettet, aber nun, da ihre wagemutige Beziehung alles bedroht, was ihnen lieb und teuer ist, erkennen sie, dass ihre Schwierigkeiten vielleicht gerade erst anfangen ... LEGIONEN VON LESERN, DIE VOM New-York-Times-Bestseller Twilight VERZAUBERT SIND, dürsten nach der Fortsetzung der Geschichte der vom Schicksal getrennten Liebenden Bell und Edward. In New Moon liefert Stephenie Meyer erneut eine unwiderstehliche Mischung aus Romantik und Spannung mit einer übernatürlichen Note. Leidenschaftlich, fesselnd und voller überraschender Wendungen ist diese Vampir-Liebessaga auf dem besten Weg zur literarischen Unsterblichkeit.

„BELLA?“ Edwards sanfte Stimme kam von hinter mir. Ich drehte mich um und sah, wie er leichtfüßig die Verandastufen hinaufsprang, sein Haar vom Laufen zerzaust. Er zog mich sofort in seine Arme, genau wie auf dem Parkplatz, und küsste mich wieder. Dieser Kuss machte mir Angst. Zu viel Spannung lag darin, zu scharf war die Härte, mit der seine Lippen auf meinen lagen – als hätte er Angst, uns bliebe nur noch wenig Zeit. Während Seattle von einer Reihe mysteriöser Morde heimgesucht wird und eine bösartige Vampirin weiter nach Rache strebt, findet Bella sich erneut von Gefahr umgeben. Inmitten all dessen ist sie gezwungen, zwischen ihrer Liebe zu Edward und ihrer Freundschaft mit Jacob zu wählen – wohl wissend, dass ihre Entscheidung den uralten Kampf zwischen Vampiren und Werwölfen entfachen könnte. Da ihr Schulabschluss rasch näher rückt, muss Bella noch eine weitere Entscheidung treffen: Leben oder Tod. Aber was ist was? Leserinnen und Leser, die von Twilight und New Moon gefesselt waren, werden Biss zum Abendrot, den mit Spannung erwarteten dritten Band von Stephenie Meyers fesselnder Vampir-Liebessaga, voller Begeisterung verschlingen.

„Hab keine Angst“, murmelte ich. „Wir gehören zusammen.“ Plötzlich überwältigte mich die Wahrheit meiner eigenen Worte. Dieser Moment war so perfekt, so richtig, dass es unmöglich war, daran zu zweifeln. Seine Arme legten sich um mich, hielten mich an ihn gedrückt … Es fühlte sich an, als wäre jede Nervenendigung in meinem Körper ein stromführender Draht. „Für immer“, stimmte er zu. WENN MAN DENJENIGEN LIEBTE, DER EINEN TÖTETE, BLIEBEN EINEM KEINE MÖGLICHKEITEN. Wie konnte man weglaufen, wie konnte man kämpfen, wenn man damit den geliebten Menschen verletzen würde? Wenn das eigene Leben alles war, was man geben konnte, wie konnte man es nicht geben? Wenn es jemand war, den man wirklich liebte? UNWIDERRUFLICH IN EINEN VAMPIR VERLIEBT ZU SEIN, ist für Bella Swan zugleich Fantasie und Albtraum, verwoben zu einer gefährlich gesteigerten Realität. In die eine Richtung gezogen von ihrer intensiven Leidenschaft für Edward Cullen, in die andere von ihrer tiefen Verbundenheit mit dem Werwolf Jacob Black, haben ein stürmisches Jahr voller Versuchung, Verlust und Konflikte sie an den entscheidenden Wendepunkt geführt. Ihre bevorstehende Entscheidung, entweder der dunklen, aber verführerischen Welt der Unsterblichen beizutreten oder ein ganz und gar menschliches Leben zu führen, ist zum Faden geworden, an dem die Schicksale zweier Stämme hängen. NUN, DA BELLA IHRE ENTSCHEIDUNG GETROFFEN HAT, steht eine verblüffende Kette beispielloser Ereignisse kurz davor, sich zu entfalten – mit möglicherweise verheerenden und unvorstellbaren Folgen. Gerade als die ausgefransten Fäden von Bellas Leben – zuerst in Twilight entdeckt, dann in New Moon und Eclipse verstreut und zerrissen – bereit scheinen, zu heilen und wieder zusammengefügt zu werden, könnten sie da zerstört werden … für immer? DER ERSTAUNLICHE, ATEMLOS erwartete Abschluss der Twilight-Saga, Bis(s) zum Ende der Nacht, enthüllt die Geheimnisse und Rätsel dieses bezaubernden romantischen Epos, das Millionen in seinen Bann gezogen hat.

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics. Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.

She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she finds herself torn between a dangerous affair with a female lover and the promise of a conventional marriage to an apparently respectable doctor, her desires begin to lead her towards a future she had never imagined. Meanwhile, on the wild island of Borneo, an eccentric British ‘rajah’, Sir Ralph Savage, overflowing with philanthropy but compromised by his passions, sees his schemes relentlessly undermined by his own fragility, by man’s innate greed and by the invasive power of the forest itself. Jane’s quest for an altered life and Sir Ralph’s endeavours become locked together as the story journeys across the globe – from the confines of an English tearoom to the rainforests of a tropical island via the slums of Dublin and the transgressive fancy-dress boutiques of Paris. Islands of Mercy is a novel that ignites the senses, and is a bold exploration of the human urge to seek places of sanctuary in a pitiless world.

Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail. Eve Polastri (not a codename) is a former MI6 operative hired by the national security services for a singular task: to find and capture or kill the assassin responsible, and those who have aided her. Eve, whose quiet and otherwise unextraordinary life belies her quick wit and keen intellect, accepts the mission. The ensuing chase will lead them on a trail around the world, intersecting with corrupt governments and powerful criminal organizations, all leading towards a final confrontation from which neither will emerge unscathed. Codename Villanelle is a sleek, fast-paced international thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction.

In a hotel room in Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve Polastri has discovered that a senior MI5 officer is in the pay of the Twelve, and is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. The duel between the two women intensifies, as does their mutual obsession, and when the action moves from the high passes of the Tyrol to the heart of Russia, Eve finally begins to unwrap the enigma of her adversary's true identity.

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780307588371 Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.

Лоуен Ашли е писателка, която едва свързва двата края и е на ръба на финансов крах, когато приема предложението за работа на живота си. Джереми Крофърд, съпругът на Верити Крофърд — авторка на бестселъри, — наема Лоуен да довърши останалите книги от успешна поредица, които ранената му съпруга не е в състояние да завърши. Лоуен пристига в дома на семейство Крофърд, готова да прегледа годините бележки и планове на Верити, надявайки се да намери достатъчно материал, за да започне. Това, което Лоуен не очаква да открие в хаотичния кабинет, е незавършена автобиография, която Верити никога не е възнамерявала някой да прочете. Страница след страница — смразяващи кръвта признания, включително спомените на Верити за това какво наистина се е случило в деня, когато дъщеря ѝ е починала. Лоуен решава да скрие ръкописа от Джереми, знаейки, че съдържанието му би съсипало и без това скърбящия баща. Но когато чувствата ѝ към Джереми започват да се засилват, тя осъзнава всички начини, по които би могла да спечели, ако той прочете думите на съпругата си. В края на краищата, колкото и отдаден да е Джереми на ранената си съпруга, една толкова ужасяваща истина би направила невъзможно за него да продължи да я обича.

Als vier Kommilitonen von einem kleinen College in Massachusetts nach New York ziehen, um sich dort etwas aufzubauen, sind sie pleite, orientierungslos und nur durch ihre Freundschaft und ihren Ehrgeiz getragen. Da sind der freundliche, gutaussehende Willem, ein angehender Schauspieler; JB, ein schlagfertiger, bisweilen grausamer, in Brooklyn geborener Maler, der Zugang zur Kunstwelt sucht; Malcolm, ein frustrierter Architekt in einem angesehenen Büro; und der zurückgezogene, brillante, rätselhafte Jude, der ihr Gravitationszentrum bildet. Im Laufe der Jahrzehnte werden ihre Beziehungen enger und düsterer, geprägt von Sucht, Erfolg und Stolz. Doch ihre größte Herausforderung, wie jeder von ihnen erkennt, ist Jude selbst: Im mittleren Alter ist er ein erschreckend begabter Prozessanwalt, zugleich aber ein zunehmend gebrochener Mann, dessen Geist und Körper von einer unaussprechlichen Kindheit gezeichnet sind und den die Angst verfolgt, ein Ausmaß an Trauma erlebt zu haben, das er nicht nur nicht überwinden kann, sondern das sein Leben für immer bestimmen wird.

„Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter“ trifft auf „Eleanor & Park“ in dieser mitreißenden und herzzerreißenden Liebesgeschichte über ein Mädchen, das von einem Jungen, der sterben will, lernt zu leben. Theodore Finch ist vom Tod fasziniert und denkt ständig darüber nach, wie er sich umbringen könnte. Doch jedes Mal hält ihn etwas Gutes, sei es noch so klein, davon ab. Violet Markey lebt für die Zukunft und zählt die Tage bis zu ihrem Schulabschluss, wenn sie ihrer Stadt in Indiana und ihrer schmerzhaften Trauer nach dem jüngsten Tod ihrer Schwester entfliehen kann. Als Finch und Violet sich auf dem Sims des Schulglockenturms begegnen, ist unklar, wer wen rettet. Und als sie sich für ein Projekt zusammentun, um die „Naturwunder“ ihres Bundesstaates zu entdecken, machen sowohl Finch als auch Violet wichtigere Entdeckungen: Nur bei Violet kann Finch er selbst sein – ein seltsamer, lustiger Kerl, der das Leben in vollen Zügen lebt und doch gar nicht so ein Freak ist. Und nur bei Finch kann Violet aufhören, die Tage herunterzuzählen, und anfangen, sie zu leben. Doch während Violets Welt größer wird, beginnt Finchs zu schrumpfen. Dies ist ein intensiver, fesselnder Roman für Fans von Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman und Jenny Downham von Jennifer Niven, einer talentierten neuen Stimme der Jugendliteratur.

Als kühner Vorstoß in neues literarisches Terrain gefeiert, wird Kawakamis Roman aus der Perspektive eines 14-jährigen Schülers erzählt, der wegen seines Silberblicks unerbittlichen Schikanen ausgesetzt ist. Statt sich zu wehren, entscheidet sich der Junge, in völliger Ergebenheit zu leiden. Die einzige Person, die versteht, was er durchmacht, ist eine Klassenkameradin, die durch ihre Peinigerinnen und Peiniger ähnlich behandelt wird. Diesen schonungslosen und realistischen Darstellungen von Mobbing stehen vielschichtige Erörterungen der philosophischen und religiösen Debatten über die Gewalt gegenüber, der Schwache ausgesetzt sind. Kawakamis schlichtes und doch tiefgründiges neues Werk ist ein schillerndes Zeugnis ihres literarischen Talents. Es kann kaum Zweifel daran bestehen, dass es ihren Ruf als eine der wichtigsten jungen Autorinnen gefestigt hat, die daran arbeiten, die Grenzen der zeitgenössischen japanischen Literatur zu erweitern.

Der Fall ist abgeschlossen. Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Schülerin Andie Bell von Sal Singh ermordet. Die Polizei weiß, dass er es getan hat. Jeder in der Stadt weiß, dass er es getan hat. Aber Pippa Fitz-Amobi, die in derselben Kleinstadt aufgewachsen ist, die von dem Mord erschüttert wurde, ist sich da nicht so sicher. Als sie den Fall zum Thema ihres Abschlussprojekts macht, beginnt sie, Geheimnisse aufzudecken, die jemand in der Stadt unbedingt verborgen halten will. Und wenn der wahre Mörder noch immer da draußen ist, wie weit wird diese Person gehen, um Pip von der Wahrheit fernzuhalten?

Pip ist keine Detektivin mehr. Mit der Hilfe von Ravi Singh hat sie einen True-Crime-Podcast über den Mordfall veröffentlicht, den sie letztes Jahr gemeinsam gelöst haben. Der Podcast ist viral gegangen, doch Pip besteht darauf, dass ihre Tage als Ermittlerin hinter ihr liegen. Aber sie wird dieses Versprechen brechen müssen, als jemand, den sie kennt, verschwindet. Jamie Reynolds ist verschwunden – in derselben Nacht, in der die Stadt eine Gedenkfeier zum sechsten Jahrestag der Todesfälle von Andie Bell und Sal Singh veranstaltete. Die Polizei wird nichts unternehmen. Und wenn sie nicht nach Jamie suchen, wird Pip es tun und dabei weitere dunkle Geheimnisse ihrer Stadt aufdecken ... und diesmal hört jeder zu. Aber wird sie ihn finden, bevor es zu spät ist?

Das Finale der Reihe »A Good Girl's Guide to Murder«. Am Ende dieser Mystery-Reihe wirst du nie wieder auf dieselbe Weise über brave Mädchen denken … Pip steht kurz davor, aufs College zu gehen, doch sie wird noch immer davon verfolgt, wie ihre letzte Ermittlung endete. Nach ihrem viralen True-Crime-Podcast ist sie an Online-Todesdrohungen gewöhnt, aber sie kann nicht anders, als eine anonyme Person zu bemerken, die sie immer wieder fragt: Wer wird nach dir suchen, wenn du diejenige bist, die verschwindet? Schon bald eskalieren die Drohungen, und Pip erkennt, dass ihr jemand auch im echten Leben folgt. Als sie Verbindungen zwischen ihrem Stalker und einem örtlichen Serienmörder entdeckt, der vor sechs Jahren gefasst wurde, fragt sie sich, ob vielleicht der Falsche hinter Gittern sitzt. Die Polizei weigert sich zu handeln, also bleibt Pip nur eine Möglichkeit: Sie muss den Verdächtigen selbst finden – oder das nächste Opfer werden. Während sich das tödliche Spiel entfaltet, entdeckt Pip, dass in ihrer Kleinstadt alles wieder zum Ausgangspunkt zurückkehrt … und wenn sie die Antworten nicht findet, wird sie diesmal diejenige sein, die verschwindet …

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.

standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up. (back cover)

Od svého okamžitého úspěchu v roce 1813 zůstává Pýcha a předsudek jedním z nejoblíbenějších románů v anglickém jazyce. Jane Austenová toto skvělé dílo nazvala „svým vlastním milovaným dítětem“ a jeho živou hrdinku Elizabeth Bennetovou „tak okouzlující bytostí, jaká se kdy objevila v tisku“. Romantický střet mezi svéhlavou Elizabeth a jejím hrdým nápadníkem, panem Darcym, je skvělou ukázkou vytříbeného slovního souboje. A zářivý vtip Jane Austenové jiskří, když její postavy tančí jemnou čtverylku flirtování a intrik, což z této knihy činí nejskvělejší komedii mravů regentské Anglie.

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Alicia Berensons liv er tilsyneladende perfekt. Hun er en berømt maler, gift med en eftertragtet modefotograf, og hun bor i et storslået hus med store vinduer med udsigt over en park i et af Londons mest eftertragtede områder. En aften kommer hendes mand Gabriel sent hjem fra en modeoptagelse, og Alicia skyder ham fem gange i ansigtet og siger derefter aldrig et ord igen. Alicias nægtelse af at tale eller give nogen form for forklaring forvandler en huslig tragedie til noget langt større, et mysterium, der fængsler offentligheden og gør Alicia berygtet. Prisen på hendes kunstværker skyder i vejret, og hun, den tavse patient, bliver skjult for tabloidpressen og rampelyset på The Grove, en sikret retspsykiatrisk afdeling i Nordlondon. Theo Faber er en retspsykoterapeut, som længe har ventet på muligheden for at arbejde med Alicia. Hans beslutsomhed om at få hende til at tale og opklare mysteriet om, hvorfor hun skød sin mand, fører ham ad en snoet vej ind i hans egne motiver – en søgen efter sandheden, der truer med at opsluge ham ... Den tavse patient er en chokerende psykologisk thriller om en kvindes voldshandling mod sin mand – og om terapeuten, der er besat af at afdække hendes motiv.

Ville du kunne overleve alene i vildmarken, når alle er ude på at sikre, at du ikke lever til at se morgendagen? I ruinerne af et sted, der engang var kendt som Nordamerika, ligger nationen Panem, et strålende Capitol omgivet af tolv afsidesliggende distrikter. Capitol er hård og grusom og holder distrikterne i skak ved at tvinge dem alle til at sende en dreng og en pige mellem tolv og atten år til at deltage i de årlige Dødsspil, en kamp til døden, der vises direkte på tv. Sekstenårige Katniss Everdeen, som kun bor sammen med sin mor og yngre søster, betragter det som en dødsdom, da hun træder frem for at tage sin søsters plads i spillene. Men Katniss har før været tæt på døden – og for hende er overlevelse en anden natur. Uden egentlig at mene det bliver hun en kandidat. Men hvis hun skal vinde, må hun begynde at træffe valg, der vejer overlevelse op mod medmenneskelighed og livet op mod kærligheden.

Gnister tændes. Flammer spreder sig. Og Capitol vil have hævn. Mod alle odds har Katniss Everdeen vundet Dødsspillet. Hun og hendes medtribut fra Distrikt 12, Peeta Mellark, er mirakuløst stadig i live. Katniss burde være lettet, ja, endda glad. Hun er trods alt vendt tilbage til sin familie og sin mangeårige ven, Gale. Alligevel er intet, som Katniss ønsker det. Gale holder hende på iskold afstand. Peeta har vendt hende ryggen fuldstændigt. Og der går rygter om et oprør mod Capitol – et oprør, som Katniss og Peeta måske har været med til at skabe. Til sin store chok har Katniss næret en uro, som hun frygter, at hun ikke kan standse. Og det, der skræmmer hende endnu mere, er, at hun ikke er helt overbevist om, at hun burde forsøge. Tiden nærmer sig, hvor Katniss og Peeta skal besøge distrikterne på Capitols grusomme sejrsturné, og indsatsen er højere end nogensinde. Hvis de ikke uden skyggen af tvivl kan bevise, at de er fortabte i deres kærlighed til hinanden, vil konsekvenserne blive frygtelige. I Løbeild, den anden roman i Dødsspillet-trilogien, fortsætter Suzanne Collins historien om Katniss Everdeen, sætter hende på større prøve end nogensinde før ... og overrasker læserne ved hver eneste drejning.

Mit navn er Katniss Everdeen. Hvorfor er jeg ikke død? Jeg burde være død. Katniss Everdeen, pigen i flammer, har overlevet, selv om hendes hjem er blevet ødelagt. Gale er flygtet. Katniss' familie er i sikkerhed. Peeta er blevet taget til fange af Capitol. Distrikt 13 findes virkelig. Der er oprørere. Der er nye ledere. En revolution er under opsejling. Det var planlagt, at Katniss blev reddet fra arenaen under den grusomme og hjemsøgende Kvartalskvæle, og det var planlagt, at hun længe havde været en del af revolutionen uden at vide det. Distrikt 13 er trådt ud af skyggerne og planlægger at vælte Capitol. Alle synes at have haft en hånd med i de omhyggeligt lagte planer – undtagen Katniss. Oprørets succes afhænger af Katniss' villighed til at være en brik, til at påtage sig ansvaret for utallige liv og til at ændre Panems fremtid. For at gøre det må hun lægge sine følelser af vrede og mistillid til side. Hun må blive oprørernes Mockingjay – uanset hvad det personligt koster.

Als Edward Cullen und Bella Swan sich in Bis(s) zum Morgengrauen begegneten, wurde eine ikonische Liebesgeschichte geboren. Doch bisher haben die Fans nur Bellas Seite der Geschichte gehört. Endlich können Leserinnen und Leser Edwards Version im lange erwarteten Begleitroman Biss zur Mitternachtssonne erleben. Diese unvergessliche Geschichte, erzählt aus Edwards Sicht, erhält eine neue und entschieden düstere Wendung. Bella zu begegnen ist zugleich das beunruhigendste und faszinierendste Ereignis, das er in all seinen Jahren als Vampir erlebt hat. Während wir weitere faszinierende Details über Edwards Vergangenheit und die Komplexität seiner inneren Gedanken erfahren, verstehen wir, warum dies der entscheidende Kampf seines Lebens ist. Wie kann er es rechtfertigen, seinem Herzen zu folgen, wenn das bedeutet, Bella in Gefahr zu bringen?

Charlotte Davis ist in Scherben. Mit siebzehn hat sie bereits mehr verloren als die meisten Menschen in einem ganzen Leben. Aber sie hat gelernt, zu vergessen. Das zerbrochene Glas spült die Trauer fort, bis nichts mehr bleibt außer Ruhe. Du musst nicht an deinen Vater und den Fluss denken. An deine beste Freundin, die für immer fort ist. Oder an deine Mutter, die dir nichts mehr zu geben hat. Jede neue Narbe verhärtet Charlies Herz ein wenig mehr, und doch tut es immer noch so sehr weh. Es tut so weh, dass es ihr schließlich egal ist, was manchmal geschehen muss, bevor du vom Abgrund zurückfindest.

Εξερευνώντας την ψυχολογική δυναμική της σχέσης ανάμεσα σε ένα πρόωρα ώριμο αλλά αφελές έφηβο κορίτσι και τον γοητευτικό και χειριστικό δάσκαλό της, ένα λαμπρό, καθηλωτικό ανάγνωσμα που σηματοδοτεί το εκρηκτικό ντεμπούτο μιας εξαιρετικής νέας συγγραφέα. 2000. Φωτεινή, φιλόδοξη και λαχταρώντας την ενηλικίωση, η δεκαπεντάχρονη Βανέσα Γουάι εμπλέκεται σε μια σχέση με τον Τζέικομπ Στρέιν, τον γοητευτικό και πανούργο σαρανταδυάχρονο καθηγητή αγγλικών της. 2017. Μέσα στο αυξανόμενο κύμα καταγγελιών εναντίον ισχυρών ανδρών, πλησιάζει η ώρα του απολογισμού. Ο Στρέιν έχει κατηγορηθεί για σεξουαλική κακοποίηση από μια πρώην μαθήτριά του, η οποία επικοινωνεί με τη Βανέσα, και τώρα η Βανέσα βρίσκεται ξαφνικά αντιμέτωπη με μια αδύνατη επιλογή: να παραμείνει σιωπηλή, πιστεύοντας ακλόνητα ότι ως έφηβη συμμετείχε πρόθυμα σε αυτή τη σχέση, ή να επαναπροσδιορίσει τον εαυτό της και τα γεγονότα του παρελθόντος της. Μα πώς μπορεί η Βανέσα να απορρίψει τον πρώτο της έρωτα, τον άνδρα που τη μεταμόρφωσε θεμελιωδώς και υπήρξε σταθερή παρουσία στη ζωή της; Είναι δυνατόν ο άνδρας που αγάπησε ως έφηβη —και που ισχυριζόταν ότι λάτρευε μόνο εκείνη— να διαφέρει πολύ από ό,τι πάντα πίστευε; Εναλλάσσοντας το παρόν της Βανέσας με το παρελθόν της, το «Σκοτεινή μου Βανέσα» αντιπαραβάλλει τη μνήμη και το τραύμα με τη λαχανιασμένη έξαψη ενός έφηβου κοριτσιού που ανακαλύπτει τη δύναμη που μπορεί να ασκήσει το ίδιο της το σώμα. Στοχαστικό και αδύνατον να το αφήσεις από τα χέρια σου, είναι μια αριστοτεχνική απεικόνιση της ταραγμένης εφηβείας και των συνεπειών της, που θέτει καίρια ερωτήματα για την αυτενέργεια, τη συναίνεση, τη συνενοχή και τη θυματοποίηση. Γραμμένο με την στοιχειωτική οικειότητα του «The Girls» και την υπόγεια ένταση του «Room», το «Σκοτεινή μου Βανέσα» είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα που ορίζει την εποχή του και αποτυπώνει και αντανακλά με εξαιρετικό τρόπο τα μεταβαλλόμενα πολιτισμικά ήθη που μεταμορφώνουν τις σχέσεις μας και την ίδια την κοινωνία.

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life’s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him as a baby, as she did so many of the village’s children. Ina’s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina’s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place. Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, civility and savagery, will prove to be very thin indeed.

От награждаваната авторка Р. Ф. Куанг идва „Вавилон“ — епична историческа фентъзи творба, която се занимава със студентски революции, колониална съпротива и употребата на езика и превода като средство за господство на Британската империя. Traduttore, traditore: Всеки акт на превод е акт на предателство. 1828 г. Робин Суифт, осиротял от холера в Кантон, е доведен в Лондон от загадъчния професор Ловел. Там той години наред се обучава по латински, старогръцки и китайски, подготвяйки се за деня, в който ще постъпи в престижния Кралски институт по превод към Оксфордския университет — известен още като Вавилон. Кулата и нейните студенти са световният център на превода и, което е още по-важно, на магията. Среброделството — изкуството да се проявява изгубеният в превода смисъл с помощта на омагьосани сребърни кюлчета — е направило британците ненадминати по сила, тъй като това тайнствено изкуство служи на стремежа на Империята към колонизация. За Робин Оксфорд е утопия, посветена на преследването на знанието. Но знанието се подчинява на властта и като китайско момче, израснало във Великобритания, Робин осъзнава, че да служи на Вавилон означава да предаде родината си. С напредването на обучението си Робин се оказва разкъсан между Вавилон и потайното Общество на Хермес — организация, посветена на спирането на имперската експанзия. Когато Великобритания започва несправедлива война с Китай заради среброто и опиума, Робин трябва да реши... Могат ли могъщите институции да бъдат променени отвътре или революцията винаги изисква насилие?

وظيفة جاك تورانس الجديدة في فندق أوفِرلوك هي الفرصة المثالية لبداية جديدة. بصفته القيّم على الفندق القديم ذي الأجواء الغامضة خلال الموسم الهادئ، سيكون لديه متسع من الوقت لإعادة التواصل مع أسرته والعمل على كتاباته. لكن مع حلول طقس الشتاء القاسي، يبدو المكان المثالي أكثر عزلة... وأكثر شؤمًا. والوحيد الذي يلاحظ القوى الغريبة والمروعة التي تتجمع حول أوفِرلوك هو داني تورانس، طفل في الخامسة يتمتع بموهبة فريدة.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is the best there is. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical crimes, and years of experience working in the Medical Examiner's office, she's never encountered a case she couldn't solve. Until now. Case after case is piling up on Wren's examination table, and soon she is sucked into an all-consuming cat-and-mouse chase with a brutal murderer getting more brazen by the day. An addictive read with straight-from-the-morgue details only an autopsy technician could provide, The Butcher and the Wren promises to ensnare all who enter.

Rowan Mým podnikáním je vytvářet pohádky. Zábavní parky. Produkční společnosti. Pětihvězdičkové hotely. Všechno by mohlo být moje, kdybych zrenovoval Dreamland. Můj původní nápad najmout Zahru byl teoreticky dobrý, ale pak jsem ji políbil. Věci se vymkly kontrole, když jsem jí začal psát pod falešným jménem. Když jsem si uvědomil, kde jsem udělal chybu, bylo už pozdě. Lidé jako já nemají šťastné konce. Ne když jsme předurčeni je zničit. Zahra Poté, co jsem opilá podala návrh kritizující nejdražší atrakci Dreamlandu, mě měli vyhodit. Místo toho mi Rowan Kane nabídl práci snů. Háček? Musela jsem pracovat pro nejtěžšího šéfa, jakého jsem kdy potkala. Rowan byl hrubý a naprosto nedostupný, ale mému srdci to bylo jedno. Alespoň do chvíle, než jsem odhalila jeho tajemství. Byl čas naučit toho miliardáře, že peníze nemohou vyřešit všechno. Zvlášť ne nás. Láska mezi řádky je první knihou série vzájemně propojených samostatných románů o třech bratrech miliardářích.

Declan I’m destined to become the next CEO of my family’s media empire. The only problem? My grandfather’s inheritance clause. Fulfilling his dying wish of getting married and having an heir seemed impossible until my assistant volunteers for the job. Our marriage was supposed to be the perfect solution to my biggest problem. But the more we act in love for the public, the more unsure I feel about our contract. Caring about Iris was never part of the deal. Especially not when breaking her heart is inevitable. Iris My plan to marry Declan was simple in theory. Move in together. Throw a wedding. Have a baby. We set rules to prevent any kind of issues. Ones that were never meant to be broken, no matter how much Declan tempts me. But what happens when our fake relationship bleeds into our real one? Falling in love was never an option. At least not for me.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her—freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. "Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." —Margaret Atwood An alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here.

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now… Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

Η Μαντάμ Μποβαρί είναι το πρώτο μυθιστόρημα του Γάλλου συγγραφέα Γκυστάβ Φλωμπέρ, που δημοσιεύτηκε το 1856. Η ηρωίδα ζει πέρα από τις οικονομικές της δυνατότητες, προκειμένου να ξεφύγει από την κοινοτοπία και την κενότητα της επαρχιακής ζωής. Όταν το μυθιστόρημα δημοσιεύτηκε για πρώτη φορά σε συνέχειες στη La Revue de Paris, από την 1η Οκτωβρίου 1856 έως τις 15 Δεκεμβρίου 1856, οι εισαγγελείς το κατηγόρησαν για αισχρότητα. Η δίκη που ακολούθησε, τον Ιανουάριο του 1857, έκανε την ιστορία διαβόητη. Μετά την αθώωση του Φλωμπέρ στις 7 Φεβρουαρίου 1857, η Μαντάμ Μποβαρί έγινε μπεστ σέλερ τον Απρίλιο του 1857, όταν εκδόθηκε σε δύο τόμους. Έργο-ορόσημο του λογοτεχνικού ρεαλισμού, το μυθιστόρημα θεωρείται σήμερα το αριστούργημα του Φλωμπέρ και ένα από τα έργα με τη μεγαλύτερη επιρροή στην ιστορία της λογοτεχνίας.

Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty rather than following one's desires then a good and noble life will be achieved. Scandalous in its day for its frank discussion of venereal disease and marriage infidelity, Ghosts remains to this day an intense psychological drama and sharp social criticism. Ghosts was written during the autumn of 1881 and was published in December of the same year. It was not performed in the theatre until May 1882, when a Danish touring company produced it in the Aurora Turner Hall in Chicago. Ibsen disliked the translator William Archer's use of the word 'Ghosts' as the play's title, whereas the Norwegian Gengangere would be more accurately translated as The Revenants, which literally means The Ones who Return.

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not in the mood for her friend’s murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920’s fancy dress and pretending that their town, Little Kilton, is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind … Find out where it all began for Pip in this prequel to the best-selling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and Good Girl, Bad Blood.

First U.S. Publication A major literary event—the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.

„Nachdem ich mein Werk vollendet hatte, war die Schönheit des Traums verschwunden, und atemloses Entsetzen und Ekel erfüllten mein Herz …“ Besessen davon, das Leben selbst zu erschaffen, plündert Victor Frankenstein Friedhöfe, um das Material für die Gestaltung eines neuen Wesens zu beschaffen, das er mit Elektrizität zum Leben erweckt. Doch seine misslungene Kreatur, von Frankenstein zurückgewiesen und jeder menschlichen Gemeinschaft beraubt, macht sich daran, ihren Schöpfer und alles, was ihm lieb ist, zu vernichten. Mary Shelleys schaurige gotische Erzählung entstand, als sie erst achtzehn Jahre alt war und mit ihrem Geliebten Percy Shelley nahe Byrons Villa am Genfersee lebte. Sie sollte zum berühmtesten Werk der Horrorliteratur der Welt werden und bleibt eine erschütternde Untersuchung der Grenzen menschlicher Schöpferkraft. Dieser Band basiert auf der dritten Ausgabe von 1831 und enthält alle Überarbeitungen, die Mary Shelley an ihrer Geschichte vornahm, sowie ihre Einleitung von 1831 und Percy Bysshe Shelleys Vorwort zur ersten Ausgabe. Diese revidierte Ausgabe enthält als Anhänge eine Auswahl von Gegenüberstellungen der Texte von 1818 und 1831 sowie „Ein Fragment“ von Lord Byron und Dr. John Polidoris „Der Vampyr: Eine Erzählung“.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!' Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.

The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath-well known to Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there-is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. In many respects Persuasion marks a break with Austen's previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel's characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel.

لقد جاء عام 1984 ومضى، لكن رؤية جورج أورويل النبوئية الكابوسية التي صاغها عام 1949 للعالم الذي كنا نصير إليه تبدو اليوم أكثر راهنية من أي وقت مضى. لا تزال «1984» الكلاسيكية الحديثة العظيمة في أدب «اليوتوبيا السلبية» — رواية أصيلة على نحو مدهش ومقلقة، تخلق عالماً خيالياً مقنعاً تماماً، من الجملة الأولى إلى الكلمات الأربع الأخيرة. ولا يستطيع أحد إنكار سطوة الرواية على مخيلات أجيال كاملة، أو قوة تحذيراتها — وهي قوة يبدو أنها تزداد، لا تضعف، مع مرور الزمن.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.” They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful. A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.

«جميع الحيوانات متساوية، لكن بعض الحيوانات أكثر مساواة من غيرها». تستولي الحيوانات المُجهَدة التي أُسيئت معاملتها على مزرعة. وبمثالية متقدة وشعارات مثيرة للحماسة، تنطلق لإنشاء جنة من التقدم والعدالة والمساواة. وهكذا يُمهَّد المسرح لواحدة من أبلغ الخرافات الساخرة التي كُتبت على الإطلاق — حكاية خرافية حادة كالموسى للبالغين تسجل التطور من ثورة ضد الطغيان إلى شمولية لا تقل فظاعة. عندما نُشرت «مزرعة الحيوانات» لأول مرة، كان يُنظر إلى روسيا الستالينية بوصفها هدفها. أما اليوم، فمن الواضح بصورة مدمرة أنه أينما ومتى ما تعرضت الحرية للهجوم، وتحت أي راية كان ذلك، فإن الوضوح القاطع والكوميديا الضارية لتحفة جورج أورويل لا يزالان يحملان معنى ورسالة شديدَي الجِدّة.

In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia, three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood. Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control. Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of the resistance. Clear is the blood of the slaves, of the crushed, of the invisible. Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the empire from the red-blooded ruling classes’ tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she’s nothing, no one, a disappointment, by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the empire. But when Sylah and Anoor meet, a fire burns between them that could consume the kingdom—and their hearts. Hassa moves through the world unseen by upper classes, so she knows what it means to be invisible. But invisibility has its uses: It can hide the most dangerous of secrets, secrets that can reignite a revolution. And when she joins forces with Sylah and Anoor, together these grains of sand will become a storm. As the empire begins a set of trials of combat and skill designed to find its new leaders, the stage is set for blood to flow, power to shift, and cities to burn. Book One of The Ending Fire Trilogy

Die Glasglocke erzählt vom Zusammenbruch Esther Greenwoods: brillant, schön, außerordentlich talentiert und erfolgreich, doch sie geht langsam unter – vielleicht zum letzten Mal. Sylvia Plath zieht den Leser mit solcher Intensität in Esthers Zusammenbruch hinein, dass Esthers Wahnsinn völlig real und sogar rational wird, eine ebenso wahrscheinliche und zugängliche Erfahrung wie ein Kinobesuch. Dieses tiefe Eindringen in die dunklen und erschütternden Winkel der Psyche ist eine außergewöhnliche Leistung und hat Die Glasglocke zu einem eindringlichen amerikanischen Klassiker gemacht.

Daisy ist ein Mädchen, das Ende der sechziger Jahre in L.A. erwachsen wird, sich in Clubs am Sunset Strip hineinschleicht, mit Rockstars schläft und davon träumt, im Whisky a Go Go zu singen. Sex und Drogen sind aufregend, aber am meisten liebt sie den Rock ’n’ Roll. Mit zwanzig wird ihre Stimme wahrgenommen, und sie besitzt jene unbekümmerte Schönheit, die Menschen dazu bringt, verrückte Dinge zu tun. Auch The Six, eine Band unter der Leitung des grüblerischen Billy Dunne, erregt Aufmerksamkeit. Am Vorabend ihrer ersten Tournee erfährt seine Freundin Camila, dass sie schwanger ist, und unter dem Druck der bevorstehenden Vaterschaft und des Ruhms dreht Billy auf Tour ein wenig durch. Daisy und Billy begegnen sich, als ein Produzent erkennt, dass der Schlüssel zu durchschlagendem Erfolg darin liegt, die beiden zusammenzubringen. Was dann geschieht, wird legendär werden. Die Entstehung dieser Legende wird in diesem fesselnden und unvergesslichen Roman erzählt, der als mündliche Geschichte einer der größten Bands der siebziger Jahre geschrieben ist. Taylor Jenkins Reid ist eine talentierte Schriftstellerin, die mit Daisy Jones & The Six ihre Arbeit auf eine neue Ebene hebt und mit einer völlig unverwechselbaren Stimme brillant einen Ort und eine Zeit einfängt.

Unter dem Einfluss ihres charismatischen Professors für Klassische Philologie entdeckt eine Gruppe kluger, exzentrischer Außenseiter an einem elitären College in Neuengland eine Denk- und Lebensweise, die Welten entfernt ist von der eintönigen Existenz ihrer Altersgenossen. Doch als sie die Grenzen der normalen Moral überschreiten, gleiten sie allmählich von Besessenheit in Korruption und Verrat und schließlich – unaufhaltsam – ins Böse ab.

"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.

يعمل ماركوس في مصنع المعالجة المحلي، في مجال ذبح البشر — رغم أن أحدًا لم يعد يسميهم كذلك. تركته زوجته، ووالده يغرق في الخرف، ويحاول ماركوس ألا يفكر مليًا في الطريقة التي يكسب بها رزقه. ففي النهاية، حدث الأمر بسرعة كبيرة. أولًا، أُبلغ عن أن فيروسًا معديًا جعل كل لحوم الحيوانات سامة للبشر. ثم بدأت الحكومات «التحول». والآن، أصبح أكل لحم البشر — «اللحم الخاص» — قانونيًا. يحاول ماركوس الالتزام بالأرقام والشحنات والمعالجة. ثم، في أحد الأيام، يُهدى إليه شيء: عينة حية من أجود نوعية. ومع أنه يدرك أن أي شكل من أشكال التواصل الشخصي ممنوع تحت طائلة الموت، فإنه يبدأ، شيئًا فشيئًا، في معاملتها كإنسانة. وسرعان ما يعذبه ما فُقد — وما قد لا يزال بالإمكان إنقاذه.

Předtím. Miles „Pudge“ Halter už má dost svého bezpečného života doma. Celý jeho život byl jednou velkou neudálostí a jeho posedlost slavnými posledními slovy jen ještě posílila jeho touhu po „Velkém Možná“ (François Rabelais, básník). Odjíždí do občas bláznivého a rozhodně ne nudného světa internátní školy Culver Creek a jeho život se stává pravým opakem bezpečného. Protože o několik dveří dál bydlí Alaska Youngová. Nádherná, chytrá, vtipná, sexy, sebedestruktivní, zmatená a naprosto fascinující Alaska Youngová. Sama o sobě je událostí. Vtáhne Pudge do svého světa, vyšle ho do Velkého Možná a ukradne mu srdce. A pak... Potom. Už nikdy nic není stejné.

JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship. Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else—realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.

Humbert Humbert – Gelehrter, Ästhet und Romantiker – hat sich völlig und vollkommen in Dolores Haze verliebt, die zwölfjährige Tochter seiner Vermieterin mit der kaugummikauenden Art und der seidigen Haut. Widerwillig willigt er ein, Mrs. Haze zu heiraten, nur um Lolita nahe zu sein. Humbert leidet sehr in seinem Streben nach Romantik; doch als Lo selbst beginnt, anderswo nach Aufmerksamkeit zu suchen, wird er sie im Namen der Liebe auf eine verzweifelte Irrfahrt quer durchs Land entführen. Urkomisch, extravagant, herzzerreißend und voller genialer Wortspiele ist Lolita ein makelloses, unvergessliches Meisterwerk über Besessenheit, Wahn und Lust.

Geschrieben im Jahr 1914, aber erst 1925, ein Jahr nach Kafkas Tod, veröffentlicht, ist Der Prozess die erschreckende Geschichte von Josef K., einem angesehenen Bankangestellten, der plötzlich und ohne erkennbare Erklärung verhaftet wird und sich gegen eine Anklage verteidigen muss, über die er keinerlei Informationen erhalten kann. Ob als existenzielle Erzählung, als Parabel oder als Prophezeiung der Exzesse moderner Bürokratie, gepaart mit dem Wahnsinn des Totalitarismus, gelesen – Der Prozess hat bei Generationen von Leserinnen und Lesern mit erschreckender Wahrheit Widerhall gefunden.

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

„Добре дошла в семейството“, казва Нина Уинчестър, докато стискам елегантната ѝ ръка с безупречен маникюр. Усмихвам се учтиво, оглеждайки мраморното антре. Работата тук е последният ми шанс да започна начисто. Мога да се преструвам на когото поискам. Но скоро ще разбера, че тайните на семейство Уинчестър са много по-опасни от моите… Всеки ден почиствам красивата къща на Уинчестърови от горе до долу. Вземам дъщеря им от училище. И приготвям вкусна вечеря за цялото семейство, преди да се кача горе, за да ям сама в малката си стая на последния етаж. Опитвам се да не обръщам внимание на това как Нина прави бъркотия само за да ме гледа как я почиствам. Как разказва странни лъжи за собствената си дъщеря. И как съпругът ѝ Андрю изглежда все по-съсипан с всеки изминал ден. Но когато погледна красивите кафяви очи на Андрю, изпълнени с болка, е трудно да не си представям какво би било да живея живота на Нина. Дрешникът, в който можеш да влезеш, луксозната кола, съвършеният съпруг. Само веднъж обличам една от безупречно белите рокли на Нина. Само за да видя какво е. Но тя скоро разбира… и когато осъзнавам, че вратата на таванската ми стая се заключва само отвън, вече е твърде късно. Но се успокоявам: Уинчестърови не знаят коя съм всъщност. Не знаят на какво съм способна… Невероятно изпълнен с обрати роман, който ще ви държи приковани към страниците до късно през нощта. Всеки, който обича „Жената на прозореца“, „Съпругата между нас“ и „Момичето от влака“, няма да може да го остави!

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

«حين استيقظ غريغور سامسا ذات صباح من أحلام مضطربة، وجد نفسه قد تحول في سريره إلى حشرة ضخمة. كان مستلقيًا على ظهره الصلب، كأنه مصفح بالدروع، وحين رفع رأسه قليلًا استطاع أن يرى بطنه البني المقبب، المقسم إلى حلقات مقوسة صلبة، والتي بالكاد كان لحاف السرير يثبت فوقها وكان على وشك أن ينزلق تمامًا. وكانت ساقاه الكثيرة، الهزيلة على نحو يبعث على الشفقة مقارنة ببقية جسده، تتلوى عاجزة أمام عينيه.» بهذه الافتتاحية المدهشة والغريبة، لكنها المضحكة على نحو مفاجئ، يبدأ كافكا رائعته «التحول». إنها قصة شاب يتحول بين ليلة وضحاها إلى حشرة عملاقة تشبه الخنفساء، فيغدو موضع خزي لعائلته، وغريبًا في بيته نفسه، وإنسانًا مغتربًا في جوهره. «التحول» تأمل مؤلم، وإن كان هزليًا على نحو عبثي، في مشاعر الإنسان بالعجز والذنب والعزلة، وقد احتل مكانته بوصفه أحد أكثر أعمال أدب القرن العشرين قراءةً وتأثيرًا. وكما كتب و. هـ. أودن: «كافكا مهم لنا لأن محنته هي محنة الإنسان الحديث.»

Another cover edition for this ISBN One of the most passionate and heartfelt novels ever written, Wuthering Heights tells of the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her father adopted and brought to Wuthering Heights when they were children. While Catherine forms a deep attachment to Heathcliff, her brother Hindley despises him as a rival. Heathcliff becomes torn between love for Catherine and the rage and humiliation he suffers. Finally he can stand it no longer and, in the violence of a summer storm, leaves the Heights for three years. During his absence Catherine has married, but her tormented heart belongs eternally to Heathcliff who is now prepared to exact his tyrannical revenge. With its freedom from social convention and its unparalleled emotional intensity, Wuthering Heights is a highly original and deeply tragic work.

Du kannst die Zukunft nicht aufhalten. Du kannst die Vergangenheit nicht zurückspulen. Der einzige Weg, das Geheimnis zu erfahren … ist, auf Play zu drücken. Clay Jensen kommt von der Schule nach Hause und findet ein seltsames Paket mit seinem Namen darauf auf seiner Veranda. Darin entdeckt er mehrere Kassetten, die von Hannah Baker aufgenommen wurden – seiner Mitschülerin und seinem Schwarm –, die zwei Wochen zuvor Selbstmord begangen hat. Hannahs Stimme sagt ihm, dass es dreizehn Gründe gibt, warum sie beschlossen hat, ihrem Leben ein Ende zu setzen. Clay ist einer davon. Wenn er zuhört, wird er erfahren, warum. Clay verbringt die Nacht damit, mit Hannah als seiner Führerin kreuz und quer durch seine Stadt zu fahren. Er wird zum unmittelbaren Zeugen von Hannahs Schmerz, und während er Hannahs aufgezeichneten Worten durch die ganze Stadt folgt, verändert das, was er entdeckt, sein Leben für immer.

You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included. Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

A classic tale of love and morals in Puritan New England. The Scarlet Lettter is set in 1850s Puritan Boston and tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. This book is required reading in many high school and college English courses and is an American classic by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

Im England des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts ist Armut ein großes Problem. Fanny Price hat Glück. Sie stammt aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen, wächst jedoch bei reichen Verwandten auf dem eleganten Herrensitz Mansfield Park auf. Dort ist das Leben voller gesellschaftlicher Fallstricke. Fannys hochnäsige Cousinen lassen sie den Standesunterschied spüren und auch die kauzige Tante Norris macht ihr das Leben schwer. Trotz aller Hindernisse entwickelt sich Fanny zu einer klugen jungen Frau. Als schließlich ein aussichtsreicher Heiratskandidat auftaucht, gerät das geordnete Leben auf Mansfield Park gründlich aus den Fugen.

„Kdyby bylo po mém, každý hlupák, který chodí kolem s Veselé Vánoce na rtech, by měl být uvařen ve vlastním pudinku a pohřben s kůlem z cesmíny vraženým skrz srdce. Veselé Vánoce? To jsou mi ale řeči!“ Úvod a doslov od Joea Wheelera Pro zahořklého, lakomého Ebenezerа Scrooge jsou Vánoce jen dalším dnem. To vše se však změní, když se zjeví duch jeho dávno zesnulého obchodního partnera a varuje Scrooge, aby změnil své způsoby, než bude příliš pozdě. Toto zkrácené vydání, součást sbírky Focus on the Family Great Stories, obsahuje podrobný úvod a otázky k diskusi od Joea Wheelera, které dnešnímu čtenáři pomohou lépe porozumět dílu. „Vánoční koleda“ vystihuje podstatu svátků jako žádný jiný román.

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art. Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.

A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to living, this poignant and often hilarious book gives voice to the high incidence of depression among America's youth. A collective cry for help from a generation who have come of age entrenched in the culture of divorce, economic instability, and AIDS, here is the intensely personal story of a young girl full of promise, whose mood swings have risen and fallen like the lines of a sad ballad.

Mary Shelley's Matilda—suppressed for more than a century—tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father.

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning’s life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades. Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day! This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break free, to the solace derived from haunting London's streets, these essays, and stories present Woolf at her most impassioned, rendering the pursuit of liberty one of life's most poetic adventures. Selected from the books A Room of One's Own, The Waves, and Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf.

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'. This title features electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Es ist der Morgen der Ernte, die die zehnten jährlichen Hungerspiele einläuten wird. Im Kapitol bereitet sich der achtzehnjährige Coriolanus Snow auf seine einzige Chance auf Ruhm als Mentor bei den Spielen vor. Das einst mächtige Haus Snow ist in schwere Zeiten geraten, und sein Schicksal hängt an der geringen Chance, dass Coriolanus seine Mitstudenten überstrahlen, überlisten und ausmanövrieren kann, um den siegreichen Tribut zu betreuen. Die Chancen stehen gegen ihn. Ihm wurde die demütigende Aufgabe übertragen, den weiblichen Tribut aus Distrikt 12 zu betreuen, den Geringsten der Geringen. Ihre Schicksale sind nun vollständig miteinander verflochten – jede Entscheidung, die Coriolanus trifft, könnte zu Gunst oder Scheitern, Triumph oder Untergang führen. Innerhalb der Arena wird es ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod sein. Außerhalb der Arena beginnt Coriolanus, Gefühle für seinen dem Untergang geweihten Tribut zu entwickeln ... und muss sein Bedürfnis, die Regeln zu befolgen, gegen seinen Wunsch abwägen, um jeden Preis zu überleben.

Ein epischer historischer Militärfantasyroman, inspiriert von der blutigen Geschichte Chinas im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert und voller Verrat und Magie. Als Rin beim Keju – der reichsweiten Prüfung, mit der die talentiertesten Jugendlichen für die Ausbildung an den Akademien ausgewählt werden – Bestnoten erzielt, ist das für alle ein Schock: für die Prüfungsbeamten, die nicht glauben können, dass ein Kriegswaise aus der Provinz Hahn ohne zu betrügen bestehen konnte; für Rins Vormunde, die glaubten, sie könnten sie nun endlich verheiraten und damit ihr kriminelles Geschäft voranbringen; und für Rin selbst, die erkennt, dass sie endlich frei ist von der Knechtschaft und Verzweiflung, aus denen ihr Alltag bisher bestanden hatte. Dass sie in Sinegard aufgenommen wurde – die elitärste Militärschule Nikans –, ist noch überraschender. Doch Überraschungen sind nicht immer gut. Denn als dunkelhäutiges Bauernmädchen aus dem Süden hat man es in Sinegard nicht leicht. Von rivalisierenden Mitschülern von Anfang an wegen ihrer Hautfarbe, ihrer Armut und ihres Geschlechts zur Zielscheibe gemacht, entdeckt Rin, dass sie über eine tödliche, unirdische Kraft verfügt – eine Begabung für die nahezu mythische Kunst des Schamanismus. Mit der Hilfe eines scheinbar verrückten Lehrers und psychoaktiver Substanzen erkundet Rin die Tiefen ihrer Gabe und erfährt, dass die lange für tot gehaltenen Götter sehr lebendig sind – und dass die Beherrschung dieser Kräfte mehr bedeuten könnte, als bloß die Schule zu überleben. Denn während im Nikarischen Reich Frieden herrscht, lauert jenseits eines schmalen Meeres noch immer die Föderation von Mugen. Nach dem Ersten Mohnblumenkrieg besetzte die militärisch überlegene Föderation Nikan jahrzehntelang und verlor den Kontinent im Zweiten nur knapp. Und während die meisten Menschen selbstzufrieden ihrem Leben nachgehen, wissen einige, dass bis zum Dritten Mohnblumenkrieg nur noch ein Funke fehlt … Rins schamanische Kräfte könnten der einzige Weg sein, ihr Volk zu retten. Doch je mehr sie über den Gott erfährt, der sie erwählt hat, den rachsüchtigen Phönix, desto mehr fürchtet sie, dass der Sieg im Krieg sie ihre Menschlichkeit kosten könnte … und dass es dafür vielleicht schon zu spät ist.

مريم في الخامسة عشرة فقط حين تُرسل إلى كابول لتتزوج رشيد المضطرب والمرير، الذي يكبرها بثلاثين عامًا. وبعد ما يقرب من عقدين، وفي مناخ من الاضطراب المتزايد، تحل المأساة بليلى ذات الخمسة عشر عامًا، فتضطر إلى مغادرة بيتها والانضمام إلى منزل مريم التعيس. تجد ليلى ومريم العزاء في بعضهما، وتنمو صداقتهما بعمق رابطة الأخوات وبقوة الروابط بين الأم وابنتها. ومع مرور الوقت، يحكم طالبان أفغانستان، وتمتلئ شوارع كابول بأصوات إطلاق النار والقنابل، وتغدو الحياة صراعًا يائسًا ضد الجوع والوحشية والخوف، ويُختبر صبر المرأتين إلى ما يتجاوز أسوأ ما تخيلتاه. ومع ذلك، يمكن للحب أن يدفع الناس إلى التصرف بطرق غير متوقعة، وأن يقودهم إلى تجاوز أشد العقبات رهبةً ببطولة مدهشة. وفي النهاية ينتصر الحب على الموت والدمار. «ألف شمس ساطعة» صورة لبلد جريح، وقصة عن الأسرة والصداقة، وعن زمن لا يرحم، ورابطة غير متوقعة، وحب لا يُدمَّر.

Kdysi dávno, v zapomenuté době, nadpřirozená událost vyvedla roční období z rovnováhy. V zemi, kde léta mohou trvat desetiletí a zimy celý život, se schyluje k potížím. Chlad se vrací a v zmrzlých pustinách na sever od Zimohradu se za ochrannou Zdí království shromažďují zlověstné síly. Na jihu králova moc slábne — jeho nejdůvěryhodnější rádce je mrtvý za záhadných okolností a jeho nepřátelé vystupují ze stínů trůnu. V samém středu konfliktu stojí Starkové ze Zimohradu, rodina stejně drsná a neústupná jako zmrzlá země, v níž se narodila. Lord Eddard Stark je nyní neochotně povolán, aby sloužil jako nová králova Pobočník, což je jmenování, které hrozí rozervat nejen jeho rodinu, ale i samotné království. Hra o trůny se rozprostírá od drsné chladné země až po letní království plné požitkářského nadbytku a vypráví příběh lordů a dam, vojáků a čarodějů, vrahů a bastardů, kteří se setkávají v čase ponurých znamení. Zde záhadná skupina válečníků nosí meče z kovu, který není lidského původu; kmen divokých divochů vhání lidi do šílenství; krutý mladý dračí princ směňuje svou sestru, aby získal zpět svůj trůn; dítě se ztrácí v soumraku mezi životem a smrtí; a odhodlaná žena podniká zrádnou cestu, aby ochránila vše, co je jí drahé. Uprostřed intrik a protintrik, tragédie a zrady, vítězství a hrůzy, spojenců a nepřátel visí osud Starků nebezpečně na vlásku, zatímco se každá strana snaží vyhrát ten nejsmrtelnější z konfliktů: hru o trůny.

En komet i blodets og flammernes farve skærer hen over himlen. To store ledere – lord Eddard Stark og Robert Baratheon – som hersker over en tidsalder med påtvunget fred, er døde, ofre for kongeligt forræderi. Nu hersker kaos, fra den ældgamle fæstning Dragonstone til Winterfells barske kyster. Seks fraktioner kæmper om kontrollen over et splittet land og Jerntronen i De Syv Kongeriger og forbereder sig på at gøre deres krav gældende gennem storm, uro og krig. Det er en fortælling, hvor bror lægger planer mod bror, og de døde rejser sig for at vandre i natten. Her udgiver en prinsesse sig for at være en forældreløs dreng; en tankens ridder forbereder en gift til en forræderisk troldkvinde; og vilde mænd kommer ned fra Månens Bjerge for at hærge landskabet. På en baggrund af incest og brodermord, alkymi og mord kan sejren gå til de mænd og kvinder, der besidder det koldeste stål ... og de koldeste hjerter. For når konger kæmper, skælver hele landet. Her er andet bind i George R.R. Martins storslåede romanserie, som omfatter A Game of Thrones og A Storm of Swords. Som helhed udgør serien et ægte mesterværk inden for moderne fantasy og samler det bedste, genren har at byde på. Magi, mysterier, intriger, romantik og eventyr fylder disse sider og fører os til en verden, der er helt anderledes end nogen, vi før har oplevet. George R.R. Martins imponerende serie, der allerede hyldes som en klassiker, er bestemt til at stå som en af den fantastiske litteraturs store bedrifter.

Hier ist der dritte Band in George R. R. Martins großartigem Romanzyklus, zu dem auch „A Game of Thrones“ und „A Clash of Kings“ gehören. Zusammen bildet diese Reihe ein wahres Meisterwerk der modernen Fantasy, das dazu bestimmt ist, als eine der großen Leistungen der phantastischen Literatur zu gelten. Von den fünf Anwärtern auf die Macht ist einer tot, ein anderer in Ungnade gefallen, und doch wüten die Kriege weiter, während Bündnisse geschlossen und gebrochen werden. Joffrey sitzt auf dem Eisernen Thron, der unsichere Herrscher der Sieben Königslande. Sein erbittertster Rivale, Lord Stannis, steht besiegt und entehrt da, ein Opfer der Zauberin, die ihn in ihrem Bann hält. Der junge Robb herrscht noch immer von der Festung Schnellwasser aus über den Norden. Währenddessen zieht die verbannte Königin Daenerys über einen blutgetränkten Kontinent, Herrin der einzigen drei Drachen, die noch auf der Welt verblieben sind. Und während gegnerische Mächte sich für die endgültige Entscheidung in Stellung bringen, trifft aus den äußersten Grenzen der Zivilisation ein Heer barbarischer Wildlinge ein, begleitet von einer Horde mythischer Anderer – einer übernatürlichen Armee lebender Toter, deren belebte Leichen nicht aufzuhalten sind. Während die Zukunft des Landes auf dem Spiel steht, wird niemand ruhen, bis die Sieben Königslande in einem wahren Sturm der Schwerter explodiert sind …

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes. Bloodthirsty, treacherous, and cunning, the Lannisters hold power on the Iron Throne under the young king Tommen. While the war in the Seven Kingdoms may have ceased, its bitter end ignites new conflicts. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell are driven by a desire for vengeance for their fallen. Euron Crow's Eye, a pirate of the darkest reputation, returns from the ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. In the cold north, beyond the Wall where the Others loom, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly carries a mysterious child to the Citadel. In a world rife with incest, fratricide, alchemy, and murder, only those with the sharpest steel and coldest hearts can hope to prevail.

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever. Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice. From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.

I årevis har rygterne om ”Marskpigen” hjemsøgt Barkley Cove, en stille fiskerlandsby. Kya Clark går barfodet og er vild; hun passer ikke ind i det pæne selskab. Så da den populære Chase Andrews findes død sidst i 1969, mistænker de lokale straks hende. Men Kya er ikke, som de siger. Hun er født naturalist og har kun gået i skole én dag, og hun tager livets lærdomme fra landet, idet hun lærer verdens sande veje at kende gennem ildfluernes uærlige signaler. Men selv om hun har evnerne til at leve i ensomhed for altid, kommer tiden, hvor hun længes efter at blive rørt og elsket. Draget mod to unge mænd fra byen, som begge fascineres af hendes vilde skønhed, åbner Kya sig for en ny og forbløffende verden – indtil det utænkelige sker. I Hvor flodkrebsene synger stiller Owens en udsøgt hyldest til naturen op imod en dybtgående opvækstfortælling og et hjemsøgende mysterium. Owens’ debutroman er tankevækkende, klog og dybt bevægende og minder os om, at vi for altid formes af barnet i os, samtidig med at vi er underlagt de smukke og voldelige hemmeligheder, som naturen gemmer på. Historien spørger, hvordan isolation påvirker adfærden hos en ung kvinde, der, ligesom os alle, har en genetisk tilbøjelighed til at høre til i en gruppe. Sporene til mysteriet er indflettet i de frodige levesteder og naturhistorierne hos deres vilde skabninger.

Από τη συγγραφέα της πολυεκατομμυριούχας μπεστ σέλερ σειράς Οδηγός φόνου για καλά κορίτσια και του Five Survive έρχεται ένα νέο μυστηριώδες θρίλερ εμπνευσμένο από αληθινά εγκλήματα, για ένα κορίτσι αποφασισμένο να αποκαλύψει τη συγκλονιστική αλήθεια για την αγνοούμενη μητέρα του, ενώ γυρίζει ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για την ανεξιχνίαστη υπόθεση. Φώτα. Κάμερα. Ψέματα. Η δεκαοχτάχρονη Μπελ έχει ζήσει όλη της τη ζωή στη σκιά της μυστηριώδους εξαφάνισης της μητέρας της. Πριν από δεκαέξι χρόνια, η Ρέιτσελ Πράις εξαφανίστηκε και η μικρή τότε Μπελ ήταν η μόνη μάρτυρας, όμως δεν θυμάται τίποτα. Η Ρέιτσελ έχει χαθεί, θεωρείται νεκρή εδώ και πολύ καιρό, και η Μπελ εύχεται όλοι απλώς να προχωρούσαν παρακάτω. Όμως η υπόθεση ανασύρεται από το παρελθόν όταν η οικογένεια Πράις συμφωνεί να συμμετάσχει σε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ αληθινού εγκλήματος. Η Μπελ ανυπομονεί να τελειώσουν τα γυρίσματα, να επιστρέψει η ζωή στην κανονικότητα. Και τότε συμβαίνει το αδύνατο. Η Ρέιτσελ Πράις επανεμφανίζεται και η ζωή δεν θα είναι ποτέ ξανά φυσιολογική. Η Ρέιτσελ έχει μια απίστευτη ιστορία για ό,τι της συνέβη. Απίστευτη, γιατί η Μπελ δεν είναι σίγουρη ότι είναι αληθινή. Αν η Ρέιτσελ λέει ψέματα, τότε πού βρισκόταν όλον αυτόν τον καιρό; Και θα μπορούσε να είναι επικίνδυνη; Με τις κάμερες να συνεχίζουν να γράφουν, η Μπελ πρέπει να αποκαλύψει την αλήθεια για τη μητέρα της και να μάθει γιατί η Ρέιτσελ Πράις επέστρεψε πραγματικά από τους νεκρούς... Από την παγκοσμίως αναγνωρισμένη συγγραφέα Χόλι Τζάκσον έρχεται ένα καθηλωτικό αριστούργημα για την αναζήτηση της αλήθειας από ένα κορίτσι και τον τρόμο που κρύβει η ανακάλυψη του ποια είναι πραγματικά η οικογένειά σου.

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.

Die gelassene und mütterliche Mrs. Ramsay, der tragische und doch absurde Mr. Ramsay sowie ihre Kinder und verschiedene Gäste verbringen ihren Urlaub auf der Isle of Skye. Aus der scheinbar belanglosen Verschiebung eines Besuchs bei einem nahe gelegenen Leuchtturm gestaltet Woolf eine bemerkenswerte, bewegende Untersuchung der komplexen Spannungen und Bindungen des Familienlebens und des Konflikts zwischen Männern und Frauen. Während die Zeit sich durch ihr Leben schlängelt, sehen sich die Ramsays allein und zugleich den größten menschlichen Herausforderungen und ihrem größten Triumph gegenüber – der menschlichen Fähigkeit zur Veränderung.

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

Paul Sheldon. Er ist ein Bestsellerautor, der endlich seinen größten Fan getroffen hat. Ihr Name ist Annie Wilkes, und sie ist mehr als eine fanatische Leserin – sie ist Pauls Krankenschwester und pflegt seinen schwer verletzten Körper nach einem Autounfall. Doch sie ist auch seine Entführerin und hält ihn in ihrem abgelegenen Haus gefangen.

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.” In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? The police? The hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll, but as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385547345.. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

Ein messerscharf intelligenter Roman über zwei Studierende und die seltsame, unerwartete Verbindung, die sie zu einem Ehepaar knüpfen. Frances ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt, besonnen und von düsterer Beobachtungsgabe. Als Studentin und angehende Schriftstellerin widmet sie sich einem Leben des Geistes – und der schönen und unerschütterlich selbstbeherrschten Bobbi, ihrer besten Freundin und Mitstreiterin. Einst in der Schule ein Liebespaar, tragen die beiden jungen Frauen nun gemeinsam Spoken-Word-Poesie in Dublin vor, wo eine Journalistin namens Melissa ihr Potenzial erkennt. In Melissas Bann gezogen, ist Frances widerwillig beeindruckt vom kultivierten Zuhause der älteren Frau und ihrem großen, gutaussehenden Ehemann. Privateigentum, glaubt Frances, ist ein kulturelles Übel – und Nick, ein gelangweilter Schauspieler, der sein Potenzial nie ganz ausschöpfen konnte, sieht aus wie das leibhaftige Patriarchat. Doch so amüsant ihr Flirt zunächst auch wirkt, weicht er einer seltsamen Intimität, die keiner von beiden erwartet. Während Frances versucht, ihr Leben unter Kontrolle zu halten, entziehen sich ihre Beziehungen zunehmend ihrer Kontrolle: zu Nick, zu ihrem schwierigen und unglücklichen Vater und schließlich sogar zu Bobbi. Verzweifelt bemüht, sich mit den Wünschen und Verletzlichkeiten ihres Körpers zu versöhnen, beginnen Frances' intellektuelle Gewissheiten etwas Neuem zu weichen: einer schmerzhaften und desorientierenden Art, von einem Moment zum nächsten zu leben. Mit edelsteinartiger Präzision und durchdringender Intelligenz geschrieben, ist Gespräche mit Freunden auf wunderbare Weise lebendig für die Freuden und Gefahren der Jugend.

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both. But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority. A satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish. When Laura takes her own life, her ghost haunts Abby and Ralph in very different ways: Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves. To make matters worse, Mrs. Bondy’s daughter is threatening to move Mrs. Bondy from the home, leaving Abby totally alone. With everything on the line, Abby comes up with a chilling plan that will allow her to keep Mrs. Bondy, rescue Ralph from his tortured mind, and break Laura's hold on the family for good. All it requires is a little ingenuity, a lot of determination, and a unique recipe for chicken à la king…

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

انبثقت تحفة روبرت لويس ستيفنسون عن ازدواجية الخير والشر في طبيعة الإنسان من أحلك أغوار لاوعيه، خلال كابوس أيقظته منه زوجته بعدما نبهتها صرخاته. وبعد أكثر من مئة عام، لم تفقد هذه الحكاية عن الدكتور جيكل الوديع والعقار الذي يطلق العنان لشخصيته الداخلية الشريرة — السيد هايد البغيض المشوّه — شيئًا من قدرتها على الصدم. ويروي سردها الواقعي على طراز تقارير الشرطة، بصورة تقشعر لها الأبدان، يأس جيكل فيما يكتسب هايد السيطرة على روحه، ويمنح صوتًا لمخاوفنا نحن من العنف والشر الكامنين في داخلنا. كُتبت قبل أن يسمّي فرويد الأنا والهو، وتُظهر كلاسيكية ستيفنسون الخالدة فهمًا لافتًا للصراعات الداخلية للشخصية، ولا تزال مادة مرعبة على نحو لا يُقاوم لأشد كوابيسنا سوءًا.

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide—a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst. When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable. Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly-coveted position in the ministry. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse. Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart, Swimming in the Dark is a potent blend of romance, post-war politics, intrigue, and history. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski has crafted an indelible and thought-provoking literary debut that explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780743227445 Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a king When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realises just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king and take fate into her own hands. A rich and compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamourous court in Europe and survived by following her heart.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.

The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” ( New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems ; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain . With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent. "Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Brontë imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself....Shirley [is] Brontë's most feminist novel."

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist, stunningly illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill. Exiled to a far\-flung island by the whims of the gods, Medusa has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. But when a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is disrupted with the force of a supernova, unleashing desire, love, betrayal . and destiny itself. Filled with glorious full\-colour illustrations by award\-winning Olivia Lomenech Gill, this astonishing retelling of Greek myth is perfect for readers of Circe and The Silence of the Girls. Illuminating the girl behind the legend, it brings alive Medusa for a new generation.

Wegen eines Verbrechens, das er nicht begangen hat, wird Edmond Dantès ins Gefängnis geworfen und in der düsteren Festung If eingekerkert. Dort erfährt er von einem großen Schatz, der auf der Insel Monte Christo verborgen liegt, und fasst den Entschluss, nicht nur zu entkommen, sondern auch den Schatz zu heben und damit die Vernichtung der drei Männer zu planen, die für seine Inhaftierung verantwortlich sind. Dumas’ epische Geschichte von Leid und Vergeltung, inspiriert von einem realen Fall ungerechtfertigter Inhaftierung, war ein großer Publikumserfolg, als sie in den 1840er Jahren erstmals als Fortsetzungsroman erschien. Robin Buss’ lebendige englische Übersetzung ist vollständig und ungekürzt und bleibt dem Stil von Dumas’ Original treu. Diese Ausgabe enthält eine Einleitung, erläuternde Anmerkungen und Hinweise zur weiterführenden Lektüre.

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed. The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.

What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind—memories of a mother she thought she would never see again. And, stranger still, she sees that her mother is none other than the beautiful enchantress who cursed the castle and all its inhabitants. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast will have to unravel a dark mystery about their families that is 21 years in the making. As Old as Time is the third book in a new YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways.

What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld? When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. With the help of Shang's great lion guardian ShiShi, Mulan must traverse Diyu to find Shang's spirit, face harrowing obstacles, and leave by sunrise⁠—or become King Yama's prisoner forever. Moreover, Mulan is still disguised as the soldier called Ping, wrestling with the decision to reveal her true identity to her closest friend. Will Mulan be able to save Shang before it's too late? Will he ever be able to trust her again? Or will she lose him—and be lost in the Underworld⁠—forever?

The tale is told as if it's happening once upon a dream: the lovely maiden meets her handsome prince in the woods. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the maiden finds out that she is a princess-a princess who has been cursed by a dark fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an eternal sleep. Though her three good fairies try to protect her, the princess succumbs to the curse. But the power of good endures, as her true love defeats the fire-breathing dragon and awakens the princess with true love's first kiss. The two live happily ever after. And yet this is only half the story. So what of the dark fairy, Maleficent? Why does she curse the innocent princess? What led to her becoming so filled with malice, anger, and hatred? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. Here is one account, pulled down from the many passed down through the ages. It is a tale of love and betrayal, of magic and reveries. It is a tale of the Mistress of All Evil.

The author's mother has Alzheimer and had to be placed in a home. The author had to clean out and sell the place she grew up in, and in the process she finds a list of gifts that her mother recieved in the last 40 years. Based on this list, the author writes her family history, while her mother's memory gradually disappears.

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles' slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which continues to wage bloody war over a stolen woman—Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman—Briseis—watches and waits for the war's outcome. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles' concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and coolly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position, able to observe the two men driving the Greek army in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate not only of Briseis' people but also of the ancient world at large. Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war—the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead—all of them erased by history. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis' perspective, are rife with newfound revelations. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives—and it is nothing short of magnificent.

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. The husband stitch—Inventory—Mothers—Especially heinous—Real women have bodies—Eight bites—The resident—Difficult at parties

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship. In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Machado tackles a dark and difficult subject with wit, inventiveness and an inquiring spirit, as she uses a series of narrative tropes—including classic horror themes—to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic.

Eines Nachts wettet Phileas Fogg im Reform Club mit seinen Gefährten, dass er die Erde in nur achtzig Tagen umrunden kann. Er durchbricht die fest etablierte Routine seines täglichen Lebens und bricht sofort mit seinem erstaunten Diener Passepartout nach Dover auf. Auf ihrer Reise durch exotische Länder und gefährliche Gegenden nutzen sie jedes verfügbare Verkehrsmittel – ob Zug oder Elefant –, überwinden Rückschläge und kämpfen stets gegen die Zeit.

في سن الثانية عشرة، يُختار جوناس، وهو فتى من عالم مستقبلي يبدو مثالياً، لتلقي تدريب خاص من الواهب، الذي يحتفظ وحده بذكريات أفراح الحياة الحقيقية وآلامها.

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter - a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless' jealous love for Baxter's creation. The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished author.

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

"I am a cage, in search of a bird." Translated and with an Introduction by John R. Williams Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.

Closer... They found the first body hideously swollen and still warm. Then they found two severed hands. Then two staring heads in wall ovens. 150 were grotesquely dead and it had hardly begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. and closer... At first they thought it was a maniac. Then they thought it was an obscene new disease. Then they thought it was the Russians. and closer... Then they found out the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

NOTE: Little Women is sometimes published in two volumes, entitled Little Women and Good Wives. This is essentially the second part of Little Women. Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb gracefully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank, and as silent as the sphinx. In vain Mrs. Chester alluded to her 'charming novel', and the Misses Chester introduced parties, picnics, the opera, and the fashions. Each and all were answered by a smile, a bow, and a demure "Yes" or "No" with the chill on.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door—ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Set at the end of the 19th century, this novel is a tale of mutiny and shipwreck. The narrator, Peder Jensen, is both competent second mate and unworldly philosopher. Esther Greenleaf Muerer has previously translated other works by Jens Bjorneboe, including "Moment of Freedom".

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes. The youngest of forty—a child with no name and no past—she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden—in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights—she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings. Then everything changes... and nothing changes. A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.

An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England, soon to be a major motion picture starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. But as they delve further into their grief, both uncover more than they set out to. Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror.

Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.

Als gefeierter Bestseller und internationale Sensation führt Patrick Süskinds klassischer Roman erschreckend vor Augen, was geschieht, wenn sich ein Mann seiner größten Leidenschaft – seinem Geruchssinn – hingibt und dies zum Mord führt. In den Elendsvierteln des Frankreichs des 18. Jahrhunderts wird Jean-Baptiste Grenouille mit einer erhabenen Gabe geboren: einem absoluten Geruchssinn. Als Junge lebt er dafür, die Gerüche von Paris zu entschlüsseln, und geht bei einem angesehenen Parfümeur in die Lehre, der ihn in der alten Kunst des Mischens kostbarer Öle und Kräuter unterweist. Doch Grenouilles Genie genügt sich damit nicht, und er wird davon besessen, die Gerüche von Gegenständen wie Messingtürklinken und frisch geschnittenem Holz einzufangen. Dann erhascht er eines Tages eine Spur eines Duftes, die ihn auf eine immer furchterregendere Suche nach der Schaffung des „ultimativen Parfums“ treiben wird – dem Duft einer schönen jungen Jungfrau. Mit schillernder erzählerischer Brillanz erzählt, ist Das Parfum eine beklemmend kraftvolle Geschichte von Mord und sinnlicher Verderbtheit.

V překladu Marka Harmana s jeho předmluvou Zámek, který Kafka zanechal roku 1922 nedokončený a který vyšel až v roce 1926, dva roky po jeho smrti, je znepokojivým příběhem K. neúnavného, marného zápasu s nepochopitelnou autoritou, aby získal přístup na Zámek. Mark Harman ve svém novém překladu, který úzkostlivě zachovává plynulost a bezdechost řídce interpunkovaného původního rukopisu, odhaluje úrovně komiky, energie a vizuální síly, jež byly anglicky mluvícím čtenářům dříve neznámé.

Αυτή η έκδοση περιέχει το αγγλικό και το γερμανικό κείμενο. (Γράμμα στον πατέρα / Brief an den Vater) Το «Γράμμα στον πατέρα» θεωρείται το κλειδί για το λογοτεχνικό έργο του Φραντς Κάφκα (1883-1924). Αυτή η εντυπωσιακή μαρτυρία μιας δραματικής σύγκρουσης πατέρα και γιου αποτελεί ένα εξαιρετικό ντοκουμέντο της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας. Ταυτόχρονα κατηγορητήριο και αυτοανάλυση, προσφέρει στον αναγνώστη μια εικόνα της σύνθετης εσωτερικής ζωής του συγγραφέα του. Με ζωηρό και συναρπαστικό ύφος, ο Κάφκα επιχειρεί να ξεκαθαρίσει τους λογαριασμούς του με τον αυταρχικό πατέρα του, ο οποίος του φαινόταν τόσο τυραννικός και παντοδύναμος ώστε μπορούσε να γράψει: «Μερικές φορές φαντάζομαι τον χάρτη του κόσμου απλωμένο και εσένα τεντωμένο διαγώνια πάνω του.»

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.

Kafka betrachtete diese in einer einzigen Nacht geschriebene Geschichte als seinen literarischen Durchbruch. Ein Vater verurteilt seinen Sohn zum Tode. Warum? Der Sohn vollstreckt das Urteil. Warum? Die Suche nach den Antworten bleibt uns, den Lesern, überlassen. Natürlich gibt es Parallelen zu dem nicht abgeschickten Brief, den Kafka an seinen Vater schrieb („Brief an den Vater“). Aber wenn wir uns auf Kafkas Biografie konzentrieren, werden wir die unglaubliche Raffinesse dieser Geschichte verpassen.

チェコ出身のドイツ語作家であり、20世紀文学を代表するユダヤ人小説家フランツ・カフカの掌編。EINE KAISERLICHE BOTSCHAFTからの原田義人による翻訳。1919年発表。死の淵にいる皇帝がベッドから派遣した使者が「君」を目指して群衆を掻き分けて進んでいく。

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an obvious criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the Bolshevik revolution.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance. But when victims of a brutal new serial killer start turning up, the Naturals are pulled into an active case that strikes too close to home: the killer is a perfect copycat of Dean’s incarcerated father—a man he’d do anything to forget. Forced deeper into a murderer’s psyche than ever before, will the Naturals be able to outsmart the enigmatic killer’s brutal mind games before this copycat twists them into his web for good? With her trademark wit, brilliant plotting, and twists that no one will see coming, Jennifer Lynn Barnes will keep readers on the edge of their seats (and looking over their shoulders) as they race through the pages of this thrilling novel.

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any tape. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their wrist. Hidden in the numbers is a code—and the closer the Naturals come to unraveling the mystery, the more perilous the case becomes. Meanwhile, Cassie is dealing with an equally dangerous and much more painful mystery. For the first time in years, there's been a break in her mother's case. As personal issues and tensions between the team mount, Cassie and the Naturals will be faced with impossible odds—and impossible choices.

New victims. New betrayals. New secrets. When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother’s murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far. As Cassie and the team work to uncover the secrets of a group that has been killing in secret for generations, they find themselves racing a ticking clock. The bodies begin piling up, the deaths hit closer and closer to home, and it soon becomes apparent that this time, the Naturals aren’t just hunting serial killers. They’re being hunted themselves.

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars—Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic—and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and #1 Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive comes an extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree. January 1978. A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn’t be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee. Tonight is a night of promise, excitement, and desire, but Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home—a decision that unwittingly saves her life. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate. What she finds behind the door is a scene of implausible violence—two of her sisters dead; two others, maimed. Over the next few days, Pamela is thrust into a terrifying mystery inspired by the crime that’s captivated public interest for more than four decades. On the other side of the country, Tina Cannon has found peace in Seattle after years of hardship. A chance encounter brings twenty-five-year-old Ruth Wachowsky into her life, a young woman with painful secrets of her own, and the two form an instant connection. When Ruth goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight, surrounded by thousands of beachgoers on a beautiful summer day, Tina devotes herself to finding out what happened to her. When she hears about the tragedy in Tallahassee, she knows it’s the man the papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer. Determined to make him answer for what he did to Ruth, she travels to Florida on a collision course with Pamela—and one last impending tragedy. Bright Young Women is the story about two women from opposite sides of the country who become sisters in their fervent pursuit of the truth. It proposes a new narrative inspired by evidence that’s been glossed over for decades in favor of more salable headlines—that the so-called brilliant and charismatic serial killer from Seattle was far more average than the countless books, movies, and primetime specials have led us to believe, and that it was the women whose lives he cut short who were the exceptional ones.

Fans der Twilight-Saga werden von dieser fesselnden Geschichte über Bree Tanner begeistert sein, eine Figur, die erstmals in Eclipse eingeführt wurde, und über die düsterere Seite der Welt der neugeborenen Vampire, in der sie lebt. Bree Tanner kann sich kaum noch an das Leben erinnern, bevor sie unheimlich starke Sinne, übermenschliche Reflexe und unaufhaltsame körperliche Kraft hatte. An das Leben, bevor sie einen unstillbaren Durst nach Blut hatte … an das Leben, bevor sie ein Vampir wurde. Alles, was Bree weiß, ist, dass das Leben mit ihren neugeborenen Vampiren nur wenige Gewissheiten und noch weniger Regeln kennt: Pass auf dich auf, zieh keine Aufmerksamkeit auf dich und vor allem: Sei vor Sonnenaufgang wieder zu Hause, sonst stirbst du. Was sie nicht weiß: Ihre Zeit als Unsterbliche geht schnell zu Ende. Dann findet Bree in Diego einen unerwarteten Freund, einen Neugeborenen, der ebenso neugierig wie Bree auf ihre geheimnisvolle Schöpferin ist, die sie nur als sie kennen. Als ihnen klar wird, dass die Neugeborenen Spielfiguren in einem Spiel sind, das größer ist als alles, was sie sich hätten vorstellen können, müssen Bree und Diego sich für eine Seite entscheiden und bestimmen, wem sie vertrauen können. Doch wenn alles, was du über Vampire weißt, auf einer Lüge beruht, wie findest du dann die Wahrheit? In einer weiteren unwiderstehlichen Mischung aus Gefahr, Geheimnis und Romantik erzählt Stephenie Meyer die erschütternde Geschichte der Armee der Neugeborenen, während sie sich darauf vorbereitet, Bella Swan und die Cullens einzukreisen, und führt ihre Begegnung zu ihrem unvergesslichen Ende.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty\-two\-year\-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Бележка на библиотекаря: Алтернативно издание с друга корица може да бъде намерено тук. 1939 г. Нацистка Германия. Страната е затаила дъх. Смъртта никога не е била по-заета и ще бъде още по-заета. Край гроба на брат си животът на Лизел се променя, когато тя взема един-единствен предмет, частично скрит в снега. Това е „Наръчникът на гробаря“, оставен там по погрешка, и е първата ѝ кражба на книга. Така започва любовната ѝ връзка с книгите и думите, докато Лизел, с помощта на своя приемен баща, който свири на акордеон, се научава да чете. Скоро тя започва да краде книги от нацистките изгаряния на книги, от библиотеката на жената на кмета — отвсякъде, където има книги. Но това са опасни времена. Когато приемното семейство на Лизел укрива евреин в мазето си, светът на Лизел едновременно се отваря и се затваря. С превъзходно изграден текст, който гори от сила, награждаваният автор Маркус Зюсак ни е дал една от най-трайните истории на нашето време. (Бележка: това заглавие не е публикувано като литература за младежи.)

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body". Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to area, having moved her from her longtime home after the death of her husband, and she knows very few people. And she's a little shaky even on best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation, strange dissonances start to accrue, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens, until finally, just as she seems be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one - one that strikes closer to home. A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, 'Death in Her Hands' asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, only this time the stakes have never been higher.

Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.

Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good—her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits—all the family has to live on—on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes' older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her—even her beloved Shuggie. A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Edouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe—and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world. If Lauren Beukes' internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.

Uncle Oswald is, if you remember, the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. Here, many famous names are mentioned and there is obviously a grave risk that families and friends are going to take offence... Uncle Oswald discovers the electrifying properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, a girl absolutely soaked in sex, and sets about seducing all the great men of the time for his own wicked, irreverent reasons.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself. "I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality." —Joanne Greenberg

“Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months. “Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. Olivia was dedicated to the memory of Strachey’s friend Virginia Woolf and published to acclaim in 1949. Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel. In 1999, Olivia was included on the Publishing Triangle’s widely publicized list of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of the 20th Century. “Dorothy Strachey (1865-1960) was the sister of the novelist Lytton Strachey and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group…….Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel.” — Amazon.com

В дневника си носителят на Нобелова награда Джон Стайнбек нарича „На изток от рая“ „първата книга“ и наистина тя притежава първичната сила и простота на мита. Развиващ се сред плодородните земеделски земи на калифорнийската долина Салинас, този мащабен и често жесток роман проследява преплетените съдби на две семейства — Траск и Хамилтън, — чиито поколения безпомощно пресъздават грехопадението на Адам и Ева и отровното съперничество между Каин и Авел. Адам Траск идва в Калифорния от Изтока, за да обработва земя и да отгледа семейството си върху новата плодородна земя. Но раждането на близнаците му, Кал и Арън, довежда съпругата му до ръба на лудостта и Адам остава сам да отгледа момчетата си до зряла възраст. Едното момче процъфтява, подхранвано от любовта на всички около него; другото израства в самота, обгърнато от загадъчен мрак. Публикуван за първи път през 1952 г., „На изток от рая“ е творбата, в която Стайнбек създава най-завладяващите си герои и изследва най-трайните си теми: загадката на идентичността, необяснимостта на любовта и убийствените последици от липсата ѝ. Шедьовър от по-късните години на Стайнбек, „На изток от рая“ е силен и изключително амбициозен роман, който едновременно е семейна сага и съвременен преразказ на Книгата Битие.

'He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration ... doomed to perish in tortures the most severe' Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sexual obsession, rape and murder, yet this book also contains knowing parody of its own excesses as well as social comedy. Written by Matthew Lewis when he was only nineteen, it was a ground-breaking novel in the Gothic Horror genre and spawned hundreds of imitators, drawn in by its mixture of bloodshed, sex and scandal.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, "Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence." WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby. (back cover)

Die Ladenhüterin ist die warmherzige und überraschende Geschichte der sechsunddreißigjährigen Keiko Furukura aus Tokio. Keiko hat sich nie eingefügt, weder in ihrer Familie noch in der Schule, doch als sie mit achtzehn Jahren in der Filiale von „Smile Mart“ in Hiiromachi zu arbeiten beginnt, findet sie Frieden und Sinn in ihrem Leben. Im Laden versteht sie, anders als sonst irgendwo, die Regeln des sozialen Umgangs – viele sind im Handbuch des Ladens Zeile für Zeile festgelegt – und sie bemüht sich nach Kräften, die Kleidung, Manierismen und Sprechweise ihrer Kolleginnen und Kollegen nachzuahmen und die Rolle einer „normalen“ Person mehr oder weniger hervorragend zu spielen. Geschäftsführer kommen und gehen, aber Keiko bleibt achtzehn Jahre lang im Laden. Es ist fast schwer zu sagen, wo der Laden aufhört und sie beginnt. Keiko ist sehr glücklich, doch die Menschen in ihrer Nähe, von ihrer Familie bis zu ihren Kolleginnen und Kollegen, setzen sie zunehmend unter Druck, einen Ehemann zu finden und eine richtige Karriere zu beginnen, was sie zu verzweifelten Maßnahmen veranlasst … Als brillante Darstellung einer ungewöhnlichen Psyche und einer verborgenen Welt ist Die Ladenhüterin ein ironischer und scharfsichtiger Blick auf die zeitgenössische Arbeitskultur und den Druck, sich anzupassen, sowie das charmante und völlig neue Porträt einer unvergesslichen Heldin.

Blue Sisters tells the story of three exceptional – and exceptionally different – sisters as they return to their family home in New York from their respective lives in Paris, London and LA in the wake of the death of their beloved fourth sister. As they are reunited whilst attempting to cope with this terrible loss, they must navigate addiction, grief and ambition and learn what it takes to fall in love with life again.

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself in city life. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel and a wanton seductress. Eventually, both women must face the consequences of their choices. Together, they create an unforgettable portrait of what it means and costs to be a black woman in America.

'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It is a passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair.

For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive.

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. Breasts and 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 thirty-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, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. On another hot summer’s day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless.

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale... Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family—their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes—Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.

Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth—a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother’s death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of her ability begins to spread, and soon desperate members of her community beg for her help, anxious to uncover the truth about their own loved ones. Surreal and haunting, spare yet complex, Earth-eater is a dark, emotionally resonant tale told from a feminist perspective that brilliantly explores the stories of those left behind—the women enduring the pain of uncertainty, whose lives have been shaped by violence and loss.

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and comedian Stephen Fry. Fry transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally resonant and deeply funny stories, without losing any of their original wonder. This stunning book features classical artwork inspired by the myths, as well as learned notes from the author. Each adventure is infused with Fry's distinctive wit, voice, and writing style. Connoisseurs of the Greek myths will appreciate this fresh-yet-reverential interpretation, while newcomers will feel welcome. Retellings brim with humor and emotion and offer rich cultural context Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus' fire. This gorgeous volume invites you to explore a captivating world with the brilliant storyteller Stephen Fry as your guide.

There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera. Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best. Read by the author. Running time 15 hours.

إن قصة طروادة تخاطبنا جميعًا: فاختطاف هيلين، الملكة المشهورة بجمالها، يدفع الإغريق إلى إطلاق ألف سفينة ضد مدينة طروادة، التي سيحاصرونها عشر سنوات كاملة. إنها حرب رهيبة تسفر عن ضحايا من جميع الأطراف، فضلًا عن توتر العلاقات بين الحلفاء، فتغدو عواقبها مآسي. في «طروادة» ستجد البطولة والكراهية، الحب والفقد، الانتقام والندم، الرغبة واليأس. وهذه الأهواء البشرية، التي كُتبت بالدماء على رمال شاطئ بعيد، لا تزال تخاطبنا حتى اليوم.

A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything - time, war, betrayal - can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned, and the couple vow to live together, but then Ludwig is dispatched on business to Mexico, and while he is there the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic now shut down, Ludwig makes a new life in the New World. Years later, however, he returns to Germany to find his beloved a widow and their mutual attraction as strong as ever. But is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world. The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row. Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,” The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.

Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best\-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light\-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English\-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up\-to\-date translations by award\-winning translators.

Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart; Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches, this volume provides a unique tour through the darkest history of English and North American witchcraft, never failing to horrify, intrigue, and delight.

Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, showing the evolution in our thinking about the ability of dead souls to return to the realm of the living—and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife.

Una història de dues ciutats és la gran novel·la històrica de Charles Dickens, ambientada en els violents trasbalsos de la Revolució Francesa. La més famosa i potser la més popular de les seves obres, condensa un esdeveniment d'una complexitat immensa a l'escala d'una història familiar, amb un repartiment de personatges que inclou una ogressa assedegada de sang i un antiheroi tan versemblantment defectuós com qualsevol de la ficció moderna. Tot i ser la menys típica de les novel·les de l'autor, Una història de dues ciutats encara posa en relleu molts dels seus temes perdurables: l'empresonament, la injustícia, l'anarquia social, la resurrecció i la renúncia que afavoreix la renovació.

In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko, about an hour’s drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. Despite the tender love he feels for the cats, especially his favorites who share his bed, there are moments of intense violence—as he controls the feline population explosion explosively. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is best seen as a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed by his cats and his life, and is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas his indulgent love for the animals have created. In the end, All My Cats becomes a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos—and about love.

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent time in France politically.

A masterpiece of black comedy by the author of The Master and Margarita. When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise - and the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theater, and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. Each rehearsal sees more and more sparks flying higher and higher, and less and less chance of poor Maxudov's play ever being performed. Black Snow is the ultimate backstage novel, and a masterly satire on Mikhail Bulgakov's ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method acting, and the Moscow Arts Theater. This title comes with an introduction by Terry Gilliam. After a lifetime spent struggling against censorship, not least in the theater, Bulgakov died in 1940, not long after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.

Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries.

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse\-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these séances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someone end up dead? Roos is caught red\-handed, but she claims a spirit is the culprit. Doctor Montague, a psychologist tasked with finding out whether Roos can be considered mentally fit to stand trial, suspects she’s created an elaborate fantasy to protect her from what really happened. But Roos knows spirits are real; she's loved one of them. She'll have to prove her innocence and her sanity, or lose everything.

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery. Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte's brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte's appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter "as you would my son, had I one." But when Charlotte and her tutor's explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte's passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity.

"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality. Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives. Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations. Of Dickens' work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to say: "He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions."

Hangsaman is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediately present. "Natalie Waite who was seventeen years old but who felt that she had been truly conscious only since she was about fifteen lived in an odd corner of a world of sound and sight, past the daily voices of her father and mother and their incomprehensible actions." In a few graphic pages, the family is before us—Arnold Waite, a writer, egotistical and embittered; his wife, the complaining martyr; Bud, the younger brother who has not yet felt the need to establish his independence; and Natalie, in the nightmare of being seventeen. The Sunday afternoon cocktail party, to which Arnold Waite has invited his literary friends and neighbors, serves to etch in the details of this family's life, and to draw Natalie into the vortex. The story concentrates on the next few critical months in Natalie's life, away at college, where each experience reproduces on a larger scale the crucial failure of her emotional life at home. With a mounting tension rising from character and situation as well as the particular magic of which Miss Jackson is master, the novel proceeds inexorably to the stinging melodrama of its conclusion. The bitter cruelty of the passage from adolescence to womanhood, of a sensitive and lonely girl caught in a world not of her own devising, is a theme well suited to Miss Jackson's brilliant talent.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Anderson’s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Tinderbox—Little Claus and big Claus—Princess on the pea—Thumbelina—Traveling companion—Little mermaid—Emperor's new clothes—Steadfast tin soldier—Wild swans—Flying trunk—Nightingale—Sweethearts—Ugly duckling—Fir tree—Snow queen—Red shoes—Shepherdess and the chimney sweep—Shadow—Old house—Little match girl—Story of a mother—Collar—Bell—Marsh King's daughter—Wind tells of Valdemar Daae and his daughters—Snowman—Ice maiden—Wood nymph—Most incredible thing—Auntie toothache.

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North. Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch. A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family.

Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday. The novel, written in a stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of the English-language Modernists, centers around the childhood and early adulthood of a character named Joana, who bears strong resemblance to her author: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi", Lispector said, quoting Flaubert, when asked about the similarities. The book, particularly its revolutionary language, brought its young, unknown creator to great prominence in Brazilian letters and earned her the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize. Joana, a young woman very much in the mode of existential contemporaries like Camus and Sartre, ponders the meaning of life, the freedom to be one's self, and the purpose of existence. Near to the Wild Heart does not have a conventional narrative plot. It instead recounts flashes from the life of Joana, between her present, as a young woman, and her early childhood. These focus, like most of Lispector's works, on interior, emotional states of mind.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp—a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife. As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man. A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg, as “perfect as the moon.” With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security… A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.

Journalist Rika Machida is facing an unusual she is tapped to investigate serial killer Manako Kajii, notorious for drawing rich men in with her pricey cooking classes, only to murder them and move on to the next. Kajii refuses to cooperate with the press until Rika writes her a letter asking for her beef stew recipe, a correspondence and ongoing series of conversations between the two women that sees Rika transforming as she becomes closer to Kajii, taking on some of her confidence and strength but also some of her deadly intention. Game on. Set in 2011, when dairy product shortages across Japan made butter a hot commodity, Butter depicts a vivid, panoramic view of contemporary Japan as seen through a diverse cast of Japanese women. An endlessly entertaining and sharply insightful look at the relationships between women and how they engage and challenge one another, revealing the many contradictions and complexities in the process, Asako Yuzuki’s novel is filled with intoxicating descriptions of food and the body that also looks deeply at its connection to the sinister, criminal, and taboo, its enduring power and delight.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451163967 Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization. "It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda." Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged"

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third\-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family\-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic \-\- and redemptive.

Everyone in fifteen\-year\-old Bella’s life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house; her dad needs her to not make waves; her ex needs her to not be so much. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandmother—and now she’s dead. There’s only one thing that dulls the pressure: alcohol. Vodka, beer, peppermint schnapps—alcohol smooths the sharp edges of Bella’s life. And what’s the big deal? Everyone drinks. Besides, Bella can stop whenever she wants. But after she gets blackout drunk at a Thanksgiving party and wakes up in the hospital, it’s time to face reality. And for Bella, reality means rehab.

El seu primer, últim i únic amor veritable sempre ha estat el rugbi. Fins ara. Ell la vol salvar. Ella es vol amagar. Ella està ferida. Ell està decidit. El destí els va unir. L'amor els lliga. Johnny Kavanagh ho té tot de cara. Al camp de rugbi, és una força amb què cal comptar. Preparat per a l'estrellat, va directe cap al cim. Res no se li pot interposar, oi? Ni tan sols la nova noia tímida del Tommen College. La dels ulls tristos i els blaus amagats. La que el distreu com ningú no ho havia fet mai. Turmentat per una lesió oculta i desesperat per impressionar els ojeadors que observen cadascun dels seus moviments, Johnny ha estat posat en un pedestal tan alt que no té marge per equivocar-se. Mentre intenta mantenir l'equilibri, i a les portes de la Campanya Internacional d'Estiu, Johnny ha de mantenir el cap dins del partit. Ha de continuar concentrat i no es pot permetre que les distraccions li facin perdre de vista el panorama general. Però què passa quan una noia solitària d'ulls tristos es converteix en l'única imatge? La vida mai no ha estat fàcil per a Shannon Lynch. Assetjada i torturada, arriba al Tommen College a mig curs pregant per un nou començament i desesperada per allunyar-se dels dimonis que la turmenten. El seu primer dia a la prestigiosa escola privada, entra en contacte amb el famós Johnny Kavanagh. Trasbalsada pels seus sentiments per ell i desesperada per passar desapercebuda, Shannon torna a convertir-se en objectiu dels assetjadors quan estableix una fràgil aliança amb l'estrella emergent del rugbi. Enredats en una amistat complicada i enfrontant-se a la seva química innegable, Johnny i Shannon han d'afrontar obstacles que amenacen la seva relació. Dos adolescents de mons oposats xoquen. L'amistat, el primer amor, la fama creixent, secrets horribles i el dolor conflueixen a Binding 13. Els cors es lliguen i les vides s'entrellacen a Binding 13. Binding 13 és la primera entrega explosiva d'una nova sèrie de Chloe Walsh. Ambientada a Irlanda, la sèrie Boys Of Tommen us captivarà i us endinsarà en el món del rugbi, l'amor i el desamor adolescent.

كان الحب الأول والأخير والوحيد الحقيقي في حياته هو الرغبي دائمًا. حتى الآن. بعد إصابة مدمرة أبقته خارج الملعب وجرّدته من قميصه المحبوب ذي الرقم 13، يكافح جوني للتشبث بأحلامه. تائهًا، فاقدًا للثقة، وباحثًا بيأس عن العزاء، يوجّه اهتمامه إلى كشف لغز الفتاة ذات العينين الزرقاوين بلون منتصف الليل. وبرفقة صديقه المقرّب غيبسي، يشرع جوني في مهمته لكشف الأسرار المحيطة بالفتاة التي تطارده في كل ساعة يقظة. لم يكن الاحتفاظ بالأسرار مشكلةً يومًا بالنسبة إلى شانون. فالحياة التي وُلدت فيها لا تقبل بأقل من ذلك. وهي تعرف أن الشياطين والرجال الأشرار لا يوجدون في الحكايات الخرافية فحسب، بل في عالمها أيضًا. بعد عودتها من دبلن وقد أصابتها صدمة لا شفاء منها، وبائسةً لحماية إخوتها الصغار، تجد شانون نفسها غارقة في التستر القديم نفسه، بالكاد تبقي رأسها فوق الماء فيما يتداعى مستقبلها أمام عينيها. مهشمةً ومكسورة، ترفع حواجزها ويهتزّ اعتمادها على الآخرين. ولا يملك القدرة على تسلق تلك الحواجز سوى فتى واحد: الفتى الذي يملك قلبها. تُكشف الأسرار وتتغير الحياة إلى الأبد في «الحفاظ على 13»، الجزء المكمل المتفجر للكتاب الأكثر مبيعًا «الارتباط بـ13». تابعوا جوني وشانون وهما يحاولان شق طريقهما عبر تداعيات مباراة الرغبي المشؤومة تلك في دبلن. كان الوقوع في الحب هو الجزء السهل؛ أما ما يأتي بعده فهو الاختبار... تتضافر الصداقة والحب الأول والشهرة المتصاعدة والأسرار المرعبة والألم، حين يتصادم مراهقان من بيئتين مختلفتين في «الحفاظ على 13»، القصة الختامية لجوني وشانون. تدور سلسلة «فتيان تومن» في أيرلندا، ومن المؤكد أنها ستأسركم وتستدرجكم إلى عالم الرغبي والحب وحسرة القلب في سن المراهقة. تحذير قد تكون بعض المشاهد في هذا الكتاب مزعجة للغاية لبعض القراء. ونظرًا إلى لغته البذيئة وبعض مشاهده، يُوصى بقراءة «الحفاظ على 13» للقراء البالغين.

Er wird auf seine Meisterin treffen. Wenn Jugendliche aus demselben Viertel aufeinanderprallen. Als zweitgeborener Sohn einer zerrütteten Ehe hat Joey Lynch sein ganzes Leben damit verbracht, die Scherben einer auseinanderbrechenden Familie aufzusammeln. Als sein älterer Bruder Darren an seinem ersten Tag auf der weiterführenden Schule die Stadt verlässt, sieht sich der zwölfjährige Joey plötzlich in der Rolle des Beschützers seiner jüngeren Geschwister und seiner Mutter. Geplagt von Selbsthass und wütend auf die Welt, kämpft er mit dem Teenagerleben und seinem unerschütterlichen Pflichtgefühl gegenüber seiner Familie, während er gefährlich nahe an einem Leben der Sucht balanciert, das ihn vollständig zu verschlingen droht. Der einzige Lichtblick in seinem Meer aus Dunkelheit ist die temperamentvolle Tochter seines Chefs, die sich nicht unterkriegen lässt. Ein Mädchen, das zufällig auch seine Klassenkameradin ist. Aoife Molloy hat noch nie ein Blatt vor den Mund genommen. Ihre lebhafte und selbstsichere Art hat sie nie in die Irre geführt. Bis zu ihrem ersten Tag an der weiterführenden Schule, als sie mit einem hitzköpfigen Jungen zusammenstößt, der eine brennende Neugier in ihr entfacht, die von Tag zu Tag stärker wird. Als Aoife eine komplizierte Freundschaft mit der Auszubildenden ihres Vaters eingeht, versucht sie, die Geheimnisse um Joey Lynchs Leben zu lüften, während er verzweifelt darum kämpft, sie davon fernzuhalten. Freundschaft, Hingabe und erste Liebe kommen in Saving 6 zusammen, dem ersten von zwei Büchern über Aoife und Joey. Die in Irland angesiedelte Reihe Boys of Tommen wird dich garantiert fesseln und in die Welt von Rugby, Hurling, Liebe und jugendlichem Herzschmerz hineinziehen. Warnung Einige Szenen in diesem Buch können für manche Leserinnen und Leser äußerst verstörend sein. Aufgrund der derben Sprache, der Themen für Erwachsene und möglicherweise belastender Szenen wird Saving 6 für erwachsene Leserinnen und Leser empfohlen.

Ich rette dich, Six. Während seine Welt um ihn herum zerfällt und der Druck zu Hause wächst, war Joey Lynchs Leben noch nie so sehr im Chaos. Verzweifelt bemüht, sich der einzigen Person würdig zu erweisen, der er jemals sein Vertrauen geschenkt hat, kämpft Joey darum, einer Welt fernzubleiben, die alles zu zerstören droht. Doch während sich die Chancen gegen ihn von Tag zu Tag verschlechtern, kann er sich über Wasser halten? Nicht bereit, den Jungen aufzugeben, den sie liebt, kämpft Aoife Molloy darum, ihren besten Freund vor dem Abgrund der Selbstzerstörung zu bewahren. In einer Welt, die sie nicht versteht, droht sie unterzugehen, und nur ihr Herz weist ihr den Weg. Aoife weigert sich, Joey den Rücken zu kehren, egal wie schlecht ihre Chancen stehen. Durch Herzschmerz und Horror hindurch haben Aoife und Joey einander den Rücken freigehalten, und diesmal ist es nicht anders. Komme, was wolle. Unwiderrufliche, lebensverändernde Umstände, unerwarteter Zuwachs, neue Schulen und heilende Herzen kommen in Redeeming 6 zusammen, dem explosiven Finale für Ballylaggins hitzköpfige Liebende. Das ist dein Comeback, Kleiner. Die in Irland angesiedelte Reihe Boys of Tommen wird dich garantiert fesseln und in die Welt von Rugby, Hurling, Liebe und jugendlichem Herzschmerz hineinziehen. Warnung Einige Szenen in diesem Buch können für manche Leserinnen und Leser äußerst verstörend sein. Aufgrund der derben Sprache, der Themen für Erwachsene und möglicherweise triggernder Szenen wird Redeeming 6 für erwachsene Leserinnen und Leser empfohlen.

Taming 7 ist eine epische und unvergessliche Liebesgeschichte aus der international erfolgreichen und auf TikTok gefeierten Reihe The Boys of Tommen von Chloe Walsh. Sie ist das typische Sonnenscheinmädchen. Er ist der liebenswerte Klassenclown. Doch dunkle Wolken ziehen auf, und dieser Tommen-Junge wird gleich ernst. Tommens frechster Bursche, Gerard „Gibsie“ Gibson, war schon immer ein Spaßvogel, doch die meisten Menschen sehen nicht, was unter der Oberfläche lauert. Er wird von Ereignissen aus der Vergangenheit verfolgt und nutzt Humor, um damit umzugehen, während er sein wahres Ich vor der Welt verbirgt. Claire Biggs, der Inbegriff von Sonnenschein, hat Gibsie, den Freund ihres Bruders und ihren liebsten Nachbarn, schon immer geliebt. Sie hat stets eine Seite an ihm gesehen, die sonst niemand wahrzunehmen scheint. Sie ist fest entschlossen, ihren wilden besten Freund aus Kindertagen zu zähmen. Als Grenzen überschritten werden, ist unklar, ob Gibsies und Claires Freundschaft überleben wird. Wird sie zu etwas mehr erblühen, oder werden sie sich in der Wildnis verlieren? Mit Figuren, die die Leserinnen und Leser lieben gelernt haben, wird Taming 7 eure Liebe für das Universum der Boys of Tommen nur noch vergrößern. Dieses Buch ist perfekt für Leserinnen und Leser, die Folgendes suchen: Irish Romance an der Schnittstelle von New Adult und Young Adult Duale Perspektiven Von Freunden zu Liebenden Herzzerreißende, emotional aufwühlende Geschichten Verschlingenswerte TikTok-Bücher

A love that couldn't be broken, except by the truth. Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she's carries her burdens and her trauma on her own. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life… Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far beyond his years. A young man with a sharp mind and a firm code of ethics, he sees something in Lizzie Young that he can't resist. He wants to be her everything and shoulder her burden. And Lizzie wants that too. Lizzie and Hugh's bond seems unbreakable—their chemistry is electric, their love is potent, and their connection is soul deep – but even the truest love can be shaken by forces beyond control.

Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood and Emilia Hart’s Weyward. For what do you hunger, Lenore? Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them out of London and to the imposing Nethershaw manor in the countryside, where Henry aims to host a hunt with society’s finest. Lenore keeps a terrible secret from the last time her husband hunted, and though they never speak of it, it haunts their marriage to this day. The preparations for the event take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and Carmilla's ever\-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . . Set against the violent wilderness of the moors and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution, Hungerstone is a compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula: a captivating story of appetite and desire.

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness. Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

Magie artušovských legend pokračuje! Dokáže Bree ovládnout vlastní síly? Bree si vždy přála pouze odhalit pravdu ohledně smrti svojí matky. A tak se vetřela do řádu mýtonošů, tajného společenství potomků rytířů krále Artuše – a tam objevila své vlastní síly poděděné po předcích. A teď se Bree stala někým novým. Médiem. Krvečárnou. Dědičkou. Ale prastará válka mezi démony a řádem se blíží ke smrtícímu vrcholu. A Nick, mýtonoš, do kterého se Bree zamilovala, byl unesen. Bree chce bojovat, ale regenti, kteří řádu vládnou, jí to nedovolí. Pro ně je jen neznámá holka s podivnými silami a jakožto živoucí kotva kouzla, které uchovává cyklus mýtonošů, musí být ochráněna. Když regenti prokážou, že jsou ochotní udělat cokoli, aby válku utajili, Bree a její přátelé se musí vydat Nicka zachránit sami. Ale nepřátelé jsou všude a Breeiny síly jsou nepředvídatelné a nebezpečné. A taky nedokáže uniknout rostoucí přitažlivosti, kterou cítí k Selwynovi, mágovi, který slíbil, že bude Nicka až do smrti ochraňovat. Pokud chce Bree doufat, že existuje alespoň maličká naděje, že se jí podaří zachránit sebe a ty, které miluje, musí se naučit ovládat své síly od předků, kteří jimi vládli jako první – a nepřijít přitom o sebe samou.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez's brilliant reimagining he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolívar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea, revisiting the scenes of his former glory and lamenting his lost dream of an alliance of American nations. Forced from power, dogged by assassins, and prematurely aged and wasted by a fatal illness, the General is still a remarkably vital and mercurial man. He seems to remain alive by the sheer force of will that led him to so many victories in the battlefields and love affairs of his past. As he wanders in the labyrinth of his failing powers-and still-powerful memories-he defies his impending death until the last. The General in His Labyrinth is an unforgettable portrait of a visionary from one of the greatest writers of our time.

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (who she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other towards middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways. Bold, tender, propulsive, and unexpected in countless ways, Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl is a moving and funny portrait of a flawed, unforgettable young woman as she tries to find her place in the world.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true. People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.