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A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley's most anticipated night of the year?A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson-karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all-around good guy-the community hosts a high-stakes karaoke competition. But when a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, residents discover there's more on the line than local, perhaps even national, karaoke fame.In this darkly comedic, fast-paced ride through an unforgettable small town, five residents with intimate connections to Dale and drastically different goals for the night will collide into, conspire with, and aid one another as they scramble to make it successfully through the evening under the scrutinizing watch of neighbors.To the soundtrack of classics belted out with abandon, voices will crack, cars will be stolen, marriages will falter, and kids will slip away in search of trouble. And maybe, just maybe, lives will be transformed for the better.

'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelPhiladelphia, 1948: Fifteen-year-old Ruby's dreams are almost within reach. She's going to be the first in her family to attend college, despite having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her only daughter. But falling madly in love with the one boy she is forbidden from threatens to pull Ruby back into poverty and desperation. When she's imprisoned in a home for unwed mothers - locked in the House of Eve with other 'fallen girls' - everything she's worked so hard for starts slipping through her fingers.Washington, DC, 1948: Eleanor arrives in the city with ambition, hope and a past she's trying her hardest to run from. When she meets William at Howard University, with his inky black eyes and broad shoulders, it's love at first sight. But William hails from one of Washington, DC's elite Black families, who don't let just anyone into their inner circle - especially not a girl from 'the wrong side of the tracks'. Eleanor hopes that a baby will mean they finally accept her, and that her secrets won't see the light of day - but fate has other plans in store...In the dawn of the 1950s, Ruby and Eleanor are complete strangers - until their paths unexpectedly collide. Forced to make the most heartbreaking decisions of their lives, will their choices save them... or be their undoing?

Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island - the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.'Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it' SARAH WINMAN'Beautiful and important' SAFIYA SINCLAIR Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri's carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island. As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There's Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. Gigi, the 'notorious' founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective. And Daisy, first lady of St Colibri, who is haunted by a disappearance in her own family decades ago. In a community in which women's voices are often silenced and violence against them is overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out - and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage... 'Roffey's world-building power is evident on every page'GUARDIAN'Will keep you reading all hours... unforgettable'GLAMOUR'Sensual, ferocious... If The White Lotus were a modern feminist thriller, this would be it'LALINE PAULL'The spirit of carnival itself is in the writing... Electrifying'JASON ALLEN-PAISANT'A vital novel... Fiery, funny'DIANA EVANSREADERS LOVE PASSIONTIDE'This was fantastic... five stars''Exhilarating... it's a blast, with sharp, smart humour''A powerful book... really moving''Filled with anger, unity and love''What an amazing book this is... This story will stay with me for a very long time''Moving and gripping''A must-read''I loved this book'

'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah LevyThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses.Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood...Both sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space.A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways that people we've known live on in us; and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who've lived in them and the stories that have been told there.'Atmospheric and evocative, the prose elegant and poised' Observer

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER__________________________________________**Order now to secure the special Collector's Edition - available only while stocks last!**The Collector's Edition features a gold foiled design underneath the dust jacket and is exclusive to the first print run in the UK only.________________________________'Breathtaking and brilliant!' Jeffery Deaver'The pages turn themselves' Daily Mail'As thrilling and jaw-dropping as Jurassic Park' Don Winslow'Heart-pounding storytelling at its finest' T.J. Newman'One of the most entertaining novels I've read in years' Adrian McKinty________________________________Two of the bestselling storytellers of all time have created an unforgettable thriller.A once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii.But a decades-old military secret could turn the volcano into something even more terrifying...Now it's up to a handful of brave individuals to save the island - and the entire world._______________________________Readers are loving Eruption...'Absolute classic''Enthralling read''Classic Crichton and fantastically brought to a climax by Patterson''What a roller coaster ride''Great storytelling'________________________________MORE PRAISE FOR ERUPTION'Fast-moving and fun' NEW SCIENTIST'Enjoyable' TELEGRAPH'An astonishing story' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Patterson's skill as a storyteller is evident' FINANCIAL TIMES'An electrifying thriller' Essential Marbella MagazineEruption was a No. 2 Sunday Times Bestseller and No. 1 New York Times Bestseller 16/06/2024

He's more than a rebound heating up my autumn nights. My heart could be in trouble. Police Chief Robbie Boyd has sworn to protect-me. Beefing up security around me, thanks to a pathetic stalking fan, means my eyes can feast on the chief's beefy build regularly. His two sides appeal to me. The tough lawman can cuff me, take me to bed, and use all his dirty words to seduce me. While the soft sweeter man, when he's not in uniform, talks to me like I'm a normal person, not some rock star on a pedestal. Yes, he can do whatever he wants to me. I'm ready, and this is more than a rebound. The only trouble is...Can I trust this small town police officer won't be like all the other men in my life before him who have taken advantage of my star status?

J. R. Carpenter's poems have an eye for detail and an ear for the sounds of York in both past and present, inviting the reader to experience the city for the first time, regardless of whether they've ever been. City of Marvels is a poetic geography and Carpenter has given us both the route and the compass.

"A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for knocking himself unconscious. As he begins to exploit his talents, the notorious Knockout Artist journeys a hero's descent into the New Orleans underworld and meets characters who have long since checked their morals at the door. The unforgettable climax shows Crews at his virtuoso best, when Eugene confronts his truth, and sets out to claim his freedom and win his own self-respect"--

Elizabeth loved the wide open spaces, isolation, and cattle station she had grown up on in the top end of Australia, but she was ready for a change.She wanted to dip her toes into the waters of the big city, so Sydney, NSW, was where she headed on her adventure.Hudson was busy running a multi-billion dollar corporation and had no time for anyone serious in his life.Or so he thought.He was frozen in place when the gorgeous brunette appeared in his life and was, for the first time ever-speechless.But, there is more than meets the eye with this pair and things are about to get a whole lot more interesting when the CEO finds out he's the new boss of his outback gal.

?A sprawling, beautiful delight of a novel spanning nearly a century as four generations gradually peel back the layers of long-buried family secrets that may just change everything. ... I immensely enjoyed this sweeping, heartrending, emotional roller coaster of a tale, which made me laugh, cry, and think about the true meaning of family. ? Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris DaughterOrphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make.In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson's mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she's made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she is sold to a traveling circus to perform as the ?little sister? to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she's found the family she craves. But as the years go by, the cracks in her little world begin to show. And when teenage Cecily meets and falls in love with a young roustabout named Lucky, she finds her life thrown onto an entirely unexpected?and dangerous?course.In 2015, Cecily is now 94 and living a quiet life in Minnesota, with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandson. But when her family decides to surprise her with an at-home DNA test, the unexpected results not only bring to light the tragic love story that Cecily has kept hidden for decades but also throw into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own for nearly seventy years. Cecily and everyone in her life must now decide who they really are and what family?and forgiveness?really mean.Sweeping through a long period of contemporary history, The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson is an immersive, compelling, and entertaining family drama centered around one remarkable woman and her determination to survive.

Bourke, a small country town in outback Australia, home to the mighty Darling River.Where skies are bluer than blue, and flies and mozzies abound.Where wide open spaces and fresh country air regenerate the spirit.It was this small town Ruby's heart led her back to after fifteen long years away.The place where Ruby's heart had always belonged.Securing a position with the Flying Doctor Service, and working for a local doctor was like a dream come true.She was ready to give back to the people who had done so much to help her.Her own home, a job she loved, a family and friends she adored.Life was good, until.....Phil was a man who had grown up with Ruby and he'd had his eye on her for years.He'd intended to marry her as soon as he had qualified as a cop and she had qualified as a nurse.So, what caused everything to go so horribly wrong?Will a disaster bring them together?Or will they forever be separated by mistakes from the past?

Sanna scheint alles zu haben, was man sich wünschen kann: eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Schmuckdesignerin in ihrem Familienunternehmen, einen ehrgeizigen Verlobten und einen besten Freund, auf den sie sich immer verlassen kann. Doch als ihre Familie sie vor ultimative Entscheidungen stellt und sich auch ihr Verlobter von ihr abwendet, bricht ihre Welt zusammen.Auf der Suche nach sich selbst und ihrem Platz im Leben trifft sie Finn, ihre vergangene Sommerromanze, und Marietta, eine passionierte Goldschmiedin. Werden sie ihr helfen, ihrenegativen Glaubenssätze zu überwinden und ihren eigenen Weg zu finden?Tauche ein in eine mitreißende Geschichte über Selbstfindung, Familie, Liebe und den Mut, für das eigene Glück einzustehen.

Unfreiwillig strandet eine Düsseldorfer Reisegruppe in Kophusen. Der Bus ist defekt. Während die Gäste in dem kleinen Dorf festsitzen und auf den Ersatzbus warten, wird die Leiche eines jungen Mannes gefunden. Das Kophusener Ermittler-Trio gerät auf die Spur eines mysteriösen Geocachers, an dessen Verstecken immer wieder ein weißer Kastenwagen auftaucht. Kommissar Goldberg ahnt, dass die kuriosen Funde nicht Teil einer gewöhnlichen Schatzsuche sind. Hinter den Kulissen der harmlos wirkenden Reisegruppe entspinnt sich ein perfides Versteckspiel, das zu eskalieren droht.

Da et medlem af den lokale vandreforening findes død på en mark i Cotswolds, kaster Agatha Raisin og hendes tiltrækkende nabo, James Lacey, sig ivrigt ud i opklaringsarbejdet. Det skorter ikke på spor at forfølge, for den afdøde har tilsyneladende haft konflikter både til højre og venstre, også med lokale godsejere om vandreruter der går over deres jorde. Da det samtidig viser sig, at foruroligende mange medlemmer af vandreforeningen lader til både at være villige og i stand til at begå mord, må også Agatha og James snart passe på, hvor de træder.Agatha Raisin og en livsfarlig spadseretur er fjerde bind i serien om Agatha Raisins Cotswoldsmysterier, der er elsket verden over for deres slagkraftige heltinde, charmerende mordgåder og mosgrønne idyl i ærkebritiske Cotswolds.

EN NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLERSERIEI vanviddets kløer er sjette bind i Jacqueline Winspears populære historiske spændingsserie om den rådsnare privatdetektiv Maisie Dobbs i mellemkrigstidens London.LONDON, 1931. Midt i juletravlheden er Maisie Dobbs vidne til et selvmord på åben gade. Dagen efter modtager premierministeren et brev med trussel om, at mange menneskeliv vil gå tabt, hvis ikke visse krav bliver indfriet – og i brevet nævnes Maisie ved navn.Efter at være blevet afhørt og frifundet af chefpolitiinspektøren ved Scotland Yard, bliver Maisie særlig rådgiver i sagen og er snart på jagt efter en mand koldblodig nok til at udslette tusinder af uskyldige mennesker. Og opklaringsarbejdet fører Maisie mod et mørke, hvis lige hun ikke har stået over for, siden hun plejede mænd med granatchok på krigens lazaretter.

Anmelderrost familiesaga med det 20. århundredes dramatiske historie i Ukraine som bagtæppe.Romana arbejder som arkivar under Sankt Sophia Katedral i Kijev og hører om en indlagt soldat, der har mistet sin hukommelse. Hun mener at genkende sin forsvundne mand, Bogdan, i soldaten, der er vendt tilbage fra krigen i Donbas i 2014 med alvorlige kvæstelser. Han er for lemlæstet til at kunne blive identificeret og for traumatiseret til at kunne huske noget fra sin fortid. Romana forsøger at give Bogdan hukommelsen tilbage ved at fortælle ham om deres kærlighed og de historier, han fortalte hende om sig selv i deres tidligere liv. Engang gav han hende en mystisk kuffert med billeder og dokumenter, der handlede om hans bedstemor, Uljanas, ulykkelige skæbne. Ganske langsomt vender Bogdans minder tilbage, men kan han egentlig stole på Romanas fortællinger?En kompleks og medrivende historie om en families skæbne igennem Ukraines dramatiske historie i det 20. århundrede og om det vigtige i identitet og hukommelse i en tid med krig.Romanas historie er første bind i Amadoka-trilogien.”Sofija Andrukhovitj er en af de vigtigste litterære stemmer i Ukraine.” – Österreicher Rundfunk, Zeit im Bild

Der går et gys gennem Three Pines, da en kutteklædt skikkelse viser sig på fælleden en kold og våd novemberaften, og da skikkelsen endelig forsvinder, er lettelsen for beboerne kortvarig, for i den gamle jordkælder under kirken finder man et lig. Det bliver atter en gang op til kriminalinspektør Armand Gamache at finde sandheden bag den mystiske skikkelse. Nogle måneder senere befinder Gamache sig i en retssal for at komme til bunds i mysteriet, der viser sig at trække tråde tilbage til middelalderens Spanien, over finanskrisen i 2008 og frem til opioidkrisen i Nordamerika. I den glohede retssal tvinges han til at konfrontere sig selv. Kunne han have gjort mere? Har han gjort det rigtige? Og hvordan vil han blive dømt i den højeste ret?

Sandhed og løgn. Jamaica og England. Hvem har ret til at fortælle? Zadie Smith er tilbage med sin første historiske roman.Kilburn, 1873. Tichborne-sagen har hele Englands udelte opmærksomhed, og enke og husholderske mrs. Eliza Touchet er ingen undtagelse. Folk er rygende uenige om, hvorvidt tiltalte er den, han siger han er – eller en bedrager.Mrs. Touchet er en kvinde med mange interesser: litteratur, kampen for de slavegjortes rettigheder, klassesamfundet, sin fætter som er romanforfatter og hans koner, det jordiske liv og evigheden. Men hun er også skeptisk anlagt og overbevist om at kun få ting er, som de ser ud.Andrew Bogle er kronvidne i Tichborne-sagen, og hans fremtid afhænger af at han fortæller den rette historie – hvis bare han vidste, hvad det ville sige. Med sin opvækst på en plantage i Jamaica i bagagen ved han, at hver en sukkerknald har menneskelige omkostninger. At de rige fører de fattige bag lyset. Og at mennesker er nemmere at manipulere med, end de selv ved af.Bedrageren er baseret på virkelige begivenheder. Et glitrende monument over en verden af hykleri og selvbedrag, hvor det at afgøre hvad der er sandt, er sværere, end man skulle tro.

Mellem lys og skygge er første bind i en medrivende familiekrønike, der folder sig ud med det 20. århundredes politiske, videnskabelige og kulturelle fremskridt som kulisse.Ved indgangen til 1910 gør landsdommer Kroghs datter Dottie sig klar til at indtage livet uden for herskabslejligheden i indre København og sin mors korreksende opsyn. På Det Kongelige Teaters kringlede gange tackler hendes onkel, den charmerende operasanger Johannes Petersen, efterveerne af at have forladt sit ægteskab til fordel for den livlige, unge balletdanserinde Ella Bolin. Og i doktor Bergsøes hjem på Sankt Annæ Plads nærer veninden Rebecca en inderlig ambition om at følge i sin fars lægefaglige fodspor.De lever midt i en historisk brydningstid, hvor et opgør med familien som institution har konsekvenser for høj som lav. Og især kvinderne må sige farvel til det velkendte og sikre, hvis de vil tage kampen op mod de regler og kulturelle spændetrøjer, samfundet til stadighed strammer hårdere om dem.

Stille nu er en roman om kærlighed og katastrofer. En voldsom natur danner ramme om menneskets grusomhed og kredser om overgreb på natur og mennesker. En fortælling om en kvindes hævn og de dystre konsekvenser. Et gådefuldt land­skab. En togulykke i det norske fjeld. En lavine af is og fortvivl­else. En kvinde leder efter sin elskede, som tilsyneladende er forsvundet, men der er noget, hun har overset. En fortælling, der åbner for mørket i ethvert menneske.

"In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again-whatever that means"--

"Early Sobrieties is a second coming-of-age story that offers an existential trek into the enigma of sobriety itself and follows the eloquent confessional of an addict who is lost and found, then lost again"--

"I know where Allison is."Former child star Jason Turner is excited about the direction his life is taking. He is about to open the business of his dreams, and his sister is now a published author. All thoughts of his dark past are at bay.Until he meets Stacy, the new doll in his daughter's life. She looks and sounds just like Allison, his other sister who turned up missing that day in the woods while they were camping so long ago. When Stacy says she has a secret to share with Jason he realizes there is something sinister behind the doll's existence.Let the nightmares begin.

"As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open. Soon Madeline is carrying George like an ornament into a class of postwar L.A. society ordinarily hidden from men like him. What this lifestyle hides behind, aside from the monsters on the screen, are the monsters dwelling closer to home: this bacchanalia covers a gnawing hole shelled wide by the horror of the war they thought they'd left behind and the glimpse of an atomic future. It's here that George understands he can never escape his past as Gyèorgy, the queer Jew who fled Budapest before the war and landed in New York, all alone, a decade prior"--]cProvided by publisher.