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Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together-a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn't want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King's most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade-but escalating-battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott's lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face-including his own-he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott's affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others. From Stephen King, our .most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work" (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as .It's a Wonderful Life."

Charming classroom pets invert expectations with a clever science project that puts a student through her paces. Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's classroom, and they do everything the students do - listening at storytime, painting masterpieces during art class, and keeping their own special journals. But when it's time for the school science fair, the mice aren't sure just how to get involved. Lucy wants to time them as they run through a maze, but they want to do an experiment, not be an experiment. Then Zeke comes up with a great idea: since Lucy is training animals for her experiment, maybe he and Fergus can do the same thing! Unfortunately, the only animals available are the students themselves. Can Fergus and Zeke turn the tables and train Lucy in time for the science fair?

Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan. The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words .Another . . . More Beautiful . . . KILL." In a moody, cinematic new telling of a beloved fairy tale, extraordinary graphic novelist Matt Phelan captures the essence of classic film noir on the page-and draws a striking distinction between good and evil.

Det er kveld i Roma i begynnelsen av det 20. århundre da to unge mennesker møtes på gaten: forskeren Helge Gram og billedkunstneren Jenny Winge. De innleder et forhold, og da de møtes igjen i Kristiania, blir Jenny presentert for Helges familie. Helges foreldre lever i et uhyggelig ekteskap som tydelig har preget hans oppvekst. Det blir også en stor belastning i forholdet mellom Helge og Jenny, og de går fra hverandre. Jenny oppdager imidlertid at hun har mye til felles med Helges far. Dermed forlater Gert Gram sin kone.

Mathea Martinsen har ikke hatt mye med andre mennesker å gjøre. Nå, som gammel rammes hun av en stor sorg, og hun blir redd for å dø før noen vet at hun har levd. Mathea finner fram brudekjolen igjen, baker pikekyss og går ut blant andre. Dette er forfatterens debut.

"Right up there with Mr. Block's best....A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF keeps us guessing."--Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's world may lead him right back to the bar stool. In a novel widely celebrated by critics and readers, Lawrence Block circle back to how it all began, reestablishing the Matthew Scudder series as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction.

A middle-aged man living on Auckland's Waiheke Island recalls vividly the sudden death of his daughter Miriam. Grief silenced Adam at the time, but now he decides to break the silence and explore the secrets of the past. The search becomes a tribute to his daughter, and takes Adam from New Zealand to Poland. There he finds the truth about his past, but now he must live with it. On an island off the rocky coast of Sweden he re-connects with the love of his life. Sonata for Miriam is a heartbreaking tale of a man's search for his past, about the exposure of secrets that have been hidden for too long, and about the importance of talking about the most vital and the most painful in life. But more than anything it is a novel about love. Rich and satisfying, Sonata for Miriam will stay with the reader long after they have put it down.

A completely new, fresh, and frightening take on "prison literature."

Boken er forfatterens hovedverk. Her dramatiserer hun sin egen filosofi ("objectivism"), og den er integrert i historien. En gang i fremtidens USA bryter økonomien sammen fordi ledende personer i industrien forsvinner på en mystisk måte. Hva skjer med samfunnet når samfunnsmaskineriets motor blir slått av? Boken har en praktisk leserveiledning til Ayn Rands forfatterskap.

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.

David Sloane is the best wrongful death attorney in San Francisco. He's a lawyer who can make juries do anything. But despite his professional success, he's plagued by a naightmare of a childhood he annot consciously remember. When he receivesa package from a White House confidant who then turns up dead by apparent suicide the contents reveal a history he never could imagined. Now, in search of justice, Sloane must depend on two men he's never met: Charles Jenkins, a former CIA agent turned recluse who suffers the same nightmare; and Tom Molia, a police detective willing to take on just about anyone - including the US Department of Justice. Together these men must expose a 30-year conspiracy so insidious that it may reach as far as the Oval Office and topple a presidency - if they can stay alive.

Jamilet er usedvanlig vakker, men under klærne skjuler hun et grotesk fødselsmerke. Med håp om å bli som alle andre flykter hun fra Mexico til USA. Hun får som jobb å ta seg av gamle Señor Peregrino, og når han forteller om sin pilegrimsvandring til Santiago de Compostella, forandres alt. Historien om Jamilet fortsetter i La Peregrina.

Castros revolusjon på Cuba i 1956 skiller de to bestevenninnene Alicia og Nora. Mens Nora flytter til USA med familien blir Alicia igjen og opplever fattigdommen som preger landet under Castros regime. Flere år senere blir Alicia alvorlig syk, og Nora bestemmer seg for å reise til Cuba for å hjelpe henne.

Known today primarily as the author of "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections, "Flappers and Philosophers" and "Tales of the Jazz Age", came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines. He portrayed the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.

'This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his ideas a fair trial.' Fitzgerald's thought-provoking tale, 'THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON' is a fantastical satire about aging. It is the strange and haunting story of Benjamin Button who is born as an old man and ages backwards so that at the beginning of his life he is an old man and at the end of his life he is a baby.

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author ofThe Great Gatsby In the title story of this collection by one of America s greatest writers, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this Lost Generation been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."

On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked. When she awakes in hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then, slowly and painfully, details reveal themselves, dreams of two figures, one white and one black, hovering over her; snatches of a strange and haunting song, the unfamiliar texture of a rough and deadly hand. In another part of the country, Martha Browne arrives, posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why?

Dette er den andre boken om Ole Brumm og vennene hans. Her dukker Tigergutt opp i Hundremeterskogen for første gang.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial New York Times bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind of love we all hope will be everlasting. UNTIL THE END OF TIMEBill, a dedicated young lawyer working at his family's prestigious New York firm, leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream and become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his wife, is a stylist whose heart and soul are invested in fashion. She leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hardworking independent book publisher in Manhattan who has given up all personal life to build his struggling business. He is looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman, living as though in the seventeenth century, caring for her widowed father and three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night, by candlelight, she has written the novel that burns within her, and gets it into Robert's hands, wrapped in her hand-stitched apron. He falls in love first with the book, and then with the woman he has never met, living in the sequestered world of the Amish-a world without telephones, computers, electricity, modern conveniences, or cars. Although Lillibet faces banishment from her family and community, she embraces the opportunity to publish her novel, and is irresistibly drawn to the man who has heard her voice. Destiny is at work here. Fate draws her from her horse-and-buggy life toward his, and the publication of her novel.In the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel, these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again. If it is true that real love lasts forever and lovers cannot lose each other, then Until the End of Time will not only comfort and fascinate us, as destiny does her dance, but it will give us hope as well. Love and fate are powerful, irresistible forces, as Steel proves to us here, in a book about courage, change, risk, and hope . . . and love that never dies.

Jack Watson er 59 år, har to voksne barn og er en av Hollywoods mest ettertraktede menn. Etter et mislykket ekteskap for mange år siden og en kort, tragisk kjærlighetshistorie for noen år siden, er Jack blitt den fødte ungkar, og slik vil han ha det. Amanda Robbins' datter er gift med Jacks sønn, og Amanda vil ikke ha noe mer personlig forhold til Jack enn det. Romanen handler om disse to menneskene som får alle sine drømmer oppfylt - tyve år etter at de forventet det.

A book so iconic that its title is synonymous with split personalities, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was first released in 1886. The story of a virtuous Dr. Jekyll who mistakenly creates an alter ego of unadulterated evil serves as an examination of the duality of human nature and the battle between good and evil. Full of mystery and fright, this story has remained popular for more than a century and has been adapted countless times  over 132 in film alone. An instant success and popular with students of morality, this thrilling tale is now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series, making it a chic and affordable addition to any library.Lexile score: 990L

Theo Buchanan, broren til FBI-agent Nick Buchanan fra romanen Heartbreaker, møter Dr. Michelle Renard når hun opererer ham for blindtarmbetennelse under en galla i New Orleans. På grunn av arbeidet sitt i justisdepartementet, må Theo ligge lavt ei stund, så han drar til Bowen, Louisiana, hvor Michelle akkurat har åpnet sin nye praksis. Her oppdager han at et krimsyndikat er ute etter Michelle siden hun kanskje vet sannheten om barmhjertighetsmordet på kona til et av medlemmene i syndikatet.

En morder røper sine planer i skriftestolen til presten Thomas Madden. Thomas blir dratt inn i morderens syke spill, når morderen røper at hans neste offer kommer til å bli Thomas' søster Laurant. Thomas ber om hjelp fra sin beste venn, FBI-agenten Nick Buchanan.

En stor fest er under oppseiling for herr og fru Doyle. De har vært gift i 25 år og barna planlegger en fest hvor de har invitert alle de har kjent i løpet av sitt samliv. Når venner og famile samles bli et liv fylt av løgner blottlagt, men sannhetens og kjærlighetens krefter seirer.

At the end of "Shadow of the Giant", Bean flees to the stars with three of his children - who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come. For there in space lies a derelict Formic colony ship, and aboard it, they will find both death and wonders.

Boka inneholder utdrag fra Baldwins roman Another country og skuespillet The amen corner, manifestet My dungeon shook: letter to my nephew on the one hundreth anniversary of the emancipation, novellen Sonny's blues og essayene Fifth avenue, uptown: a letter from Harlem, The discovery of what it means to be an American og Nobody knows my name: a letter from the south.

The iconic British style magazine ""i-D"" delivers a guide to the world's most important designers. ""Fashion Now 2"" is illustrated with the very best fashion photography and styling, extracted from the archives of the magazine that celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2008.