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Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from...

Vintage is Susan Gloss’s sparkling debut novel in the Vein of The Friday Night Knitting Club, centered around a Midwestern vintage clothing shop and a group of women who eventually transform the store and each others’ lives. At Hourglass Vintage in Madison, Wisconsin, every item in the...

"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile...

An “urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times” (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and...

If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping). In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Birdpaints a picture of the perfect retirement...

A sexy, glamorous romp through the scandals, secrets and even murder in Los Angeles' most exclusive magician's society. Welcome to Club Deception where nothing is what it seems ...and love may be the most dangerous illusion of all. Claire Fredericksson is the beating heart of Club Deception...

A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor's Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour's Private Means captures the very essence of summer in a sharply observed, moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss. It's Memorial Day weekend and Alice's beloved dog...

När Kates perfekta liv plötsligt går i kras flyr hon London för det fridfulla Nightingale Square i Norwich, i hopp om en lugn tillvaro långt borta från sveket och smärtan. Hennes planer på att leva ostört kullkastas dock när hon dras in i den lokala gemenskapen, bestående av en brokig skara personligheter ledda av den rättframma trebarnsmamman Lisa. Planerna på att förvandla ett grönområde till en gemenskapsträdgård skapar oväntade band i grannskapet, men den nyfunna sammanhållning testas då de plötsligt står inför hotet från en fastighetsutvecklare som har siktat in sig på det viktorianska huset.

Younes veut croire en sa dernière chance. À vingt-trois ans, il sort de prison. Sa libération anticipée est assortie d'un placement sous surveillance électronique : chaque soir, après le travail, il devra rentrer à Berlioz, la cité de son enfance. Il reprend aussitôt du service comme coursier-moto chez Panam'Expres, où il s'apprête à revoir Serge, son meilleur ami. Ils ont grandi sur la même dalle de béton. Ont fait ensemble les quatre cents coups. Et, malgré le fossé qui se creusait entre les communautés, ils sont restés fidèles l'un à l'autre.

Den 16. juni 1904 vandrer Leopold Bloom rundt i Dublins gader, imens hans kone Molly morer sig på kryds og tværs med andre mænd hjemme i ægtesengen. Leopold Bloom er blevet gjort til en ufrivillig hanrej, og hvad andet kan han gøre end at lade sine skosåler slide af vejen, blive ydmyget mellem husmure og på beværtninger og gemme sig i den ene erindring efter den anden efterhånden som de dukker op i Dublins våde tåge. Leopold Bloom er det 20. århundredes Odysseus, men i modsætning til Homers antikke krigerhelt, er Bloom en moderne antihelt.

Breathtakingly tender, Seven Days in Tokyo is an astonishing debut about the intricacies of desire and a search for belonging. It is a lyrical, immersive portrait of how some things, however beautiful and profound, are destined to be as short-lived as the cherry blossoms.

Penny is not living her best life. Her job is far from thrilling and her long-term boyfriend shows no sign of wanting to commit. She has just turned fifty and is going nowhere. Wanting a new start, Penny applies for a job as cabin crew, to find out if she can push herself out of her comfort zone...

Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks who made up the Factory milieu.

A teacher and his wife get caught up in the drama of election politics and a Channel 8 soap opera. An invalid house-sits for his sister and has to care for his nephew's pampered pet pig. A daughter travels overseas to convince her elderly father to move home with her. An academic must navigate...

أخذ الكاتب السوري زياد عبد الله على عاتقه أن يحمل عبء رواية تجري أحداثها في مدينة دبي الحديثة، حيث التجارة والمال والأعمال والأبراج الشاهقة، وسوق المال والبورصة...

Johnny Klein es una víctima del rock, una estrella del pop de los ochenta venida a menos. Lo ha perdido todo: su familia, su dinero y su fama. Cuando un viejo conocido de la industria musical se ofrece a echarle un cable, Johnny acepta sin pensárselo dos veces… Arrastrado al oscuro submundo del East End londinense, Johnny descubre que su ego destrozado no es lo único que corre riesgo. Por mucho que le cueste reconocer que ya no pinta nada, en estos momentos preferiría desaparecer del todo. Puede que la fiesta haya llegado a su fin, pero no hay modo de escapar del pasado.

"غادرت أخيرًا شقة الهرم ميممًا شطري نحو المركز، نحو وسط البلد، كم أحب تلك الأبنية العامرة بالنقوش والنتوءات والنخاريب، أراها أعشاشًا لأرواح من عشقوا وغادروا،...

يسير المغني الإيطالي "طوني باغودا" في نابولي هائمًا على وجهه فهو يحبّ هذه الشوارع ويكرهها، يحبُّ الأزقة ويكرهها ،إنّه يكره الجميع ويكره نفسه، لا يستمتع بشيء سوى...

كان كلَّما دخل منزلًا هجره أهله تسلَّل إليه الشعور ذاته، مزيجٌ من الرَّهبة والحزن تختلط بروائح مختلفة من العفونة والحليب الفاسد والطعام الذي تُركَ في المطبخ...

تتشابك الأيدي من خلف القضبان، يصمت القلب لتنطق العيون وتفشي سرَّ قصّة حبٍّ نبتت في قلب يوسف منذ الطّفولة ولم تعرف عنه مريم شيئًا، كان يتنفسها، يصحو كلَّ يومٍ من...