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It begins with a painting won in a raffle: 15 sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who couldn't be closer. And the boys become men, and then they meet Annie, and it changes nothing and everything. Tin Man sees Sarah Winman follow the acclaimed success of When God Was a Rabbit and A Year of Marvellous Ways with a love letter to human kindness and friendship, loss and living.

An apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. So what makes Emily Coleman wake up one morning and walk right out of her life? How will she survive? And what is the date that looms, threatening to force her to confront her past? No-one has ever guessed her secret. Will you?Tina Seskis's One Step Too Far is an absolutely unputdownable story of secrets and heartbreak.

When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.

Acclaimed artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her studio, after decades of struggles with her mental health. Her family is called together, as each of them reflect on the lives they've had shaped by the moods of Rachel - the artist, the wife and the mother - and the legacy they carry of her secrets, identity and hopes. An uplifting, extraordinary story, Notes from an Exhibition considers how passions and pressures can shape not only an individual, but also everyone who shares their life and continues to love them, despite everything.

The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter, Skye, have always been each other's everything. The pair lives on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel's patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. What more do they need? One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and they are pushed farther to the margins.

At thirty-seven years of age, I haven’t taken the plunge, nor do I plan to. I’ve seen the damage love can do. It pretends to care, but then it tears a person down. It’s manipulative. Damaging. It lies. It hurts. It makes one weak. I know that all too well after seeing what it did to my dear mother. That’s why when women – beautiful, successful women – try to get my attention, I easily shun them. All of them. They see the exceptionally fine, black man with money. They know nothing of the dark secrets I carry – secrets I can never share with anyone.

When Katharine “Kay” Swift - the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition - attends a performance of Rhapsody in Blue by a brilliant, elusive young musical genius named George Gershwin, her world is turned upside down. Transfixed, she’s helpless to resist the magnetic pull of George’s talent, charm, and swagger.

Tot canvia després d'un altre got d'absenta. Deixes el got damunt la taula, mires per la finestra i tens temps de veure una línia de llum que recorre fugaçment el carrer, il·lumina per un instant la roba estesa en un balcó i es clava al portal de casa. Darrere dels vidres encesos endevines les siluetes dels Nohisom, que es deixen engolir per la fosca de l'escala. Ara passen les cosines Tonell, que corren cap al teatre aferrades a la bossa.

Wenn man fällt, dann zumeist tief! Doch ist dies ein Problem? Vierzehn Geschichten, erzählt von Tina Winkler, verfangen sich in einer Navigationsautonomie der persönlichen Lageveränderung!

This is the story of my life as a young girl following Hannibal and his army from Carthage in North Africa to Iberia, and then over the Alps toward Rome. I never reached Rome, but then neither did Hannibal. I left him after the battle of Trebbia, taking with me his last remaining elephant, Obolus, and my friend, the slave girl, Tin Tin Ban Sunia. This book recounts the first month of our long journey.

After surviving four years with a commitment-phobic boyfriend, Elizabeth wants nothing more than to settle down. Too bad the man she desires, Marshall Roderick, leaves her flustered, trembling, and unable to utter a single word when he's near. Assuming he's the very definition of a womanizing bachelor, Elizabeth relegates him to fantasyland and makes no move to get to know him. That is, until a chance encounter along the shores of Lake Superior leads to drinks and a steamy romance.

In den Wirren der 1940er Jahre verschlägt es die junge Jasna mit ihrer Schwester Luzyna nach Persien. Als sie Aufnahme in Neuseeland erhalten sollen, keimt Hoffnung in Jasna auf. Doch nur eine der jungen Frauen wird für die Verschickung ausgewählt. Zur gleichen Zeit bricht James McKenzie aus Neuseeland auf. Gegen den Willen seiner Eltern will der wagemutige Flieger in Europa für die Ideale der Freiheit kämpfen. Das Schicksal führt James' und Jasnas Wege zusammen.Doch gibt es für sie eine gemeinsame Zukunft? Ein Juwel von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Sarah Lark.

Ein Buchstabenverdreher sucht in Gesellschaft einer Elster nach Worten, nach Phantasien und anderen Wirklichkeiten. So beginnt eine bildtönende Reise...

Monica er på barsel og forsøger at finde sig til rette med sit nye familieliv. Midt i den nyfundne idyl, hjemsøges hun af en bjergbestigningsulykke, som hun var involveret i ti år tidligere. Da hun møder Erik, der ønsker at slippe for sit kedelige og ensartede liv, genkender hun noget af sig selv i ham. Sammen rejser de til Svalbard for at befri sig selv og hinanden for deres følelsesmæssige limbo, men den natur, der skulle løse de dybe problemer, bliver pludselig til en modstander.

En farverig og underholdende roman om Abelone, der kommer i huset på godset Bangsbo i Nordjylland. Godsejeren, Johan Knudsen, er en gæstfri og yderst liberal levemand, og Bangsbo er tilflugtssted for en lang række af 1890'ernes kunstnere, blandt andet Herman Bang, Gustav Wied, Betty Nansen, Thorvald Bindesbøll og L.A. Ring. Alt kan ske på Bangsbo: affærer, intriger, dueller, selvmord og spøgeri. Abelone suger til sig af det hele og mærker for første gang suset fra den store, nye verden.

Ne "I racconti", di Franz Kafka, l’assurdo, la beffa, l’inganno, l’imponderabile della condizione umana, affiorano senza contaminare e appesantire...

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Da Arillas far dør, går det op for hende, at hun er fattig som en kirkerotte. Hun allierer sig med sin elegante Fætter, Harry, som, omend modstræbende, går med til at introducere hende for de højere kredse i London. Her håber hun at træffe en rig mand, der kan sikre hendes fremtid. For man kan ikke leve af kærlighed og kildevand - eller kan man? Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) var en engelsk forfatter til romantiske romaner, der er blevet solgt i adskillige millioner eksemplarer.