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You will find this book, although an exciting narrative, has an unpolished feel, because it was published in June of 1918, while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress.

Andet bind i Gunnar Staalesens farverige romantrilogi om livet i Bergen i det 20. århundrede begynder med endnu et gådefuldt dødsfald, da den kvindekære prædikant Peter Paulus Hagas findes druknet i fjorden. På et bredt historisk lærred - fra sommerolympiaden i Berlin 1936, over krigen med landsforræderi, modstandskamp og tysk terrorregime og frem til den kolde krig - følger vi igen familierne Moland, Brandt, Nesbø og Helgesen, alt imens nye slægtled kommer til og danner nye mønstre af kærlighed og svig, forventninger og savn, succes og fiasko.

"Du som läser detta har säkert märkt att din bebis inte riktigt är som andra bebisar. Förmodligen är ditt barn intensivt, aktivt, uttömmande, hungrigt, krävande, dåligt på att sova, missnöjt, oförutsägbart, har svårt att lugna sig själv, är superkänsligt och har separationsångest. Så här är din bebis - hela tiden. GRATTIS - Du har fått ett plusbarn!" Att ha ett plusbarn - en "high need baby" med extra allt - är en utmaning för vilken förälder som helst.

Tower jockey Benny Poteat has seen a lot of things. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burnt-out bulbs, secured by nothing but a leather harness and carabiners, he's witnessed baptisms, outdoor weddings, dogfights, glorious sunsets, topless sunbathers, fierce storms, raging fires, and plenty more. Not much he sees surprises him, until the day he watches a woman die.

Cassie Claiborne's world is riddled with problems beyond her control: her hard-living father has another wife; her stoic, long-suffering mother is incapable of moving herself mentally away from the kitchen window; her closest friends, Puck and Emmy, are adolescent harbingers of their own doomed futures. Frustrated by her inability to care deeply enough for so many troubled souls, Cassie finds in the local pool hall an oasis of green felt where she can master objects and restrain her emotions.

Nathan Carter, a man in his 20s, moves from Boston to Eden, Vermont, following the death of his father and the end of yet another failed romance. When Carter's Jeep goes off the road in a snowstorm, 79-year-old Wallace Fiske nurses him back to health and the two become unlikely friends.