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In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent...

Life can be hard to navigate at times, but for Lazarus Mitchell, it’s been a constant battle. Marrying his high school sweetheart and putting his dreams on hold to help her fulfill hers, he kept pushing through life’s adversities in hopes of seeing better days. Throughout the journey, he realized that she didn’t have the tenacity he had or the wherewithal to look difficulty in the face and choose to overcome it.

The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose - to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself -...

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper.

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a Dane called Bo, while Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox-holes and the official residence of a cardinal. Narcissist Bruce meets his match in the form of a sinister doppelganger; Bertie, set up by his mother for fresh embarrassment at school, yearns for freedom; and Big Lou goes viral.

Mark Hardin is known to his enemies as The Penetrator. He's part Cheyenne and he's never forgotten his past. In quest of his heritage, Mark Hardin has learned Indian skills: to track a man, but not to leave tracks; to speak his native language, in ancient dialects and sign language. His years of army service in Vietnam taught him other things. He's a sharpshooter with almost any weapon a man can hold; an expert with hand grenades, explosives, booby traps, and line mines; a black belt in karate and aikido.

Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production, drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's...

Brought to you by Penguin. The new tale of love and life, rich with humour and pathos, from our best loved storyteller. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in her life who lied...

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his...

No matter how many times she promised herself she wouldn’t go there, Reign couldn’t resist Jahiem, her best friend’s brother. Now caught between her friendship and her relationship, Reign is forced to prove where her loyalty lies. Jahiem had no intentions of ever starting a relationship with Reign because he was already in a relationship with Samantha. Now that he’s broken things off with her, Samantha shows up, and she’s not alone. Jahiem finds himself in a difficult situation when he realizes he’s torn between two women who have more in common than he thought.

"Irrgarten unter roter Sonne" nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise in die Zeit, in die frühen neunziger Jahre, und durch Raum - nach Japan. Dorthin verschlägt es Martina im Zuge ihres eigentlich heiß ersehnten Auslandsstipendiums an der Kyushu-Universität in Fukuoka, wenn, ja, wenn sie nicht wenige Monate vor ihrer Abreise Peter kennengelernt hätte. Marie Bullocks Roman lässt uns teilhaben an Martinas Liebeskummer, ihrer Beziehung zur dominanten Mutter, ihrem aufregenden Studienaufenthalt, ihren Fragen an das Leben.

När livet vänder är en känslofylld berättelse om en kvinnas tuffa kamp mot bröstcancer. Läsaren får ta del av den cancerdrabbade kvinnans vardag som fylls av sjukhusbesök och behandlingar men också värdefulla, fina stunder tillsammans med familjen. Texten är självutlämnande och författaren vågar visa sin sårbarhet. Berättelsen ger en bra inblick i vad som väntar för någon som nyss har fått ett cancerbesked. Det är en berättelse om hur livet och vardagen snabbt kan förändras, och en berättelse om tålamod och kämpaglöd.

Kimmonen, mies vailla koulutusta ja töitä. Elää pitkät päivät vuokralla tekemättä mitään hyödyllistä. Kun sossu alkaa hengittämään niskaan, saa sankari pelastuksen viime tipassa. Kimmonen palkataan kriisipuhelin firmaan nimeltä Auttava Linja. Kimmosen työnkuva on simppeli: kuunnella ihmisten huolija puhelimitse ja pyrkiä löytämään ongelmiin ratkaisuja. Jonkin moisia ratkaisuja. Komedia ensimmäisen maailman ongelmista ja todellisista ongelmista, sisältövaroituksen voimin.

Wer bin ich im gesellschaftlichen Gefüge und wer bin ich, wenn alles um mich her auseinanderfällt? Auf der Flucht aus einem von Bürgerkrieg und Klimakatastrophen erschütterten Deutschland verliert Ragna alles, was sie liebte. Sie kann sich auf eine deutsche Hochseeinsel retten und steht traumatisiert und lebensmüde am Ende - oder am Anfang - eines neuen Lebens. Es gibt "Früher" und "Ganz früher" aber es ist immer "Jetzt!".