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In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all - beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn.

Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West - until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.

Crew Storm opens an exclusive resort in the Catalina Islands off the coast of California, and pride swells within him as he accomplishes the impossible. Everything is on track - until a blonde steps into his life. Haley Sutherland is done with her fears, done being a wallflower, and done being invisible. She comes up with a brilliant idea to find the perfect person to teach her how to seduce the man she truly wants.

Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.

Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable, is central to the enmity of two of the greatest powers in the world. Morgoth of the uttermost evil seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city of his Elven enemies, while the gods in Valinor refuse to support Ulmo Lord of Waters' designs to protect it. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, and guided unseen by Ulmo he sets out on the fearful journey to Gondolin to warn them of their coming doom. 

Brought to you by Penguin. TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARI Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains...

From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. 

The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry...

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A child asks for more—and a city reveals its darkest hunger. In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens transforms the fogbound streets of Victorian London into a haunting moral landscape of poverty, innocence, crime, and compassion. Drawing on his own...

En sen natt i maj 1920 gör Isabel verklighet av sin länge planerade flykt och lämnar sin högt uppburna familj i största hemlighet. Hon flyr med sin älskade – en skådespelare. Det blir skandal och konsekvenserna sträcker sig långt in i framtiden. Sjuttio år efter Isabels flykt börjar...

Emilie väntar otåligt på att hennes make ska komma hem från Boston. Inom henne lurar en oro som hon inte blir av med. Karen är rädd för att det var Gud som straffade henne när hon förlorade barnet hon bar på. Hon bestämmer sig därför för att bli en ny och bättre människa. "Sagan om Emilie" är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga.

”En vaskeægte pageturner … ’Brevbærersken’ er til dig, der elsker Elena Ferrantes Napoliromaner – eller Valerie Perrins uforglemmelige roman ’Vand til blomster’. Det er en stor og uforglemmelig historie.” Annelovebooks ”Denne bog er blevet min yndlings, som jeg bogstaveligt...

Hvad gør afhængighed ved et menneske og ved båndet mellem en lillebror og en storesøster? En sommeraften forsvinder fortællerens lillebror, Christian, ind i en skov. Han er fire år gammel. En større eftersøgning følger, uden held. Indtil den lille dreng selv dukker sælsomt frem af...

Med stigande oro söker Emilie efter Simon. Vart kan hennes make ha tagit vägen? Har hans försvinnande något att göra med de kryptiska meddelandena han lämnat efter sig? På plantaget i Florida blir stämningen mellan Halvor och John Walcott allt mer ansträngd. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga.

”Ferrante-fans kan roligt glæde sig: Beatrice Salvionis ’Krapyl’ er en fortælling fra mellemkrigstidens Italien med et stærkt kvindeligt fortegn – og den er fremragende." ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Politiken ”En fuckfinger til fascismen. En feminin, italiensk, litterær...

DØTRE er en skæbnefortælling om familierelationer, søskendehierarkier og barndommens råstof. Og om også at elske livets skrammer. KAREN. MAREN. METTE. STORESØSTER. MELLEMSØSTER. LILLESØSTER. KÆMP. FRYS. FLYGT. Karen, Maren og Mette mødes ved deres mors dødsleje og konfronteres med...

En mørk familiehistorie. Kompromisløs og krybende. Og du? Hvor er du, siger jeg. Vent lidt, siger du, først skal vi have min far placeret. Han er nemlig allerede på vej ind i spisestuen. Kan du høre ham? Ja, siger jeg. Hvordan lyder han? Efter hvad min far har fortalt, var han hurtig i...

Cinzas do Norte, terceiro romance de Milton Hatoum, é o relato de uma longa revolta e do esforço de compreendê-la. Na Manaus dos anos 1950 e 1960, dois meninos travam uma amizade que atravessará toda a vida. De um lado, Olavo, de apelido Lavo, o narrador, menino órfão, criado por dois tios mal-e-mal remediados, que cresce à sombra da família Mattoso; de outro, Raimundo Mattoso, ou Mundo, filho de Alícia, mãe jovem e mercurial, e do aristocrático Trajano.

Rolfs ställning på länsmanskontoret hänger i en skör tråd efter övergreppet mot Olette. Är hotet om att förlora arbetet tillräckligt för att hindra honom från att fortsätta plåga henne – eller krävs det strängare åtgärder? På Elveløkken har Rebekka börjat oroa sig för...