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Linden has always felt like an outsider and spending the summer at his best friend's vacation house, surrounded by money and privilege is doing nothing to lessen his imposter syndrome. But he soon has bigger concerns than fitting in - there's a body in the pool and everyone's a suspect - including him.

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend, in this debut speculative mystery by Tomi Oyemakinde. Just because they let you in . . . it doesn't mean they'll let you out. When Ife joins Nithercott School through its prestigious...

"6" er titlen på anden bog i Ronnie Andersens tematiske trilogi om drenge fra forskellige samfundsklasser, der har det til fælles, at de flygter fra deres følelser. Debutromanen "Date med en engel" (2008) er stilistisk bygget op som et filmmanuskript, og her flygter hovedpersonen gennem stoffer og film. "6" handler om en dreng fra middelklassen. Charli flygter fra sorgen over sin mors pludselige død gennem sex, musik og tegneserier. Tegnesseriemediet inspirerer hans sprog og tankeverden, og da Charli samtidig er talfreak, er bogen bygget op over en matematisk formel med 36 kapitler af 6 sider.

Der er både spænding og humor i anden del af denne krimikomedie fra Line Kyed Knudsen. Vi er i 2620 Albertslund, hvor Viggo bliver vidne til et skuddrama. Offeret slipper heldigvis med livet i behold, men gerningsmanden har set Viggo, og da Viggos søster Vera pludselig forsvinder sporløst, får Viggo bange anelser.

Viggo har ingen anelse om, hvad han roder sig ud i, da han finder en sort sæk med penge, gravet ned i Vestskoven. Han og hans kammerat Mustafa er enige om, at det er en sag for politiet, men drengene når aldrig så langt, for der er jo egentlig nok at bruge penge på. Men der er desværre også rockere, der leder efter dem.

"Date med en engel" er en rå og realistisk debutroman om et ubarmhjertigt liv på kanten med stoffer og alkohol. En tour de chambre fra de københavnske barer i jagten på den evige rus. Tre drenge fordriver tiden i Københavns gader med et heftigt misbrug. Hovedpersonen ser verden som en film, han selv skaber, men den er samtidig en labyrint, han farer vild i. En nat møder han Miriam. Hun ligner en engel. – "ikke en med vinger og alt det der fis" – men den perfekte date, som han falder pladask for.

Digerne langs hele den jyske vestkyst bryder sammen, og en flodbølge skyller ind over Ribe og Tønder. Over tretusinde mennesker meldes savnet, men regeringen fralægger sig ethvert ansvar. Dette er det skræmmende udgangspunkt for Henrik Nilaus nye roman om afmagt, sorg og aktionsformer. Emma er på sammenbruddets rand. Hendes bedste veninde, som lige er flyttet til Tønder, er blandt de savnede. Emma klynger sig til håbet, men som dagene går, bliver det sværere og sværere at fastholde troen på, at hun har overlevet.

It's been two weeks since Polly St. James went missing. The police, the headmistress of Torrey-Wells Academy, and even her parents have ruled her a runaway. But not Maren, her best friend and roommate. She knows Polly had a secret that she was about to share with Maren before she disappeared—something to do with the elite, ultra-rich crowd at Torrey-Wells. Then Maren finds an envelope hidden among Polly's things: an invitation to the Gamemaster's Society.

Kat fylder 18 år og føler, at den trygge verden hun indtil nu har kendt og elsket i Hirtshals, er ved at falde fra hinanden: Hun må ikke længere arbejde på Fisken, Svend stopper som gamemaster i rollespilsgruppen Yxengaard, som står til at lukke, Polly flytter sammen med Mark Warcraft i Hjørring. Og Dugge vil nu pludselig have sex - og Kat er ved at brække sig over det hele. Sarah Engell og Sanne Munk Jensen er i denne selvstændige opfølger til "Tag gaden tilbage" (2019) vendt tilbage til Hirtshals, denne gang med blikket vendt mod et begyndende voksenliv, som hovedpersonen Kat slet ikke har lyst til.

In this fast-paced thriller, eighteen-year-old Calli finds herself alone after the loss of her father—until a bruised and broken girl shows up on her property, forcing her to face the present, rethink her future, and unearth the skeletons of her own past. Life has never been easy in the small...

Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other. Struggling to understand why her parents kept this surprising history hidden, Claire combs through anything that might give her information about her father … until she discovers that he was a member of the yakuza, a Japanese organized crime syndicate. The discovery opens a door that should have been left closed.

Tonight, Riverview Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, a shift that quickly takes a dark turn. First a stranger arrives with a chilling accusation. Then the power goes out and their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe, where the crew's phones are locked each shift. The crew's tension turns to terror when Jo discovers the dead body of one of her co-workers.

Months after Jess escaped from the set of Stuck in the '90s, the nostalgic reality show she believed was her real life, the teen star is getting to know the outside world for the first time. But she can't outrun her fictional life forever—or the media empire that owns it. After Like-Life Productions tracks her down and forces her boyfriend to return to the show, Jess teams up with an underground network fighting to uncover Like-Life's schemes. To expose the truth, Jess must go back to the set and take Like-Life down from the inside . . . but getting revenge might just cost her everything.

Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that’s raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon’s grandmother falls ill, he’s sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls. After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn’s house.

The potential impact of runaway climate-change has long been grossly underestimated. The world is rapidly approaching an existential crisis—the Anthropogenic Extinction—the sixth annihilation of Earth-bound species since life first appeared 3.5 billion years ago. Assisted by teammates Eric Evans and Bella Moreno, and Thay Tuan, the team’s consigliere, Luc Ponti, now an astrophysicist at MIT, succeeds in creating a stabilized micro-wormhole, which is launched by NASA into high-Earth orbit and used as a means to contact intelligent life on exoplanets well within the “Goldilocks” zone.

Han vrider på huvudet och tittar in i bilen. Hans mörka ögon är en avgrund av hat. Jag har inte hunnit ducka. Min lillebror har krupit ihop på bilgolvet. Samtidigt närmar han sig. Mamma backar tillbaka in på gården. Hon kör in i soptunnan igen, och den välter. Burkar ramlar ut på gårdsplanen. Plötsligt har han en yxa i handen. Egentligen heter Johanne inte alls Johanne. Och hennes bror, Christian Eriksen, har tagit sitt namn efter fotbollsspelaren. De är på flykt från sin våldsamma pappa, och medan de är på jakt efter ett nytt liv är han på jakt efter dem.

"Mamma!" ropar Christian inifrån sovrummet. "MAMMA!" skriker han. Mamma vaknar först när ambulanspersonalen lyfter upp henne på båren. Hon blinkar och ropar pappas namn och snyftar att han inte får döda henne. Ambulanssjukvårdarna ser på varandra. Sedan säger de att de ska skydda henne, att hon inte behöver vara rädd. Jag känner mig som ett jagat djur. Ständigt på vakt. Ständigt med en blick över axeln. Har han hittat oss? Min pappa. Medan vi är på jakt efter ett nytt liv, är han på jakt efter oss. Han kommer aldrig låta oss gå. Aldrig någonsin.

Have you ever had something stuck in your head . . . ? After a session in the VR Booth at the Mega Pizzaplex, Kai can't shake the feeling that the tiger animatronic somehow has stayed with him . . . A new attraction at the Mega Pizzaplex leaves Kane's mind full of intrusive thoughts not his own . . . And Danny's idea to get the attention of his high school crush comes with unimaginable consequences. . . In the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, truth is often scarier than fiction . . .

It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Raven’s Hill School confession site is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests fleeing. When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear up her wrecked house before her parents get home, they find more than broken bottles… There’s a body on the living room floor.

Number 3-1-5-5 is a good girl. She gets told that everyday when she is fed, moved to other rooms, given pills and examined. She doesn't remember much, but she can see every face she's come across as clearly as if they were in front of her. Her world is small, contained. But in a life where you know nothing but a sea of Janes and Johns, how will you know who is good and bad?