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In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus Eighty follows several interconnected people in a disquieting vision of romantic life in the century to come. There's Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sacrifices all to visit her in a cryogenic dating...

Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed. Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents into barbarous animals and...

My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex-obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author's prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh-opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.

Merula befinner sig i ett gränsland. Nästa sommar ska hon gifta sig med Aram Hon är inte riktigt säker på vad hon vill. Jo, hon vill vara fri och ha kul med sina svenska vänner, även om det oroar mamma och pappa. Lika vild som Rosie vågar hon inte vara, ändå är det hon och inte Rosie...

Stockholm hukar under solen. Det är den hetaste sommaren på flera decennier och i en ateljé på Torsgatan står Nina och svettas. Hon målar porträtt av kända personer, men när den tredje modellen på kort tid dör, går det inte längre att bortförklara som en slump. Nina är rädd och...

När Cilla lämnar Casino Cosmopol en sommarnatt är hon utblottad och inte helt nykter. Eländet slutar inte där. Hennes första misstag är att ta genvägen hem genom Djursholm. Det andra är att stanna utmed Strandvägen. Det tredje är att släppa in en främling i bilen. Det kommer att...

Varje dag sätts viljan på prov. Det är viktigt att stanna upp och lyssna inåt, särskilt om den yttre världen upplevs som påträngande och kaotisk. ”Skeppet” är en guidad meditation som hjälper dig att slappna av och visualisera din vilja. Välj en plats där du får vara ostörd och...

Lizzi, Cissi, Max och Gusten är instängda i en sommarstuga i skärgården. Det skymmer och de vet inte hur de ska ta sig ut. Å andra sidan är det kanske säkrare att stanna kvar. Grannens skällande bestar, San Quentin och Alcatraz, kan inte ta sig in. Men var är mamma? Författaren AC...

Det är sommar i Stockholm. Nätterna är ljusa, men under ytan finns mörkret. Allt mer sällan ingriper människor när någon råkar illa ut på stan. Det råder en passivitet och känslokyla som skrämmer. Siri Blind har en unik känslighet och ett ovanligt stort hjärta, men hon kan inte...

Liechtenstein—a tiny country located between enemy states that has, by the will of the Multiverse, become my home. I didn't choose this fate, but since this is how things have panned out, I shall ensure that the trust placed in me by the wonderful citizens of this small but proud principality...

Legends don't die. Saoirse and Faolan's quest for freedom turns into a battle for the fate of their entire world, in this aching and lush conclusion to the Magpie and the Wolf duology. Faolan has escaped death. Twice. After a lifetime chasing freedom and legends, he was finally on the brink of...

New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions, with striking watercolor canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel. “Collins remains the most companionable of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life. “Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written.”—Maureen...

Here is groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired writers. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence “Whenever I pick up a new book of poems...

In this “delicate slow burn of a novel” (Jan Carson), a woman’s marriage and career are threatened by an old indiscretion just as she receives the opportunity of a lifetime—from the award–winning author of the “extraordinary” (Colum McCann) Dinosaurs on Other Planets. Nessa...

A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--soaring and poignant--about passion, freedom, motherhood, and the power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended turf fires; where...

"A poignant love story . . . Bittersweet and charming, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes. " --Shelf Awareness Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard. Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole in Grace's life and in...

Sam Capra has one reason to live: to reclaim his baby son from the people who kidnapped him. Teaming up with a young mother whose daughter went missing, he tracks his child across the country in a dangerous, desperate race against time. From the internationally best-selling author of Panic, The Last Minute is the most heart-stopping thriller of the year, from "one of the best thriller writers of our time" (Harlan Coben).

With shades of Water for Elephants and True Grit, a stunning debut novel set in the Australian outback about a female horse thief, her bid for freedom, and the two men trying to capture her. It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is on the run. Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she...