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Manhattan 1945. Krigen er forbi, og USA koger af begejstring. Til en fest hos sin bror i bohemekvarteret, Greenwich Village, møder Sara en ung skribent, den netop hjemvendte krigskorrespondent, Jack Malone. Den regelrette, uniformsklædte Jack passer ikke ind i selskabet af bøsser, kunstnere, forfattere og studerende, men Sara falder omgående for ham. De to indleder et intenst kærlighedsforhold, der bliver skæbnesvangert for dem begge. For inden længe afløses optimismen i kølvandet på krigens afslutning af skræk og paranoia. McCarthys heksejagt sætter ind.

A collection of the most famous historic speeches from the twentieth century, including Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan and Geoge Bush's Bombing of Iraq Speech.

Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry, everything changes.

Paris in the early '70s. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle’s tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come.  Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find and what we settle for.

It’s 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonate, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders: when did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice? Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970s Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan.

Le bonheur, Hannah l'a trouvé. Épouse de médecin, mère de famille, c'est une femme comblée. Le gentil garçon, rencontré à l'université et épousé au mépris de ses parents, s'est révélé un mari parfait. Sa route a pourtant dévié, l'espace d'une nuit, des années auparavant. Celle qui sut passer entre les gouttes de la contestation politique des années 1970 se voit accusée aujourd'hui des agissements les plus subversifs. Alors qu'elle observe son existence sombrer dans l'anarchie, Hannah va prendre les armes.

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile him to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset - he finds his solitude disrupted by the arrival, one wintry morning, of a box postmarked Berlin. The return address on the box - Dussmann - unsettles him completely.

How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She's stopped thinking about all the places she'd like to go and all the books she'd like to talk about. She's not unhappy, exactly. She's not that self-indulgent. As anyone would tell you, Laura is wonderfully constant, caring, selfless.

On the night of her 13th birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents – she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo....

For så vidt har Hannah Buchan gjort det godt. Ganske vist giftede hun sig alt for ung, og ægtemanden, lægen Dan, var vel ikke den mest ophisende, men måske var det - efter opvæksten med en bundhysterisk, jødisk mama og en charmerende, men karismatisk far - måske mest af alt det stabile, Hannah søgte. Efter et enkelt lille fejltrin kører livet da også rigtig fint for Hannah. I over tredive år er der ingen krusninger på overfladen overhovedet. Men så en dag forsvinder Hannah og Dans datter, Lizzie, sporløst, efter at hendes affære med en "modelæge" - en gift modelæge - ender på en ret dramatisk måde.

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of 60, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. 

Classic Speeches: 1940-1987 is a collection of the most famous speeches of all time from political figures, such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr and John F Kennedy.