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It begins on the road to Damascus, in a moment graven on the consciousness of Western civilization. "Saul, Saul", asks the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, "why persecutest thou me?" From this experience, & from the response of the Jewish merchant later known as Paul, springs the Christian Church as we know it today. For as A.N. Wilson makes clear in this gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of scholarship & ceremony stripped away, is a fastidious & fervent Jew who will lead his followers into a stricter, purer observance of Judaism. It's Paul who will claim divinity for him, who will transform him into the Messiah, center of an entirely new religion. In Wilson's astute narrative, we see Paul negotiating the dangerous political currents of the Roman Empire, making converts, & writing the great epistles that define our understanding of Christ & of the sublime paradoxes of his teaching. What drove Paul? What would he think of what his church has become? The answers lie in this biography, which lays bare the psychological journey of Christianity's true inventor.

Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Oto opowieść o niezwykłej odwadze i wytrwałości w obliczu jednej z najokrutniejszych wojen w historii świata. Bohater tej wstrząsającej powieści, Valentino Achak Deng, był jednym z tysięcy dzieci zwanych Straconymi Chłopcami, kt�rzy musieli opuścić wioski w Sudanie i przewędrować tysiące mil na własnych nogach. W czasie długiej podr�ży zmagał się on z żołnierzami i rebeliantami, nalotami bombowymi i dzikimi zwierzętami, przemierzając bezkresną pustynię. Kiedy po wieloletnim pobycie w obozach dla uchodźc�w trafił wreszcie do Stan�w Zjednoczonych, czekały na niego nowe wyzwania...

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale Now a major NETFLIX series Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin' Hilary Mantel 'The outstanding novelist of our age' Sunday Times 'A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific...I don't think I have ever been so thrilled' Julie Myerson, Independent on Sunday

Een ambitieuze oudere zakenman in het Amerikaanse Atlanta wordt geconfronteerd met corruptie, racisme en andere problemen die het hem niet makkelijk maken aan de top.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

Ludo's mother, Sibylla, is obsessed with Kurosawa's famous film, "The Seven Samurai" and it plays as a bizarre running backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more than he needs about his mother's shaky past.

Throughout his life Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women; and he appeared equally fascinating to them. But, first and last, Mozart loved and respected women. His mother, his sister, his wife, her sisters, his patrons, his friends, his lovers and his artists all figure prominently in his life. Jane Glover introduces us to Mozart’s mother, Maria Anna and his beloved and talented sister, Nannerl. We meet, too, Mozart’s ‘other family’, the Webers: Constanze, his wife, much maligned by history, and her sisters Aloysia, Sophie and Josepha. This is their story. But it is also the story of the women in his operas, all of whom were – like his sister, his mother, his wife and entire female acquaintance – restrained by the conventions and strictures of eighteenth-century society. Yet through his glorious writing, he identified and released the emotions of his characters. They hold up the mirror to their audiences and offer inestimable insight, together constituting yet further proof of Mozart’s true genius and phenomenal understanding of human nature. Rich, evocative and compellingly readable, Mozart's Women illuminates the music and the man, but above all, the women who inspired him.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review Winner of England’s Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.

A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris delights with twists of humour and intelligence, remembering his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants) his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant) and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered pygmy. By turns hilarious and moving, David Sedaris masterfully looks at life's absurdities as he takes us on adventures that are not to be forgotten.

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

'Immersive, satisfying, tense-and timely' Lee Child 'A knockout of an international thriller' Chris Pavone, author of The Expats 'Whip smart and fraught with tension...Brilliant.' Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl 'Kept me guessing until the very last page. I couldn't tear myself away' Janelle Brown, author of Watch Me Disappear 'A gripping, twisty thriller that asks how well we really know the people closest to us' Alafair Burke, author of The Wife The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead Is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew husband at all. Meanwhile, journalist Marina is investigating Swiss United, the bank where Matthew worked. But when she uncovers evidence of a shocking global financial scandal that implicates someone close to home, she is forced to make an impossible choice.

Powieść uhonorowana National Book Award!Znakomita społeczno-obyczajowa panorama Ameryki ostatniego p�łwiecza.Tragikomiczne arcydzieło o upadku rodziny w pełnych powierzchowności czasach.Po niemal pięćdziesięciu latach w roli żony i matki Enid Lambert chce wreszcie zaznać przyjemności życia. Na nieszczęście jej mąż, Alfred, zmaga się z postępującą demencją, a dzieci, w gruncie rzeczy tr�jka nieszczęśliwych, skł�conych z życiem ludzi, już dawno wyfrunęły z rodzinnego gniazda. Rozpaczliwie poszukując radości i prawdziwego szczęścia, Enid całym sercem pragnie zrealizować jedno marzenie: zebrać rodzinę w domu na ostatnie wsp�lne święta Bożego Narodzenia...

Man Booker Prize for Fiction - 2016 Winner. Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies.

Kurt Andersen's Millennium novel mirrors Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," depicting a year in the life of a New York family while offering a satirical glimpse into America's potential future, focusing on media and big business.

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or be punished. As a small spark of defiance begins to spread among communities, the landlords vow to break them; party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the marketplaces dries up. But it only strengthens the villagers' resistance. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example for the others. An exciting new release from this Chennai-based poet, writer and activist.

'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith **WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020** Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile- love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong. Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*

When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers embarks on a journey through contemporary Zimbabwe in an attempt to better understand his ancestor's devotion to the country and its people and the dramatic, often bloody, differences that echo across the years.

Profoundly intelligent and humane, this novel deserves a spot on many prize shortlists. It brilliantly explores friendship, feminism, and thwarted ambition. Hannah, Cate, and Lissa, once inseparable and vibrant, now grapple with unfulfilled dreams a decade later. Living in East London, their youthful world was filled with art, activism, and romance, but as they confront flailing careers and faltering marriages, they question what it takes to lead a meaningful life. This razor-sharp and heartbreaking narrative delves into the complexities of motherhood, ambition, and identity. Celebrated by critics, it is described as thoughtful, beautifully written, and honest—a sensual read that resonates with many women. With comparisons to the works of Sally Rooney and Dolly Alderton, it stands out as a generation-defining exploration of female camaraderie. Reviewers praise its engaging storytelling and relatable themes, capturing the tension of approaching middle age and the realization that life may not unfold as expected. The novel is an observant look at modern female friendships, making it a must-read for those seeking a profound and intimate literary experience.

Jedna z najgłośniejszych powieści 2018 roku! Sally Rooney, nazywana Salingerem doby Instagrama, w Normalnych ludziach opowiada o trudnej miłości wplątanej w skomplikowane, zhierarchizowane relacje organizujące świat, w którym nastoletni bohaterowie muszą się odnaleźć. Rooney udowadnia, że o miłości nie napisano jeszcze ostatniego słowa. Marianne i Connell żyją tuż obok siebie, choć pochodzą z dwóch różnych światów. Mieszkają w niewielkim mieście, jednym z tych, z których chce się jak najszybciej uciec. Chodzą do tej samej szkoły, ale na korytarzu mijają się bez słowa, unikają swoich spojrzeń, chociaż łączy ich więcej niż wspólne lekcje. Ukrywanie tej znajomości nie jest trudne, komplikacje zaczynają się wtedy, gdy między dwojgiem nastolatków budzi się uczucie. Powieść Normalni ludzie nominowana była do Nagrody Bookera oraz otrzymała Costa Book Award w 2019 r. Ponadto stacja BBC ogłosiła, że historia Connella i Marianne zostanie przeniesiona na mały ekran, a adaptację wyreżyseruje Lenny Abrahamson.

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. 'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master . . . In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art.' Guardian

Includes supplement: "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover.

Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?

Bohaterka bestselleru "Dziennik Bridget Jones" nadal zmaga się z problemami w życiu uczuciowym i zawodowym. Związana w końcu z Markiem Darcym, teraz odkrywa uroki wspólnego życia z mężczyzną marzeń. Bridget, niesłusznie posądzona o przemyt narkotyków,trafia do tajlandzkiego więzienia...

When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known- The Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind- to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free? Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.

Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.

The debut novel from the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. Eighteen years old, as smart as a whip, and irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the ‘stern-men’. As the feud escalates, she helps work the lobster boats, brushes up on her profanity, and eventually falls for a handsome young lobsterman. A funny, sparkling novel of unlikely friendships and family ties, Stern Men captures a feisty American spirit through this unforgettable heroine who is destined for greatness despite herself. Stern Men was a New York Times Notable Book.

Roadnovel over een 18-jarige jongen die samen met een vriend en een vriendin in een auto Amerika doorkruist, op zoek naar zijn onbekende vader.

"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love."--

Richard is a middle-aged divorcee trading stock out of his home in Los Angeles. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world.

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year. `Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.' Jonathan Franzen

A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Set against a backdrop of urgency and transformation, this narrative explores the pivotal moments that define our lives. Characters navigate through intense experiences that challenge their beliefs and relationships, revealing the profound impact of choices made in fleeting moments. Themes of resilience, connection, and self-discovery are woven throughout, inviting readers to reflect on their own life-changing instants. The story is a powerful reminder of how quickly life can shift and the importance of seizing the moment.

In the spring of her final year, Madeleine Hanna has enrolled in a semiotics course 'to see what all the fuss is about'. She falls in love with Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner and college Darwinist - who introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. Then Mitchell Grammaticus resurfaces, and wants her to be his wife.

The Circle ist das weltweit größte Internet Unternehmen – Google, Facebook, Apple und Twitter, alles in einem – und auf dem Weg, ein alles überwachendes Netz zu erschaffen. In dieses Unternehmen steigt die 24jährige Mae ein und lernt nach und nach die Machenschaften ihres Arbeitgebers kennen.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Najbardziej sensacyjna premiera 2018 roku! Biały Dom starał się za wszelką cenę zablokować publikację tej książki, jednak bezskutecznie. Ogień i furia szybko stała się bestsellerem w USA, a prawa do niej wykupują wydawnictwa na całym świecie. Autor, Michael Wolff, przeprowadził ponad dwieście rozmów z pracownikami Białego Domu, członkami administracji i samym Trumpem, co pozwoliło mu zgłębić kulisy tej kontrowersyjnej prezydentury. Książka opowiada fascynującą historię nieprzewidywalnego startu Trumpa w politykę. Czy rzeczywiście nie chciał zostać prezydentem? Czy jego kampania była jedynie marketingowym posunięciem przed uruchomieniem nowej stacji telewizyjnej? Jakie były powody spotkania jego syna z przedstawicielem Kremla? Jak pracownicy Białego Domu postrzegają Trumpa? Co oznaczają jego powiązania z ludźmi Putina? Dlaczego Steve Bannon określa go jako „umysłowo niezdolnego” do rządzenia? Czy Trump może zostać odsunięty od władzy? Książka, która wstrząsnęła Białym Domem, ukazuje sensacyjne kulisy prezydentury Donalda Trumpa, która podzieliła naród amerykański jak nigdy wcześniej.

The White Rock stands, ancient and sacred, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Four people, across four centuries, each navigating ruptures to the world they know, are irresistibly drawn to it. 2020: A British writer travels with her husband to give thanks for the birth of their child. 1969: An American rock star runs from the law in the final act of his self-destruction.1907: A Yoeme girl is torn from her homeland and taken by force to the coast.1775: A Spanish naval officer prepares to set sail to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast.

From the author of 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing', this is a tale of growing up, finding love, and following your path. Join Sophie Applebaum and discover 'the wonder spot'.

In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. "Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent to them by the adult world.