Gerda Baardman Książki

It is impossible to look away from it Guardian

The narrative delves into the pivotal role of Paul in shaping Christianity, emphasizing that without him, Jesus remains a devoted Jew focused on strict observance of Judaism. A. N. Wilson explores Paul's journey through the Roman Empire, highlighting his efforts to convert others and craft influential epistles that define Christian understanding. The biography examines Paul's motivations and the complexities of his character, questioning what he would think of the religion that emerged from his teachings. This insightful exploration reveals Paul as Christianity's true architect.

Het leven van een excentrieke, neurotische postbode in een klein Amerikaans stadje.

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

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.

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.

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.

Sześć tysięcy gotówką to druga część trylogii Underworld USA obnażającej mroczne oblicze Stanów Zjednoczonych lat 60. „Świetna lektura… Ta książka to testosteron w najczystszej postaci”. – The Plain Dealer „Wspaniała, a zarazem straszna książka, o wspaniałym i zarazem strasznym czasie w historii Stanów Zjednoczonych”. – The Village Voice „Jazda bez trzymanki… Amerykańska polityka zacieśniająca więzy ze spiskiem i zbrodnią. Temat tak twardy do zgryzienia, że łatwo połamać na nim zęby”. – The New York Times Book Review „Spod ręki Ellroya wychodzą zdania drapieżne, jakby pisał je furiat miotany gorączką i krótkie niczym błysk flesza aparatu fotograficznego.” – Gazeta Wyborcza 22 listopada 1963 roku. Zaledwie kilka godzin po zamachu na Johna F. Kennedy’ego w Dallas spotyka się trzech mężczyzn: Wayne Tedrow Jr. ? młody i prawy policjant z Las Vegas, Ward J. Littell ? zdeprawowany agent FBI oraz Pete Bondurant ? specjalista od szantażu i brudnej roboty. Mają przed sobą jedno zadanie – posprzątać bałagan po zamachu na 53. prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych. Taki początek nie zwiastuje niczego dobrego. Przez kolejne pięć lat cała trójka będzie musiała zagłębić się nie tylko w sprawę morderstwa Kennedy’ego. Wszyscy zostaną wplątani w inne, równie nieprzyjemne kwestie: przejęcie Las Vegas przez Howarda Hughesa, wojna Hoovera przeciwko ruchowi praw obywatelskich, handel heroiną w Wietnamie a także zamach na Martina Luthera Kinga.

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.

Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. This biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). It examines his relationships with his artists.

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.

'This book ranks alongside PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA as one of the very few great contemporary novels about childhood' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'Everything was going to be different this year' - Tess is nine years old and wants her new family to work out, even though her brother Jake is not so sure. THE WILD is a brilliant, clear-eyed evocation of the collision of families and step families, adult and childhood worlds.

'Byatt has contrived a masterly ending to a fine work; intelligent, ingenious and humane, Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s' Times Literary Supplement

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...

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and a race trial that leads him to the Supreme Court, this novel showcases a comic genius at the height of his craft. It challenges the core principles of the U.S. Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, father-son dynamics, and the quest for racial equality—embodied in the black Chinese restaurant. The narrator, raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens on the outskirts of Los Angeles, resigns himself to a life of lower-middle-class stagnation, reflecting on the cracks in his childhood bedroom ceiling. His upbringing under a single father, a controversial sociologist, subjects him to racially charged psychological studies, leading him to believe his father's work will culminate in a memoir that could solve their financial struggles. However, after his father's death in a police shoot-out, he discovers the memoir never existed, leaving him with only a bill for a drive-thru funeral. Driven by this betrayal and the decay of his hometown, he embarks on a mission to restore Dickens, which has been erased from the map. Teaming up with the town's most famous resident, the last surviving Little Rascal, he undertakes the outrageous act of reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, ultimately landing him in the Supreme Court.

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.

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEEimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour.

"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."--

Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.

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.

This novel features a woman who embarks on a transformative journey, challenging societal norms and expectations. With a blend of humor and tenderness, it explores themes of self-discovery and reinvention. The narrative is marked by the author's signature irreverent style, promising both laughter and poignant moments as the protagonist navigates her new path. Expect a compelling mix of wit and emotional depth in this literary work.

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.

Gdy Mae Holland zostaje zatrudniona w najpotężniejszej na świecie firmie internetowej, Circle, czuje, że otrzymała życiową szansę. Kobieta jest zafascynowana nowoczesnością i rozmachem, z jakim działa firma, otwartymi przestrzeniami biurowymi, przytulnymi sypialniami dla pracownik�w spędzających noce w pracy, licznymi atrakcjami, całonocnymi imprezami, zajęciami sportowymi, nawet akwarium z egzotycznymi rybami. Mae zdaje się nie dostrzegać zagrożenia nawet wtedy, gdy życie poza firmowym campusem staje się coraz bardziej odległe, a jej rola w Circle ewoluuje w niepokojący spos�b.To, co zaczyna się jako urzekająca historia o ambicjach i idealizmie młodej kobiety, szybko staje się przyprawiającą o dreszcze powieścią, poruszającą kwestie pamięci, historii, prywatności, demokracji oraz granic ludzkiej wiedzy.

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.

Meet Sophie Applebaum - as enchanting a heroine as Jane in The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sophie is an outsider and an inventor of rules, simply because she does not fit into any neat description of who she might be- she's Jewish, but lacks religious feeling; a book-lover but a mediocre student; a loyal friend often unpleasantly surprised and a less-than-devoted employee. She falls in love precipitously but isn't sure whom she should marry - or if she wants to marry at all despite all the family pressures and social clamour on this subject. We follow her to school, through college, to her first job with terrible typing skills, through to the realisation that work isn't fulfilment, that your parents aren't quite what you thought and that Mr. Right is sometimes only all right . . . Readers who loved The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishingwon't be disappointed; this is a sparkling, heartfelt, deeply explorative book characterized, as always, by Melissa Bank's light touch, signature humour, and her vast talent for capturing a moment.

A lush, thrilling debut about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge... This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, she's come to New York to escape the provincial, to take on her destiny. After she stumbles into a coveted job at a renowned Union Square restaurant, we spend the year with her as she learns the chaotic, punishing, privileged life of a backwaiter, on and off duty. Her appetites are awakened, for food, wine, knowledge and experience; and she's pulled into the thrall of two other servers--a handsome bartender she falls hard for, and an older woman whose connection to both young lovers is murky, sensual, and overpowering. These two will prove to be Tess's hardest lesson of all. Sweetbitter is a story about discovery, enchantment, and the power of what remains after disillusionment. *AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A USA TODAY BESTSELLER | AN INDIE BESTSELLER*

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.