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Krigsveteranen Eddie er en mann som etter at årene har gått, har forandret seg fra å være en optimistisk , ungdommelig mann til en sur og bitter gammel mann. Dagene hans består av arbeidsrutiner, ensomhet og mismodighet. På sin 83-årsdag dør han når han prøver å redde en liten pike fra å slå seg i hjel i fallet fra en berg- og dalbane. I det han trekker sitt siste åndedrag, kjenner han to små hender i sin. Han våkner i det hinsidige, der han erfarer at himmelen ikke er noen Edens hage, men et sted der det jordiske livet blir forklart gjennom fem mennesker han levde samtidig med. En etter en kaster de lys over de usynlige forbindelsene i livet hans mens han levde.

Forfatteren foretar en grundig gjennomgang av uttalelser fra en amerikansk høyreside som i følge forfatteren leverer villedende informasjon til det amerikanske publikum med hjelp fra media. Han retter et kritisk blikk mot den amerikanske høyresidens retorikk, og tar et kraftig oppgjør med påstanden om at media generelt har en liberal vridning. Har kilderegister.

This is the story of Neil Young's life and career, from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield, the bleary conglomeration of Crazy Horse and the monstrous success of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, to the depths of the Tonight's the night depravity and the Geffen years, and Young's nineties comeback. With index.

En ung kvinne blir funnet lemlestet i en leilighet på Broadway. Dagen etter holder vakre Nora Acton på å lide samme skjebne, men kommer seg unna morderen. Hun blir riktignok så sterkt preget av ugjerningen at hun får hukommelsestap. Disse hendelsene skjer på samme tid som Sigmund Freud befinner seg i byen, og sammen med en kollega vil han hjelpe Acton med å få hukommelsen tilbake. Romanen kombinerer fiksjon, fakta og psykologi.

Boka inneholder de seksten novellene Fellesterassen, Svømmelaget, Majestet, Mannen i trappen, Søsteren, Denne personen, Det var romantikk, Noe som ikke trenger noe, Jeg kysser en dør, Gutten fra Lam Kien, Elskov i 2003, Ti sannheter, Bevegelsene, Mon Plaisir, Fødselsmerke og Hvordan man skal fortelle historier for barn.

Five amazing authors. Five unforgettable stories.In this exciting collection of paranormal tales, best-selling authors Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), Kim Harrison (Once Dead, Twice Shy), Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Lauren Myracle (ttyl), and Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty) take prom mishaps to a whole new level--a truly hellish level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper--and he isn't here to tell you how hot you look.From angels fighting demons to a twisted take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux can. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, creepy fun.

Dette er den femte boka om Septimus Heap.

Sugar and spice . . . not everyone's nice.Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new celebrity Jane Roberts has learned a few lessons. Most important: know who to trust. And in Hollywood, that list is short. Determined to get control of her life, Jane swears off boys and all the trouble they bring. But when high school sweetheart Caleb and L.A. crush Braden show up, both acting sweeter than ever, Jane has a hard time remembering her no-boys rule.And for the first time Jane's best friend, Scarlett, has only one guy on her mind: her new boyfriend, Liam. But being on a hit reality show means hanging out with other guys on-camera, and Liam isn't too happy with pretending to play a bit part in her love life.Just when everything feels out of control, Jane makes a discovery that changes everyone's definition of "reality" forever. In television star Lauren Conrad's L.A. Candy series, the drama is pure dishy fun.

Now a major TV series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King, starring James Franco (Hulu US, Fox UK and Europe, Stan Australia, SKY New Zealand).WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpieceUgwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

Kransen skildrer Kristins oppvekst. Hun ble som barn trolovet med sønnen på nabogården, men trasser seg til ekteskap med Erlend som hun venter barn med. Dette fører til konflikt med både familie, slekt og kirke. I Husfrue er Kristin blitt mor og husfrue, men livet med Erlend blir ikke slik hun hadde ventet. Vi følger henne gjennom det vanskelige samlivet og på den tunge botsgangen til Nidaros. Korset handler om Kristin som gammel og sliten blir tatt opp som leksøster i et kloster. Endelig får hun fred med seg selv og med Gud.

Gregs far kommer stadig med forslag om maskuline aktiviteter som skal gjøre Greg til et skikkelig mannfolk. Greg tar det ikke så alvorlig før han skjønner at faren har tenkt å melde ham inn på en militærskole,

Dette er George Orwells klassiske fabel om et diktaturs vekst. Boken handler om en gruppe dyr på en gård som har sett seg lei på bonden, som styrer tyrannisk. De lager sitt eget samfunn ledet av grisene, og de former et diktatur som er verre en det de hadde under menneskelig ledelse.

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBO AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

The gripping debut novel from the author of FIERCE KINGDOM, and a story about the power of the human spirit to give comfort in times of hardship.In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches from the darkness of her back porch as a strange woman lifts the cover off the family well and tosses a baby in without a word.It is the height of the Depression; while Tess's father, Albert, performs backbreaking and dangerous work at the mine, her mother, Leta, makes do without meat on her table. But the family are luckier than most; the food they can grow on their plot of land has so far saved them from the crippling poverty and near-starvation that besets their neighbours. As Tess tries to unravel the mystery of the woman at the well, a portrait emerges of a family and a community struggling to survive the darkest of times. Resonant, vivid and clear-eyed in its portrayal of both the best and the worst of human nature, The Well and the Mine is a stunning novel about love, hope and the importance of doing the right thing.

17 år gamle Mia må ta et vanskelig valg. Skal hun virkelig tørre å satse på musikken - selv om det betyr at hun må reise fra kjæresten, familien og vennene? I løpet av ett skjebnesvangert øyeblikk er valgmulighetene borte. De forsvinner idet bilen Mia og familien hennes sitter i kolliderer. Bare ett valg gjenstår. Det viktigste av dem alle. Dette er den første boka om Mia og Adam.

The book contains fourteen stories about women that are oppressed but not defeated. The stories are about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery; the perils of pornography, abortion, and rape; the delight of new lovers; and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.

In this compilation of the author's earlier poetry, she offers a historical perspective on the political and spiritual issues spanning three decades of injustice, perseverance, and hope. Revelatory introductions to each group of poems.