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Ei jente sit på ein sofa, ho veit ikkje kva ho skal finne på. Ho kranglar med mora og er sjalu på den eldre søstra. Ho lengtar også etter den fraverande faren, ein sjømann.

Every tale in this engrossing collection bears the unmistakable mark of the genius who inspired it--the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, H. P. Lovecraft. For Lovecraft not only revised the stories of his fellow adventurers in the haunting and haunted worlds of legend and lore, he more often entirely rewrote them or collaborated extensively in their creation. As in all of Lovecraft's fiction, then, these startlingly original tales explore the farthest reaches of the imagination, the cosmic realms of myth and mystery, and unutterable terrors in arcane domains as they lure the reader out of a familiar but precarious everyday reality.

Jefferson, en ung sort mann, er tiltalt for drap og får dødsstraff. Han er uskyldig, men blir satt inn for å vente på den elektriske stolen. Hans gudmor gir Grant Higgins i oppdrag å overbevise Jefferson om at han er en mann og ikke et svin; et ord som ble brukt under rettssaken. Hun ønsker at Jefferson skal dø med verdighet. Grant er lærer, og det er han som forteller historien om hva som skjer med menneskene i denne lille byen og ikke minst hvordan Jefferson selv tar det. Byen står stille den fredagen mellom klokken 12 og 15 når henrettelsen finner sted.

Jamilet er usedvanlig vakker, men under klærne skjuler hun et grotesk fødselsmerke. Med håp om å bli som alle andre flykter hun fra Mexico til USA. Hun får som jobb å ta seg av gamle Señor Peregrino, og når han forteller om sin pilegrimsvandring til Santiago de Compostella, forandres alt. Historien om Jamilet fortsetter i La Peregrina.

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author ofThe Great Gatsby In the title story of this collection by one of America s greatest writers, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this Lost Generation been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial New York Times bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind of love we all hope will be everlasting. UNTIL THE END OF TIMEBill, a dedicated young lawyer working at his family's prestigious New York firm, leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream and become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his wife, is a stylist whose heart and soul are invested in fashion. She leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hardworking independent book publisher in Manhattan who has given up all personal life to build his struggling business. He is looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman, living as though in the seventeenth century, caring for her widowed father and three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night, by candlelight, she has written the novel that burns within her, and gets it into Robert's hands, wrapped in her hand-stitched apron. He falls in love first with the book, and then with the woman he has never met, living in the sequestered world of the Amish-a world without telephones, computers, electricity, modern conveniences, or cars. Although Lillibet faces banishment from her family and community, she embraces the opportunity to publish her novel, and is irresistibly drawn to the man who has heard her voice. Destiny is at work here. Fate draws her from her horse-and-buggy life toward his, and the publication of her novel.In the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel, these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again. If it is true that real love lasts forever and lovers cannot lose each other, then Until the End of Time will not only comfort and fascinate us, as destiny does her dance, but it will give us hope as well. Love and fate are powerful, irresistible forces, as Steel proves to us here, in a book about courage, change, risk, and hope . . . and love that never dies.

At the end of "Shadow of the Giant", Bean flees to the stars with three of his children - who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come. For there in space lies a derelict Formic colony ship, and aboard it, they will find both death and wonders.

In this look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani dispels the idea of "good" (secular, westernized) and "bad" (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities. This book argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly). "We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself."--Salman Rushdie, editor The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER - ALLEGRA GOODMAN - A. M. HOMES - NICOLE KRAUSS - JONATHAN LETHEM - STEVEN MILLHAUSER - DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN - ALICE MUNRO - GEORGE SAUNDERS - TOBIAS WOLFF - and others

Deceptively simple and suspiciously addictive, "Not Quite What I Was Planning: And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure" is a thousand little glimpses at humanity - six words at a time. In 2006, "SMITH" Magazine decided to give people the opportunity to answer a Hemingway inspired challenge: What would a six-word memoir look like? Within weeks, submissions were coming in by the thousands and this book is the fruit of this amazing response. Famous contributors range from Joan Rivers to Dave Eggers, Mario Batali to Jonathan Lethem, Deepak Chopra to Moby. Most of the contributions, however, came from amateur writers. Examples; From Aimee Mann: 'Couldn't cope so I wrote songs.'; From Joyce Carol Oates: 'Revenge is living well, without you.'; From Joan Rivers: 'Liars, hysterectomy didn't improve sex life!'; And from unknown writers we have: Never really finished anything, except cake.Found true love, married someone else; Study mathematics. Marry slut. Sum bad; Caring for parents. Life is circular. This title presents a glorious mishmash of these and myriad other voices. It's a thousand little windows into humanity-six words at a time. Whether the results are shocking, strange, silly, or sad, they are always entertaining, often inspiring, and totally addictive.

Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her mother, an alcoholic, shows up at her voice recital drunk, Dana decides she's had it with playing the role of her mother's keeper, so she packs her bags and travels to see her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the magical world of Faerie intersect. Dana is a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds. She has always known that her father is a big-deal Fae, but what she doesn't realize is that she could be the key to his rise in power. When she arrives in Avalon, Dana finds herself a pawn in the game of magical politics. Avalon is a place where both magic and technology work, and humans and Fae coexist in something resembling peace. How can she change the winds of fate, find a boyfriend, and make new friends when she's not sure who, if anyone, can be trusted?

Raheen and her best friend Karim are raised together from birth. They share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi with parents who are also best friends. But when Karim's family migrates from Pakistan to London, distance and adolescence split the young friends apart. Karim takes refuge in the rationality of maps while Racheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. She uncovers a story not just of a family's turbulent history but that of a country - and finds herself poised between strained friendship and fated love with Karim.

In all that was left of humanity there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He, Equality 7-2521, would place his life in jeopardy. For his knowledge was regarded as a treacherous blasphemy. He had rediscovered the lost and holy word..."I".

This title brings together some prominent authorities on globalization (including Susan George, David Korten and Naomi Klein), who take a hard-hitting look at the myths and reality behind this phenomenon and show us how we can all fight it.The book deals with a diverse range of the issues surrounding globalization, including human rights, the environment, international trade and finance, health, the food we eat and the clothes we wear. Ultimately, it is a call to action, showing how each and every one of us can take on the corporate giants and make a real difference.

As sophomores at Ocean High, Winter and her best friend, Sloane, make a pact to do whatever it takes to make it to the top of the social pyramid. But once Sloane gets a taste of what it's like to fit in with the cool girls, she all but slams that door in Winter's face. Left without her best-friend-since-forever, Winter decides to take revenge the good old fashioned way: By airing Sloane's dirty secrets on an anonymous blog. But is her retaliation worth the consequences? And is the price for popularity one that Winter is willing to pay? Alyson Noel once again navigates the tricky waters of the high school social scene with the heart and humour her readers have come to love.

For over twenty years, "The Years Best Science Fiction" has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005, the original "Best of the Best" collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors, who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series. With such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Swanwick, Joe Haldeman, Frederick Pohl, Greg Egan, Robert Silverberg, Alastair Reynolds, and many more, the "Best of the Best Volume 2" will be the most significant science fiction short novel anthology ever published.

Forfatteren forteller om hvordan han på 1990-tallet på dagtid jobbet i et reklamebyrå mens han på kveldstid jobbet som drag-queen, samtidig som han forsøkte å etablere et stabilt og kjærlig parforhold.

Coy is a suspended sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tánger uses her considerable skills with men and her expertise with atlases and nautical maps to search for the ship's lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn in to her search and finds himself falling in love as they search their fortune together - or do they?

En hacker trenger inn i Vatikanets datasystem og planter en foruroligende beskjed. I all hast sender Vatikanets etterretningstjeneste sin beste mann til Sevilla for å oppklare to mystiske dødsfall i den kirka hackeren nevner og for å avsløre hackerens identitet. Den lokale presten nekter imidlertid å samarbeide, og noen har hyret en forbrytertrio til å forkludre saka for alle som har befatning med den.

This book tells the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. From sex and music to fashion and commerce, the author tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. The book examines how hip has helped shape - and continues to influence - America's view of itself, and provides an incisive account of hip's quest for authenticity.

I juni 1994 dro Alvah Simon og hans kone Diana avgårde i seilbåten sin for å utforske områdene nord for polarsirkelen. Fire måneder senere fører uventede hendelser til at Simon blir fanget alene i isen når båten fryser fast langt fra nærmeste bebodde sted. Med bare en katt til selskap, klarer Simon å komme seg gjennom måneder med ensomhet, plutselig blindhet og private demoner.

Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single political parties, persist in repressing and brutalizing their citizens without ever attracting anything like Saddam's or Kim Jong-il's level of international attention.In this fascinating, eye-opening read, New York Times bestselling author David Wallechinsky offers in-depth portraits of each of the twenty worst dictators -- and the governments they head -- currently in power: exposing their crimes, and revealing their strange personalities and mysterious backgrounds. Tyrants also reveals the extent that foreign corporations and governments support these tyrants despite their policies.Timely and provocative, crafted with the popular touch that has made Wallechinsky a bestselling author, Tyrants will awaken you to the criminal regimes of the present -- and pose challenging questions about America's role in curbing (or promoting) their power in the future.The Tyrant Hall of Shame includes:Kim Jong-il/North KoreaHu Jintao/ChinaSeyed Ali Khamenei/IranKing Abdullah/Saudi Arabia Muammar al-Qaddafi/LibyaOmar al-Bashir/SudanIslam Karimov/UzbekistanSaparmurat Niyazov/Turkmenistan Fidel Castro/Cuba

Patty Taylor spiller i et band, og forsørge sin to år gamle sønn, Willie. En dag dukker faren til Willie opp. Han soner en lang dom, men er blitt løslatt på prøve. Nå kommer han for å kreve Patty og sønnen tilbake, selv om hun for lengst har brutt med ham. Dermed har det Patty fryktet mest av alt skjedd. Fortiden har innhentet henne.

Boken består av 4 noveller: Bestemødrene, Victoria og familien Staveney, Grunnen til det, og Et kjærlighetsbarn. Den første handler om to bestemødre som forelsker seg i hverandres unge sønner. I den andre fortellingen får en mørkhudet kvinne et barn med sønnen i en liberal middelklassefamilie. Den lille datteren hennes blir gradvis oppslukt av den hvite familiens livsførsel. I den tredje handler det om en eldgammel kultur som oppstår, blomstrer og faller sammen. I den siste fortellingen møter vi en soldat som under den andre verdenskrigen, blir forelsket i løpet av en lang sjøreise til India.

A magical mixture of East meets West, mothers in conflict with daughters, and the healing power of food. 'Maybe there are one hundred shades for explaining truth, a spectrum from light to dark, depending on the vulnerability of those who have to hear it. Things are not always clear cut, they are not either black or white, life just isn't like that.' Nalini and her two young children are transplanted from luxury in India to the bewildering confusion of London, only to be abandoned by her negligent husband. At first survival is a struggle, but Nalini turns to what she does best: cooking. Her mouthwatering pickles bring financial stability and domestic happiness, as well as affecting everyone who tastes them. Everyone, that is, except for her daughter, Maya. Maya loves fish fingers, burgers and chips. She's not interested in her history; that died with her father. Resisting the pull of her family, she follows her own chaotic journey which will take her back to India before she can face the truth about her parents, forgive them and herself - and admit that lime pickle is delicious, after all.

This book journeys across America to explore the storied generation of new blues musicians: the biological and spiritual children fathered and mentored by the masters of the blues. Stoking the '60s blues revival, and standing at the vanguard of the next evolution, these young players walked through the doors opened by their fathers-and have kept them open, strengthening a timeless art form. This book tells their unique stories, so you can listen to the elders on the same front porches, sit at the same kitchen tables, ride in the same vans, and stand on the same smoky stages as some of the blues greats. With index and discography.

Boken forteller om den amerikanske jazz-musikeren Louis Armstrongs liv og virke.

Boka inneholder over 100 minneverdige uttalelser av USAs 43. president, George W. Bush.

Gjennom anekdoter, biografier og fotografier portretterer boka innovatører innen afro-cubansk jazz. Boka inneholder også vurderinger av innspillinger og essays som tar for seg sjangerens historie. Har register.

Romanen ser det tjuende århundret gjennom øynene til en kvinne som blir like mye en del av vår historie, som av den meksikanske historien hun observerer og er med på å skape. Laura Díaz blir født i 1898, og blir gift, får barn, er mektige menns elskerinne, og før hun dør i 1972 blir hun hedret som en politisk engasjert kunstner. Hun lever et lykkelig liv til tross for de tragedier og tap hun opplever.