Samuel Hedman har alltid varit en läsande man, men aldrig en skrivande. Likväl har han på ålders dagar får för sig att skriva ner sina läsupplevelser, det han minns av dem. Om hans tankar och funderingar under den ovana sysselsättningen berättar Läsande livet.
From the National Book Awardwinning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as a roadmap to my life.
Romantic comedy Maggie Moves On brings fresh humour, adventure, and all the feels to a small-town when a house-flipping Youtube star falls for the local landscaper. Fans of Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren and Talia Hibbert will love this.
A lifetime holding it together.
One party will bring it crashing down.
Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Toget
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880-1949) tillhör en av de stora inom svensk litteratur. Mest känd är han för sin symbolistiska lyrik, men han skrev även en lång rad betydelsefulla essä- och aforismsamlingar. Poetiskt var Ekelund inspirerad av Ola Hansson, som han ansåg vara den mest betydelsefulla poeten i Sverige sedan Erik Johan Stagnelius. 1916 och 1924 tilldelades han Samfundet De Nios Stora Pris. Han till
The start of an addictive New Adult romance series from bestselling author Elle Kennedy, where the only thing more dangerous than the students are the secrets they're keeping.
Layla Dupree has given up on love. She's waded through all the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently, owning the bakery at Inglewild's most romantic destination does not help one's love life-despite Layla's best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check.
Bobber ställde sin konjakskupa på mitt namn och skenet från de levande ljusen på bordet föll genom konjaken så att en gyllene bumerang dansade på ordet Flyktingen. Jag glodde förhäxat på texten i ljusbumerangen.
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing-the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told-from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young womans efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
Our narrator should be happy, shouldnt she? Shes young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an ea
”En flickas födelse är en stor börda för en familj. Föräldrarna måste börja spara till henne från den dag hon föds. Dessutom är det inte lätt att ta hand om henne. Flickor är som porslin. Om de går sönder kan man inte reparera dem och de har inget värde efteråt.”
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a
He was the first Robin—and a replacement Batman. He was a superspy—and a dead man. Now, after going underground and around the world in a battle to reclaim the secret identity that was stolen from him, Dick Grayson is going back to Gotham as his own man, his own hero: Nightwing!
The award-winning author returns with her most powerful and imaginative novel yet. This captivating tale puts an utterly original new spin on dystopian fiction
"Kriget mellan män och kvinnor hade just börjat. Radikalfeminister anföll med strap-ons. Stupstockar ställdes upp i gathörnen. Männen gladdes i sin nya undergivna roll. Allt var ju så nytt och lockande för dem …"
Obscen sanning är iodine Jupiters satirsamling efter Fuck around the clock. Boken kan beskrivas som Jupiters röntgenblick på vår samtid. En värld med sex, makt och Människa AB.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once
A former pop star finds herself back in the spotlight-along with an old flame from her past-in this friends-to-lovers meets enemies-to-lovers story from the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask, the sensational TikTok romance!
Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.
RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?
CLIFF BOOTH -
Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention.