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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
A heartbreaking, triumphant, funny and hopeful story of one girl’s battle with self harm
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Sanna berättelser Sanna berättelser: brott
Varje år luras tusentals flyktingar och migranter ini Italiens undre värld. De hamnar i kläm mellan camorran och nigerianska knarkgäng, och tvingas bli sexslavar, knarkkurirer eller vapensmugglare. I det drabbande reportaget Maffiakusten möter den grävande journalisten Barbie Latza Nadeau de nigerianska kvinnor som…
What do the Greek myths mean to us today?
A love lost in time. An eternity to find it.
The Wang family are hiding a secret – they all have the ability to time travel. When parents Joshua and Lily depart for the past and never return, their children Tommy and Eva are forced to deal with their grief alone. Eva might be trying to find her place in the…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr
Magic, romance, and slumbering gods clash in the start of a riveting fantasy series spanning gangsters’ dens, forgotten temples, and the high seas from the New York Times bestselling author of the Illuminae Files and the Aurora Cycle.
Selly has salt water in her veins. So when her father leaves her high and dry…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr
We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness.
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Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer.
When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds…
THE MUST-READ MODERN CLASSIC ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF BOB MARLEY
’Epic in every sense of the word’ New York Times
Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing.
The reggae superstar survives.
The gunmen are never caught.
Marlon James’ dazzling novel…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr
The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, bestselling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy’s last hope for survival.
Is this the end? What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases and misfits to save the galaxy from…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
The anticipated sequel to the internationally bestselling TikTok sensation The Way I Used To Be.
There was a time, the darkest of times, when Eden thought the only person who could save her was Josh. He was everything that was good in the world – a trusting heart, a loving touch, a kind smile. But he was never…
A Times Crime Club Pick of the Week
When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe
A closed community
Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, completely cut off from the outside world. Until now.
A missing person
A young woman goes missing within the perimeter of the farm compound. Can Tuva talk her…
One of National Book Tokens’ ’23 Books to Read in 2023′
A Times Literary Supplement Summer Book 2023
My name is Morgan… And there aren’t enough words for all that I am.
When King Uther Pendragon murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage, Morgan refuses to be crushed. Trapped…
The story of the people who see beyond the stars…
The collection that established Samanta Schweblin at the forefront of her literary generation, available in English for the first time
There’s no such thing as a former KGB man.
Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had…
In her addictive, bold voice, bestselling author Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.
What’s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Follow Mary Roach as she investigates laser scarecrows, robo-hawks, human-elephant…
’Paul Lynch is peerless’ Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers
An Irish Times ’Book to Look Forward to in 2023’
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturvetenskap och teknik Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Mary has always wanted to win a Nobel Prize and loves running her own science experiments at home.
One day Mary stumbles on a secret meeting of Nobel Prize winners. Dr Barry Marshall agrees to travel with her through time to learn the secrets behind some of the most fascinating and important scientific discoveries.…
*Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize *
* A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022*
* A Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award *
’Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny’ Guardian
Blandine isn’t like the other residents of her building.
An online obituary writer. A young mother with a…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel.
’Remarkable.’ Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES
Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years,…
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty;
Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.’ Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Even Afi doesn’t believe her future holds much excitement. Until one day she is…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
THE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
’After finishing this book, my heart was pounding and I couldn’t find words big enough to describe how brilliant, beautiful, and powerful it is.’ L.E. Flynn, author of All Eyes On Her
All Eden wants is to rewind the clock. To live that day again.…
’Remarkable’ Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters’ Street
The stunning second novel from the author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife
Growing up in the same Ghanaian town, Selasi and Akorfa are more than just cousins – they’re best friends. The girls share everything:…
Dispensing with the patriarchal bullshit, Kirsty Loehr exposes centuries of outrageous straightwashing
No, they weren’t ’just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ’But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
’Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on ’ethical living’ I’ve ever read.’ Oliver Burkeman, Guardian
’A monumental event.’ Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind
’A book of great daring, clarity,…
Gael Foess is a heroine of mythic proportions. Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, she learns from an early age how ideals and ambitions can be compromised. When her father walks out during the 2008 crash, her family falls apart. Determined to build a life-raft for her loved ones, Gael sets off for…
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022
’Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking’ The Times
A killer virus…an all-powerful Empress…an encounter cloaked in secrecy…the astonishing…
’IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT’S PAUL LYNCH’S PROPHET SONG… BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.’ OBSERVER
The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and…
A dazzling feminist coming of age tale from the award-winning author of Kintu
In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, upturning centuries of scholastic presumption and the teachings of the Ancients. We now see this as the beginning of the Scientific Revolution, heralding a new age: disenchanted, sceptical and free from mysticism.
But omens, elixirs and alchemy…
From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ’prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before – literally. Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the night sky. But for all the beauty and wonder of…
Why exactly is the Earth round?
How is it that boomerangs can turn in mid-air?
And why do cats always land on their feet?
From the solar system to spinning tops; hurricanes to hula hoops; powerplants to pendulums, one mysterious force shapes almost every aspect of our lives. A force which, despite its ubiquity,…
In this joyous introduction to the major debates in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on life’s Big Questions. Topics such as gender, morality and the meaning of life are examined here with a razor wit and eye. Open this book (if it actually exists) and meet philosophers…
The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didn’t write a note.
How Not to Kill Yourself is an affirmation of life by someone who has tried to end it multiple times. It’s about standing in your bathroom every morning, gearing yourself up to die. It’s…
THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES
’Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein’s general relativity in such a luminous and straightforward manner.’
Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Immense, strange and…
A captivating debut about defying expectations, hilarious and hopeful in equal measure