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’Sad, funny, clever, engrossing; this is a wonderful debut.’ – Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13
’A dark, twisting, dismantling work . . . I’ve never read anything like it’ – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
’Dazzling, formally subversive, brimming with…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Andlighet och religiös erfarenhet Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Religion och tro
The question of whether there is to be a new world teacher for the Aquarian Age and who he or she will be has fascinated people for over a hundred years. Will the teacher manifest as a human being? Will they be a teacher to be found in our own hearts? What will be their message? Will their coming be accompanied by…
Since their inception with New York’s Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world’s fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays and futuristic architectural, landscaping and…
Hey, you. Are you debating whether to destroy something with your bare hands or curl up on the couch for a decade or two?
This book will solve all of your problems. (Sheesh, that’s aiming a bit high.)
This book is a cup of hot coffee, a ginormous bar of chocolate, or the magical fairy that comes over and does…
Most couples enter marriage hoping it will last forever – so why are more and more relationships failing? As Dr. B. Janet Hibbs explains, the key to solving most relationship problems – whether relating to money, children, chores, sex or in-laws – is through a shared sense of fairness. Intuitively, we…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: bollsport Barn och ungdom: bollsport: fotboll Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barn och ungdom: sport och friluftsaktiviteter Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: sportberättelser
Fotbollstvillingarna Kim och Konrad älskar att spela fotboll. Men ibland är det frustrerande, speciellt när någon filmar och domaren dömer fel. På träningarna pratar Kvarnbacka Kickers om fair play och att domarens ord alltid gäller. Men i laget tycker spelarna olika, och när Konrad får lägga en feldömd straff blir det…
One of the most anticipated novels of the year – the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . . The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that…
Was the greatest love story of all time a lie? Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family’s masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo’s attentions but with her father…
An emotional and heart-warming novel from the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Pack up the Moon.
’A raw and genuine look at motherhood, A Little Ray of Sunshine is a lovely ode to love in all of its many forms, family lost and found’ Ashley Poston, author of The Dead Romantics
A kid walks into your…
’Exuberantly entertaining’ NYT Book Review’Mark Braude’s writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.’ Jim Jarmusch’A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented…
Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin – Kiki de Montparnasse – was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a ground-breaking nightclub performer, wrote a bestselling memoir, sold out exhibitions of her paintings, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim,…
’Riveting’ Patti Smith’Vivid’ Sunday Times’Heartfelt’ Washington Post’Wild’ MetroActor William Harding has been caught cheating on his rock star wife and the press have descended upon him. He must examine himself, and who he has become, under the brightest of lights and…
What could be more American than the country fair? For more than 250 years, local fairs have been a symbol of grassroots America. They’re a place to show pride in the homegrown and handmade, connect with neighbors and friends, and compete for the best draft horses and dairy cows, pumpkins, and cherry pie.…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875–1912) came of age in the fading years of a gilded era, determined to have more than the life of a farmer’s wife. Beautiful, intelligent, and forever seeking the next adventure when her life ended tragically at age thirty-seven, this extraordinary…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Nostalgia and grandeur combine in this pictorial tribute to two great events that eased the hardships of the Depression Era-the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and the 1939 New York World’s Fair. These two great fairs gave visitors an opportunity to forget the hard times of the ’30s and enjoy the myriad of…
Over 150 lines of solid-colored dinnerware were produced in the United States from 1930 to 2000. This book focuses on the most popular lines from four major and five minor companies. Homer Laughlin’s Fiesta; Taylor, Smith and Taylor; Knowles’s Lu-Ray; and Mr. Clemens lines led in popularity. Behind them…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Amid the turmoil of the 1960s, the 1964-65 NY World’s Fair was a welcomed break that gave a glimpse into the upcoming high-tech age. It was here that visitors would see such things as touch tone phones, picturephones, animatronics & computers for the first time. During the Fair’s 2-year run, thousands…
Kategorier: Hantverk och handarbete Livsstil, hobby och fritid Sömnad och handarbete Stickning Stickning och virkning
”Ett projekt skrivet med kärlek. Författaren har lång erfarenhet och spetskompetens när det kommer till Fair Isle-stickning i boken finns, såklart, stickmönster men det är minst lika mycket tyngd på berättelsen om hantverken, historiken bakom och teknikerna som används. Denna bok är en fullträff för den som vill…
’Ethan Hawke is a true writer and his duality as an artist is skilfully reflected in A Bright Ray of Darkness. Hawke circles, descends, and crawls into his characters skin. Grimy shadows pass over the footlights, into the bowels of the theatre, where a struggling actor, perhaps mirroring the writer, seeks the…
The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak–a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes.
A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of…
HOW DO YOU FIND A KILLER WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? ’AS EXCITING AS ANYTHING CONNELLY HAS WRITTEN’ THE TIMES* * * * *Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he’s never been accused of being one himself. Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero.
The next thing…
Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he's a suspect in her murder. Maybe it's because he doesn't like being accused of a crime he didn't commit. Or maybe it's because the method of her murder is so chilling that he…
Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two Maureens (Orth and Dowd) on two Tinas (Turner and Fey). Vanity Fair's Women on Women features a selection of the best profiles, essays, and columns on female subjects…
Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates – against the warnings of the police and his own editor…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
The first half of Chris Hughes’ life followed the perfect arc of the American Dream. He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on a scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The structure of contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral Global South to core Northern countries, limiting the developmental potential of the South but enhancing that of the North. This argument is the basis of the theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) and the…
Man Ray är en av 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla konstnärer som kom att spela en avgörande roll både i DADA-rörelsen och i surrealismen. I boken finns de klassiska svartvita fotografierna samt de berömda objekten, men presenterar samtidigt en bredare och djupare bild av Man Ray med måleri, film, grafik och teckning.…