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November Road : A Novel

Af Lou Berney (2018)

Summary: "When people say they want to read a really good novel, the kind you just can't put down, this is the kind of book they mean. Exceptional." —STEPHEN KING NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly Washington Post AARP Newsweek Dallas Morning News South Florida Sun-Sentinel Chicago Public Library Real Book Spy CrimeReads Litreactor Library Journal LitHub Booklist Winner of the Hammett Prize, the Left Coast Crime "Lefty" Award for Best Mystery Novel, and the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Fiction Novel! Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America—a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone. Frank Guidry's luck has finally run out. A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable. But now it's his turn—he knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up dead, and Guidry suspects he's next: he was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. With few good options, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas, to see an old associate—a dangerous man who hates Marcello enough to help Guidry vanish. Guidry knows that the first rule of running is "don't stop," but when he sees a beautiful housewife on the side of the road with a broken-down car, two little daughters and a dog in the back seat, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks from the hit men on his tail. Posing as an insurance man, Guidry offers to help Charlotte reach her destination, California. If she accompanies him to Vegas, he can help her get a new car. For her, it's more than a car— it's an escape. She's on the run too, from a stifling existence in small-town Oklahoma and a kindly husband who's a hopeless drunk. It's an American story: two strangers meet to share the open road west, a dream, a hope—and find each other on the way. Charlotte sees that he's strong and kind; Guidry discovers that she's smart and funny. He learns that's she determined to give herself and her kids a new life; she can't know that he's desperate to leave his old one behind. Another rule—fugitives shouldn't fall in love, especially with each other. A road isn't just a road, it's a trail, and Guidry's ruthless and relentless hunters are closing in on him. But now Guidry doesn't want to just survive, he wants to really live, maybe for the first time. Everyone's expendable, or they should be, but now Guidry just can't throw away the woman he's come to love. And it might get them both killed. This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Lou Berney about November Road
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Dracula

Af Bram Stoker (2018)

Gyserklassikeren over dem alle. Den udøde grev Dracula drager fra sit slot i Karpaterne til London for at mætte sin blodtørst.

Dracula er en rædselsvækkende historie af Bram Stoker. Advokaten Jonathan Harker rejser fra London til Transsylvanien, for at assistere Grev Dracula med opkøb af en ejendom i London. Snart opdager Jonathan dog, at han reelt holdes fanget af Greven, som aldrig ses om dagen, og har et noget aparte udseende. Da Grev Dracula ankommer til England forårsager han Lucys død, som er Jonathans forlovedes bedste veninde. Dermed er enderne bundet sammen, og forfølgelsen af Dracula kan tage sin begyndelse. For som det viser sig, er Lucy slet ikke død, faktisk er hun u-død, og tager børn om natten.

Bram Stokers fortælling om Dracula tager sit udgangspunkt i Transsylvanien, hvor den unge advokat Jonathan Harker er tilkaldt af Grev Dracula, for at hjælpe denne i forbindelse med køb af en ejendom i London. Og selv om Grev Dracula tilsyneladende er hjælpsom, undgår det ikke Jonathans opmærksomhed, at han ser lidt anderledes ud med hans ekstremt lyse hud, lange, spidse hvide tænder. Jonathan undslipper og kommer via sin forlovede tilfældigt i forbindelse med andre, som netop er ved at indlede jagten på Dracula. Men Grev Dracula har forladt Transsylvanien og fundet vej til Londons travle menneskehav. Sammen planlægger de forfølgelsen af den onde Greve – en jagt der fører dem fra London tilbage mod Transsylvanien i et kapløb mellem alt det gode og den rædselsfulde ondskab i form af Dracula. Dracula er filmatiseret flere gange. Det er herfra mange har opfattelsen af, at den måneskinslyse nat bringer uhygge med sig, at spidse hjørnetænder og flammende øjne er ondskaben selv ofte i form af flagermus eller ulve. Denne version af Bram Stokers mesterværk Dracula er oversat og redigeret af Victoria Jensen.

"Dracula" is the most popular and widely acclaimed horror novel by Bram Stoker. He introduced the famous vampire, who in turn changed the literary and cultural world forever. Following the attempts of the Count to settle in England, where he expects to find fresh blood and new followers, the novel presents the battle between the forces of good, led by professor Van Helsing, and evil, led by the undead fiend. It is a dark and haunting novel that explores themes of life versus death, and between the light and the dark. It a classic and terrifying read. The Bram Stoker novel has been adapted several times to the stage and to the screen, the most famous adaptation being the 1992 movie by Francis Ford Coppola, which won three Oscars, and which stared Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish writer, best known for his Gothic horror "Dracula", whose eponymous character became one of the most popular vampires in popular culture. Stoker's interest in the theatre made him Brough him into the inner circle of London’s high society, where he met and became a close acquaintance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Among his other novels are "The Mystery of the Sea" and "The Jewel of the Seven Stars", as well as three short story collections and various non-fiction pieces and articles.

El abogado inglés Jonathan Harker se despide de su prometida Mina para realizar un viaje de negocios a Transilvania, donde vive el Conde Drácula. Nunca imaginó que quedaría atrapado en el remoto Castillo a merced de extrañas criaturas que lo llevarán a la locura. Mientras que Mina espera su regreso en casa de su bella amiga Lucy, llega un barco a Londres procedente del Bósforo con un extraño pasajero, El Conde Drácula. De pronto la pobre Lucy comienza a sufrir una extraña enfermedad, en su cuello han aparecido dos extraños orificios que intrigan al doctor Seward, quien pide consejo al afamado doctor Abraham Van Helsing.
Con la historia de Drácula, el conde transilvano, Bram Stoker estableció muchas convenciones de del género de vampiros; con el vampirismo retratado como una enfermedad sobrenatural, con insinuaciones eróticas y fuerte contrastes con la moda victoriana. Así, la novela de "Drácula" sigue siendo una historia de terror clásica. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) fue un escritor irlandés. Su obra principal Drácula se considera una de las obras más significativas del género de terror.

Advokaten Jonathan Harker rejser til Trans sylvanien for at møde en kunde, men det er alt andet end en almindelig forretningsrejse, der venter ham. Som gæst og fange hos den uhyggelige grev Dracula bliver Jonathan fanget i en frygtindgydende verden fyldt med ældgammel ondskab. Tilbage i England er Jonathans kone, Mina, bekymret for sin veninde Lucy, der på mystisk vis er blevet syg, og som bliver svagere for hver dag, der går. Kan kærlighed, mod og godhed sejre over den ondskabsfulde vampyr? Dracula er en del af Letlæste klassikere som er en ny serie med nogle af verdenshistoriens mest velkendte fortællinger. Historien er genfortalt af Chaz Brenchley og henvender sig især til læsere på 8-12 år. De eventyrlige og stemningsfulde illustrationer er medvirkende til at give historierne nyt liv. Bøgerne kan både bruges til frilæsning eller som en del af et undervisningsforløb i dansk på mellemtrinnet. Letlæste klassikere har genfortalt nogle af verdenshistoriens mest kendte klassikere for at gøre indholdet mere tilgængeligt. Hensigten er at formidle dele af en rig kulturskat, vække læseglæde og give lyst til at læse mere.

Il giovane avvocato Jonathan Harker, recatosi in Transilvania per curare l'acquisto di un immobile a Londra da parte del Conte Dracula, trova da subito una realtà locale fatta di paura e superstizione: le leggende e le dicerie tramandate dalle persone del luogo gli intimano di tenersi ben lontani dal Conte, ma Harker decide di non ascoltarle.
Ispirato alla figura di Vlad III, principe di Valacchia, "Dracula" è uno degli ultimi esempi di romanzi gotici della fine del Novecento che ha un pregio sopra tutti: quello di riprendere il mito del vampiro aristocratico, cupo e fascinoso, e di trasformarlo nel personaggio iconico che tutti oggi conosciamo. Abraham Stoker, conosciuto come Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912), è stato uno scrittore irlandese divenuto celebre nel panorama letterario internazionale come autore di "Dracula" (1897), fra i più conosciuti romanzi gotici del terrore. Oltre al ruolo di scrittore, Stoker era conosciuto per essere l'assistente personale dell'attore Henry Irving e il direttore economico del Lyceum Theatre di Londra, di proprietà dello stesso Irving. Questa inaspettata collaborazione fu tuttavia molto fortunata per Stoker, dal momento che grazie a Irving conobbe personalità di spicco come il pittore James Abbott McNeill Whistler e il rinomato scrittore Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Carla Hall's Soul Food

Af Carla Hall (2018)

Summary: Beloved TV chef (ABC's Emmy Award-winning The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo's Top Chef), Carla Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin' look at America's favorite comfort cuisine. In Carla Hall's Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin' look at America's favorite comfort cuisine and traces soul food's history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South. Carla shows us that soul food is more than barbecue and mac and cheese. Traditionally a plant-based cuisine, everyday soul food is full of veggie goodness that's just as delicious as cornbread and fried chicken. From Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette to Tomato Pie with Garlic Bread Crust, the recipes in Carla Hall's Soul Food deliver her distinctive Southern flavors using farm-fresh ingredients. The results are light, healthy, seasonal dishes with big, satisfying tastes—the mouthwatering soul food everyone will want a taste of. Recipes include: Cracked Shrimp with Comeback Sauce Ghanaian Peanut Beef Stew with Onions and Celery Caribbean Smothered Chicken with Coconut, Lime, and Chiles Roasted Cauliflower with Raisins and Lemon-Pepper Millet Field Peas with Country Ham Chunky Tomato Soup with Roasted Okra Rounds Sweet Potato Pudding with Clementines Poured Caramel Cake With Carla Hall's Soul Food, you can indulge in rich celebration foods, such as deviled eggs, buttermilk biscuits, Carla's famous take on Nashville hot fried chicken, and a decadent coconut cream layer cake. Featuring 145 original recipes, 120 color photographs, and a whole lotta love, Carla Hall's Soul Food is a wonderful blend of the modern and the traditional—honoring soul food's heritage and personalizing it with Carla's signature fresh style. The result is an irresistible and open-hearted collection of recipes and stories that share love and joy, identity, and memory
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My Sister, the Serial Killer : A Novel

Af Oyinkan Braithwaite (2018)

Summary: "Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember." —NEW YORK TIMES "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to." —MARIE CLAIRE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite's deliciously deadly debut is as fun as it is frightening
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The Incendiaries : A Novel

Af R. O. Kwon (2018)

Summary: Now a National Bestseller " Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History , with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." — People Magazine "The most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be...unusual and enticing ... The Incendiaries arrives at precisely the right moment." — The Washington Post "Radiant...A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." — New York Times Book Review A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most
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Micro Living : 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-Time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less

Af Derek Diedricksen (2018)

Summary: For everyone who’s ever dreamed of simplifying their life and downsizing their home, Micro Living offers an insider’s look at what tiny house living is really like. Best-selling author and tiny house enthusiast Derek “Deek” Diedricksen profiles 40 tiny — but practical — houses that are equipped for full-time living, all in 400 square feet or less. Detailed photography and a floor plan for each structure highlight inventive space-saving design features along with the nuts-and-bolts details of heating, cooling, electric, and plumbing systems. The real-life stories of residents impart the pleasures, as well as the challenges, of day-to-day living. With tips on what to consider before you build, along with framing plans for a prototype small cabin, Micro Living is the perfect starter handbook for both dreamers and doers. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
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In Our Mad and Furious City : A Novel

Af Guy Gunaratne (2018)

Summary: "Narrators Ben Bailey Smith and Lou Marie Kerr expertly intertwine multiple first-person points of view in this gritty debut audiobook...Listeners unfamiliar with the dialects — Irish, Jamaican, and British among them — will be especially buoyed by the power of the performances." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Short-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, and the rampant burning of mosques that followed, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edges of modern-day London. A crackling debut from a vital new voice, it pulses with the frantic energy of the city's homegrown grime music and is animated by the youthful rage of a dispossessed, overlooked, and often misrepresented generation. While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf organize their lives around soccer, girls, and grime, Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful, impassioned, and unforgettable, and when stitched together, they trace a brutal and vibrant tapestry of today's London. In a forty-eight-hour surge of extremism and violence, their lives are inexorably drawn together in the lead-up to an explosive, tragic climax. In Our Mad and Furious City documents the stark disparities and bubbling fury coursing beneath the prosperous surface of a city uniquely on the brink. Written and read in the distinctive vernaculars of contemporary London, the audiobook challenges the ways in which we coexist now—and, more important, the ways in which we often fail to do so
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Heart Spring Mountain : A Novel

Af Robin MacArthur (2018)

Summary: In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a devastating storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret It's August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away—while tending bar in New Orleans—Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. Though the hometown Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight years earlier, she finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she'd long since left behind. As Vale begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women—a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer, and an owl-loving hermit—as they seek love, bear children, and absorb losses. All the while, Vale's search has her unwittingly careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined. Written with a striking sense of place, Heart Spring Mountain is an arresting novel about returning home, finding hope in the dark, and of the power of the land—and the stories it harbors—to connect and to heal. It's also an absorbing exploration of the small fractures that can make families break-and the lasting ties that bind them together
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The High Season : A Novel

Af Judy Blundell (2018)

Summary: “A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”— People (Book of the Week) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • “In the smart, breezy, sweet spot between Meg Wolitzer and Elin Hilderbrand.”— Entertainment Weekly No matter what the world throws her way, at least Ruthie Beamish has the house . Located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village, the house is her nest egg—the retirement account shared with her ex-husband, Mike, and the college fund for their teenage daughter, Jem. The catch? To afford the house, Ruthie must let it go during the best part of the year. It’s Memorial Day weekend and the start of what Jem calls “the summer bummer”: the family’s annual exodus to make way for renters. This year, the Hamptons set has arrived. Adeline Clay is elegant and connected—and will never need to worry about money. Before long, she demonstrates an uncanny ability to help herself to Ruthie’s life. Is Adeline just being her fabulous self, or is she out to take what she wants? When an eccentric billionaire, his wayward daughter, a coterie of social climbers, and Ruthie’s old flame are thrown into the mix, the entire town finds itself on the verge of tumultuous change. But as Ruthie loses her grasp on her job, her home, and her family, she discovers a new talent for pushing back. By the end of one unhinged, unforgettable summer, nothing will be the same—least of all Ruthie. Praise for The High Season “Blundell knows the territory. . . . Her account of Ruthie’s coming to grips with a career, a daughter and a community in flux is as touching as it is convincing.” — The Wall Street Journal “A huge page-turner . . . so compelling . . . a classic beach read, but very smart, very intelligently written.” — Us Weekly , Emily Giffin’s Summer Reading Recommendations “An acid-laced domestic drama set during one golden summer on the moneyed, beachy North Fork of Long Island.” — The New York Times “Judy Blundell wields words like an oyster knife in this shimmering story of art, money, and celebrity.” —Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Before the War “A wry, often hilarious story of a woman trying to keep it together when everything is going so, so wrong.” — Real Simple
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The Emperor of Shoes

Af Spencer Wise (2018)

Summary: From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change. Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant's vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alex's own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line. When Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, his sympathies begin to shift. She is an embedded organizer of a pro-democratic Chinese party, secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow labourers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite? Deftly plotted and vibrantly drawn, The Emperor of Shoes is a timely meditation on idealism, ambition, father-son rivalry and cultural revolution, set against a vivid backdrop of social and technological change. 'Spencer Wise's The Emperor of Shoes is one of the most complex, nuanced, character-rich first novels I have ever read. It is utterly original in portraying a twenty-first century Jewish diaspora, with one foot in homeland America and one foot in Asia creating consumer products, and, for Wise's protagonist, with an accompanying empathy for China's grassroots aspirations. Wise comes to us fully-flighted as a master stylist and a compelling storyteller' - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner 'Fresh and innovative, Spencer Wise's The Emperor of Shoes is the latest addition to the tradition of young-man fiction that starts with Bellow and Roth...I've taught for more than forty years; this is the best first novel I've ever read' - David Kirby, National Book Award Nominee
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She Must Be Mad

Af Charly Cox (2018)

Summary: 'Brave and beautiful.' Stylist Magazine 'Social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy' Sunday Times STYLE 'Divine.' Cecelia Ahern This audiobook includes exclusive introductions to a select number of Charly's poems, an interview between herself and her friend, Jack Harries, and music from Tom Rosenthal. She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body. Charly captures the formative experiences of today's young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt. Wayward nights out that don't go as planned; the righteous anger at those men with no talent or skill or smarts who occupy the most powerful positions in the world; the strange banality of madness and, of course, the hurt and indecision of unrequited love. For every woman surviving and thriving in today's world, for every girl who feels too much; this is a call for communion, and you are not alone
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Trenton Makes

Af Tadzio Koelb (2018)

Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, 2018 __________________________________________ "A novel of bewitching ingenuity" New York Times "Electrifying" Lit Hub __________________________________________ Abe Kunstler wants his share of the American Dream, which for him is a factory job, a wife and a family. Getting these things will be harder for Abe than it is for other people, however, because his life is a lie - an invention forged in the heat of a terrible crime . Haunted by his past, terrified of exposure, and searching obsessively for redemption, Abe moves from one ruthless act to the next, tricking an alcoholic young taxi-dancer into becoming first his wife, then the mother of a child she believes is his. When the life they have built is threatened, he becomes desperate, until even Abe himself isn't sure how far he'll go to keep his secret...

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