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“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of...

Hver morgen vågner Ingemar Modig gennemblødt af sved, lige før clockradioen går i gang. Hvis han ikke når at slå den fra, før alarmen lyder, vil nogen dø.   Angst og tvangstanker har overtaget Ingemar Modigs liv, men så møder han Dalia, en 11-årig pige fra Syrien, der er en...

পদৱী যিমানেই উচ্চ নহওক, অজ্ঞানী লোকৰ বাবে সেই পদত থকা নথকা একেই কথা। জ্ঞান নথকাৰ বাবে ৰজা হৈও জৰদগৱৰ কি পৰিণতি হ'ল?...

“[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book Review Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless...

“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and...

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war...

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines...

“Relentlessly fun to read.”—Dave Eggers A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut...

This heartwarming and hilarious women’?s fiction novel from the authors of The Status of All Things and Your Perfect Life features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty—the year that altered all of their lives, in ways big and small—and also get the...

A witty and sharp-tongued novel about a writer and actress who finally comes to write the manuscript that is thirty-seven years overdue – for fans of We All Want Impossible Things and The Correspondent. Maria Astorini, once late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress...

In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi volunteer for an important case up north involving an elephant sanctuary, leaving assistant detective Charlie to manage a complicated and potentially risky new...

For Alex Lowry, life is for the living. Even if that comes with a lot of risk. And where some men his age might just buy a sports car, he's become a full-blown adrenaline junkie. Whether it's lawnmower racing, rock climbing, or medieval combat, he'll give it a go - whatever makes him happy! His...

Adapted into a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon! From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Your Employer comes Where the Truth Lies, a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and all-consuming desire—“a narcotically addictive...

Slyly funny and disarmingly tender, Fallow is the story of a young woman who signs up to be the world’s first in-house corporate surrogate, then finds herself caught up in a social experiment of another kind. This program is read by Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator Natalie Naudus...

From the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Save What’s Left comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdue—and the life moments that led to its delay. Maria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk...

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries...

Hørespillet SoMe Syndflod Komedie af Ane Gudrun (Audioteater) Ni personer bliver fanget på et hotel i regnen. De er nødt til at interagere med hinanden og flettes derved ind i hinandens skæbner. Imens de er på hotellet, stiger vandmasserne udenfor vanvittigt. Personerne har alt for travlt...

Da 18-årige Amalie under komiske omstændigheder møder Mr. Perfect, kunne hun ikke være mere lykkelig. Det eneste problem er bare, at han sporløst forsvinder efter deres første nat sammen. Aldrig glemt, men parkeret langt væk i Amalies hukommelse, flytter hun til den anden ende af landet...

Bølleschæferen og pjoklederen holder til i det nordlige Skåne, i Vedahult, hvor gøngerne i over 100 år udkæmpede en partisankrig mod de svenske besættere. Bølleschæferen og pjoklederen formår næsten 400 år efter at bevare neutraliteten, selv om det ikke altid er let...