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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham...

Ola Olajide, a high-profile journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is marrying the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, successful – she and her fiancé Michael are the ‘couple goals’ of their social networks and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: ‘Oh my god, have you seen The List?’ It began as a crowdsourced collection of names and somehow morphed into an anonymous account posting allegations on social media.

Uppsagd från sitt jobb på bensinmacken är Lasse Bengtsson dömd till ett liv framför motorsporten på teve. Men Lasses fru Eva börjar tröttna på att se sin man långsamt dra med sig deras gemensamma vardag ner i avgrunden. Eva bestämmer sig för att ge allt en sista chans och bjuder in Lasse till en myskväll, hittar en klimatdokumentär som verkar spännande och innan hon vet ordet av har hon satt eld i baken på honom. Lasse bestämmer sig för att rädda planeten, men blir utmanad av bostadsrättsföreningens äregiriga och pedantiska ordförande, den pensionerade studierektorn Olsson.

Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of place on his dining-room wall. It's a life-sized standing portrait, practically photographic in nature. And it's a nude. His wife will be home soon and he thinks the painting will be a pleasant surprise. Even more surprising will be an unexpected accumulation of guests.

'Pathway to the Stars: Part 4, Universal Party' propels humanity’s journey beyond the Solar System as Eliza, Yesha, and James work tirelessly to unite Earth. Eliza leads the charge in the Western Hemisphere, while Yesha takes on the East, racing to implement technological innovations and form the Universal Party—a movement aimed at global unity. Their goal is to bring the visionary ideals that built the tech cities to Earth, creating a foundation for peace and cooperation.

Henry Farber, a well-meaning psychiatrist, is forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term—is found dead on the consulting room couch. From an isolated bungalow, Farber sets out to clear his name while offering an intimate view of a flawed populist leader. 

1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

Sarah Woods has developed a reputation for taking seemingly un-dramatisable non-fiction classics and turning them into gripping and immersive audio drama. Four seminal political books are here brought to life and into the twenty-first century, and ideas that have been fascinating and shaping society for hundreds of years are developed into brilliant, insightful dramas. How does humanity's success also mean its potential destruction? And what do we need to turn from this danger, and instead develop a global system that's positive, sustainable, and better for the masses rather than the few?

Spitzbergen 2110: Weit im Norden, tief in den Bergen, liegt eine Schatzkammer, die mit Pflanzensamen aus aller Welt gefüllt ist. Tommy wächst in dieser sonst kargen, gnadenlosen Landschaft auf, mit seinen zwei Brüdern und seiner Großmutter – der Hüterin des Saatguts. Schon vor vielen Jahren hat man hier am Nordpol den Kontakt zu den anderen Ländern abgebrochen und versucht, im Einklang mit der Natur zu leben. Doch dann wird Spitzbergen von einer Katastrophe heimgesucht – und Tommys Familie gehört zu den wenigen Überlebenden.

Eine Erfindung erobert die Welt – und bestimmt das Schicksal zweier Familien, die bereit sind, alles zu riskieren. Wetzlar, Optische Werke, Konstruktionsabteilung, 1914: Dem Tüftler Oskar Barnack gelingt der Durchbruch. Anstatt weiterhin mit einer kiloschweren Glasplattenkamera auf Foto-Safari zu gehen, hat der Feinmechaniker einen handlichen Apparat entwickelt, der in eine Jackentasche passt. Ernst Leitz, der Sohn des Werkgründers, erkennt das Potenzial – und treibt die Produktion der Leica gegen alle Widerstände voran-

If he had been just another married man, and she a beautiful woman—it would have been just a passionate affair. But he was the president. Will this dangerous liaison change the course of history? Matthew Underwood—former anchorman and now U.S. President—is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of the tiny country of Lampang. After they fall in love, Underwood becomes mired in Lampang's internal politics—and a nosy reporter, not to mention the jealous First Lady, threaten everything.

He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is plunged into mayhem. Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels that still resonates today.

Mike Redstone is elated when his small accounting firm lands a contract with a trendy Los Angeles tech company. As he goes to work for his new client, the twin suicide and drug epidemics sweeping Los Angeles are little more than regrettable distractions. But Redstone’s enthusiasm turns to confusion, and then fear, as he reluctantly realizes that his new client is at the center of a plot to subjugate his city, trapping its population in a web of drug-suffused thought control.

An der Universität in Cambridge waren sie ein seltenes und seltsames Freundespaar: der adelige Schotte Liam Broedie und Alard von Sedlitz, Gutsbesitzersohn aus Oberschlesien. Schon ihre Väter hatten zusammen in Heidelberg studiert und waren Freunde fürs Leben geblieben, obwohl sie durch den 1. Weltkrieg zu Kriegsgegnern geworden waren.

Wer sind wir ohne Arbeit? Was brauchen wir zum Leben? Was macht uns aus? David Schalkos Was der Tag bringt ist ein bestechender Kommentar auf unsere sich radikal verändernde Arbeitswelt – ein Roman, grotesk, komisch und aufwühlend bis zuletzt. Felix ist Ende dreißig, Single und Unternehmer. Mit seinem Start-up für nachhaltiges Catering ist er, endlich, auf einem guten Weg. Dann aber kommt die Pandemie, bleiben die Aufträge aus, gewährt ihm die Bank keinen weiteren Kredit.

In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a social-economic collapse, Haven Segreti is forced to conform and serve as a member of an elite administrative pack behind the community walls of the New Republic. She faces difficult choices, torn between an illicit liaison with her mentor, Adrien, and a chance of a deeper connection with a troubled young man set on revenge.

Andersens ægteskab er gået i stykker, og han har mistet sin søn. Ekskonen Anne opfordrer ham til at skrive et afskedsbrev til sønnen Frederik for at bearbejde det, der er sket, men han kan ikke. Han har store huller i sin hukommelse og savner en masse svar. I samtaler med en psykiater forøger han at rekonstruere, hvad er er sket med Frederik – at nå om bag sin egen fortrængning om sønnens bortgang for at komme overens med sin sorg og sin vrede mod klimabevægelsen Brodenberg, der ifølge Andersen slugte Frederik.

A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the...

Ein origineller, rasanter Debütroman einer aufregenden neuen Stimme. Damani kämpft. Jeden Tag kümmert sie sich um ihre Mutter, fährt die ältere Dame Mrs. Patrice zum Bingospielen, während sie immer weniger durch die Fahrdienst-App verdient. Die Rechnungen stapeln sich, ihre Wut auf die Welt wächst. Bis eines Tages Jolene in ihrem Wagen sitzt. Sie scheint die perfekte Freundin zu sein - aufmerksam, attraktiv, eine Verbündete. Vielleicht kann Damani über das hinwegsehen, was sie zurückhält: Noch nie hat sie eine Frau mit Geld gedatet, geschweige denn eine weiße Frau mit Geld.