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The new novel - a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan - from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since IQ84. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.

Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal ... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground.

Arthur Connoway desperately wants to free himself from the monster inhabiting his mind. Instead, he is rapidly losing control of it following his mother’s death. In a last-ditch effort to feel whole again—and to lay his mother’s memory to rest—Arthur decides to return to the quiet bee farm he once called home, hoping their sacred honey can heal him in more ways than one. Eight years ago, Eva Moreau's flora magic caused a terrible accident, harming her father in the process. Now, she’s desperate to find a way to heal him, but her attempts only seem to do the opposite.

When Poppy Hill was a child she was stolen from her family's Montana homestead and taken 'Otherside' to the land of the fae, where she spent more than a century as a cook in the Wild King's castle. Now back in the human world, she works for a company that brokers fairy bargains, looking for loopholes in their contracts. Then a bargain that Poppy is negotiating goes disastrously wrong and she has to return to the world she grew up in to try to rectify her mistake, facing danger, intrigue and a pesky ex-boyfriend along the way.

De zestienjarige Morgan Rowlands mag dan niet de knapste of populairste zijn op school, maar daar trekt ze zich weinig van aan. Dan komt er een nieuwe, adembenemend knappe jongen op Widow's Vale High: Cal Blaire. Hoewel ze er helemaal niet in gelooft, laat Morgen zich meeslepen. Maar na een ritueel merkt ze een verandering: ze ziet en voelt dingen anders dan voorheen, en ze kan nu machtige, magische dingen die ze eerder niet kon. Langzamerhand ontdekt Morgan nieuwe dingen over zichzelf, maar wat gaat het haar kosten?

Vampires are the worst. Trust me, I should know. I was raised by one. I have four goals in life: Avoid vampires like the plague they are, eat the perfect grilled cheese sandwich, drink my body weight in booze, and avoid having to sell my body to pay my rent. Should be easy. Yeah right. While pursuing these goals, I found myself accidentally caught in a conflict between a vampire lord and a group of over-zealous vampire hunters who are hell-bent on bringing forth the apocalypse. And the kicker? I'm the only one who can stop them. My name is Victoria Chevalier.

Guy Shadowfade is dead, and Violet Thistlethwaite is out of a job. After a lifetime as the dark sorcerer's right-hand witch, she's ready to turn over a new leaf. The quiet town of Dragon's Rest seems like the perfect place to start over. Violet opens a flower shop, swears off dark magic, and does her best to be...good. But when a strange blight begins to rot the roots of Dragon's Rest, Violet and Nathaniel must work together - through their fears, pasts, and growing feelings - to save the town.

Convencida de que aceptando formar parte del proyecto Hypnos no solo pondrá fin a sus problemas de insomnio, sino también a su precaria situación financiera, Alicia emprenderá un misterioso viaje sin retorno a Barcelona, donde la fina línea que separa el mundo de los sueños de la realidad pondrá en jaque su propia identidad. La mezcla de amistad y amor, la falta de escrúpulos y las tragedias del pasado marcarán su destino.

Major Leah Morgan leads the LOC into their most dangerous mission yet—a decommissioned fort along the Hudson River, now the headquarters of the BCCS, where a dark ritual is about to unleash an ancient and unstoppable force. With her team walking into a fortress full of traps and supernatural defenses, Leah's strategic mind is their best weapon, but her growing feelings for Jamie threaten to complicate the mission.

Während Dante in den Händen von Edion um sein Leben kämpft, stellt sich Sara ihrer größten Prüfung. Sie soll herrschen, führen und gleichzeitig den Mann retten, den sie liebt. Doch der Preis für seine Freiheit könnte das Ende eines ganzen Volkes bedeuten. Getrieben von Hoffnung, Schmerz und einer unerschütterlichen Liebe, riskiert Sara alles.

What should have been a break in a long chain of unsolved robberies leads Detective Valor Lovell into the dark world of murder, organ theft, and the black market. His informant, Miranda, shines light on the thefts tearing through Cauldron City and how they connect to the dead weight case continuing to thwart the detectives of Precinct #153.

تركب روز دراجتها الجديدة بالقرب من منزلها في ولاية ساوث داكوتا، تسقط روز على الأرض لتستيقظ في قاع حفرة مربعة الشكل تتوهج جدرانها بنقوش غريبة الشكل. لكن رجال...