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Kokematon korvessa kasvanut Johanna joutuu piiaksi rikkaan porvarin, Joachim Weberin taloon Poriin. Pian Johanna tulee isännälle raskaaksi ja saa saman tien lähteä takaisin sinne mistä on tullutkin. Johanna naitetaan leskelle, jolla on ennestään neljä lasta ja siitä alkaa Johannan raskas ja loputtomalta tuntuva työsarka äitinä ja vaimona. Sitten Joachim Weber palaa noutamaan ainoaa poikaansa... Historiallisista romaaneistaan tunnetun Leila Tuuren Kauppamies-sarjassa seurataan Weberin kauppiassuvun tapahtumarikkaita vaiheita 1700- ja 1800-lukujen Suomessa.

På en scen någonstans i Sverige står en man och vrålar 'Kuken står!'. I innerfickan har han en bibel. Framför honom står ett hav av skrikande fans. Mannen är Eddie Meduza. Han var ett original som alltid gick sin egen väg. En multitalang med en oerhörd produktionstakt, som fullkomligt sprutade ur sig kassetter och sketcher. Men inom honom fanns också ett mörker som bottnade i en oerhört svår barndom och en livslång kamp mot alkoholen. 'Bara man é fantastisk' är en bok om en legend, om en älskad artist som slog publikrekord i folkparkerna och som fortfarande har hängivna fans i massor.

Adèle har det perfekte liv. Hun er en respekteret journalist, lykkeligt gift med lægen Richard som hun har en lille søn med, og bor i en stor, smuk pariserlejlighed. Men bag den polerede facade fortæres hun af kedsomhed og hengiver sig til sine fantasier og en lind strøm af stævnemøder og hemmelige affærer. Hun ved hun ikke burde, men gradvis begynder de hemmelige møder at fylde mere og mere i hendes liv. Hun forsømmer sit arbejde og lyver for sin familie, alt sammen for at forfølge et stadig mere altopslugende begær, uanset prisen.

Paul og Myriam bor i Paris og har to børn. Da Myriam skal tilbage til arbejdet, har de brug for en barnepige, og de beslutter sig for den perfekte, tillidsvækkende og hjertelige Louise, som tager dem med storm. Børnene elsker hende, hun er øm og omsorgsfuld, laver udsøgte måltider til hele familien, efterlader huset skinnende rent og holder sig i øvrigt diskret i baggrunden. Snart kan Myriam og Paul slet ikke leve uden Louise, men ganske langsomt går det op for dem, at noget er helt helt galt. Louise viser små glimt af umotiveret vrede, de finder besynderlige bidemærker på børnene, og en morgen finder de et renskurret kyllingeskrog på spisebordet.

Tech-Giganten wie Facebook, Google und Co. haben es vorgemacht: Sie haben sich von Start-ups zu Global Playern entwickelt, die der Branche ihre Spielregeln aufdiktieren, und die traditionellen Unternehmen zwingen, sich den veränderten Marktbedingungen anzupassen. Und sie haben hierfür ganz eigene Methoden und Werkzeuge entwickelt, mit denen sie erfolgreich wurden. Die Praxis-Expertinnen Leila Summa und Christine Kirbach wissen, wie die digitalen Riesen und ihre Instrumente in der Unternehmenspraxis funktionieren.

Sie fühlt eine Leere, obwohl sie alles hat. Sie weiß, dass sie ihre Familie verlieren könnte, und setzt trotzdem alles aufs Spiel: Adèle, Mitte dreißig, lebt mit ihrem Ehemann und ihrem kleinen Sohn in Paris. Nach außen hin führt sie ein Leben, dem es an nichts fehlt. Trotzdem ist sie nicht glücklich. Gelangweilt zieht sie durch die Straßen von Paris, trifft sich mit Männern, hat Sex mit Fremden - immer wieder. Bis ihr Mann eines Tages dahinterkommt. Der ist überzeugt: Sie ist krank und muss geheilt werden. Doch kann er Adèle zu ihrem Glück zwingen?

En 1944, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, s'éprend d'Amine Belhaj, un Marocain combattant dans l'armée française. Après la Libération, le couple s'installe au Maroc à Meknès, ville de garnison et de colons. Tandis qu'Amine tente de mettre en valeur un domaine constitué de terres rocailleuses et ingrates, Mathilde se sent vite étouffée par le climat rigoriste du Maroc. Seule et isolée à la ferme avec ses deux enfants, elle souffre de la méfiance qu'elle inspire en tant qu'étrangère et du manque d'argent.

Sami is no revolutionary. When the Arab Spring breaks out in 2011, he’s busy finishing school in Cairo and hiding his relationship with an American woman from his conservative mother, Suad. It’s a task that’s becoming impossible as events take a catastrophic turn. But Suad won’t be fooled - her son has been distant, and she knows it’s not about politics. Far away in the Nile Delta, she spends her days tending obsessively to her lemon grove, which is quickly becoming her last vestige of control.

This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book includes a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence.

Devoted fans of Leila Meacham will devour this long, juicy audiobook. Tumbleweeds is the story of three young friends - the saint, the sinner, and the angel - growing up together in the sort of small Texas Panhandle town that lives and dies by its Friday night football games. A fateful event casts a long shadow over these three intertwined lives and leaves the listener desperate to see how it all plays out.

Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with consequences of their momentous choice and the loss of what might have been - not just for themselves but for their children, and their children's children.

At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds - a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer - all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly.

Aly Kingston has only ever loved one man: Marshall Wayne. But she put all of those childish dreams behind her ages ago when the Waynes left town. Her father's victory at foreclosing on the Wayne family farm, the betrayal written all over Marshall's face - it all still lingers in her mind and in her heart. But now, years later, when he comes back home to Claiborne, Aly realizes so much has changed since Marshall's been away, and so much remains the same.

Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined.

When Salma, Moni, and Iman - friends and active members of their local Muslim women’s group - decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice.

For 12-year-old Maddie Polansky, the only good part of school is art class. And though she's never paid much attention to politics, when she learns that the front-runner for mayor of her city intends to cut funding for the arts in public schools, the political suddenly becomes very personal. So Maddie persuades her babysitter, Janet, to run for mayor against Lucinda Burghart, art-hating bad guy. Soon, Maddie is thrust into the role of campaign manager.

Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest Latin hits of the past 50 years. From the salsa born and bred in the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaetón and bilingual chart-toppers, this rich oral history is a veritable treasure trove of never-before heard anecdotes and insight from a who's who of Latin music artists, executives, observers, and players. Their stories, told in their own words, take you inside the hits, to the inner sanctum of the creative minds behind the tracks that have defined eras and become hallmarks of history.

Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani's passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world.

When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.

Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of "having it all", she is bored - and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire, she begins to orchestrate her life around her one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she’s been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making.