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The second powerful and heart-rending novel, set in 80s Glasgow, from Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize- and British Book Award-winning author of Shuggie Bain.[Bokinfo].

Three German women are haunted by the past and their secrets, in the devastating aftermath of WWII. A mesmerising story of resistance, forgiveness and the complexity of the human heart.

Howard Dawson, hoofdwetenschapper van de Amerikaanse basis op Antarctica, wordt vermoord. Net voor hij een rapport wilde opstellen over een onheilspellende gebeurtenis rondom de opwarming van de aarde die hij als ooggetuige in Antarctica meemaakte. Tomás Noronha, gespecialiseerd in cryptografie, wordt door Interpol gevraagd om de moord op te lossen. De moordenaar heeft een velletje papier naast zijn slachtoffer achtergelaten met daarop de cijfers '666' - het getal van het beest uit de Openbaring van Johannes. Het mysterie rond dit getal stort Tomás in een adembenemend avontuur dat hem dwingt het confronterendste moment van de mensheid te doorstaan: de Apocalyps.

Autobiografisch relaas van een alleenstaande Amerikaanse die onderzoekt of ze al dan niet moeder wil en kan worden.

París, julio de 1942. Las autoridades arrestan a 13.000 judíos ante la mirada de los parisinos, que guardan silencio por miedo, indiferencia o simple interés, pues esperan ocupar las viviendas vacías. El pequeño Michel se oculta en un armario para huir de la redada. Su hermana Sarah cierra la puerta para protegerle y se gua rda la llave, pensando que va a regresar en unas horas. Sin embargo, el destino de los Starzynski es protagonizar una de las páginas más luctuosas de la historia gala. Los gendarmes confinan a los miles de detenidos durante cinco días en el Velódromo de Invierno, cerca de la Torre Eiffel, sin comida ni agua. Después envían a las familias a un campo de concentración francés, donde los separan como paso previo a su posterior traslado a Auschwitz.

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet; she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage; and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. In Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is not a novel about politics. It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.

Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer sets out to respond to these and other crucial aspects of Hitler's personality in his compulsively readable new novel. Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers - grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and, ultimately, young Adolf - in an energetic and wildly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions, and deaths that lead to the birth of young Adolf in 1889. Told in the voice of a mysterious (and unreliable) narrator, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in a stirring family tale that will cause the reader to re-examine his preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.