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The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it. My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life: surgical case-notes; trial records; a plague ballad; theological pamphlets; a painting of two girls in a garden; an articulated skeleton. Some of the ghosts in this collection have famous names; others were written off as cripples, children, half-breeds, freaks and nobodies. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is named for Mary Toft, who in 1726 managed to convince half England that she had done just that. So this book is what I have to show for ten years of sporadic grave-robbing, ferreting out forgotten puzzles and peculiar incidents, asking 'What really happened?', but also, 'What if?

De tent van Margaret Atwood is een zinnenprikkelende verzameling korte verhalen, afgewisseld door illustraties van de auteur. De verhalen zijn zowel geestig als intelligent, persoonlijk als vooruitziend, en vertellen op hoogst fantasierijke wijze over een breed scala aan onderwerpen. De stukken wisselen in lengte van slechts één pagina tot meerdere pagina's. In de verhalen geeft Atwood een sluwe peptalk aan ambitieuze jongeren. Ze schrijft over de vervreemdende ervaring die we hebben wanneer we oude foto's van onszelf terugzien. Ze laat ons beleven wat Horatio werkelijk van Hamlet dacht en ze onderzoekt wat het waarlijk betekent een wees te zijn. In 'Breng Moeder terug; een bezwering' beschrijft ze hoe het leven echt was voor de huisvrouwen van vroeger en in 'De dieren verwerpen hun naam' gaat ze de geschiedenis in, met verrassende resultaten. De tent is typisch Margaret Atwood: de verhalen in deze bundel zijn controversieel en bezwerend en kunnen keer op keer worden herlezen.

Bill Bryson se describe como un viajero renuente, pero ni siquiera cuando está en su casa, en la seguridad de su estudio, puede contener esa curiosidad que siente por el mundo que le rodea. En Una breve historia de casi todo intenta entender qué ocurrió entre la Gran Explosión y el surgimiento de la civilización, cómo pasamos de la nada a lo ahora somos.

A man with a faded notebook open in his lap and a woman caught in a morning ritual she doesn't understand. When he begins to read to her, a tender story about the enduring power of love unfolds. Set in coastal North Carolina in 1946, it follows Noah Calhoun, a thirty-one-year-old rural Southerner returning from World War II. He is restoring a plantation home and haunted by memories of a beautiful girl he loved fourteen years earlier. Unable to forget their summer together, Noah is content with memories until she unexpectedly returns to town. Allie Nelson, now twenty-nine and engaged to another man, realizes her original passion for Noah remains undiminished. Yet, the obstacles that ended their previous relationship still loom large, and the gap between their worlds feels insurmountable. With her wedding approaching, Allie must confront her hopes and dreams for a future that only she can shape. As their story unfolds, it transforms into something deeper, revealing the profound nature of love and the changes it brings. This poignant tale captures the essence of love, showcasing the beauty and complexity of human emotions. Through Noah's reflections on a common life filled with extraordinary love, the narrative resonates with timeless truths about what truly matters.

Joe Watson has been to court exactly once - to be sworn in as a lawyer. He's a Webhead, a research geek who sits in front of a screen all day in the plush officers of his smart firm, looking for copyright violations in video games. But there's been a murder, a 'hate crime' and the fearsome Judge Stang has assigned the case to Watson. Hie wife and the senior partners are as eager as he is to have the case transferred to another lawyer - but Judge Stang's decsions are never revoked and Watson finds himself hurled into a maelstrom of Bigotry, murder and seduction. In a legal nightmre defending a violent client whose guilt seems certain, Watson's only allies are a diminutive, foulmouthed punk defence lawyer, and a brilliant, deliviously sexy neuroscientist whose interest in the case drifts unsettlingly between the pseronal and professional. And when his wife and kids leave, his firm disowns him and his client's gung-ho militia 'friends' start to creep out of the woods, Watson feels he's having a very bad time. . .

Een filmster aan de top, die alles heeft wat haar hartje begeert, verlangt naar een echte vriend op wie ze kan vertrouwen.