A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our success If one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea -- whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the ratification of marriage equality -- was once considered radical and dangerous by the mainstream opinion of its time. With Humankind, he brings that mentality to bear against one of our most entrenched ideas: namely, that human beings are by nature selfish and self-interested. By providing a new historical perspective of the last 200,000 years of human history, Bregman sets out to prove that we are in fact evolutionarily wired for cooperation rather than competition, and that our instinct to trust each other has a firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Bregman systematically debunks our understanding of the Milgram electrical-shock experiment, the Zimbardo prison experiment, and the Kitty Genovese "bystander effect." In place of these, he offers little-known true stories: the tale of twin brothers on opposing sides of apartheid in South Africa who came together with Nelson Mandela to create peace; a group of six shipwrecked children who survived for a year and a half on a deserted island by working together; a study done after World War II that found that as few as 15% of American soldiers were actually capable of firing at the enemy. The ultimate goal of Humankind is to demonstrate that while neither capitalism nor communism has on its own been proven to be a workable social system, there is a third option: giving "citizens and professionals the means (left) to make their own choices (right)." Reorienting our thinking toward positive and high expectations of our fellow man, Bregman argues, will reap lasting success. Bregman presents this idea with his signature wit and frankness, once again making history, social science and economic theory accessible and enjoyable for lay readers.

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

Elijah Coldwell hat sein Leben unter Kontrolle: Studium, Firma, Sport, alles ist strengstens durchorganisiert. Die Ängste, die ihn seit einer Entführung in der Kindheit quälen, hat er auf diese Weise im Griff. Nur sich zu verlieben, kommt für ihn nicht infrage, zu groß ist das Risiko, noch einmal so verwundbar zu sein wie damals. Doch dann trifft er auf Felicity Everhart, die ihn mehr fasziniert als irgendjemand zuvor. Eigentlich hat Felicity gerade andere Sorgen, bemüht sie sich doch vergebens darum, endlich ihrem Vater näherzukommen, der zwar ihr Traumstudium an der Kunsthochschule in New York finanziert, von dem sie sonst jedoch kaum etwas weiß. Aber das, was zwischen ihnen ist, können weder Elijah noch Felicity lange ignorieren - nicht ahnend, dass ihre Liebe unter denkbar schlechten Vorzeichen steht. Denn als Elijah neue Hinweise zu seinen Kidnappern erhält, führt die Spur ausgerechnet zu Felicitys Vater ... NACH DER PLATZ-1-SPIEGEL-BESTSELLER-REIHE WESTWELL ... ... DIE NEUE GROSSE TRILOGIE VON ERFOLGSAUTORIN LENA KIEFER

Some legacies are best left buried… Villa Sepulveda is a storied relic of the Philippines’ past: a Spanish colonial manor, its moldering stonework filled with centuries-old heirlooms, nestled in a remote coconut plantation. When their patriarch dies mysteriously, his far-flung family returns to their ancestral home. Filipino-American student Adrian Sepulveda invites his college girlfriend, Sophie, a transracial adoptee who knows little about her own Filipino heritage, to the funeral of a man who was entwined with the history of the country itself. Sophie soon learns that there is more to the Sepulvedas than a grand tradition of political and entrepreneurial success. Adrian’s relatives clash viciously amid grief, confusion, and questions about the family curse that their matriarch refuses to answer. When a landslide traps them all in the villa, secrets begin to emerge, revealing sins both intimately personal and unthinkably public. Sifting through fact, folklore, and fiction, Sophie finds herself at the center of a reckoning. Did a mythical demon really kill Adrian’s grandfather? How complicit are the Sepulvedas in the country’s oppressive history? As a series of ill omens befall the villa, Sophie must decide whom to trust—and whom to flee—before the family’s true legacy comes to take its revenge . . .

Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created “a howling wilderness” of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara’s film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator—one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women—artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters—finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, and Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history.

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.' Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

Elijah Coldwell hat sein Leben unter Kontrolle: Studium, Firma, Sport, alles ist strengstens durchorganisiert. Die Ängste, die ihn seit einer Entführung in der Kindheit quälen, hat er auf diese Weise im Griff. Nur sich zu verlieben, kommt für ihn nicht infrage, zu groß ist das Risiko, noch einmal so verwundbar zu sein wie damals. Doch dann trifft er auf Felicity Everhart, die ihn mehr fasziniert als irgendjemand zuvor. Eigentlich hat Felicity gerade andere Sorgen, bemüht sie sich doch vergebens darum, endlich ihrem Vater näherzukommen, der zwar ihr Traumstudium an der Kunsthochschule in New York finanziert, von dem sie sonst jedoch kaum etwas weiß. Aber das, was zwischen ihnen ist, können weder Elijah noch Felicity lange ignorieren - nicht ahnend, dass ihre Liebe unter denkbar schlechten Vorzeichen steht. Denn als Elijah neue Hinweise zu seinen Kidnappern erhält, führt die Spur ausgerechnet zu Felicitys Vater ... NACH DER PLATZ-1-SPIEGEL-BESTSELLER-REIHE WESTWELL ... ... DIE NEUE GROSSE TRILOGIE VON ERFOLGSAUTORIN LENA KIEFER

»ICH MÖCHTE EINFACH NUR, DASS DU GLÜCKLICH BIST, FAIRYTALE.« »OHNE DICH, KANN ICH NICHT GLÜCKLICH SEIN, ELI.« Elijah Coldwell hat genug - genug von der Panik, genug von all dem Leid, genug von seiner Angst. Alles, was er jetzt will, ist, Harrison Grant ein für alle Mal das Handwerk legen und ihn für seine Taten zu bestrafen. Denn Grant verwandelte Elijahs Leben vor dreizehn Jahren nicht nur in einen Albtraum; er sorgt seither auch dafür, dass dieser Albtraum nicht endet. Eli weiß, dass er seine Familie nur vor seinem mächtigen Gegner beschützen kann, wenn er bereit ist, alles aufs Spiel zu setzen. Selbst wenn das bedeutet, dass er nicht nur die Frau verlieren könnte, die ihm mehr alles andere auf der Welt bedeutet, sondern auch sein eigenes Leben ...

SOLLTE ICH NUN DERJENIGE SEIN, DER IHR DAS WIEDER WEGNAHM? SOLLTE ICH IMMER DERJENIGE SEIN, DER SIE UNGLÜCKLICH MACHTE? Vier Monate ist es her, dass Elijah die Frau von sich gestoßen hat, die ihm alles bedeutet. Und auch wenn sich jeder Gedanke an Felicity anfühlt wie ein Stich mitten ins Herz, bereut er nicht, es getan zu haben, denn es war der einzige Weg, sie zu beschützen. Jetzt verfolgt Elijah nur noch ein Ziel: denjenigen zu finden, der ihn vor dreizehn Jahren entführt hat und ihm das Leben seitdem zur Hölle macht. Doch er kann Felicity nicht vergessen, vor allem nicht, als er ihren Vater als seinen Entführer entlarvt. Mit einem Mal steht er vor der Entscheidung, Felicity weiterhin in dem Glauben zu lassen, er hätte nie etwas für sie empfunden - oder ihr die Wahrheit zu sagen und damit alles zu riskieren ...

For fans of Dolly Alderton and HBO’s Hacks, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about faking it (and “making it”) as a writer in Hollywood. TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. Even Harry, her usually supportive therapist husband, thinks it’s time for her to press pause on her career ambitions and focus on getting pregnant, despite Caroline’s serious ambivalence about having children. When Caroline accidentally stumbles on Harry’s patient session notes and offhandedly mentions what she finds in a meeting with a producer, the momentum of Hollywood takes over. Before she knows it—and unbeknownst to Harry—Caroline finds herself pitching a TV show about the deepest, darkest secrets of her husband’s favorite patient, a woman known to Caroline only as the Teacher. Amid the indignities of the Hollywood development process, Caroline must balance her burning desire for professional validation against her own morality and the health of her marriage. And when Caroline forms a real-life relationship with Teacher herself, the lines between art and life begin to blur further, shaking up Caroline’s understanding of what it means to be the “likeable female protagonist” of her own life.