From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—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 Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? 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 brutal 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.

Eine Familie aus Kyjiw verkauft russische Spezialitäten in Leipzig. Wodka, Pelmeni, SIM-Karten, Matrosenshirts – und ein irgendwie osteuropäisches Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl. Wobei, Letzteres ist seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine nicht mehr zu haben. Die Mutter steht an der Seite Putins. Und ihr Sohn, der keine Sprache mehr als die russische liebt, keinen Menschen mehr als seine Mutter, aber auch keine Stadt mehr als Kyjiw, verzweifelt. Klug ist es nicht von ihm, mitten im Krieg in die Ukraine zurückzufahren. Aber was soll er tun, wenn es nun einmal keinen anderen Weg gibt, um Mama vom Faschismus und den irren russischen Fernsehlügen zurückzuholen? Ein Hörbuch, wie nur Dmitrij Kapitelman es schreiben tragisch, zärtlich und komisch zugleich. Das Hörbuch wird auf eindringliche und unverwechselbare Art gelesen vom Autor selbst.

Based on a real-life seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child tells in vivid prose the story of Christenze Kruckow, a noblewoman long pursued by a scandal of sorcery. People whisper that in her wake one finds illness, death, and unsettling behaviour by pigs and cats. Some even say she once fashioned out of wax a child, an instrument of the most sinister magic. Christenze will flee the rumours to Aalborg, that great city of seawater and mist. But even there suspicion and fear rule, and once a rumour of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove hard to shake…

Eine Familie aus Kyjiw verkauft russische Spezialitäten in Leipzig. Wodka, Pelmeni, SIM-Karten, Matrosenshirts – und ein irgendwie osteuropäisches Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl. Wobei, Letzteres ist seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine nicht mehr zu haben. Die Mutter steht an der Seite Putins. Und ihr Sohn, der keine Sprache mehr als die russische liebt, keinen Menschen mehr als seine Mutter, aber auch keine Stadt mehr als Kyjiw, verzweifelt. Klug ist es nicht von ihm, mitten im Krieg in die Ukraine zurückzufahren. Aber was soll er tun, wenn es nun einmal keinen anderen Weg gibt, um Mama vom Faschismus und den irren russischen Fernsehlügen zurückzuholen? Ein Hörbuch, wie nur Dmitrij Kapitelman es schreiben tragisch, zärtlich und komisch zugleich. Das Hörbuch wird auf eindringliche und unverwechselbare Art gelesen vom Autor selbst.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783596215225 »Das Unwahrscheinliche hatte sich ereignet, der Weltmeister, der Champion zahlloser Turniere hatte die Fahne gestrichen vor einem Unbekannten, einem Manne, der zwanzig oder fünfundzwanzig Jahre kein Schachbrett angerührt. Unser Freund, der Anonymus, der Ignotus, hatte den stärksten Schachspieler der Erde in offenem Kampfe besiegt!« Das Erstaunen ist groß, als der unscheinbare Dr. B., österreichischer Emigrant auf einem Passagierdampfer von New York nach Buenos Aires, eher zufällig gegen den amtierenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic antritt und seinen mechanisch routinierten Gegner mit verspielter Leichtigkeit besiegt. Doch das Schachspiel fördert Erinnerungen an den Terror seiner Inhaftierung im Nationalsozialismus zutage und reißt eine seelische Wunde wieder auf, die erneut Dr. B.s geistige Gesundheit bedroht.

Eine wilde, wütende, witzige und spielerische Geschichte, die Fragen nach Identität, Zugehörigkeit, sexuellem Begehren und patriarchalischer ... auf den Punkt bringt. »Es tut mir leid, deine Mutter wurde getötet.« Mit diesen Worten beginnt Filas Reise von der Schweiz nach Italien. Von dem Land, in dem sie aufgewachsen ist, in das Land, das ihre Großmutter als junge Frau verlassen hat und in das ihre Mutter verschwunden ist. Fila zeichnet die Geschichte dieser beiden Frauen nach, zusammen mit ihren Erinnerungen und ihren Begegnungen auf dem feministischen Widerstandskämpferinnen, faschistischen Deserteuren und dem Geist einer jungen Bäuerin mit durchschnittener Kehle. Der Roadtrip auf den Spuren ihrer geheimnisvollen Mutter führt sie zum mutmaßlichen Mörder - und mitten ins Herz des faschistischen Zirkels, der das Land kontrolliert.  Favorita erzählt eine wilde, wütende, spielerische Geschichte, die Fragen nach Identität, Zugehörigkeit, sexuellem Begehren und patriarchalischer Gewalt gegen Mensch und Umwelt auf den Punkt bringt. Eine Lektüre, bei der man den Atem anhält und sich fragt, was zur Hölle man da gerade liest - ein Roman, der einen nicht mehr loslässt und noch lange nachwirkt.  

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching View our feature on George Orwell s 1984 Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality This beautiful paperback edition features deckled edges and french flaps a perfect gift for any occasion Alternate cover edition can be found here.

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman―who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name―is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something” is. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783596215225 »Das Unwahrscheinliche hatte sich ereignet, der Weltmeister, der Champion zahlloser Turniere hatte die Fahne gestrichen vor einem Unbekannten, einem Manne, der zwanzig oder fünfundzwanzig Jahre kein Schachbrett angerührt. Unser Freund, der Anonymus, der Ignotus, hatte den stärksten Schachspieler der Erde in offenem Kampfe besiegt!« Das Erstaunen ist groß, als der unscheinbare Dr. B., österreichischer Emigrant auf einem Passagierdampfer von New York nach Buenos Aires, eher zufällig gegen den amtierenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic antritt und seinen mechanisch routinierten Gegner mit verspielter Leichtigkeit besiegt. Doch das Schachspiel fördert Erinnerungen an den Terror seiner Inhaftierung im Nationalsozialismus zutage und reißt eine seelische Wunde wieder auf, die erneut Dr. B.s geistige Gesundheit bedroht.

Don't miss the sapphic sports romcom from Adiba Jaigirdar from the award-winning author of Hani and Ishu's Fake Guide to DatingAll is fair in love and rivalry...Dina is done. She's burn out after years in corporate London and now is working in her family's struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a football team of disadvantaged amateur players - or to say yes.Maya is back. She could have had a brilliant career, but it all went...well wrong. Now she's back home, back in her childhood bedroom. Her only escape is agreeing to coach her old secondary school's team.It doesn't take long for them to bump into each other again and for as long as anyone can remember, Dina and Maya were rivals. But will the very game that tore them apart bring them back together?An enemies-to-lovers and angsty queer Bend it like Beckham meets Cross the Line jampacked with quirky side characters who cannot help but intervene to push their uptight managers together.

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women​, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

Viajando de Nova Iorque a Buenos Aires de navio, um grupo de passageiros paga Mirko Czentóvic, campeão mundial de xadrez, para disputar uma partida com eles. O enxadrista não encontra dificuldades para enfrentar seus oponentes amadores, até que surge o misterioso Doutor B, um advogado austríaco de aparência envelhecida que consegue, miraculosamente, calcular lances e estratégias capazes de fazer frente ao arrogante campeão. No meio do mar, os dois travam uma partida feroz, que traz à tona uma história de obsessão e isolamento, marcada pelo nazismo e pela prisão. Stefan Zweig enviou O Livro do Xadrez para seu editor em 1942, poucos dias antes de cometer suicídio em Petrópolis, junto a sua esposa. A novela, a única do autor austríaco a tratar diretamente do tema do nazismo, articula elementos autobiográficos ao enredo. Na leitura de Guilherme Weber, os movimentos do narrador se acendem, e podemos acompanhá-lo se aproximar e afastar dos oponentes, como se estivesse, também ele, envolvido nesse jogo de guerra.

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.