Ett intensivt regnande har plågat nordligaste Norrland hela hösten. Det är här, i Lule älv, mot den norska gränsen, som kraftverkens enorma vattenmagasin ligger på rad. En dag händer det ofattbara – plötsligt reser sig en grå vägg, det är dammarna som till slut brister, enorma krafter släpps lösa och en flodvåg som inte borde finnas sveper undan allt i sin väg. Bland de som drabbas finns den urbane samen som kör sport-Saaben för sitt liv samtidigt som tsunamin växer i backspegeln. Här är den självmordsbenägne helikopterpiloten som söker döden mot berget men kommer att flyga ikapp med fallvattnet, hans gravida dotter och den förlupna hustrun, här finns den utbrända lärarinnan – och kraftverksarbetaren som äntligen får chansen att visa fruntimren vem som faktiskt är starkast. Deras öden flätas samman i den desperata kampen mot katastrofen. Längs sin väg mot havet kommer vattenväggen inte bara att förändra landskapet för alltid, människornas liv blir aldrig detsamma – i den mån de överlever…

"För några år sen öppnade en snabbmatsrestaurang vid systembolaget. De valde det oambitiösa namnet Mat City, vilket ledde till att vi därefter började kalla saker efter dess utmärkande egenskap följt av city . En gång sa Davve till exempel att vi borde åka till diskot på Örnäset eftersom det kommer vara Röv City. Vindstilla kvällar är i regel Mygg City. Vid vårdcentralen bredvid Jocke och Davve ligger Häng City." En sommar utan krav och vuxen närvaro tar sin början. Tristess förträngs med dumdristighet och saknad med obrottslig vänskap. Ett villakvarter i Luleå drabbas av ett fruktansvärt brott, samtidigt som livet rullar på. Med skateboard, cykel, buss. Till stugan, ön, kojan i Häng City. Hur mycket chips tål egentligen en kropp? Varför döljer sig Robert Brännholms styvfarsa Rajje alltid till hälften när man hälsar på? Föddes han bakom ett plank?

"Binas historia" är en roman om en av de slumrande katastrofer som alltmer kommer i blickfånget: bidöden. Krisen med bisamhällen som slås ut världen över kan se ut som en perifer detalj i det ekologiska systemet. Men utan bin, ingen pollinering. Utan pollinering, inga växter. Och vad är förutsättningarna för liv utan växter? William är en melankolisk biolog och fröhandlare i England 1852, som bygger en helt ny sorts bikupor för att ge ära och berömmelse åt sig själv och familjen. George är biodlare i USA 2007 och kämpar för sin överlevnad men hoppas att sonen kan rädda gården. Men något håller på att hända med hans bin. Tao arbetar med handpollinering i ett framtida Kina där bina har försvunnit. Hennes högsta önskan är att sonen ska få ett bättre liv. Från de första trevande försöken att odla bin över det industriella lantbruket till en framtid utan bin. "Binas historia" är tre vackert och överraskande sammanfogade berättelser om relationer mellan föräldrar och barn, och om människans sårbarhet. Maja Lunde har skrivit manus för film och tv, och givit ut flera böcker för barn och ungdom, bland annat serien "Världens bästa gäng", som i höst ges ut på Natur & Kultur. "Binas historia" är hennes första roman för vuxna och har sålts till femton länder. Maja Lunde är bosatt i Oslo, Norge.

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian DIVERGENT series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.

Tres tazas de te( La lucha de un hombre por promover la paz escuela a escuela = Three Cups of Tea) Paperback GregMortenson RocaEditorial

Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra.Is she ever in for a surprise.First mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?

This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea. Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan, has arrived in this verdant corner of Prince Edward Island only to discover that the Cuthberts—elderly Matthew and his stern sister, Marilla—want to adopt a boy, not a feisty redheaded girl. But before they can send her back, Anne—who simply must have more scope for her imagination and a real home—wins them over completely. A much-loved classic that explores all the vulnerability, expectations, and dreams of a child growing up, Anne of Green Gables is also a wonderful portrait of a time, a place, a family… and, most of all, love. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JENNIFER LEE CARELL

This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

▶ Alternative Cover Edition #1 Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows. And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent. As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales. The Bear and the Nightingale is a magical debut novel from a gifted and gorgeous voice. It spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent.

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend. Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep? For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.