Sixteen-year-old Wille and fourteen-year-old Hugo, two brothers from the small village of Horndal, are like other teenagers, dealing with love troubles, strong friendships, and school fatigue a typical teenage life where nothing unexpected happens.But fate has different plans, and after a terrifying nightmare, Wille receives a peculiar necklace from his mother. Soon he realises that reality is not what it seems, and Hugo is hiding a heavy secret from him. When a new guy starts in Willes class, it becomes the beginning of an adventure that takesWille and Hugo, along with their friends Oscar and Lovisa, far away from their hometown. The journey takes them through dense forests and over mighty mountains, all while being chased by demonic creatures and malevolent beings. Their guide is a mysterious, talking wolf that leads them north towards the mountainous regions near the Norwegian border.This is the story of Wille and his brother Hugo, who one day discover that they are gods and must leave their home in the human world to make their way to the gods realm in Asgard.It becomes an intense pursuit where they are hunted by forces of evil and must collaborate to stay alive until they reach safety. They must confront the darkness within themselves, and their friendship is put to the test as they face dangerous decisions and terrifying enemies.However, they also meet new friends who show them that friendship and love are worth fighting for. A tale of adventure, magic, sorrow, and terror but also humour, friendship, love, and embracing ones true self.A
Utåt sett är Niclas som vilken människa som helst, men under ytan finns år av ständig kamp att passa in i samhället och få omgivningen att förstå vad det innebär att leva med en osynlig funktionsvariation. Många gånger har han hamnat i utanförskap och drabbats av psykisk ohälsa, vilket har resulterat i spelmissbruk och tanken på att ta sitt liv. Med sin bok tar Niclas med dig på en resa från att tidigt känna sig annorlunda till hur det är att inte få rätt stöd i samhället.
From the bestselling 'Queen of Colouring', a gorgeous new colouring book that explores fairytale worlds and intricate magical vistas.Magical Worlds is a colouring book of faraway lands, enchanted castles, and inky realms, all featuring Johanna Basford's trademark illustrations. Let your creativity take you on an incredible journey as you add colour to underwater cities
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Global growth sets new records, poverty and illiteracy rates fall, technological innovation creates amazing opportunities. Still we are deeply discontent, there is something fundamentally wrong with contemporary society. Democracies are paralysed and produce authoritarian bullies as leaders, a growing underclass sedates itself with fast carbs and moronic entertainment. Society is infantilised and political discourse implodes.Digital Libido is a deep and brutal analysis of humanity"s rapidly increasing sense of loss and confusion in the network society. Departing from Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and his prophetic masterpiece Civilisation and its Discontents, philosophers and futurologists Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist create a tour de force while digging deep into the human condition in the internet age.Exposing every aspect of the complex relationship between Man and technology, Bard & Söderqvist clarify our current and future existential dilemmas.Welcome to the attentionalist chaos, where order gains such a massive value that people are willing to pay any price to obtain it. So what is happening? And why? Digital Libido answers the questions you were too scared to even ask.About the authors:ALEXANDER BARD is a philosopher, futurologist, spiritual and political activist. He has a background of almost three decades as a highly successful artist, producer and songwriter in the music industry. Bard is a globally renown lecturer and ideologue, both on the live stage and on a multitude of media platforms.JAN SÖDERQVIST is a philosopher, futurologist and lecturer. Söderqvist is a pioneer of online television, but has been professionally active in almost all conceivable media disciplines, such as the daily press, magazines, film, radio and television. He currently writes for the Swedish major daily Svenska Dagbladet and works as editor for Axess Magasin.
From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into.
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In the far future, after an alien threat destroyed Neptune, the Solar System has been engineered into a single, defensive fortress. People have found a way to live within that fortress, until something arrives from deep space, something they have never seen before...
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ECONOMIST, THE GUARDIAN The riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-a record-breaking, critically-acclaimed no.1 bestseller, now out in paperback'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on
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ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST • 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER • 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL • 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • THE OBSERVER AND THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK • A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg“Nothing less than a masterpiece. With epic research and mesmerizing narrative power, Judgment at Tokyo has the makings of an instant classic.”—Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaIn the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice.For more than two years, lawyers for both sides presented their cases before a panel of clashing judges from China, India, the Philippines, and Australia, as well as the United States and European powers. The testimony ran from horrific accounts of brutality and the secret plans to attack Pearl Harbor to the Japanese military’s threats to subvert the government if it sued for peace. Yet rather than clarity and unanimity, the trial brought complexity, dissents, and divisions that provoke international discord between China, Japan, and Korea to this day. Those courtroom tensions and contradictions could also be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded in the crucial early years of the Cold War, from China’s descent into civil war to Japan’s successful postwar democratic elections to India’s independence and partition.From the author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this magnificent history is the product of a decade of research and writing. Judgment at Tokyo is a riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the Asian postwar era.
Från borgen Ringstaholm på en ö mitt i Strömmen styrlydkung Erik Ring Norra Östgöta rike. Bredvid borgenligger en stuga. I den bor trälparet Vidar och Disa medbarnen Sigbjarn och Thora. Genom storkung Sigurd Ringhar Vidar förärats brytens värdighet med ansvar för borgoch gård då lydkung Erik Ring beger sig på resa, vilketsker allt som oftast.Vidar och allra mest Disa har ett ständigt samtalmed sina gudar, vilket inte är olikt andra människor i800-talets begynnelse. Genom völvan ger gudarna svar,men allt mer förbryllande. Vad är det som sker? I skugganav borgens murar hotas Vidars familj av faror ochprövningar. Är det gudarnas dom eller människors ondskasom så obevekligt för dem allt närmre avgrunden? Finnsdet en gräns för vad kärlek och tillit kan utstå?
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSINGAVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWAll Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love
Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past?_On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it.Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones - those who are lost - will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first mo
A frozen wilderness.A killer in the skies.When aspiring travel writer Chloe Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying to the North Pole, she thinks she's bagged the opportunity of a lifetime.But she hasn't had long to admire the dazzling icy views before a fellow passenger is found dead in their cabin.Trapped at the top of t
Beauty and the Beast meets The Sandman in this brand-new, scorching-hot fantasy!In a world where birth order determines your fate, what if everything you believed about yourself was a lie?Like all second-born daughters of the realm, Cerise Solon has never ventured beyond the temple grounds where she lives in service to the goddess. But unlike
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024'Mongrel is so beautiful that I became lost in it . . . Simply, it must be read' LISA TADDEO'A brilliant explosion of writing and storytelling . . . This feels like reading an Oscar-winning film' AISLING BEA'Heart-shatteringly visceral and precise . . . a triumphant tribute to the self' WIZ WHARTON'This compulsive, engrossing, and gorgeous debut will utterly consume you. Read it now' STEPHANIE SCOTT Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage but her growing desire for her best friend Fran.Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Far from home and in an unfamiliar city, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher.Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo's nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in the city's sex district. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light . . .Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope.
The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie, a recent divorcee's exclusive Big Sur resort vacation unravels when she discovers a dead body on the day of a wedding.
Source Code describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates' life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft and eventually for the entire software industry, changing the way the world works and lives.Gates writes about the centrality of family t
The motivation of the Father in everything that He is doing is love and He wants to fill us with His love. When that happens, our hearts will be transformed and we will start to look at reality through the eyes of God and dream His dreams. This will cause us to be possibility thinkers that tap into the full creativity of heaven. That is the only way that we can find new creative ways to reach the world with the gospel and to extend the Kingdom of God on this earth. As sons and daughters who are growing into the full inheritance of our Father, we will be part of spreading His love all over the world. That is what this book is all about.As we learn to abide in His love as a lifestyle, we will be renewed and transformed. This will create a longing within our hearts to break out of religious limitations and meaningless traditions that have held us back, so that we instead can pursue the visions and purposes of the Father by becoming more conformed into the image of Jesus everyday.
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is … complicated. So when her real dad - a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.
We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy. Using a combination of the latest neuroscience as well as her background in sociology and coaching, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an “anxiety spiral,” a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system—the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the “creativity spiral,” in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others—and with the world. The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life—one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.
We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn’t knock, there are ways to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but how far you’ve climbed to get there.
A dark, lyrical fantasy blending the world of the Fae with the stories mothers tell to keep their daughters safe - and the consequences of disregarding the truth, no matter how sinister.Gemma lives with her mother in an isolated antique shop in Michigan, near a small patch of woods that conceals an enchanted gateway to fairyland. She knows she's not supposed to go into the wo
The problem with telling tales is that you might get caught out by the twist: pre-order the most original literary thriller of 2024, from the author of the sensational Eight DetectivesA group of friends gather in a country house for a birthday party.At their host's request, they each write a short mystery. They draw names from a hat: in each story, one of
A smart, sizzling, ripped-from-the headlines romance between an international pop star and a major league baseball player.
A masterpiece of narrative non-fiction, set around an American crime and the birth of the FBI, a thrilling investigative account of a forgotten moment in history.
An investigative odyssey from Samuel Johnson-shortlisted author David Grann to unravel twelve great, real-life mysteries
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