Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life—divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house—and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang—who thrived and who faltered—and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie’s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou’s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both—and escape the merciless progress of time—in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.

An iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Neil Young has written his eagerly awaited memoir: 'I felt that writing books fit me like a glove; I just started and I just kept going'. Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical career, spanning his time in bands like Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crazy Horse; moving from the snows of Ontario through the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the contemplative paradise of Hawaii today. Candid, witty and revealing, this book takes its place beside the classic memoirs of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards.

Morten vokser op i ghettoen Urbanplanen på Amager med det værst tænkelige udgangspunkt - han er intelligent, dygtigere end sine jævnaldrende i skolen, og drømmer om at blive skuespiller. Men drømmene lever under umulige vilkår i et understimuleret miljø præget af vold og kriminalitet, samt en selvforstærkende underklasse-jantelov, der mere end noget andet dikterer, at man ikke skal tro, man er en skid.

Da Mortens forældre bliver skilt starter en kædereaktion af svigt, der vender op og ned på alt, og langsomt identificerer den stille og nørdede dreng sig mere og mere med sine indvandrervenner og deres had og vrede mod samfundet og ikke mindst sig selv.

Planen er en coming-of-age-fortælling om at være barn, vokse op, blive forelsket og forsøge at finde sig selv i et betændt multikulturelt mikrokosmos, som de færreste undslipper eller kender til. Samtidig er Planen en historisk roman om de menneskelige omkostninger ved 90’ernes fejlslagne integration og 00’ernes fjendtlige indvandrerdebat, der kulminerede med profet-karikaturer, bandekrig og en hovedstad, der blev sat i flammer.

Sandheden er krigens første offer.

Hvis du ikke forstår det, overlever du ikke.

Men hvad er forskellen på godt og ondt, hvis du mister alle moralske pejlemærker?

En flok unge danske mænd og kvinder har meldt sig til krigen i Afghanistan, drevet af retfærdighedssans og et behov for at afprøve sig selv under ekstreme omstændigheder. Men snart står de over for en udfordring, som ingen militær træning har forberedt dem på, og overlevelse mod alle odds bliver deres eneste mission.

Rollen som forfølgere og forfulgte skifter ustandseligt, indtil de ikke længere kan skelne mellem ven og fjende, virkelighed og fantasi. Men hvem er de så selv? Hvad er prisen for loyalitet og kammeratskab, og hvad gælder kampen?

Ove Steffensen, øverstkommanderende med solide rødder i dansk demokrati, må se sit livsgrundlag smuldre. Khaiber, dansk efterretningsagent med afghanske rødder, er selv splittet, da han forsøger at komme de forsvundne soldater til undsætning. Og en tilsyneladende almægtig modstander gemmer sig bag skiftende masker, mens han trækker i alle tråde.

Den første sten er en overrumplende fortælling om, hvad krig gør ved mennesker, der lever tæt sammen i konstant livsfare, om venskaber, forræderi og katastrofer.

Marts 1918. Tvillingerne Kaj og Ib Gottlieb rejser til Finland for at deltage som frivillige i borgerkrigen der netop er brudt ud deroppe, og deltager i stormen på byen Tampere.

Efter dette møde med krigen følger vi dem, hver for sig og sammen, i den lange fredstid, op gennem 20’ernes og 30’ernes tiltagende nazificering og uroligheder i Danmark og Tyskland, med afstikkere til Mellemøsten og USA.

Og med ét er de tilbage i krigen, i besættelsestid og modstandskamp, hvor de balancerer på en knivsæg i deres legen kispus med Gestapo i Københavns gader. Men hvor er afgrunden; er den i krigen eller i freden, eller er den et helt tredje sted?

Afgrunden er en stor fortælling om krig og freden, om kærligheden og drifternes veje og vildveje og om at være menneske i det onde 20. århundrede – og til hver en tid.

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo Bay detainee.

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. A federal judge ordered his release in March 2010, but the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go.

Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody, "his endless world tour" of imprisonment and interrogation, and his daily life as a Guantanamo prisoner. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir---terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious.

Published now for the first time, Guantanamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance and a riveting and profoundly revealing read.

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor’s accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and rebel condemned by his own country. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later.
In the introduction to his biography of the great Roman emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy writes, “Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as military leader, all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.

Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the world. Sure, it is romantic. But it was never easy. A foreigner arrives in the middle of a dark winter and must survive in Estonia, the "least fortunate Scandinavian country," a land where people eat blood sausage and jellied meat, drink warm bread, and are always on time; a place where every family is haunted by the past and is struggling to catch up to the present. Over the course of one year, so much happens in this tiny northern land that it stops being foreign. Estonia and the college grad turned journalist become intimately acquianted. Inseparable. And in the end, he comes to love it, even when they do not want to let him back into their country.

Ordet ’besat’ kan være både et adjektiv og den korte tillægsform af verbet besætte.Når man bruger adjektivet, taler man om en person, der er afsindig, bindegal, vanvittig og vild.Når man bruger verbet, er det i betydningen at annektere et område eller okkupere et land.Besat af Klaus Rifbjerg er fortællinger om begge dele.

Jomfruen fra Norge tar for seg selve skjebnetimen for det norske kongedynastiet i middelalderen.
Tidlig på høsten 1302 møttes en norsk konge og en svensk hertug på en holme i Göta älv. Der inngikk de en krigsallianse. For å besegle forbundet, lovet kongen bort sin ett år gamle datter. Han visste ikke at han samtidig la kongerikets skjebne på hennes små skuldre.

Jomfruen fra Norge tar for seg selve skjebnetimen for det norske kongedynastiet i middelalderen. Da Håkon 5. arvet kongsmakten ved inngangen til det urolige 1300-tallet, var han Nordens mektigste mann. Under ham nådde det norske riket sitt kulturelle og politiske høydepunkt. Men gjennom datterens forlovelse med den både ridderlige og hensynsløse hertug Erik av Sverige, ble han dratt inn i et maktspill som skulle få uante konsekvenser for Norges historie.

I likhet med debutboka Alv Erlingsson er dette en bredt anlagt historiebok om en lite kjent epoke i vår historie. Tore Skeie skildrer et intenst forhold mellom to sterke og svært forskjellige menn, som hver på sin måte definerte sin tid. Boka viser fram en tapt verden av riddere, trubadurer, slott og jomfruer, men også et nådeløst samfunn med skruppelløse maktmennesker, krigstog og leiesoldater. Og et politisk system der ekteskap mellom barn kunne avgjøre kongerikers framtid.

An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)

From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an area larger than the United Kingdom to its own vicious brand of Sharia law.
 
In The Islamist Phoenix , world-renowned terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni takes us beyond the headlines, demonstrating that while Western media portrays the Islamic State as little more than a gang of thugs on a winning streak, the organization is proposing a new model for nation building. Waging a traditional war of conquest to carve out the 21st-century version of the original Caliphate, IS uses modern technology to recruit and fundraise while engaging the local population in the day-to-day running of the new state. Rising from the ashes of failing jihadist enterprises, the Islamic State has shown a deep understanding of Middle Eastern politics, fully exploiting proxy war and shell-state tactics. This is not another terrorist network but a formidable enemy in tune with the new modernity of the current world disorder. As Napoleoni writes, “Ignoring these facts is more than misleading and superficial, it is dangerous. ‘Know your enemy’ remains the most important adage in the fight against terrorism.”

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

Mellem 2018 og 2024 var Danmark i undtagelsestilstand; der var kampe på Rådhuspladsen, politikere blev halshugget på åben gade, og bankfolk var en truet art. Borgerkrigen blev oplevet af en 25-årig mand, som 450 år senere ser tilbage på et langt liv. Den 475 år gamle rigmand bliver holdt i live af et avanceret stamcelleprogram, der muliggør hans overlevelse. Han fortæller om den skelsættende periode i sit liv til Geoff, som er 350 år. Geoff er en meget reflekteret bordercollie og rigmandens bedste ven. Rigmanden angrer bestemte handlinger fra sin første krig og kan ikke glemme de stærke følelser, der for ham var forbundet med den tid. Han oplevede sit livs største kærlighed og fortæller Geoff historier fra sit eget liv og fra en intens periode i Danmarkshistorien. Med det som baggrund udfolder sig en fortælling om, hvordan krisen i begyndelsen af nullerne fik det værste frem i danskerne, og hvordan samfundet ændrede sig; hvordan folk mistede tilliden til politikerne, og bankfolk blev jaget vildt, da de havde anbefalet folk at sætte sig i gæld; hvordan soldater blev ét med krigen, og hvordan afstanden mellem forskellige etniske og religiøse grupperinger blev større, og sidst, men ikke mindst, hvordan det at være rig fik livsvigtig betydning.
Den danske borgerkrig 2018-24 balancerer mellem det normale og afvigende, det meningsfulde og absurde i sin beskrivelse af, hvad der kan ske med et velfærdssamfund i krise.

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When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero -- an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium -- supreme power in the state.
Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro -- the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) -- was always by his side.
Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his -- or any other -- age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history.
Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own -- a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism -- to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.

"Et spøgelse går gennem verdens gader, Beatlernes spøgelse."
Sådan begynder BEATLEMANIFESTET. En fuld sømand er kommet i havn i Reykjavik, og med sig har han en sjælden lp, direkte importeret fra Sydengland. På pladen er de forførende toner af en ny tid, som giver anledning til et festfyrværkeri af drengestreger, som Island aldrig før har set mage til. Romanen blev nomineret til Islands litteraturpris i 2004.

Ikääntynyt Aliide Truu asuu yksin taloaan Viron maaseudulla. Maa on itsenäistynyt edellisenä vuonna ja maareformi on alkanut. Vanhan naisen arjen katkaisee pihalle pyörtynyt parikymppinen Zara. Tultuaan tajuihinsa Zara kertoo pakenevansa väkivaltaista miestään. Kohtaaminen nostaa Aliiden mieleen repivät muistot nuoruuden traagisesta rakkaudesta ja valinnoista, jotka sinetöivät hänen lähimpiensä kohtalon. Omiin epätoivoisiin ratkaisuihinsa pakotetun Zaran tilanne puolestaan osoittaa, että vaikka aika on toinen, vaino ei ole loppunut, muuttanut vain muotoaan.
Puhdistuksen syvintä ydintä on petos, johon epätoivoiset tunteet ajavat. Romaani avaa myös Viron vaiettua lähihistoriaa yhden suvun kokemusten kautta.
Kirja antaa äänen sodan, kommunismin ja sorron uhreille. 1940-luvulla koettujen nöyryytysten ohella teoksessa nousee esiin nykynaisiin epävakaissa yhteiskunnallisissa olosuhteissa kohdistuva hyväksikäyttö.

‘I recommend this book to anyone wishing to help children learn. In it you will find some lovely ideas for improving the way we encourage, support and praise all young people.’
Professor Carol Dweck, author of Mindset , Stanford University, USA
‘James has developed a rare skill for blending arresting anecdotes, hard-edged research and practical advice into a truly compelling narrative.’
Professor Barry Hymer, author of the Gifted and Talented Pocket Book, Cumbria University, UK
Over the last 20 years James Nottingham has studied how children learn. He has taught every age group in both primary and secondary schools, helped deaf teenagers deal with anger and isolation and even done philosophy with three-year-olds.
In this inspiring, humorous, and practical book he shows what you can do to help children of all ages develop into confident, thoughtful and independent learners. Based around the acronym ASK, this book explores attitudes, skills and knowledge to learning – what is required and how to develop these skills more effectively. It shows how to encourage independent thinking and a spirit of inquiry in your children.
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With a foreword written by John Hattie , Encouraging Learning draws on research from some of the most respected experts on thinking and learning to identify the best ways to help children learn more effectively, efficiently and co-operatively.
For everyone living or working with children – particularly teachers, parents, carers and youth workers - this book shows you some of the best ways to enhance children’s learning, including how to question, praise, and encourage more effectively.

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections , a darkly comedic novel about family

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walterenvironmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manshe was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzoutré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rivalstill doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become a very different kind of neighbor,” an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections , Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom ’s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

Two Brothers is a heartrending story of two boys growing up under the darkening shadow of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1920 and raised by the same parents, one boy is Jewish, his adopted brother is Aryan. At first, their origins are irrelevant. But as the political landscape changes they are forced to make decisions with horrifying consequences.