Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.
Amanda Payne says:
"Gripping!"
Stephen King dives into hard-boiled fiction with his latest novel, Joyland. Part horror story, part crime thriller, part coming-of-age journey, Joyland follows college student Devin to his new job working at a carnival in North Carolina, where he will have to confront the legacy of a vicious murder that took place there years before.
How do you make sure a crime that hasn’t happened yet, never does? That’s the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it’s the living who desperately need Odd on their side. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot.
G. House Sr. says:
"Oddly Excellent!"
Master of suspense Dean Koontz is back with the latest novel in his popular Odd Thomas series. In this supernatural thriller, Odd must assist the living by trying to prevent the murder of three innocents at the hands of a man with powers and abilities superior to his own...
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what.
FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world’s most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years the only name she’s cared about is Nicolas Fox - an international crook she wants in more ways than one.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.
Narrated By Khaled Hosseini, Navid Negahban, Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Khaled Hosseini, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.
Andrew Yancy - late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office - has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first - this being Hiaasen country - Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters.
How do you make sure a crime that hasn’t happened yet, never does? That’s the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it’s the living who desperately need Odd on their side. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot.
Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when--or if--it will go away.
Narrated By Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, and others
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Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849: Eli McCullough is 13 years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and waging war against their enemies, including white men - which complicates his sense of loyalty and understanding of who he is.
Melinda says:
"Five Stars for the Lone Star, The Son, & Meyer"
Narrated By Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, and others
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.
Grace Stanton’s life as a rising media star and beloved lifestyle blogger takes a surprising turn when she catches her husband cheating and torpedoes his pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool. Grace suddenly finds herself locked out of her palatial home, checking account, and even the blog she has worked so hard to develop in her signature style. Moving in with her widowed mother, who owns and lives above a rundown beach bar called The Sandbox, is less than ideal. So is attending court-mandated weekly "divorce recovery" therapy sessions with three other women and one man for whom betrayal seems to be the only commonality. When their “divorce coach” starts to act suspiciously, they decide to start having their own Wednesday "Ladies' Night" sessions at The Sandbox, and the unanticipated bonds that develop lead the members of the group to try and find closure in ways they never imagined. Can Grace figure out a new way home and discover how strong she needs to be to get there?
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
Jacqueline says:
"Finish to Start Excellent is Novel This"
From Rose Tremain comes the Booker Prize short-listed novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times). Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he’s called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise.
I Rejsen til Jorden tager det lille, kartoffellignende væsen Flop fra det ydre rum på en ikke helt ufarlig rejse mod Jorden for at finde ud af, om det findes liv på andre planeter end Flops egen.
Horace Chase arrives on Hilton Head Island to pay his last respects at the Intracoastal Waterway where his late mother's ashes were spread and to inspect the home his mother left him in her will. What could possibly go wrong? Chase and his team need to remember a basic tenet from their days in covert operations: Nothing is ever as it appears
Skæbne-anekdoter er Karen Blixens sidste store samling af fortællinger. Den udkom i 1958, fire år før hendes død, og indeholder "Dykkeren", "Babettes Gæstebud", "Storme", "Den udødelige Historie" og "Ringen".
There’s a 3,000 dollar bounty on James Bennett’s head, and Marty Keller intends to collect it. Deep in the Oklahoma badlands, Keller pins down his quarry with warning shots, but a ricocheting bullet strikes Bennett in the back and mortally wounds him. Keller returns to Fort Wayne to collect his reward, only to be branded a back shooter by the townsfolk. Then, to his surprise, Bennett’s widow pleads with him to escort her and her young son to their new home in Wyoming Territory.
Two short stories by H.G. Wells displaying his gift for creating thought-provoking themes. "The Diamond Maker" is a story about a chance encounter between two men who then must decide whether they can trust each other. "The Door in the Wall" is a fascinating tale about a successful politician who struggles to merge the beauty of his imagined world with the rationality of real life.
En bil krockar av oförklarlig anledning med ett Intercitytåg. Elva människor dör. Men vad ledde egentligen fram till olyckan? Fanns det ett exakt startögonblick? Vem mer än bilföraren delar skulden? Alla händelser förgrenar sig bakåt, tillfälligheter länkas i ett oändligt nät som leder fram till nu. I hela sitt liv har Bodil anpassat sig efter omgivningens behov och förväntningar. 55 år gammal drabbas hon av obotlig sjukdom som mäter ut hennes tid.
The Cowboy Wins a Bride: The Cowboys of Chance Creek, Book 2
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By Cora Seton
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All Jamie Lassiter wants is to marry his best friend's sister and settle down for the rest of his life in Chance Creek. He's saved his money, bought into the Cruz Guest Ranch and he's ready for that wedding, but Claire Cruz is nowhere to be found. Claire's too busy leaving Montana behind to care about cowboys or their wedding plans. She's got plans of her own - a trip around the world. She'll go as soon as she buys her tickets and she doesn't care if she ever sees Chance Creek again.
Fire historier om den sjove og opfindsomme krudtugle Vitello, der bor i et rækkehus sammen med Mor. Mor siger, at hans far er en sjuft, og at Vitello bare kan glemme ham. Det kan Vitello ikke. For han har jo aldrig mødt ham. Vitello går med kniv - og andre historier udgør bind 5-8 i Kim Fupz Aakesons nye, succesfulde serie om drengen Vitello.
Fire historier om drengen Vitello [Four Stories About the Boy Vitello]
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By Kim Fupz Aakeson
Narrated By Nicolas Bro
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Vitello hedder Vitello, fordi Mor har boet i Italien i to måneder, dengang hun var meget ung og vist også meget smuk. Men nu bor Mor i et rækkehus ved ringvejen sammen med Vitello. Man kan sige meget om Vitello, men kedeligt bliver det aldrig. Vitello er nemlig ikke ret god til at kede sig, så han skal nok finde på noget - enten sammen med de irriterende tvillinger Max og Hasse eller sammen med møgungen William eller osse bare sammen med sig selv.
Hur du nästan korsar Atlanten [How To Almost Cross the Atlantic]
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By Cressida Cowell
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I den Barbariska Övärlden är det åter dags för Vikingasimmet där de olika vikingastammarna får tillfälle att visa vad de verkligen går för. Det är nämligen den deltagare som tar sig i land sist som vinner. Hicke, de Håriga Huliganernas arvinge, ser inte fram emot att tillbringa dagar, ja kanske veckor ute på havet, och bästa kompisen Fiskfot kan inte ens simma! Som om de inte har nog med problem blir vännerna tillfångatagna av Råbert Rådbråke som är ute på en expedition till Amerika.
Narrated By Johan Svensson, Peter Öberg, Susanne Karlsson, and others
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Tioårige August Pullman vet att folk stirrar på honom. Trots att han gömmer sig bakom sin långa lugg och envist tittar ner i marken känner han deras blickar och hör deras viskningar. Det enda August önskar är att få vara som alla andra barn. Men han föddes med ett deformerat ansikte. Hela familjen påverkas av Augusta tillstånd. Och nu sätts de på nya prov då han inte längre kan hemundervisas utan måste börja i femte klass i en närbelägen skola.