Fiction

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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens.

The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps, but lost her mother and sister, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it’s not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim is fixated on returning to normalcy.

Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.

The final installment of the phenomenal Fifty Shades trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed, is soon to be a major motion picture on Valentine's Day 2018 from Universal Studios.

"What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?" Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, "A little too plausible for comfort."

I, Robot: Noveller om robotikens utveckling och de tre robotlagarna. The Caves of Steel: Polisen Elijah Baley får hjälp av roboten R. Daneel Olivaw att lösa ett mord i yttre världarna. The Naked Sun: Baley och Daneel utreder ett mord på Solaria, där robotar eller en kvinna kan vara skyldiga. The Robots of Dawn: Efter Solaria-fallet hamnar Baley i onåd när det blir en hyperwave-såpa.

67 tales including:

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

 

30 poems including:

The Raven

Annabel Lee

A Dream Within a Dream

The Haunted Palace  

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people.

In this unforgettable novel a man and a gorilla embark on an intellectual adventure that redefines what it means to be human, and the role of our species on the planet.

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years.

Journalist Sandy Blair's investigation into the killing of a successful rock music promoter who made millions with his 1960s band, the Nazgul, takes him back into the lives of old friends, enmeshes him in a demonic plot, and threatens to make him a murderer. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. PinterestTwitter

In this unforgettable space opera, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin presents a chilling vision of eternal night--a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are often interchangeable.