Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people.

From John Reed, author of the controversial Orwell parody, Snowball's Chance, comes a subversive satire of modern culture, the complete lack thereof, and a lost generation that no one even tried to look for.

A woman falls into a coma.

Becky Chan's life gets off to a rocky start.

"e;A moving novel"e; of a family's struggle with trauma written in "e;clear prose"e; that lends "e;a luminous quality to [a] story of thriving against the odds"e;(People magazine).

Un résident de Montréal nommé Zap prend son congé en décembre pour s’évader vers l’Amazonie.

Traumatische Erlebnisse können das Leben eines Menschen tiefgreifend verändern.

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.

A lone Londoner maps the city, hearing beneath its surface the urgent whispers of the past.

With the suspense of a thriller and the moral resonance of a Joseph Conrad classic, The Stowaway is an adventure story of the highest caliber, a profound tale of good and evil all the more moving because it is based on actual events.

Eine Neuausgabe des Romans, den Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding für seinen besten hieltIn seinem Roman »Die Erben« reist Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding in die Vorzeit zurück und versetzt uns in das Leben der Neandertaler.

Returning to Ashok K.

Twin brothers are reunited after twenty years of silence and blame when the prodigal son returns home .

Una historia apasionante que ahonda en el amor incondicional y en la lucha por sobrevivir a un destino ya escrito.

Bestselling author ';May Sarton has never been better than she is in this beautiful, harrowing novel about being old, unwanted, yet refusing to give up' (The Boston Globe).

In Search of the Grail continues Svetislav Basara?

'Disturbing, compelling, beautifully translated' The Times'Electric, urgent, luminous .

Joseph Destouches et Manon Jouvente sont deux jeunes envoyés spéciaux qui suivent pour le compte de leur journal respectif le Tour de France 2035.

Welcome to Kapri James-White's world.

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';A truly wonderful tale of spirit, faith and true friendship' in the quilting series from the New York Times bestselling author of Threading the Needle (Fresh Fiction).

Taz is the ruthless leader of an elite group of bandits who rule the streets of Oklahoma City.

Daniel de Roulet hat wandernd ein Kreuz über sein Land gemacht, um zu Fuss das zu erforschen, was Charles Ferdinand Ramuz «geografischen Patriotismus» genannt hat.

In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic lossthe death of her daughter, Paula.

From the author of A Patrimony of Fishes, eight darkly comic short stories set in contemporary central California.

The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery.

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S’appuyant sur Tom, protagoniste principal de ce roman, l’auteur relate son expérience de la rébellion ivoirienne en 2002.

On the isle of Crete, a renowned physicist experiments with the nature of reality in this enthralling novel from the author of Broken Symmetries.

Modern Romance July 2015 Books 1-4THE RUTHLESS GREEK'S RETURN by Sharon KendrickOnce Loukas Sarantos was bodyguard to the world's richest men.

An ambitious photojournalist.

Soar through the skies with Antoine de Saint-Exupery in this captivating tale of friendship, adventure, and the power of the written word.

';Food and love and loss and resilience.

Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the child, make specialist assessments where there are continuing safeguarding concerns (using the Assessment Framework) and plan effective child-centred and outcome-focused interventions.

One in four people suffer from phobias, yet, they are the easiest psychological problem to treat.

Growing up in a small New England town, 14 year-old Donna Milewski had all she needed: a grandmother, Babci, whose fragrant cooking filled their home.

'Disturbing, logical and very funny.

In the face of a slow but impending apocalypse, what binds three seemingly divergent lives (a writer, a photographer, an old man), isn't the commonality of a perceived future death, but the layered and complex fabric of how loss, abuse, trauma, and death have shaped their pasts, and how these pasts continue to haunt their present moments, a moment in which time seems to be running out.

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Franzine, eine starke Frau, die von ihrem Ehemann oft verdunkelt zu Hause zurückgelassen wird, hatte bewiesen, dass sie sich und ihr Kind durchbringen kann.

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023THE TORONTO STAR 'MUST READ, HANDS DOWN BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR'Cat Person meetsStation Elevenin this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity.

A Light in the Tunnel will ignite the fire raging in the depths of your heart.

Es gibt außergewöhnliche Lebewesen in den tiefen Wassern vor der Insel Con Dao.

Eleven electric stories of lost women, gay men, curious children, and nostalgic adults from the bestselling author of Notes from an Exhibition.