Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Herman Melville (Kindle)
The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage
Cured
Jeff Rediger (Physical)
When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules.
Vanedyr
Nicklas Brendborg (Physical)
Vi spiser usundt, vi spilder tid på telefonen, og vi binger Netflix. Men er det vores eget valg, eller har en hær af forskere, hyret af de største industrier, truffet det for os? …
White Holes
Carlo Rovelli (Borrowed)
This is the story of an ongoing adventure. We will get to the edge of the horizon. We will enter it. We will go to the very bottom. We will cross it and break through to emerge in a white hole on the other side.
Eating to Extinction
Dan Saladino (Borrowed)
From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of being lost for ever. …
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt (Physical)
In 'Ill Fares The Land' Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic …
Helgoland
Carlo Rovelli (Borrowed)
The title refers to Heligoland, an island in the North Sea where Werner Heisenberg secluded himself while developing the basic ideas of quantum mechanics in 1925
Beyond the Door of No Return
David Diop (Kindle)
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s Maram. …
At Night All Blood is Black
David Diop (Kindle)
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. …
Lázár
Nelio Biedermann (Kindle)
At the turn of the 20th century, the Lázárs welcome their newest member in their rural summer estate, surrounded by a menacingly dark, enchanting forest. …
The Pope and Mussolini
David I. Kertzer (Kindle)
The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch (Kindle)
An exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a country – and an ordinary family – on the brink of catastrophe. …
Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver (Kindle)
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. …
Cosmos
Carl Sagan (Kindle)
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. …
The Barbarous Years
Bernard Bailyn (Kindle)
The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich (Kindle)
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and …
Beloved
Toni Morrison (Kindle)
The story, set in post-Civil War Ohio, of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of …
The Discomfort of Evening
Lucas Rijneveld (Kindle)
The Discomfort of Evening concerns the life of ten-year old Jas, a Dutch girl who lives with her Reformed family on a dairy farm in the Netherlands. Jas is grieving the death of her brother Matthies, who died in an ice skating accident. …
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
Sari Nusseibeh (Kindle)
A Palestinian scholar and leader offers a look at the troubling recent history of his country and the Middle East from a Palestinian perspective, sharing his rationale for promoting a two-state solution to the problems affecting the region
Bodies of Light
Jennifer Down (Kindle)
A saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie. I had no way of knowing whether he was nuts or not; whether he might go to the cops. …
The Disordered Cosmos
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Kindle)
A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom (Kindle)
How one courageous family triumphed over hate
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver (Kindle)
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets …
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan (Kindle)
In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. …
Zuleikha
Guzel Yakhina (Kindle)
The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. …
Apeirogon
Colum McCann (Kindle)
The story follows two real life figures: Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian scholar who, when he was 17, had been sentenced to a 7 year term of imprisonment for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. …
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake (Physical)
"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to …
To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara (Kindle)
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. …
The Midwife
Katja Kettu (Kindle)
Orphaned into an unforgiving foster home and raised as an outsider, Weird-Eye shoulders her unflattering nickname. …
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr (Kindle)
A soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. …
Døren
Magda Szabó (Physical)
Roman om venskabet mellem to meget forskellige kvinder. Magda er forfatter, ung, veluddannet og gift med en akademiker. Emerance er fra landet, analfabet, karakterfast og tilsyneladende uden alder. …
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré (Kindle)
"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. …
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett (Kindle)
A story that tracks the lives of twin African American twin sisters who, after witnessing the murder of their father, run away at age 16. One sister begins passing as white and the other sister remains true to her identity. …
American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins (Kindle)
Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. …
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead (Kindle)
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. …
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Jeff Hobbs (Kindle)
A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
There There
Tommy Orange (Kindle)
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. …
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton (Kindle)
Wonderful novel taking place in New-Zealand during the golden rush.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah (Kindle)
Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. …
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
Krystyna Chiger (Kindle)
East West Street
Philippe Sands (Kindle)
On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai (Kindle)
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. …
The Overstory
Richard Powers (Kindle)
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late-twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. …
Moonglow
Michael Chabon (Kindle)
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens (Kindle)
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. …
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid (Kindle)
Saeed and Nadia, who live in an unnamed city undergoing civil war, finally have to flee, using a system of magical doors that lead to different locations around the globe.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson (Kindle)
"In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. …
Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak (Kindle)
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own …
The Haj
Leon Uris (Kindle)
The Haj is a novel about a Palestinian Arab family caught up in the area's historic events of the 1920s–1950s as witnessed by Ishmael, the youngest son. …
The Choice
Edith Eger (Kindle)
"A powerful, moving memoir--and a practical guide to healing--written by Dr. …
Educated
Tara Westover (Kindle)
Educated is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. …
Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver (Kindle)
Unsheltered follows two parallel narratives set in Vineland, New Jersey, in the late nineteenth century and the present day, both centered on the same deteriorating house. …
Milkman
Anna Burns (Kindle)
Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl, "middle sister", who is harassed by an older married man known as "the milkman" and then as "Milkman"
Warlight
Michael Ondaatje (Kindle)
In 1945, just after World War II, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. …
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan (Kindle)
George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. …
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Robert Dugoni (Kindle)
Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called "Devil Boy" or Sam "Hell" by his classmates; "God’s will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. …
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan (Kindle)
"Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. …
Det forsvundne barn
Elena Ferrante Napoli-romanerne #4 (Physical)
"Det forsvundne barn" er fjerde og sidste bind i Elena Ferrantes fantastiske romanserie om Elena og Lila. …
Dem der flygter og dem der bliver
Elena Ferrante Napoli-romanerne #3 (Physical)
Tredje del af Elena Ferrantes fremragende Napoli-romaner foregår fra slutningen af 1960’erne til midten af 1970’erne og har som undertitel ’Tiden i midten’. …
Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh Ibis Trilogy #3 (Kindle)
"The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial …
Historien om et nyt navn
Elena Ferrante Napoli-romanerne #2 (Physical)
Andet bind i de berømte Napoli-romaner udkommer nu som paperback. En besættende roman om to unge kvinders liv i 1960'ernes Italien, før ungdomsoprør og kvindefrigørelse. …
Min geniale veninde
Elena Ferrante Napoli-romanerne #1 (Physical)
Min geniale veninde er historien om to piger der vokser op i en fattig del af Napoli i 50’erne. …
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward (Kindle)
They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. …
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris (Kindle)
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. …
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward (Kindle)
Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. …
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent (Kindle)
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. …
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders (Kindle)
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. …
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara (Kindle)
The novel revolves around the lives of four friends, and how their relationship changes under the influence of success, wealth, addiction, and pride.
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead (Kindle)
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. …
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry (Kindle)
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War.Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled …
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Kindle)
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz (Kindle)
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. …
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson (Physical)
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. …
Finders Keepers
Stephen King (Physical)
"Wake up genius." So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. …
The Accursed
Joyce Carol Oates (Physical)
This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. …
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan (Physical)
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love Richard Flanagans story — of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncles wife — journeys from the caves of Tasmanian …
The Secret History
Donna Tartt (Physical)
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their …
Mr Mercedes
Stephen King (Physical)
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. …
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco (Physical)
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. …
The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer (Physical)
An extraordinary portrait of one man's journey through the spinning vortex that is mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.
Canada
Richard Ford (Physical)
After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace …
Doctor Sleep
Stephen King The Shining #2 (Physical)
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. …
Sunset Park
Paul Auster (Physical)
After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.
Secret Speech
Tom Rob Smith (Physical)
Soviet Union, 1956. Stalin is dead, and a violent regime is beginning to fracture-leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. …
Down Under
Bill Bryson (Physical)
In a Sunburned Country is the 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The title is taken from the famous Australian poem, "My Country". …
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Alexander McCall Smith (Physical)
Behind Edinburgh's regimented Georgian facades, its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty, lust and murderous intent. Isabel Dalhousie knows this. Isabel, in fact, rather relishes it. …
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith (Physical)
Grace Makutsi is promoted to associate detective and handles a case herself. Mma Ramotswe helps the hospital in Mochudi deal with a string of mysterious patient deaths. …
In One Person
John Irving (Physical)
Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of …
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell #2 (Physical)
Part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII.
The Burning Land
Bernard Cornwell The Saxon Stories #5 (Physical)
In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born.At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in ill health; his heir, an untested youth. His enemy, the Danes, having failed to conquer Wessex, now see their chance for victory. …
Sword Song
Bernard Cornwell The Saxon Stories #4 (Physical)
The fourth in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.Our hero, Uhtred, has been made Governor of London. …
Claras's War
Clara Kramer (Physical)
After the Nazis reached the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for jewish 15-year old Clara was never to be the same again. While those around here where slaughtered or transported, Clara's family and two others hid in a hand-dug bunker. …
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Stephen King The Dark Tower #4.5 (Physical)
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. …
11.22.63
Stephen King (Physical)
About a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date)
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell #1 (Physical)
Brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. …
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins (Borrowed)
With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. …
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver (Borrowed)
In this gripping novel of motherhood gone awry, Lionel Shriver approaches the tragedy of a high-school massacre from the point of view of the killer's mother. …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #7 (Borrowed)
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind. …
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #6 (Borrowed)
One summer night, when Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shriveled, but he will not reveal why. …
The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins (Physical)
Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution. …
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen (Goodreads)
An international bestseller and the novel of the year, ‘Freedom’ is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. …
The Slap
Christos Tsiolka (Borrowed)
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen.
Russka
Edward Rutherfurd (Physical)
Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, politics, and culture, Rutherford's grand sage is as multifaceted as Russia herself: harsh yet exotic, proud yet fearful of enemies, steeped in ancient superstitions but always seeking to …
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert (Borrowed)
Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. …
Days Without Number
Robert Goddard
" ... Nick Paleologus, a coolly efficient Englishman, is summoned home to resolve a dispute that threatens to tear his family apart. His father Michael is a retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium. …
Fatal Voyage
Kathy Reichs (Recycled)
Tempe Brennan finds "a shocking, multilayered tale of deceit and depravity" and a disembodied foot that couldn't have been involved in the crash when she rushes to help at the scene of an Air TransSouth flight that's crashed in the …
Et glas mælk, tak
Herbjørg Wassmo (Borrowed)
Dorte er 15 år og bor i en landsby i Litauen. Her drømmer hun ikke om det store eventyr, men om det konkrete og nære: bagerens søn Nikolaj, lidt mindre fattigdom, og at hendes far stadig var i live. …
Omega
Patrick Lynch
Overlægen og enkemanden Marcus Ford er bekymret over den overdrevne brug af antibiotika, som er med til at gøre en række bakterier og virus resistente. …
Pirate Latitudes
Michael Chrichton
An adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. …
The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver (Physical)
Mexico, 1935. Harrison Shepherd is working in the household of famed muralist Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. Sometimes cook, sometimes secretary, Shepherd is always an observer, recording his experiences in diaries and notebooks. …
Perfect Match
Jodi Picoult (Borrowed)
In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. …
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë (Kindle)
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. …
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton (Goodreads)
Two families marked by tragedy are thrown together in a rambling house with a past. The Lambs and the Pickles struggle with chance and bad luck in the crosscurrents of the world.
Empire Falls
Richard Russo (Physical)
"Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. …
By The Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Physical)
Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker. When he meets Latif, a voluntary refugee, in a small English seaside town, there begins an unravelling of a story begun long ago.
The Sisters Antipodes
Jane Alison (Physical)
When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a rather in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls, the younger two - one of them Jane - sharing a birthday with so much in common, …
The Wives of Henry Oades
Johanna Moran (Physical)
In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. …
The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb (Physical)
In his new novel, The Hour I First Believed, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of …
Mortal Fear
Robin Cook (Recycled)
Jason Howard had used his career as a doctor to help him escape a private tragedy. But now his patients are dying from massive heart attacks, patients previously declared healthy by Jason's own examinations. …
Rule Britannia
Daphne du Maurier
US marines land in Cornwall and Mad - a world famous ex-actress - autrocratic and irresistible, rallies her family, friends and neighbours to protect their heritage.
Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo (Physical)
Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. …
American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld
On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House--and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, "almost …
Bereft
Chris Womersley (Physical)
The year is 1919 and the Great War has ended. Sergeant Quinn Walker, damaged body and soul by his experiences in the killing fields of France, decides to return home to the small and desolate town of Flint, Australia, to set right the past.
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt (Physical)
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. …
The Appeal
John Grisham
Carl Trudeau is very unhappy that the Mississippi court system has ruled against his chemical company. …
Brødrene
John Grisham (Physical)
The "Brethren" are three disgraced former judges incarcerated at a fictional federal minimum security prison who embark on a scam to blackmail wealthy closeted gay men. Unfortunately, the judges ensnare a candidate for U.S. …
Empire of Silver
Conn Iggulden Conqueror #4 (Physical)
The Great Kahn is dead, but hisnlegend and his legacy lives on. Hisnson Ogedainhas built a White City on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. …
Under the Dome
Stephen King (Physical)
The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, …
Dinosaurens fjer
Sissel-Jo Gazan (Physical)
Anna er vred. På sin mor, sit liv, sit biologispeciale og ikke mindst på sin vejleder på Biologisk Institut, der har været umulig gennem et helt år. Da vejlederen bliver fundet myrdet, ligner det hævn, men har Anna slået ham ihjel? …
206 Bones
Kathy Reichs (Physical)
'You have an enemy, Dr Brennan. It is in your interest to learn who placed that call.'A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. …
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger (Physical)
Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were …
The Pale Horseman
Bernard Cornwell The Saxon Stories #2 (Physical)
Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance, adrift in a world of fire and treachery. He has to make a choice: whether to fight for the Vikings who raised him, or for King Alfred who dislikes him. Wessex is the last English kingdom. …
Last Night in Twisted River
John Irving (Physical)
In 1945, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. …
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh Ibis Trilogy #1 (Physical)
On an old slaving ship named the Ibis, fate has thrown together a motley crew of sailors, coolies and convicts, including a bankrupt raja, a French runaway and a widowed opium farmer. …
Havets katedral
Ildefonso Falcones (Borrowed)
1300-tallets Barcelona er i stadig forandring. Pesten hærger, krige er under opsejling og inkvisitionen står på spring. …
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak (Borrowed)
Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street during the dark days of the Third Reich. …
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson (Borrowed)
Poor little Nell - orphan girl and adrift in a future world of Confuian law and neo-Victoria values, nano-machines and walk-in body alteration. Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. …
Englens spil
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Physical)
Handlingen er henlagt til Barcelona i 1920'erne, hvor den unge journalist David Martin ernærer sig som forfatter. En dag modtager David et brev med et laksegl, der forestiller en lille engel. …
Jerusalem
Selma Lagerlöf (Physical)
Jerusalem er en slægs- og kærlighedsroman fra Dalarna omkring århundredeskiftet. Central i bogen står Ingmarssønnerne, de velanskrevne ejere af Ingmarsgården, der har tilhørt slægten i generationer. …
London
Edward Rutherfurd (Physical)
Lonodon has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. ow its story has a unique voice. …
A Fraction of the Whole
Steve Toltz (Physical)
From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of this scheming father, Martin, his crazy uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire contient. …
The Children's Book
A.S. Byatt (Physical)
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, …
Still Alice
Lisa Genova (Physical)
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. …
What do You Care What Other People Think?
Richard P. Feynman (Physical)
One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life.
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell The Saxon Stories #1 (Physical)
Uthred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. …
Child 44
Tom Rob Smith (Physical)
In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to his execution. …
Surely you're joking mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman (Physical)
The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. …
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi (Physical)
In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by trianing, takes the elements of the periodic table as his inspiration. …
The pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard P. Feynman (Physical)
This collection of the best short works of rule-breaking genius Richard Feynman shows his passion for knowledge and sense of fun at their most infectious. …
One Fifth Avenue
Candace Bushnell (Recycled)
For the women in Candace Bushnell's stellar new novel, One Fifth Avenue is at the heart of the lives they've carefully established, or hope to establish. …
The Gods of War
Conn Iggulden Emperor #4 (Physical)
Julius Ceasar, fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. His goal: to unseat Pompey, now dictator of Rome. But waging war on your own people is never easy. …
The Field of Swords
Conn Iggulden Emperor #3 (Physical)
Julius Caesar has taken his legions north into mighthy battles with the Gallic tribes. …
The Death of Kings
Conn Iggulden Emperor #2 (Physical)
The young Caesar must overcome enemies on land and at sea to become a battle-hardened leader – in the spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of The Gates of Rome. …
The Gates of Rome
Conn Iggulden Emperor #1 (Physical)
The early life of Julius Caesar is recreated in a novel that brilliantly interweaves history and adventure. …
Bones of the Hills
Conn Iggulden Conqueror #3 (Physical)
The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of the Bow', has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. …
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates (Physical)
Beautiful Hazel Jones and her young son Zach are liked and admired by all they meet - but they inspire curiosity too. …
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy (Physical)
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the book comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy. The book chronicles the French invasion of Russia and its aftermath during the Napoleonic era. …
The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie (Physical)
There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling-card? To leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. …
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield (Borrowed)
Anglefield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once the imposing home of the March family - fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, Charlie, her brutal and dangerous brother, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmelin and Adeline. …
A Quiet Belief in Angels
R. J. Ellory (Goodreads)
1939. In the small, rural community of Augusta Falls, twelve-years-old Joseph Vaughan hears of the brutal assault and murder of a young girl, the first in a series of kilings that will blight the community over the next decade. …
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth (Physical)
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. …
Lord of the Bow
Conn Iggulden Conqueror #2 (Physical)
Temujin of the Wolves has become Genghis Khan, a man who must unite the most fractious, warlike tribes on earth. He intends to forge a new nation out of the wild plains and mountains of Mongolia. …
Battle Cry
Leon Uris (Physical)
Moving, shocking, tense, and glorious, here is a magnificent saga of men at war - Leon Uris's famous novel about life in the jaws of death, in the U.S. Marine Corps. Here are the men from the cities, farms, and whistle-stops. …
Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter
Kazik (Physical)
This riveting memoir, tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defy the Nazis against impossible odds. …
Mila 18
Leon Uris (Physical)
It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy - and a time of transcendent courage and determination. …
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee (Physical)
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technial University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. …
Blaze
Stephen King (Borrowed)
The last of the Bachman novels, written in 1973 and published for the first time. Stephen King's Dark Half may have saved the best for last. …
Med døden til følge
Michael Palmer (Borrowed)
Da den lokale læge Matt Ruttledge, i den lille by Belinda, pludselige har venteværelset fyldt med patienter, der vrvøvler usammenhængende, og alle har store buler i ansigtet, mistænker han først byens største arbejdsplads, et …
Wolf of the Plains
Conn Iggulden Conqueror #1 (Physical)
A remarkable story of heroism and adventure, of a boy who had to become a man too soon, of a family and a tribe who had to learn to win to survive. …
The Other Side of the Story
Marian Keyes (Physical)
The agent Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss Mark The bestseller Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. …
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials #3 (Borrowed)
In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. …
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials #2 (Borrowed)
Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance. …
Yacoubians Hus
Alaa Al-Aswany (Physical)
En sprudlende roman om sex, religion, politik, penge, magt, afmagt - og kærlighed. Intet mindre. Aswany tegner et enestående, farverigt og kompromisløst portræt af livet i det moderne Kairo. …
I den røde dronnings slot
Lars Jakobsen (Recycled)
På samme tid som rumfærgerne gik til Mars i 1950erne, sidder romanens hovedperson, Martin, i sit barndomshjem i Dalarna. …
Six Easy Pieces
Richard P. Feynman (Physical)
This classic book is an essential introduction to the world of physics by one of its greatest teachers and icons. …
The Dark Tower
Stephen King The Dark Tower #7 (Physical)
This magnificent novel is the final volume in Stephen King's epic masterpiece and the most anticipated book in his legendary carreer. …
Song of Susannah
Stephen King The Dark Tower #6 (Physical)
The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-packed story of double-barreled suspense. …
Wizard and Glass
Stephen King The Dark Tower #4 (Physical)
Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world and slipped into the next - there Roland tells them a tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. …
The Gunslinger
Stephen King The Dark Tower #1 (Lost)
Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. …
Luftkastellet der blev Sprængt
Stieg Larsson Millennium #3 (Physical)
To hårdt sårede personer bliver bragt til Sahlgrenska Sygehus i Göteborg. Den ene er Lisbeth Salander, som er efterlyst, mistænkt for tredobbelt mord. Hun har en livstruende kugle i hjernen og må straks opereres. …
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time
Liz Jensen (Physical)
In fin-de-siècle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, haven taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. …
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #5 (Borrowed)
After the Dementors’ attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry knows he is about to become Voldemort’s next target. …
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #4 (Borrowed)
Harry returns for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione . …
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #3 (Borrowed)
For Harry Potter, it’s the start of another far-from-ordinary year at Hogwarts when the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and comes to an abrupt halt in front of him. …
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #2 (Borrowed)
Throughout the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter has been receiving sinister warnings from a house-elf called Dobby. …
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter #1 (Borrowed)
Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'. …
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon (Physical)
A detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State …
Sacred Games
Vikram Chandra (Physical)
Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. …
Last Chance Saloon
Marian Keyes (Physical)
"I'm in the Last Chance Saloon. In my decrepit, thiry-one-year-old stat, I'd probably never get another man..." Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. …
A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follet (Physical)
In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh - a slave by birth - is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. …
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini (Borrowed)
A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. …
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova (Borrowed)
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. …
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney (Physical)
1867, Canada. As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her seventeen-year-old son has disappeared. …
Misfortune
Wesley Stace (Borrowed)
When Lord Geoffroy Loveall finds an abandoned baby, he treats the child as his daughter, despite the male gender of the child, who grows up desperately conflicted in the richest home in nineteenth-century England.
Restless
William Boyd (Physical)
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. …
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid (Physical)
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting... …
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards (Borrowed)
The story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses.
Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier (Physical)
Will Cooper's search for identity and home begins at the age of twelve, when he is given a horse, a key and a map, and sent to the edge of the Cherokee Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. …
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Alexander McCall Smith (Physical)
Mma Ramotswe is expanding her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pageant.
The Water's Lovely
Ruth Rendell (Physical)
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dreams began in the same way. …
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai (Physical)
In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old judge, who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. …
The Stand
Stephen King (Physical)
First came the days of the plague... Then came the dreams... Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. …
Lisey's Story
Stephen King (Physical)
"To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon." That is until the maddeningly humid, maddeningly muggy day her husband Scott, a celebrated, award-winning novelist, …
Cell
Stephen King (Physical)
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. …
Anybody Out There?
Marian Keyes (Recycled)
Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. …
A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry (Physical)
One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. …
On Beauty
Zadie Smith (Physical)
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? …
Hundehoved
Morten Ramsland (Physical)
Asger vender hjem til Danmark efter flere års ophold i Amsterdam for at tage afsked med sin døende farmor, familiens historiefortæller, som nu kun overlever på de dåser med frisk luft, der hver uge ankommer fra hjemstavnen Bergen. …
Disobedience
Naomi Alderman (Physical)
I realized there was one thing, just one actual thing, that I did still want from England. The candlesticks: my mother's tall silver candlesticks, sinuous, wreathed in flowers and foliage. …
Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith (Physical)
Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. …
Sarum
Edward Rutherfurd (Borrowed)
Sarum is an epic story that tells the history of the Salisbury region in particular and England in general from the end of the Ice Age through the current period. …
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie (Physical)
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything - including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. …
The Accidental
Ali Smith (Physical)
Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. …
A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby (Physical)
Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, A Long Way Down is the story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, …
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer (Physical)
Introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. …
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster (Physical)
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. …
The Sea
John Banville (Physical)
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. …
Absolute Friends
John le Carré (Physical)
Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the shining-new Republic of Pakistan, is friends with Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor. …
End in Tears
Ruth Rendell (Physical)
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... …
Saving Fish From Drowning
Amy Tan (Physical)
A pious man explained to his followers: It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. …
A Son of the Circus
John Irving (Physical)
A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. …
1921
Morgan Llywelyn (Physical)
The life of Irish journalist, Henry Mooney, who struggles to report fairly on the failed 1916 Rising, the creation of the Irish Free State, and the Irish Civil War.
1916
Morgan Llywelyn (Physical)
Ned Halloran has lost both his parents - and almost his own life - to the sinking of Titanic. Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland of Ireland and enrolls at Saint Enda's school in Dublin. …
What I Loved
Siri Hustvedt (Physical)
What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. …
Til jord skal du blive
Tami Hoag (Recycled)
Undskyld. Det ene ord var skrevet hen over spejlet. Foran det hang kroppen af Andy Fallon - strisser ved Minneapolis' afdeling for interne sager. Var det selvmord eller en tragisk ulykke? …
Timeline
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. …
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh (Physical)
between the sea and the plains of Bengal lies an immense archipelago of islands. …
Catch 22
Joseph Heller (Physical)
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilariy to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. …
The Broker
John Grisham (Borrowed)
With 14 years left on a 20 year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. …
Insomnia
Stephen King (Physical)
You'll lose a lot of sleep. Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctor who always turn up at the scene of a death. …
Flodkongen
Alice Hoffman (Physical)
I mere end hundrede år har den lille by Haddan i Massachusetts været delt i to lejre, næsten som om der gik en usynlig linie gennem byen, med de lokale på den ene side og dem der går på den berømte Haddan School på den anden. …
Undtagelsen
Christian Jungersen (Physical)
På det lille Dansk Center for Information of Folkedrab på Østerbro arbejder fire kvinder: Camilla, Anne-Lise, Malene og Iben. …
Asyl
Liza Marklund (Physical)
Asyl er den sande og gribende fortsættelse til Forelskede sig til et mareridt.
Anthem
Tim Binding (Physical)
Spring 1982. Anglefield Road is a peaceful cul-de-sac in a suburban town north of London, with four houses looking out on each other. …
The American Boy
Andrew Taylor (Physical)
England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. …
State of Fear
Michael Chrichton (Borrowed)
State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his fourteenth under his own name and twenty-fourth overall, in which eco-terrorists plot mass murder to publicize the danger of global warming. …
Roots
Alex Haley (Borrowed)
The story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley
Porno
Irvine Welsh (Physical)
Some of the gang from trainspotting ten years on and as always dream up schemes to make a quick buck whilst doing there normal dodgy things and how their seperate lives entangle!
Cuba Libre
Elmore Leonard (Physical)
On a hot night in Havana Harbor, U.S. marines sleep on the deck of the USS Maine as the sound of rumba music drifts across the water. Then, in a flash, the Maine is blown to pieces. …
Brick Lane
Monica Ali (Borrowed)
Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown (Borrowed)
The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
Populærmusik fra Vittula
Mikael Niemi (Borrowed)
Matti og hans ven Niila vokser op i 1960'erne i landsbyen Vittula tæt ved den svensk-finske grænse i den yderste afkrog i Sverige. …
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood MaddAddam #1 (Physical)
An unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. …
Hjemmefronten
Kari Hotakainen (Physical)
Matti Virtanen er omkring fyrre. Han elsker sin kone og sin datter og opfatter sig selv som en frontsoldat, på hjemmefronten. Når han kommer hjem, er det ham, som tager sig af rengøringen, madlavningen og barnet. …
Life of Pi
Yann Martel (Physical)
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. …
Først ved livets ende
Bent Haller (Physical)
Fagre nye it-verden er kommet til plejehjemmet Sorgenfri. Computere erstatter peddigrør. Tekstbehandling som beskæftigelsesterapi: Alle har en historie, skriv den ned. I må da have oplevet en masse i jeres lange liv. …
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his home town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. …
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson (Physical)
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays at home he can't containt his curiosity about the world around him. …
Deadly Décisions
Kathy Reichs (Physical)
A nine-year-old girl dies on her way to ballet class, caught in outlaw biker crossfire. Violence is spilling on to the streets of Montreal and Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the state, has to pick up the pieces. …
High Maintenance
Jennifer Belle (Physical)
There's a new property on the market. And she has great potential. Liv Kellerman has just left her cheating husband and - more tragically - their fabulous duplex with its Empire State Building views. …
Angel
Marian Keyes (Goodreads)
A story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible girl who suddenly just wants to let her hair down."We will shortly be landing at Los Angeles International Airport. …
Lucy Sullivan is getting married
Marian Keyes (Physical)
What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! …
Jordens Søjler
Ken Follet (Physical)
Jorden Søjler er den spændende historie om England i 1100-tallet. Der er borgerkrig i landet, og befolkningen lider under skiftende regenter og brutale herremænd, der i de urolige tider tilsidesætter alles tarv undtagen deres eget. …
Watermelon
Marian Keyes Walsh Family #1 (Physical)
It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he thought it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home - but to rub salt into the episiotomy, he …
Rachel's Holiday
Marian Keyes Walsh Family #2 (Physical)
Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. …
Hornet Flight
Ken Follet (Physical)
In June 1941 a baffling Luftwaffe radio message mentioning a new invention with the codename Freya (the Viking goddess of lvoe) is picked up by the decoders of Allied intelligence. …
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini (Physical)
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. …
It
Stephen King (Physical)
The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. …
Vindens Skygge
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Physical)
Den 10-årige Daniel Sempere kommer i 1945 tilfældigt i besiddelse af en sjælden bog skrevet af forfatteren Julián Carx. …
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt (Borrowed)
A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer.
The Clerkenwell Tales
Peter Ackroyd (Physical)
The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. …
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams (Physical)
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. …
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende (Physical)
Eventyrlig og politisk roman, som foregår i et unavngivet sydamerikansk land fra ca. 1940 til nu. Eva Luna vokser op i et sært hus hos en balsamist og kommer ind i mærkelige miljøer blandt andet hos prostituerede. …
Eva Luna fortæller
Isabel Allende (Physical)
Endnu en gang øser Eva Luna rundhåndet af det væld af sære menneskeskæbner, hun gemmer i sit hjerte. Denne gang om natten til glæde for sin elskede Rolf Carlé. …
Åndernes hus
Isabel Allende (Physical)
Åndernes hus er en af de dejligste romaner fra de senere år, tæt pakket med personer, handling og dramatiske begivenheder. …
Dead Babies
Martin Amis (Physical)
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconsed at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. …
Night Train
Martin Amis (Physical)
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case - this case - has gotten under her skin. …
Turn of the Century
Kurt Andersen (Physical)
As the year 2000 progresses, George Mactier and Lizzie Zimbalist, ten years married, are caught up in the whirl of their centrifugally accelerating lives. …
Gengældelsens Vej
Pierre Andrézel (Physical)
En idyllisk skildring af engelsk herregårdsliv omkring 1840 udvikler sig til en forrygende spændingsroman... …
Hand to Mouth
Paul Auster (Physical)
Hand to Mouth tells the story of a young writer's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comi, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. …
Leviathan
Paul Auster (Physical)
"For seks dage siden sprængte en mand sig i selv i luften i en vejkant i det nordlige Wisconsin". Sådan begynder historien om Benjamin Sachs, og den fortælles af hans bedste ven, Peter Aaron. …
Oracle Night
Paul Auster (Physical)
The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel. …
The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster (Physical)
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. …
The Music of Chance
Paul Auster (Physical)
Nashe has decided to pursue a "life of freedom". He meets Pozzi, an itinerant gambler, and together they go in for an extraordinary game of poker with Flower and Stone, two eccentric recluses living in a vast estate in Pennsylvania. …
Timbuktu
Paul Auster (Physical)
Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel Timbuktu, his first work of fiction in five years. Me Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. …
The Regulaors
Richard Bachman (Physical)
There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up until now it's been a nice place to live. The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that. Let the battle against eveil begin!
Affliction
Russel Banks (Physical)
Wade Whitehouse is a well digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town - a former high school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. …
Hestesprog
H. N. Blake (Physical)
Englænderen Henry Blake, der siden drengeårene har haft med heste at gøre, mener selv, at han faktisk kan tænke som en hest og derfor virkelig forstår dem. Man tror det gerne efter at have læst denne brog. …
Danser med Ulve
Michael Blake (Physical)
Løjtnant John Dunbar var ingen almindelige officer i den amerikanske nordstatshær. …
Babettes Gæstebud
Karen Blixen (Physical)
Under Pariserkommunen, den blodige opstand 1870-71, er en berømt kvindelig køkkenchef fra Paris flygtet til en lille norsk fjordby, hvor to elskelige gamle provstdøtre har taget hende i huset som kokkepige. …
Den afrikanske Farm
Karen Blixen (Physical)
Årene på farmen i Kenya stod altid for Karen Blixen som de rigeste i hendes liv. Hun trivedes i den pragtfulde natur, betaget af dyreverdenene og tiltrukket af de infødte for hvem hun blev leder, lærer, læge og dommer. …
Syv fantastiske Fortællinger
Karen Blixen (Physical)
Syv fantastiske Fortællinger handler om så fundamentale emner som mennesket og dets skæbne, forholdet mellem mandligt og kvindeligt, mellem livet og kunsten.
Home Rule
Claire Boylan (Physical)
Tormented by the whims of her brothers and sisters, her distant melodramatic mother and the adoring father with whom she shares a guilty secret, Daisy longs to be rescued from her troubles. …
Radical Compassion
Tara Brach (Physical)
Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. …
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury (Physical)
The men of Earth came to Mars. Only a few came at first, for most men felt the great illness in them even before the rocket fired into space. …
En kæde af stemmer
André Brink (Physical)
André Brink tegner i En kæde af stemmer et gribende billede af mennesker og deres indbyrdes forhold, som ikke begrænser sig til en enkelt historisk periode, men gælder til alle tider. …
The First Life of Adamastor
André Brink (Physical)
The First Life of Adamastor has its origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? …
The Rights of Desire
André Brink (Physical)
Ruben Oliver, a widower who leads an isolated existence in a Cape Town suburb, takes in a younger boarder who transforms his life.
Jadekatten
Suzanne Brøgger (Physical)
Jadekatten følger den jødiske familie Løvin fra Danmark til Chicago og Riga; russernes invasion af Letland, tyskernes besættelse af Danmark, flugten til Sverige og de tilbageblevne i København. …
Linda Evangelista Olsen
Suzanne Brøgger (Physical)
Katten har ni liv. Linda Evangelista Olsen har ni temaer: erotik, kvindelighed, frugtbarhed, moderskab, død, identitet, forfatterrolle, passion og kattens væsen - spundet ind i hinanden - fra mytens sump til mosen i Løve. …
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote (Physical)
15 November 1959. The rich and respected Clutter family, Herbert, Bonnie, son Kenyon and daughter Nancy, were brutally murdered in the small village of Holcomb, gunned down by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. …
The Constant Gardener
John le Carré (Physical)
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. …
Congo
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes...
Eaters of the Dead
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. …
Five Patients
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
A construction worker in his fifties is seriously injured in the collapse of a scaffold... A middle-aged railroad dispatcher develops a high fever that makes him wildly delirious... …
Jurassic Park
Michael Chrichton Jurassic Park #1 (Physical)
On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. …
Rising Sun
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamato Tower - the new American headquarters of the immense Japanse congolemerate in downtown L.A. - a grand opening celebration is in full swing. …
The Terminal Man
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
Harry Benson suffers from a violent seizures. So violent that he requires a police guard when entering a Los Angeles hospital for treament. Dr. …
Travels
Michael Chrichton (Physical)
Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see and feel and hear, firshand and close up - Micahel Chrichton's travels have carried him into worlds as diverse and compelling as those he created in his bestselling novelse. …
Høvdingebørn
Martha Christensen (Physical)
En familiekrønike kan man kalde kærlighedshistorien mellem en far - der på egen kaldes Høvdingen - og hans seks børn, mellem disse børn indbyrdes og deres partnere. …
After the Funeral
Agatha Christie (Physical)
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. …
At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie (Physical)
When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. …
Dead Man's Folly
Agatha Christie (Physical)
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fëte, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. …
Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie (Physical)
At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. …
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie (Physical)
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. …
Katten i dueslaget
Agatha Christie (Physical)
På en af Englands mest anset pigeskoler sker et mord. Hvordan kan det komme så vidt netop dette sted af alle? Det fortæller Agatha Christie i en forrygende kriminalroman med Hercule Poirot som den uforlignelige detektiv. …
Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie (Physical)
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? …
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie (Physical)
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. …
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie (Physical)
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. …
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie (Physical)
With impeccable timing Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, marks his dramatic entrance on to the English crime stage. Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. …
Atomic Habits
James Clear (Physical)
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving every day. …
Kaos og ikke-elefanter
Morten Colding-Jørgensen (Physical)
Hvordan kan vi overskue komplekse systemer - det moderne samfund, vejret, en stresset arbejdsplads, miljøet eller sygdomsudviklingen? Og hvordan kan nogle se orden og system, hvor andre ser kaos? …
Chromosome 6
Robin Cook (Recycled)
The mutilated body of a notorious underworld figure leads forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton to a mysterious group in Africa that uses state-of-the-art medical technology for sinister purposes.
Coma
Robin Cook (Recycled)
They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. …
Mutation
Robin Cook (Recycled)
VJ was a blessing: the cherished second son of research sientis Dr Victor Frank. But VJ was not normal. Something has happened to him. Something unspeakable. Something that turned a quiet ten-year-old into an unctrollable genius. …
The Empty Throne
Bernard Cornwell The Saxon Stories #8 (Kindle)
"Britain, early tenth century AD: a time of change. There are new raids by the Vikings from Ireland, and turmoil among the Saxons over the leadership of Mercia. A younger generation is taking over. …
Origins
Lewis Dartnell (Physical)
When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us?As a species we are shaped by our environment. …
The Frog King
Adam Davies (Physical)
Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living"). His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not). His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?). …
Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane (Physical)
The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. …
Underworld
Don DeLillo (Physical)
Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. …
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick (Physical)
An alternate history novel. …
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens (Physical)
Great Expectations opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyeard on the eerie Kent marshes. …
Boy in the Water
Stephen Dobyns (Physical)
Jim Hawthorne, the new head of this failing school for troubled teenagers, is determined to save it from closure. Partly because he believes in it - despite his friend's warnings. …
The Church of Dead Girls
Stephen Dobyns (Physical)
One by one, three teenage girls are abducted from a small American town. The only trace of them is their clothes returned, washed, ironed and neatly folded. …
Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow (Physical)
Gennem en pæn gennemsnitsfamilie med far, mor og barn tegner Ragtime et levende billede af årene 1902-14, en tid, hvor det Amerika, vi kender i dag, var ved at tage form. …
Verdensudstilling
E. L. Doctorow (Physical)
Tilhører man den samme aldersklasse som forfatteren og har gennemlevet nogenlunde de samme erfaringer om end på andre præmisser, er bekendtskabet med Verdensudstilling en lang række af genkendelser. …
The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Physical)
In The Possessed, Stavrogin and Verkhovensky dabble in radical politics - with tragic results for an entire town as fanticism brings robbery, arson, and murder. …
A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle (Physical)
Born in the Dublin slums of 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores. Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging. …
Necessary Evil
David Dun (Recycled)
During a savage snowstorm, a private jet slams into the rugged California high country. In its wake lies a litter of twisted fuselage, mangled corpses...and enough infectious toxins to wipe out most of humanity. …
Dommeren og hans Bøddel
Friedrich Dürenmatt (Physical)
Bør mord betragtes som et udtryk for individets frihed? Det hævder den samfundsfarlige, mystiske Gastmann, som den gamle, syge kriminalkommisær Bärlach i mange år forgæves har søgt at uskadeliggøre. …
Nordkraft
Jakob Ejersbo (Physical)
Nordkraft er en roman om en gruppe unge, der lever på begge sider af grænsen. …
Ravnen
Anne Marie Ejrnæs (Physical)
Kærlighedsroman sort og hvid, mand og kvinde, Afrika og Danmark. Maria møder sorgen og kærligheden i Afrika. Romanen "fører os derind, hvor tingene sker - i brændpunktet for en civilisation under forvandling. …
Gør mig levende igen
Kerstin Ekman (Physical)
Centralt i romanen står den litteraturstuderende Sigge, som lever fuldstændig opslugt af sine litterær interesser, indtil hun en dag finder nogle gamle bøger, der viser sig at være kommenterede mødereferate fra en afdød Johan …
Range
David Epstein (Physical)
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. …
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides (Borrowed)
A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the main focus of this brilliantly written story is the confusion we all face as we grow into the person we were meant to be. …
I morgen er det slut
Christiane F. (Physical)
I to måneder dedikerede Christiane F. hver eneste detalje i sin chokerende karriere til en båndoptager. …
Den røde blomst, den hvide blomst
Michel Faber (Physical)
Anmeldelse Den røde blomst, den hvide blomst af Michel Faber Log ind for at skrive kommentarer Som kvinde må man sandelig prise sig lykkelig, at man ikke levede i victoriatidens England! …
The Volunteer
Jack Fairweather (Kindle)
One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust
How to Be a Canadian
Will Ferguson & Ian Ferguson (Physical)
When Will Ferguson ran into Margaret Atwood at a bookstore opening, he never imagined she would give him the idea for his next book. …
Cause Celeb
Helen Fielding (Physical)
Disillusioned by her glitzy life in London and her desirable but cruel TV-presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks it all in and spends four years running a refugee camp in Africa. …
Standing in the Rainbow
Fannie Flagg (Physical)
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them …
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert (Physical)
Emma Rouault leaves her father to marry Charles Bovary, an insignificant local doctor, and to live among the bourgeoisie of Yonville. …
Howard's End
E. M. Forster (Physical)
A novel about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. …
The Collector
John Fowles (Physical)
Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. …
Land of the Living
Nicci French (Physical)
Abbie Deveraux wakes in the dark. She is hooded, bound at her hands and feet. She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees feeds her and talks to her. …
Making History
Stephen Fry (Physical)
Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend, Jane. …
Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry (Physical)
"Stephen Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence in his autobiographical first novel, The Liar, and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. …
The Hippopotamus
Stephen Fry (Physical)
Ted Wallace is an old, sour womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. …
The Liar
Stephen Fry (Physical)
"Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. …
Life Support
Tess Gerritsen (Recycled)
The overnight ER rotation at Springer Hospital suits Dr. Toby Harper jsut fine - until its calm is shattered by a man Toby admits one quiet night. …
Glaspaladset
Amitav Ghosh (Physical)
Den forældreløse Rajkumar er kun en lille dreng, da de britiske styrker i slutningen af 1800-tallet tvinger Kongen og Dronningen af Burma i eksil i Indien. …
River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh Ibis Trilogy #2 (Physical)
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. …
Familien Bertini
Ralph Giordano (Physical)
Hvad de ikke vidste, at de var, det blev de i Hitlers Tyskland: Jøder - og derfor forfulgte. …
From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life
Leon Glass & Michael C. Mackey (Physical)
In an important new contribution to the literature of chaos, two distinguished researches in the field of physiology probe central theoretical questions about physiological rhythms. Topics discussed include: How are rhythms generated? …
Idolet
Gail Godwin (Physical)
Allerede før Justin Stokes fylder fjorten år, er der sket mere end godt er for hende. Tre dødsfald i den allernæremste kreds: to bedsteforældre, som hun var stærkt knyttet til, og hendes far, som hun elskede højt. …
Great Medical Mysteries
Richard Gordon (Physical)
A hilarious catalogue of medical mysteries and trivia - medical mysteries of history, mysterious addictions and everyday medical mysteries are all posed and pondered with Richard Gordon's famed wit. …
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber & David Wengrow (Physical)
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality—and …
Bliktrommen
Günther Grass (Physical)
Bliktrommen er den 30-årige oskar Matzeraths beretning om sit liv i Hitlertidens Tyskland. …
A Painted House
John Grisham (Physical)
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. …
The Last Juror
John Grisham (Physical)
In 1970, one of Mississippi s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. …
The Partner
John Grisham (Physical)
They kidnapped him in a small town in Brazil. He had changed his name and his appearance, but they were sure they had their man. Four years before, he had been called Patrick S. Lanigan. He had died in a car crash in February 1992. …
The Rainmaker
John Grisham (Physical)
Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case only, to save himself from his mounting debts. …
The Summons
John Grisham (Recycled)
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. …
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen (Physical)
Beatifully written and completely unforgettable, Water for Elephants is an atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the US circus world circa 1932. …
East of the Mountains
David Guterson (Physical)
When Dr Ben Givens left his home in Seattle - heading east with his Winchester and his hunting dogs in tow - he never intended to return. …
Beretninger om beskyttelse
Erik Fosnes Hansen (Physical)
Beretninger om beskyttelse er fire dramatiske historier med både synlige og usynlige sammenhænge i tema såvel som i handling. …
De var os
Henriette Harris (Physical)
Et menneske er først glemt, når dets navn er glemt. Snublesten sættes for ofre for nazismen og er med sine 116.000 sten fordelt i 31 europæiske lande verdens største decentrale mindesmærke. …
Sortmund
Allan Haverholm
Året er 2000. Den midaldrende Manne Svarts lever en søvngængeragtig og isoleret tilværelse, der ophører brat da han løber ind i den idealistiske og charmerende studerende Metha Clausen. …
Picture This
Joseph Heller (Physical)
As Rembrandt is creating his famous painting of Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer, Aristotle is soon able to see and hear. As the masterpiece makes its way through history, Aristotle's complicated mind finds unanswerable dilemmas.
Across the River and Into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway (Physical)
In the fall of 1948 Hemingway spent several months in Italy on his first extended visit to that country in thirty years. …
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway (Physical)
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls. …
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway (Physical)
A novel of rum-running between Cuba and Key West in the thirties - creating in the durable Harry Morgan one of the most remarkable of Hemingway's characters.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Paul Hoffman (Physical)
Paul Erdös was one of the most prolific and eccentric mathematicians of our time, a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. …
How to be Good
Nick Hornby (Physical)
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. …
Drageløberen
Khaled Hosseini (Physical)
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. …
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo (Physical)
The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and grotesquerie, surging with violent life under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of …
Delayed Diagnosis
Gwen Hunter (Recycled)
When ER doctor Rhea Lynch returns to Dawkins County hospital from holiday she is dismayed to discover her best friend near death and unable to communicate. The official diagnosis: a paralysing stroke. …
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
Siri Hustvedt (Physical)
Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old-school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. …
A Widow for One Year
John Irving (Physical)
Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving gives us a new novel about a family marked by tragedy. At its centre stands Ruth Cole: a complex, often self-contradictory character - a "difficult" woman. …
Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving (Physical)
The Hotel New Hampshire follows the Berry family across two continents and through three hotels. Family members attract friends who substitute lust, violence, laughter and tears for the standard bourgeois components.
The 158-Pound Marriage
John Irving (Physical)
Serverin Winter is not the man to take things lightly. …
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
John Irving (Physical)
Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. …
Vandmetoden
John Irving (Physical)
En rigtig Irving-roman om den 28-årige Fred (Bogus) Trumpers problemer med sit urinrør, sin ekskone og elskerinde, sin far og sit øvrige liv.
Verden ifølge Garp
John Irving (Physical)
Verden ifølge Garp er en grotes, ironisk og vildtvoksende roman fuld af gru og sort humor. Den handler ifølge forfatteren om det vigtigste af alle emner nemlig livet. …
Æblemostreglementet
John Irving (Physical)
Æblemostreglementet er historien om dr. Wilbur Larch, grundlægger og leder af et kombineret fødselshospital og børnehjem, der i begyndelsen af århundret hjælper unge kvinder, der er "kommet i vanskeligheder". …
The Underground Man
Mick Jackson (Physical)
The 5th Duke of Portland is a Victorian misfit, a man who spends his time and wealth creating a network of tunnels beneath his Nottinghamshire estate. But His Grace is fra from happy. …
Dansen gennem Sommeren
Bo Green Jensen (Physical)
To teenager-venner, Jac og Stankelben, og deres veninde Lia, beslutter en sommer at lægge arbejdsløsheden og det almindelige mismod bag sig og tage på telt- og cykelferie på Bornholm. …
Af en astmatisk kritikers bekendelser
Carsten Jensen (Physical)
En personlig beretning om litteraturen og livet og den ubestemmelige skillelinje imellem dem: om barndom og mørkeangst og en læsers tilblivelse; om impulsen til at skrive; om ord, der forpligter, og som man også kan brænde sig på; om …
Jeg har hørt et stjerneskud
Carsten Jensen (Physical)
Efter at have tilbagelagt Asien på sin rejse Jorden rundt, bevæger Carsten Jensen sig videre mod øst. …
Jeg har set verden begynde
Carsten Jensen (Physical)
Det er med følelsen af at leve i en verden, der midt i en uoverskuelig forandring råber på at blive opdaget igen, at Carsten Jensen en råkold januardag bryder op fra Danmark for at rejse jorden rundt. …
Jorden i munden
Carsten Jensen (Physical)
Jorden i munden er fortællingen om en ung mands første møde med det fremmede: Thomas er i Indien og havde håbet, at denne rejse til en ny verden også ville have gjort det muligt for ham at få ophævet den adskillelse, han altid har …
Stygge Krumpen 1
Thit Jensen (Physical)
Der er frodighed og varme og myldrende liv i Thit Jensens store roman om Danmark i katolicismens forfaldstid i begyndelsen af 1500-tallet. …
The Essence of the Thing
Madeleine St John (Physical)
The aftermath of a broken romance, set in England. Out of the blue, Jonathan announces to Nicola that he no longer loves her and that they should stop living together. The novel chronicles the way the two adjust to single life again.
Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics
Daniel Kaplan & Leon Glass (Physical)
This book deals with important questions of current interest in the biological sciences such as chaos, fractals, cellular automata, nonlinear dynamics, time series analysis. …
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kesey Ken (Physical)
In this classic novel of the 1960's, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. …
Hundrede års krig mod Palæstina
Rashid Khalidi (Physical)
I over hundrede år har Palæstina været plaget af krig og ødelæggelse. Fra den tidlige zionisme i slutningen af 1800-tallet, over de store folkebevægelser i kølvandet på Anden Verdenskrig og frem til vor tids brændpunkter. …
Bag of Bones
Stephen King (Physical)
When Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from desperate writer's block. …
Black House
Stephen King (Physical)
with Peter Straub Abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the Wisconsin town of French Landing, ten-year-old Ty Marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. Then it calls his name. …
Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King (Physical)
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But not quite what the police expected. Dolores Claiborne has a confession to make... She will take her time. Won't be hurried. Will do it her way, sparing neither details or feelings. …
Dyrekirkegården
Stephen King (Physical)
For Dr. Louis Creed så huset ud til at være det rigtige: Gammelt og hyggeligt - et sted hvor familien kunne trives; børnene kunne vokse op, lege og udforske stedet - langt væk fra de farer, der uværgeligt lurer i en storby. …
Rose Madder
Stephen King (Physical)
Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes up from fourteen yeras of a nightmare marriage to the chilling realisation that one of these days her husband, Norman, is going to kill her. Or worse still, he isn't. …
The Dark Half
Stephen King (Physical)
Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. …
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King (Physical)
On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. …
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver (Kindle)
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. …
Vinhandleren
Jette Kjærboe (Recycled)
En morder ser sit offers ansigt stige tågeagtigt op af gulvet. Er det et spøgelse, der vender hævnende tilbage, eller er det den dårlige samvittighed? To turister i Versaillesparken ser Marie Antionette og hendes hoffolk. …
Impressionisten
Hari Kunzru (Physical)
I de første dage af 1900-tallet, i et afsides og øde hjørne af Indien, krydser en engelsk tjenestemand og en genert hindubrud in spe hinandens veje under et syndflodsagtigt regnvejr. Ni måneder senere fødes der en dreng. …
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee (Physical)
Lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. …
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin (Physical)
She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . …
This Perfect Day
Ira Levin (Physical)
Suspense, love and adventure break through in a horrifying computer-controlled world. …
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis (Physical)
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's latest novels to match the power of Main street, Babbit, and Arrowsmith, it Can't Happen Here is an alarming, eerily timeless work. …
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis (Physical)
The novel satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. …
Preparation for the Next Life
Atticus Lish (Physical)
Zou Lei, a Chinese Muslim of the Uighur tribe, enters the U.S. via Mexico, and makes her way to New York City. Keeping a low profile and employed in a restaurant, she meets Skinner, a veteran of the Iraqi war, who's afflicted with PTSD.
For mit barns skyld
Betty Mahmoody (Physical)
Ikke uden min datter skildrede Betty Mahmoodys dramatiske flugt med datteren Mahtob fra sin iranske ægtemands familie i Teheran. …
Ikke uden min datter
Betty Mahmoody (Physical)
Det, Betty Mahmoody og hendes datter Mahtob troede var en to ugers ferie i Iran, ender som et mareridt. …
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell #3 (Kindle)
The final instalment in her trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, minister in the court of King Henry VIII, covering the last four years of his life, from 1536 until his death by execution in 1540.
Nedtælling
Liza Marklund (Recycled)
Annika Bengtzon er nyudnævt chef for kriminalredaktionen på en stor avis. En vinternat bliver hun vækket af telefonen. …
Kærlighed i koleraens tid
Gabriel García Márquez (Physical)
Historien om de 53 år, 7 måneder og 11 dage, de to elskende, Fermina Daza og Florentino Ariza, ventede, før de fik hinanden. Doktor Juvenal Urbino har i en menneskealder været gift med den skønne furie Fermina Daza. …
The Piano Tuner
Daniel Mason (Physical)
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare 1840 Erard grand piano. …
Shut Up and Deal
Jesse May (Physical)
Not since Mario Puzo's 1978 cult classic, Fools Die, has there been a truly great novel about the gambling life in America. …
The Road
Cormac McCarthy (Physical)
Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. …
If I Have to Tell You One More Time
Amy McCready (Kindle)
The Revolutionary Program That Gets Your Kids To Listen Without Nagging, Reminding, or Yelling
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan (Physical)
Enkemanden George havde gjort det klart, at der ikke ville blive nogen mindegudstjeneste. Han ønskede ikke at se Mollys tre forhenværende elsker udveksle blikke, mens han selv holdt tale. To af dem er tilmed venner. …
Kejserens atlas
Ib Michael (Physical)
I årtier har Gunvor Winther været organist i den lokale kirke. Kejserens atlas tager sin begyndelse den dag orgelet bliver taget ned, og Gunvor oplever sin gamle arbejdsplads forsvinde. …
Kejserfortællingen
Ib Michael (Physical)
Kejserfortællingen er en fantastisk roman om en rejse gennem tiden og rummet, strækkende sig over 2200 år fra den første kejser af Kinas æra til New York og Folkerepublikken Kina et sted i 1990erne. …
Kilroy Kilroy
Ib Michael (Physical)
Bogen som blev forfatterens gennembrudsroman handler om manden der blev fundet drivende bevidstløst i Stillehavet uden erindring om hvem han var, og som af de indfødte bringes tilbage til livet. Han kalder sig Kilroy. …
Paven af Indien
Ib Michael (Physical)
Alt han har mistet - navn, titler, besiddelser. Don Felipe er inkaprins, fordrevet til en landsby i Andesbjergne. Han har set sit folk bukke under for de spanske erobreres grusomhed og medbragte sygdomme. …
Prins
Ib Michael (Physical)
Den 12-årige Malte er på sommerferie på Strandgården i Nordsjælland. Her bruger han det meste af tiden på at samle muslingeskaller og drømme om havet. …
Vanillepigen
Ib Michael (Physical)
En duft af et helt århundrede - fra spisekammerets vanilleposer til Vigga Rasmussens sydhavsø. En rejse ind i fortiden. Den som gemmer sig i skuffer, i glemte breve, men først og fremmest i hjernekisten. …
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry (Physical)
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency". …
Arturos ø
Elsa Morante (Physical)
Arturo vokser op alene sammen med sin far på en lille ø uden for Napoli og lever for sig selv i en verden uden skole, normer og tider. …
Løgn og Trolddom - 1
Elsa Morante (Physical)
Løgn og trolddom er Elsa Morantes gennembrudsroman, der skaffede hende Viareggio-prisen og af mange betrages som hendes hovedværk. …
Løgn og Trolddom - 2
Elsa Morante (Physical)
Et forrygende festfyrværkeri, en mesterligt blandet cocktail af en mildest talt utraditionel 1800-tals slægtsroman, en stormfuld kærlighedsroman og en absurd eventyrroman om riddere og damer udi egen fantasi, hvis skæbner fletter sig …
Breath
James Nestor (Physical)
There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. …
1984
George Orwell (Lost)
The year 1984 is finally upon us, and George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. …
Kilden i Provence & Manon og kilden
Marcel Pagnol (Physical)
Samlet udgave af den franske forfatters på en gang tragiske og muntre romaner fra Provence. …
Malerens døtre
Anna-Karin Palm
I 1990'ernes Stockholm modtager en kvinde et maleri, afsendt af en ukendt englænderinde. Billedet er malet af den mand, der mange år tidligere forlod kvinden og deres fælles børn. …
Critical Judgement
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
The emergency room doors burst open...the terror begins In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients. …
Flashback
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
Toby Nelms is eight years old. He has had a routine operation, and everything went fine. Toby is now back home - and his life is filled with terror. Months have passed since the operation but Toby continually bursts into tortured screams. …
Miracle Cure
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
Dr Brian Holbrook was the most gifted cardiologist of his generation. But that was before he became addicted to painkillers. Now he's back on track, and ready to start again. …
Natural Causes
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
Dr Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labour has suddenly become a matter of life and death. …
Side Effects
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
Dr Kate Bennet is a brilliant young pathlogist with a loving husband and a bright future...until one day her world turns upside down. …
Silent Treatment
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next morning, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation...only to find his wife shockingly inexplicable dead. …
The Patient
Michael Palmer (Recycled)
Neurosurgeon Jessie Copeland works at the very frontier of neurosurgery, developing technology that could revolutionize the treatment of brain tumors. But her work brings her to the attention of an infinitely dangerous man. …
Europa
Tim Parks (Physical)
The night before his daughter's eighteenth birthday, Jerry Marlow finds himself one of a coachload of delegates bound for the European Parliament in Strassbourg. …
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (Physical)
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists …
The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl (Physical)
Boston 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murdere.
City of Darkness, City of Light
Marge Piercy (Physical)
As the vibrant, urgent events of the French Revolution gather momentum towards a bloodbath, they sweep with them size people for whom the turbulent times hold very different promises. …
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig (Physical)
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. …
Bare Bones
Kathy Reichs (Physical)
It's one of the hottest summers on record and Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to a long overdure vacation. But it's not to be. First, the bones of a newborn baby are found in a wood stove. …
Death du Jour
Kathy Reichs (Recycled)
March in Montreal: it is a bitterly cold night and in the grounds of an old church forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood. …
Déjà Dead
Kathy Reichs (Physical)
The bones of a woman are discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery and the case is given to Dr Temperance Brenna, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec. "Too decomposed for standard autopsy. …
Intet nyt fra Vestfronten
Erich Maria Remarque (Physical)
Vort århundredes klassiske bog om krigen og mennesket. …
Terningemanden
Luke Rhinehart
Terningemanden er en selvbiografisk roman om terningespil med livet. Forfatteren er psykiater i 30'rne, lovende karriere, velhavende, velgift med en smuk og intelligent kone, to yndige børn, luxuslejlighed i New York. …
De sataniske vers
Salman Rushdie (Physical)
En vintermorgen lige før daggry eksploderer en kapret jumbojet højt oppe over Den Engelske Kanal. Gennem de forrevne skyer falder to mænd, Gibreel og Saladin, ned mod havet, uden faldskærm. …
Midnatsbørn
Salman Rushdie (Physical)
På et magisk tidspunkt, præcis på slaget tolv den 15. august 1947, bliver Saleem Sinai født. Samme sekund frigør Indien sig fra Englands herredømme. …
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks (Physical)
To these seven paradoxial tales of neurological disorder and creativity, Oliver Sacks brings the profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity that made Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat international bestsellers. …
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks (Borrowed)
Krigsflyver
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Physical)
En drømmers og en mystikers bekendelse, en poets fortolkninger af det væsentlige liv, ikke det, der drejer sig om krusninger på hverdagens overflade, som tabte slag og brændende byer, om nedskudte maskiner og flygtningenes millioner - …
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
José Saramago (Physical)
Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life in this story of a doctor who forsakes medicine to recite poetry in the streets, the women in his life, and the ghost who occasionally accompanies him.
Den døde mand
Hans Scherfig (Physical)
I sin dobbelt egenskab af marxist og satiriker betragter Hans Scherfig den nuværende samfundsorden som absurd, latterlig, perverterende for alle sunde menneskelige egenskaber, og i samtidens kaos har han et rigt materiale at tage af: den …
Den forsvundne fuldmægtig
Hans Scherfig (Physical)
Med få dages mellemrum forsvinder to mænd i København - den ene en fattig særling og eneboer, den anden en pæn og respektabel fuldmægtig i krigsministeriets 14. afdeling. …
Det forsømte forår
Hans Scherfig (Physical)
For en del år siden døde en ældre mand på Østerbro efter at have spist et maltbolsje. Sådan begynder Hans Scherfig sin berømte, vittige og beske satire over vort skole- og opdragelsessystem. …
Boghandleren i Kabul
Åsne Seierstad (Physical)
Foråret efter Talibans fald tilbrage Åsne Seierstad hos familien Khan i Kabul. Dette er hendes skildring af familiens kamp for at finde en plads i det ny Afghanistan, en kamp mellem det moderne og det traditionelle. …
Le petit Nicholas
Sempé-Goscinny
A little French boy recounts the many escapades that he and his classmates indulge in as they make their way through a year at primary school.
Florida Straits
Laurence Shames (Physical)
A man is caught in a fight between his brother and a Mafia boss.
Scavenger Reef
Laurence Shames (Physical)
What is an Augie Silver painting worth? It depends. Dead, the Key West artist is hot. Alive...that's another story. Augie's grieving widow wants her husband back. …
Welcome to Paradise
Laurence Shames
Before mild-mannered furniture salesman Al Tuschman left New Jersy for a week in Key West, he hadn't an enemy in the world. …
Og Tårene trillede da Klovene kom
Johannes Mario Simmel (Physical)
Cirkusteltet var fyldt til sidste plads. Luften var fyldt med børns latter. Pludselig havde begge klovnene i manegen maskinpistoler i hænderne og affyrede dem brutalt mod de værgeløse tilskuere. …
Smil gennem tårer
Johannes Mario Simmel
Mischa Kafankas lange og farefulde rejse verden rundt er fyldt med eventyrlige hændelser. Mischa kan minde om den gode soldat Svejk. …
The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion Don Tillman #1 (Physical)
MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. …
Enemies, A Love Story
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Physical)
Problems, problems. Such problems Herman Broder has. He has a perfect wife in Brooklyn who loves him. An ideal mistress in the Bronx who adores him. And, out of the blue, yet another wife comes to New York to claim him. …
Shosha
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Physical)
The main character is aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s: "I was an anachronism in every way, but I didn't know it, just as I didn't know that my …
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith (Physical)
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. …
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith (Physical)
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life …
Dagdriverbanden
John Steinbeck (Physical)
Danny er netop vendt hjem fra krigen og har arvet to små huse. Nyheden spredes hurtigt med det resultat, at alle hans gamle venner kommer for at bo hos ham. …
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck (Physical)
Only the golden dream of unlimited work in the fields and orchards of California ustains the hopes of the "Okie's" - the refugee farmers and sharecroppers fleeing the dustbowl of Oklahoma in their thousands. …
The Long Valley
John Steinbeck (Physical)
Set in the rich Californian landscape that John Steinbeck loved so well, this collection of stories is written with the realism and understanding for which he is celebrated. …
The Wayward Bus
John Steinbeck (Physical)
The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the back roads of California. …
Øst For Paradis
John Steinbeck (Physical)
Det onde findes på grund af manglende kærlighed. Den dag brødrene Charles og Adam Trask hjælper den mishandlede Cathy kommer ondskaben ind i deres liv. …
Lille menneske
Charlotte Strangaard (Physical)
Maria vil intet spise, hun vil ikke vokse og svulme og blive kvinde ligesom sin mor. Marias desperate oprør bliver den bombe, som sprænger den "perfekte" familie. …
Vishnus død
Manil Suri (Physical)
På en trappeafsats i en etageejendom i Bombay bor den alkoholiske altmuligmand, Vishnu - en bolig han har arvet efter sin forgænger. …
The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan (Physical)
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. …
Kæmp for alt hvad du har kært
Hans Edvard Teglers (Physical)
Som 14-årig mistede han sin far, hvis skib blev sænket af en tysk ubåd. To år efter var han dybt inde i modstandsbevægelsen. …
Ringenes Herre 1: Eventyret om Ringen
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Physical)
Tolkiens store beretning om Krigen om Ringen tager sin begyndelse i Hobbitten, hvor Bilbo Sækker finder Den ene Ring, herskeren over alle Ringe. …
Ringenes Herre 2: De to Tårne
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Physical)
Tolkiens store beretning om Krigen om Ringen tager sin begyndelse i Hobbitten, hvor Bilbo Sækker finder Den ene Ring, herskeren over alle Ringe. …
Ringenes Herre 3: Kongen vender tilbage
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Physical)
Tolkiens store beretning om Krigen om Ringen tager sin begyndelse i Hobbitten, hvor Bilbo Sækker finder Den ene Ring, herskeren over alle Ringe. …
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (Physical)
In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting-point he needed for composing what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written. …
Musik og Stilhed
Rose Tremain (Physical)
Kong Christian IV er fuld af bekymring for fremtiden. Landet fattes penge, og Christians visioner og drømme for sit rige kan ikke virkeliggøres. …
A God in Ruins
Leon Uris (Physical)
Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic …
Redemption
Leon Uris (Physical)
A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the First World War, Redemption weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the heart and soul of three extraordinary Irish …
Trinity
Leon Uris (Physical)
An epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. …
Min Nutid
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Ed holder af at blive liggende i sengen til langt op ad dagen og læse. Langt om længe har han opgivet sit forhadt job som ekspedient i porcelænsafdelingen i byens varehus. …
Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut (Physical)
The story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse. It's "Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special."
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut (Physical)
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. …
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss (Physical)
A handbook of negotiation principles culled and perfected from Chris Voss's remarkable career as a hostage negotiator and later as an award-winning teacher in the world's most prestigious business schools. …
The Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker (Physical)
Returning frequently to Suwelo's visits to Mr. Hal and his stories about Fanny, this tale transcends time and examines such contradictions as black vs. white, man vs. woman, sexual freedom vs. sexual slavery, past vs. present, etc.
Sophies hjerte
Bodil Wamberg
Sophie Ørsted var digteren Adam Oehlenschlægers smukke søster. Hun levede for 200 år siden, hvor kvindeidealet var renhed og dyd. Kvindens arbejde var køkkenet og hjemmet - og sex var ikke noget man talte om. …
Det syvende møde
Herbjørg Wassmo (Physical)
Da den meget anerkendte og berømte kunstner Rut Nesset vender tilbage til Norge efter flere års ophold i udlandet, venter hendes barndomsven Gorm på hende. …
Virus
Graham Watkins (Recycled)
Patients with a strange new disease are flooding into Duke Hospital. Dehydrated, sleep-deprived, wracked with opportunistic illnesses, they have starved themselves almost to death. Nothing in his carreer has prepared Dr. …
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells (Physical)
When Siddalee Walker, eldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker (Ya-Ya extraordinaire - part Scarlett, part Katherine Hepburn, part Tallulah), is interviewed about a hit play she has directed, her mother is described as a "tap-dancing child …
Little Altars Everywhere
Rebecca Wells (Physical)
Little Altars Everywhere offers another look into the turbulent, unconventional and hilarious lives of the quircy Walker clan of Thornton, Louisiana. …
Filth
Irvine Welsh (Physical)
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. …
The Acid House
Irvine Welsh (Physical)
In the title piece an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousness with sardonically unexpected results, Snuff is on a man who videotapes his own suicide, and in Vat 69 a woman keeps her husband's head alive in a jar.
An Imaginative Experience
Mary Wesley (Physical)
A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. …
Crazy Ladies
Michael Lee West (Physical)
Young Miss Gussie was no country fool, and when death walked in her kitchen door she did what she had to do, just like women in her family always did. …
Suk Hjerte
Dorrit Willumsen (Physical)
Detaljerig og humoristisk roman om fire generationer af en Nørrebro-familie med Alice som midtpunkt. …
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and …
A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe (Goodreads)
A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. …
Shadow Dancer
Tom Bradby
Colette McVeigh: mother...widow...terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all her 29 years. …
Mesteren og Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov (Physical)
I mellemkrigstidens Moskva dukker den djævelske Woland op. I selskab med et slæng af banditter og en skydegal kat, der går på to ben, spiller han skak, drikker champagne og infilterer byens kulturelle verden. …
L'étranger
Albert Camus (Physical)
Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singulière sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constancé que le jeune journaliste avait …
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner (Physical)
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in American literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; …
Flagermusens landsby
Dario Fo (Physical)
Dario Fos dramatiske virke begyndte, helt bogstaveligt, i det små, i det barnlilge. Og det er barndomslandets tæppe, der knyttes med denne erindringsbogs tråde. …
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman (Physical)
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. …
Ulysses
James Joyce (Physical)
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". …
Contes du jour et de la nuit
Guy de Maupassant (Physical)
En 1884, lorsqu'il publie les Contes, Maupassant est devenu un homme riche et un auteur comblé. Mais il n'a rien perdu de l'agressivité qui lui faisait naguère écrire à Flaubert: "Je trouve que 93 a été doux... …
Et hus til mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul (Physical)
Mr. Biswas' livslange drøm er at få sit eget hus. Født ved midnat og med fødderne først bliver han modtaget med skepsis af sin overtroiske familie, og fra starten må han kæmpe hårdt for at finde fodfæste i verden. …
Everybody Smokes in Hell
John Ridley
Paris Scott works night at a convenience store and drives a '74 Gremlin. Recently dumped by his girl, he's what you'd call a loser. …
Blood Run
Leah Ruth Robinson (Recycled)
Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe works and thrives in an urban warzone - battling death everyday in the Emergency Room of Manhattan's University Hospital. …
Den niende kreds
Morten Sabroe
En mand får en sen aften en telefonopringning fra en fremmed kvinde. Hun siger, hun ved noget om hans kone, Gabrielle, der brat forlod ham efter syv års ægteskab og nu er forsvundet. …
La nausée
Jean-Paul Sartre (Physical)
A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. …
Macbeth
William Shakespeare (Physical)
The play concerns a trusted general who secretly lusts for power. Encouraged by the prophecies of three witches and urged on by his ambitious wife Macbeth commits regicide. …
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare (Physical)
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. …
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie (Kindle)
"From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. …
Maigret à New-York
Georges Simenon (Physical)
Aujourd'hui, Maigret part en Amérique pour élucider une affaire mystérieuse avec l'aide de la police fédérale. Nous le voyons évolver dans la grande ville inconnue. Nous le voyons côtoyer les personnages le plus divers. …
Maigret i New York
Georges Simenon (Physical)
Jean Maura, en amerikansk millionærsøn, kommer til Maigret. Han har modtaget nogle mærkelige breve fra sin far, der må være i livsfare. Han får overtalt Maigret til at følge ham til New York, men her forsvinder Maura. …
Maigret og barpigen
Georges Simenon (Physical)
Jean og Rene er 16 og 18 år gamle. De holder af at gå i natklubben Gai-Moulin, ikke mindst på grund af barpigen Adele, men det koster penge. Derfor planlægger de at tømme barens kasse efter lukketid. …
Maigret og de tre kvinder
Georges Simenon (Physical)
Politikommisær Maigret bliver klokken ti om aftenen kaldt til Place de Vosges, denne herlige plads midt i det gamle Paris. …
Maigret og kvinden der forsvandt
Georges Simenon (Physical)
Det var et mærkeligt besøg Maigret fik. Hun var gammel luder og hendes mand pengeskabstyv. Men ikke morder. Under et kup var han stødt på liget af en kvinde. …
Good Faith
Jane Smiley
Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It is 1982 and temptation is everywhere. …
17 Equations that Changed the World
Ian Stewart (Physical)
In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress. …
Warday
Whitley Strieber
med James Kunetka Det hele startede klokken 16:20. 36 minutter senere var krigen forbi. I de minutter var en stor del af verden blevet tilintetgjort. 7 millioner amerikanere døde, da atombomberne eksploderede. …
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray (Kindle)
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. …
Slangens mønster
Minette Walters (Physical)
Året er 1978. Mismodet hærger i England, og landet er lammet af strejker. I det sydvestlige London finder man liget af den enlige, sorte Ann Butts, også kaldet "Gale Annie", i rendestenen i nærheden af hendes hjem på Graham Road. …
