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An ordinary day. The end of ordinary life. 'Very moving but never sentimental, tough but never cynical . . . gripping, funny and always honest' DAVID NICHOLLS

It’s showtime! Et humoristisk, hjertevarmt og sprogligt sprudlende favntag med døden, som mest af alt må læses som en stor kærlighedserklæring til livet.”Jeg har altid fundet det dybt uretfærdigt, for ikke at sige krænkende, at jeg skal dø. Jeg kan huske hvad sygeplejersken sagde om min mor da hun lå for døden: ”Hun vil ikke give slip.” Det tror da fanden. Giv lige slip på livet, du. Det kan man sgu da ikke. Jeg hager mig fast til det sidste lille klippefremspring, borer neglene ind i den hårde sten. Jeg ser mig over skulderen, der er godt nok langt ned, og jeg har højdeskræk, men jeg bliver hængende indtil mine lemmer tørrer ind og rasler i vinden som visne blade og folk langt, langt nede på jorden løfter hovedet og siger: ”Hvad er det der hænger deroppe?” ”Det er Morten Sabroe, han ville ikke give slip, han hænger deroppe til evig tid som et minde over livets skønhed.”Er der noget Morten Sabroe frygter mere end døden er det at ende sine dage på et plejehjem som hans far og storebror, der begge sad indespærret i årevis, som groteske figurer klippet ud af Djævlens scrapbog. I denne dødsforagtende, hjertevarme og eftertænksomme roman ser han tilbage på sit eget og storebrorens vilde, fabulerende ridt fra de forkælede ungdomsårs eskapader til dengang, deres veje skiltes for bestandig.

En ung kvindes vej til selvstændighed set gennem StineStregens sårbare, sjove og skarpe penHvordan i alverden håndterer man forældre, venner, kærester, sex, når man ser voksen ud udenpå, men stadigvæk ikke er så voksen indeni?Efter successen med stribebogen DET BLIVER ET LANGT LIV til unge teenagere (piger) henvender FORKLÆDT SOM VOKSEN sig til det lidt ældre publikum (15+) og beskriver alle de mulige og umulige situationer, man kommer ud i, når man befinder sig i tusmørkelandet mellem barn og voksen.Stine Spedsbjerg / StineStregen er bl.a. illustrator, forfatter og bladtegner og har tidligere vundet Pentel-prisen for Årets Bladtegner. StineStregen har en blog med selvbiografiske hverdagsstriber.Stribebøger af StineStregen:Det bliver et langt livForklædt som voksenVoksenværkHvis du er teenager, så læs DET BLIVER ET LANGT LIV. Hvis du er forælder til en teenager, så læs: DET BLIVER ET LANGT LIV. Hvis du er forælder til en tween, så læs: DET BLIVER ET LANGT LIV. Hvis du selv har været teenager, så læs: DET BLIVER ET LANGT LIV. Det er den seneste udgivelse fra StineStregen, og igen er jeg helt enormt begejstret. Bogen indkapsler fuldstændig teenagelivet for både teenager og forælder i en række striber, og jeg føler mig lige dele som bogens hovedperson; teenageren og som hendes helt enormt pinlige mor. SUK! @withregram • @mitbogskab

"In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl because my name is Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And for the next seven years, we were everything. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it? Until I run across a photo of a girl online named Ryen. I have to meet her. I just don't expect to hate what I find. He hasn't written in three months. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha, neither would be a stretch. Without him around, I'm going crazy. I need to know someone is listening to me. It's my own fault. I should've gotten his phone number or picture or something. He could be gone forever. Or right under my nose, and I wouldn't even know it"--

"Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But has anything really changed? She's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan. Sent to live with Jake and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan quickly learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the three men take Tiernan under their wing, she slowly finds her place among them...and as a part of them. Because lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her. But he's going to keep her."--

"A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon. Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she's finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family...and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all? Charon Ariti has been Hades's right-hand man for years. He's given everything to the lower city, but now he's ready to take something for himself. He's only too happy to give Eurydice a special kind of education...but is her heart really free enough to be claimed? Orpheus Makos will do whatever it takes to make things right. Once the golden boy of the upper city, he's now a shadow of his former self. He'll do anything to get Eurydice back...even if it means she's not coming into his arms alone. Three hearts. Three futures. Countless ways to get it wrong. But with enemies slipping through Olympus's faltering barrier to lay siege on the lower city, a trio of broken hearts will be the least of these would-be lovers' worries..."--

"Twenty-five-year-old Ryke Meadows knows he's hard to love. With a billion-dollar inheritance, a track-star resume, and an alpha-male personality-he redefines the term likable-asshole. But he's not living to make friends. Or enemies. He just wants to free climb three of the toughest mountains in Yosemite without drama or interruption. And then he receives a distressed call from a girl in Paris. Daisy Calloway is finally eighteen. With her newfound independence, she can say goodbye to her overbearing mother and continue her modeling career. Next stop: Paris. Fashion Week begins with a bang, and Daisy uncovers the ugly reality of the industry. She wants to prove to her family that she can live on her own, but when everything spirals out of control, she turns to Ryke to keep her secrets. As Daisy struggles to make sense of this new world and her freedom, she pushes the limits and fearlessly rides the edge. Ryke knows there's deep hurt beneath every impulsive action. He must keep up with Daisy, and if he lets her go, her favorite motto -- 'live as if you'll die today' -- may just come true."--

"Of all the days in the month, I have to be stuck in traffic on the one that means the most to me. I try not to badger Nola, my family's driver, on our ETA to the house I share with Rose. Instead, I anxiously shift on the leather seat and rapidly text my sister. Is he already there? Please say no, please tell me I haven't missed his homecoming. I'm supposed to wait on the white wrap-around porch of our secluded house in Princeton, New Jersey: many acres of lush land, a crystal blue pool, black shutters. The only thing it's missing is the picket fence. I'm supposed to give him a tour of the cozy living room and the granite kitchen, leading him upstairs to the bedrooms where I sleep. He won't be in one of the two guestrooms. Nope, he'll be making residence in mine for the first time ever. And maybe awkwardness will linger at the idea of sharing a bed and a bathroom day and night, at the idea of cohabitating beyond a kitchen. Our relationship will be one-hundred percent real, and there'll be no nightcaps of bourbon or whiskey. I'll be able to say don't do that. And he'll be able to grip my wrists, keeping me from compulsively climaxing until I pass out. We're supposed to help each other"--

"Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now--even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet. Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to put his new wife in her place. Her ex, Adonis, seems like he'll do the trick. It doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous in the way of fallen angels, either. The only problem with using seduction as a weapon? Hearts are all too quick to get involved. With Hephaestus and Aphrodite trading venomous strikes that feel a whole lot like foreplay, lines become blurred and emotions entangled"--

Jonetta længes efter balance – den balance hun føler, når hun svømmer i dammen, eller når hun tænder for vandet i sin udebruser og lader det lunkne vande skylle ned over sig. Hun længes efter roen, når hun sidder med et krydsord med radioen tændt i baggrunden. Det enkle liv, hvor morgenkaffen kan tage den tid, den tager.Alt dette har hun i sin sommerhytte, men Ragnar er der også. Jonettas voksne og arbejdsløse søn, der bor hjemme og stadig rejser på ferie med hende. Som tager det bedste soveværelse, bestemmer, hvad de skal se i fjernsynet, svarer med enstavelsesord, hvis han da overhovedet svarer, og som efterlader sig onanistive t-shirts og muggent sengetøj, som hans mor må tage sig af. Hvad blev der af hendes kære, lille dreng? Og hvordan skal det lykkes Jonetta at nå ind til denne fremmede, indelukkede mand, som er hendes søn? Og ønsker hun det overhovedet? I løbet af et par ferieuger tvinger dramatiske begivenheder alt det undertrykte op til overfladen. Og spørgsmålet er: Hvornår er det nok? Anne B. Ragde skildrer indsigtsfuldt, humoristisk, urovækkende og dybt alvorligt forholdet mellem forældre og børn.

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER '[Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn FrenchWINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015 Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.Praise for Bernardine Evaristo: 'One of Britain's most innovative authors . . . Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different' New Nation'Evaristo remains an undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional' Sunday Times'Audacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo's work' New Statesman Bernardine Evaristo is the author of three critically acclaimed 'verse novels' - Lara, The Emperor's Babe (which won the Arts Council Award in 2000) and Soul Tourists. Mr Loverman is her second prose novel, after 2008's Blonde Roots. Evaristo is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, and was awarded an MBE in 2009. She lives in London.

Lexie Tuffin has one goal in life: making it to the Olympics as a gymnast for Team USA. Her dream was almost crushed when she injured herself last year and lost everything: her coach, her gym, and her future. Now, she's starting from scratch. The only gym that will have her is in Nowhere, Vermont, but she's determined to make a comeback. Nothing and no one is going to shake her focus. Except, apparently, Finn Olsen. Finn has spent his adult life traveling the world, never wanting to settle in one place until last year, when he came back to his dull hometown to manage his friend's Christmas tree farm. And while he's slowly fallen in love with the job, he can't shake the wild reputation he earned for himself so many years ago. The town still sees him as a liability, and maybe that's how he sees himself. It's definitely how Lexie sees him. After a catastrophic introduction, Lexie wants nothing to do with Finn. The fact that she rents a cabin on his farm makes their interactions unavoidable, to Lexie's great despair. However, the more they bump into each other, the clearer it becomes that the snarky flannel-wearing man might not be so bad after all. In fact, he might be the first person to ever really see her. Her mind should only be on her training. He doesn't want to fall for anyone. But neither of them seems able to stop feelings from developing, and the further they go from their own expectations, the more they risk finding what they've been looking for all along: somewhere to belong.

The proposal was simple: Score a homerun and take my virginity.Except, my proposal went to the wrong brother.It was supposed to go to my best friend, but as fate would have it, it fell into the hands of his infuriatingly hot, irritatingly charming older brother.Lane Collins is Orleans University's All-Star baseball captain.Cocky pitcher. Player on and off the field. The life of every party.And the same guy I've crushed on in secret since we were kids.He's always been out of my league.That is until he signs the dotted line on a proposal that wasn't meant for him, and offers to teach me... everything.The one and only condition?We walk away once everything's checked off.Easier said than done when my heart is involved.Now, it's a whole new ballgame.

Velkommen til livet som forælder.Har du nogensinde haft lyst til at bytte plads med din baby? Bare at blive kørt rundt i byen, madet og rost for, hvor flot din lort er? Så er det her lige en bog for dig.”Det er skarp satire og absurd komik, som man slet ikke kan få nok af.”Pingprisen 2023 Thomas Bugge modtog Pingprisen 2023 for bedste danske nettegneserie. Fars kamp er en udsøgt samling af Bugges instagramstriber om livet som ny far og alt, hvad der deraf følger.

EverlyI am the servant of a merciless God. I am the daughter of Its preacher. All my life, my power has been controlled by others. They raised me to be meek and stifled my magic.But no more.A brutal murder led me to discover a mysterious house full of magic - and the ancient, powerful demon within. He says my power can change the world, that I can kill the evil creature I once worshipped.But at what cost?CallumFor two thousand years, I've been alone. Slaughtering fallen Gods as I searched for the witch that haunted my dreams, begging for my help.Now that I've found her, I will protect her with my life. But when the fate of Earth, Heaven, and Hell hangs in the balance, not even her soul is safe from destruction.If a choice must be made, I'll let the world burn if it means having her as my own.Soul of a Witch is book 3 in the Souls Trilogy. Each book within the Souls Trilogy is interconnected, following a different couple through a similar timeline in the fictional world of Abelaum. Content NoteThis book contains sexual scenes, kink/fetish content, horror elements, and drug use. Please see the book preview for complete CW.

After my life goes sideways in the middle of sophomore year, I'm forced to move in with my older brother and two of his hockey teammates. I'm less than thrilled at the idea of living with three athletes and their stinky gear, their rotating door of hookups, and their tendency to inhale every snack in the house.But when I walk in the front door with an armload of boxes, I'm faced with another problem entirely.Hades.One of my new roommates is the tall, tattooed stranger from my one-night stand on Halloween.

Agreeing to help his best friend Lia Fairweather-Fern with her hurried wedding plans, Breaker Cane discovers he might have feelings for the bride-to-be.

"His name is Michael Crist. My boyfriend's older brother is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. But I saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid... For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. Now, I'm in college, but I haven't stopped watching. The things I've seen aren't content to stay in my head anymore. Because he's finally noticed me. Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. My brother's girlfriend looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. While I haven't had her body, I know that I have her mind. That's all I really want anyway. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone and unprotected in my city. The opportunity is too good to be true. Three years ago she put a few of my friends in prison, and now they're out. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true"--

""Are you two friends?" Ha! Friends with JP Cane? That's laughable. Besides the fact that he firmly believes men and women can't be friends and work together, it's safe to say Kelsey Gardner doesn't want her boss's friendship, anyway. He's annoyingly loud, obnoxiously handsome, and has made an art out of pushing Kelsey's buttons all day, every day. No, thank you. So you can imagine how horrified Kelsey is when she not only has to fly out to San Francisco with JP for work, but stay in the same penthouse during the trip. They'll be sharing the same air, twenty-four-seven, as full-fledged working roommates. And being that close is a nightmare--the man doesn't seem to know how to wear a shirt, thrives off protein bars, and is constantly flirting up a storm. Tack on his polished good looks up close, and Kelsey's suddenly staring down the barrel of a seductive temptation that makes it hard to sleep. But she can control herself. She's been doing it since she first met the guy, after all. Because if there's one thing she knows for certain, it's that she and JP Cane are so not meant to be"--

This beautifully designed, limited edition five-book boxed set of the spellbinding Hopeless series—a passionate love story about two young people who must decide if they can move on from their painful pasts and enjoy a future together—is now available for new and longtime Colleen Hoover readers.In Hopeless, Sky and Holder are instantly attracted to one another, but both are hiding dark and troubled pasts. When Holder’s secrets are revealed, Sky is forever changed and must decide if she can ever trust again. Holder is haunted by the girl he couldn’t save in Losing Hope. But perhaps it is only through allowing himself to love Sky that he can begin to heal. Finding Cinderella follows Daniel as he meets the perfect woman, only for her to disappear from his life. A year later, he meets the mysterious Six, and it seems like true love. But will Daniel actually get his happily ever after? In the "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author) All Your Perfects, Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage, and the one thing that could save them might be the very thing that pushes their relationship beyond the point of repair. Finally, in Finding Perfect, the friends are planning a Friendsgiving dinner, but secrets threaten their happiness. Can they all finally move on from their pasts or is it too late?

This beautifully designed, limited edition three-book boxed set of the captivating Maybe Someday series—an unforgettable love story filled with romance, desire, and music—is now available for new and longtime Colleen Hoover readers.College student Sydney’s world is turned upside down when she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her in Maybe Someday. Wondering what her next step should be, she crosses paths with the mysterious Ridge and the two soon find themselves drawn to one another. Featuring songs by Griffin Peterson. In the novella Maybe Not, roommates Warren and Bridgette can barely stand to be in the same apartment together. But Warren has a theory he wants to test—surely someone with that much hate inside must also have the same amount of passion. But can he convince Bridgette to reveal that side of her? Finally, in Maybe Now, couples Ridge and Sydney and Warren and Bridgette face tumultuous changes. Further complicating matters is Ridge’s friend Maggie, whose determination to live life to the fullest raises Sydney’s suspicions. This stunning conclusion features new songs by Griffin Peterson.

En fortælling om en ung pige med iranske rødder, som vokser op i Danmark. I løbet af sin tidlige ungdom rejser hun flere gange til Iran, og her oplever hun, hvad tørklædet gør ved hendes selvforståelse, hendes frihedsfølelse og hendes oprørstrang.’’Første gang jeg tager tørklædet på’’ er en autofiktivt inspireret fortælling om at tage tørklædet på, både ufrivilligt og frivilligt, og opleve modstand mod begge handlinger.”Første gang” er en serie af korte tekster, hvor tidens stemmer fortæller om en første gang, der forandrer alt for altid.Om forfatteren:Shëkufe Tadayoni Heiberg, (f. 1987), forfatter, cand. mag, forlægger og skønlitterær oversætter fra persisk. Forfatter til ’’Frugt & grønne sager’’, ’’Æg og Muld & liv’’, samt prosaværket ’’Plantae sapien’’ (2021). I 2022 aktuel med digtoversættelsen ’’Hafez - fra vinhus til paradis’’, samt romandebuten ’’Nødder’’.

After being dumped on her 21st birthday, Bailey James rebounds right into the arms of her ex's biggest competition, Chase Carter: Antagonizer, womanizer, and infamous left winger for the Boyd University Falcons.Following a string of scandals and substandard grades, Chase is on thin ice with his teammates and tyrannical coach. The last thing he needs is to have his focus and loyalty called into question by fraternizing with his team's #1 rival. But a beautiful stranger who throws herself at him one night is too tempting to pass up... Until she throws up on his shoes.Caught in the midst of a bitter rivalry that extends far beyond the arena, Bailey and Chase are on opposite sides of the bench. He's worked his entire life to secure a future in the NHL. She's tagged along for the ride while her brother Derek, star defensive for the Bruder College Bulldogs, has done the same. Fraternizing with the enemy is definitely out of the question. Except this enemy is impossible to resist.

"Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best. That's what Lily Calloway and Loren Hale try to do when his father schedules an "important" meeting. The problem: after being swept into the public eye and battling their addictions, they're not sure what the worst is anymore. In a sea of many changes--including Ryke and Daisy living with them--Lily realizes that the best part of her fluctuating hormones might just be the worst. Her sex drive is out of control. Loren knows that she's insatiable, but he's not giving up on her. She's too much a part of him. And as he carries more and more responsibility, some of the people that he loves doubt his resolve. Lily and Lo stand side-by-side to fight, one last time, for their happily ever after"--