THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA ' Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' GUARDIAN 'A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES ______________________ What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends. Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life? The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year, EXPECTATION is a novel about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. ___________________ ' Thoughtful , beautifully written, honest . A sensual book . I URGE YOU TO READ IT' MARIAN KEYES 'Beautiful, sharp, moving. I urge you to read it' ' ELIZABETH DAY 'A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES 'I loved it ... 10 out of 10' BRYONY GORDON 'Will resonate with approximately 99% of women' RED MAGAZINE summer pick ' One of the most intensely readable novels this year' METRO ' One of our most gifted contemporary writers' WATERSTONES 'SO GOOD. A 'What they did next' story of characters from a Sally Rooney novel' SARAH FRANKLIN ' The story of 3 college friends, if you're a fan of Sally Rooney , you'll love EXPECTATION' IRISH EXAMINER 'A must-read' FABULOUS MAGAZINE 'A generation-defining book on motherhood, ambition and sex. Like NORMAL PEOPLE with female friendship under the microscope.' ERIN KELLY 'Few novels leave me so genuinely breathless with their brilliance' HANNAH BECKERMAN 'Sublime' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Book of the Year 'A marvellously tangy London novel ' DAILY MAIL 'A grown-up, honest take on female camaraderie. Packed with talking points' MAIL ON SUNDAY ' Hugely absorbing, massively enjoyable' LISSA EVANS 'Totally unputdownable, immersive, sharp, FAB' HARRIET EVANS 'Beautifully observed study of female friendship and a moving account of the collisio

Dieser Sammelband enthält: Band 13 - Ryders Rhapsodie Band 14 - Damians Eroberung Band 15 - Graysons Herausforderung Band 16 - Isabelles verbotene Liebe Band 17 - Coopers Leidenschaft Band 18 - Vanessas Wagemut Ryders Rhapsodie Als der Vampirhybride Ryder Giles beauftragt wird, Doktorandin und Bücherwurm Scarlet King zu beschützen, die von anderen Bodyguards als schwierig und manipulativ bezeichnet wird, ist er überzeugt, dass er es schaffen wird, die Wogen zu glätten. Schließlich ist er der kühle Kopf, den Scanguards als Leibwächter einsetzt, wenn alle anderen das Handtuch werfen. Allerdings weiß er nicht, dass Scarlet die heißblütige Verführerin ist, die ihm in der Nacht zuvor während ihrer wilden sexuellen Begegnung in einem Nachtclub einen falschen Namen gegeben hat - einer Begegnung, die sich als lebensverändernd für Ryder herausstellt. Damians Eroberung Als Vampir-Hybride, der nicht nur als Leibwächter für Scanguards arbeitet, sondern auch den Nachtclub Mezzanine leitet, hat Damian die Auswahl an schönen Frauen. Doch als die mollige Journalistin Naomi Sutton in das Büro des Nachtclubs einbricht, während sie Behauptungen angeblicher Blutrituale im Club nachgeht, regt sich Damians Blut wie nie zuvor. Doch wie kann er Naomi davon abhalten, seine Geheimnisse aufzudecken, wenn er nichts mehr will, als sie zu Seiner zu machen? Graysons Herausforderung Grayson Woodford, eigensinniger Erbe des Scanguards-Imperiums, ärgert sich über die Pläne seines Vaters Samson, ihn mit der Tochter eines alten Freundes zu verkuppeln. Die Vampirhybridin Monique Montague ist genauso sauer auf ihren Vater Cain, den Vampirkönig von Louisiana, weil dieser sie dazu überreden will, Grayson zu daten. Aus ihrer gemeinsamen Kindheit hat sie diesen als verwöhnt und arrogant in Erinnerung. Deshalb weigert sie sich, mit zur Silvesterparty zu kommen, bei der sie Grayson treffen soll, und reißt stattdessen in einer Bar einen Fremden auf, um mit diesem eine Nacht lang wilden Sex zu haben. Was sie nicht weiß, ist, dass der Fremde kein anderer als Grayson ist. Isabelles verbotene Liebe Als San Francisco von brutalen Morden aufgerüttelt wird, ist Scanguards sofort klar, dass die Beweise auf einen von ihnen hinweisen, den schroffen und äußerst privaten Türsteher und Vampir Orlando. Isabelle, die Hybridentochter von Samson und Delilah, versucht Orlandos Unschuld zu beweisen. Doch eine Enthüllung über Taten aus Orlandos Vergangenheit erschüttert ihr Vertrauen in ihn, während er versucht, sie wegzustoßen, aus Angst, dass sich die Vergangenheit wiederholen und ihn erneut allem berauben könnte, was er liebt. Coopers Leidenschaft Die eigensinnige Anita Diaz, Sheriff's Deputy in einer Kleinstadt in Nevada, folgt der Spur eines Serienmörders, der den amerikanischen Westen unsicher macht, und landet in San Francisco, wo der Scanguards-Ermittler und Vampir-Hybride Cooper Montgomery dem Mordfall einer unbekannten Frau nachgeht. Als sich ihre Wege kreuzen, klicken Handschellen, Köpfe stoßen aneinander und die Funken fliegen. Sie beschließen gemeinsam, den Mörder zu jagen, und Cooper weiß, dass Anita irgendwann erkennen wird, dass der Serienmörder, der ausgeblutete Leichen hinterlässt, ein Vampir ist - und dass Cooper und seine Freunde und Familie auch Vampire sind. Vanessas Wagemut Als Vanessa Giles, Community Outreach Managerin bei Scanguards, eine Prostituierte vor einem abtrünnigen Vampir rettet, kreuzt sie dabei den Weg des mysteriösen menschlichen Internetunternehmers Cole Whitlock. Er war nach San Francisco gezogen, um ein Heilmittel für sein körperliches Leiden zu suchen, von dem er niemandem etwas verraten darf, am allerwenigsten Vanessa, zu der er sich unerklärlicherweise hingezogen fühlt, obwohl er sie für eine Escort-Dame hält.

'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcast Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all... Grace has what one might call a 'full and interesting life' which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her straight friends, but all this time she has been waiting in secret for love to hit her so hard that she runs out of breath, like the way a wave in a rough sea bowls you over, slams you into the sand, and nearly drowns you. When Grace meets a beautiful woman at a party, she falls suddenly and desperately in love. At the same party, lawyer Annie meets the man of her dreams - the only man she's ever met whose table manners are up to her mother's standards. And across the city, Violet, who is afraid of almost everything, is making another discovery of her own: that for the first time in her life she's falling in love with a woman. A Love Story for Bewildered Girls is a moving and exquisitely funny novel about love, sex and heartbreak. 'Exquisitely tender, beautifully written, funny and sad' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-up 'Funny, honest, brilliant' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina 'I absolutely loved this book by Emma Morgan which follows 3 women's very different love lives... I inhaled it' Emma Gannon, Sunday Times best-selling author and host of the podcast Ctrl-Alt-Delete 'Funny, touching, uplifting, thoroughly modern' Lauren Bravo, author of What Would the Spice Girls Do? 'I was transfixed by this funny and moving story of three women navigating their way through the complexities of love, life and the search for personal fulfilment' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus, a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 'A charming modern romance' Glamour 'Beautifully written, Morgan's novel is a seriously impressive debut' Stylist 'Emma Morgan is an author to look out for' Julie Cohen, author of 'Louis & Louise' LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020

For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one of the most original novelists working today" by extreme horror legend Edward Lee, Mellick returns with an erotic urban fantasy crime novel about love and violence, sex and sexuality, oppression and overcoming impossible odds. Welcome to Grub Town, the most corrupt city in America. A place where gutter punk mermaids swim in sewage-filled canals, fairy prostitutes hang in birdcages on every street corner, and yakuza elves run everything behind the scenes. ¿Eliot is the most beautiful fairy in all of the city with his dazzling emerald green butterfly wings that make everyone who sees them fall instantly in lust with him. But it's more of a curse than a blessing. Forced to hide his wings in public in order to avoid the constant sexual harassment, Eliot only finds solace when visiting his friends at the Snake Pit lamia strip club or getting tattooed by the dark and mysterious half-octopus woman named Oona. Oona is the best tattooist in the city, but she is a frightening woman three times Eliot's size with nine-foot tentacles that could choke a man to death in seconds. But despite this fact, Eliot is desperately in love with her. He's so infatuated with the octomaid that he gets new tattoos from her each and every week just to be closer to her, addicted to having her artwork permanently embedded into his skin. But when Eliot accidentally murders the only heir to the elf yakuza crime family in Oona's tattoo shop, they are forced to go on the run together, hoping to avoid the wrath of the most dangerous man in town. With everyone in the city out to get them, they can only rely on each other if they have any hope for survival. Like if Quentin Tarantino played with Monster High dolls, Full Metal Octopus is a return to Mellick's pulpy gritty bizarro style previously seen in The Cannibals of Candyland, Armadillo Fists, and Clownfellas.

THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA ' Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' GUARDIAN 'A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES ______________________ What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends. Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life? The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year, EXPECTATION is a novel about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. ___________________ ' Thoughtful , beautifully written, honest . A sensual book . I URGE YOU TO READ IT' MARIAN KEYES 'Beautiful, sharp, moving. I urge you to read it' ' ELIZABETH DAY 'A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES 'I loved it ... 10 out of 10' BRYONY GORDON 'Will resonate with approximately 99% of women' RED MAGAZINE summer pick ' One of the most intensely readable novels this year' METRO ' One of our most gifted contemporary writers' WATERSTONES 'SO GOOD. A 'What they did next' story of characters from a Sally Rooney novel' SARAH FRANKLIN ' The story of 3 college friends, if you're a fan of Sally Rooney , you'll love EXPECTATION' IRISH EXAMINER 'A must-read' FABULOUS MAGAZINE 'A generation-defining book on motherhood, ambition and sex. Like NORMAL PEOPLE with female friendship under the microscope.' ERIN KELLY 'Few novels leave me so genuinely breathless with their brilliance' HANNAH BECKERMAN 'Sublime' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Book of the Year 'A marvellously tangy London novel ' DAILY MAIL 'A grown-up, honest take on female camaraderie. Packed with talking points' MAIL ON SUNDAY ' Hugely absorbing, massively enjoyable' LISSA EVANS 'Totally unputdownable, immersive, sharp, FAB' HARRIET EVANS 'Beautifully observed study of female friendship and a moving account of the collisio

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The lives of three women transgender and cisgender collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in one of the most celebrated novels of the year (Time) Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand. Vulture One of the New York Times s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Vulture, and Autostraddle PEN/Hemingway Award Winner Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Gotham Book Prize Longlisted for The Women s Prize Roxane Gay s Audacious Book Club Pick New York Times Editors Choice Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.

Als Tochter eines Drogendealers hat Wavy schon früh gelernt: Traue niemandem. Am wenigsten deinen Eltern. Die Achtjährige ist den schizophrenen Launen ihrer Mutter ausgeliefert und kümmert sich ganz alleine um den Haushalt und ihren kleinen Bruder. Frieden findet sie nur beim Betrachten des Sternenhimmels über den Feldern hinter dem Elternhaus. Und dort begegnet sie dem Riesen Kellen, dem tätowierten Ex-Häftling mit einem Herz aus Gold. Er erweckt in Wavy ein Gefühl, das sie inmitten ihrer Welt aus Gewalt und Vernachlässigung für unmöglich gehalten hat. Als eine Tragödie Wavys Familie auseinanderreißt, wird unter dem strengen Blick der Welt das, was Wavy so schön erscheint, auf einmal hässlich ... Provokant und einfühlsam erzählt Bryn Greenwood in ihrem Bestseller von zwei verlorenen Seelen und deren sonderbarer, ja unmöglicher Liebe. Eine schockierende und eindringliche Coming-of-Age-Geschichte, jenseits von Moral und Konvention. FESTA MUST READ: Große Erzähler ohne Tabus. Muss man gelesen haben. Dieses Buch wurde in den USA aufgeregt diskutiert: Ein junges Mädchen hat Sex mit einem erwachsenen Mann. Doch es geht um Liebe, nicht um Pädophilie. Der Roman beleuchtet das Thema von verschiedenen Perspektiven und regt zum Nachdenken an. Die vielen Vergleiche mit Nabokovs ?Lolita? sind unpassend, denn der Erzähler in ?Lolita? ist definitiv ein Pädophiler, der Mann in diesem Roman sicher nicht. Die Autorin hat sich mehrfach zu den Vorwürfen geäußert: Sie ist selbst die Tochter eines Drogendealers, wie das Mädchen in dem Buch, und auch sie hatte mit 13 Jahren eine Beziehung mit einem erwachsenen Mann. Der Roman ist aber keine Autobiografie. Books Bringing the Heat this Summer: »Dieses Buch wird Sie bis ins Mark erschüttern.« Library Journal: »Bryn Greenwoods ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS ist so unheimlich gut und gefährlich, dass es mit einem Warnhinweis versehen sein sollte ...« Emily May, Goodreads: »Dieses Buch hat mich zerstört. Ich habe so etwas noch nie gelesen. Ich weiß nicht genau, was ich darüber denken soll ... Aber eines ist sicher: Ich fühlte etwas. Oh, verdammt, ich fühlte etwas. Und ich glaube nicht, dass ich diese Figuren jemals wieder aus meinem Kopf bekomme.« Brunonia Barry: »Eine erstaunliche Geschichte über Familie, Verlust und Liebe, die ebenso unvorhersehbar und inspirierend ist wie die Liebe selbst.« Book Riot: »Grauenvoll, dunkel, brutal, unbequem, aber brillant konstruiert.« The Girly Book Club: »Achtung Buchalarm ... Greenwood nimmt den Leser mit auf einen emotionalen Bungee-Sprung, bei dem er selbst entscheiden muss, was er unter den schlimmsten Umständen akzeptieren kann, und was nicht.« InStyle UK: »ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS ist genau das: hässlich und wunderbar zugleich. Eine epische Liebesgeschichte ... Dieses Buch wird eine lebhafte Debatte über Gesetze und gesellschaftliche Normen auslösen.« Jillian Cantor: »Sehr hart und wunderschön geschrieben. Sowohl eine hypnotisierende Coming-of-Age-Story als auch eine herzzerreißende Tragödie.« Robert Ferrigno: »Bryn Greenwood ist so gut, dass es weh tut.« BRYN GREENWOOD ist die Tochter eines ehemaligen Drogendealers. Seit dem Abschluss ihres Studiums arbeitet sie in der Verwaltung einer Universität. Ihre Essays und Kurzgeschichten wurden u. a. in der New York Times veröffentlicht. Mit ihrem kontroversen Roman ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS erreichte Bryn die US-Bestsellerlisten. Sie lebt in Lawrence, Kansas.

'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcast Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all... Grace has what one might call a 'full and interesting life' which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her straight friends, but all this time she has been waiting in secret for love to hit her so hard that she runs out of breath, like the way a wave in a rough sea bowls you over, slams you into the sand, and nearly drowns you. When Grace meets a beautiful woman at a party, she falls suddenly and desperately in love. At the same party, lawyer Annie meets the man of her dreams - the only man she's ever met whose table manners are up to her mother's standards. And across the city, Violet, who is afraid of almost everything, is making another discovery of her own: that for the first time in her life she's falling in love with a woman. A Love Story for Bewildered Girls is a moving and exquisitely funny novel about love, sex and heartbreak. 'Exquisitely tender, beautifully written, funny and sad' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-up 'Funny, honest, brilliant' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina 'I absolutely loved this book by Emma Morgan which follows 3 women's very different love lives... I inhaled it' Emma Gannon, Sunday Times best-selling author and host of the podcast Ctrl-Alt-Delete 'Funny, touching, uplifting, thoroughly modern' Lauren Bravo, author of What Would the Spice Girls Do? 'I was transfixed by this funny and moving story of three women navigating their way through the complexities of love, life and the search for personal fulfilment' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus, a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 'A charming modern romance' Glamour 'Beautifully written, Morgan's novel is a seriously impressive debut' Stylist 'Emma Morgan is an author to look out for' Julie Cohen, author of 'Louis & Louise' LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020

'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcast Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all... Grace has what one might call a 'full and interesting life' which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her straight friends, but all this time she has been waiting in secret for love to hit her so hard that she runs out of breath, like the way a wave in a rough sea bowls you over, slams you into the sand, and nearly drowns you. When Grace meets a beautiful woman at a party, she falls suddenly and desperately in love. At the same party, lawyer Annie meets the man of her dreams - the only man she's ever met whose table manners are up to her mother's standards. And across the city, Violet, who is afraid of almost everything, is making another discovery of her own: that for the first time in her life she's falling in love with a woman. A Love Story for Bewildered Girls is a moving and exquisitely funny novel about love, sex and heartbreak. 'Exquisitely tender, beautifully written, funny and sad' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-up 'Funny, honest, brilliant' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina 'I absolutely loved this book by Emma Morgan which follows 3 women's very different love lives... I inhaled it' Emma Gannon, Sunday Times best-selling author and host of the podcast Ctrl-Alt-Delete 'Funny, touching, uplifting, thoroughly modern' Lauren Bravo, author of What Would the Spice Girls Do? 'I was transfixed by this funny and moving story of three women navigating their way through the complexities of love, life and the search for personal fulfilment' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus, a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 'A charming modern romance' Glamour 'Beautifully written, Morgan's novel is a seriously impressive debut' Stylist 'Emma Morgan is an author to look out for' Julie Cohen, author of 'Louis & Louise' LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020

A deluxe hardcover edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller that’s sold more than two million copies and inspired an Emmy-nominated series executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, from the beloved author of Atmosphere, Malibu Rising, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Now featuring: Full-color stenciled edges Designed endpapers Updated jacket with foil Printed case beneath the jacket New letter to the reader Extended ending with Daisy/Camila emails and new Billy/Daisy phone call transcript Images of the author’s research notebook “An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Esquire, Glamour, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Parade, Paste, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The lives of three women transgender and cisgender collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in one of the most celebrated novels of the year (Time) Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand. Vulture One of the New York Times s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Vulture, and Autostraddle PEN/Hemingway Award Winner Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Gotham Book Prize Longlisted for The Women s Prize Roxane Gay s Audacious Book Club Pick New York Times Editors Choice Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.

A deluxe hardcover edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller that’s sold more than two million copies and inspired an Emmy-nominated series executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, from the beloved author of Atmosphere, Malibu Rising, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Now featuring: • Full-color stenciled edges • Designed endpapers • Updated jacket with foil • Printed case beneath the jacket • New letter to the reader • Extended ending with Daisy/Camila emails and new Billy/Daisy phone call transcript • Images of the author’s research notebook “An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Esquire, Glamour, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Parade, Paste, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead and keep it together in New York City.   It s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway and doing important work. But all she has to show for her efforts so far is a part in an ad for ugly Christmas sweaters, and a gig waiting tables at a comedy club. Her roommates her best friend Jane, and Dan, an aspiring sci-fi writer are supportive, yet Franny knows a two-person fan club doesn t exactly count as success. Everyone tells her she needs a backup plan, and though she can almost picture moving back home and settling down with her perfectly nice ex-boyfriend, she s not ready to give up on her goal of having a career like her idols Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Not just yet. But while she dreams of filling their shoes, in the meantime, she d happily settle for a speaking part in almost anything and finding a hair product combination that works.   Everything is riding on the upcoming showcase for her acting class, where she ll finally have a chance to perform for people who could actually hire her. And she can t let herself be distracted by James Franklin, a notorious flirt and the most successful actor in her class, even though he s suddenly started paying attention. Meanwhile, her bank account is rapidly dwindling, her father wants her to come home, and her agent doesn t return her calls. But for some reason, she keeps believing that she just might get what she came for.   Someday, Someday, Maybe is a story about hopes and dreams, being young in a city, and wanting something deeply, madly, desperately. It s about finding love, finding yourself, and perhaps most difficult of all in New York City, finding an acting job. Praise for Someday, Someday, Maybe   A winning, entertaining read . . . [Lauren Graham] has smartly mined just the right details from her own experience, infusing her work with crackling dialogue and observations about show business that ring funny and true. The Washington Post   A charmer of a first novel . . . [Graham] has an easy, unforced style and, when the situation calls for it, a keen sense of the ridiculous. The Wall Street Journal   With insight, care, and an abundance of humor . . . Graham demonstrates that her acting chops are not her only talent. Library Journal   Thoroughly charming. Entertainment Weekly   Sweet, funny, and full of heart . . . a dazzling debut. Emily Giffin , New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed and Where We Belong   Warm and funny, charming and smart. Diane Keaton , New York Times bestselling author of Then Again   Graham deftly captures what it s like to be young, ambitious, and hopeful in New York City. Candace Bushnell , New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries   Fresh and funny and full of zingers, Lauren Graham s charming writing style instantly drew me in. Meg Cabot , bestselling author of the Princess Diaries and Heather Wells Mystery series

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead and keep it together in New York City. It s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway and doing important work. But all she has to show for her efforts so far is a part in an ad for ugly Christmas sweaters, and a gig waiting tables at a comedy club. Her roommates her best friend Jane, and Dan, an aspiring sci-fi writer are supportive, yet Franny knows a two-person fan club doesn t exactly count as success. Everyone tells her she needs a backup plan, and though she can almost picture moving back home and settling down with her perfectly nice ex-boyfriend, she s not ready to give up on her goal of having a career like her idols Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Not just yet. But while she dreams of filling their shoes, in the meantime, she d happily settle for a speaking part in almost anything and finding a hair product combination that works. Everything is riding on the upcoming showcase for her acting class, where she ll finally have a chance to perform for people who could actually hire her. And she can t let herself be distracted by James Franklin, a notorious flirt and the most successful actor in her class, even though he s suddenly started paying attention. Meanwhile, her bank account is rapidly dwindling, her father wants her to come home, and her agent doesn t return her calls. But for some reason, she keeps believing that she just might get what she came for. Someday, Someday, Maybe is a story about hopes and dreams, being young in a city, and wanting something deeply, madly, desperately. It s about finding love, finding yourself, and perhaps most difficult of all in New York City, finding an acting job. Praise for Someday, Someday, Maybe A winning, entertaining read . . . [Lauren Graham] has smartly mined just the right details from her own experience, infusing her work with crackling dialogue and observations about show business that ring funny and true. The Washington Post A charmer of a first novel . . . [Graham] has an easy, unforced style and, when the situation calls for it, a keen sense of the ridiculous. The Wall Street Journal With insight, care, and an abundance of humor . . . Graham demonstrates that her acting chops are not her only talent. Library Journal Thoroughly charming. Entertainment Weekly Sweet, funny, and full of heart . . . a dazzling debut. Emily Giffin , New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed and Where We Belong Warm and funny, charming and smart. Diane Keaton , New York Times bestselling author of Then Again Graham deftly captures what it s like to be young, ambitious, and hopeful in New York City. Candace Bushnell , New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries Fresh and funny and full of zingers, Lauren Graham s charming writing style instantly drew me in. Meg Cabot , bestselling author of the Princess Diaries and Heather Wells Mystery series

The first full life private, public, legal, philosophical of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and her associates. In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, her meticulous jurisprudence: her desire to make We the People more united and our union more perfect. At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs her Jewish background. Tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to repair the world, with its profound meaning for a young girl who grew up during the Holocaust and World War II. We see the influence of her mother, Celia Amster Bader, whose intellect inspired her daughter s feminism, insisting that Ruth become independent, as she witnessed her mother coping with terminal cervical cancer (Celia died the day before Ruth, at seventeen, graduated from high school).      From Ruth s days as a baton twirler at Brooklyn s James Madison High School, to Cornell University, Harvard and Columbia Law Schools (first in her class), to being a law professor at Rutgers University (one of the few women in the field and fighting pay discrimination), hiding her second pregnancy so as not to risk losing her job; founding the Women's Rights Law Reporter, writing the brief for the first case that persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down a sex-discriminatory state law, then at Columbia (the law school s first tenured female professor); becoming the director of the women s rights project of the ACLU, persuading the Supreme Court in a series of decisions to ban laws that denied women full citizenship status with men.      Her years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, deciding cases the way she played golf, as she, left-handed, played with right-handed clubs aiming left, swinging right, hitting down the middle. Her years on the Supreme Court . . .       A pioneering life and legal career whose profound mark on American jurisprudence, on American society, on our American character and spirit, will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond.

Crime Scene Investigation - Season Two: Episoden 01-23 Episode 01: "Blutiges Testament" Der junge Casino-Manager Tony Braun wird tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden. Zunächst scheint der Fall klar: Eine Überdosis. Tonys Lebenswandel - Geld, Drogen, Sex - war kein Geheimnis, neben der Leiche liegt eine leere 100er-Packung Xanax. Als sich herausstellt, dass weder das Heroin noch die Tabletten in Tonys Magen - nicht mehr als 50 Stück - tödlich waren, wird wegen Mordes ermittelt... Episode 02: "Spurlos" Seit vier Tagen ist die 18-jährige Paige Rycoff spurlos verschwunden. Die Studentin hatte vor, die Uni zu verlassen und zu ihren Eltern zurückzukehren, doch in ihrem Zimmer im Studentenwohnheim finden die Ermittler von der CSI sowohl ihre Koffer als auch ihr Rückreise-Ticket. Catherine lässt sich in den Schacht des Müllschluckers abseilen, entdeckt aber keine verdächtigen Spuren... Episode 03: "Unter Strom" Der Bauarbeiter Roger Valenti stürzt von einem Baugerüst. Erstaunt stellen Gil, Sara und Warrick fest, dass Roger an einem Stromschlag starb. Ein Unfall, ausgelöst durch eine defekte Bohrmaschine? Gil entdeckt im Schuh des toten Arbeiters einen Nagel, der eine andere Geschichte erzählt... Episode 04: "Der Duft der Frauen" Barry Schickel, der Kapitän einer Highschool-Football-Mannschaft, wird erschossen im Waschraum der Schule aufgefunden. Bei einer Analyse der Waschraumluft stellt Warrick Brown nicht nur Spuren von Zigarettenrauch und Kaugummi fest, sondern auch Reste von Marihuana und einem sehr teuren Parfüm... Episode 05: "Ein fliegender Beweis" Das CSI-Team hat es mit einem höchst seltsamen Fall zu tun, als der leblose Körper eines Tauchers in den Wipfeln eines Baumes nahe des Lake Mead gefunden wird. Die Untersuchungen ergeben, dass sich im Blut des Toten keine erhöhte Konzentration von Kohlenmonoxid befindet, was einen Tod unter Wasser definitiv ausschließt. Episode 06: "Wie Kain und Abel" Ein Beamter der Highway Patrol entdeckt an einer ungewöhnlichen Stelle einen geparkten Wagen und sieht kurz darauf einen jungen Mann, der gerade versucht, eine Leiche zu vergraben. Die Polizei und die Spezialisten vom CSI tauchen am Tatort auf und übernehmen die Ermittlungen. Dabei stoßen auch sie schon bald auf den jungen Mann. Sein Name ist Ben Jennings, und er hat offenbar noch eine weitere Leiche vergraben. Episode 07: "Ein zweifelhafter Zeuge" An sich wirkte es wie ein ganz normaler Unfall: Eine junge Frau fährt mit ihrem Jeep über eine Eisenbahnschranke, wird vom Zug erfasst und getötet. Und doch gab es Umstände, die mehr als eigenartig wirken... Episode 08: "Tod einer Domina" In Las Vegas wird in einem Sandkasten die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Das CSI-Team übernimmt die Ermittlungen und kommt dahinter, dass es sich bei der Toten um eine Domina handelt, die in einem Sado-Maso-Club in der Stadt gearbeitet hat. Die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass die Frau Opfer einer bizarren Sexualpraktik geworden sein könnte. Episode 09: "Rien ne va plus" Ein Casino in Las Vegas wird von drei Frauen überfallen. Bei dem Raubzug werden ein Wachmann und eine der Täterinnen erschossen, während es den beiden anderen Frauen gelingt, mit 250.000 Dollar Beute zu fliehen. Episode 10: "Blütenzauber" Grissom ist zu einem Kongress aufgebrochen und hat ausgerechnet Warrick Brown das Kommando über die Spezialistentruppe übertragen. Damit sind Nick und Sara alles andere als einverstanden und machen Warrick das Leben entsprechend schwer... Episode 11: "Der Tote im Fahrstuhl" Das CSI-Team wird ins noble Devon Hotel gerufen, wo ein Körper "unter verdächtigen Umständen" entdeckt wurde. Im Aufzug des Hotels finden die CSI-Leute den finanzgewaltigen Immobilien-Tycoon Bob Fairmont mehr tot als lebendig vor. Allen ist klar, dass Fairmont sterben wird. Episode 12: "Scherbenhaufen" Das CSI-Team wird zu einer Autobahnbaustelle gerufen, auf der die Leichen zweier Frauen gefunden wurden. Die Autopsie ergibt, dass beide kurz nacheinander gestorben sein müssen und dass es sich um

PANAMANIAN SLANG DICTIONARY - Plus Words and Phrases Learn Panamanian Spanish Slang One Word At A Time Whether traveling to el Republica de Panama as a tourist, student, or with the intention of moving there as an expatriate, this guide will serve you well. You probably already know the Spanish spoken by Panamanians is a unique idiom, bejeweled with words and phrases never taught in your high school Spanish class. Intended for English speakers, this book shares common slang words and phrases to help you communicate in everyday situations like ordering dinner in a restaurant, shopping at the mercado for fresh produce, flirting in a club, getting street directions, or hiring a taxi. Before you go, consider taking the time to learn a few Panamanian Spanish slang words and phrases so you can speak street Spanish like a local. This guide contains a wealth of words and expressions that you can look up when you hear or read them to know what is going on around you. Even better, weeks before traveling, spend a night curled up with the book gaining familiarity with the wealth of wisdom it contains. That way, when you hear a vaguely familiar word on the street, you will know which page to consult to refresh your memory. Even if you don't have the confidence to utter a word in Panamanian Spanish, you'll know what was said. Before you go, learn Panamanian-Spanish words and phrases so you can speak street Spanish like a local on the streets (las calles), in the shops (las tiendas), on the beaches (las playas), in the clubs (discotecas), and at the grocery store (el supermercado), knowing at least some street talk will pay big dividends. Instead of being seen as some soul-less gringo tourist, the locals will hold you in higher esteem. As a result, you may make new friends, and as a bonus perhaps get a better hotel room or lower prices while shopping for a mola. Unlike most foreign language books, with their sterile lists of words (yawn), this one includes cultural references (food, dance, sex) that make the words come alive, more relevant to your life and experience, and therefore, more easily remembered. More than a dictionary replete with a compilation of words and phrases, this book shines a light on the rich tapestry of Panamanian culture. Top 20 Panamanian Slang Words/Phrases Ahuevao - Stupid. Acting the fool. Babylon - The police Bucu - Lots (Derived from the French beacoup) Cabrear - To be angry. Commonly used in place of enojar. Chanti - House, crib (Shanty). Chupata - A party with lots of alcohol. Cornflake - Cereal. Dale pues - Go for it. Okay. Joven - Someone whose attention you are trying to get. Fren - Friend. Macaron - Pasta. Pa - Derived from the Spanish para. Pana - Panamanian, shortened, a fellow countryman. Pelao - Dude. Referring to any guy in a casual situation. Pipi sweet - A Womanizer. Sweet dick. Pritti - Cool, awesome. ¿Qué cosa? - A question, asking, What? ¿Qué sopá - A question asking What's up. Ta cool - It's cool. (Esta abbrev.) Vaina - Thing, stuff, thingamabob. So if you are going to Panama (wise choice), you could simply sit back and do nothing more ambitious than making hotel reservations and plan where to dine. Then when the plane lands at Tocumen airport, struggle to understand the cabbie hired to drive to your hotel. Speak in halting phrases when ordering supper. Struggle to understand the nuances of what's going on around you. Or you could rather wisely invest in your future by buying this book.

Crime Scene Investigation - Season Two: Episoden 01-23 Episode 01: "Blutiges Testament" Der junge Casino-Manager Tony Braun wird tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden. Zunächst scheint der Fall klar: Eine Überdosis. Tonys Lebenswandel - Geld, Drogen, Sex - war kein Geheimnis, neben der Leiche liegt eine leere 100er-Packung Xanax. Als sich herausstellt, dass weder das Heroin noch die Tabletten in Tonys Magen - nicht mehr als 50 Stück - tödlich waren, wird wegen Mordes ermittelt... Episode 02: "Spurlos" Seit vier Tagen ist die 18-jährige Paige Rycoff spurlos verschwunden. Die Studentin hatte vor, die Uni zu verlassen und zu ihren Eltern zurückzukehren, doch in ihrem Zimmer im Studentenwohnheim finden die Ermittler von der CSI sowohl ihre Koffer als auch ihr Rückreise-Ticket. Catherine lässt sich in den Schacht des Müllschluckers abseilen, entdeckt aber keine verdächtigen Spuren... Episode 03: "Unter Strom" Der Bauarbeiter Roger Valenti stürzt von einem Baugerüst. Erstaunt stellen Gil, Sara und Warrick fest, dass Roger an einem Stromschlag starb. Ein Unfall, ausgelöst durch eine defekte Bohrmaschine? Gil entdeckt im Schuh des toten Arbeiters einen Nagel, der eine andere Geschichte erzählt... Episode 04: "Der Duft der Frauen" Barry Schickel, der Kapitän einer Highschool-Football-Mannschaft, wird erschossen im Waschraum der Schule aufgefunden. Bei einer Analyse der Waschraumluft stellt Warrick Brown nicht nur Spuren von Zigarettenrauch und Kaugummi fest, sondern auch Reste von Marihuana und einem sehr teuren Parfüm... Episode 05: "Ein fliegender Beweis" Das CSI-Team hat es mit einem höchst seltsamen Fall zu tun, als der leblose Körper eines Tauchers in den Wipfeln eines Baumes nahe des Lake Mead gefunden wird. Die Untersuchungen ergeben, dass sich im Blut des Toten keine erhöhte Konzentration von Kohlenmonoxid befindet, was einen Tod unter Wasser definitiv ausschließt. Episode 06: "Wie Kain und Abel" Ein Beamter der Highway Patrol entdeckt an einer ungewöhnlichen Stelle einen geparkten Wagen und sieht kurz darauf einen jungen Mann, der gerade versucht, eine Leiche zu vergraben. Die Polizei und die Spezialisten vom CSI tauchen am Tatort auf und übernehmen die Ermittlungen. Dabei stoßen auch sie schon bald auf den jungen Mann. Sein Name ist Ben Jennings, und er hat offenbar noch eine weitere Leiche vergraben. Episode 07: "Ein zweifelhafter Zeuge" An sich wirkte es wie ein ganz normaler Unfall: Eine junge Frau fährt mit ihrem Jeep über eine Eisenbahnschranke, wird vom Zug erfasst und getötet. Und doch gab es Umstände, die mehr als eigenartig wirken... Episode 08: "Tod einer Domina" In Las Vegas wird in einem Sandkasten die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Das CSI-Team übernimmt die Ermittlungen und kommt dahinter, dass es sich bei der Toten um eine Domina handelt, die in einem Sado-Maso-Club in der Stadt gearbeitet hat. Die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass die Frau Opfer einer bizarren Sexualpraktik geworden sein könnte. Episode 09: "Rien ne va plus" Ein Casino in Las Vegas wird von drei Frauen überfallen. Bei dem Raubzug werden ein Wachmann und eine der Täterinnen erschossen, während es den beiden anderen Frauen gelingt, mit 250.000 Dollar Beute zu fliehen. Episode 10: "Blütenzauber" Grissom ist zu einem Kongress aufgebrochen und hat ausgerechnet Warrick Brown das Kommando über die Spezialistentruppe übertragen. Damit sind Nick und Sara alles andere als einverstanden und machen Warrick das Leben entsprechend schwer... Episode 11: "Der Tote im Fahrstuhl" Das CSI-Team wird ins noble Devon Hotel gerufen, wo ein Körper "unter verdächtigen Umständen" entdeckt wurde. Im Aufzug des Hotels finden die CSI-Leute den finanzgewaltigen Immobilien-Tycoon Bob Fairmont mehr tot als lebendig vor. Allen ist klar, dass Fairmont sterben wird. Episode 12: "Scherbenhaufen" Das CSI-Team wird zu einer Autobahnbaustelle gerufen, auf der die Leichen zweier Frauen gefunden wurden. Die Autopsie ergibt, dass beide kurz nacheinander gestorben sein müssen und dass es sich um

La nova heroïna d'Eva Baltasar s'enfronta a un dels monstres més perillosos que hi ha: l'amor a primera vista. "L'escala fosca del desig no té barana" va escriure Maria Mercè Marçal. La protagonista de Peixos s'hi estimba daltabaix. "Sé —i ho sé perquè ja ho he fet, perquè m'hi he trobat— que l'escriptura no allibera res." La narradora de Peixos és escriptora i viatja allà on li demanen que parli dels seus llibres. Un dia, fent temps abans d'un club de lectura, es fixa en una dona que ven paperines de peix fregit a la plaça del poble. El món s'atura. "I penso. És ella, penso." Ella es diu Victòria i viu en una casa encantada, plena de fetitxos i amb el gos que la guarda com el Cèrber de l'infern. La narradora hi entra i es deixa fascinar per cada detall, com si hagués trobat en la Victòria el motlle ideal, la persona que compleix amb tots els atributs que esperem d'una parella. La passió creix i creix a base de sexe, copes de vi i excursions al llac. Fins que l'enamorament i la bellesa es giren com un mitjó i es converteixen en un pur perill. "Baltasar es inigualable en su manejo del misterio, su cualidad filosófica, su sentido del humor y del ridículo. [...] no escribe, sino que muestra la vida secreta de todo lo que existe en bruto. Un cruce inédito entre Lucia Berlin y Raymond Carver en las calles de la Barcelona contemporánea". Xita Rubert "Exquisita, oscura y poco convencional, Eva Baltasar convierte la intimidad en una aventura salvaje" Fernanda Melchor "Es una escritora durísima y muy original" Pedro Almodóvar "El que llegeixo en Baltasar és un crit desesperat i lucidíssim d'alerta: o ens ajudem de debò o la gran majoria podem caure al pou." Blanca Llum Vidal a Catorze "Si en Ocaso la narración es cruda, asfixiante y realista, la Fascinación se transforma en un acto gótico de alto voltaje místico para esa protagonista. Una epifanía espiritual donde la autora arrasa con todo." Noelia Ramírez a El País "Batejar un personatge amb el nom de 'Samsa' és una picada d'ullet kafkiana evident."Nadal Suau a El Cultural "Hay algo terrorista y terrorífico en el desenlace de Ocaso y fascinación que nos lleva a un cruce monstruoso y atrayente entre Haneke y Von Trier"Bruno Padilla del Valle a Mercurio "La narración es cruda y asfixiante, ambigua, deprimente y esperanzada" Marta Domínguez a Página Dos "La protagonista voldria tenir una vida corrent sense renunciar al sentiment de tristesa davant del món i això la fa psicològicament i moralment complexa." Julià Guillamon a La Vanguardia "Quina habilitat, la de Baltasar per capturar la precarietat actual." Anna Guitart al Diari ARA.

Under the searing sun, secrets simmer and betrayal lies thick in this claustrophobic, explosive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick, Lie With Me. 'A real scorcher. You won't want to miss this one!' HARLAN COBEN 'Gloriously dark and wildly engrossing' LISA JEWELL 'Sun-drenched and dripping with suspense , this is the perfect summer read ' LUCY CLARKE ____________ Former journalist Matt Grimshaw's life is at a low ebb . He's been 'let go' by the paper where he's worked for years, and his relationship with his long-term girlfriend has come unstuck. So when an invitation arrives from his two closest friends, Celia and Adam Murphy, to join them at their house in Greece, he jumps at it. It may be harsh and unwelcoming on the Mani Peninsula but Matt determines to stay there for the whole summer and to write his much put-off screen-play. But then the Murphys plus children arrive, and a wealthy newcomer to the area starts throwing loud and lavish parties in his big house across the bay. As the nights become hotter and the parties wilder, everyone's motivations darken. Envy rises, resentments grow - until a terrible accident stops the summer in its tracks. At least, it looks like an accident... Set over one blazing Mediterranean summer, Sabine Durrant's new thriller is tense, claustrophobic and utterly gripping. ____________ Praise for Dead Heat . . . 'Expertly constructed and guilefully written , it inevitably reminds you of Patricia Highsmith , but also of The Great Gatsby' Sunday Times ' No one writes suspense like Sabine Durrant . Dead Heat is perfection ' Clare Mackintosh 'An outstanding thriller' India Knight 'I loved this book . The descriptions are so beautiful that you almost don't notice the brilliance of the plotting ' Elly Griffiths ' Better than every season of The White Lotus spun into one, and drenched with danger, sex, and revenge ' Sarah Hilary ' Classy, cinematic and truly chilling ' Jennie Godfrey 'A deliciously dark, modern Greek Gatsby ' Julia Crouch 'A brilliant twisty, claustrophobic slow burn book with betrayal and lies and secrets and it's fantastic ' Joe Haddow, BBC Morning Live 'An unputdownable, unguessable, sun-drenched thriller ' Erin Kelly ' Drenched in atmosphere and menace with a Greek setting to die for. Literally. ' Tammy Cohen ' Compelling, evocative and fiendishly smart , this unsettling literary thriller is a five-star triumph ' Isabelle Broom ' I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I loved it! ' Marika Cobbold 'A genius story of infatuation and twisted love , as brooding as a Greek heatwave' Jane Thynne ' Dangerously addictive ' Esther Freud 'An explosive ending' Woman & Home&