'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life. Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than...fine? 'Heartwrenching and wonderful' Nina Stibbe 'Deft, compassionate and moving' Paula McLain 'I adored it. Skilled, perceptive, Eleanor's world will feel familiar to you from the very first page. An outstanding debut!' Joanna Cannon

Chicago, 1920. Hadley Richardson er en rolig tjueåtte år gammel kvinne som nærmest har gitt opp håpet om kjærlighet og lykke - til hun møter Ernest Hemingway. Hun blir betatt av hans utseende, sjarm, intensitet og lidenskapelige skrivetrang. Etter en feiende romanse, frieri og bryllup, setter paret seil for Paris, hvor de blir et sentralt par i en livlig gruppe utlendinger som inkluderer Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, og ekteparet Fitzgerald. Hjertet i Paris finner sted i en bemerkelsesverdig tid, i samme periode som Ernest Hemingway skriver A Moveable Feast og The Sun also Rises. Paula McLain fanger på briljant vis stemmen og sjelen til Hadley Hemingway der hun sliter med sine roller som hustru, elskerinne, muse, venn og mor - samtidig som hun prøver å finne sin plass i tjueårenes berusende og stormende verden.

Välskriven berättelse om kärlek, äktenskap, ärelystnad och svek. Hadley är 29 när hon möter den åtta år yngre Ernest Hemingway hos en vän i Chicago. Det är kärlek vid första ögonkastet för dem båda, och efter bara några månader gifter de sig. Ernest är fast besluten att lyckas som författare, och tillsammans bestämmer de sig för att lämna USA. De hamnar mitt i det turbulenta konstnärslivet i 1920-talets Paris – de bor trångt och fattigt, men umgås med Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound och makarna Fitzgerald; med miljonärer, konstnärer och bohemer. Långsamt börjar Ernest vinna erkännande, samtidigt som det förut så lyckliga äktenskapet får sina första sprickor. Det är en omvälvande tid där allt det gamla ifrågasätts, där litteraturen, konsten och kärleken söker nya former. Det är en frihet som kan vara svår att leva med. Åren i Paris är en fantastisk berättelse om en stor och smärtsam kärlek mellan två oförglömliga personer. Vi får följa Hadley som kämpar för att hålla fast vid sin lycka och vid det liv hon hoppats på, medan Ernests främsta strävan bara gäller honom själv och hans skrivande. Paula McLain tar oss innanför huden på en av världslitteraturens giganter och den kvinna som gick från att vara hans jämlike till att leva i hans skugga. "Som att göra en tidsresa till 1920-talets Paris." Sundsvalls Tidning

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity. Ernest and Hadley's marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then, at last, Ernest's ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition - not least from a woman intent on making him her own . . .

I denne storslagne historiske romanen følger vi det eventyrlige livet til Beryl Markham. Fra en fri oppvekst i det ville Afrika, er det vanskelig for en rebelsk jente å finne sin plass i den britiske kolonien. Hun får hjelp av sin sjelevenn Karen Blixen - før vennskapet utvikles til et voldsomt trekantdrama. Beryls intense kjærlighetsforhold med Denys Finch Hatton gjør at hun endelig lytter til hjertet og følger sin drøm - lidenskapen for å fly. Et praktfullt eventyr om kvinnen som skulle bli den førte piloten til å krysse Atlanteren vestover. I denne gripende romanen tas du med til det storslåtte og majestetiske Afrika, og det eventyrlige livet til en bemerkelsesverdig kvinne som tok sin plass i historien - og erobret himmelen.

'Prepare to be dazzled' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife 'One of the essential reads of the year' The Times London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia's happiness or her own.

A riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story... Paula McLain's New York Times bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest Hemingway's romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle's bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan's Loving Frank, Naomi Wood's Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong. Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. Spanning 1920s bohemian Paris through 1960s Cold War America, populated with members of the fabled "Lost Generation," Mrs. Heminway is a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

From the bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS comes an enchanting tale of self-discovery that will strike a chord with anyone who has ever felt they've lost their way. `I adored The Light of Paris. It's so lovely and big-hearted' JOJO MOYES `Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud humour' PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife

'The Verdun Affair is ravishingly beautiful, and as much about love as about war . . . Dybek is a storyteller of great power. If there's any justice, this novel will be widely read and recognized. I absolutely adored it' Paula McLain, bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE and CIRCLING THE SUNA sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart.In 1920, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now gathering bones from the battlefield; Sarah is an expatriate from Boston searching for the husband who wandered off from his division and hasn't been seen since. Quickly, the two fall into a complicated affair against the ghostly backdrop of the ruined city. Months later, Sarah and Tom meet again at the psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital, drawn there by the appearance of a mysterious patient the doctors call Douglas Fairbanks (after the silent film actor) - a shell-shocked soldier with no memory of who he is. At the hospital, Tom and Sarah are joined by Paul, an Austrian journalist with his own interest in the amnesiac.Each is keeping a secret; each has been shaken by the horrors of war. Decades later, Tom, now a successful screenwriter, encounters Paul by chance in LA, still grappling with the questions raised by this gorgeous and incisive novel: How to begin again after unfathomable trauma? How to love after so much loss? And who, in the end, was Douglas Fairbanks?From the bone-strewn fields of Verdun to the bombed-out cafes of Paris, from the riot-torn streets of Bologna to the riotous parties of 1950s Hollywood, The Verdun Affair is a riveting tale of romance, grief and the far-reaching consequences of a single lie.

A Viking Game of Thrones packed with fantastic story-telling, intrigue and a vivid evocation of another time and place

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Det skulle vise seg at Roger Salisbury forsto seg bedre på å avlese røntgen bilder enn uttrykket i en kvinnes øyne. Som ung, nyutdannet kirurg treffer Roger Salisbury den vakre strippersken Melaine på en nattklubb, og de innleder et forhold. Noen år senere er Melaine gift med den eldre forretningsmagnaten Philip Corrigan. Han dør brått under en operasjon, og kirurgen er Roger Salisbury, som blir tiltalt for uaktsomt drap. Advokaten Jake Lassiter tar saken. Mot alle odds vinner han den, bare for i neste omgang å finne at han har lykkes i å få sin klient tiltalt for mord.

Curated and edited by the artist Ina Otzko, 100 Norwegian Photographers is a magnificent volume of photos from today's Norwegian photography scene. Otzko gives one hundred con-temporary photographers from her country the space to show their best images, including renowned figures such as Dag Alveng, Jonas Bendiksen, Knut Bry, Morten Krogvold, Annemor Larsen, Crispin Gurholt and Mikkel McAlinden. With several double pages for each photographer, the book is a vivid archive of Norwegian photography, uniting the most diverse genres, from landscapes to portraits, experimental photography to snapshots.It provides an extensive overview of the mysterious country in the north, the land of glaciers and fjords, showing it in brilliant facets-witty, absurd, poetic, political, special.

This year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. There is a particular focus on the material culture of the Norman Conquest of England and its aftermath, from study of horses and knights to its archaeologies to castle construction and the representation of a chanson de geste on an Italian church facade. The volume also includes papers on royal and private authority in Anglo-Saxon England; the relationship between Anglo-Norman rulers and their neighbours; intellectual history; priests' wives; and noble lepers. Contributors: Sabina Flanagan, Hazel Freestone, Sally Harvey, Tom Lambert, Aleksandra McClain, Nicholas Paul, Charlotte Pickard, David Pratt, Richard Purkiss, David Roffe, Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, Lucia Sinisi, Linda Stone, Naomi Sykes

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact. Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics-or "altmetrics"-while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship.Once the domain of information scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field that ranges from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The contributors to Beyond Bibliometrics discuss the changing environment of scholarly publishing, the effects of open access and Web 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic methods, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age.ContributorsMayur Amin, Judit Bar-Ilan, Johann Bauer, Lutz Bornmann, Benjamin F. Bowman, Kevin W. Boyack, Blaise Cronin, Ronald Day, Nicola De Bellis, Jonathan Furner, Yves Gingras, Stefanie Haustein, Edwin Henneken, Peter A. Hook, Judith Kamalski, Richard Klavans, Kayvan Kousha, Michael Kurtz, Mark Largent, Julia Lane, Vincent Lariviere, Loet Leydesdorff, Werner Marx, Katherine W. McCain, Margit Palzenberger, Andrew Plume, Jason Priem, Rebecca Rosen, Hermann Schier, Hadas Shema, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, Daril Vilhena, Jevin West, Paul Wouters

Make complex blood banking concepts easier to understand with Basic & Applied Concepts of Blood Banking and Transfusion Practices, 5th Edition. Combining the latest information in a highly digestible format, this approachable text helps you easily master all areas of blood banking by utilizing common theory, clinical scenarios, case studies, and critical-thinking exercises. With robust user resources and expanded content on disease testing and DNA, it's the effective learning resource you need to successfully work in the modern lab. Coverage of advanced topics such as transplantation and cellular therapy, the HLA system, molecular techniques and applications, automation, electronic cross-matching, and therapeutic apheresis make the text more relevant for 4-year MLS/CLS programs. Illustrated blood group boxes provide the ISBT symbol, number, and clinical significance of antibodies at a glance. Robust chapter pedagogy helps break down this difficult subject with learning objectives, outlines, key terms with definitions, chapter summaries, critical thinking exercises, study questions, and case studies. NEW! Completely updated content prepares you to work in today's clinical lab environment. NEW! Additional information on disease testing covers diseases such as Zika and others of increased importance. NEW! Expanded content on DNA covers the latest developments in related testing. NEW! Enhanced user resources on the Evolve companion website now include expanded case studies, and new animations in addition to the existing review questions and lab manual.

A short introduction to the history of America