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Joanne Rowling, also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable stable life, to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben’s near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.

"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

It is not so much that The Life of Pi, is particularly moving (although it is). It isn’t even so much that it is written with language that is both delicate and sturdy all at once (which it is, as well). And it’s certainly not that Yann Martel’s vision filled passages are so precise that you begin to feel the salt water on your skin (even though they are). It is that, like Bohjalian and Byatt and all of the great Houdini’s of the literary world, in the last few moments of your journey – after you’ve felt the emotions, endured the moments of heartache, yearned for the resolution of the characters’ struggle – that you realize the book is not what you thought it was. The story transforms, instantly, and forever.And in those last few chapters, you suddenly realize that the moral has changed as well.You feel Martel’s words lingering, suggesting, and you find yourself wondering whether you are his atheist who takes the deathbed leap of faith – hoping for white light and love? Or the agnostic who , in trying to stay true to his reasonable self, explains the mysteries of life and death in only scientific terms, lacking imagination to the end, and, essentially, missing the better story?There is no use in trying to provide a brief synopsis for this ravishing tale of a young boy from India left adrift in the Pacific in a lifeboat with a tiger who used to reside in his father’s zoo in Pondicherry. There is no use because once you finish the book you might decide that this was not, indeed, what the book was about at all. There is no use because, depending on your philosophical bent, the book will mean something very different to your best friend than it will to you. There is no use because it is nearly impossible to describe what makes this book so grand.Read this book. Not because it is an exceptional piece of literary talent. It is, of course. But there are many good authors and many good books. While uncommon, they are not endangered. Read this book because in recent memory - aside from Jose Saramago’s arresting Blindness – there have been no stories which make such grand statements with such few elements. As Pi says in his story “Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.” It is the same with Martel’s undulating fable of a book about a boy in a boat with a tiger. A simple story with potentially life altering consequences for it’s readers. As Martel writes, "The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?" Like Schroedinger's cat in the box, the way this book is understood, the way it is perceived affects what it is. There has been some talk that this book will make it’s readers believe in god. I think it’s a question of perspective. To behold this gem of a novel as an adventure of man against the elements (the “dry, yeastless factuality” of what actually happened) is certainly one way to go about it. But to understand this piece to be something indescribable, something godlike, is by far the greater leap of faith.Oh, but worth the leap, if the reader is like that atheist, willing to see the better story.	

Stockholm in the world!  The years between 1945 and 1968 mark the end of Fågelström's century of exploring the growth of Stockholm. I thought I would lose interest at some point, grow tired of following one street after the other filling with cars, modern stores and offices. I thought it would annoy me to see the next generation of protagonists work to reach a slightly higher living standard while sacrificing personal happiness and individuality. Well, I didn't. This is the first time in at least two decades that I have completed a novel series in five volumes, sadly reflecting on the fact that we don't have any writer to continue where Fågelström left Stockholm in the 1960s. Who can combine a family saga with moving, living characters, stretching over four or five generations, with architectural, political, social and economic understanding? Who can see the big picture and the unique person? Who is both analytical and compassionate?The city had grown like a tree, the author muses, adding one ring every year, each telling the story of a new generation and its needs. After the second world war, something changed forever though. Nazism, he calls it. Even if the movement itself and its power centre in Germany had been fought, something of the method stayed in the minds of people. Its poison remained: the hatred, the violence, the exclusive protectionism of the own kind against all others. With the modern communication and transportation systems, Stockholm opened up to foreigners. And to racism. Not excessively poor themselves anymore, Stockholmers learned to hate those who came to Sweden for a better life. Us first! Solidarity in poverty had vanished.Another feature of new Stockholm is the industrialised building business that sees the city as a collection of consumption goods to be thrown away when they are not needed anymore. Whole areas are destroyed to make place for the skyscrapers that symbolise growth and wealth, but also pollution, isolation and functionality. Quantity tops quality in the modern mind.But Stockholm is objectively wealthy, healthy, prosperous compared to other parts of the world. What did Stockholm do well where others failed? The author lets his protagonists speak for a development that scraps mercy and charity in the old Christian sense, and introduces social justice as a new, fair and validating system. If poor and uneducated people have to rely on the "goodness" of charitable, well-off citizens who want to set their record with god straight, they can never fully trust that they will keep their status quo. It can be taken away at a whim. They also learn to flatter and bow to bullies in order to survive, and to adapt to specific moral codes in order to receive what they need to survive. Charity is not free. In a modern democratic system, the state provides the security network that entitles all citizens to basic support, and that makes the difference. Justice, not charity, made Sweden a wealthy and functioning country.Let's not forget that in times of stress!

In a City Transformed is the fourth volume of the acclaimed Stockholm Series by Per Anders Fogelstrom. It opens with the watershed year of 1928, on the eve of the Great Depression. As Sweden heads toward the years of economic crisis and massive unemployment, we the readers reacquaint ourselves with well-loved characters from previous volumes as they age and ponder their existence. The dramatic turns of events of younger characters' lives capture the reader, as they enter adulthood in a volatile period in history. People grow and change as does the ever-transforming city, and meanwhile, the world becomes engulfed in yet another world war. The war unfolds through the words and thoughts of Fogelstrom's Swedish citizens. During these troubled times, Sweden as a nation transforms itself, with the state taking on greater social responsibility, and developing what would henceforth become known as "the Swedish model."

Stockholm 1880-1900, a city is in the making! During the great Stockholm exhibition for art and industry, in 1897, the city is celebrating itself and the achievement of two decades of massive change. Stockholm is expanding in all directions, the building market has boomed and collapsed and is booming again. Factories open and new technology appears. There is an electrical tram, there are street lights, bicycles start to become more and more frequent, factory owners develop into a new wealthy class, settling in the areas around the recently constructed Strandvägen along the "beach" between Östermalm and Djurgården. Alfred Nobel's will has been published, and people are amazed that he considers his money best spent on the development of a more humane world, it "shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".Hjalmar Branting, the socialist agitator, is not imprisoned for blasphemy on the city island of Långholmen anymore. He is in fact a member of Parliament. Hard to believe. August Strindberg writes his plays and novels. Carl Larsson has his art studio on Södermalm, and is painting al fresco in the National Museum. All getting better, all the time? Spring in the air?I was tempted to think so today, after finisheing the second volume of this family chronicle and taking a walk through Fågelström's expanding city. The sun is shining on the parks and streets where I walked in snow and wind just two weeks ago. People are outside, smiling happily, finally able to wear a spring jacket. They have picnics, stroll through the city and enjoy the wonder of blue skies and flowers. The second volume clearly shows some signs of progress, of spring time for Stockholmers. The poor and dark city is slowly swallowed by larger avenues and prestigious houses, and new factory goods make life easier. But not for everyone. The family I have now followed during forty years of struggles has no part in the development. They read the statistics in the newspaper, and shudder when they hear that a priest's life expectancy has increased to 67 years due to better medical care and nutrition, while a worker still has an average of 32 years of life. They demonstrate for the "utopian" dream of an 8-hour working day, and for minimal wages. They fight for better housing, but nothing really changes. In their misery, they drink. They are abused and they turn violent. Girls are forced to sell their bodies not to starve, and the young children growing up in the damp wooden sheds on Södermalm die of tuberculosis. The dream of a capital city has come true, and Sweden has an emerging industrial elite. But most of the children born into this modern city still suffer. There is still so much left to do!A fantastic description of Stockholm, and an addictive family saga, with an unusual focus on working class life. Recommended!

Oh Stockholm - you are bursting!  At the end of the First World War, Stockholm's streets are bigger, wider, and named after Nordic gods: Odenplan, Sveavägen and so on. These are the streets we still use to move across the ever expanding city. The Stockholm that the third generation of the Nilsson family inhabits in 1918 is not that different from our present town. How much has happened since the first worker in the clan, Henning Nilsson, came walking into Stockholm in 1860 as a teenager, looking for work that would eventually break him down at the age of 35?His granddaughter Maj, despite still being poor and suffering from the injustice of inequality, has moved out of the slums and works in an office, where manicure is a new feature in life - unthinkable for her grandmother Lotten, who drowned while washing clothes on the ice in Hammarby Sjö a generation ago. The lake itself has disappeared, as new technology starts shaping not only the streets of the town, but also the geography surrounding the city. Lake and sea now meet. Dynamite shaped the Stockholm we know today: forcing the rock to give way to human needs and wishes.Socially, Stockholm is on the move as well. The welfare state takes baby steps in the direction of equality and justice. Voting rights change, people can compare their lives to their parents' lives and see a difference. But the Spanish flu, tuberculosis, alcoholism and unemployment still linger as overpowering threats to progress. Rarely these days do I engage in family chronicles, and certainly not in "blockbusters" with five installments. But this story of a Stockholm working class family moving through a century of change keeps me captivated. Now finishing the third volume, encompassing the Great War and the political turbulences caused by the Norwegian independence and the Russian Revolution, I can't wait to follow the Nilsson family into the 1930s and 1940s. The closer I get to present times, the more I can appreciate the accuracy of Fågelström's loving descriptions of the city of his dreams and nightmares.Recommended to those who love Stockholm, who are interested in Swedish history, who like following characters over generations, who just enjoy reading a good piece of literature.I am hooked!

A summer evening in 1860 a young man named Henning walks into the city he has dreamed of. Times are changing, industries are forming and new possibilites are opening up.The narrative follows a group of working-class people on Södermalm in Stockholm between 1860 and 1880.This is the first book in Fogelstrom's five-volume Stockholm Series, which broke the record for bestsellers in his native Sweden. After reading the series in Swedish, Jennifer Brown Baverstam, an accomplished translator of Swedish and French, and married to a Swede, vowed to make these books available in English to share with her American family and friends. Per Anders Fogelstrom was delighted with this effort and worked with Jennifer until his death in 1998.

2.kniha obsahuje pokračování osudů vystěhovalců - romány Nybyggarna a Sista brevet till Sverige – snažících se vybudovat si novou existenci na půdě vysněné země, ne všichni však uspějí, někteří z nich svou sázku s osudem prohrávají. Je to strhující popis hrdinů, jejichž jediným hrdinským činem byla vytrvalá a těžká práce. Celá tetralogie končí dopisem příbuzným Karla Nilssona do Švédska po jeho smrti, který musí napsat jeho starý soused, protože Nilssonovi synové a vnuci už neumí švédsky.

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.Book 3 focuses on Karl Oskar and Kristina as they adapt to their new homeland and struggle to survive on their new farm.

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.Book 2 opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chisago County."It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers."--Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.Book 4 portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s."It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers."--Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.Book 1 introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and eleven others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Sm�land in 1850."It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers." --Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. (jacket flap)

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.  When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

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