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MAKT, LOJALITET OCH BRUTNA FÖRTROENDEN Greer Kadetsky är en duktig flicka i en sömnig småstad. När hennes high school sweetheart antas till Princeton, medan hon själv – trots fantastiska betyg – hamnar på ett skitcollege, klamrar hon sig fast vid att det bara är några år tills de...

“Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in...

Der Handel einer Ehe. Als Joan Castleman beschließt, ihren Mann zu verlassen, befinden sie sich gerade 10.000 Meter über dem Meer auf dem Flug nach Helsinki. Joans Mann Joseph ist ein berühmter amerikanischer Schriftsteller, dem ein angesehener Literaturpreis verliehen werden soll. Joan selbst hat 40 Jahre lang ihr eigenes schriftstellerisches Talent für die Karriere ihres Mannes verleugnet. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein.

A husband. A wife. A secret. Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman. Joe and Joan Castleman are on an aeroplane, 35,000 feet above the ocean. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he is about to receive, and Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long Joan has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, subjugating her own talents and quietly being the keystone of his success. 

Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting. Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation...

A sound-inspired scavenger hunt and fast-paced mystery about family and friendships lost and found. “A harmonious blend of STEM intrigue and heartfelt emotion that emphasizes listening closely to what really matters.” —Kirkus, starred review Felix used to love summer vacation, when his...

Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their lovemaking, and has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later the book is set to be reissued but...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men...

For a group of four New York friends, the past ten years have been defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated to believe that they and their generation would conquer the world, they nonetheless left high-powered jobs to stay at home with their babies. What was intended as a temporary time-out...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, read by Rebecca Lowman. ‘Greer didn’t really know why Faith took an interest. But what she knew for sure, eventually, was that meeting Faith Frank was the thrilling beginning of everything. It would be a very long time before the unspeakable end.’ Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the woman who will shape her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant, has been a pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others....

From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing...

Der Handel einer Ehe. Als Joan Castleman beschließt, ihren Mann zu verlassen, befinden sie sich gerade 10.000 Meter über dem Meer auf dem Flug nach Helsinki. Joans Mann Joseph ist ein berühmter amerikanischer Schriftsteller, dem ein angesehener Literaturpreis verliehen werden soll. Joan selbst hat 40 Jahre lang ihr eigenes schriftstellerisches Talent für die Karriere ihres Mannes verleugnet. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein.

If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be at home in New Jersey with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She’d be watching old comedy sketches with him. She’d be kissing him in the library stacks. She certainly wouldn’t be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in...

A New York Times Bestseller “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle “Ultra-readable.” —Vogue From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not...