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Flights, a novel about travel in the 21st century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion and migration. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

When Wren Irving's numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn't tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter, Phoebe, good-bye, and leaves. Two decades later Rob has moved on and found happiness with their oldest friend, Laura. Phoebe, now a young woman, has never known any other life. But when Rob receives a mysterious letter, the past comes back to haunt them all.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning...

The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina’s Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood’s most beloved glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the baby spirited away into the...

The year is 2054, and the American landscape has shifted in ways no one could have predicted. Meet Sid Belmont: a former rap legend who traded his microphone for the highest office in the land. Inauguration Day doesn’t feature "Hail to the Chief"; instead, the rebel-turned-statesman takes the stage to the defiant notes of David Bowie, signaling a presidency that will be anything but conventional. Belmont is a man of the people, a political outsider who clawed his way from the top of the charts to a sub shop, a mechanic’s garage, and finally, the White House.

There is always a before and an after...Sophie and Miles have a long marriage, twin daughters, a close-knit circle of friends, and a happy home, until an accusation of inappropriate sexual conduct with a pupil blows everything apart. Sophie knows Miles as her husband of 30 years, the father to their twins, and a dedicated teacher. Could he really be a sexual abuser? Flight Path explores the effect that an accusation of sexual assault has on a family. Guilty or Innocent, nobody wins.

Léna decide dejarlo todo y emprende un viaje al golfo de Bengala. Perseguida por los fantasmas del pasado, no encuentra un poco de paz hasta que se acerca a nadar a las aguas del Índico, donde una niña juega con una cometa todas las mañanas. Un día, a punto de ahogarse arrastrada por la corriente, Léna sobrevive milagrosamente gracias al aviso de la pequeña y la intervención de la Red Brigade. Agradecida, se pone en contacto con la niña. Nunca ha ido a la escuela y se ha encerrado en un mutismo absoluto. ¿Qué esconde su silencio? ¿Cuál es su historia?

54 Flights is a quick listen and an inspirational "coming-of-self" story about a woman named Alexandra who travels the world for business during her first pregnancy. As Alex jet-sets to new adventures, she faces her biggest challenge yet: transitioning from career woman to mother. She battles the societal expectations placed on working mothers and the internal conversations telling her she can’t have it all. Alex reflects on who she is and aspires to be in this "coming-of-self" literary debut.