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The Professor's Daughter - Bog af Emily Raboteau - Paperback

The Professor's Daughter - Bog af Emily Raboteau - Paperback

\My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.\ When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound by a haunting past that Emma slowly uncovers, she sees that she might just escape.In exhilarating prose, The Professor's Daughter traces the borderlands of race and family,..

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The Strange Death of Father Candy - Bog af Les Roberts - Hardback

The Strange Death of Father Candy - Bog af Les Roberts - Hardback

Vietnam veteran Dominick Candiotti has been long estranged from his family. His late parents were close to the ruling mob clan in Youngstown, his sister was a bad-tempered and dissatisfied nag, and his middle brother was a corruptible police lieutenant. But in 1985, their oldest brother Richard Candiotti---beloved by every Italian Catholic in Youngstown as \Father Candy\---dies, and Dominick returns home for the funeral.Dominick is greatly disturbed by Richard's death, which has been ruled a suicide...

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How All This Started - Bog af Peter Fromm - Paperback

How All This Started - Bog af Peter Fromm - Paperback

The striking debut novel from award-winning writer Pete FrommAbilene and Austin, a sister and brother frustrated with the small-town Texas life their parents have chosen, turn to each other to escape the story they're all too tired of hearing: their father's unvarying account of \How All This Started\-how he met their mother then settled down in the middle of nowhere.Pinning her dreams on her younger brother, Abilene becomes dead-set on making Austin a pitching star, a \fireballer\ like Nolan..

DKK 262.95
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Riding Out the Storm - Bog af Sis Deans - Paperback

Riding Out the Storm - Bog af Sis Deans - Paperback

Zach is riding the Greyhound bus through a snowstorm to visit his older brother Derek, whom he hasn't seen in seven months. That's when their parents finally went broke paying Derek's doctor's bills and had to give him up as a ward of the state. Nothing-not drawing in his sketchbook, not basketball-lets Zach forget that his brother is living in a mental institution five states away. But surprisingly, sitting next to a talkative teenage girl he nicknames Purplehead starts to take the edge off Zach's..

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Zombie Tag - Bog af Hannah Moskowitz - Hardback

Zombie Tag - Bog af Hannah Moskowitz - Hardback

Wil is desperate for his older brother to come back from the dead. But the thing about zombies is . . they don't exactly make the best siblings.Thirteen-year-old Wil Lowenstein copes with his brother's death by focusing on Zombie Tag, a mafia/capture the flag hybrid game where he and his friends fight off brain-eating zombies with their mothers' spatulas. What Wil doesn't tell anybody is that if he could bring his dead brother back as a zombie, he would in a heartbeat. But when Wil finds a way to..

DKK 317.95
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Going Under - Bog af Kathe Koja - Paperback

Going Under - Bog af Kathe Koja - Paperback

Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the lake, and all those homeschoolers' parties, it was still always just - us.Hilly and her brother, Ivan, have been homeschooled by their parents. All their lives it has been just the two of them - Ivan and Hilly, brother and sister, pilot and copilot. Until Hilly breaks out of their cozy cocoon to work on the local high school literary magazine..

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Apples and Oranges - Bog af Marie Brenner - Paperback

Apples and Oranges - Bog af Marie Brenner - Paperback

A TOP TEN FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR--MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMESA ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEARINCLUDES AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH LESLEY STAHLMarie Brenner's extraordinary memoir of sibling rivalry asks a universal question: How can two people from the same family turn out so entirely different? Brenner's brother, Carl, lives in the apple country of Washington State, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and attending church, while Marie, a world-class journalist..

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The Reeducation of Cherry Truong - Bog af Aimee Phan - Paperback

The Reeducation of Cherry Truong - Bog af Aimee Phan - Paperback

\The Reeducation of Cherry Truong transcends ethnicity and culture and dives headlong into the plight of being human....Aimee Phan's prose is beautifully intricate yet powerful in what it reveals and exposes.\---Jennie Shortridge, author of Eating HeavenCherry Truong's parents have exiled her wayward older brother from their Southern California home, sending him to Vietnam to live with distant relatives. Determined to bring him back, twenty-one-year-old Cherry travels to her family's native country..

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Overexposed - Bog af Susan Shapiro - Hardback

Overexposed - Bog af Susan Shapiro - Hardback

Edgy Manhattan shutterbug Rachel Solomon can't wait to escape her difficult Midwestern Jewish family of doctors-and her crazy, condescending WASP friend and photography mentor, Elizabeth Mann. Not so easy when Elizabeth marries Rachel's surgeon-brother, moves to the Midwest, and becomes the daughter Rachel's mother always wanted-one who pops out four babies in a row, who are named after Rachel's dead Yiddish-speaking relatives. Although Rachel long ago rejected the suburban female role, she's shocked..

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Broken as Things Are - Bog af Martha Witt - Paperback

Broken as Things Are - Bog af Martha Witt - Paperback

From the day that Morgan-Lee is born, her extraordinarily beautiful and withdrawn older brother, Ginx, is obsessed by her. Inhabiting their own parallel world, the two communicate through a secret language and make-believe stories; when Morgan-Lee begins to explore friendships beyond their closed circle, however, Ginx becomes increasingly disturbed. In luminous prose, Martha Witt explores the intense and private world inhabited by these siblings and the inevitable and necessary pain of their separation...

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Brokedown Palace - Bog af Steven Brust - Paperback

Brokedown Palace - Bog af Steven Brust - Paperback

Brokedown Palace is a stand-alone fantasy in the world of Steven Brust''s bestselling Vlad Taltos novels.Once upon a time…far to the East of the Dragaeran Empire, four brothers ruled in Fenario:King Laszlo, a good man—though perhaps a little mad; Prince Andor, a clever man—though perhaps a little shallow; Prince Vilmos, a strong man—though perhaps a little stupid; and Prince Miklos, the youngest brother, perhaps a little—no, a lot-stubborn.Once upon a time there were four..

DKK 177.95
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Follow the Morning Star - Bog af Di Morrissey - Paperback

Follow the Morning Star - Bog af Di Morrissey - Paperback

Queenie and TR return in Di Morrissey's sequel to the bestselling \Heart of the Dreaming.\ Queenie Hanlon has a perfect life. She's the mother of two adoring children, the wealthy owner of a thriving outback station and the wife of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Then one day, Queenie's perfect life comes crashing down. . . Her bitter and vengeful brother returns from Italy to lay claim to his inheritance. Her precious daughter is seduced by her uncle into giving up all Queenie's strived for. And..

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Texas Sunrise - Bog af Elmer Kelton - Paperback

Texas Sunrise - Bog af Elmer Kelton - Paperback

In Massacre at Goliad, tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers. Revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but his brother Joshua fears, since Joshua is in love with a Mexican girl. The story touches on the immortal battle of the Alamo but centers on the infamous Goliad massacre, and ultimately the decisive battle of San Jacinto, which made Texas an independent rlic.After the Bugles begins where Massacre at Goliad ends-on the battlefield at San Jacinto...

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Way Things Look to Me - Bog af Roopa Farooki - Paperback

Way Things Look to Me - Bog af Roopa Farooki - Paperback

The Murphy family has never tried to be different; they just are. When Yasmin, the youngest sibling, was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, her older siblings learned to adapt to less attention and more responsibility, to a sister with \special abilities\ that no one, not even they, could ever truly understand. Since the deaths of their parents, the three siblings have become adults in their unique, tragic ways. Asif, the responsible oldest brother, has been left to take care of Yasmin by their..

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Knife Edge - Bog af Andrew Lane - Hardback

Knife Edge - Bog af Andrew Lane - Hardback

Teen Sherlock battles a monstrous adversary on a mission to Ireland with his brilliant brother, Mycroft. Young Sherlock is thrown into a tangled web involving a spiritualist whose powers have attracted the attention of governments around the world. At the castle where the medium is demonstrating his \gift,\ Sherlock finds a household in turmoil. Servants and some of the guests are frightened but who--or what?--has terrified them so much that nobody will speak out? Young Sherlock must bring all..

DKK 382.95
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Sons of Fortune - Bog af Jeffrey Archer - Paperback

Sons of Fortune - Bog af Jeffrey Archer - Paperback

In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife.During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school,..

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In the Deep Midwinter - Bog af Robert Clark - Paperback

In the Deep Midwinter - Bog af Robert Clark - Paperback

November, 1949: In the aftermath of his brother James's death, Richard MacEwan's life is suddenly rocked by secrets involving his wife Sarah and daughter Anna. Among his bachelor brother's papers, Richard discovers a letter from Sarah that hints at an infidelity. Then there is Anna's affair with a married man, Charles Norden, which threatens to change her life forever. The story of Richard, Sarah, Anna, and Charles--along with the troubling legacy of James--is one of faith and doubt, profound moral..

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A True and Faithful Narrative - Bog af Katherine Sturtevant - Paperback

A True and Faithful Narrative - Bog af Katherine Sturtevant - Paperback

In Restoration London, sixteen-year-old Meg Moore issomething of an anomaly. Unlike other girls her age, Meg poresover books. She spends long hours conversing with the famousauthors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and evenwrites her own stories, laboring over every word until her handis black with ink. Without warning, however, Meg comes tolearn exactly how powerful words can be. The day her bestfriend's brother Edward sets sail for Italy, Meg scoffs at hisattempts at romance by answering..

DKK 207.95
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BLOOD ALWAYS TELLS - Bog af Hilary Davidson - Paperback

BLOOD ALWAYS TELLS - Bog af Hilary Davidson - Paperback

Dominique Monaghan just wanted to get even with her two-timing, married boyfriend, a washed-up boxer stuck in a toxic marriage to a dangerously spoiled socialite. However, an elaborate blackmail scheme soon lands her in the middle of an unexpected kidnapping . . . and attempted murder. But who is actually out to kill whom?Desmond Edgars, Dominique's big brother, has looked out for his wayward sister ever since their mother was convicted of murdering many years ago, so when he receives a frantic phone..

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She Plays with the Darkness - Bog af Zakes Mda - Paperback

She Plays with the Darkness - Bog af Zakes Mda - Paperback

In a remote mountain village in Lesotho, the beautiful Dikosha lives for dancing and for song, setting herself apart from her fellow villagers. Her twin brother, Radisene, works in the lowland capital of Maseru, struggling amid political upheaval to find a life for himself away from the hills. As the years pass, Radisene's fortunes rise and fall in the city, while Dikosha remains in the village, never leaving and never aging. And through it all, the community watches, comments, and passes judgment...

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Poison Tea - Bog af Jeff Nesbit - Hardback

Poison Tea - Bog af Jeff Nesbit - Hardback

\Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It's a major story that for too long has been underreported and poorly understood.\-REP. HENRY WAXMAN, a former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce CommitteeHow did today's Tea Party movement really come to be? Did it suddenly appear in 2009 as a spontaneous response to Barack Obama and health-care reform?..

DKK 397.95
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