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Arthur Parnassus has built a good life on the ashes of a bad one. He's headmaster at an orphanage for magical children, on a peculiar island, assisted by love-of-his-life Linus Baker. And together, they'll do anything to protect their extraordinary and powerful charges.However, when Arthur is forced to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself fighting for those under his care. It's also a fight for the better future that all magical people deserve. Then when a new magical child joins their island home, Arthur knows they've reached breaking point. The child finds power in calling himself a monster, a name Arthur has tried so hard to banish to protect his children. Challenged from within and without, their volatile family might grow stronger. Or everything Arthur loves could fall apart.Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.

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<b>Like Sarah Bakewell's <i>How to Live </i>and Andrea Wulf's<i> Magnificent Rebels</i>, <i>Mortal Secrets</i> is a lively and accessible portrait of major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity </b><b>that shaped his ideas</b><br/><br/>Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their rivals. From 1890 and through the early years of the 20th century, Vienna became a dazzling beacon. The city was powered by an unprecedented number of extraordinary people - artists Klimt and Schiele, thinkers such as Theodor Herzl, and fashion icons like the glamorous Empress Sisi. Conversations in coffee houses and salons spurred advances in almost every area of human endeavour: science, politics, philosophy, and the arts. The influence of early 20th century Vienna is still detectable all around us - but the place where it is at its strongest is in our heads. The way we think about ourselves has been largely determined by Vienna's most celebrated resident: Sigmund Freud. <i>Mortal Secrets </i>is the story of Freud's life, Vienna's golden age, and an essential reappraisal of Freud's legacy.

The Technological Republic [Bok / Häftad]

<b>There's no point screaming - we've only just begun . . .</b><br/><br/>It's not going well for NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave's been cancelled, someone's firebombed a migrant hostel and there's a <i>massive</i> climate change protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers - AKA: DS Steel's team - until the top brass can arrange backup from other divisions.<br/><br/>But as bad as everything seems, there's something <i>far</i> more sinister lurking in the heat-haze of a sweltering Aberdeen summer: something that's been building for years. Something that longs to sing its horrible song . . .<br/><br/>And it's clear that things are going to get much, much worse before this is over.<br/><br/><b>Praise for Stuart MacBride:</b><br/><br/>'Dark and brilliantly written' <b>Linwood Barclay</b><br/><br/>'MacBride is a damned fine writer' <b>Peter James</b><br/><br/>'Crime fiction of the highest order'<b> Mark Billingham</b>

Ingmar Bergman [Bok / Häftad]

The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, and the world seem certain to fail. The people most vital to Livira are scattered across time and space, lost, divided into factions, in mortal peril. Somehow, she must bring them together and resolve the unresolvable argument that fuels the library's war. The bond between Livira and Evar has stretched and stretched again. Can it hold at the end, when things fall apart? Can it bring them together against impossible odds? This is the last chapter, the final page. The end threatens and no one, not characters, readers, or even the author, will emerge unscathed.