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The thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognisable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism and activism. I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two Indias, and, just as much, of East and West.

On June 14, 2007, the king and the prime minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the royal castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill, but the truth is different. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in Soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast and die early in her poverty-stricken township, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko takes a different path.

An Insane Thriller Ride Darius Shaw is a security guard working the night shift in the small town of Shadow Bay, New York. When he finds two bodies in the local recreation center pool, he calls 911, but he’s not the only one calling in drowning victims. The operator has received multiple calls for dead people in the past thirty minutes. Within hours, over a dozen bodies are found in pools, bathtubs, and the lake—all apparent victims of violence as the bodies have bite marks and bruising. Then Darius comes across a journal that belonged to one of the victims, which includes startling ...

At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals and political luminaries gathered to toast his 50th birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish emigre, come to enjoy such success?

Psychiaterin Nathalie Svensson unterstützt die Polizei bei besonders drastischen Fällen. Eines Nachts allerdings kann sie nur hilflos zusehen, wie ihr Liebhaber in Stockholm auf offener Straße erschossen wird. Er verblutet in ihren Armen. Sie fühlt sich in einem Alptraum gefangen, denn zehn Jahre zuvor wurde ihr damaliger Freund ebenfalls ermordet. Nathalie versucht, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Doch jemand stellt Nathalie nach.

Sarah is in a fight for her life with no one to trust. Her dark visions have brought her into the hands of a kidnapping ring who will do anything to find out how she knows so much about them. While the police hunt Sarah for the wrong reason, her parents think she is at a sleepover. Her life is in her own hands and whether she makes it out of this mess alive or not depends on how many people have to die.

This book was created first and foremost for regular people and will, in a quick and easy way, explain all you need to know about psychopaths for practical purposes. It will teach you what a psychopath is and how they "think", with practical tips on what you can do to prevent being emotionally and psychologically compromised.

Torgny Bäckman har ledsnat rejält på alla de som inte följer spelets regler. De som uppför sig illa och lurar folk. Idioter på Facebook, bilmekaniker som inte levererar, uppblåsta affärsmän, listan kan göras lång. Torgny ser det som sin uppgift att ta tag i problemet, och det gör han på sitt alldeles eget sätt i ladan i Stenhamra. Det har återigen blivit dags för Jerker Gudmundsson och hanskollegor på NOA att lösa en rad spektakulära mord och den här gången har de svårt att se ett direkt samband mellan mordoffrena - utöver det uppenbara.

Austin Everett grew to young manhood beneath the hungry tongue of a willow switch and the cruel fists of the one man who should have been his protector: his own father. But when a mysterious night rider killed his father, Austin put aside the misery his life had been to track down the murderer. Also on the trail of a killer, former lawman Alto Martinez was traveling the very same path as Austin, and in the boy he saw a part of himself....

Jonathan Shade and Kelly Chan reunite with Brand, the former Sekutar warrior, and Esther, the ghost who has an unbreakable bond with Shade. They set out for California to stop powerful wizard Harry Winslow from stealing life energy from his parents. But the Barbary Coast is a dangerous place where life is cheap. Their paths will cross with thieves, cutthroats, crimps, prostitutes, gangs, magic, and a supernatural threat. Time is running out on their mission, and one thing is certain - not everyone is going to get out alive.

A simple case for a new beginning. That's all Jonathan needs. Some easy, little supernatural problem to gain Kelly Chan's trust, and keep her from walking out of his life forever. The case goes from simple to deadly when Jonathan's actions wake an evil entity with murder on its agenda. The only way to stop it is to call in reinforcements from the Manhattan branch of Dragon Gate Industries (DGI). But calling DGI means dealing with the head of the division - Jonathan's older sister.

The Crypt (Sarah Roberts Book Three) While Sarah Roberts searches for a weapon on the streets of Budapest, a strange man in a fedora follows her, but before she can find out who he is, she's arrested for a minor altercation. After her release from the Hungarian jail, she's ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at her Budapest hotel before she's to leave for the airport. He's from a psychic research organization, and she is to come with him back to the States. When she refuses, she's informed that she has no choice. She is now the property of the United States government...

The Jonathan Shade series continues with books 4-6: The Complete Time Travel Trilogy. Includes: Anubis Nights, Sunset Specters, and Wizard's Nocturne. From hunting a dead sorcerer in ancient Egypt to the roaring 20s where flappers dance to jazz and secret societies kill each other for magical dominance....

More and more space arks are landing on Lumera. The humans' new home is breathtakingly beautiful, but dangerous plants and bestial predators punish every careless step. Sophisticated aliens keep themselves hidden, and they may be superior to humans. The human colony is beset by internal conflict. A civil war threatens.

Sam Coffey and Tom Vance had been partners for years, but after the accident neither could stay on at the K-Bar Diamond spread. Now, Sam has more enemies than any man has a right to. Too many enemies, and too few friends, and those friends are no where to be found. If Sam Coffey lives long enough to crawl out of the Mexican desert, it will be nothing short of a miracle.

When robbing a bank in the wrong town made Tom McLean a notorious man, the only way to survive was to run. But he had been in this type of predicament before, and he knew what to do. The posse close behind him meant to see he never made the border. They wanted him bad. But it wasn't to be, for McLean had a good horse under him and a head start.

En augustimorgon hittas den tjugofemårige landslagsstjärnan i fotboll, Henrik Borg, död i sängen i sin sommarstuga utanför Ystad. Det mesta tyder på att det är ett naturligt dödsfall, men en detalj förbryllar polisen: på Henrik Borgs bröst, under hans knäppta händer, ligger en blå ros. Inom en vecka, men på helt andra ställen i Sverige, påträffas ytterligare två dödsfall under likadana omständigheter: en fyrtiosjuårig pilot i Kiruna och en ung kvinnlig dansare i Göteborg.

A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden. It's never too late to start again. And again. It's always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in South Stockholm, it's particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven.

Mort Dansing was lost between two worlds: he was a white man raised by Apaches. After Dansing's village was destroyed and his wife murdered, he returned to white society, hoping to punish the traitor who led the killers to the village encampment.

När Gerd Ekstedt avlider i sömnen av hjärtstillestånd är hennes son den ende som misstänker att döden inte kommit naturligt. En försvunnen klocka gör honom övertygad om att någon varit i hennes sovrum på natten. Kriminalkommissarie Johan Axberg, som har fullt upp med semesterplaneringen och en narkotikahärva, avvisar dock misstankarna som ett förvirrat uttryck för sorg. Samtidigt får Axbergs vän Erik Jensen, läkare på Sundsvalls sjukhus, in en ung kvinna med hjärtstillestånd på akutmottagningen.