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The Eminence In Shadow, Vol. 5 (light Novel) [Bok / Inbunden]

<p>New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling.</p><p>Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. During Morpheus's incarceration, three dreams escaped the Dreaming and are now loose in the waking world. At the same time, a young woman named Rose Walker is searching for her little brother. As their stories converge, a vortex is discovered that could destroy all dreamers, and the world itself. Collects THE SANDMAN #9-16. </p>

<p><b>A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in lifes little limbos, those in-between spaces where youre no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be  </b></p><p>Following a breakup, Kate and Finn decide to keep sharing their house until the lease runs out in twelve weeks, alternating week by week so that they are occupying the same space but never at the same time. Practically, the plan makes sense, but coming back each Sunday to a home where Finn has been feels far too much like living with a ghost. Soon Kate finds herself adrift in her own subconscious, trapped in the liminal space between loving someone and letting go.</p>

<p>What do you do when a girlfriend&rsquo;s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend&rsquo;s 30th? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen&rsquo;s day? Pondering these, and other dilemmas, BRIDGET JONES stumbles through the challenges of single motherhood, online dating, and achieving &lsquo;acceptance and calm&rsquo; in what SOME people rudely call &lsquo;middle age&rsquo;.</p>

Marina [Bok / Inbunden]

<p>When Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his family, they suffer the shame of penury and migration layered on Kurdish statelessness. Agri Ismail's electrifying debut novel follows the lives of Rafiq's three children and their increasingly desperate relationship to money:<br/><br/><b>Siver</b>, the only daughter, escapes into an unhappy marriage in Baghdad before fleeing to raise her daughter as a single mother in Dubai.<br/><br/><b>Mohammed</b>, the eldest, stays in London to climb the unforgiving ladder of the financial sector.<br/><br/><b>Laika</b>, the youngest, retreats into a contactless digital life, designing the trading algorithms that will ultimately prove his downfall in a condo near Wall Street.<br/><br/>At once a subversion of the family saga and a love letter to the systems novel, <i>Hyper</i> is a story about what remains of our humanity in a world increasingly dominated by the flows of capital.</p>

<p> Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy - Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror &amp; the Light - traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII's Tudor England. It offers a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.</p><p>'The greatest English novels of this century' Observer</p><p>'Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history ... and what a show' The Times </p><p>'A masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches' Guardian </p>