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'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.' • Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His one intimacy is a growing, wary relationship with his Russian secretary Sonia, who he watches silently in her room opposite his apartment. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension

You can live the bold, exciting life you want, but fear and anxious thoughts may be holding you back. Anxiety serves a purpose; it's a powerful too when managed properly. It can help you to stay focused and motivate you to solve problems • Dr Michaela Dunbar has spent years helping ambitious women master their anxiety and overcome self-doubt. Through therapy sessions and online workshops, Michaela has identified seven key ways high-functioning anxiety can manifest in our lives, from people pleasing to imposter syndrome, and shows us how to transform negative thoughts and difficult emotions into positive action

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before ... yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to be our future? • In You are not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how recent developments in our culture are deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human

Your fate isn't written in the stars, it's in your cosmic code • You know your astrological sign but do you know your numbers? Get to know the ancient art of numerology and the numbers that rule your life • Numerologist Kaitlyn Kaerhart introduces the most important numbers for you and the simple method to discover them. Understand your life path number, personal year cycles, life expression numbers, Karmic lessons and balance numbers. They all have important roles, will help you understand who you are and how to live to your full potential • Find out how numerology works to find clarity and purpose every day

I buried you • I mourned you • But now you're back • A woman walks into a police station • She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper that reads 'David Raker' • She says she's his wife • She looks just like her • She knows everything about him • But David buried his wife eight years ago • Is this really the woman he loved? Did he really say goodbye? • Or is he losing his mind? • Raker needs to find out the truth before it's too late, because he is now the prime suspect in her disappearance

Jill's three grown-up sons mean everything to her • She would do anything for her boys - protect them, lie for them, even die for them • Then one day she receives an email with the subject line: 'You Need To Know' • Jill doesn't want to know. She leaves the warning unread • But some truths you can't hide from • Soon Jill will start to wonder if she knows her sons at all • How long will these secrets stay hidden? • And when they are revealed . . . can Jill's family survive?

The charges: explosive • Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with killing in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops • The evidence: shocking • Cross knows it was self-defense. But, as the case against him builds, even those closest to him begin to doubt his innocence • The People vs. Alex Cross: the trial of the century • With his whole life and career on the line, if Cross can't convince his own family that he didn't pull the trigger with intent to kill, how can he hope to persuade a jury?

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times. It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa, where natives rub shoulders with eccentric expatriates, settlers with Arab traders and dignitaries with monks. Interspersed with these colourful tales are three 'nightmares' which describe the vexations of travel, including returning home

A reissue of the No. 1 bestseller's novel about love and the unbreakable bonds of friendship • Maddy, Ben and Robert have been inseparable since they met in the school playground. They've stuck together through thick and thin, feeling safe in the knowledge that they have each other • So when Ben falls hopelessly in love with Maddy, he decides to keep it quiet for the sake of their friendship. Until Robert swoops in and kisses Maddy - irrevocably fracturing things between the three of them, as a kiss turns to love • But when Robert and Maddy's love turns sour, can Ben continue to say nothing? And can Maddy choose between her two best friends?

«Люди, которых мы встречаем в отпуске» — любовный роман Эмили Генри • Две лучшие подруги. Десять летних поездок. Последний шанс влюбиться • Поппи и Алекс. Алекс и Поппи. У них нет ничего общего. Она - дикий ребенок; он носит хакисы. У нее неутолимая жажда странствий, а он предпочитает сидеть дома с книгой. Но почему-то с тех пор, как много лет назад они вместе ехали на одной машине домой из колледжа, они стали лучшими друзьями. Большую часть года они живут далеко друг от друга - она в Нью-Йорке, а он в их маленьком родном городе, но каждое лето, вот уже десять лет, они проводят вместе одну славную неделю отпуска • Книга на английском языке • 12 summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again

A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring and the damaged. Diving into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of unforgettable characters, Shipstead traverses the ordinary and extraordinary with cunning, compassion, and wit • Meet the silent cowgirl and horse wrangler escaping an ugly home life, only to fall into a decade-long triangle of unrequited love; a male novelist who is just reckoning with his own pretentiousness as his debut novel goes to print; a honeymoon couple's time in the hills of Romania builds into a moment of shattering tragedy. In the title story, a famous child actress breaks away from a religious cult, as she tells - with brittle candour - her tale of childhood damage and the dark side of fame

Соскучились по фирменной "бакмановской прозе", необычной, изящной и трогательной? Ловите "Тревожных людей" - напоминание о том, что у каждого из нас за плечами свой мешочек боли, который мы всюду таскаем за собой и не знаем, куда пристроить • В маленьком шведском городке накануне Нового года вооруженный пистолетом человек в маске после неудачной попытки ограбить банк захватывает восемь заложников во время показа покупателям выставленной на продажу квартиры. У подъезда тут же собирается толпа жадных до сенсаций репортеров, полиция блокирует все подступы к дому и готовится штурмовать квартиру... атмосфера накаляется. Не выдерживая нарастающего напряжения, заложники делятся друг с другом своими самыми сокровенными тайнами... Вскоре грабитель начинает склоняться к тому, что, возможно, лучше добровольно отдать себя в руки полиции, чем продолжать оставаться в замкнутом пространстве со всеми этими невыносимыми людьми