From the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder. Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate, and this will be a summer of good-byes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember.

Mut zur Wahrheit in Zeiten des Krieges. 11. Oktober 1943 – Ein britisches Spionageflugzeug stürzt im von den Nazis besetzten Frankreich ab. Die Pilotin und die Passagierin sind beste Freundinnen. Während Maddie entkommen kann, wird „Verity“ von der Gestapo entdeckt und soll hingerichtet werden. Um zusätzlicher Folter zu entgehen, soll sie alles über ihre Mission preisgeben. Sie kämpft um ihr Leben und verfasst in ihrem Geständnis einen bewegenden Bericht über ihre Vergangenheit, verzweifelte Hoffnungen und ihre unvergleichliche Freundschaft. Wird sie diese verraten müssen?

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.