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The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, “a terrifying talent” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times). A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly understanding what that might mean. Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark’s most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on republication in English, named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781250863102 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 04-18-2023 Pages: 192 Product Dimensions: 4.95(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)About the Author Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties and was followed by many more books, including the three volumes of The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood (1967), Youth (1967), and Dependency (1971). She died in 1976. Michael Favala Goldman is the translator of over fifteen books of Danish literature and the award-winning author of several collections of original poetry. He lives in western Massachusetts.Table of Contents Table of ContentsBook One: The Umbrella The Umbrella The Cat My Wife Doesn’t Dance His Mother Queen of the Night One Morning in a Residential Neighborhood A Nice Boy Life’s Persistence Evening Depression Book Two: The Trouble with Happiness The Knife The Method Anxiety The Mother A Fine Business The Bird The Little Shoes The Best Joke Two Women Perpetuation The Trouble with Happiness

An immigrant’s mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth in this gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed “Brilliantly gripping.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List “A police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvelous lightness of style and wit.”—Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials trilogy NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN Newly married and navigating life with a preschooler as well as her adopted adolescent son, Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force, a job that allows her to potter in, coffee in hand, and log on for a spot of Internet shopping—precisely what she had in mind when she thought of work-life balance. But beneath the surface Manon is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she’d assumed would be domestic bliss: fights about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen, the bewildering fatigue of having a young child while in her forties, and the fact that she is going to couples counseling alone because her husband feels it would just be her complaining. But when Manon is on a walk with her four-year-old son in a peaceful suburban neighborhood and discovers the body of a Lithuanian immigrant hanging from a tree with a mysterious note attached, she knows her life is about to change. Suddenly, she is back on the job full-force, trying to solve the suicide—or is it a murder—in what may be the most dangerous and demanding case of her life. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780525509998 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 03-02-2021 Pages: 320 Product Dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d) Series: Manon Bradshaw #3About the Author Susie Steiner is a former journalist at The Guardian, where she worked as a commissioning editor for eleven years. Prior to that, she worked for The Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Evening Standard. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt Day 1, Midnight Matis ••• His key in the door, he shoulders across the threshold, stumbles wildly up the stairs to the bathroom. He can’t risk being beaten for soiling the carpet. His stomach is coiling and despite it being empty, he vomits into the toilet: acid bile. In a strange way, the retching comforts him. Dimitri is at the bathroom’s open doorway. “Are you all right?” he asks. Matis, kneeling by the toilet bowl, groans. Dimitri approaches. “Too much to drink?” he asks. When Matis turns to look up at him, Dimitri says, “My God, what happened to you?” “Lukas is dead,” Matis sobs. “I brought him here and now he’s dead. I never saw such hatred, Dimitri. Why do they hate us so much?” Dimitri shrugs sadly. “I hope he haunts them out of their beds at night,” says Matis. “To be haunted, you must have a conscience,” says Dimitri. “And they have none.” Dimitri lifts him to his feet. “Come, you need a drink.” In the kitchen, while Dimitri locates vodka, Matis starts shaking. Dimitri says, “The police here, they will look into it properly. Not like back home.” He hands Matis the bottle. Matis swigs. Winces. It burns his sore stomach. “It won’t bring him back. This is my fault.” In the bedroom, which contains four men sleeping on mattresses on the floor, Dimitri takes the empty place beside Matis, to comfort him. The mattress where Lukas used to whimper in the dark, until one of the men shouted, “Užsičiaupk po velnių”—shut the f*** up. “Do you need something to sleep?” Dimitri asks. “That guy, the dealer who helped Saulius, he gave us pills.” Matis shakes his head, rolls onto his back. “Sleep,” Dimitri says. “We must work tomorrow.” If life were a force of will, Matis could wish himself dead. No such luck. His body, tired and broken, keeps going. He keeps on waking on the stinking mattress, soaked in the sweat of other men who had been in the same situation before him. And what happened to them? When they are in the van at 4 a.m., it is a moment of reprieve—a moment to exhale. They have survived an ordeal, have dragged themselves from too little sleep, got to the BP garage, where migrants from across town are picked up for agricultural work, in time. They cannot be punished for missing the call, for being late. The next ordeal—catching enough chickens through the fog of their exhaustion, through the sting of the scratches on their hands reopening—would come later. Almost all the men fell straight to sleep in the van. Chin to chest. Forehead to window. He’s always sleeping with this ragtag of psychos, the weird intimacy of sharing a room. The snoring, someone talking in his sleep, the smells emitted by bodies at night, thick and human and perhaps repulsive, but also deeply, vulnerably personal. Lukas may have whimpered on his mattress at night, but Matis didn’t. This had been his idea, and he had had to make it work, had had to make it look like it was working. Up to now, he’d had to survive, even though he didn’t want to, to tell both himself and Lukas that their bind was temporary, a bump on the path to freedom. But with Lukas gone . . . Day 1, 6:20 a.m. Manon ••• “Wake me up now, Mummy!” Teddy yells from the next room. Manon gives Mark a shove and he rolls obediently out of bed. She squints at her watch. 6:20 a.m. “F***’s sake,” she says, then turns over and descends back to delicious depths. The warmth of the duvet, the darkness of the room thanks to the blackout curtain lining, the numbness of her mind, broken by harsh winds of irritation: the feel of Mark and Teddy getting into the bed. She would make all manner of pacts with Lucifer to be allowed fresh descent. Give me five minutes, three minutes, one minute. I will give you my soul. There will be a moment of lovely cuddling, the velvety plush of Ted’s cheek pads, his squidge-able limbs—forearms, upper arms, padded with gentle fat, still of a toddler. She cherishes this remnant of babyhood. She’s become a baby botherer in cafés, overenunciating “Hallo!” into their cloudy eyes, while their mothers look on her with suspicion. Ted pushes his fingers up her nose and says, “Hello, Defective Mummy!” because he doesn’t know the word is “detective.” Or perhaps he does. She can feel the crescendo of fidgetry begin: knees in the groin, kissing that becomes biting, until one of them submits to predawn Weetabix. Standing over her boy, she holds his tiny penis away from his body so the yellow arc of piss, warm and high, hits the hedge. She’s wondering whether to ring Mark to tell him to nudge Fly, make sure he isn’t oversleeping. He’s in an important moment at school (GCSEs) and she permanently feels he’s too lackadaisical, but then she argues with herself about allowing him to grow up and make his own mistakes. So much of her internal monologue these days revolves around where she is going wrong as a parent. To micromanage or to let go, that is the question. The swings and slide were wet. Teddy went on them anyway. She was too comatose to object (should she start taking iron, for the tiredness?) despite knowing he would swing from happy and absorbed to freezing wet and miserable in a nanosecond. She looks up. The sky is an ominous thumb smudge, the light low and the air damp. Classic British spring. The chestnut tree twenty yards away billows in the wind, its candelabra flowers bobbing wildly. The air smells wet, fresh, with a trace of dog turd on its skirts. She sniffs again, sensing something. The wind is making things creak and knock. She can hear a sound that is wrong. Wrong place, wrong context. She scans about, while Teddy concentrates on weeing. There. In the billowing tree that is twenty yards away. She sees two black boots, high among the tree branches. She straightens, squinting to see better. Ankles, trousers. Swaying at head height. The creaking sound might be rope against branch. She tucks Teddy back into his trousers, swivels him by the shoulders, and lifts him. He is too big to be carried; they’re always arguing about it, him standing in front of her—his block move—with arms in the air and her saying, “No, you can walk.” So he’s bewildered at being lifted, but is certainly not about to argue. He is a deadweight; damp trousers, his legs banging against her body. But she is in flight, not fight, holding his head down against her shoulder so he won’t spot the legs, though it’s unlikely he would notice. Her boy is a strange combination of beady-eyed and myopic. If she has her head in one of the kitchen cupboards, eating an illicit biscuit, he can fix her with a steely gaze. “What’s that you got, Mummy?” “Nothing,” she’ll say, over the rubble of a full mouth. Yet she has a feeling if she were bleeding to death in the street, he’d stand over her, saying, “Need a drink. I’m urgent.” She is running away from the tree, carrying Ted with one arm and digging into her pocket with the other for her phone to call it in. First time she’s ever run away from a body. “Control, this is Officer Bradshaw, 564. We have a deceased in Hinchingbrooke Country Park close to the car park. Repeat cadaver unattended in country park. Urgent attendance needed, send units. Cadaver is unattended in a public place. In a tree. Hanging from a tree.” “Can you attend please, Detective Inspector?” says the control room. “No, I am with a ch—a minor.” Manon is trying to use language Teddy cannot understand. Deceased. Cadaver. Not dead. Not body. “I cannot attend. You need to send units.” Despite her tone and use of jargon, Ted has sensed the rise in her vital signs, is prickling all over with transferred tension, and he lets out a wail—a combination of confusion and alarm. “All right, Ted,” she says. “It’s all right. Mummy’s all right and you’re all right. Just a work call, that’s all. Shall we go home and watch Fireman Sam?” Show More

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Notes From Your BooksellerA compelling and bracing story of a life lived large and brave, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days charts the perilous career of Mildred Harnack, newly graduated, newly married, newly moved from Wisconsin to 1930s Berlin. She was witness to the destruction of a democracy, the cruelty of a demagogue's oppression and, in its face — and despite significant dangers — she chose committed resistance. Rebecca Donner's telling is taut and immersive, riveting from start to finish. It is a story that lingers long after the final page. The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times BookReview Editors’ Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week In this “stunning literary achievement,” Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII—“a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal” (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780316561709 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Little Brown and Company Publication Date: 08-23-2022 Pages: 576 Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.60(d)About the Author In 2022, Rebecca Donner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a 2018-19 Biography Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, is a two-time Yaddo Fellow, and has twice received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation. Her essays, reportage, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and Bookforum. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is Donner's third book; she is also the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction.Visit her at rebeccadonner.com.Table of Contents Table of Contents Author's Note xv Fragment 3 Introduction 5 The Boy with the Blue Knapsack (1939) 8 Mildred I (1902-1933) We Must Change This Situation as Soon as Possible 15 Yankee Doodle Dandy 25 Good Morning, Sunshine 29 The BAG 40 II (1933-1934) Fragment 51 Chancellor Hitler 52 Two Nazi Ministers 58 A Whisper, a Nod 63 The People's Radio 70 The Reichstag Fire 74 An Act of Sabotage 81 Mildred's Recruits 86 Tumbling Like Dominoes 90 Torched 97 Dietrich Does Battle with the Aryan Clause 101 Arvid Burns His Own Book 105 The Boy III (1938-1939) American in Berlin 111 Don't Dawdle 121 Mildred IV (1933-1935) The Proper Care of Cactus Plants 127 Fair Bright Transparent 130 Two Kinds of Parties 136 Bugged 138 Esthonia, and Other Imaginary Women 141 Arvid Gets a Job 144 Thieves, Forgers, Liars, Traitors 148 Rudolf Ditzen, aka Hans Fallada 150 The Night of the Long Knives 155 The Boy V (1939) A Molekül and Other Small Things 163 The Kansas Jack Gang 167 Mildred VI (1935-1937) Fragment 171 A New Strategy 172 Bye-Bye, Treaty of Versailles 176 Tommy 180 Monkey Business 189 Rindersteak Nazi 194 An Old Pal from ARPLAN 198 Spies Among Us 203 Beheadings Are Back 206 Widerstand 210 Ernst and Ernst 217 Identity Crisis 224 VII (1937-1939) Homecoming 231 Georgina's Tremors, Big and Small 236 Jane in Love 241 My Little Girl 247 A Circle Within the Circle 250 A Child, Almost 254 Stalin and the Dwarf 260 Boris's Last Letter 265 Seeking Allies 268 The Boy VIII (1937-1940) Morgenthau's Man 273 Joy Ride 282 Lunch Before Kristallnacht 287 Getting to Be Pretty Good 292 A Fateful Decision 298 Air Raid 304 Louise Heath's Diary 313 Mamzelle and Mildred and Mole 317 Mildred IX (1940-1942) Fragment 323 Foreign Excellent Trench Coats 324 Corsican Drops a Bombshell 326 Libs and Mildred Among the Cups and Spoons 329 AGIS and Other Agitations 332 Zoya Ivanovna Rybkina's Eleven-Page Table 338 Stalin's Obscenity 346 Hans Coppi's First Message 349 Anatoly Gurevich, aka Kent, aka Vincente Sierra, aka Victor Sukolov 352 Code Red 357 A Single Error 360 Gollnow 363 One Pain Among So Many 366 Oil in the Caucasus 370 X (1942-1945) Fragment 375 Arrest 376 The Gestapo Album 382 Knock-Knock 392 Falk Does His Best 396 Wolfgang's Seventh Interrogation 401 Kassiher 403 The Red Orchestra Is Neither All Red nor Particularly Musical 407 Anneliese and Witch Bones 412 Hitler's Bloodhound 418 The First of Many Trials 421 Mildred's Cellmate 424 The Greatest Bit of Bad Luck 429 The Armband She Wore 431 The Mannhardt Guillotine 433 All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days 436 Stieve's List 439 The Final Solution 443 Gertrud 445 XI (1942-1952) Harriette's Rage 457 Valkyrie 462 Recruited 467 By Chance 470 Arvid's Letter 472 The Boy XII (1946) Don Goes Back 477 Acknowledgments 483 Notes 487 Bibliography 537 Illustration Credits 545 Index 549 Show More

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LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club '[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes '[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills' Peter James Some doors are locked for a reason... Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure - a Silent Companion - that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...

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Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world. All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants—both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine as we laugh, cry, and delight in the portraits of his many varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. Official PBS Trade Paperback Edition, 384 pages.

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary YA novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud's Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends, they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah's health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle's liquor store while hiding the fact that she's applying to college so she can escape him-and Juniper-forever. When Sal's attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth-and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst. From one of today's most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness-one that's both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.

The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series. Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world. All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants--both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine as we laugh, cry, and delight in the portraits of his many varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781250058126 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group Publication Date: 09-09-2014 Pages: 384 Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d) Series: All Creatures Great and Small Series - #2About the Author James Herriot (1916-1995) was the bestselling author of memoirs including All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, and Every Living Thing. At age 23, Herriot qualified for veterinary practice with the Glasgow Veterinary College, and moved to the town of Thirsk in Yorkshire to work in a rural practice. He would live in, work in, and write about the region for the rest of his life. Though he dreamed for years of writing a book, his veterinary work and his family kept him busy, and he did not start writing until the age of 50. In 1979, he was awarded the title Order of the British Empire (OBE). His veterinary practice in Yorkshire, England, is now tended by his son, Jim Wight.