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A mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor—a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing EarthAn Oprah Daily, CNN, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year“Intense, moody, fierce, and relentlessly suspenseful, Bear is a beguiling tale about the tenacious bonds of sisterhood.”—Angie Kim, author of Happine...

A mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor—a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing EarthAn Oprah Daily, CNN, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year“Intense, moody, fierce, and relentlessly suspenseful, Bear is a beguiling tale about the tenacious bonds of sisterhood.”—Angie Kim, author of Happine...

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Über Verlust, Überleben und die Kraft der Hoffnung An einem Sommertag an der Küste Kamtschatkas verschwinden die russischen Schwestern Sofija und Aljona. Das Verbrechen erinnert an einen Vorfall nur Monate zuvor in der indigenen Bevölkerung. Wie eine düstere Wolke hängt der ungelöste Fall fortan über Kamtschatka und beeinflusst das Leben ganz unterschiedlicher Frauen in einer gespaltenen, männerdominierten Gesellschaft. Während das Netz zwis...

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An einem sonnigen Augusttag verschwinden an der Küste Kamtschatkas die Schwestern Sofija und Aljona spurlos. War es ein Badeunfall oder sind sie Opfer eines Verbrechens geworden? Wie eine düstere Wolke hängt der ungelöste Fall fortan über Kamtschatka und beeinflusst das Leben der unterschiedlichsten Frauen in einer gespaltenen, männerdominierten Gesellschaft. Einfühlsam und virtuos fühlt Julia Phillips den Schockwellen nach, die dieses Ereigni...

»Ein kraftvoller literarischer Thriller.« ›The L.A. Review of Books‹ An einem Sommertag an der Küste Kamtschatkas verschwinden die russischen Schwestern Sofija und Aljona. Das Verbrechen erinnert an einen Vorfall nur Monate zuvor in der indigenen Bevölkerung. Wie eine düstere Wolke hängt der ungelöste Fall fortan über Kamtschatka und beeinflusst das Leben ganz unterschiedlicher Frauen in einer gespaltenen, männerdominierten Gesellschaft. Wäh...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTOne August afternoon, two sisters-Sophia, eight, and Alyona, eleven-go missing from a beach on the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. Taking us through the year that follows, Disappearing Earth enters the lives of women and girls in this tightly knit community who are connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are tra...

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A genuine masterpiece." --Gary ShteyngartFor fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia, two girls--sisters, ages eight and eleven--...

A genuine masterpiece." --Gary ShteyngartFor fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia, two girls--sisters, ages eight and eleven--...

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Disappearing Earth is a beautiful evocation of a place and people as they search for two lost girls - heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary novelist.

Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of The Sting.

The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie."-The New York Times Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips's actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off exposé from the producer of the classic films The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind-and the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture-who made her name in Hollywood during the halcyon se...

Miranda Tate knows leading a double life is hard. Keeping the lies and the facts straight is enough to drive one mad, especially when the worlds are mortal and magick. In one life, she's a computer consultant, in the other, she is the Queen of Argyll, immortal sorceress and leader of the Council of Magicks.While Miranda would gladly stay in her comfortable home in Denver, her duties call her out often, usually with frightening results. None mo...