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One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills.

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....

Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

Navy SEAL Keith “Chunk” Redman has been one of the military’s top doorkickers since the day he pinned on his trident: loyal, single-minded, lethal. Tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs, Chunk can no longer simply rely on the status quo....

Before he was considered a CIA superagent, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world. And then tragedy struck....

On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a deadly terrorist attack on the executive mansion....

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians becomes increasingly clear....

They train to be the toughest, the smartest, the most covert operators in the world—they are the Tier One Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant Commander Keith “Chunk” Redman.

Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American president's term....

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip....

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action....

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands....

Against all odds we have made it into the last half of the 1990s. The Cold War looks solved, Arabs and Jews are talking, confrontation is on the wane. In this new harmony, one discord - what becomes of unemployed terrorists? You can bet they aren't going to retire quietly....

The action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program....

When presidential candidate Josh Alexander's motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil....

In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come....

There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It's "masterful...white-hot...devastating" (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to pause....

Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism....

The four dead guards didn’t concern Mitch Rapp as much as the absence of the man they’d been paid to protect....

This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster....

Mitch Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA fears that a terrorist cell is on the loose and about to descend upon America....

When the president is blackmailed into releasing five detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a sadistic assassin with a vendetta years in the making is reactivated....

In the early 1980s, long before he was President or head of the CIA, even before a submarine named Red October crossed the Atlantic...

Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; 1930 is a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and begin to mix with Ukraine's new cultural elite.

Who decides what’s best for Alaskans? Mandates from on high, for the greater good. Reduce violence. Eliminate hunger. Save the people by dehumanizing them. Make them dependent. Take the citizens' voice. Remove their claws. Cory Beringer’s old man took him to Rhodesia to fight as a mercenary when the boy was thirteen. Who does that? Someone who believes when society falls, it won’t be a catastrophic train wreck.

On Saturday, January 13, 1917, an ocean liner docks in New York Harbor. Among the disembarking emigrants is one Lev Davidovich Bronshtein—better known by his nom de guerre, Leon Trotsky. Bronshtein has been on the run for a decade, driven from his beloved Russia after escaping political exile in Siberia, his companion and two sons in tow. He lives and would die for a worker’s revolution, at any cost—but is he ready to become an American?

Human, Animal is an ode to the wild, an elegy for what we have lost and a reproof of our society's inability to find common ground. Since the death of his brother, veteran dairy farmer George has been struggling to keep the family business afloat. His troubles only worsen when animal rights activists descend on his cowshed one morning to film content for their social media.

After Alan Fortune and his friends create an accident in which her husband is badly burned, Matilda Rowe takes control of his company and his scheme of political intrigue and decides to play her own deadly game. Living off the grid, and constantly looking over their shoulders, Alan and his friends have to use their wits to stay one step ahead of a woman who is out to prove that the female of the species truly is deadlier than the male. But they are not the only targets in Matilda’s crosshairs. And, when they do finally meet, she has a surprise for them.

Nach der Machtergreifung ist in Ginsterburg Alltag eingekehrt. Lothar träumt vom Fliegen. Seine Mutter Merle misstraut der neuen Ordnung, kann aber nur ohnmächtig zusehen, wie sein Traum ihren Sohn in die Arme der Hitlerjugend treibt. Manche Einwohner der kleinen Stadt leiden, andere profitieren – und die meisten versuchen, sich irgendwie zu arrangieren. Doch der Krieg, an fernen Fronten geschlagen, ist bald auch in Ginsterburg zu spüren, in den erschütterten Beziehungen und Seelen der Menschen.

China schemes to steal the plans for America's newest nuclear submarine, the Columbia Class. China is furious that the newly signed AUKUS agreement allows Australia to deploy those subs in the China sea. A spy is sent to infiltrate the sub's manufacturer, but a TV reporter intervenes, and U.S. security services mount an all-out effort to flip him, turn him into a double agent. It is a tale of espionage, deception, blackmail, and deadly reprisals which involve cynical spymasters in deadly duels on land and at sea.

Pourquoi ce teinturier sans histoire, père célibataire, a-t-il disparu un soir en laissant son fils sans famille et sans protection ? Comment ce conducteur habile a-t-il pu s’engager sur ce glacier et disparaître ? N’y a-t-il personne pour trouver cela bizarre à l’exception de Konrad ? Un roman très noir dans lequel Konrad nous révèle l’existence des réseaux d’espionnage russes en Islande dans les années 60 et la façon dont les militants de gauche se sont trouvés enlevés ou tués au nom de la révolution soviétique. Haletant et troublant. Un très bon Indridason.

You all know the date in the history books that symbolized the end of the greatest country in the world, the United States of America. In truth, we hadn't been great for a long time, just a superpower with a lot of money to burn. But on that date, everything changed. During some concise years, other countries found a way to become a far better alternative to us. And fed-up people, many of whom were told to go back where they came from, decided to do as they were told and went back where they came from by the millions. And I saw it all go down.

It is 2008. Sam’s dream publishing debut is three years behind him. Now he is a writer without a story. Desperate for inspiration, he takes the opportunity to ghostwrite an old Vietnamese solider’s memoir, only to find that his subject, Mr. Lan, is an intractable communist, whose amazing narrative is rooted in the vilification of Vietnamese emigres, the very people Sam’s debut celebrated.

Christian, Dana, Franz und Mitch sind halbe Amerikaner. Als vaterlose Kinder deutscher Mütter und amerikanischer Soldaten identifizieren sich die vier Freunde auf tragikomische Weise mit dem Land der Väter, das sich aus Amerikaerzählungen, Hollywoodfilmen und eigenen fantastischen Vorstellungen zusammensetzt. Als Christian zu Beginn der Semesterferien unverhofft ein Sparbuch in die Hände fällt, bricht er kurzerhand alleine in die USA auf. Um seinen Vater zu finden? Um endlich ein ganzer Amerikaner zu werden? Und was wird aus seiner kaum gelebten Liebe zu Dana?

Wie ein Mann nichts tat – und so den Dritten Weltkrieg verhinderte:. Sowjetunion, 1983. Stanislaw Petrow lebt ein beschauliches Leben mit seiner Frau ...

Edição especial de A Revolução dos Bichos, na qual a clássica fábula política de George Orwell se transforma em uma experiência sonora cativante. Com um...

Primavera 1974. Dopo dodici anni di esilio volontario tra Parigi e Londra, Natàlia Miralpeix torna a Barcellona. La città che l'accoglie, in apparenza, è la stessa di sempre: Franco è ancora al potere, l'anarchico Puig Antich è appena stato giustiziato e la vecchia generazione porta con sé le ferite nascoste della Guerra Civile, i propri sogni infranti, i desideri non realizzati.

“MAMA” is an emotionally charged drama-thriller set against the backdrop of the George Floyd protestsand civil unrest in Minneapolis, 2020. The story follows four interconnected lives: Arturo, a reformed gang member seeking peace for his daughter; Mariah, a young law student whose viral video of Floyd’s murder sparks global outrage; Kassandra, the estranged daughter of Minneapolis’ District Attorney torn between loyalty and justice; and Saabir, a conflicted Somali-American caught between his moral compass and his family’s survival.