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Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics.

Per Loris tutto ha avuto inizio nel tempo bambino, quando era insieme al nonno, il bisogno eccessivo di leggere per scacciare le angosce scompariva e lui imparava cose. Ora Loris ha trent'anni, ha fatto della lettura il suo mestiere, vive in città e ha una fidanzata di soprannome Jo. Ma il lavoro in casa editrice è precario, l'ansia di non essere all'altezza dell'età adulta lo schiaccia. Loris scivola dentro sé stesso: c'è un male dentro di lui, un male capace di portarsi via ogni residuo di speranza.

Rudyard Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather. Meanwhile, a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control in the skies and in world affairs, too.

En varm feelgood-roman om att våga göra nya val mitt i livet, nyfunnen vänskap och kärlek som skaver. Den före detta livvakten Sonja Fredriksson kämpar med att hitta sin plats i tillvaron. Det värsta är inte att hon fått sparken från jobbet som livvakt, det är att hon sänkt garden och fallit handlöst för sitt skyddsobjekt, den provokative konstnären Kostas Rallis. Till råga på allt blir kärleken med Kostas kortvarig, och utan förklaring försvinner han och slutar att svara på Sonjas samtal.

Jimmy Santiago Baca's brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped - and continues to inform - his raw, incisive voice. In C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, he trains his hallmark lyrical intensity on the dark underbelly of addiction and takes us on an unforgettable guided tour of the darkest corners of a brutal, unjust world.

Chelsea is determined to make it to her brother’s wedding. And she’s not going to let the fact that she’s been dead for two years stop her.

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award. Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other. ‘There is no one else writing stuff like this.’ – Dazed...

It's just past six a.m., and the Rutledge family is gathering for breakfast, unaware of the two bombs that have been planted outside their home. They're about to start eating when a fireball bursts through the windows, and the house is blasted to dust, leaving only one survivor. In the last six weeks, the Rutledges are the seventh family to be attacked - and the onslaught is just beginning. A terrorist group is intent on bringing the citizens of Washington, D.C. to their knees.

The complacent Maximillian Dreyfuss, head of a recently formed online university, was pleased, amongst other things, with the name P.U.N.C.H.; an acronym for posting University Network Courses Here, thought up by Letty from the Religious Studies Department, with whom he'd been enjoying a brief affair at that time.

Rachel et Ben. Le duo d'enfer. Ces deux copains de fac ont fait les quatre cents coups et sont restés inséparables jusqu'à la fin de leurs études. Alors que Rachel, casée depuis des années, était promise à un avenir tout tracé, Ben, lui, voulait partir à l'aventure. Dix ans plus tard, Rachel se sépare de son fiancé et traverse une période de remise en question. Ben, quant à lui, a trouvé un boulot de rêve et une épouse parfaite ; sa vie est sur des rails.

Gass’ new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life - futile, comic, anarchic - arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland....

Set against the vast landscapes of the American West, Crossing the Divide is a powerful story of transformation and triumph over adversity. Scott's journey serves as a reminder that sometimes, the greatest divide we face is the one within ourselves.

Un roman puissant sur les blessures de l'enfance jamais cicatrisées, et qui questionne sur la maternité, la parentalité. Un roman d'aujourd'hui, à tension psychologique. Par l'auteur de "On n'efface pas les souvenirs". Il y a un avant et un après dans la vie d'Olivia. Gynécologue dans une clinique parisienne, elle élève seule, heureuse, ses trois enfants. Mais un jour, confrontée à l'insoutenable, elle fait un choix insensé qui met en danger sa propre famille et va fragiliser son existence et celle des siens.

Joe Davidson didn't anticipate coming back to Fairmont after his family broke apart. But when the news of Martha's death reaches him, he finds his way home, just as the annual pie contest is getting judged. When they need a new judge, he steps up and offers his services, even if he doesn't know why.

He has a goal and a plan. If he carries through with the plan, his sister will die first. His ex will die next, and he will die last. In between, he’ll take out as many people as he can. Students. Security guards. Teachers. First responders. They are all fair game.

Written in first person, this mono-myth story transcends military fiction and enters the realm of contemporary and coming-of-age stories. The author puts us in the boots of a teenage American male as he joins the military seeking adventure and a wake-up call. He wakes up more than he ever imagined, albeit 20 years later.

Never before undertaken in a novel, The Seduction of Eva Volk is an inside look at the not-so-simple paradox of a Christian culture proclaiming faith in Führer with bullets and bombs. Through the eyes of young Eva, the alluring charm of the Hitler movement is personified in a lover. Desperately seeking wholeness in her broken world, she is quickly swept away by the thrilling passions of love and war...until she finds herself facing the agonizing consequences of lost sight.

Quand elle sent la présence, dans le public, d'un amour qui fut dévastateur, comment la jeune comédienne qui, ce soir-là, joue Pirandello, pourra-t-elle s'en tenir à son rôle face à ce réel soudain ressurgi? A la fois bouleversant et angoissant.

Marcel Schwobs Buch Monelle (1894) ist ein Klassiker der poetischen Prosa, und zeugt von einem Verständnis des Kindes, kleiner Mädchen und junger Frauen — von denen viele Prostituierte waren — das selbst bei Poeten außergewöhnlich ist.

While growing up in the ’70s, Mark Edwards was surrounded by bullies. As a kid back then, you would eventually find yourself with older kids, whose only purpose was to threaten and pummel the crap out of you. All you had to do was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was the age before political correctness and the peak of the bullies. They were everywhere.