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Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the...

La vicenda di un eccidio di neri, di «negri», durante la Guerra di Secessione. A raccontarla in modo fluviale, trascinante, inarrestabile, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto, Dick Stanton, soldato dell'esercito del Sud, stanato e pungolato in fin di vita da una giovane studentessa che vuole ricostruire la verità. Verità storica e romanzesca, perché Barbero inventa una voce indimenticabile, comica e inaffidabile, logorroica e irritante, dolente e angosciosa, che trascina il lettore in quegli abissi che ancora una volta si sono riaperti.

Ireland, 1805. A country on the brink of rebellion.American widow Marian Devlin arrives in the west of Ireland to restore the crumbling estate left by her late husband. But the land is failing, the tenants are starving, and resentment against the ruling classes is turning violent.When a...

Truth and justice have long memories, and Eugene Kennedy is about to uncover a truth possibly better left buried.The discovery of a hidden file in the attic of a former Nazi camp guard uncovers a chilling reference to an unsigned ‘Final Order’ and a command that could ignite the flames of a...

Beneath the shimmering waves of the Arabian Sea lies a ruin older than history itself, concealing an ancient prophecy that threatens to turn the world to ash… INDIA. At the largest human gathering in the world, black rain pours down upon 50 million pilgrims, and the Ganges runs red with blood...

For seventeen years, Hawthorne Mill has stood silent beside the river. Its machinery stopped in November 1919, its doors were locked, and the truth about its final night shift disappeared into rumours. Some villagers remember an accident. Others remember missing workers. But the surviving...

The deadly race for the secrets to absolute power begins… 1227 CE, MONGOLIA. The greatest conqueror ever lived is entombed with a terrifying weapon, a secret which can obliterate any enemy and bring the greatest nations to ruin. NOW, dark forces are gathering to possess what is in his grave to...

Falsely accused of a heinous crime in the 22nd century, former Interpol operative Nicholas Gates is now on the run through time. While roaming the United States in 1950, he detects the signal of another time traveler. Unfortunately, the traveler is sitting in a Boulder, Colorado jail—and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She built something that could not be stopped. They found a way to stop it. Hollywood, 1940. George Antheil is an avant-garde composer better known for scandal than success when he meets Hedy Lamarr at a dinner party — and discovers that the most...

La misteriosa reliquia que la restauradora de arte Marta Arbide entregó al Vaticano ha sido robada. Cuando recibe la noticia de que debe ser ella quien encabece la investigación para recuperarla, siente que la aventura y el misterio que la pusieron al límite en La luz invisible no han hecho más que comenzar. Y así es: el mismo día que Marta llega a Roma para comenzar sus pesquisas, el Papa es asesinado.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. It was 0.003 seconds. No one was supposed to notice. But Judith did. Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1971. Judith Novak is a Bell Laboratories engineer working on the handoff protocols that will form the basis of cellular telephone networks, the most...

Impatient butcher Richard Turpin wants his share of the emerging wealth of the new United Kingdom. After poaching for easy profits, he finds himself on the run and falls in with the vicious Gregory Gang. As his comrades are sent to the gallows, Turpin evades the hangman and becomes the country's most wanted man.

Łódź 1967. W oczach tych, którzy znają Zenobię, jest ona kochającą matką, przykładną żoną i wspaniałą szefową. Czy to możliwe, że kiedyś jej otoczenie miało o niej jak najgorszą opinię? Nowy, młody współpracownik w fabryce włókienniczej wydaje się Zenobii znajomy, lecz kobieta nie potrafi sobie przypomnieć, gdzie i kiedy mogła go poznać.

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series - a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series—a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

Latem 1941 roku Niemcy zajmują dawne województwo stanisławowskie. Rodzina Szymańskich zostaje rozbita. Uznana za winną zdrady i spiskowania z wrogiem Łucja znajduje się na zesłaniu w ZSRR, Aldona pnie się w górę w hierarchii partii bolszewickiej, Konstancja zaś walczy o przetrwanie w getcie w Stanisławowie.

En 1919, la Gran Guerra ha acabado, pero Inglaterra no es la misma. Diez años después de su última aventura, el equipo del Dreaming Spires vuelve a reunirse para inaugurar una nueva era del periódico. Mientras la nieve cae sobre un Oxford plagado de recuerdos, Oliver, Lionel, Theodora, August y Veronica descubren que ciertos secretos son capaces de sobrevivir incluso al fin del mundo y que, si quieren deshacerse de sus propios fantasmas, ha llegado el momento de compartirlos con los demás.

Im eisigen Londoner Winter 1683 kreuzen sich die Wege der willensstarken Emma, in die Ehe mit einem Adeligen gezwungen, und der rätselhaften Ruth. Diese sinnt auf Rache, nachdem ihr skrupelloser Mann, ein Spion der Krone, sie töten wollte. Als sich herausstellt, dass beide Ehemänner in eine Verschwörung gegen König Charles II. verstrickt sind, verbünden sich die Frauen, um den Staatsstreich zu verhindern.

He’s ex-Special Forces. They’re movie star elite. There is just one mission – save D-Day Dover, 1943. Suffering from undiagnosed battle fatigue, Chief Inspector Alex Sutherland is sent by Scotland Yard to find a killer. He unearths a world of black marketeering, clandestine tunnels and...

It's October 21st, 1888, in the city of London. Three men plan to rob a jewelry store. Tum, Lionel, and Tiny Tim. The goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible and get safely back to the hideout in Whitechapel. Between them they have one lockpick, one crutch, and almost no relevant...