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In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.

Köln, 1206: Das Heilige Römische Reich ist seit Jahren in einem erbitterten Krieg zerrissen, weil zwei Könige um den Thron kämpfen. Trotz großer Gefahr reist die junge Heilerin Maria vom Niederrhein nach Köln, um einer geheimen Schwesternschaft beizutreten. Doch mit Entsetzen muss sie feststellen, dass die Schwestern nicht mehr in dem Kloster leben. Die willensstarke Maria gibt nicht auf und bleibt in der Stadt, die bald vom Stauferkönig Philipp bedrängt wird. Auf ihrer Suche nach den Schwestern begegnet sie den staufischen Feinden.

Tomorrow’s Hope: A journey of exploration and hope builds on the themes reminiscent of classic Science Fiction written by the greats of the 1960’s. Inspired by the works of Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, and more, we dive into worlds that could be just around the corner.

Fesselnd, authentisch, hoch atmosphärisch: Kalter Krieg in Berlin und ein perfider Frauenmörder. In Tanzpalast, dem 8. Band der historischen Krimi-Reihe von Harald Gilbers, jagt Kommissar Oppenheimer einen Serienmörder, der seine weiblichen Opfer als Heilige inszeniert. Berlin, 1950: Eine junge Frau, die als vermisst gemeldet war, wird schließlich ermordet aufgefunden, ihre Leiche inszeniert wie eine Heiligenikone. Das Brisante: Sie hatte eine Affäre mit einem amerikanischen General.

Eunice does the best that she can—uneducated, and with a daughter and ailing mother both depending solely on her, her life is a series of limitations. She moves through the rooms of the penthouse suite in silent servitude, and though Mabel is ashamed of this invisibility act they've both perfected, the era of slavery is still fresh in the country's consciousness, and Eunice thinks it best not to dwell too hard on such things. But when tragedy strikes, and a little boy dies, Eunice must decide if she can face the indifference and injustices of the ruling class she has spent so long orbiting.

W KRAJU, KTÓRY JEST ZNIEWOLONY, GDZIE LUDZIE WALCZĄ O BYT I O WOLNOŚĆ, GDZIE NIE WOLNO NAM MÓWIĆ PUBLICZNIE PO POLSKU, NIE MA MIEJSCA NA PRAWA KOBIET. POCZUŁAM, ŻE COŚ GWAŁTOWNIE ŚCISNĘŁO MNIE ZA GARDŁO. (...) WŁAŚNIE DO TAKIEGO NARODU, KTÓRY WALCZY O WOLNOŚĆ, NALEŻY SZCZEGÓLNIE MÓWIĆ O KOBIETACH. BO KOBIETA TO POTENCJAŁ. TO SIŁA I NIEZŁOMNOŚĆ. TO HART DUCHA. Warszawa, 1904 rok. Klara Tyszkowska, młoda feministka i aktywistka, buntuje się przeciwko tradycji oraz uciskowi carskiego reżimu. Jej życie skupia się wokół studiów na tajnym Latającym Uniwersytecie i pracy dla gazety "Bluszcz".

Eine Frau kämpft für die Rechte der Kinder. 1830: Nicht nur in Preußen herrscht die Überzeugung, dass man von Kindern nichts hören und sehen sollte. Um sie vom Weg der Sünde abzubringen, ist körperliche Züchtigung notwendig. Entsetzt verfolgt die junge Luise Levin, wie ihre Neffen geschlagen werden und wie man die Kinder von Arbeiterinnen in Verwahranstalten diszipliniert. Als sie von einer neuartigen Erziehungsanstalt erfährt, die Friedrich Fröbel in Thüringen gegründet hat, bewirbt sie sich dort gegen den Willen ihrer Familie als Haushälterin.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister, Opal, grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven apart, but Jacquie is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. That’s why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death. Edwin is looking for his true father. Opal came to watch her boy, Orvil, dance. All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand.

Fraîchement diplômé en Lettres, Jérôme Lupien choisit de prendre une année sabbatique avant de se lancer sur le marché du travail. Issu d’une famille aimante et à l’aise, il semble promis à un bel avenir. Mais le sort en décidera peut-être autrement. Coup sur coup, le voilà victime de deux arnaques. Elles ébranleront sa confiance en lui, en même temps que ses principes. À quoi bon la vertu dans un système qui sourit d’abord et avant tout aux escrocs ? Peut-on vraiment se payer le luxe d’être honnête ?

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. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Sua profissão é atear fogo nos livros. Em um mundo onde as pessoas vivem em função das telas e a literatura está ameaçada de extinção, os livros são objetos proibidos, e seus portadores são considerados criminosos. Montag nunca questionou seu trabalho; vive uma vida comum, cumpre o expediente e retorna ao final do dia para sua esposa e para a rotina do lar. Até que conhece Clarisse, uma jovem de comportamento suspeito, cheia de imaginação e boas histórias. Quando sua esposa entra em colapso mental e Clarisse desaparece, a vida de Montag não poderá mais ser a mesma.

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. 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. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. However, Vivacia has been captured by the pirate ‘King’ Kennit and is acquiring a keen bloodlust. Bingtown becomes embroiled in a violent political upheaval against the corrupt Jamaillian leader, while the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the mysterious Rain Wilds Traders.

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sachs' tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side.

In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground.

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.