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At the turn of this century, a homeless man was allowed to win the lottery. It was hoped that he would change the world for the better, forever. After 12 years, SomeplacElse, his divinely inspired utopian experiment in the sub-urban Arizona desert, has reached critical mass. As Fate would have it, over the next five days the stories of a chronically underemployed baby boomer and a soon-to-be-governor, playboy millionaire will determine the future of this earthly Eden.

A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet devastated by climate change In their novel 2034, decorated military officers and award-winning authors Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis imagined a war between the US and China. In their follow-up novel...

Poco antes de la muerte de Franco, en la madrugada del 27 de septiembre de 1975, tres jóvenes fueron ejecutados en la sierra de Madrid. Daniel, Hidalgo y Pito habían sido detenidos y torturados por la policía, acusados de matar ese verano a un policía y a un guardia civil. La condena se impuso sin juicio legal y de forma precipitada, después de una farsa militar en la que no hubo pruebas ni posibilidad de defensa. Junto a otras dos ejecuciones, aquellos jóvenes fueron los últimos fusilados por el Régimen.

Khelina Cunningham es una mujer brillante, marcada por heridas que se esconden tras una coraza de control y perfección. En el vibrante y competitivo mundo político de Washington D. C., cada paso, cada elección, puede cambiarlo todo. Hugo Harper lo sabe bien. Ambicioso, influyente y enigmático, ha aprendido que confiar puede ser su mayor debilidad… hasta que la conoce a ella.

Irritabilidade, raiva e um humor peculiarmente malicioso caracterizam as férias em família do narrador de Mário e o mágico em Torre di Venere, na Itália. A inquietação dos personagens aumentará pela presença do infausto Cipolla, um ilusionista cuja performance é aterrorizar e humilhar seu público, subjugando-o à sua própria revelia. Em um ataque direto à dignidade humana, a apresentação encontra sua vítima perfeita no garçom Mário, que deve se submeter às vontades do mágico sem restrições — até que uma tragédia se instaura.

The Jungle is a gritty exposé of the American meatpacking industry in the early 1900s, told through the eyes of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant chasing the American Dream in Chicago. Hoping for a better life, Jurgis and his family are quickly crushed by brutal labour conditions, poverty, corruption, and exploitation.

The Power of Fear is a fast-paced fiction that takes place in the second half of the 21st Century, a dystopian future of an ultra-right wing United States perpetrating as a democracy using advances in genetic and ectogenesis technologies to preserve a White America.

Amy Wilson believed in doing the right thing. That was her first mistake. When she votes for pandemic safety measures as a member of her local school board, she unleashes a campaign of terror against her. Vandalism escalates to stalking. Anonymous threats become physical attacks. The mysterious figures behind it all seem to know her every move—and there appears no limit to what they're willing to do to her.

In the wake of a devastating space attack, Guy Erma, teenage bodyguard to the young King, miraculously survives. However, his close friend and charge, Teodor of Earth, is missing and feared dead. After a devastating attack in space, only Guy, the king's brave young bodyguard, survives. His best friend and heir to the throne, Teodor of Earth, is missing and might be gone for good. Now, every second counts as Guy launches daring rescue missions to find survivors.

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH)...

A king without a crown, a soldier on a desperate mission, and a planet on the brink of war. Teodor, the young king of Earth, is trapped in a brutal alien world, fighting for survival among the enigmatic Spider Riders. His friend, Guy Erma, a captain in the Dome Militant, embarks on a perilous journey across the treacherous landscapes of Sas Darona to rescue him. As Guy and his team delve deeper into the alien wilderness, they uncover a web of deceit and betrayal that threatens to shatter the fragile peace between the tribes and the Dodecahedral Empire.

In confident Edwardian Britain, the Asquith family rose to the top of politics and society, only for their world to unravel in the killing fields of the Great War. Their story bears all the hallmarks of a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, with Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and his mercurial, charismatic wife, Margot, at its heart. Four children from his first marriage also play central roles in this sweeping family saga.

It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience.

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1977: Das Attentat einer jungen Frau erschüttert Karlsruhe. 2022: Die engagierte Studentin Hanna ist Klimaaktivistin mit hohen Zielen und viel Wut im Bauch. Eine unerwartete Nachricht führt sie zum Familienurlaub auf die Insel Kreta, wo eine schicksalhafte Begegnung die Geister der Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Hanna ist gezwungen, die Weichen für ihr Leben neu zu stellen.

1900: Aufbruch, Fortschritt, Optimismus – die Heirat der englischen Industriellentochter Claire mit dem Berliner Unternehmersohn Friwi ist ein Sinnbild des modernen Europas. Doch während Friwi in China und Afrika für Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Weltmacht kämpft, streitet Claire für die Rechte der Frauen. Wird sie Kaspar je vergessen, der sich in Paris und St. Petersburg der Revolution verschrieben hat? Noch wetteifern bei Segelregatten nur die Jachten der Könige um den Sieg.

¿Es posible ser a la vez un rico y ladino banquero y un anarquista consumado que lucha por la liberación de la sociedad? Según Pessoa, sí. Es lo que intenta demostrar El banquero anarquista , un sorprendente relato publicado en 1922. La producción literaria pessoana, como violenta suma de excepciones que es, nos enfrenta a menudo a la excepción de la excepción. Es insólita en verso y en prosa. Y lo es hasta el punto de que hay textos cuyo origen parece nescrutable.

The world has changed. The UK no longer exists with Brexit completed, Scotland, and Wales both becoming independent countries and the north and south becoming one united Ireland, England now stands alone. There are now only two political parties in England: The Conservative and Royalist Party, and the Republican Labour Party. After the death of her husband Queen Elizabeth II abdicated passing the crown directly to her eldest Grandson who has become King William V.

“A republic, if you can keep it.” Those were Benjamin Franklin’s words following the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when asked what system of government the new America would follow. Unfurled is a futuristic novel which takes place in the United States following the collapse of the federal government. After decades of political stagnation, division among Americans, and the disconnect between the governed and those elected, America is forced to rebuild itself in the wake of total capitulation.

When a member of his Cabinet is killed in a plane President Jack Ryan suspects that the "accident" is anything but in this latest shocking entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. The White House is stunned when the Secretary of Commerce is killed in a plane crash in Turkey. President...