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Det är början av juli och den svenska makteliten befinner sig på politikerveckan i Almedalen. Gotland sjuder av rykten och alla bevakar varandra. Alla vill vara först med att antingen plantera eller avslöja en nyhet. Ryktet går att statsministern väntas avgå. Vem som blir hennes efterträdare står mellan politikens guldgosse, näringsminister David Ehrling, och den mer erfarna miljöministern Ann-Louise Hegel.

Unge Eric Letang är färdigutbildad jurist och brinnande aktiv i politiken. Som ung notarie på den beryktade advokatfirman Henning Sjöstrand tvingas han gång på gång ta ställning till hur juridiken kan användas till både gott och ont. Hans första stora mål för honom ut i Europa den heta sommar när de röda fanorna dominerar gatorna i Paris och när socialism med mänskligt ansikte går under i Prag. Och den vänsterradikala vågen kommer att än mer splittra familjen Lauritzen mellan de yngre som anser att det är rätt att göra uppror och de äldre som vidhåller att äganderätten står över allt annat.

Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970's, the normal healthy camaraderie of the City Hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control and patient's lives are put at risk. Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. Hadn't they agreed to abide by the Hippocratic Oath with its simple message 'First do no harm'?

House of Meetings is a gothic love story, triangular in form and steeped in darkness. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threat of pogroms, two brothers and a Jewish girl are drawn together in a fateful, tangled dance of desire and rivalry. Their destinies entwine further in the desolate Norlag labor camp, buried above the Arctic Circle, where an enigmatic encounter in the House of Meetings will leave indelible marks on all three. What begins as a brief, forbidden tryst lingers long after the brothers’ release, haunting their every step.

"يوميات نائب في الأرياف" كلامٌ مهم عن مجتمعات منسية... بدويات فى بلد الحضارة.. أناس مايزالون غارقين فى جهالات القرون الماضية و حكومة بالية لاتكترث إلا بالسياسة...

They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero. Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy.

Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolina's Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nation's most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project. These novels will follow an elite team of female warriors....

Diana y Leonora son amigas desde la escuela primaria. Las dos aman leer y su poderoso vínculo las protege y acompaña a medida que crecen. Leonora es alta e imponente, de fuertes convicciones, audaz, decidida. Diana, más discreta y muy hábil con la palabra escrita, aspira a contar la historia de su generación, la de los movimientos revolucionarios latinoamericanos, herederos de similares luchas europeas que escupieron a su gente hasta estas tierras.

Con este mensaje inesperado, el pasado vuelve para sacudir la vida de un antiguo agente secreto cuando ya no tiene el escudo de su organización. Participó en la guerra sucia del Estado, convencido de su causa: la defensa de una sociedad democrática y de las víctimas inocentes contra la violencia terrorista. Pero el tiempo ha pasado, no todo salió bien y la justificación es muy lejana, mientras que él ya no puede abandonar el lado oscuro. La críptica comunicación que acaba de recibir lo reclama de nuevo.

Europe. Great Britain has long-since left the Union, but tensions between European countries remain, and the international balance of power is firmly weighted towards China and the US. Seizing the opportunity for an unexpected comeback, disgraced former Paris mayor Vincent d’Amont makes an outrageous proposal. France and Germany should unite to create a new superpower: Charlemagny.

A cadre of philanthropic billionaires contract a man to establish a new paradigm of prosperity in impoverished countries. He is a renaissance man with the iron will of a K2 mountaineer and the killer instincts of a Navy SEAL. One man armed with an idea who is collision bound with a murderous ruling class while the world sits on the powder keg of systemic corruption.

Eine Erfindung erobert die Welt – und bestimmt das Schicksal zweier Familien, die bereit sind, alles zu riskieren. Wetzlar, Optische Werke, Konstruktionsabteilung, 1914: Dem Tüftler Oskar Barnack gelingt der Durchbruch. Anstatt weiterhin mit einer kiloschweren Glasplattenkamera auf Foto-Safari zu gehen, hat der Feinmechaniker einen handlichen Apparat entwickelt, der in eine Jackentasche passt. Ernst Leitz, der Sohn des Werkgründers, erkennt das Potenzial – und treibt die Produktion der Leica gegen alle Widerstände voran-

The Potato Eaters of Shanghai describes the upheaval and aftermath of President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of Chinese political power. Through a lens of his own identity confusion, M. Joakim Eriksson examines the events and culture of the era—including office life, day-to-day experiences of political corruption, and the invention of New Pork.

It is 2028. President Trump has just finished his third term and is about to be elected to a fourth. America has become increasingly isolationist and xenophobic. Emboldened by the President’s support, the New American Party has gained power and become a controlling minority. Cloaking its policies in the increasing need for national security, the President and his new party work to remake America in the image they desire, focusing their efforts on personal freedoms and immigration.

Este libro es un clásico de la literatura mundial y posee el mérito histórico de haber iniciado la novela sobre la Revolución Mexicana de 1910; la obra muestra desde dentro las fuerzas de lo que entonces se llamó "la bola": los desposeídos levantados para la revuelta. La novela arranca con el grupo armado de Juchipila, un poblado al sur de Zacatecas, y cierra, como epílogo de la narración y un símil de la suerte misma de la Revolución, cuando la ciudad es tomada por las tropas carrancistas.

Jess is a senior in college, ambitious but aimless, when she meets Josh. He’s a privileged preppy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She’s not expecting to inherit anything. A year later, they’re both working at the same investment bank. And when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, Josh shows up for her in surprising—if imperfect—ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship forms, tinged with undeniable chemistry. It gradually, and then suddenly, turns into an electrifying romance that shocks them both.

This book takes listeners on a journey through alternate scenarios, considering how the Cuban Revolution, economy, and global impact might have been different without Che's influence.

Esta novela narra el ascenso y la caída de Santos Rodríguez, un influyente asesor político que luego de acompañar a distintos presidentes aspira él mismo a convertirse en gobernante de una República jamás nombrada, pero que se parece mucho al México de mediados del siglo XX. Dotado de un gran carisma y copiosas arcas, y amparado en su buena fortuna, Santos Rodríguez buscarácumplir su sueño a toda costa. Pero nada es tan sencillo en un país donde la lucha por el poder ocurre en el terreno de la miseria moral.

Delhi, the near future: a former journalist goes in search of answers after she finds herself stripped of identity and citizenship and thrust into a vast conspiracy involving secret detention centers, government sanctioned murders, online rage, nationalist violence, and a figure of shifting identifies known as the “New Delhi Monkey Man.” Bhopal, 1984: an assassin hunts a whistleblower through a central Indian city that will shortly be the site of the worst industrial disaster in history. Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student’s life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft.

Westminster in the 2020s, where the business of governing is the last thing on the agenda for anyone worth their salt. In the SW1 bubble, politics moves fast, schemes are hatched and foiled - through both accident and conspiracy - within hours, and sex and power preside. When Bobby Cliveden decides to campaign against the closure of her local mental health unit, she scarcely thought it would take her straight to the heart of the UK's bustling political centre.