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It’s 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming, passenger steamers dot the harbor, and Jewish émigrés have found tenuous refuge from persecution. But as war in Europe looms, Split is also a nest of spies, fascists, and smugglers—and now, a locale suspiciously scouted by a German Reich film crew. Then one summer morning it becomes the scene of a murder investigation when a corpse is found entangled in fishing nets in the port.

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Now the basis for a major motion picture Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice...

"Meine Mission hieß Rache. Die zog ich jetzt durch." Die niederbayerische Provinz in den Achtzigern: In Artlhofen tobt der Kulturkampf zwischen Kirche, CSU und der Anti-Atombewegung. Mittendrin der 18-jährige Oberministrant Vinzenz Bachmaier, der endlich auch einmal cool sein möchte. Aber statt zur Demo nach Wackersdorf muss er zur Wallfahrt nach Altötting mitfahren. So wird das nichts mit seiner Ricarda und der Karriere als Rockgitarrist. Als er schließlich mit seiner Band aus der katholischen Enge ausbricht und das Glück greifbar nah scheint, nimmt sein Leben eine tragische Wendung.

With the war over, human involvement in sasquatch culture continues to grow. With it is an increase in political maneuverings and power plays by President Griffith and her associates that will leave massive destruction in their wake.

An incisive, wickedly funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage). Helen is one of the best minds of her generation. A young...

Pjotr Nesterenko ist mit dem Tod auf vertrautem Fuß. Als Direktor des Moskauer Krematoriums in der Stalin-Zeit hat er sie alle eingeäschert: die Abweichler, die angeblichen Spione und die einstigen Revolutionshelden, die den Säuberungen zum Opfer fallen. Er jedoch, davon ist er überzeugt, kann gar nicht sterben. So oft ist er dem Tod schon knapp entronnen. Bis der Tag seiner eigenen Verhaftung kommt.

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives "Required reading in...

Albert Trebla, Wiener Journalist und im Ersten Weltkrieg Jagdflieger, flieht im Frühjahr 1938 mit seiner Frau aus dem von deutschen Truppen besetzten Österreich auf Umwegen ins Engadin. Aber für den Verfolgten gibt es in der vermeintlich freien Schweizer Bergwelt keine Zuflucht. Trebla fühlt sich durch eine Serie rätselhafter Todesfälle bedroht und immer mehr in die Enge getrieben. Wie ein Murmeltier versucht er, in Deckung zu gehen, aber wo er auch hinkommt, wird er in äußerst merkwürdige Geschichten verstrickt.

Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 A National Bestseller A New York Times Editor's Choice pick Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction “Captivating and...

John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser.

Before her suspicious death, Rigby Croxford's wife, Helen, fingered an African politician as the head of an international wildlife poaching syndicate. Plans to avenge Helen's death are put on hold when an ex-lover from Rigby's past reenters his life. The woman's daughter has disappeared in Africa. She enlists Rigby's help, but her agenda is not what it seems to be.

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth's first novel, 'Das Spinnennetz', 1923, intensely chronicles the development of a fascist and the first steps in his rise to power. It is a vivid portrait of the nationalist fervor and the struggle between Right and Left in Germany during the years immediately following the end of the Great War, or First World War.

History’s noblest nation, the United States of America, staggers on the verge of collapse. Amidst the turmoil of divisive domestic politics, the crush of oppressive government, the scheming of international conspirators, and the effects of a devastating pandemic, the final assault against the world’s last bastion of liberty has been launched.

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.

Sina ist zielstrebig und strukturiert. Sie gibt ihre Artikel pünktlich ab, geht regelmäßig joggen und weiß, was sie will. Doch ob sie Milos Kinderwunsch teilt, weiß sie nicht. Mit wachsenden Zweifeln beobachtet sie die Frauen um sich herum. Die mit Babybauch wecken Neid in ihr, die mit Kinderwagen Beklemmung. Dann verkündet Klimaaktivistin Eva Lohaus, dass man heutzutage gar keine Kinder mehr in die Welt setzen sollte. Sinas Interview mit Eva tritt einen Shitstorm los.

As France prepares to see in a new millennium, the country is battered by apocalyptic storms. But holed up on the farm where he and his three sisters grew up, Alexandre seems less afraid of the weather than of the police turning up. Alone in the darkness, he reflects on the end of a rural way of life he once thought could never change. And his thoughts return to the baking hot summer of 1976, when he met Constanze, an environmental activist who fell for the beauty of the countryside, and was prepared to use any means to save it.

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful...

What can happen when an out-of-control government agency meets with honest folks who won't bend over but instead fight back? What happens when a small county sheriff does his job to protect a citizen being targeted by that government agency?

In 1975, Gary Ruckler attends classes at Moscow State University as part of the first American Fulbright program in the USSR. Here he befriends Anna, her boyfriend Zaza, and their enigmatic friend Aslan. When Aslan mysteriously disappears into the mountains of Kazbegi, Georgia, Gary is swept up in events beyond his understanding and control. Fifteen years later, Tamar and Giorgi struggle through the “lost” decade of the 1990s in Tbilisi. Through three civil wars, a refugee crisis, and near-total societal collapse, the pair come of age in the underground arts scene.

After resigning from his agency under an ethical cloud, forty-six-year-old Dan Cahill commits himself to rebuilding his relationship with Megan, the college-aged daughter in Las Vegas he has long neglected. She persuades a reluctant Cahill to join the student-led campaign of a popular professor competing in the Nevada presidential primary against impossible odds. As they face powerful forces conspiring to clear the field, Cahill's deep-seated disdain for electoral politics collides with Megan's higher ideals.