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Da William Benson blev dømt for mord for seksten år siden, udstødte samfundet og hans familie ham. En fasttømret gruppe, herunder rådgivende advokat Tess de Vere, støttede ham. Han trodsede alle og åbnede sit eget advokatkontor. Nu står han over for sit livs sag – men også Helen Camberley's uhelbredelige sygdom, kvinden som hjalp ham med at lægge fængselslivet bag sig.

Ferma animalelor este un roman alegoric scris de George Orwell, publicat în 1945. Povestea urmărește un grup de animale care se răscoală împotriva stăpânului lor, sperând să construiască o societate dreaptă, în care toate animalele să fie egale. La început, idealurile lor par să...

I was a sugarbaby, I admit. I am not proud of it, though others seem to sensationalize the lifestyle. They see glitz and glamor, never food or a place to sleep. Film and literature have only shown one side of a sugarbaby’s life. They villainize us and make us out to be either sluts or golddiggers or airheads. And well, they’re right. I am no saint. I am a whore — a selfish, greedy, ageist whore who is worth nothing except in bed. Life was no fairytale as a sugarbaby. But it was one grotesque, unlawful act after another. Yet somehow, that life pales in comparison to my life as a Minor.

NUCLEAR WAR: HISTORY REPEATS (DAY ZERO • BOOK 10)An assassination attempt on the Monarch and the murder of the Prime Minister of Great Britain trigger events that cannot be stopped. What was meant to be a demonstration of strength turns into a public humiliation of the state. Belfast erupts. London loses its center of control. The royal family evacuates. Within hours, a local crisis becomes a struggle for power over the entire British state. Britain has survived nuclear strikes, hunger, epidemics, and years of brutal endurance. It held together where other states would have collapsed.

Enter the haunting, beautiful and provocative world of Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest writers, whose extraordinary life ended as dramatically as his fiction Considered one of the greatest Japanese writers of the twentieth century, Mishima fused traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern...

Alors qu’à l’international, des conflits menacent d’éclater, Victoria se prépare pour ses premières élections démocratiques. Avec le lancement de la campagne électorale, les figures les plus emblématiques du pays se rassemblent à la capitale. Sept ans après le scandale du tueur de Luméa, Willem Vasely est enfin de retour à Bohème. Fier des nouvelles réglementations qu’il a établies autour de l’Oré, il poursuit ses ambitions avec la ferme intention d’aider son frère à remporter sa place au Parlement et d’asseoir son influence en politique.

Justice is deadly. Violetta Cq'linns—a relentless homicide detective on the world of K'lais—lives by the law. But when she digs too deep into department corruption, she finds herself framed for the one crime she didn’t commit… murdering the chief of police. Now, she’s a fugitive with a target on her back, hunted by the very force she once called family. With nowhere to turn, her only lifelines are a ruthless crime lord demanding a dangerous favor—and an old flame whose loyalties are as unpredictable as her own fate. But Violetta isn’t going down without a fight. She was raised to survive.

Since before the dawn of humankind, the genders have complemented and supported each other. Central to that has always been the primal desire of men for women. But what happens if that primal desire were to change. What if men no longer desired women, but focused their energies on themselves and their own interests. What would happen to civilization? What would it mean for relations between the sexes? What could even cause such a thing, and can it be stopped before it is too late?

Based on a true story, Liz Enko Lacks Vax Facts is a bold, rhyming satire about fear, power, propaganda, and what happens when questioning authority becomes forbidden. In this installment in the Liz Enko series, a peaceful town is swept into a new age of public-health promises when Liz Enko arrives armed with charts, slogans, and the holy language of The Science. Backed by experts and industry, she sells the townspeople on a bright new future of injections, compliance, and trust.

From Booker-longlisted Ibtisam Azem, a haunting odyssey where rest must be stolen at high price, and “Palestine” is a honeyed defiance on the tongue. “Sleep thief is what the interrogator called me. I’ll never forget that. I would steal a few seconds of sleep so I could remain steadfast...

This sequel to Inversion forces a pacifist society in a pastoral, isolated universe to wrestle with the cost of self-defense. The people of Germinal live on a tiny, verdant planet where evolution has traced a slightly different path. For centuries, they have peacefully coexisted amid an ecosystem where an advancing wall of fire consumes all in its path, a perpetual cycle of destruction and renewal. That is, until everything they knew of their history was violently upended by the arrival of colonizers.

When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play. In a busy outdoor market, an ordinary woman is assassinated in broad daylight. Twelve years later, the killer is back with a new target—and a mysteriously sinister employer…

Zonenrandgebiet 1974 – ein düsteres Dorfgeheimnis, eine verhängnisvolle Liebschaft und die erste große Liebe. Eine tiefe Schuld, auch wenn wir sie nicht bewusst auf uns laden, verfolgt uns ein Leben lang. Wenn wir sie endlich tilgen wollen, machen wir es oft nur noch schlimmer. So ergeht es Fritz Tiedemann. Fritz bewegt sich zwischen den Welten. Als Einziger aus seinem Dorf geht er aufs Gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel und macht sich damit selbst zum Außenseiter.

Why did the United States Government find it necessary to sequester pertinent information about the assassination of President Kennedy all these years (fifty-four years)? Did the U.S. Government leadership fear some catastrophic reaction, by the American people, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination; if the realities of the Kennedy assassination were different from the official findings of the Warren Commission Report?

Un ruso llega a Singapur con un secreto valioso. Pero cuando es asesinado y Sam Joseph, el agente de la CIA encargado de la reunión, desaparece, Artemis Procter se convierte en el chivo expiatorio y es expulsada del servicio. Meses después, tras un intercambio de espías, Sam aparece en la puerta de Procter, en el centro de Florida, con una revelación explosiva: hay un topo ruso infiltrado en las altas esferas de la CIA.

En el año 2014, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de paño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obsesiona. Pero nadie, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos, sospecha las razones profundas de su obsesión.

Imagine a sinister meeting in which every attendee is a descendant of someone who signed the Declaration of Independence. This secret group of powerful, wealthy, and high-ranking uber patriots are plotting to overthrow the current government. Fast forward to the evening of the president's State of the Union Address. On occasions with almost universal attendance, the White House requires an odd man out: a cabinet member who refrains from attending the SOTU in case of a crisis. Everything seems as usual-except that the guy who was supposed to sit this one out is instead quite present.

Former Navy SEAL and security contractor Eric Branson has accomplished the first half of his mission—finding his daughter, Megan. But though he’s rescued her from the dangers she faced in the Rockies, Eric is still a long way from getting her and the rest of his family to a place of real safety. Treachery strikes from multiple fronts, sidetracking Eric and taking him far from those he loves as he faces down new enemies that threaten to derail his plans. Read Sabotage, Defiance and Alliances: the seventh, eighth and ninth books in the Feral Nation Series right here in one collection.

Nach dem sensationellen Debüt „Hast du uns endlich gefunden" befasst sich Edgar Selge erneut mit den dunkelsten Jahren der deutschen, der eigenen Geschichte und macht daraus große Literatur. In seinem neuen Roman stößt der Erzähler, Edgar, auf das Schicksal eines Jungen, der während der Blockade Leningrads durch die deutsche Wehrmacht verhungert ist. Jura hat ein Tagebuch hinterlassen, das Edgar immer wieder liest, sodass er bald glaubt, den Jungen zu kennen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Austausch über Jugend, Träume, Literatur, Mütter, Abschied, Fremdheit und Nähe.

Igor, poco più che quarantenne, ha sempre avuto un rapporto complicato con il padre, a partire dal suo lavoro di traduttore americanista che Herr Professor – russofilo, vetero-comunista, soprannominato così per il suo rigore intransigente – ha sempre disprezzato. Per fortuna, però, padre e figlio vivono in città diverse, e le occasioni di scontro sono limitate al minimo.