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Das Amt des Außenministers Samuel Speck ist bedroht. Der passionierte Waffenschieber fürchtet nicht nur finanzielle Einbußen, sondern auch, dass er künftig in der Holzklasse um die Welt jetten muss. Zum Glück gibt es da noch seinen alten Kumpel Malte Windig, welcher sich bereitwillig als Kanonenfutter anbietet.

Follow the fates of two families, one wealthy and powerful, the other blue-collar, from a chance meeting at a Florida poolside, to the highest levels of politics and power. This sweeping saga of love, war, money, and power leaves each family weighing their duty to their family versus service to their country. It all leads to a fateful choice - a sacrifice - which could change the course of history.

Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister, a.k.a. “Mr. M.,” thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren—a well-liked, good-hearted jock—to throw in his hat. But that puts Paul’s sister Tammy in a snit. So she runs too, on an apathy platform, before starting a real campaign...to get herself kicked out of school.

Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about ‘Chinese-y’ things again. When she accidentally stumbles upon a strange and curious note in the Chou archives, she convinces herself it’s her ticket out of academic hell. But Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s message lead to an explosive discovery, one that upends her entire life and the lives of those around her.

As the pandemic sweeps across the United States, the President confronts a situation that may expose him to a new variant of concern. Should he worry about the virus, or be more concerned about the chicanery in the White House that could prove far more lethal? Listen to how this unravels....

Known as the 'Irish Chekhov', Brian Friel was one of the most renowned dramatists of his generation, producing over 30 plays in a career spanning six decades. Included here are some of his best-known works, as well as mesmerising radio documentaries featuring the author himself, in his own words.

¿Qué une a Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, el Brexit, el presente, el pasado, un hombre de luto por los tiempos perdidos, una mujer atrapada en los tiempos modernos? La respuesta está en Primavera, una novela luminosa, generosa y llena de esperanza, en la que, al igual que en Otoño e Invierno, la autora escocesa está haciendo algo más que analizar las injusticias de nuestra época: nos ilumina el camino para salir de la pesadilla.

Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation. Years later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune.

Mario Vargas Llosa nos arrastra con su prosa hacia Mayta, protagonista de una intentona revolucionaria trotskista que en la novela acontece en 1958. La reconstrucción de la historia de este personaje se lleva a cabo mediante los testimonios de aquellos que lo conocieron y la posterior confrontación de este relato, cargado de subjetivismo, con la realidad.

Dann steht man da und ist nur Deutschland. Fred ist eine erfahrene und ehrgeizige deutsche Konsulin. Eine Frau, die eigentlich nichts aus der Ruhe bringt, überall und nirgends zu Hause. Dann jedoch, in Montevideo, scheitert sie erstmals in ihrer Karriere. Sie wird versetzt ins politisch aufgeheizte Istanbul, ihrer bisher größten Herausforderung. Zwischen Justizpalast und Sommerresidenz, Geheimdienst und deutsch-türkischer Zusammenarbeit, zwischen Affäre und Einsamkeit stößt sie an die Grenzen von Freundschaft, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und europäischer Idee.

Kayleigh needs money. That’s why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees.

The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom; her best friend, Mel, is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s.

When a global pandemic hits the UK, Capital Post journalist Stig Fisher finds himself being silenced by his editor for questioning the British prime minister about the validity of sweeping new powers that will put the population under house arrest. To stop him uncovering a scandal of historic proportions, Stig Fisher is sent to the Democrats convention in Chicago and instructed to do a magazine piece on a "Nut in a Hut" who runs a pagan community in the hills of Michigan. Things take a dark turn when he gets back to London.

For more than three decades, Yugoslavia's history played out in the life of one man. That man was Josip Broz Tito. The fictional autobiography of a regime insider, K. Balej's thoroughly researched novel provides a revealing insight into the emergence and functioning of the Yugoslav socialist system from the time of the Vienna Congress in 1815 to Tito's own death in 1980. It is an immersive exploration of the changing nature of Tito's power and the fascinating symbiosis of man and state that Tito represents.

O governo decreta que as mulheres só podem falar 100 palavras por dia. A Dra. Jean McClellan está em negação. Ela não acredita que isso esteja acontecendo de verdade. Em pouco tempo, as mulheres também são impedidas de trabalhar e os professores não ensinam mais as meninas a ler e escrever. Antes, cada pessoa falava em média 16 mil palavras por dia, mas agora as mulheres só têm 100 palavras para se fazer ouvir. Lutando por si mesma, sua filha e todas as mulheres silenciadas, Jean vai reivindicar sua voz.

Washington, DC, Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career - and her confidence - after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O’Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed and she’s assigned to the case. Things get complicated when she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O’Connor’s friend and chief of staff...and the man she had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case.

Standing over the body of a Supreme Court nominee, Lieutenant Sam Holland is hip-deep in another high-profile murder case. That she was one of the last people to see Julian Sinclair alive only complicates things even more. With her relationship with Senator Nick Cappuano heating up, they’re attracting a lot of unwanted media attention and blinding flashbulbs. The pressure is on for Sam to find Sinclair’s killer, but a new lead in her father’s unsolved shooting puts her in unexpected danger.

Félix Chacaltana Saldívar es un burócrata que lleva una vida sin sobresaltos como fiscal distrital adjunto en Lima. Pero todo cambia cuando es enviado a su natal Ayacucho, al que regresa después de muchos años y donde se ve a cargo de una extraña investigación de asesinato. En medio de las celebraciones de Semana Santa y enfrentado a la indiferencia de sus superiores, las pesquisas lo llevarán por caminos cada vez más oscuros, en los que descubrirá hasta dónde pueden llegar un hombre y la sociedad cuando la muerte se convierte en la única certeza.

Los jefes (1959) fue el primer libro publicado por Mario Vargas Llosa, con el cual obtuvo su primer reconocimiento literario, el Premio Leopoldo Alas. Según su autor, «Los jefes es un pequeño microcosmos de lo que vendría a ser el resto de mis libros».