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Though the twisted scars on his arm still tell the tale, Jack McCarty has worked hard to put his duel with Armistead Mason in the past. He’s one of Virginia’s brightest young lawyers, married to the love of his life, and poised once again for political stardom—an opportunity he thought he’d lost when forced to face Armistead on the field of honor. Lucinda Lee has also moved forward, closing the door on the betrayal that almost ended her courtship with Jack.

Lady Jane Grey was born into the most dangerous of times. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother for whom she is a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Growing up with the future Queen...

Michael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. Coming of age in the outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against careless prejudices and low expectations. While Francis aspires to a future in music, Michael dreams of Aisha, the smartest girl in their...

When eco-enthusiast Twilly Spree spots someone in a Range Rover dumping litter onto the freeway, he decides to teach him a lesson - only to discover that his target is Palmer Stoat, one of Florida's cockiest and most powerful political fixers. The short-tempered Twilly finds himself embroiled in...

A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent, terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming...

A hilarious, biting satire of the United States and its unpredictable leader from the best-selling author of The Circle The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins...

In the 1980s, a man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will...

Martin Grey, a talented young lawyer, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America's most powerful and esteemed black men. He's dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they think he has the potential to be one of them. They invite him for a weekend away from it all. But...

Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating...

This book is dedicated for open minded people who wish to change things or to see beyond the ordinary world affairs as it contains details regarding the current state of world order...

Kafka’s finest works adapted for BBC radio – plus a biographical play, three discussion pieces and the award-winning Kafka The Musical A lawyer by day, Franz Kafka spent his nights writing visionary stories and novels exploring bureaucracy, power and alienation – iconic fiction that gave...

u chamo-me Theodoro — e fui amanuense do Ministerio do Reino. N’esse tempo vivia eu á travessa da Conceição n.º 106, na casa d’hospedes da D. Augusta, a esplendida D. Augusta, viuva do major Marques.

Brought to you by Penguin. A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism’s effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after...

History's repetitions signal the rekindling of revolutionary spirit. Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid’s life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women’s rights, she struggles to...

Es ist ein großer Tag für Interims-Polizeipräsident Kluftinger, der seine erste Anti-Terrorübung in den Bergen leitet. Doch die Übung läuft völlig aus dem Ruder, ein Polizist stirbt. Ist Kluftingers chaotische Planung schuld am Tod des Kollegen? Ausgerechnet jetzt kann er schlechte Schlagzeilen überhaupt nicht gebrauchen, denn er kandidiert für den Gemeinderat – zunächst zwar nur als Lückenbüßer, um die Liste zu füllen. Aber als er erfährt, dass sein Intimfeind Doktor Langhammer gegen ihn antritt, ist sein Ehrgeiz geweckt, und er zieht in den Wahlkampf.

In March 2012, Bennett Carrington had the world on a string. A junior senator from Arkansas, the up and coming golden boy of American politics was being vetted for the vice-presidential position on the Anderson campaign. By July, he had resigned in disgrace and was left with no marriage, no career, and a broken heart. Eleven years later, Bennett finds himself in a unique position. He has the opportunity to reclaim his political career.

Durch sein lässiges Auftreten hat er es auf der Karrierleiter bis zu Großbritanniens höchstem politischen Amt gebracht. Doch Marcus Valentine ist ein Blender. Selbstsüchtig benutzt er sogar die ihm nahestehenden Menschen nur für seine Zwecke: Stabschef Sunil, der sämtliche Fehler auszubaden hat; seine schöne Frau Abbie, die er mit der PR-Chefin betrügt; die hübsche Nanny seines kleinen Sohns; seinen militärischen Berater ... Aufgrund eines Bombenattentats muss der Premier sich eines Tages mit seinen Getreuen in die Tunnel unter der Downing Street flüchten.

Rylee Williams is looking forward to a fun-filled gap year before she heads East for college. An extended trip to Europe. Volunteering for her congregations Home Mission. Maybe even mentoring for her old high schools robotics team. Pregnancy was the last thing that she expected. Detained under the Unborn Child Protection Act and forced into the Wisconsin Individual Family Education program with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Rylee struggles to navigate in a world that has reduced her to a walking womb. Can this strong-willed mother-to-be reclaim her life . . . and her future?

Novembre 1970. La Camera dei deputati sta per approvare una delle norme più tormentate della nostra storia: la legge sul divorzio. In Italia, infatti, fino ad allora, il matrimonio era "indissolubile". Il giovane dott. Ciro Amendola, appena assunto al Ministero, segue direttamente questa vicenda, a lui molto cara per ragioni familiari e di passione sportiva. A suo tempo, aveva infatti seguito le vicissitudini amorose di Fausto Coppi, che non aveva potuto vivere liberamente la travolgente passione d'Amore con la sua Giulia, la Dama Bianca, soltanto perché erano entrambi sposati.

First Lady Elizabeth Caen can't believe what she just overheard: the President of the United States is planning a shocking assassination. With no hard evidence to back her claims against her powerful husband, she faces the nearly impossible task of revealing the dark conspiracy to the world. She must do something...but what?