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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.

Never before on audio! The beloved bestselling dark comedy that became a Reese Witherspoon screen classic, Tom Perrotta's breakthrough novel about the American democratic process as brought to life in a suburban New Jersey high school finally comes to audio, on the eve of the Scribner and S&S...

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.

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.

Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about—and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis’s boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world.

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.

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who...

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier...

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.

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».

Childhood playmates in Mississippi, in the 1950s, grew up to find themselves on opposite sides of the racial conflagration, during the early days of integration. Years later, one of them, now a civil rights lawyer, returns to his boyhood home to confront unresolved issues from his complicated past. A poignant, heartrending story of loss, brokenness, guilt, and possible redemption - this listen invites comparison with the political divisiveness of the present day.

Bonn, Frühjahr 1974: Erstmals lassen sich DDR-Diplomaten in der Bundeshauptstadt nieder. Die Politprominenz feiert, aber die Folgen verändern mehr als ein Leben. Heike lebt zurückgezogen mit Mann und Kindern in Bonn, manchmal hilft sie im Schreibwarenladen mit. Von ihr aus könnte es immer so weitergehen. Doch eines Tages steht ihr alter Uni-Professor im Laden, der Leiter des Instituts für Graphologie. Er möchte sich Heikes enorme Begabung zunutze machen: Niemand kann so viel aus einer Handschrift herauslesen wie sie.