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Ein origineller, rasanter Debütroman einer aufregenden neuen Stimme. Damani kämpft. Jeden Tag kümmert sie sich um ihre Mutter, fährt die ältere Dame Mrs. Patrice zum Bingospielen, während sie immer weniger durch die Fahrdienst-App verdient. Die Rechnungen stapeln sich, ihre Wut auf die Welt wächst. Bis eines Tages Jolene in ihrem Wagen sitzt. Sie scheint die perfekte Freundin zu sein - aufmerksam, attraktiv, eine Verbündete. Vielleicht kann Damani über das hinwegsehen, was sie zurückhält: Noch nie hat sie eine Frau mit Geld gedatet, geschweige denn eine weiße Frau mit Geld.

Mens forberedelserne til Gøteborgs 400-års jubilæum er i fuld gang, findes bygmesteren Ernst Rosbäck død på taget af byens første skyskraber. Desuden er hans 14-årige barnebarn, Nadja, sporløst forsvundet. For politibetjent Dennis Wilhelmson og hans kolleger går efterforskningen langsomt: Lige indtil de finder et spor, der peger mod 1980’ernes Berlin. Men fremgangen stoppes snart af en frygtet virus, som skånselsløst hærger i Europa...

Delhi, the near future: a former journalist goes in search of answers after she finds herself stripped of identity and citizenship and thrust into a vast conspiracy involving secret detention centers, government sanctioned murders, online rage, nationalist violence, and a figure of shifting identifies known as the “New Delhi Monkey Man.” Bhopal, 1984: an assassin hunts a whistleblower through a central Indian city that will shortly be the site of the worst industrial disaster in history. Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student’s life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft.

El que debería haber sido el día más feliz en la vida de la narradora de esta novela se convierte en el inicio de una historia de locura. La ansiedad se apodera de ella y el peso del mundo cae sobre sus hombros por partida doble: debe cuidar a sus mellizos recién nacidos y dar voz a los que han confiado en ella. Esta historia indaga en una herida personal para conectar con luchas universales, y es un viaje a través del arte, la literatura, la mitología y la historia de la medicina.

Brought to you by Penguin. Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting 'Run, Àjàyí, run!' The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life was split in...

Stürmisch zieht einen In meines Vaters Haus sofort in den Bann. Denn nicht nur das Wetter fegt geradezu apokalyptisch über die Algarve in Portugal hinweg. Über Paul, den in Frankfurt lebenden Erben eines internationalen Unternehmens, bricht das Leben herein. Das unbekümmerte Dasein eines Studenten aus reicher Familie liegt hinter ihm und die erbarmungslosen Herausforderungen des Geschäftslebens, die hartherzigen Anforderungen seines patriarchalischen Großvaters Otto, sowie sein verwirrendes Liebesleben holen ihn ein.

The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally, and, under false charges, sentenced to a ten-day stretch at a special detention center.

Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking—when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war.

Crescendo nos bairros pobres do East End de Londres, Charlie Trumper sonha com dirigir o carrinho de frutas e vegetais de seu avô. Esse dia chega de repente quando seu avô morre, deixando nas suas mãos o negócio debilitado. Com a ajuda de Becky Salmon, uma jovem mulher empreendedora, Charlie se propõe a erigir seu próprio nome como "O Comerciante Honesto". Mas o início brutal da Primeira Guerra Mundial leva Charlie para longe de casa e o faz entrar no caminho de um perigoso inimigo cujo legado do mal segue Charlie e sua família por gerações.

Charles Seymour, segundo filho, nunca será o conde como seu pai, mas herdou a força de sua mãe—e a vontade de realizar o seu destino... O pai de Simon Kerslake sacrificou tudo para garantir que os sonhos de seu filho se tornassem realidade. Agora Simon tem a chance de subir tão alto quanto esses sonhos permitirem. Ray Gould nasceu na periferia, mas foi criado com orgulho—qualidade igualada ao seu intelecto aguçado e seu desejo de alcançar o impossível... Andrew Fraser foi criado por um herói do futebol transformado em político. Agora é a sua vez de ser o herói, custe o que custar.

Rex Obano has written for the stage, television, radio and film. His plays have twice been shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and he received the Roland Rees Bursary in 2018. He is part of the writing team for the BBC Radio series Faith, Hope and Glory and his TV credits include Shakespeare & Hathaway. Included here are five of his acclaimed dramas, as well as a fascinating discussion programme, Black Tudors.

A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage. “A...

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

"The Secret Agent" is a novel written by Joseph Conrad, and published in 1907. The story is set in London in the late nineteenth century and revolves around a group of anarchists and their plot to detonate a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. The novel explores themes such as terrorism, politics, morality, and betrayal. The novel's protagonist is Adolf Verloc, a seemingly unremarkable man who owns a small shop selling pornographic materials. However, he is also a secret agent working for an unnamed foreign embassy.

Audiolibro producido con sonido 3D. El mismo está diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Rebelión en la granja es una novela corta satírica del escritor británico George Orwell publicada en 1945. La obra es una fábula sobre cómo el régimen soviético de Iósif Stalin corrompe el socialismo. Se ha catalogado la obra de muchas formas como, por ejemplo, novela política, fábula, novela satírica o alegoría. Sin embargo, hay una coincidencia entre los críticos de que se trata de una historia de animales que transmite un claro componente social y político dentro de una obra de arte literaria.

Was geschieht, wenn zwei skrupellose Politiker zu Verbündeten werden? Die Welt im Jahr 2025: Donald Trump ist erneut amerikanischer Präsident und schließt mit Wladimir Putin einen geheimen Pakt: Auf einem Gipfel in Kairo tritt Trump Europa an den russischen Präsidenten ab, holt seine außerhalb Amerikas stationierten Truppen heim und verlässt die NATO. Putin lässt dem Amerikaner dafür freie Hand bei seinem Kampf gegen China.

Ray Carner, hijo de un miembro de la mafia local y padre de familia modélico, regenta la tienda de muebles de la calle Ciento veinticinco, en Harlem. Ray intenta alejarse de la vida de delincuencia que su padre le mostró de niño, pero con un segundo hijo en camino necesita sacarse un dinero extra revendiendo artículos robados. Ahora, su primo Freddie le ofrece participar en algo más peligroso: el robo del famoso hotel Theresa, el Waldorf de Harlem.

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...

Ellinor, a thirty-five-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognize the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.