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Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic.

Four young Americans go from the familiar sights of Milltowne, Pennsylvania, to the jungles of Vietnam and back again. Theirs is the story of what it was like to be young during that turbulent time of Cold War paranoia, political assassinations, the fight for civil rights, counter-culture hippies, the sexual revolution, women’s liberation, military conscription, televised war, massive anti-war protests, and of course sex and drugs and the greatest rock ‘n’ roll.

1977: Das Attentat einer jungen Frau erschüttert Karlsruhe. 2022: Die engagierte Studentin Hanna ist Klimaaktivistin mit hohen Zielen und viel Wut im Bauch. Eine unerwartete Nachricht führt sie zum Familienurlaub auf die Insel Kreta, wo eine schicksalhafte Begegnung die Geister der Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Hanna ist gezwungen, die Weichen für ihr Leben neu zu stellen.

In 1970s Brazil, two teenage sisters are thrust into a chaotic world. Fear and hunger stalk them in a sugarcane town choked by a constant rain of ash, a testament to the ravaged environment in which they are trying to grow. With only each other for comfort, they set out to search for their missing mother and the father they’ve never known.

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the 'wizened youth' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

In a luckier universe, in which the Kennedys were not assassinated and the Vietnam War ended before it began, we find President Richard Nixon and Dr. Timothy Leary, the escaped convict Nixon calls “the most dangerous man in the world” for turning America’s youth into no-good hippies. Nixon is the same profane, venal S-O-B that made him such a hit in our universe, but here he is unleashed in a world where there was no Vietnam war to slow him down and Watergate is just a fancy hotel.

Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree. Thirty years later, Verity sets out to uncover the truth about her past and to confront those who brutalized and betrayed her. As secrets are exposed, she learns that in order to truly heal she must embrace the path of forgiveness.

Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army that is trying to overthrow the democratically elected government, and he is reunited with his true love, Maria. But all too soon, his joy turns to terror as the Anarchists turn on him, led by a rival for Maria’s affection. Lucky to escape with his life, Theo returns to England to study at Oxford. But his heart is in Spain, now torn apart by a bloody civil war, and he is quick to abandon his new life when his old schoolmate Esmond offers him the chance to fight the Fascists.

On a bluff above a river rises The House, where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who help out in exchange for free rent. The community is led by a former punk singer who never wanted to be responsible for anyone yet now finds herself the caretaker of this precarious collection of lives. It’s not a family, exactly, but it’s got the complicated, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious, dynamics of kinship.

1900: Aufbruch, Fortschritt, Optimismus – die Heirat der englischen Industriellentochter Claire mit dem Berliner Unternehmersohn Friwi ist ein Sinnbild des modernen Europas. Doch während Friwi in China und Afrika für Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Weltmacht kämpft, streitet Claire für die Rechte der Frauen. Wird sie Kaspar je vergessen, der sich in Paris und St. Petersburg der Revolution verschrieben hat? Noch wetteifern bei Segelregatten nur die Jachten der Könige um den Sieg.

November, 1939. A conscription officer arrives in the peaceful farming village of Rautjärvi. The Soviet Union has invaded, and for the first time in its history as an independent country, Finland is at war. Setting off into the depths of winter to face the Red Army, the small group of childhood friends recruited from Rautjärvi have no idea whether any of them will ever return home. But their unit has a secret weapon: the young sniper Simo Häyhä, whose lethal skill in the snow-bound forests of the front line will earn him the nickname 'The White Death'.

Éthiopie, 1954. Nés de l'union secrète d'une infirmière indienne et d'un chirurgien britannique, Marion et Shiva ont grandi livrés à eux-mêmes. Orphelins de mère et abandonnés par leur père, ces frères jumeaux sont toujours restés unis comme les doigts de la main. Mais alors que la révolution gronde, ils se déchirent pour l'amour d'une femme, forçant Marion, fraîchement diplômé de médecine, à fuir sa patrie pour l'Amérique.

Découvrir qu'elle est enceinte et que son père, qu'elle n'a pas connu, était iranien, c'est l'occasion parfaite pour Lila, jeune Parisienne à la vie tourbillonnante, de partir pour Téhéran à la recherche de ses origines. Elle y calmera peut-être ses ardeurs en matière de sorties et de séduction... ou pas. Car, au fil de son enquête, Lila va goûter, en même temps qu'aux joies de la grossesse, à une multitude de saveurs et de plaisirs inattendus. Elle va aussi faire la connaissance de son grand-père et d'une partie de son histoire, entre blessures de l'exil et souvenirs enterrés.

I'm not like most women. I don't have fantasies of finding the perfect man and settling down to have two point five children. My job is my baby. My dream position is so close I can taste it, but the rug is pulled out from beneath me when I find out there's a catch: they want the role filled by someone who is married. Liam Remington is my best friend, Natalie's, brother-in-law with a hero complex. We've both been living with her for the past three years, helping to raise her four small children after she fled an abusive marriage.

Sheepland is a clever satirical allegory with echoes of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, eerily depicting the current state of the world and warning of what may come.

Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to a life of secrets and subterfuge. Dax is sent to Guatemala under the guise of covering a tinderbox presidential election, where the ruthless decisions of the Mafia provoke pitch-black warfare in collusion with the CIA. As political turmoil erupts, Gabriel's reluctant involvement deepens. His escape plan leads him to West Berlin, where he uncovers a chilling realization: there is a plot to assassinate magnetic young President John F. Kennedy.

In a village in rural Pakistan, Tara is waiting and watching. The smell of dung and dust hangs over her world. She is desperate to leave the petty life of the village and escape the iron grip of her violent, unpredictable brother. Marrying a middle-class accountant allows her to escape to the capital, but she soon finds that life as a respectable housewife is not sufficient either. She wants what the rich mothers at her children’s school have. She wants what their husbands have. Her desire for wealth and freedom becomes an obsession. But can she truly shake her past?

Zora est peintre et enseignante à l’académie des Beaux-Arts de Sarajevo. Au printemps 1992, face à la montée des tensions dans la toute jeune Bosnie-Herzégovine, elle demande à son mari, Franjo, d’emmener sa mère en Angleterre, où vit leur fille. Mais ce qui ne devait être qu’une séparation temporaire prend une tournure dramatique quand les premiers tirs de mortier serbes s’abattent sur la ville depuis les collines. En quelques jours seulement, le piège se referme sur les habitants de Sarajevo, quelles que soient leurs origines.

It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience.