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For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.

Marty Stemple thought he was too old to be in the rat race any more. He figured he would live out the rest of his days quietly plodding along with his wife, Syl, as they both waited for the years to catch up and finally release them from their mundane existence once and for all. But after five years of retirement, an accident at home unwittingly thrusts him back into "The System" just to pay the bills. Before long, his peaceful life becomes a hectic struggle to manage the expectations of a world he thought had lost all interest in him.

Old Silk Road is a prescient, powerful novel of the Afghan war by someone who's been there. Norman "Doc" Rodgers suspects he won't make it out of this one alive. He's a young combat medic in Afghanistan, eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters, his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond aid.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

Kiev suffers from abandonment by the Germans and takeover by the Soviet Bolsheviks. Streamlined for narration and the American ear.

Against all odds we have made it into the last half of the 1990s. The Cold War looks solved, Arabs and Jews are talking, confrontation is on the wane. In this new harmony, one discord - what becomes of unemployed terrorists? You can bet they aren't going to retire quietly. Shunned by the Soviets, isolated by Middle Eastern realignment, one cadre hits on a scheme to jump-start the war machine. It's brilliant in its simplicity. With a single act they bring the world to nuclear boil. Jack Ryan and Dan Murray sweat to defuse a cataclysmic response.

Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world.

Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain.

Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight.

Vanessa Wye was 15 years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now 32 and the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student of his. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn’t abuse. It was love. She’s sure of that. But now, in 2017, in the midst of allegations against powerful men, she is being asked to redefine the great love story of her life - her great sexual awakening - as rape.

Nur and Abid relearn to love after they escape from war. Marie, who keeps the women of the village from giving birth to children borne of war, finds herself in a situation she hasn't faced before. In a London park, an ageing MI-6 official discovers that the woman he meets every day may not be what she seems. Lyndsey's bouquets of twenty-seven tulips hold the secret of her dark past and a soldier adorns herself in jewels as she prepares for a final mission.

Both geopolitical exploration and domestic coming-of-age novel, Mobility is a propulsive and challenging story about class, power, politics, and desire told through the life of one woman—her social milieu, her romances, her unarticulated wants. Mobility deftly explores American forms of complicity and inertia, moving between the local and the global, the personal and the political, and using fiction’s power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context.

Revolution machen kann (fast) jeder. Eine neue Gesellschaftsordnung aufbauen: das schaffen nur ein paar Nerds. Und Sibylle Berg. Nach einer gelungenen Revolution, die das Finanz- und Gesellschaftssystem sanft beseitigt hat, wird sie endlich errichtet: die schöne neue Welt nach dem Kapitalismus. In dieser Welt ist alles verschwunden, woran die Menschen zu glauben gelernt hatten, in der jeder erstaunt bemerkt – dass es möglich ist, ohne Angst zu existieren und ohne sein Leben an einen Arbeitgeber zu verkaufen.

Dive into a world where the search for meaning sparks a riveting adventure. In A Light in the Tunnel, unforgettable characters confront the chaos of modern life, battling disconnection and chasing a deeper purpose. Their journey unveils a powerful revelation: true purpose blooms from gratitude, courage, and bold ideas, lighting the way to a transformed society. This captivating story pulls you into their struggles and triumphs, weaving a tale that’s as thought-provoking as it is heartfelt.

When a major Pakistani political figure is hanged, OK Town erupts in protest. A few miles away, Sir Baghi is surprised by a knock at the door of the Rebel English Academy, his tuition center that offers affordable English lessons. An unexpected visitor, Sabiha, seeks refuge at the Academy—but she has a gun, her parents are political prisoners, her husband has just died in a suspicious fire, and she’s clearly hiding something. Baghi encourages Sabiha to write, and throughout the book her life unspools on the page.

Jay has been hunted since he was twenty years old. A contract on his life has been traded like a commodity, rising and falling with Bitcoin. On the run once again, with no passport, and airmiles as his only currency, Jay will have to choose between love and survival, and run for his life! The Runner is a high-concept literary thriller featuring high-finance, con artists, the Book of Jonah, ultramarathons, and how falling in love can change everything.

Felipe IV ha muerto. En Madrid, mentidero de la monarquía, en un ambiente de clérigos intolerantes, de nobles engreídos y de veteranos soldados que pululan por la villa sin oficio ni beneficio, las intrigas y la lucha por el poder marcan la vida de la corte, ante la minoría de edad de Carlos II, un enfermizo rey de cuatro años. La reina viuda, de carácter adusto e intransigente en sus planteamientos, asume una regencia llena de dificultades, apoyándose en su confesor, el padre Everardo, un jesuita al que el pueblo odia por haber cerrado los corrales de comedias y ser extranjero.

The Vision of 2025 is a speculative fiction book comprising interconnected short stories that explore the implementation and consequences of policies derived from "Project 2025," a political manifesto. The narrative is framed around Mr. Persident, a resolute and enigmatic figure who rises to power on promises to reshape the nation, starting with his stirring inauguration speech.

Kaley Presley was supposed to be the next Jamie Austen. A CIA extraordinaire. A beloved heroine like Jamie who trained her. When she's sent to Norway with A-Rad to search for a rich man who is trafficking young women on a submarine, things go horribly wrong. The trafficker is the Crown Prince. The next heir to the throne. The guards they killed were members of the Royal Guard. They're arrested and must stand trial for murder and abandoned by the ones who sent them there. Is her CIA career over before it really gets started?