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A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.

Der Schriftsteller Tonio Kröger ist zwischen der Verachtung für die Banalität des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Sehnsucht nach dem gewöhnlichen menschlichen Glück hin- und hergerissen. Schon als Schüler sucht er beständig die Anerkennung seines Freundes Hans Hansen, der, als Sohn aus reichem Hause, ein Ideal verkörpert, das das genaue Gegenteil seiner selbst ist. Später findet er in der russischen Künstlerin Lisaweta Iwanowna eine Freundin und Vertraute.

Captain Frank Sherman rolls into a dusty Northern California town to visit his oldest friend—only to find him dead and the sheriff's story full of holes. The deeper he digs, the more bodies pile up. Crooked cops. A corrupt sheriff. A town so rotten it's begging to be burned down. And Sherman? He's just the man to light the match.

Jesse Munoz survived Afghanistan. It's following her home.

Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of military mercenaries. They are ex-Special Forces, combat divers, medics, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. They are decorated veterans of the U.S. military and experts in international warfare. And now they must hone their skills domestically. Under a new partnership between billionaire tech innovator/military contractor Tristan Dent and the U.S. government, Nat and his team are given a new identity: a lawful in-extremis operations network. And a new code-name: “Rockets Red Glare.”

Still haunted by his former teammate’s betrayal and the unveiling of a conspiracy that runs deeper than he imagined, Foster Quinn is once more thrust back into the world he thought he left behind. In the sweltering heat off the coast of Key West, a mission to seize a billionaire’s yacht ends in a chilling revelation: America’s enemies aren’t just beyond our borders―they might be sitting in Congress.

William Carter is a gifted young codebreaker with no experience beyond the safety of his desk. When he is summoned to London without warning, he finds himself recruited into a team unlike any other. Led by Major Tony Sanders and joined by seasoned operatives Richard Keene and Jamie Hawke, Carter is thrown into the shadows of a war that has not yet begun.

Father Black has a mission to complete – and it has nothing to do with God’s work. When an assignment goes wrong and a member of a Royal Family is killed, Marine Connor Black puts America in the crosshairs of a bloody war. With his career seemingly over, a secret organization covers up the death with one condition – Connor owes them. Ten years later, it comes calling. Tasked with killing a psychotic drug lord, Connor’s conscience is torn since, on leaving the Marine Corps, he tries to atone for his sins by taking his vows as a priest.

En otro de sus frecuentes viajes por lo profundo de Estados Unidos, en una parada de servicio al lado de un triste pueblo del medio oeste, Jack Reacher, ex policía militar, encuentra un anillo de graduación de West Point en el escaparate de una casa de empeños. De modo que ese anillo tiene que tener una historia. El famoso detective y justiciero de Child decide iniciar una investigación que lo llevará al montañoso oeste de los Estados Unidos, hacia Dakota del Sur y Wyoming.

In the explosive finale of the Maxx King trilogy, former Army Ranger Maxx King, a cybersecurity expert, faces a conspiracy that could end humanity. From Seattle’s secret labs to Beijing’s frenetic streets and Afghanistan’s war-torn mountains, Maxx and his team of allies—fierce Gabby, steadfast Andres, and loyal Glen—hunt a rogue ex-DARPA scientist, traitor CIA operatives, and an Iranian physicist wielding technology that could trigger chaos on a cataclysmic scale.

In ROGUE ASSET (Book #9), the airwaves hum with danger when a once-silent Cold War radio station, now pulsing with life, signals the awakening of dormant threats. Caught in a race against time across nations and decades-old secrets, Troy Stark confronts reactivated Soviet sleeper agents on the precipice of crippling NATO defenses.

Nick Flynns neuer Auftrag wird beinahe zu seinem letzten. Während eines Treffens mit einem hochrangigen iranischen Dissidenten gerät Flynn in einen Hinterhalt und entkommt dem Tod nur knapp. Flynn ist entschlossen, die tödlichen Geheimnisse von MIDNIGHT aufzudecken. Aber es ist ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit, um zu verhindern, dass die zerstörerische Waffe gegen die Vereinigten Staaten eingesetzt wird und Millionen Menschen tötet.

The only home Foulques has ever known has been razed by the Mamluks. Only by the grace of God does he and a handful of knights manage to escape to the island of Cyprus. Once there, Foulques learns that Najya has been taken captive by none other than Badru Hashim and is enroute to the slave markets of North Africa. Foulques immediately attempts to organize a rescue force but his uncle has seized control of the Order of Saint John and considers the risks too high. He is left with only two options: remain loyal to his uncle and the Order or forsake his oaths and strike out after Najya on his own.

Bloodline of Redemption is a high-stakes military thriller that weaves real-world naval operations, combat rescue missions, and mountaineering survival into a suspense-filled race against time. When a U.S. Navy aircrew vanishes under mysterious circumstances, former Aviation Rescue Swimmer and Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) operator Brody Hayes is pulled back into a world he thought he left behind. This time, the threat is personal—and decades in the making.

A good man's quest had gone horribly wrong, causing a war weary young nation to struggle to survive. In 1834 a doctor was searching for a way to cure his family and patients. He accidentally created a condition more terrible than the world has ever known. Two warring cultures must now band together to combat this new foe.

Sergeant Jo Barnes (Hilary Swank) and her elite, all-female US Army investigative team are renowned for cracking complex sex-crime cases within the military. Their latest mission takes them to the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin Army Base in California, to unravel the mysterious disappearance of Private Nichelle Simmons—a soldier who accused a comrade of assault. But when the accused is inexplicably set free, their case takes a sinister turn.

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.