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Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and raise chickens. Their lives are simple, straightforward, uncomplicated. Until the day a stranger arrives at their door with alarming news: Junior has been chosen to take an extraordinary journey, a journey across both time and distance, while Hen remains at home. Junior will be gone for years. But Hen won't be left alone.

A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the legendary and most important military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States and her allies confronted the USSR during the Cold War. As tensions between east and west rose during the Cold War, East Germany committed $millions to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s....

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmostphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello....

The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam a lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. However, the lieutenant of an outlaw band has other ideas and the castle becomes the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit and death.

Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold.

Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies whose relationship is daily more fractious; Pris and Haze, once an item, now estranged, and finally Hol - friend, mentor, former lover and the only one who seemed to care.

In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we've all become so disrespectful and intolerant. Using experiences from his career in politics and the media, he says it doesn't have to be this way and suggests how we can all emerge from tribalism and division and become more respectful to each other and those who govern us. It is a book that is optimistic about the fundamental decencies embedded in human nature and uses deeply personal anecdotes to explain why we can look forward in a positive way to a better life both in personal and material terms.

"Mastering Life and Golf 1 Hole at a time." - Sandi

Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right, she will need the help of the Culture....

Das Hörbuch zum Netflix-Film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" von Charlie Kaufman. Eine Frau fährt mit ihrem neuen Freund Jake durch die winterliche Weite Kanadas. Trotz ihrer besonderen Verbindung denkt sie darüber nach, die Sache zu beenden. Und während draußen die Dämmerung das einsame Land in Dunkelheit hüllt, werden drinnen im Wagen Gespräche und Atmosphäre immer unheimlicher: Weshalb hält die Erzählerin einen Stalker vor Jake geheim, der ihr seit längerem Angst macht? Warum gibt Jake nur bruchstückhaft etwas von sich preis?

Iain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers, and his numerous bestselling books include The Crow Road, Complicity and the ‘Culture’ sci-fi series. Collected here are three of his best works, as heard on BBC Radio.

«Загадка Рафаэля» – первый роман в серии восхитительных интеллектуальных детективов Йена Пирса о преступлениях в мире искусства, которые расследуют английский искусствовед Джонатан Аргайл, следователь Флавия ди Стефано и генерал Боттандо. Детективы Йена Пирса – это изысканное пиршество для души и мозга.

«Гибель и возрождение» – очередной роман в серии восхитительных интеллектуальных детективов Йена Пирса о преступлениях в мире искусства, которые расследуют английский искусствовед Джонатан Аргайл, следователь Флавия ди Стефано и генерал Боттандо. Детективы Йена Пирса – это изысканное пиршество для души и мозга.

Harryboy Boas is a gambling man. An independent Jewish bachelor, he lives in a Hackney boarding house: reading Zola, betting on the dogs at the track, womanising, philosophising, and repressing his tortured wartime past. Until, that is, a new family moves in. As his life dramatically unravels—financially, emotionally, and existentially—Harryboy descends into a murky criminal underworld where debts, violence, gangsters and revenge are the inevitable payback for those who can't pay up ...

A truck veers off an overpass and falls onto the interstate below, right into the middle of the morning commute. Many people lose their lives, and the city of Seattle reels from the disaster. When an elaborate mural that appears to glorify the event is discovered, it is seen as being in very poor taste. That's until it transpires it was painted two days before the crash. Was it a warning by some psychic or savant? Or the work of a psychopath who played a role in the tragedy, seeking to cause as much pain and disruption as possible?

In a world controlled by the Ministry, where all decisions follow the rigid King Wen sequence, society thrives on the illusion of order. Ai-Li, a brilliant programmer, discovers a mysterious fractal anomaly within the system—alive, adaptive, and challenging deterministic control. As the Ministry fights to maintain its grip, Ai-Li, with the help of strategist Jonas and conflicted ally Karis, must decide whether to embrace the fractals' potential for transformation or risk annihilation.

Un necunoscut pare s-o pândească de pe trotuarul de vizavi, din apartamentul de alături, care ar trebui să fie gol, se aud discuții aprinse, iar electricianul se comportă suspect. I se spune că soțul ei, mort de mult, a aranjat să fie dusă la un azil de lux. Ajunsă acolo, la reședința din mijlocul unei păduri, totul devine și mai straniu. Cât din ce se întâmplă este real și cât e rodul spaimelor unei bătrâne care a trăit zeci de ani singură?

Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the A­ffront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed.

The Iberian Peninsula, 1809. French troops led by one of Napoleon's best generals are amassing on the border. Wellington's outnumbered force and his unreliable Spanish allies need to pick off the smaller French units if they are to stand their ground. For that they need information: accurate intelligence on numbers, arms, and whereabouts. That's where Captain Keane and his company of reformed scouting officers are invaluable tools--despite being unpopular with the regular soldiers.

In Seeds, Iain Davie crafts a rare literary work that resonates with the concerns of our age. More than a novel, it is a contemplative journey into humanity’s relationship with the Earth and cosmos—intertwining scientific exploration, ecological urgency, and philosophical introspection.