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New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with another heart-pounding John Corey thriller—this time including Corey’s FBI agent wife Kate Mayfield… and their mission is to catch an elusive terrorist mastermind before he catches them. Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John...

'If a better Spanish novel than Homeland has appeared in the past 10 years, I’d like to hear about it . . . An uplifting tale, beautifully crafted and full of feeling.' Guardian Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain...

1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime lead by The Party. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy.

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

Brought to you by Penguin. Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it’s actually quite tricky... An electrifying, ultra-contemporary heist, a wild and hilarious story that is also dangerously prescient. When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian...

"Une journée d'Ivan Denissovitch", c'est celle du bagnard Ivan Denissovitch Choukhov, condamné à dix ans de camp de travail pour avoir été fait prisonnier au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le récit nous montre sa journée depuis le coup sur le rail suspendu dans la cour qui marque le lever, jusqu'au court répit du soir et au coucher, en passant par les longues procédures de comptage, la peur des fouilles, les bousculades au réfectoire, les travaux de maçonnerie par un froid terrible dans l'hiver kazakhe, les menues chances et malchances de la journée.

Tragicómica y melancólica, esta novela nos presenta un mundo plúmbeo y totalitario, dominado por fuerzas ciegas e impersonales. Un escenario humano desolador en el que la inteligencia es anulada por la fuerza bruta y la violencia, y en el que el caos arrastra irremediablemente a unos personajes que, entre el conformismo y la insignificancia, no aciertan a crear un orden nuevo menos cruel y menos gris. El estallido de violencia no alcanza siquiera el rango de revolución y la vida transcurre, en esta pequeña y anónima ciudad húngara, sumida en una atmósfera de terror y amarga ironía.

Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles’s remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing—vintage Bowles The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent...

It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue. Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. After some wayward years of bad men and bad decisions, she’s promised herself a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good. She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband’s colleagues at the Embassy.

Aus "Sankt Martin" wird das "Lichterfest". Das Zigeunerschnitzel mutiert zum Schnitzel mit Sauce einer ethnischen Minderheit auf Reisen. Und Flüchtlinge brauchen keine Miete zahlen und bekommen sogar noch Taschengeld. Was für eine Welt! Der Koch Ludger hat jedenfalls gründlich die Schnauze voll davon, rund um die Uhr zu arbeiten und trotzdem nicht über die Runden zu kommen. Kurzentschlossen springt Ludger von einer Brücke, um das Drama zu beenden. Mit doppeltem Kieferbruch wacht er allerdings im Krankenhaus wieder auf.

In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop...

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set...

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Robert Ludlum’s wayward hero, the outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins, returns with a diabolical scheme to right a very old wrong—and wreak vengeance on the [redacted] who drummed him out of the military. Discovering a long-buried 1878 treaty with an obscure Indian tribe, the Hawk, a.k.a...

Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power - Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction. Disturbing and forward thinking, Marge Piercy’s remarkable novel will speak to a new generation. Connie Ramos has been unjustly incarcerated in a mental institution with no hope of release. The authorities view her as a danger to herself and to others. Her family has given up on her. But Connie has a secret - a way to escape the confines of her cell. She can see the future.

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell brings life to one of the most spectacular naval battles in history with SHARPE’S TRAFALGAR. "The greatest writer of historical adventures today."...

Die Entscheidung ihres Lebens: Sie haben dreieinhalb Stunden Zeit, sie zu fällen. Der Interzonenzug D-151 München-Berlin fährt am 13. August 1961 von München durch Bayern Richtung innerdeutscher Grenze. In ihm sitzen viele Menschen auf dem Weg zurück in ihre Heimat DDR. Noch wissen sie nicht, dass dieser Tag ihre Zukunft unwiderruflich verändern wird. Dann macht das Gerücht die Runde, dass Ulbricht an diesem Tag die Grenze schließen will - für immer. Dreieinhalb Stunden bis zum Grenzübertritt.

Eine junge Frau sitzt in ihrer Wohnung und blickt auf die kleinen Dramen, die sich in ihrer Nachbarschaft abspielen. Nur ihr eigenes Leben steht still. Nachdem der Bürgerkrieg in ihrer syrischen Heimat ausbrach, ist die Journalistin dem Versprechen von Sicherheit gefolgt und nach Europa geflüchtet. Betäubt von den Kriegstraumata verstummt sie. Aber sie beginnt, zu schreiben - über ihr Zuhause, die Flucht und die Einsamkeit im britischen Exil.

A rip-roaring original prequel novel based on Showtime's Award-winning hit series Homeland Damascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to capture or kill al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound where he was supposed to be in hiding, her team finds it empty...

Dass alte Gewissheiten schwinden, dass die Welt sich schneller ändert, als er es für möglich gehalten hätte, wird Misslinger ausgerechnet in den USA klar, dem Ort, der für ihn immer noch für Freiheit und eine bessere Zukunft steht. Hier verschwimmen die Grenzen von Traum und Wirklichkeit, und Misslinger realisiert, dass ihm sein Leben längst entglitten ist... In seinem grandiosen literarischen Debüt erzählt Jakob Augstein eindringlich von einem Mann unserer Zeit, deren Konturen zwischen politischen Umbrüchen, neuen Ideen und alten Bedrohungen immer schwerer auszumachen sind.