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One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.

From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

An enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American - Mildred Fish Harnack - and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine battle against Hitler in Nazi Berlin....

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....

Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Sua profissão é atear fogo nos livros. Em um mundo onde as pessoas vivem em função das telas e a literatura está ameaçada de extinção, os livros são objetos proibidos, e seus portadores são considerados criminosos....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills.

Before he was considered a CIA superagent, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world. And then tragedy struck....

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond....

After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, US Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice....

Navy SEAL Keith “Chunk” Redman has been one of the military’s top doorkickers since the day he pinned on his trident: loyal, single-minded, lethal. Tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs, Chunk can no longer simply rely on the status quo....

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians becomes increasingly clear....

In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come....

On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a deadly terrorist attack on the executive mansion....

Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism....

CIA operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield....

Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American president's term....

Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his last....

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action....

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands....

Mitch Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA fears that a terrorist cell is on the loose and about to descend upon America....

The action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program....

It's just seven days before Memorial Day, and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States....

There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It's "masterful...white-hot...devastating" (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to pause....

They train to be the toughest, the smartest, the most covert operators in the world—they are the Tier One Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant Commander Keith “Chunk” Redman.

#1 Amazon Political Fiction Bestseller The Very Last War plunges listeners into a gripping, relentless, and chillingly plausible tale of a near-future World War III. A pivotal election revives freedom and self-governance in America, sending shockwaves across the globe and rattling four rival powers—European socialists, Chinese communists, Islamic radicals, and avaricious Russian leaders. With dreams of world domination fading, they set aside differences and forge an alliance. Not to simply defeat America, but—with the help of a devastating new weapon—to erase it from the earth.

Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe’s Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On the eve of Mack’s reelection, their tenuous grip on power is threatened by a nationally known activist and politician, Gloria Hawkins, and her young aide, Layla Beck, none other than Mack’s estranged sister and Mitch’s former love.

Mick Morkan and Ike Sears represent Nguyet Finn and Cassandra Correa, Vietnam veterans and victims of the Iran-Contra Affair. Nguyet’s husband was killed, and Cass grievously injured flying supply missions to Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. They recover large verdicts against Harley Montaigne, an operative who ran the Contra operation. However, the jury lets the higher-up defendants off the hook—and Harley’s assets are limited to a sport fishing boat, woefully insufficient to cover the verdicts. Before Morkan and Sears can seize Harley’s boat, he tells them that the higher-ups had ...

Manipular no es un arte. Es un instinto. 🔒 Kira Bloom sabe que el poder no se grita, se susurra. 🕊 Kira ha dominado empresas, discursos y personas sin levantar la voz. ✉️ Pero esta vez, una carta. Un error. Un testigo. 🕵 Kira se enfrenta a un enemigo que ya no quiere ser invisible. Lo que parecía estar bajo control empieza a resquebrajarse. Y cuando una mujer como Kira huele la traición, no se defiende... se anticipa. 💄 Inteligente, letal y elegante. Esta historia es una partida de ajedrez emocional donde cada palabra es un arma, cada silencio un mensaje, y cada decisión....

The newly nameless narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is most likely brain damaged from a major tussle with their now ex-boyfriend, and is on a bender to end all benders. A call from their mother with the news that their MAGA-friendly, conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing launches the narrator from Chicago to deep red Arkansas in a stolen car.

A novel that works in the slippages of history, Sister Deborah at its core is a story of what happens when women—black women and girls—seek the truth by any means.

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There is always a dark shadow lurking everywhere, so was there in America. The liberals: Daunting, fearless, cruel and sadistic, ruled over the only power they could find in America; conservatives and any one who believes in the rule of law and God. Soon, the conservatives find the pain and the power of the liberals too overbearing. The closure of churches, bombings, theft of the economy and deficits weigh down the conservatives causing Texas to become the first state to secede. Soon, other states start fueling up their resentment towards the liberals who used them for their advantage.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland's coast are their only hope of survival. Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life—all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

A Jewish US president abandons Israel and emboldens Iran. As the Middle East becomes increasingly unstable, World War 3 seems inevitable. Only a Chueta computer genius, aided by ancient candlesticks, has a chance to prevent it.

But the most important situations we face as adults were never discussed with us when we were students. We weren't taught these skills in school, and this makes all the success stories we hear about seem out of reach; it makes us feel dumb. We aren't dumb, we just don't know how to work the system.

Originally banned in the Soviet Union, We is a prophetic and unsettling novel that envisions a future where the state dictates every aspect of life. Citizens live under total surveillance, are stripped of personal identity, and are assigned numbers instead of names. D-503, a loyal engineer of the One State, finds himself torn between duty and desire when he encounters the mysterious I-330, who introduces him to a world beyond the rigid laws of the system. Written in 1921, We is a stark warning about the dangers of collectivism, state-engineered conformity, and the erosion of free will.

Putin by Stu Armstrong is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, delivering a compelling narrative that explores the life and legacy of one of the world’s most controversial leaders. Meticulously researched and infused with dramatic storytelling, this audiobook takes listeners deep into the psyche of Vladimir Putin, from his early days as a KGB operative in Soviet-era East Germany to his rise as the unchallenged ruler of modern Russia.

Yejide träffade sin man på universitetet och de har varit gifta i fyra år. De har ett fint äktenskap, allt som egentligen saknas i deras liv är ett barn. Yejide ber om ett mirakel, hon träffar läkare, hon går motvilligt på en krävande ceremoniell pilgrimsfärd. Men inget händer.

Mayor Anthony Podesta, now Lieutenant Governor Podesta, and Jonathan Chalmers seem on a roll as Anthony with the assistance of his “SFPD Special Branch” achieves his comeuppance upon newly minted Governor Mario Pardini. Chalmers on the other hand has a new avocation collecting red zucchettos who The Holy Father Pope Callixtus IX grudgingly hawks to balance-out certain misappropriations at the Vatican Bank, not to mention the atonement for the countless lawsuits alleging ecclesiastic improprieties.