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In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People". His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian.

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تتناول قصة الكرنك لنجيب محفوظ الحديث عن فترة عاشتها جمهوريّة مصر العربية امتدَّت بين حربيْن هما حرب النكسة التي وقعت أحداثها في عام 1967م وحرب التحرير التي وقعت أحداثها في عام 1973م، وتحكي القصة عن الاستبداد الذي ساد الأجواء السياسيّة في فترة حكم الرئيس جمال عبد الناصر وعن فساد أجهزة الأمن والمخابرات المصرية، حيث تتناول قصة مجموعة شبَّان في الجامعة يتمُّ اعتقالهم دون أسباب واضحة ودون أي جريمة، إلا أنَّهم كانوا يلتقون في مقهى الكرنك الشهير.

El monarca de las sombras narra la búsqueda del rastro perdido de un muchacho casi anónimo que peleó por una causa injusta y murió en el lado equivocado de la historia. Se llamaba Manuel Mena y en 1936, al estallar la guerra civil, se incorporó al ejército de Franco; dos años después murió combatiendo en la batalla del Ebro, y durante décadas se convirtió en el héroe oficial de su familia. Era tío abuelo de Javier Cercas, quien siempre se negó a indagar en su historia, hasta que se sintió obligado a hacerlo.

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets...

Paris, 2022: Der Literaturprofessor François führt ein einsames Leben. Seine einzige Leidenschaft gilt dem dekadenten Schriftsteller Huysmans. Tiefergehende Beziehungen interessieren ihn ebenso wenig wie aktuelle politische Ereignisse. Doch als in Frankreich gewählt wird, gerät sein ruhiges Leben ins Wanken. Um den als wahrscheinlich geltenden Sieg des Front National zu verhindern, koalieren die bürgerlichen Parteien mit der Bruderschaft der Muslime: Neuer Präsident wird deren charismatisches Oberhaupt Mohammed Ben Abbes.

In a fractured world where memory is power and truth is negotiable, a fragile accord emerges—one that could redefine the future of narrative itself. As global institutions scramble to control the past, the Archive stands at the edge of diplomacy, myth, and resistance.

Il suo nome è Ottaviano Augusto. Il suo trono è Roma. Il suo esercito ha sete di vendetta. Giulio Cesare è stato appena ucciso, e subito si è scatenata una lotta feroce e sanguinosa per il potere assoluto. Ma sulla scena irrompe il giovanissimo Ottaviano, che Cesare, in modo del tutto imprevedibile, nel testamento ha indicato come erede. Ottaviano è solo un ragazzo, eppure è determinato a vendicare il padre adottivo.

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People “Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston Globe From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a...

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each 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.

On a lake deep in the Minnesota woods, Kathy Wade comforts her husband John, a rising political star, after a devastating electoral defeat in which he's been pursued by rumors of the atrocities he committed in Vietnam. But it is clear that something is horribly wrong between them - too much has been hidden. Then Kathy vanishes, along with their boat.

Venezia, 1755. Giacomo Casanova è tornato in città, e il precario equilibrio su cui si regge la Repubblica, ormai prossima alla decadenza, rischia di frantumarsi e degenerare nel caos. Lo scenario politico internazionale è in una fase transitoria di delicate alleanze e il disastroso esito della Seconda guerra di Morea ha svuotato le casse della Serenissima. Il doge Francesco Loredan versa in pessime condizioni di salute, e l'inquisitore Pietro Garzoni trama alle sue spalle per ottenere il consenso all'interno del Consiglio dei Dieci e influenzare così la successione al dogado.

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Salzburg, März 1913. Der Schausteller Otto Witte wird in eine Irrenanstalt eingewiesen, weil er steif und fest behauptet, König von Albanien gewesen zu sein. Der junge Doktorand Alois Schilchegger ist von diesem Mann fasziniert und nimmt sich seiner an. Ottos Version der Weltgeschichte beginnt im Oktober 1912 in Konstantinopel. Das Osmanische Reich droht auseinanderzubrechen. Albanien nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, erklärt sich unabhängig und sucht einen König. Otto und sein Kumpan, der Schwertschlucker Max Hoffmann, riskieren einen waghalsigen Coup: Albanien sucht einen König?

A trailblazing woman warrior. A manhunt for one of the world's most wanted terrorists. And the blurred lines between justice and vengeance. Virginia Mahoney has shattered barriers as the first female member of America's most elite special operations unit. But her greatest test lies ahead: a high-stakes mission to eliminate the brutal ISIS leader who tortured and murdered an innocent American aid worker. Lieutenant Jacob Roth knows the stakes couldn't be higher.

This tale of the near future becomes more relevant every day. Combining a travelogue through a changed society with flashbacks to a long, crazy war in Europe, Sounds of Soldiers looks at the fallout from nationalism and military fantasies gone wrong.

Considerado o livro mais influente nos Estados Unidos depois da Bíblia, segundo a Biblioteca do Congresso americano, A revolta de Atlas é um romance monumental. A história se passa numa época imprecisa, quando as forças políticas de esquerda estão no poder. Último baluarte do que ainda resta do capitalismo num mundo infestado de repúblicas populares, os Estados Unidos estão em decadência e sua economia caminha para o colapso.

Con este mensaje inesperado, el pasado vuelve para sacudir la vida de un antiguo agente secreto cuando ya no tiene el escudo de su organización. Participó en la guerra sucia del Estado, convencido de su causa: la defensa de una sociedad democrática y de las víctimas inocentes contra la violencia terrorista. Pero el tiempo ha pasado, no todo salió bien y la justificación es muy lejana, mientras que él ya no puede abandonar el lado oscuro. La críptica comunicación que acaba de recibir lo reclama de nuevo.

En la tranquila localidad de Colonia Vela, a principios de los años '70, se desata una feroz lucha entre peronistas de izquierda y peronistas de derecha, con imprevistas y trágicas consecuencias para todos los habitantes del pueblo.