Titres dans Politique

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK! A "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary" (USA Today) about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake...

When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone woman protesting who will drastically change her understanding of the People's Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement. A formative university course prompts Lulu to pursue a line of PHD research focused on the protest movement.

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. 

Politisch hoch brisant und menschlich herausfordernd: Kommissar Oppenheimer muss zwischen Ex-Nazis und Israelis vermitteln. Frühsommer 1952: Auf den westdeutschen Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer wird ein Briefbomben-Attentat verübt, das zum Glück vereitelt werden kann. Weil es Hinweise gibt, dass Adenauers Leben nach wie vor in Gefahr ist, schickt Ben-Gurion israelische Agenten nach Deutschland – das Abkommen soll um jeden Preis geschützt werden.

The war ended five years ago. At least, that's what the world believes. Garrick Solren fought at Bracken Ridge—the final battle that supposedly brought peace to the continent. Now he lives quietly in Eldoria, far from the battlefield. Until the records start to surface.

The characters in Robert Miner’s extraordinary debut novel all share America’s obsession with guns—and are willing to go to extremes to remake the world in their own flawed images. Thoughts and Prayers is a propulsive literary thriller by a former Army Soldier and West Point graduate that...

Luzia wächst in einer Gemeinschaft auf, die für ganz unterschiedliche Menschen eine Zuflucht bietet. Im »Haus« werden queere und platonische Formen von Liebe sowie geteilte Elternschaft gelebt. Später, als Erwachsene, kämpft Luzia als Theaterregisseurin gegen patriarchale Strukturen an und versucht, etwas zum Guten zu verändern. Ihre Jugendfreundin Marle verspürt mit Anfang vierzig einen starken Kinderwunsch und entscheidet sich für einen ungewöhnlichen Weg abseits von Beziehungen mit Männern.

Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests? Westminster has always run on spin. Now it runs on an AI. In a near-future Britain where algorithms guide government policy, Sarah Perriam is a journalist who no longer believes in the stories she writes. Once an investigative reporter who held power to account, she’s now a burnt-out tech correspondent stuck producing safe coverage about the very companies reshaping the world. Questioning them isn’t encouraged. So Sarah tries not to. Until a government AI quietly recommends demolishing a major housing estate.

Worth Sullivan is the celebrity pastor of the globally renowned Harvest Fields megachurch. Kirk Madison is an esteemed former US Army general and popular US senator. Both men came from humble beginnings in the Ozarks, but today are highly successful beacons of hope and leadership in a nation torn apart by political and social divisions. Then Kirk announces he's running for president.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What happens when freedom is just a brand—and democracy a memory? Authoritarianism by Design is a searing and timely historical fiction novel that exposes the engineered erosion of democracy in modern-day America. Through the lives of Black, Latino...

Der Untergeher – eine menschliche Komödie in vier Jahreszeiten London, Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2021, die Temperatur beträgt 16 Grad, es ist heiter, später gibt es Schauer. Als Campell Flynn, 52 Jahre alt und auf der Höhe seines Ruhms als öffentlicher Intellektueller, an diesem Tag aus dem...

When a simple surveillance operation in Iraq goes violently wrong, Marine-turned-covert-agent Jack Noble finds himself caught in a deadly web of betrayal, conspiracy, and cover-ups. Branded a fugitive and pursued by the very government he served, Jack must rely on his instincts, his partner Rile “Bear” Logan, and a whole lot of grit to survive.

Bloomsbury presents Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili, read by Luke Thompson. * AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 * ‘A spellbinding achievement’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Poignant and often painfully comic’ OBSERVER...

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.

Publicada en 1969, bajo la dictadura de Juan Carlos Onganía, Diario de la guerra del cerdo narra en clave semifantástica un enfrentamiento entre jóvenes y viejos en el barrio porteño de Palermo, suscitado por un inexplicable odio intergeneracional. De la noche a la mañana, unas pandillas de jóvenes violentos empiezan a atacar a ancianos y gente de edad, lo que trastoca la existencia del protagonista. Sus reacciones y la ambientación son realistas, pero el autor examina la cotidianidad a la luz de la fantasía y lo siniestro.

¿Qué ocurre tras cruzar la línea roja? Un thriller épico y estremecedor sobre la guerra sucia y sus consecuencias «Púa, soy yo. Me queda poco. Te necesito.» Con este mensaje inesperado, el pasado vuelve para sacudir la vida de un antiguo agente secreto cuando ya no tiene el escudo de su...

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful...

Brought to you by Penguin. ONLY SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. ONLY HE CAN TELL THE WORLD. VIENNA, 1946 A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life MOSCOW, 1964 A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems LONDON, THE PRESENT...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and … hope’ OCEAN VUONG ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR ‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one...