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A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia...

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At nineteen, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather, and Sinno started a new life in Mexico.

Panama, 1991. A broke 21-year-old throws a Hail Mary: the shortest Army contract possible, fleeing divorce and fatherhood. He ends up as MP Investigator "Eagle 12" in the sticky heat post-Operation Just Cause. One brutal weekend in Coco Solo barracks changes everything. Dawn anxiety, party highs, stripper nights, and self-deception collide with harsh reality—a neglected daughter, money demands, inescapable regret. Raw and inspired by true events, Eagle 12 captures the choking isolation of military life: jungle humidity vs. weak AC, fragile hope against relentless duty.

A restrained family novel concerned with pride, class, and the slow unravelling of authority within a once-ordered household. As a marriage falters and relationships subtly realign, ordinary decisions begin to carry unintended consequences. Written with psychological precision, it observes how silence, misjudgment, and the refusal to look closely can quietly reshape a life.

England, 1787. Mary Wollstonecraft is an avowed spinster. At 28, she moves to London to live independently as a writer. With her publication of A Vindication for the Rights of Woman a few short years later, she emerges as a leading figure for women's equality. But when a humiliating faux pas threatens her reputation, Mary travels to Paris to write about the French Revolution, where she unexpectedly falls in love with American adventurer Gilbert Imlay.

Jewish refugee Felix Wolff believes he has found safety in England, but he is arrested and thrown into a British internment camp as a suspected Nazi spy. To clear his name and join the fight against Hitler, he must break free of a system that mistakes him for the very evil he fled. Fresh off his ruthless campaign in Poland, Sicherheitsdienst agent Karl Vogt is sent on a chilling mission: to devise a system for controlling the growing Jewish population within the Reich. His cold efficiency lays the groundwork for a coming horror the world has yet to comprehend.

A surreal and intimate novel about a disillusioned artist who, plagued by mysterious visions, must navigate a series of personal and existential crises that upend their way of life, by the award-winning author of Brown Girls. Fresh off the success of their first novel, a writer – intense...

In the shadows of London's Highgate Cemetery, Ngaroma stands before her great-great-grandfather's crypt, unknowingly about to unravel a tale that spans two centuries and two hemispheres. Victorian New Zealand sets the stage for an extraordinary story of two brothers bound by blood but divided by empire. Hōhepa, born to a British captain and a Māori mother, navigates a precarious path between two worlds during a time of mounting colonial tensions.

Una novel·la històrica d'alè èpic que ens transporta a un passat vibrant i desconegut Durant mil anys, un llibre sagrat ha passat de mà en mà. Des de la Tàrraco romana fins a la Barcelona de Jaume I, passant pel setge del Toledo visigòtic i la Còrdova dels Omeies, la Hagadà, un tresor...

Una obra literària impecable. Un testimoni impressionant. Un llibre que ha fet història. Seduïda a l'edat de catorze anys per Gabriel Matzneff, cèlebre escriptor de cinquanta, Vanessa Springora desgrana, tres dècades més tard, el control i la manipulació que aquell home va exercir sobre...

Als Elsie Lindtner, vierzigjährig, ins "gefährliche Alter" kommt, verlässt sie ihren Mann und zieht sich in ein eigens für sie gebautes Haus auf einer dänischen Ostseeinsel zurück. Ohne männliche Begleitung will sie "die Jahre des Übergangs" verbringen. Als sie endlich begreift, dass sie in Wahrheit vor der Leidenschaft für einen jüngeren Mann flüchtete, ist es zu spät. Er liebt sie nicht mehr. Und ihr Mann hat sich längst mit einer jüngeren Frau getröstet.

1969: Albert Speer, l'architetto star del regime, ministro dell'armamento e gerarca prediletto di Hitler, pubblica le sue memorie. Grazie a questa rivisitazione del suo passato (a partire dalle monumentali, megalomani messe in scena ideate per i congressi e le adunate naziste fino agli ultimi convulsi, terribili giorni della caduta del Reich) porta a compimento l'ultima delle sue metamorfosi.

Per Appanah una data, il 1º agosto 1872, segna il punto di partenza di un viaggio nel tempo alla ricerca delle radici. Per i suoi antenati quel giorno rappresenta invece un punto d'arrivo: sono appena approdati a Port Louis, capitale di Mauritius, dopo una traversata di molte settimane. Padre, madre e figlio undicenne hanno lasciato il loro villaggio dell'Andhra Pradesh, in India. Il padre è stato reclutato per coltivare i campi di canna da zucchero dell'Impero britannico.

Il 19 giugno 2022 Massimo Bochicchio - definito dalla stampa "il broker del vip" - si schianta con la sua BMW K75 contro un muro perimetrale dell'aeroporto dell'Urbe. Il corpo è carbonizzato al punto che per accertarne l'identità bisogna ricorrere all'esame genetico. Il giorno dopo, Bochicchio sarebbe dovuto comparire in tribunale per la terza udienza nel processo a suo carico. Le accuse: riciclaggio, abusiva attività finanziaria, truffa. A denunciarlo erano stati trentasette clienti, tra cui l'ex CT della Nazionale di calcio Antonio Conte e altri personaggi di spicco dello sport italiano.

I Brancata sono una delle tante famiglie di origine siciliana che in Tunisia hanno cercato l'America, e non sempre l'hanno trovata. In questa cornice cosmopolita, Maria - una bella trentottenne fiera e determinata - vede le sue tre figlie adolescenti diventare grandi. Tutto intorno, una città vivace in cui i nostri protagonisti si muovono in un tempo sospeso tra malinconia e incertezza: con l'indipendenza della Tunisia per molti si avvicina la stagione degli addii.

In 1941, Manila, Philippines was the hidden gem of the Far East and set to become an independent sovereignty in a few short years. On December 8, 1941, immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack 5,200 miles away in Honolulu, the Japanese Imperial Army bombed the city of Manila and began an occupation that would last more than three years and culminate in a battle for the capital city that would go down as one of the deadliest in World War II history.

Brought to you by Penguin. Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: ‘For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite’. The...

Juan Antonio Rascón llega a París en 1878 para ver unos cuadros de Goya que resultan ser las pinturas negras de la quinta madrileña del artista. Al examinarlas, vuelve a él la memoria de Rosario Weiss, de quien estuvo enamorado en su juventud. La joven creció junto a Goya y aprendió de él, pero por encima de todo, fue la hija que lo acompañó hasta sus últimos días; sin embargo, tras la muerte del pintor, quedó relegada durante décadas, borrada tanto por su condición de mujer como por la voluntad colectiva de conservar intacto el mito goyesco.

When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in sole charge of his strange young son, Danny. Danny isn't the kind of son he would have chosen, but, in caring for the boy, Johno finds new meaning and new direction. But what do you do when the world you've so carefully built comes crashing down? Can you ever escape your past?

Maggie's Mountain Song takes the reader on a journey through the Appalachian Mountain region near Boone North Carolina during the 1930's-1940's. The story is told through Maggie's Mountain dialect as she recalls her idyllic childhood ,and the highs, and lows of her life from her later years. Maggie takes the reader on a descriptive ramble over the farm she grew up on and the days of family togetherness, work, school, community, and human relationships and World War Two.