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It is said that the Canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. Ada Bunting, a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados, arrives alone in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking work in the grand building project of the Canal. Francisco, a local fisherman, resents the foreign nations clamouring for a slice of his country, but nothing is more upsetting for him than his son Omar’s decision to work as a digger.

A multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: “a tour de force” from “the new master” (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene)...

Frühsommer 1986, Charleston County in South Carolina. Der 17-jährige Gale Lafayette bereitet sich auf den High School-Abschluss vor, hat jedoch noch nicht entschieden, auf welches College er gehen will und was er überhaupt studieren soll. Das ist aber nicht sein einziges Problem. Seine Familienverhältnisse sind kompliziert. Seine enge Freundschaft mit Nelson ist nicht gern gesehen, da die Rassentrennung in der rückständigen Gegend noch nachhallt.

In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism. But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long March, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Soon, powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith—and entrap him forever in the vast country's tortured destiny.

Rising star politician and lawyer Jude Birch is clearly keeping secrets about his past from his wife. Jude has been the bystander of a seemingly gang-related shooting, but as the secrets kept since law school unravel—with the help of a zealous news reporter and the Capitol Police—his wife realizes he might not have been an unintended victim after all. Meanwhile, she makes every effort to clamp down a past marked by abuse and lies, and even a false accusation that still haunts her.

En esta novela transitaremos por los caminos de la política y el tráfico de influencias, de los mercados financieros y las venas criminales que los alimentan. Entenderemos aquí que los hombres públicos arrastran y esconden pasados tortuosos, que los personeros del Estado y su aparato represivo obran en la sombra más en beneficio del lucro personal que de idearios nacionales. Y confirmaremos que buena parte de esos procesos se desarrollan más allá del escrutinio–tan relativo–que los medios y el ciudadano común realizan sobre la agitación de la vida pública.

Kalarekhalu is a sociology-autobiographical novel based on the Telangana struggle against the imperialist regime. The novel is unique in its picturization of the struggle of suppressed humanity.

Man is born of clay. Blends into the soil. Such is the inseparable attachment of clay to man. So the more money a man owes himself, the more he will fall on that clay.

Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees her, the...

Brought to you by Penguin. In one night, Nayan lost everything. Years later, his world is at risk again. Nayan has fought hard to move on, losing himself in his political work, trying to make a better world. A fresh challenge arrives with newcomer Megha, who threatens not just his career...

Jan Bagan is a Ukrainian YouTuber living in the small, rural town of Nide, which leans against the Russian border. Though he stocks shelves at the only local grocery store at night, his true love is all things combustible. Explosive experiments fuel his modest YouTube channel where his only goal is to make art in the sky. Without any sort of classical training, he uses his senses to recognize and mix the chemicals to reach a satisfying ending.

In CLEAVAGE Prime minister Eric Courteney, fresh from another scandal, realises he has his work cut out when the Labour offensive kicks off with the charismatic Vicky Tennyson and handsome Christian Eccles at the helm, both dead set on an end to Conservative rule. The desperate Tories resort to hiring maverick strategist Callum Gallagher to get them out of a fix. Gallagher's methods are unusual in the extreme and kept from his employers. As he and his data geeks travel deep into the data, sieving the red-hot web searches of the unsuspecting electorate, it becomes clear that sex sells.

England in 2045, a country where euthanasia is not just legal but compulsory. Severe economic depression in the wake of the Great Pandemic and Brexit, a collapse in the care system and inter-generational conflict had changed attitudes to death and old age. Ten years earlier, a right-wing Government supported by the shadowy League of Youth had won a majority in Parliament for the mandatory termination of life at the age of ninety.

Mitteleuropa wird von einer neuen Eiszeit heimgesucht. Die erbarmungslose Kälte bedroht das Leben aller - die Versorgung der Bevölkerung ist durch eine zerstörte Infrastruktur nicht mehr gewährleistet, Energiepreise sind unbezahlbar. Die Forschung nach den Ursachen läuft auf Hochtouren. Doch dann machen Geophysikerin Dr. Jana Hollmer, deren Partner Clemens Bach sowie der Reederei-Chef Titus van Dijk eine unglaubliche Entdeckung.

Der Krieg ist vorüber. Die Deutschen träumen von einer besseren Zukunft, als Berlin plötzlich durch Kontrollstellen geteilt wird. Nicht alle finden sich damit ab. Der Wunsch, gegen die Maßnahmen aufzubegehren, spaltet auch Augustas Familie. Gleichzeitig entfacht ein erbitterter Kampf der Geheimdienste. Es geht um einen Bunker, in dem geheime Pläne der Nazis für eine nukleare Superbombe lagern sollen. Offensichtlich war Oberst Wartenberg einer der Wenigen, die den Standort kannten. Doch Wartenberg ist tot.

Known as the "Wizard of the Kremlin," the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka "The Czar." After his resignation from this position, legends about him multiply, with no one able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, when he tells his story to the narrator of this book. He immerses us in the heart of the Russian state, where sycophants and oligarchs have been engaging in open warfare, and where Vadim, now the regime's main spin doctor, turns an entire country into an avant-garde political stage.

From the shattered empire, five kingdoms are emerging. Seleukos, triumphant in the capture of Babylon, now faces the challenge of holding onto his hard-won prize. One-eyed Antigonos and his son are newly reconciled and both hungry for revenge. But Antigonos has foes of his own. Driven by vengeance, widowed Artonis sides with Ptolemy, planning to thwart the one-eyed brute. The key to their success is Herakles, the sixteen-year-old illegitimate son of Alexander. To see him crowned, they will not only need an army but also to eliminate Kassandros, a powerful rival.

Brought to you by Penguin. All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics. But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie...

Though written in the 1930s, Anthem addresses controversial subjects in society that are still relevant today: equality, environment, sexism, mental health, the role of government. In revisiting this book and its many subjects, one keeps catching glimpses of understandings, and connections with our society today.

Eine junge Reporterin, die 70er Jahre und die Wahrheit zwischen den Zeilen. München, 1968: Die 21-jährige Alice ergattert ein Volontariat bei einem Münchner Lokalblatt. In der Redaktion lernt Alice das journalistische Schreiben von der Pike auf. Aber in einer Zeit, in der Sexismus Alltag ist, hat Alice es nicht leicht. Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als die junge Redakteurin und alleinerziehende Mutter an einen cholerischen Chef gerät, der seine Untergebenen drangsaliert. Doch je rauer das Arbeitsklima wird, umso mehr vertieft sich der Zusammenhalt unter den wenigen Frauen im Ressort.