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Alex knows she risks getting fired from her law firm if she takes on another unpaid case, but when she hears Rosa's desperate voice at the other end of the phone, she knows she has to help: the body of Rosa's shy teenage sister, Natalia, has been dragged, lifeless, from the Thames. Alex can't help but think of her own missing little sister. She knows how a lack of answers can eat you alive.

AD 211: Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome, has invaded what is now Scotland, but Tullius, second-in-command of the legendary Sixth Victrix Legion, has more to worry about. Severus’s eldest son, a young Caracalla, is already testing the limits of his power as his monstrous nature begins to reveal itself. With his family under threat of death from him, Tullius must balance their safety with a sworn duty to his emperor and turn to the only people who can help – those north of Hadrian’s Wall – his enemies.

Irfan Mirza is the ultimate killing machine. Kidnapped as a child and forced to train to become an elite gun for hire at an orphanage, he is now a ruthless freelance mercenary. In a wealthy Middle Eastern kingdom, despotic King Nimir is determined to quash all dissidents calling for free elections. Billionaires, clerics, influencers, and journalists who dared challenge King Nimir’s regime have vanished without a trace. The most recent person Nimir has had “disappeared” is Renata Bardales, a trained fighter raised alongside Mirza—his sister, of sorts.

Die Welt ist in die drei Machtblöcke Ozeanien, Eurasien und Ostasien aufgeteilt, die sich, in ständig wechselnden Koalitionen, in dauerhaftem Krieg miteinander befinden. Die Handlung des Romans spielt in Ozeanien, das Nord- und Südamerika, die britischen Inseln, Australien und das südliche Afrika umfasst, wobei Winston Smith im „Landefeld 1“ (England) lebt. In dem diktatorisch und totalitär geführten Staat unterdrückt eine vom – nie wirklich sichtbaren – Großen Bruder.

Die Welt ist in die drei Machtblöcke Ozeanien, Eurasien und Ostasien aufgeteilt, die sich, in ständig wechselnden Koalitionen, in dauerhaftem Krieg miteinander befinden. Die Handlung des Romans spielt in Ozeanien, das Nord- und Südamerika, die britischen Inseln, Australien und das südliche Afrika umfasst, wobei Winston Smith im "Landefeld 1" (England) lebt. In dem diktatorisch und totalitär geführten Staat unterdrückt eine vom – nie wirklich sichtbaren – Großen Bruder.

Die Welt ist in die drei Machtblöcke Ozeanien, Eurasien und Ostasien aufgeteilt, die sich, in ständig wechselnden Koalitionen, in dauerhaftem Krieg miteinander befinden. Die Handlung des Romans spielt in Ozeanien, das Nord- und Südamerika, die britischen Inseln, Australien und das südliche Afrika umfasst, wobei Winston Smith im „Landefeld 1“ (England) lebt. In dem diktatorisch und totalitär geführten Staat unterdrückt eine vom – nie wirklich sichtbaren – Großen Bruder.

“Don’t give up! I’ll help you!” barks Rex, the hero of Władysław Reymont’s Revolt of the Animals (1924), “carried away with wrath and compassion” at the sight of his friend the old donkey with “his head covered in a hempen sack, being whipped by boys harrying him towards a pit of lime.” Who would not be roused to a righteous indignation at the sight of such wanton cruelty, inflicted upon a wise, sentient creature–for the perverse pleasure of man, that “crown and lord of all creation,” to whom dominion over this world was supposedly given by the Lord at the dawn of creation?

Sister. Pawn. Liar. Traitor. Her words sent two queens to the scaffold. Her secrets shaped a kingdom. But her true story was hidden. Until now. Philippa Gregory brings the Boleyn traitor out of the shadows in a groundbreaking tale of love, betrayal — and survival.

In 1982 Soviet-controlled Poland—a time and place of suspicion and mistrust—when geopolitical forces and violent men descend upon her little town of Zygmuntowo, Emilia must decide if she is willing to risk prison or worse for self-respect and for her unexpected love.

A Liu Zhenyun le llevó tres años escribir esta novela, la más grande y madura de su acervo literario. La primera parte describe el pasado: Moisés Wu salió de Yanjin para encontrar a la única persona con quien "podía hablar", su hijastra. La segunda parte narra el presente: Niu Aiguo, hijo de aquella querida hijastra, también emprendió un viaje desde Yanjin men busca de un amigo con quien hablar. Ambos salieron y tardaron cien años.

A quirk of fate has enabled the donation of a history-altering amount of cash to the ministry of a popular religious leader in a solidly Conservative state. Having interpreted the donation as a sign from above, the pastor has divined its purpose: to enable his state’s formal secession from the Union and to have their U.S. Senator appointed President of the newly created country.

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.

Por eso se va del hogar que supuestamente debe protegerla y entra en una casa okupada. Allí, al calor de compañeros que han buscado refugio de la ferocidad de los salarios precarios y del desalojo paulatino de los habitantes de los barrios por franquicias, hoteles y apartamentos turísticos, se entrega a la única vida que para ella tiene sentido: la de vivir en una comunidad de resistencia, en la que no se descarta la violencia.

On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement. She solves the mystery, but her viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers.

De padre tunecino y madre de origen argelino, Hubert Abraham Haddad, nacido en Túnez en 1947, siempre ha tenido presentes sus raíces judías y bereberes. Estandarte de la francofonía, ha escrito más de 15 novelas pero con Palestina, Premio Renaudot 2009 y Premio de los Cinco Continentes de la Francofonía 2008, alcanza al gran público.

It is a Tuesday evening in June when Ruth receives the phone call that all parents dread. Her daughter Daisy has been hit by a car during a deadly storm in Puerto Rico. How Ruth wishes she could tell Daisy she loves her. That she is sorry her own muddy feelings about Daisy's move to San Juan caused them to fight. What a waste of precious breath. Instinctively, it's her mother, Rafaela, Ruth wants to turn to. Rafaela whose own memories of growing up in Puerto Rico are becoming ever more vivid, as have her sudden flashes of forgetfulness.

En su despacho, Isabel San Martín se encuentra a dos días de las elecciones generales, en las que se presenta como candidata a la presidencia. Su brillante desempeño y trayectoria como ministra de Economía la posiciona como la favorita en las encuestas. Inspirándose en la malagueña Victoria Kent, abogada y política republicana española, Isabel quiere ganar para prestar real apoyo a la ciudadanía y a las mujeres. Pero tendrá que hacer frente a múltiples problemas en la cuenta atrás para el recuento de votos. ¿Realmente está el país preparado para recibir a una mujer al frente del gobierno?

Año 2112. Una alarma climática sin precedentes asola el planeta Tierra: bosques deforestados; especies extinguiéndose todos los días; una contaminación que roza ya lo irremediable. Zoe, una joven bióloga y activista ecológica para quien la lucha se ha convertido en su forma de vida, es seleccionada para formar parte de Cosnápolis, una ciudad secreta, aparentemente idílica y donde todos sus habitantes viven en armonía, que ha logrado preservar la flora y la fauna.

Cuando los malos se enfrentan a los malos no hay esperanza posible, siempre ganarán los corruptos, los que juegan sucio, los que lucran con el destino de un país. Cuando la noche cae sobre un pueblo, las sombras de la política son la peor pesadilla de un México que sigue dormido. ¿Hasta dónde es capaz un ser humano para conseguir y conservar el poder?

Dostoevsky’s narrator is the anonymous voice of the masterful novella. Retired and isolated from society, he is bitter, contemptuous, and contemplative as he presents his anecdotes and philosophical outlooks. Presented as an extract from the narrator’s memoirs, Notes from the Underground is divided into two parts. Opening with a monologue attacking Western philosophy, Dostoevsky follows this theoretical exploration with the anti-hero’s accounts of various destructive and restorative life experiences.