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Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.

Sin by Zakhar Prilepin is a novel-in-stories about Zakharka, a young Russian navigating love, family, and mortality against the backdrop of post-perestroika Russia. Through fragmented episodes of his life, Zakharka’s journey reflects on the power of human resilience amid hardship. Zakhar Prilepin’s Sin captures the essence of a turbulent era in post-perestroika Russia, as experienced through the eyes of Zakharka, a young man whose life unfolds in a series of vignettes.

The unexpected death of a senior officer sets US Navy pilot Jake Covey in charge of McMurdo Station, the remote American base in Antarctica. As they prepare for the cold and darkness during months of winter-over isolation, a young Russian scientist, Oksana Zverev, schemes to get to McMurdo and the former Soviet outpost of Vostok Station.

Tras perderse en el mar, el inglés John Blackthorne despierta en un lugar que pocos europeos conocen y menos aún han visto: Japón. Inmerso en la hermética sociedad nipona del siglo XVII, una tierra en la que la línea que separa la vida de la muerte es muy fina, Blackthorne debe enfrentarse no sólo a un pueblo extranjero, con costumbres e idioma desconocidos, sino también a sus propias definiciones de moralidad, verdad y libertad.

The exciting conclusion to the story of the Curran siblings, their family, and their friends. Recommended to fans of witchcraft, epic fantasy, or something a little different. No Artificial Intelligence technologies were utilized in the creating of this work.

When a member of The 83 dies in an apparent accident, Kaine knows better. A faceless leader of a drug gang rules the dead man's neighborhood and Kaine and his partner, Lara Orchard, go undercover to discover the truth. Offering financial support to the dead man's grandson, they draw the attention of the local crew. Before they can complete their mission, Lara is attacked, and all bets are off.

Fesselnde Landser-Geschichten in Romanheft-Länge Der vorliegende Band "Im Bomberstrom” erzählt vom Kampf einer deutschen Jagdstaffel gegen alliierte Bomber während der Schlussphase des Krieges. Erleben Sie die dramatischen Stunden aus der Perspektive verschiedener Flugzeugführer, als sich eine Staffel Me 109 todesmutig auf die gigantischen Bomber vom Typ "B-17 Flying Fortress“ stürzt. Ein fürchterlicher Kampf entbrennt am Himmel über Deutschland. Bald rauschen die ersten getroffenen Flugzeuge als brennende Fackeln dem Erdboden entgegen.

Skwerl and Cheese are down on their luck. Skwerl, who is resourceful like a squirrel (Marines win battles not spelling bees), used to work for Ground Branch, the CIA’s elite paramilitary wing. He was fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz, a legendary pilot—his country’s Maverick—is equally hard up. The fall of Kabul has left him grounded, working the nightshift at a gas station. Skwerl recruits Cheese into an anonymous network of so-called sheepdogs, a band of Robin Hoods who operate in the shadowy space between the sheep and the wolves.

Colonel Lewis Cayce and his forces were a group of American soldiers bound to fight in the Mexican-American War—until they were stranded in a strange new world inhabited by strange monsters, new friends, and deadly foes. Now Cayce has brought his army of displaced Americans and their indigenous allies into the heart of the loathsome, blood-drenched Dominion’s stronghold.

The Second Punic War made gamblers of the Mediterranean world. Declare for Carthage or declare for Rome? The odds are 50/50 for life or death.

Welcome to the spring of 258 BC. The expanding war with the Qart Hadasht Empire is changing the Republic's military supply structure. Supplying scattered Legions and far-flung naval squadrons is overextending the provincial quartermaster system. Growing awkwardly to handle the needs, the military organizations are evolving, slowly. Now evil men have found a way to profit from the disorganization.

"جريت وجريت وجريت، كأن قدميّ مربوطتان على عجلة، وكان خوفي يسبقني، قلبي يرتجف، يداي ترتعشان، حلقي جاف شفتاي متيبستان، والعرق ينز من جسدي كحشود من النمل، لا رجوع، لا للتراجع، ليس سوى الاندفاع للأمام. في أثناء قطعي تلك المسافات الشاسعة أدركت أن الركض هو خياري الوحيد، لقد قلّبت الأمر في عقلي، فكرت كثيرًا فكرت مرارًا، فكرت بخوف، لكن أيضًا فكرت في الاعتراف، فكرت بأني سأكون ابنًا بارًا بأمي، لقد نهشت الحياة ما يكفي منها، أحيانًا علينا أن نمنح الحياة بسلب حياةٍ أخرى، الحياة أخذُ وعطاء، ربما يولد كائن ليموت آخر، إننا نتأرجح في ميزان الحياة والموت".

Italy, 1940. With Florence on the cusp of war, Il Scorpione, the no-nonsense Englishwomen of the city, find their genteel livelihoods under grave threat by the approach of the Nazis. Tea rooms and bookshops are closed by the Fascists, and the women are forced to join the war effort. Desperate to help in any way that she can, Angelina Leone, expert art-historian and the half-Italian niece of Il Scoprione’s founder makes a deal with the devil.

When the Russians invade Lithuania, Zofia and her brother Jacek fear for their lives. As a journalist, Jacek is targeted by the new communist regime, which despises intellectuals and condemns them to hard labor in the gulags, where few survive. Hearing rumors that the Japanese consul Sugihara might offer them exit visas, Zofia knows she must seize this chance for freedom. In return, Sugihara asks them to deliver a parcel to Tokyo—an innocuous request, until they discover it contains intelligence about Nazi atrocities that the Nazis are desperate to retrieve.

Diesen Mann unterschätzen Kriminelle nur ein Mal – der neue Fall für Jack Reacher. Am Busbahnhof von Gerrardsville, Colorado, beobachtet der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher, wie eine Frau vor einen fahrenden Bus gestoßen wird. Es gelingt ihm nicht, den Täter dingfest zu machen. Doch er gerät so ins Visier skrupelloser Verbrecher, die jeden Zeugen eliminieren wollen. Nichts darf ihre Operation gefährden. Allerdings haben sie nicht mit einem Mann wie Reacher gerechnet. Als der bedroht wird, geht er sofort zum Gegenangriff über.

رواية تعيد بأحداثها إيقاع الحرب اللبنانية الحزين، وتعطي القارئ الفرصة لتصور المعاناة التي عاشها اللبنانيون الذين لجؤوا إلى أساليب شتى للتعايش مع واقعهم المأساوي. وبطل الرواية واحد من هؤلاء المعذبين الذين عاشوا الحرب بمراحلها وبعذاباتها، فراغ، دمار، يأس، وذلك كله لم يلغ كونه إنساناً يعيش إنسانيته بتدفق عواطفها وبمشاعرها. يتداخل الواقع في ثنايا الأحداث بالحلم والحب والحياة وأحداث ومواقف ورواية تتسرب بأسلوبها ودونما استئذان إلى المشاعر، تتعامل معها النفس، ويمضي الذهن بشغف متابعاً التفاصيل دون ملل، رواية جديرة بالاهتمام على صعيد العطاء الأدبي، فكان لها أن حازت على جائزة نجيب محفوظ.

Like clockwork, twenty years after the final evacuation shuttle left Earth, the last US Earth Orbital Watcher Station received a distress signal from what those living on the US Arc Space Station are being told is a long since abandoned, lifeless world. The current tour’s Monitor Unit is blown away by the signal, only for the EOWS’ veteran monitor, Captain Marcus Howl, to dismiss its notification as nothing more than a “ghost signal.”

Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce is a haunting tale of a young boy who, lost in the woods, unknowingly steps into the aftermath of a brutal battle. Armed only with a wooden sword and his imagination, he finds himself surrounded by wounded soldiers. As innocence collides with the horrors of war, the boy's adventure turns into a chilling discovery that will change everything.

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.

Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.