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Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions, and the Knights Radiant and the nations of Roshar have a mere ten days to prepare for the worst. The fate of the entire world - and the Cosmere at large - hangs in the balance.

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.

Chicago, 1987. Home of mediocre baseball teams, gangs that rule the streets, and a Mexican drug cartel that supplies the city with heroin. Chicago Police Detective Marcelle DeSantis and her partner, Bernie Bernardelli, are working a series of heroin-related murders, and their job just got more complicated. The man who sabotaged the Vietnam operation, Robert Thornton, is now the chief enforcer for a Southeast Asian heroin cartel, and after fifteen years overseas he's arrived in Chicago to eliminate the reigning cartel and seize control of the city's heroin trade.

2014 год. Москва. После выполнения ряда сложных задач: поиска вербовщиков ИГИЛ* в Стамбуле, внедрение в так называемый российский батальон в Северном Курдистане, офицеру нелегальной разведки Петру Горюнову из соображений безопасности больше нельзя оставаться за границей. Он получает распоряжение Центра вернуться на Родину. Теперь его место службы – Управление по борьбе с терроризмом ФСБ. И первым заданием на новом месте становится расшифровка тетради с бесценными сведениями о террористах Исламского государства Ирака и Леванта, действующих на территории России.

Half-sister to Emperor Honorius, unmarried and powerless, twenty-year-old Galla Placidia watches from the shadows as imperial policies are made and unmade. Her plans to gain power and influence are halted when the city is besieged and captured by a vast army led by Alaric the Visigoth. Taken hostage, travelling out of Italy, Galla Placidia falls in love and marries a barbarian king. At a time when Rome's power is fast dwindling, its authority diminishing year upon year, she embarks on a dangerous and remarkable journey towards the imperial throne.

Everyone is gripped by Stephen Ronson!

Silent Gambit, the first book in the Sol Alliance saga, is a gripping tale set in a future where an enigmatic group, known only as the shadow faction, orchestrates a covert plan to overthrow the established military. Their goal is to secure the freedom and independence of their colony, but beneath the surface, there may be more sinister motives at play. As events unfold, the crew of the Alliance Cruiser Specter are pulled into a web of political intrigue, deception, and conflict.

Erleben Sie beinharte militärische Science-Fiction aus Deutschland! Tauchen Sie ein in eine packende Geschichte, die von einem alternativen Krieg erzählt. Autor Hermann Weinhauer, bekannt für seine nervenzerfetzenden Frontberichte, legt mit "Imperium Germanicum“ eine Alternativweltgeschichte der Extraklasse vor. Seine Serie vereint gekonnt die Genres Polit-Thriller und Kriegsroman, wenn Weinhauer die wohl spannendste aller Fragen beantwortet: Was wäre, wenn …?

Freuen Sie sich auf den 4. Band der brachialen Military Science-Fiction-Serie über einen anderen 2. Weltkrieg jetzt als rundum überarbeitete Neuausgabe! Nie war Alternativweltgeschichte aus Deutschland besser! Synopsis: Die Schlacht um die Normandie steuert ihrem Höhepunkt entgegen. Bereits nach einem Tag steht der Erfolg der Invasion auf der Kippe. Während die Alliierten weiter alle verfügbaren Kräfte einsetzen, um mit einer ungeahnten Übermacht an Menschen und Material die Küste der Normandie zu überschwemmen, hat die deutsche Wehrmacht gepanzerte Verbände zum Gegenstoß herangeführt.

In a US-occupied Iraq torn apart by war and sectarian violence, a group of westerners, Arabs and Iraqis share the experience of dealing with life-and-death challenges as they try to carve out a semblance of a normal life amid the chaos and lawlessness. With characters who may never meet under normal circumstances, the book brings them together in often tragic situations induced by their survival instincts, ambition, or hatred.

The War of 1812 is long over. The War of 2012 has just begun. IRONSIDES' PERIL is the new Zach Colt thriller from award-winning author Michael D. Urban. July 4, 2012. Boston is under attack. A trail of burning ships and downed jet aircraft litters the harbor. U.S.S. Constitution has been hijacked by a ruthless band of international terrorists. A former president of the United States, the current vice president, and the secretary of the Navy are onboard together with the ship’s crew and other hostages.

في هاتين القصتين، يرسم زفايغ بلغة الفن أثر الحرب حتى في من لم يشارك فيها، من خلال شخصيتين فريدتين، كلتاهما حبيسة عالم خاص بها وحدها.

When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an 'understanding' with the Nazis promising peace between the two nations. Growing up in the 'ghetto' of Newark, Philip Roth recounts his childhood caught in the stranglehold of this counterfactual nightmare. As America sinks into its own dark metamorphosis and Jewish families are torn apart, fear and uncertainty spread.

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.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Audiobook narrators Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin bring Hemingway's classic masterpiece "The Sun Also Rises" to life. Travel with them through pre-WWII Europe as Hemingway explores the dysfunctional relationship of friends drawn together by a beautiful, troubled, and often confused woman, plus the drama and excitement of the bullfights.

전쟁 중에는 심한 허기증에 시달린다. 일곱 살 수지는 두 살 터울의 동생 오목이(수인)에게 매번 음식을 빼앗기는 것을 참지 못하고 급기야 동생을 혼잡한 피난길에 버리고 만다. 수지는 전쟁 중에 부모를 잃었으나, 넉넉한 유산으로 오빠 수철과 함께 일가를 이뤄 여유롭게 살아간다. 남매는 이산가족이 된 막냇동생을 찾는 데 시간과 돈을 아낌없이 쏟는다.

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.

History offers few records of war as vivid, haunting, and evocative as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. As enthralling to twenty-first century audiences as it was to those who first encountered the book in 1928, Remarque’s landmark tells the story of a young German volunteer who, with his comrades, moves from idealism to fatalism witnessing the horrors of mass killing and the intimate deaths of friends or the disfiguring survival of young men languishing in field hospitals.