Titoli in Politica

In a luckier universe, in which the Kennedys were not assassinated and the Vietnam War ended before it began, we find President Richard Nixon and Dr. Timothy Leary, the escaped convict Nixon calls “the most dangerous man in the world” for turning America’s youth into no-good hippies. Nixon is the same profane, venal S-O-B that made him such a hit in our universe, but here he is unleashed in a world where there was no Vietnam war to slow him down and Watergate is just a fancy hotel.

From the baseball playgrounds of Little League in the conservative fifties, through the Summer of Love and the radical sixties, to the last days of the Vietnam War, Luck of the Draw is the story of four idealistic boomers coming of age while looking for love and trying to change the world.

Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree. Thirty years later, Verity sets out to uncover the truth about her past and to confront those who brutalized and betrayed her. As secrets are exposed, she learns that in order to truly heal she must embrace the path of forgiveness.

October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his nefarious plan. But when Borgia asks Machiavelli to write his life story, their bond gains complexity and nuance: ultimately, they both aspire to everlasting fame and to achieve it, they need each other, for the one's sword can only rule in eternity via the pen of the other.

Pushing Lucy Remington's buttons is my favorite pastime and has been since we were kids. Watching as her brilliant blue eyes darken in anger when I mockingly call her Princess—even though she is one—fills me with immense satisfaction. She's the last woman on Earth I would want to take as my wife, yet that's exactly what her grandfather—my King—asks of me.

Bestselling and beloved author Terry Fallis' tenth novel, The Marionette, introduces readers to a new hero, James Norval: a world-famous thriller writer whose life takes an unexpected turn from the pages of his novels into the perilous world of espionage. James Norval has built a successful...

Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic.

Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army that is trying to overthrow the democratically elected government, and he is reunited with his true love, Maria. But all too soon, his joy turns to terror as the Anarchists turn on him, led by a rival for Maria’s affection. Lucky to escape with his life, Theo returns to England to study at Oxford. But his heart is in Spain, now torn apart by a bloody civil war, and he is quick to abandon his new life when his old schoolmate Esmond offers him the chance to fight the Fascists.

The acclaimed author of Red Clocks returns with a biting, lyrical novel about an intergenerational group home run by an ex-musician determined to make a place for those without one On a bluff above a river rises The House, where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who help...

When Harry Jones discovers that former friend Zac Kravitz's life is in danger, a debt of honour sends him on a perilous rescue mission to Ta'argistan, a mountainous and landlocked former Soviet republic bordering Russia, China, and Afghanistan.

Un joven periodista poblano llega a la Ciudad de México para encontrar su oportunidad. Tras cubrir el fraude electoral de 1988 y ser testigo de los tejemanejes entre los medios y el gobierno, descubre que debe dejar los escrúpulos a un lado si quiere progresar en la escena del periodismo nacional. Su insaciable ambición lo lleva años después a La Televisora, el medio de comunicación más importante del país. El ascenso es meteórico: en pocos años, de reportero a anfitrión del noticiero matutino más popular de la televisión...

La cabaña del tío Tom es una novela de la escritora estadounidense Harriet Beecher Stowe. Narra principalmente la historia del tío Tom, esclavo que trabaja hace años en la propiedad de los Shelby, donde vive junto con su familia, y es vendido a un traficante de esclavos. A la par de las peripecias de Tom, que después de ser vendido cae en manos de diferentes esclavistas violentos, se narra la historia de Eliza, que escapa de la propiedad de los Shelby después de que su pequeño hijo Harry también fuera vendido, como Tom; y también la de otros personajes.

It’s 1925. Hitler has published Mein Kampf and Mussolini has shut down the free press in Italy. Three friends meet on a Scottish estate for a weekend of salmon fishing and convivial conversation over brandy and cigars: Winston Churchill, future world leader; "Bendor", 2nd Duke of Westminster; and Coco Chanel, iconic fashion entrepreneur. The narrative develops into a visceral account interspersed with sharp and insightful humor, revealing two men whose deep friendship is divided by their profound political differences, as each of them tries to navigate an uncertain world.

El audiolibro Abdala constituye una opción sumamente novedosa ya que el oyente, podrá disfrutar de este poema dramático, desde una perspectiva cargada de dinamismo y frescura. Confiamos en que la obra que marcó el inicio de las ideas patrióticas de José Martí, sea muy bien acogida en su nuevo formato; elegido, en gran medida, para estimular el caudal imaginativo de sus consumidores. Lo invitamos a sumergirse en un bellísimo texto de amor juvenil a la patria, sin importar el sitio en que se encuentre ni las actividades que lo ocupen.

Un tipo solitario y antisocial se ve obligado a suplantar la identidad del líder del partido político de la oposición. Desde entonces vivirá toda una serie de aventuras para acabar con el régimen totalitario del país latinoamericano de Miranda. Desaforado, desquiciado, hilarante, el narrador usa sus palabras para cuestionar, ridiculizar y destruir la realidad (y para reconstruirla de nuevo, desde cero, como nueva). Tres ataúdes blancos se presta a múltiples interpretaciones. Es al mismo tiempo una crítica feroz de la política en América Latina.

"La sombra azul" es una investigación sobre el llamado D2, el Departamento de Informaciones de la Policía de Córdoba, que durante la última dictadura militar argentina estuviera a cargo de uno de los peores centros clandestinos de detención.

En Colombia hemos tenido demasiados conflictos que se habrían podido resolver pero que terminaron en una guerra, demasiados proyectos que se habrían podido llevar a cabo pero que acabaron extraviados en las disputas entre facciones, demasiados consensos que se rompieron por rencores, demasiadas leyes que se enredaron en las contiendas, demasiados buenos propósitos que se malograron en los odios, en síntesis, demasiadas buenas ideas estropeadas por malas emociones.

Travin es un joven judío apasionado de la política comunista y admirador de la Unión Soviética. Junto a su madre y su hermana, viajan a Córdoba, Argentina, para pasar el verano. Ahí, con un país dividido por las fuerzas armadas, Travin queda fascinado con la presencia de un grupo social totalmente diferente al suyo. Bajo una identidad falsa, la vida de Travin se desdoblará.

Displaced by the sectarian violence in the city, Maha and her husband are taken in by a distant cousin, Youssef. As the growing turmoil around them seeps into their household, a rare argument breaks out between the elderly Youssef and his young guest. Born into sanctions and war, Maha knows nothing of Iraq’s good years that Youssef holds dear. Set over a single day, The Baghdad Eucharist is an intimate story of love, memory, and anguish in one Christian family.

Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc­ribed “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time.