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This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is...

Still haunted by his former teammate’s betrayal and the unveiling of a conspiracy that runs deeper than he imagined, Foster Quinn is once more thrust back into the world he thought he left behind. In the sweltering heat off the coast of Key West, a mission to seize a billionaire’s yacht ends in a chilling revelation: America’s enemies aren’t just beyond our borders―they might be sitting in Congress.

John Blackthorne, in dienst van koningin Elizabeth I, lijdt na maanden zwerven schipbreuk voor de kust van Japan. Als gevangene van de machtige Toranaga wordt Blackthorne een pion en een onbewuste troef in een bloederige strijd om de macht. Door zijn relatie met de raadselachtige vertaalster Mariko past Blackthorne zich langzaam aan de vreemde Japanse cultuur aan. Terwijl een oorlog om de heerschappij over Japan dreigt, raakt Blackthorne verscheurd in zijn loyaliteit, en zijn leven onlosmakelijk verbonden met het land en zijn mensen.

Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.

Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

È la notte tra il 24 e il 25 luglio 1938 e sta per cominciare la battaglia dell'Ebro, la più sanguinosa mai combattuta in terra spagnola. L'XI Brigata Mista dell'esercito repubblicano attraversa il fiume per stabilire una testa di ponte a Castellets del Segre; nei pressi del paese, mezzo battaglione di fanteria, un tabor marocchino e una compagnia della Legione Straniera difendono la zona. Sono uomini e donne, in larga parte giovanissimi, che per fare i soldati hanno messo in pausa la vita.

Cinque attori, cinque voci ferraresi di oggi rileggono il celebre racconto di Bassani che narra di un eccidio emblematico della guerra civile italiana. Lucida lettura del Ventennio fascista e del conflitto interiore di una città, "Una notte del '43" tuttora ci parla, denunciando coloro che preferirono il conforto e la sicurezza del conformismo e della viltà. Quinto racconto della raccolta "Cinque storie ferraresi", ispirò il film "La lunga notte del '43" (1960) di Florestano Vancini.

Geary knows that some political factions in the Alliance were just trying to get rid of him when he was assigned to escort a diplomatic and scientific mission to the far reaches of humanity's expansion into the galaxy . . . and beyond. But he views his mission as both a duty and an opportunity to make things better wherever he can. And when a crippled Rift Federation ship tumbles out of jump space, Geary leaps into action. But the survivors' story isn't completely adding up. As Geary investigates, he finds himself fending off spies and assassins while leading the fleet across space.

Outnumbered by the superior forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous retreat across the enemy star system. Led by the legendary Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred-year suspended animation, the Alliance is desperately trying to return home with its captured prize: the key to the Syndic hypernet, and the key to victory… 

Tra i ghiacci della Siberia, i prigionieri lavorano senza sosta nei boschi a temperature polari: nello stomaco brodo di cavoli e pochi grammi di pane. Sola via d'uscita le automutilazioni che aprono le porte dell'ospedale; unico paradiso, qualche giorno di riposo e una coperta. Con una scrittura di straziante impersonalità che mette il lettore davanti ai nudi fatti, Gustaw Herling - intellettuale cosmopolita che ha vissuto sulla propria pelle lo scandalo del Male nella storia del Secolo breve - racconta il gulag in questo libro-testimonianza che è quasi un Bildungsroman.

Prince Vortimer has imprisoned his father, King Vortigern – The High King of Britain. With Woden's spear, Vortimer believes God has chosen him to lead an army south to banish the Jutes once and for all from Britain's shores. In a desperate fight for survival, Octa and the Jutish warlords, Hengist and Horsa, are trapped on Thanet, their island home, as Prince Vortimer's army surrounds them. With dwindling numbers, their only hope is to send for reinforcements, but winter is upon them, and the journey will be perilous.

In un inverno del XXI secolo, quattrocentocinquantamila abitanti di una moderna città europea scoprono che la guerra esiste anche fuori dalle serie di Netflix e assomiglia ancora a quelle del Medioevo. Una violenza inattesa e spietata taglia viveri, acqua, luce, riscaldamento, Internet, telefonini e, ovviamente, uccide. C’è chi scappa, chi resta, chi combatte e chi muore, ma tutti vengono cambiati, nel profondo e per sempre. È il romanzo vero di Mariupol, la città simbolo della resistenza ucraina, raccontato da chi l’ha vissuto.

Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend, Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds, both have good reason to stay out of Scotland, and both are still virgins despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue.

1915: l'Italia entra nella Grande Guerra. C'è la mobilitazione generale e Giuseppe, un contadino emiliano di quarant'anni, con moglie e tre figli, viene richiamato alle armi e spedito in trincea. Il giorno prima del suo arrivo, la sua compagnia si è resa colpevole di un “atto di codardia": i fanti, usciti per l'ennesimo assalto, hanno voltato le spalle al nemico e sono rientrati nei rifugi, approfittandodel fatto che gli austriaci hanno eliminato il plotone dei carabinieri incaricati di sparare su chi ripiegava.

Almeno un battaglione di carri lanciafiamme gira su se stesso come una mandria di cinghiali impazziti. Lunghe lingue ardenti di fiamme sbuffano dalle torrette e bruciano tutto ciò che incontrano. Dalla prigione GPU escono frotte di prigionieri in una nube rossa. È come se i russi avessero capito che stanno pensando alla fuga e volessero evitarla con un impenetrabile muro di fuoco, che si alza fino a dove arriva la vista. Sven Hassel fu reclutato in una compagnia di disciplina come soldato semplice dell’esercito tedesco.

'Ken Follett can't write a bad book, and Never is his best' – Stephen King Expertly researched and visionary in scale, international no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett’s Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a World War Three scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you...

In a transformed mid-19th-century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered academic from Maine, Professor Joshua Chamberlain, stands accused of crimes against the nation. In court alongside him is Abraham Lincoln, whose fiery rhetoric brands him a "threat to the security of the United States of America". Convicted, Chamberlain is sentenced to 40 years hard labor, while Lincoln's fate is indefinite detention at Fortress Monroe.

As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from other human factions seeking to harm or exploit the aliens. When another alien species whose technology is far more advanced than humanity’s arrives, the stakes are raised to the highest possible level.