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A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man.The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who...

At an international medical conference in Prague, Dr. Fiona Devin—an American scientist attached to the Department of Defense—is contacted by one of her Russian colleagues. Dr. Valentin Petrenko, a specialist in rare diseases, is concerned about a small cluster of deaths in Moscow but even more concerned by the Russian government's refusal to publicly release any information or data on the outbreak. When he meets with Devin to pass on his case notes and samples, the two are attacked, Petrenko is killed while Devin barely escapes with the notes and medical samples. C

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap "Riveting . . . The most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In The Bin Ladens, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll continues...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”—so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from show-stopping performer, model, singer, and beloved star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika Jayne...

An exposé of the “World’s Most Dangerous Website” from a former WikiLeaks insider The basis for the movie The Fifth Estate (starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange), this eye-opening account by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed...

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome. On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research...

A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up...

The marshal’s name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he’s buried a few men in this two-bit cow town—every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantey was faced with the roughest...

Retired Delta Force officer Brad Taylor’s thrilling new short story takes us back to before the Taskforce was created, revealing the origins of Israeli agents Aaron and Shoshana as they are tasked with eliminating a former Nazi officer hiding in plain sight. 1998. A year after a disastrous...

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to...

Enter The Audacity to Win Book Club Discussion Contest Watch David Plouffe discuss The Audacity to Win on "Meet the Press" David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself...

At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government's refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed. His notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life.

Zwei einsame Menschen, die durch Gespräche zueinander finden: Diese einfühlsame Liebesgeschichte beginnt mit einer Straßenbahnfahrt in Wien, wo die 54-jährige Pragerin Nelly Tomasová, die das erste Mal die Geburtsstadt ihrer Mutter, besucht, den 60-jährigen pensionierten Dramaturgen des Wiener Burgtheaters, Rudolf Smelik, fragt, ob dies schon die Endstation sei. Aus diesem zufälligen Treffen entwickelt sich eine tiefe Verbundenheit, die die beiden Fremden schon bald zu Vertrauten werden lässt.

Zwölf historische Miniaturen über bemerkenswerte Geschehnisse und Augenblicke aus der Geschichte der Menschheit. Im ersten Teil Flucht in die Unsterblichkeit geht es um die Entdeckung des pazifischen Ozeans 1513 durch den Abenteurer und Desperado Nunez de Balboa, der dem Galgen der spanischen Krone zu entkommen sucht, indem er das Goldland der Inkas in Peru und den Zugang zum pazifischen Meer sucht. Er wird als dessen erster europäischer Entdecker unsterblich für die westliche Welt. Stefan Zweig erzählt die Absurditäten und Widrigkeiten dieser Flucht in die Unsterblichkeit.

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp! Das Überraschungs-Picknick. Lea und Luis planen ein Überraschungs-Picknick für Petronella.

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp! Der Oberhexenbesen.

Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to...

From New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history. Pioneering psychologist William...

Samuel Mendes e Caroline Strelo são duas estrelas da música em ascensão. Ela, parte de uma girl band cuja fama é proporcional aos problemas entre as cantoras; ele, um recém-descoberto queridinho cada vez mais assediado pelas fãs e pela ansiedade. Nos bastidores de uma turnê que vai...