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Published in 1888 to immediate popularity, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The novel’s protagonist, aristocrat Julian West, falls into a deep, hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find a very different Boston from the one he knows. In Dr. Leete he finds a guide who explains the humane and efficient society in which he now finds himself - its transformation made possible by political and technological advances.

Underground espionage - uncovered! Dana Andrews stars as a fictionalized version of real-life intelligence operative Matt Cvetic. This average citizen joined the Communist Party…and reported back to the FBI about their activities. Here are 16 adventures of double-dealing and intrigue set against the home front atmosphere of the early Cold War. First broadcast in 1953, these recordings feature radio regulars Lawrence Dobkin, Sheldon Leonard, Gerald Mohr, William Conrad, Parley Baer, Bill Johnstone, Virginia Gregg, and more.

Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists. With Lenin, Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg among others, he battles to keep the party radical, while dodging the attentions of the czar’s secret police. He also finds himself drawn to a fiery Finnish activist, Elli Vuokko, beginning a relationship that is as dangerous as it is complicated.

It started with a murder. And an odd one. The victim was killed with a shotgun on a steamship, and his body was dumped overboard. In a cork life vest. With a note in code to the United States Marshal in Juneau. It’s 1910, and Alaska’s wealth is threatened when President Taft takes back all coal lands. Without coal, there will be no gold mining. Steve Levi has mixed fact with fiction for a wild ride in the North with anarchists, socialists, coal, gold, murder, and the opportunity for United States Marshal Gordon Whitford to turn the tables on a cabal of East Coast coal barons.

Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at their family estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative.

"Komm nach Pantopia. Hier sind alle willkommen!" Eigentlich wollten Patricia Jung und Henry Shevek nur eine autonome Trading-Software schreiben, die an der Börse überdurchschnittlich gut performt. Doch durch einen Fehler im Code entsteht die erste starke künstliche Intelligenz auf diesem Planeten - Einbug. Einbug begreift schnell, dass er, um zu überleben, nicht nur die Menschen besser kennenlernen, sondern auch die Welt verändern muss. Zusammen mit Patricia und Henry gründet er deshalb die Weltrepublik Pantopia.

Boy Genius is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of post-war Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government - before being banished to America. From a remote New York city ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war against all symbols of authority.

A writer takes residence in the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about where things went wrong with Clio, with whom he fell in love in Genoa and moved to Venice. He reconstructs a compelling story of love in times of mass tourism, about their trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre and their thrilling search for the last painting of Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of Grand Hotel Europe and gets more and more involved with the memorable characters who inhabit it, and who seem to come from a more elegant time.

La storia inizia nel 2010. Affiliati a cosche mafiose, soubrettes e faccendieri erano stati ammessi nelle istituzioni più alte dello stato. Accumulavano prestigio e denaro, tra sorrisi compiaciuti e pacche sulle spalle. La politica italiana non era mai stata così grossolana e rapace. La situazione era andata ben oltre il tollerabile. La narrazione parte da qui, e ci conduce attraverso le fasi di una metamorfosi sociale, in un dialogo continuo tra finzione e fatti realmente accaduti. Quali sono le leve che fanno scattare una rivoluzione nazionale? Cosa succederebbe se?

A fictional US President, Benjamin J. Leck, and his wife, Alexis, the vice president, dutifully serve the country they love. They enter politics after the young "Benny" successfully built a billion-dollar electric car corporation, and his wife "Lexi" managed a profitable communications business. "Let’s fix this” is their mantra. They choose to keep their true appearance from the public, wearing a disguise when in the community or on TV. Can a president so filled with integrity survive two full terms with powerful enemies who want nothing more than to maintain the "status quo"?

Megan Barnes' life is in free fall. After losing both her job as a reporter and her boyfriend in the same day, she retreats to Chicago and moves in with Helen, her overprotective mother. Before long, the two are clashing over everything, not to mention Helen's run for US Congress, which puts Megan's career on hold until after the election. Desperate to reboot her life, Megan gets her chance when an altercation at a campus rally brings her face-to-face with Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Jocelyn Jones, who offers her a job on her PR team.

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this novel set in a fictional city in the American South. Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.

Florentyna Kane on tehnyt mahdottomasta mahdollista - hänet on valittu Yhdysvaltojen ensimmäiseksi naispuoliseksi presidentiksi. Kaikki eivät kuitenkaan ole tyytyväisiä Kanen valintaan. He haluavat saada Kanen pois presidentin paikalta, hinnalla minä hyvänsä. Kun FBI joutuu iskun kohteeksi, erikoisagentti Mark Andrews selviää kuin ihmeen kaupalla. Pystyykö hän pelastamaan Florentyna Kanen hengen? "Kerrotaanko presidentille?" on Jeffrey Archerin huikean jännittävä romaani, joka jatkaa Kanen ja Abelin tarinaa.

En Hualacato, pueblito ficticio del noroeste argentino, los habitantes perdieron todas sus libertades. Nabu, un "percusionista" que se escuda en su obligación de cumplir órdenes, fue designado como el salvador de la familia Aballay, a quien estos deben aceptar de buen grado para evitar represalias. Cuando les prohíbe la comunicación entre los propios miembros de la familia, los Aballay se ven forzados a crear un código secreto de sonidos, señas y gestos para lograr sobrevivir a los castigos físicos y psicológicos.

In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo. Through his eyes, in a mixture of first- and third-person narration, we experience the razing of entire neighbourhoods, the apparently random dropping of barrel bombs, the bewildering variety of militias and government security forces loyal to Assad, the arbitrary cruelties and the complicated journeys that people have to make simply to cross the city. Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighbourhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks.

Crónicas desde el país de la gente más feliz de la Tierra es una divertida y amarga sátira política sobre la corrupción en forma de novela de misterio. En una Nigeria imaginaria, pero muy parecida a la real, un grupo de pícaros, predicadores, emprendedores y políticos se ve inmerso en una trama sobre tráfico de miembros humanos robados de un hospital.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

La escritora escocesa Ali Smith es una de las autoras más destacadas de los últimos años en el Reino Unido y su Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos e inspiradores de la literatura europea actual.

Dans la Famille sans nom (et sans liberté dans son destin), l’auteur Jules Verne nous entraîne dans ces familles qui ont vu leurs rêves d’autonomie politique brisés par la force coloniale britannique. Au Québec, référendums perdus, répression de la crise d’octobre 1970 allumée par le Front de Libération du Québec, les Patriotes de 1837: même combat, même déception. Un livre au cœur des colères du Québec.