Political

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism....

Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....

Rome, 77 B.B. The corrupt Senator Dolabella is about to go on trial for his crimes. But Dolabella owns the jury. He’s hired the best lawyers in the city. And he’s very willing to use violence against those who oppose him....

From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration....

An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography....

The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment....

In the early 1980s, long before he was President or head of the CIA, even before a submarine named Red October crossed the Atlantic...

Teasing, provocative, and very funny, Mohammed Hanif's debut novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries and out if it spins a tale as rich and colourful as a beggar's dream....

The moving story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980....

Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned, and now living in exile....

In a single day, a journey across Buenos Aires reveals a daughter to her mother, a mother to herself, and the oppressive weight of received ideas to women connected by a fleeting encounter, twenty years before....

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels....

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery....

Talentul lui Duțescu e de a da pe față lucrurile inconfortabile, de a le spune clar și pe bune. Într-o literatură fascinată de marginali și ratați, el vorbește cu simpatie despre oameni aflați în plin proces de ascensiune socială. Pe scurt, despre parveniți....

On a frozen winter morning in 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him....

A compelling dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's Booker Prize-nominated novel about India's underclass....

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them....

Genom svensk historia löper en röd tråd av tvivelaktiga vapenaffärer med utlandet. Från Boforsaffärerna på 80-talet till 2000-talets...

The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation....

In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism....

“Alltså när jag säger att det inte ska vara musik som visas på MTV eller ZTV, så menar jag att det inte ska vara modern musik....

Kalarekhalu is a sociology-autobiographical novel based on the Telangana struggle against the imperialist regime. The novel is unique in its picturization of the struggle of suppressed humanity....

När Adam Vikman tackar ja till det attraktiva jobberbjudandet anar han inte vilken ödesdiger händelsekedja han och hans familj dras...

This little booklet was penned at the end of the 19th century, and ostensibly involves events mere years later. A work of political satire, it chastises the rise of socialism and populism, inferring their fictional rise here as disastrous and leading to chaos....

Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage, and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to follow Israeli paratroopers to secure Mitla Pass....

The year is 2038, America’s new President won with a simple, snappy campaign slogan: Kill the Rich. Now in office, his administration kicks off with a televised public hanging of Kim Kardashian, whose lip kits have poisoned a working-class city.

In her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper Deidre with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s? Is it true that he was building bombs as part of a terrorist plot?

Was wäre, wenn alle Frauen sich verweigern und in einen Care-Streik treten würden? Ein großer feministischer Gesellschaftsroman über Widerspruchsgeist und Solidarität. Elin ist Anfang zwanzig und lebt mit ihrer Mutter in einem Wellnesshotel. Während des Lockdowns ist sie Influencerin geworden. Seither sieht sie sich mit misogynem Hass im Netz konfrontiert. Nuri stammt aus prekären Verhältnissen, einen Schulabschluss hat er nicht. Nun versucht er, sich als Fahrradkurier, Bettenschubser und Essenslieferant über Wasser zu halten. Der Spätkapitalismus hat ihn fest im Griff.

Тысяча семьсот седьмой год только начался. Русские войска бьются со шведами, убивают, гибнут, защищая Отечество. В Русском царстве неспокойно, а порой и страшно: постоянные бунты на окраинах огромного государства, набеги крымских татар чуть ли не каждой весной. Молодой, лишенный отцовского внимания и заботы царевич Алексей находится под опекой светлейшего князя Меншикова, столь же деятельного, как государь, и при этом почти не обращающего внимания на сына своего господина. Так случилось, что очередной поход в баню закончился для царевича странной потерей сознания, после чего очнулся он не таким, каким был еще несколько дней назад.

May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes. The second? Milo Manghasa, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan. Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed.

Vera Stark ha quarantacinque anni, una figlia di venticinque, un ex marito che la tormenta ma ha ritrovato l’amore con Alex, un docente di dottrine politiche all’università. Ma Vera è soprattutto una giornalista di razza e ha da poco cominciato un’inchiesta sulla crescita del neonazismo in Germania e, in modo particolare, sul gruppo “31 Aprile”, che vuole riprendere il progetto nazista là dove il Führer lo ha lasciato. Grazie alle sue ricerche e all’aiuto di due anziani antinazisti capisce ben presto che l’orrore non è alle spalle e che qualcosa di strano accade a Villa Redenzione, una casa di cura che nascondeva un tempo un lager.

Having been made High Commissioner in Nairobi, Ed Barnes is keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. But when his daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped following a security crisis for which he is blamed, his attempts at normality fall apart once again. He finds himself at the heart of a complex negotiation with a dangerous Somali terrorist group, in an effort to avert a regional security crisis and free his daughter.

Die junge Theresa arbeitet 1943 als Sekretärin im Lebensborn-Heim "Pommern" in Bad Polzin. Eines Tages kommt mit einem Transport polnischer Kinder, die eingedeutscht werden sollen, ein Junge ins Heim, der stumm zu sein scheint. Theresa nimmt sich des Dreijährigen an und animiert ihn zum Sprechen, weil sie nicht will, dass er als "beschädigte Ware" aussortiert wird. Denn die SS, deren oberster Führer Heinrich Himmler den Lebensborn-Verein 1935 gegründet hatte, um das Land mit "gutem Blut" zu versorgen, kann nur einwandfreies "Material" gebrauchen.

Vom intensiven Leben in einer gefährlichen Welt. Georgien, 2010. Auf der Flucht vor dem Bürgerkrieg bleibt Sabas Mutter zurück. Erst Jahre später hat sein Vater genug Geld, um nach ihr zu suchen. Doch in Tbilissi verschwindet der Vater, und auch der ihm folgende ältere Bruder. Nun ist es an Saba in das ihm unbekannte Land aufzubrechen. Begleitet von den Stimmen seiner georgischen Familie folgt Saba den Hinweisen, die sein Bruder ihm hinterlassen hat. Graffiti, versteckte Notizen, ein Manuskript. Und eine Warnung: Kehre um! Wie im Märchen wird es lebensgefährlich für Saba.

Dive into this thrilling standalone MM romance that's filled with suspense and sizzling chemistry by the USA Today bestselling authors Kimberly Knight and Rachel Lyn Adams. This heart-pounding story follows a devoted Secret Service agent and the sassy-mouthed son of the president, whose forbidden love story will keep you on the edge of your seat with every twist and turn.

Cameron Leann is new to Washington, D.C. An Iowa farm boy without a penny to his name, Cam has joined a group of affluent junior staffers working for a powerful cohort of U.S. Senators known as The Gang of Six. Liz Frost, the group’s charismatic leader, teases and strings Cam along as he grows increasingly infatuated with her. Heir to a political dynasty, Randy Lancaster pushes Cam to his limits with his penchant for booze, drugs, and meaningless flings. Charlie James, Liz’s linebacker boyfriend, keeps Cam at a distance, eyeing the newcomer with suspicion.

Fraîchement diplômé en Lettres, Jérôme Lupien choisit de prendre une année sabbatique avant de se lancer sur le marché du travail. Issu d’une famille aimante et à l’aise, il semble promis à un bel avenir. Mais le sort en décidera peut-être autrement. Coup sur coup, le voilà victime de deux arnaques. Elles ébranleront sa confiance en lui, en même temps que ses principes. À quoi bon la vertu dans un système qui sourit d’abord et avant tout aux escrocs ? Peut-on vraiment se payer le luxe d’être honnête ?

Friends for most of their lives, Rob, Julia, and Ray are boomers who set out in their twenties to make things right in America. A couple since law school, Rob is a distinguished Constitutional scholar at Harvard and Julia a prominent journalist writing a book about the wreckage of the nation’s political life, while Ray serves as dean of the medical school. Ray’s work as a physician in a Vietnam combat zone left him scarred yet with a powerful and loving commitment to heal and to support his friends through tragedy.

As soon as you first see the house, a former hotel in a picturesque enclave of the Cypriot hills, you know this abandoned resort is the perfect home for you – with breath-taking views, a refreshing pool, and peace and quiet, away from the rest of the world. A place to recover and grow. But paradise isn’t cheap, and as the debts mount, you could lose everything you've worked so hard for. Until someone makes you an offer: to keep your home, all you have to do is take a life.

Лоуренс начал писать Флейту Аарона в начале 1918 года, но отказался от работы после первых одиннадцати глав. Завершена книга была лишь тремя годами позже. Написанный сразу после Первой мировой войны, роман ставит под сомнение многие признанные социальные и политические институты того времени. Главный герой – флейтист Аарон, бежит из Англии в Италию, пытаясь понять природу политических и религиозных идеологий, сформировавших западную цивилизацию и найти свое место в жизни.