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A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype­—Athena, Patrol Coastal 15­­—with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride.

The author of the bestselling Leonardo’s Swans traverses the centuries into the hearts of two extraordinary women to reveal the passions, ambitions, and controversies surrounding the Elgin Marbles. The Elgin Marbles have been displayed in the British Museum for nearly two hundred years, and...

It’s festival time in Athens, and Philocles is looking forward to the holiday. Visitors are coming from across the Hellenic world for eight days of sporting competitions, musical contests and sacred rites to honour Athena, the city’s patron goddess. Thousands will flock to the Pnyx to be enthralled by three-day performance of Homer’s Iliad, an entertainment unique to the Great Panathenaia. Taking part is the highest honour and greatest challenge for an epic poet.

Hasta la muerte de don Julio, Bahati vive bajo su techo junto a Ojosdeagua y a un esclavo homosexual que hace de madre del pequeño. Los cuatro forman una extraña familia en la que los tres adultos ocupan la mayor parte de su tiempo cuidando a Ojosdeagua e instruyéndolo con la esperanza de que algún día pueda tener la formación necesaria para enviarlo fuera de Cuba y continuar con sus estudios. Muerto el amo, Bahati se ocupa de la administración de un ingenio y de enviar cartas y dinero a su protegido, que finalmente consigue ser profesor en el instituto Tuskegge de Alabama.

By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada – only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land...