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In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. “What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here.” In November 1944...

Есть вещи, перед которыми бессильна даже абсолютная власть. «Король-солнце» волен распоряжаться чужой жизнью, но его собственная неумолимо утекает в прошлое. Бессмертие — вот чего испокон веков жаждали владыки, и Людовик XIV не стал исключением. В надежде обрести власть над самой смертью он отправляет ученого-священника, отца де ла Круа, в экспедицию за легендарными морскими созданиями, чья плоть, согласно преданиям, дарует вечную жизнь. И вот наконец долгожданный корабль возвращается с удивительной пленницей. Неизвестно, способно ли это загадочное существо даровать королю победу над смертью, но судьбы многих людей оно изменит безвозвратно.

En este audiolibro, la propia Rosa Montero nos habla de la superación del dolor, de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres, del esplendor del sexo, de la buena muerte y de la bella vida, de la ciencia y de la ignorancia, de la fuerza salvadora de la literatura y de la sabiduría de quienes aprenden a disfrutar de la existencia con plenitud y con ligereza.

Captain Nemo is the fictional life story of one of Jules Verne's most memorable characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. It covers his boyhood friendship with the dreamer Jules Verne, adventures aboard sailing ships, battles with pirates, and survival on a mysterious deserted island. Each time he returns home to his beloved France, Captain Nemo shares the tales of his exploits with the struggling writer Verne.

In The Revenge of the Foxes, Ak Welsapar crafts a moving and darkly humorous narrative set in a Moscow hospital during the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Through the lives of young patients awaiting heart surgery, Welsapar explores love, loss, and the human desire to cling to life amidst uncertainty. The contrasting characters—a poetic Turkmen, a Stalinist with a mechanical heart, and the ill-fated Mary—represent a clash between the “robotic” future and soulful resilience, embodying the struggles of a generation on the brink of change.

There was a Breaker Morant - he was executed at Pietersburg on 27 February 1902. His crime? Wilful murder of civilians. Yet to this day his guilt remains in doubt. Kit Denton's novel, The Breaker, does more than recount the facts and mystery surrounding Morant's death sentence. Full of action and set in three continents, it covers the entire range of the Breaker's activities. We see him as a champion horseman, a likeable larrikin, a popular balladist. We see him in love and in war. Then we see him face the firing squad that will end his life. Was he a cold-blooded killer or a scapegoat?

New York Times best-selling author Stephanie Dray's historical fiction series comes to a stunning conclusion as the daughter of Cleopatra risks everything to revive her dynasty. After years of abuse as the emperor's captive in Rome, Cleopatra Selene is now a powerful queen, ruling over the exotic kingdom of Mauretania with her husband, King Juba II, by her side. But when a jealous Augustus Caesar demands that her children be given over to him to be fostered in Rome, Selene is drawn back into the web of imperial plots and intrigues that she vowed to leave behind....

Having survived her perilous childhood as a royal captive of Rome, Selene has pledged her loyalty to Emperor Augustus, swearing to become his very own Cleopatra. But even though she is forced to marry a man of the emperor's choosing, Selene will not allow her new husband to rule in her name. As she rules the kingdom of Mauretania and contends with imperial politics and religious persecution, Selene beguiles her way to the precipice of power with the ultimate goal of taking back her birthright.

Gustav Meyrink, pseudonimo di Gustav Meyer (1868 –1932), fu uno scrittore ed esoterista austriaco. I suoi romanzi descrivono situazioni e racconti ispirati a storie reali, a cui la sensibilità da occultista dello scrittore aggiunge atmosfere, descrizioni, teorizzazioni decisamente interessanti per gli appassionati del genere. In questo romanzo si tratta della vita di John Dee, occultista realmente esistito ai tempi della regina Elizabetta, più volte tacciato di negromanzia. Il romanzo servirà certamente da monito a tutti coloro che sono tentati di avvicinarsi all’occultismo con eccessiva leggerezza.

More than her fiery hair marks Freydís as the daughter of Erik the Red; her hot temper and fierce pride are as formidable as her Viking father's. And so, too, is her devotion to the great god Thor, which puts her at odds with those in power - including her own brother, the zealous Leif Eriksson. Determined to forge her own path, she defies her family's fury and clings to her dream of sailing away to live on her own terms, with or without the support of her husband.

Caecilia has long been torn between her birthplace of Rome and her adopted city of Veii. Yet faced with mounting danger to her husband, children, and Etruscan freedoms, will her call to destroy Rome succeed? Pinna has clawed her way from prostitute to the concubine of the Roman general Camillus. Deeply in love, can she exert her own power to survive the threat of exposure by those who know her sordid past?

Departing a tumultuous endeavor! Having an instance of perpetually attempting to lay to rest an unfair saga. Yet as circumstance allow he was not sure it may come to pass! John Henry Dam, a truck driver that is living a dream. You might say, I am a professional tourist and love every minute of it!