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ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life...

Against the simmering tensions of summer 1939, a group of evacuees flee Vienna for the sanctuary of Newtown House in Ireland. Haunted by their pasts and those they have left behind, Gisela Müller and Hans Schmitt struggle to settle into their new, rural Irish home. Tasked with being a companion to the precocious and spoiled Nola de Freyne, Gisela misses her previous scholarly life terribly.

Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career - and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she’s sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green - an African-American “extremist” activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech corporation fueled by Pentagon funding is exploiting the neighborhood.

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A founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's first professional novelists, and a pioneer of both the Western and the historical romance. Included here are his 1826 masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans and his 1821 classic The Spy, widely considered the world's first espionage novel.

Das Volk verehrt sie. Doch ihr Exmann und seine Mutter, die Königin von England, verachten sie. Als eine Bombe sie in den Tod reißt, setzt die britische Regierung alles daran, den Täter zu finden. Dafür benötigt sie die Hilfe eines Mannes: Gabriel Allon, legendärer Agent des israelischen Geheimdienstes. Zusammen mit dem ehemaligen SAS-Offizier Christopher Keller macht er sich daran, die blutige Fährte des verantwortlichen Topterroristen zu verfolgen. Eine Fährte, die Gabriel an den dunkelsten Ort seiner Vergangenheit führt.

Das Volk verehrt sie. Doch ihr Exmann und seine Mutter, die Königin von England, verachten sie. Als eine Bombe sie in den Tod reißt, setzt die britische Regierung alles daran, den Täter zu finden. Dafür benötigt sie die Hilfe eines Mannes: Gabriel Allon, legendärer Agent des israelischen Geheimdienstes. Zusammen mit dem ehemaligen SAS-Offizier Christopher Keller macht er sich daran, die blutige Fährte des verantwortlichen Topterroristen zu verfolgen. Eine Fährte, die Gabriel an den dunkelsten Ort seiner Vergangenheit führt.

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.