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Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become...

A collection of the most famous historic speeches from the twentieth century, including Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan and Geoge Bush's Bombing of Iraq Speech.

Manhattan 1945. Krigen er forbi, og USA koger af begejstring. Til en fest hos sin bror i bohemekvarteret, Greenwich Village, møder Sara en ung skribent, den netop hjemvendte krigskorrespondent, Jack Malone. Den regelrette, uniformsklædte Jack passer ikke ind i selskabet af bøsser, kunstnere, forfattere og studerende, men Sara falder omgående for ham. De to indleder et intenst kærlighedsforhold, der bliver skæbnesvangert for dem begge. For inden længe afløses optimismen i kølvandet på krigens afslutning af skræk og paranoia. McCarthys heksejagt sætter ind.

Classic Speeches: 1940-1987 is a collection of the most famous speeches of all time from political figures, such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr and John F Kennedy.

Paris in the early '70s. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle’s tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come.  Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find and what we settle for.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Wide Open written by Douglas Kennedy, read by Regina Reagan. “All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules . . .” It’s 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a...

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile himself to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset - he finds his solitude disrupted by...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story. How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's...

On the night of her 13th birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents – she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo....

For så vidt har Hannah Buchan gjort det godt. Ganske vist giftede hun sig alt for ung, og ægtemanden, lægen Dan, var vel ikke den mest ophisende, men måske var det - efter opvæksten med en bundhysterisk, jødisk mama og en charmerende, men karismatisk far - måske mest af alt det stabile, Hannah søgte. Efter et enkelt lille fejltrin kører livet da også rigtig fint for Hannah. I over tredive år er der ingen krusninger på overfladen overhovedet. Men så en dag forsvinder Hannah og Dans datter, Lizzie, sporløst, efter at hendes affære med en "modelæge" - en gift modelæge - ender på en ret dramatisk måde.

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of 60, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. 

Una dramática historia sentimental ambientada en la Nueva York de los años 50, escrita por uno de los grandes autores estadounidenses. Nueva York, víspera de Acción de Gracias de 1945. La guerra ha terminado y la fiesta de Eric Smythe está en pleno auge. Todos sus amigos de Greenwich...

La nueva novela del maestro del family noir. Un thriller asfixiante y conmovedor con un profundo trasfondo de crítica social. Una tarde tranquila y soleada en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, un edificio aparentemente anónimo y, de repente, una explosión se produce en su interior. El edificio...

Nueva York, años 80. Embriaguez y excesos. Alice Burns, una prometedora editora en el Manhattan de la era Reagan, se enfrenta a la treintena, a su complicada vida sentimental y a un manuscrito demasiado técnico sobre la psicología de la familia. Un fragmento la marca de un modo especial...

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK’s most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren...