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It's 1527 and Hans Holbein is welcomed as a guest at the splendid Chelsea home of Sir Thomas More to paint the family portrait. Unknown to them, it is the dawn of a tumultuous time in English history, affecting the family as well as Tudor society. Meg Griggs, a foster daughter of More, attracts the attention of two people, one of them being Holbein. She marries one - but loves the other.

Born in shadow and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don't exist. so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don't exist. When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States. With the CIA's intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terrorists' network and prevent one of the biggest threats the U.S. has ever faced.

In this riveting thriller - from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author - Dr Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, 47 people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons - microbiologist, epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe.

"الباقي من الزمن ساعة" قصة ملحمية أخرى من ملحميات نجيب محفوظ تتناول حياة حامد برهان و زوجته سنية المهدى و أيقونة رائعة الجمال عن حلوان الثلاثينات فيما يعد خروجا غير معتاد لنجيب محفوظ عن مسرح معظم رواياته المفضل و هو العباسية.

يسافر «خالد» الصحفي الجزائري إلى فرنسا ليُكرَّم بمناسبة حصوله على جائزة أحسن صورة صحافية في مسابقة دولية. وأثناء تواجده في باريس نتابع الأحداث ونتعرف على تاريخه السابق ونظرته للوطن وأفكاره حول الاغتراب، وتنطلق الأحداث وتتوالى الشخصيات لاستكمال الحكاية. ويخبرنا خالد بلغة الأشواق والمكابدة والحزن والألم، أنه يعشق «حياة» المرأة الغائبة التي ألهبت خياله، وعاهد نفسه على عدم نسيانها لأنها كالحياة لا يملك حيلة إلا أن يعيشها. يجمعهما القدر مرة أخرى، فهل سيكون لقاءهما عابر أم سيكون سببًا في تحول حياتهما؟!

و ليست "ذوبان الثلوج" مجرد وثيقة اجتماعية و سياسية، لكنها عمل فني متكامل، ينبض بالتقاليد العريقة للأدب الروسي التقليدي، و أدب دوستويفسكي و تشيكوف و تولستوي، الذي يعرض مأساة الإنسان، و بحثه الأزلي الأبدي عن حقيقة نفسه، و حقيقة العالم.

رواية ترصد خمس سنوات من حاضر الثورة السورية. تحديدًا في عمق البادية السورية، حيث سيطرت الجماعات المسلحة على مناطق وبيوت كثيرة وحولتها إلى معسكرات حرب. تكتب الروائية لينا هويان الحسن، عن روح أخيها ياسر الحزينة، الذي فقدته بعد اختطافه وقتله من قبل الجماعات المتشددة دينيًا. يلقي الواقع بظله على أحداث الرواية، حاضرًا وماضيًا؛ حيث نتوغل في تقاليد المجتمعات البدوية، مع قصص فتيات قتلن باسم الشرف، ودفن في آبار ومغارات رومانية قديمة صارت تسمى باسماء من امتزجت دمائهن البريئة بالتراب!

كان كلب الزعيم من فصيلة "البيتبول"، رمادي اللون، ببقعة بيضاء دائرية كبيرة بين عينيه تميزه عن باقي كلاب فصيلته، أهداه له سياسيٌّ أمريكي صديق، وحينما أراد الزعيم وزوجته أن يختارا له اسمًا، اتفقت خواطر الاثنين بعد يومٍ من التفكير، على تسميته"بريجنيف" على اسم الزعيم السوفيتي الشهير، فقد كانت للكلب النظرة الشامخة البلهاء ذاتها التي تميَّز بها "بريجنيف".

كنك ستفعل" رواية مليئة بالظلال والأضواء رواية الكاتب الإيطالي جوزبِّه كاتوتسيلا، رواية بسيطةٌ مثل كلِّ الأشياء التي تسبر الأعماق تتصدى الرواية لعنصرية شريحة من المواطنين في المجتمعات الغربية ضد اللاجئين الباحثين عن الأمان ولقمة العيش. وفي الرواية يكتشف أهالي بلدة إيطالية يبلغ تعداد سكانها 200 نسمة فقط، ويقطنون في 50 منزلًا، بالصدفة وجود عائلة من المهاجرين غير الشرعيين مختبئين داخل البرج النورماندي الأثري، ما يثير سجالًا غير مسبوق يوتر أجواء البلدة الهادئة. وينشغل أهالي البلدة الصغيرة بقضية اللاجئين، ليغرقوا في ثنائية وهمية، صاحب الأرض والمهاجر، مبتعدين عن.

La economía de Estados Unidos se encuentra en ruinas. Las empresas cierran, en las tiendas es imposible encontrar los productos básicos y la población empieza a perder la esperanza en recuperar la prosperidad y la autonomía. La respuesta del gobierno es aumentar cada vez más las regulaciones, el control de cualquier actividad y el colectivismo.

John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionized every field he touched, his mathematical powers were so exceptional that Hans Bethe—a Nobel Prize-winning physicist—thought he might represent the next step in human evolution. After seeking the foundations of mathematics during his youth in Germany, von Neumann emigrated to the United States, where he became entangled in the power games of the Cold War; he designed the world's first programmable computer, invented game theory, pioneered AI and digital life, and helped create atomic bombs.

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student. And then, terrifyingly, she is murdered. Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself.…

1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia in the guise of a language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. Top secret intelligence agency BOX 88 has ordered Kite to extract a chemical weapons scientist before his groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands. But Kite’s mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his trail.

For years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come.

From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all?

Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal’s fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr; 1876; Washington, D.C.; Empire; and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when 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. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation.

It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives - West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator’s mistress - so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics.

When Tim O'Hara's plane is hijacked and forced to crash-land in the middle of the Andes, his troubles are only beginning. A heavily armed group of communist soldiers intent on killing one of his passengers - an influential political figure - have orders to leave no survivors. Isolated in the biting cold of the Andes, O'Hara's party must fight for their lives with only the most primitive weapons....

Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had.

A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, a Black punk artist before her time. Despite her unconventional looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her one night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together.