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This book takes listeners on a journey through alternate scenarios, considering how the Cuban Revolution, economy, and global impact might have been different without Che's influence.

It is 2028. President Trump has just finished his third term and is about to be elected to a fourth. America has become increasingly isolationist and xenophobic. Emboldened by the President’s support, the New American Party has gained power and become a controlling minority. Cloaking its policies in the increasing need for national security, the President and his new party work to remake America in the image they desire, focusing their efforts on personal freedoms and immigration.

Delhi, the near future: a former journalist goes in search of answers after she finds herself stripped of identity and citizenship and thrust into a vast conspiracy involving secret detention centers, government sanctioned murders, online rage, nationalist violence, and a figure of shifting identifies known as the “New Delhi Monkey Man.” Bhopal, 1984: an assassin hunts a whistleblower through a central Indian city that will shortly be the site of the worst industrial disaster in history. Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student’s life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft.

Westminster in the 2020s, where the business of governing is the last thing on the agenda for anyone worth their salt. In the SW1 bubble, politics moves fast, schemes are hatched and foiled - through both accident and conspiracy - within hours, and sex and power preside. When Bobby Cliveden decides to campaign against the closure of her local mental health unit, she scarcely thought it would take her straight to the heart of the UK's bustling political centre.

Esta novela narra el ascenso y la caída de Santos Rodríguez, un influyente asesor político que luego de acompañar a distintos presidentes aspira él mismo a convertirse en gobernante de una República jamás nombrada, pero que se parece mucho al México de mediados del siglo XX. Dotado de un gran carisma y copiosas arcas, y amparado en su buena fortuna, Santos Rodríguez buscarácumplir su sueño a toda costa. Pero nada es tan sencillo en un país donde la lucha por el poder ocurre en el terreno de la miseria moral.

Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he draw Martin into his orbit? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?

Eine Erfindung erobert die Welt – und bestimmt das Schicksal zweier Familien, die bereit sind, alles zu riskieren. Wetzlar, Optische Werke, Konstruktionsabteilung, 1914: Dem Tüftler Oskar Barnack gelingt der Durchbruch. Anstatt weiterhin mit einer kiloschweren Glasplattenkamera auf Foto-Safari zu gehen, hat der Feinmechaniker einen handlichen Apparat entwickelt, der in eine Jackentasche passt. Ernst Leitz, der Sohn des Werkgründers, erkennt das Potenzial – und treibt die Produktion der Leica gegen alle Widerstände voran-

Con este mensaje inesperado, el pasado vuelve para sacudir la vida de un antiguo agente secreto cuando ya no tiene el escudo de su organización. Participó en la guerra sucia del Estado, convencido de su causa: la defensa de una sociedad democrática y de las víctimas inocentes contra la violencia terrorista. Pero el tiempo ha pasado, no todo salió bien y la justificación es muy lejana, mientras que él ya no puede abandonar el lado oscuro. La críptica comunicación que acaba de recibir lo reclama de nuevo.

Diana y Leonora son amigas desde la escuela primaria. Las dos aman leer y su poderoso vínculo las protege y acompaña a medida que crecen. Leonora es alta e imponente, de fuertes convicciones, audaz, decidida. Diana, más discreta y muy hábil con la palabra escrita, aspira a contar la historia de su generación, la de los movimientos revolucionarios latinoamericanos, herederos de similares luchas europeas que escupieron a su gente hasta estas tierras.

A cadre of philanthropic billionaires contract a man to establish a new paradigm of prosperity in impoverished countries. He is a renaissance man with the iron will of a K2 mountaineer and the killer instincts of a Navy SEAL. One man armed with an idea who is collision bound with a murderous ruling class while the world sits on the powder keg of systemic corruption.

Europe. Great Britain has long-since left the Union, but tensions between European countries remain, and the international balance of power is firmly weighted towards China and the US. Seizing the opportunity for an unexpected comeback, disgraced former Paris mayor Vincent d’Amont makes an outrageous proposal. France and Germany should unite to create a new superpower: Charlemagny.

Set in modern-day America, post-pandemic and election. The new government, only two years into its tenure, already has the green-energy project up and running. And, with the midterms a few months away, it seems like a rather strategic time to push for the liquidation of all physical currency to E-dollars. Supported by the liberals and vehemently opposed by the conservative side of the country, both sides fight to protect their version of America, but what they do not know is that life is about change completely from all they knew it to be.

Историк Сергей Плохих рассказывает малоизвестную захватывающую историю о сотрудничестве советских и американских военных на авиабазах BBC в Полтавской области. В ней на коротком промежутке времени произошел переход от сотрудничества ради общей цели к враждебности и взаимной неприязни, подобно тому, как недавние державы-союзницы участницы вступили в холодную войну. Автор раскрывает этот конфликт на нескольких уровнях. В книге показаны, как политические мотивы высшего эшелона власти, так и бытовая жизнь американских и советских военных на базах.

Авторы обработали важные блоки истории Европы и Византии XI—XVII веков. Знаменитые византийские деятели - Василий Богомил и Иоанн Итал оказываются яркими отражениями императора Андроника-Христа, то есть князя Андрея Боголюбского из XII века. Например, проясняется знаменитый евангельский сюжет: почему рядом с Христом на Голгофе были распяты два "разбойника". Оказывается, Благоразумный разбойник символизирует учеников Христа, продолжавших почитать Его после суда. А Безумный разбойник — это образ учеников, которые отказались от Христа.

Albert Trebla, Wiener Journalist und im Ersten Weltkrieg Jagdflieger, flieht im Frühjahr 1938 mit seiner Frau aus dem von deutschen Truppen besetzten Österreich auf Umwegen ins Engadin. Aber für den Verfolgten gibt es in der vermeintlich freien Schweizer Bergwelt keine Zuflucht. Trebla fühlt sich durch eine Serie rätselhafter Todesfälle bedroht und immer mehr in die Enge getrieben. Wie ein Murmeltier versucht er, in Deckung zu gehen, aber wo er auch hinkommt, wird er in äußerst merkwürdige Geschichten verstrickt.

Spitzbergen 2110: Weit im Norden, tief in den Bergen, liegt eine Schatzkammer, die mit Pflanzensamen aus aller Welt gefüllt ist. Tommy wächst in dieser sonst kargen, gnadenlosen Landschaft auf, mit seinen zwei Brüdern und seiner Großmutter – der Hüterin des Saatguts. Schon vor vielen Jahren hat man hier am Nordpol den Kontakt zu den anderen Ländern abgebrochen und versucht, im Einklang mit der Natur zu leben. Doch dann wird Spitzbergen von einer Katastrophe heimgesucht – und Tommys Familie gehört zu den wenigen Überlebenden.

Hermana y hermano, Cara y Brom, del planeta Ammeron, similar a la Tierra, visitaron el idílico planeta cercano Jashar. Allí, a una edad temprana, conocen y se hacen amigos de Boda, un sabio muy gentil, avanzado y eterno que se convierte en su maestro. Cada verano, año tras año, pasan tiempo con Boda.

En la ficción de la novela un grupo de animales de una granja expulsa a los humanos tiranos y crean un sistema de gobierno propio que acaba convirtiéndose en otra tiranía brutal. Orwell, un socialista democrático y durante muchos años un miembro del Partido Laborista Independiente, se posicionó con obras como Rebelión en la granja y 1984 contra el totalitarismo tanto nazi como soviético.

At the turn of the twentieth century Pirbhai, a teenage boy, is taken from his village in India and travels perilously across the sea to labour on the East African railroad for the British. There, he is given a ruthless order. Following it will ensure his survival. But it will also torment him and reverberate across his family's future for decades to come. During the waning days of British colonial rule, and as Uganda moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai's children and grandchildren come of age in a divided nation.

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators, but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers, prisoners compete for the ultimate prize: their freedom.