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New York: a woman waits in the shadows, a Colt .25 in her elegant hand. Her target: Senator Michael Cohan, member of an extremist organization dedicated to destroying the peace talks. Run by Britain's most wanted terrorist, Jack Barry, its secret links stretch all the way to the Oval Office. Washington: the president calls Blake Johnson, head of secret White House department 'the Basement'. He needs to see him now.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission.But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd, ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller, Charlotte Button, is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules.

Assigned to write an exposé on Richmond Hew, one of the most elusive and corrupt figures in the conservation world, a journalist finds himself on a plane to the Congo, a country he thinks he understands. But when he meets Sola, a woman searching for a rootless white orphan girl who believes herself possessed by a skin-stealing demon, he slowly uncovers a tapestry of corruption and racial tensions generations in the making.

Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She's disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right. Meet Embeth Levin. She has made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband's messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet won't let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. This is the story of five women...and the scandal that binds them together.

Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.

Just Listen to It.

Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world's oppressed and forgotten. When not on one of her dangerous assignments, she lives in Boston, exploring a new relationship with Seb, a psychologist who offers her glimpses of a better world. Returning from a harrowing assignment in Congo, where she was kidnapped by rebel soldiers, Marika learns that a man she has always admired from afar, Pulitzer-winning war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide.

Mitteleuropa wird von einer neuen Eiszeit heimgesucht. Die erbarmungslose Kälte bedroht das Leben aller - die Versorgung der Bevölkerung ist durch eine zerstörte Infrastruktur nicht mehr gewährleistet, Energiepreise sind unbezahlbar. Die Forschung nach den Ursachen läuft auf Hochtouren. Doch dann machen Geophysikerin Dr. Jana Hollmer, deren Partner Clemens Bach sowie der Reederei-Chef Titus van Dijk eine unglaubliche Entdeckung.

Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time model and actress, recognisable but hard to place. Even though she's married to fading writer Frank Paris, Vittoria knows that she's really Vicki Wilson from Texas and that her deepest loyalty is to her brother, Johnny, who's been there for her from childhood, when he dealt decisively with the unwanted attention she got from other boys. Guided by Johnny, Vittoria enters the upper circles of Roman society. Before long, she's mingling with the high rollers, corrupt senators, and powerful movers.

Kiev suffers from abandonment by the Germans and takeover by the Soviet Bolsheviks. Streamlined for narration and the American ear.

Not just the United States, but the entire world, remembers that fateful November day back in 2018 when Al Qaeda terrorists held the entire nation hostage in exchange for the public disclosure of an anti-terrorist bioweapon that may not have even existed. In that darkest hour, salvation came not from the United States government, but from fantasy government. This cabinet of independent thinkers from Naperville, Illinois - a librarian, a customer service representative, a gas station owner, and an obsessive gamer - was led by insurance adjustor and President Jay Weise.

In his effort to force President Robert "Buck" Porter to resign, CIA Director Melvin Shultz follows a "3 B's policy" of bribery, bullying and blackmail to apply pressure on Porter. Shultz, the cynical and intelligent owner of the Lust Cosmetics Company, has earlier manipulated the American Presidential primary system to put Porter into the White House. Unexpectedly persuaded by Porter to become CIA Director, Shultz soon realizes he has made a horrible mistake and that Porter is so inept his administration will threaten America's future. Shultz must now decide whether to risk disgrace and probable imprisonment by using the same ruthless tactics he employed to elect Porter to force the President to leave office.

حازت هذه الرواية على المركز الأول لجائزة المجلس الأعلى للثقافة وذلك ربّما بسبب موضوعها الشائك الذي تناولته فهي تتحدّث عن ظاهرة الاغتراب التي يعيشها الشباب بعد الربيع العربي وتركّز على مرحلة فقد الأب وجدلية الموت بشكلٍ عام عن طريق قصّة حب بين رجلٍ مصري وامرأةٍ سورية تنتهي بالزواج وبطفلٍ يملأ عليهما بضحكاته البيت الدّافيء، لكن ما تلبث هذه الصّورة أن تتدمّر بهروب الزوجة إلى أمريكا مع ابنها لأنّها لا تشعر بالأمان في الوطن العربي المضطّرب بالحروب والصّراعات السياسية لتبدأ الحكاية.

You all know the date in the history books that symbolized the end of the greatest country in the world, the United States of America. In truth, we hadn't been great for a long time, just a superpower with a lot of money to burn. But on that date, everything changed. During some concise years, other countries found a way to become a far better alternative to us. And fed-up people, many of whom were told to go back where they came from, decided to do as they were told and went back where they came from by the millions. And I saw it all go down.

In this second book of the White House national security thriller series, Dr. Cameron Talbot, a famous expert on missile defense systems, returns to investigate how American airplanes could plummet from the sky - though nothing shows up on radar and none of the usual terrorist suspects have claimed responsibility. With the country in a panic and the economy taking a nose-dive, the beautiful scientist finds herself once again enmeshed in international plots as well as a romantic triangle in the highest levels of government.

Washed up on a beach, with a path of destruction in his wake, Mac Travis must put his life back together. With his girlfriend hanging by a thread, he becomes embroiled in a plan to blow up US and Cuba's fledgling relationship.

Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end of World War II. Ailsa Roberts, the writer of the diary, shows herself to be a vivid and intelligent young Englishwoman who is sailing with her little daughter on the Empire Glory to join her husband, a Welsh RAF sergeant stationed in Egypt, where Britain still occupies the Suez Canal Zone.

A young Lithuanian immigrant, full of hope, arrives in Chicago in 1904 to work in the stockyards. He and his family soon find themselves processed like the very cattle they slaughter, by the system they dreamed would save them.

Mycroft gives Holmes an urgent commission to find documents hidden by Oberstein, although this commission arises out of a diplomatic deal over which Holmes has the gravest misgivings. In a coup de maitre, Holmes finds the documents at the very last point in the time given to him by Mycroft, but Mycroft is totally distracted when he delivers them. Holmes instigates investigations of his own and uncovers a shocking scandal. But will he be able to pursue his investigation to its natural conclusion, or will realpolitik intervene?