Títulos em Político

In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair.

Dos hechos dolorosos—el suicidio del padre durante su adolescencia y la muerte reciente de su hermana menor—han señalado la vida de Emarvi, sin embargo, está a punto de enfrentar la mayor guerra de todas las que acechan debido a la inseguridad en la sociedad mexicana: su hijo de siete años es secuestrado.

Un poderoso empresario decide llevar adelante su propia lucha contra el tráfico de droga y los narcos, y ganarles la partida con su mismo juego, siendo más criminal que ellos. En esta novela de Carlos Fuentes, como a veces en la realidad, todo se derrumba.

What happens when the dumbest guy on the planet becomes president? We’d have Nothing to Fear, of course! Junior Worthy is dumb as dog doo, but he’s vice president. Worthy is unqualified and uninformed, and when he lands in the top spot, Congressman Tip Murphy doesn’t want to be his VP, fired Press Secretary Jim Donaldson is out to kill him, and San Francisco mom Kennedy Jefferson serves as a willing but unprepared advisor. Except for that Trump thing, US politics just couldn’t be nuttier than this crazy Capitol romp!

Com uma narrativa seca e dura, Degeneração é um romance sobre o atual momento do país, desde a ditatura militar até seus reflexos na ascensão de Bolsonaro ao poder.

The Black Rising saga continues as US Government agencies pursue Black revolutionaries worldwide in response to the devastating insurgency in New York City on Black Solidarity Day by the Black Liberation Organization.

Rae Kelliher is an organizer of rituals and dance parties, a veteran environmental activist, and pioneer in the “death with dignity” movement. Her husband Reggie calls her a “instant party in a box.” In 2023, facing down a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his role in delaying responses to climate disruption. Seven years later, Rae's friends and family gather at their Vermont farm to make sense of her violent exit.

This fictional account of the rise of a Hitler-like figure is something that might not be too far off the mark. Be careful what you wish for. There was a consensus of thought that after the catastrophic loss of life resulting from the depravity of the Nazi era that no such ideology could darken our world again.

Based on real events in 1970s-2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of Peruvians living through a wildly turbulent time of revolution and counter-revolution, while struggling to survive somewhere in-between.

Dr. Duncan MacGregor and his team must stop domestic terrorists from ravaging American democracy. Right-wing extremists plan to use Berserker, a rediscovered Viking drug, to transform peaceful demonstrators into violent insurrectionists. Funded by a neoconservative billionaire, they will provoke a totalitarian takeover of the US government.

Du kennst die Geschichte von Edward Snowden. Aber kennst du auch die Geschichte seiner Jäger? Hongkong, Juni 2013. Ein amerikanischer Whistleblower taucht in der Stadt unter. Auf seinem Laptop: eine Million Geheimdokumente aus dem Archiv der Geheimdienste, die er an Investigativjournalisten des Guardians weitergeben will. Der NSA-Agent Corrigan bekommt den Auftrag den Whistleblower zu finden und muss feststellen, dass er es mit einem Profi zu tun hat, der weiß, wie man untertaucht. Eine atemlose Jagd beginnt.

Dass alte Gewissheiten schwinden, dass die Welt sich schneller ändert, als er es für möglich gehalten hätte, wird Misslinger ausgerechnet in den USA klar, dem Ort, der für ihn immer noch für Freiheit und eine bessere Zukunft steht. Hier verschwimmen die Grenzen von Traum und Wirklichkeit, und Misslinger realisiert, dass ihm sein Leben längst entglitten ist... In seinem grandiosen literarischen Debüt erzählt Jakob Augstein eindringlich von einem Mann unserer Zeit, deren Konturen zwischen politischen Umbrüchen, neuen Ideen und alten Bedrohungen immer schwerer auszumachen sind.

Von einem Tag auf den anderen bricht Maries Freund den Kontakt ab. Nach einem Jahr Beziehung, ohne Begründung. Für Marie, die nur schwer Zugang zu anderen Menschen findet, bricht eine Welt zusammen. Tom, der eigentlich Thomas Rahmani heißt (aber das verkauft sich schlechter), ist ein aufstrebender Musiker auf dem Weg zur A-Prominenz. Aber als es bei einem Filmdreh mit Deutschlands Lieblingshund »Bello« zum Skandal kommt, ist auch er plötzlich alleine.

Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She’s returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and—though she’s strangely guarded—Nayan can’t help but be drawn to her. He hasn’t risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier.

Zhao, a Chinese industrialist of immense influence and power, was a patriot and had struggled for years to find a way to elevate China to it's rightful place in the world order. During his years of planning he had come across the ancient Chinese concept of the Assassin's Mace and used it as his inspiration. With this wisdom, he created a plan to destabilize the West and elevate China to become the only true world superpower, but even with years of careful and painstaking planning, would his plan be successful?

The novel climaxes during the 2014 Euromaidan "Revolution of Dignity," where Yuri and his band of savvy saboteurs fight oligarchs, the government, a cabal of mobsters and moguls, and stealth Russian forces, as they strive to save themselves and the battered country they believe in.

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountains threaten to burn, and the queue for the water trucks grows ever longer. In her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground.

One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. This rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colourful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust.

The Best President Money Can Buy is a geopolitical thriller, targeted for release prior to the 2024 presidential election. Based upon fact, the book begins with the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Roosevelt in the 1930s. Using this historic event as a starting point, it delves into the development of the US electric power grid from coal to today’s various forms of renewable energy.