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The working-class painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast. Nearing 60 and with modest means, he has retreated to a small island. The island seems to be a closed, cold place. As the seasons turn, Terry comes to see that he is one of many people who have sought refuge here. These independent outsiders, all with their own considerable struggles, have made a precarious home. The island is owned by the businessman and art collector Alex Kaplan.

In 1893, financial panic imperils the settlement homesteaded by Abraham and Elizabeth Byers. Abraham, a preacher and self-proclaimed man of the people, rails against greed and corruption and launches Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. But can this cooperative community withstand internal strife, the harsh wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the antagonism of the outside world? When discord rocks the community, Abraham must choose between dissolving the colony and compromising the ideals that elevated him.

Decades ago, Trudy, Georgia, and Aunt Star formed a code of silence to protect each other from an abusive man who terrorized their family. One act of solidarity long ago lives with them still. With the election of a president who brags about groping women without their consent, old wounds and deep secrets come alive again, forcing hard truths to be told and even harder truths to be left to the dead.

President Trump has just been inaugurated for the second time. The students at Upstate College are not happy. Led by one charismatic person of color of African Indigenous pan-Asian descent who is a differently abled Muslim atheist, they obliterate the college experience forever.

En un país ficticio situado en América del Sur, asistimos a la desaparición de un embajador norteamericano. Pronto sabremos que ha sido raptado por una fuerza armada que pretende derrocar al gobierno actual en el país. Tendremos una visión caleidoscópica del conflicto desde los puntos de vista de un periodista nortamericano será el encargado de realizar las negociaciones con la fuerza armada, la hija de unos latifundistas locales, un artista o uno de los guerrilleros.

Billionaire entrepreneur David Traynor has big dreams for fixing a broken government in his first term as president of the United States. In the months before his inauguration, he’s developed daring and, in some cases, secret strategies to solve the climate crisis, force Congress to work again, and rebuild America’s economy - and that’s just the beginning. Everyone in the capital is scrambling to adapt to the new disruptor in chief’s bold agenda, though many, both at home and abroad, also want to see Traynor and his steely vice president, Wendy Upton, fail.

Die Entscheidung ihres Lebens: Sie haben dreieinhalb Stunden Zeit, sie zu fällen. Der Interzonenzug D-151 München-Berlin fährt am 13. August 1961 von München durch Bayern Richtung innerdeutscher Grenze. In ihm sitzen viele Menschen auf dem Weg zurück in ihre Heimat DDR. Noch wissen sie nicht, dass dieser Tag ihre Zukunft unwiderruflich verändern wird. Dann macht das Gerücht die Runde, dass Ulbricht an diesem Tag die Grenze schließen will - für immer. Dreieinhalb Stunden bis zum Grenzübertritt.

Veracruz, México. Hércules Guzmán Fox, uno de los inves-tigadores más importantes del mundo, tiene que resolver la extraña muerte de un senador norteamericano en el barco en el que viajan hacia los Estados Unidos. Durante la travesía descubrirá que los culpables son un extraño grupo que se creía desaparecido hacía siglos. Las pistas de una antigua reliquia lo llevarán, junto a George Lincoln y Alicia Mantorella, sus inseparables amigos, a Washington, donde se encuentra la clave de un asombroso misterio, asociado a uno de los objetos más poderosos de la historia.

The Marx Engels Party Wins: A Third Parties Flash Fiction cites and credits the Marx Engels Party's wisdom and ideas to honor the past, leverage the present, and advance the future. Thus, this work provides a pathway to the Marx Engels Party's electoral success to inspire the listeners.

Un grupo de influyentes ciudadanos de Estados Unidos entiende que los principales gobiernos del mundo no estan haciendo las cosas correctas para mejorar los problemas econmicos y sociales de los pueblos y deciden secuestrar a ocho lideres mundiales para que se pongan de acuerdo en soluciones sin egosmos eleccionarios o burocrticos y los trasladan individualmente hasta un yate en medio del Mediterrneodnde. Como charla de bienvenida, les anticipan que si no se ponen de acuerdo puede que se queden sin comida o lo que va a ser peor alguien los pueda matar.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea.

Terrorized by memories of the past, Coretheen Nerites wanders the decaying streets of Old Chicago as glimpses of her lost family pull her into misery. Consumed with despair, her hope only fades with the dimming of the lights as a predator bares his teeth. When she assumes all is lost, an eccentric stranger appears, bearing speed and ferociousness beyond human capabilities.

El panorama de la minería en España y los graves desequilibrios sociales en nuestra sociedad actual son los temas que aborda Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa con su excelente prosa en Bimini. En este caso, el autor viste de thriller una trama que acompaña a sus dos protagonistas en su intento de revolucionar el mundo de la navegación con un nuevo sistema de construcción de barcos basado en el carbón; un intento que los llevará a enfrentarse a las mayores potencias petrolíferas y a apoderarse de mil doscientos millones de dólares sin dejar el menor rastro.

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.

Ruby’s Parker’s retirement hangs like a dark cloud over MI7. She herself has only a vague idea what the future might hold - both personally, and in terms of national security. But for many on her team, she’s irreplaceable. To cap it all, there’s a massive organizational overhaul on the cards at Thames House. Everyone’s nervous, and with good reason. In the middle of all this uncertainty, there’s an assassin at large.

It is 1993, and 18-year-old Hanzilah is visiting his family in Kashmir. There is a strong summer breeze fluttering through the lush emerald valleys of Kashmir and the Himalayan Mountains. The early dawn is approaching. It is the eerie calm before a withering horror. It begins; a bomb shatters Hanzilah’s village. The bombing is incessant and continuous. Little does he know, but his life has forever changed. When it ends, he finds only death, destruction, and his childhood love slowly dying from her injuries on a makeshift bed in a makeshift hospital.

It’s been 11 years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it’s 1999, and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre company. She takes the assignment to investigate the fallout of the Bosnian war - and to reconnect with the love of her life. But when they are reunited, she finds a man, and a country, altered beyond recognition. Kosmos introduces Gota to Edina, the woman he has always loved.

Tierra Virgen aborda una de las obsesiones más presentes en la carrera literaria de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa: el ecologismo. En ella seguiremos a un veterano de la guerra de Vietnam que decide dejar su vida de privilegios y unirse a los yubani en sus territorios de la tierra amazónica. Sin embargo, pronto la situación se torcerá con la aparición de ingenieros blancos que pretenden partir en dos las tierras yubani con la construcción de una carretera. La extinción amenaza al pueblo yubani, y quizá lo único que pueda salvarlos sea nuestro protagonista.

Hasan Makari and his son, Najib, both Lebanese nationals, have dreamed of the day they would experience the shining freedom of America. But when they arrive in the US, they are arrested, accused of terrorism, and incarcerated at the Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp in Cuba, all on false charges. Suddenly, they face the nightmare of death by execution. Their only hope is Navy JAG Officer Matt Davis, who has been assigned to the case of his life - to defend the Makaris in court at Guantánamo Bay.

Jake invited five fellow cops and their families to join him and his family to set up a safe and secure retirement community in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. The families worked together to become self sufficient and off the grid, as they believed at some point in the not too distant future, something would happen to cause a major collapse and survival situation. IT DID. This is their story of the perils of survival