Títulos em Político

In the year 2029, the United States government passes a Secession Amendment that allows states to voluntarily leave the United States. New countries and alliances are formed, and Lake Superior water is sent to Tucson, Arizona, from Duluth, Minnesota, via the Lake Superior Water Pipeline. The new North Central Alliance - Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois - is controlled by The Great Lakes Water Pipeline Authority. Jack Thorson, teacher and legislator, fights Hoot Barnes, Chairman of the Great Lakes Water Pipeline Authority, to stop the madness.

Maupassant es, junto a Chèjov, el más importante autor de cuentos y relatos del siglo XIX Escribió más de 300 relatos y cinco novelas. Son especialmente destacables sus cuentos de terror, género en el que es reconocido como maestro, a la altura de Edgar Allan Poe. 

In this cautionary tale for our times, Cosconna - Cosmic Consciousness - newly emboldened by the latest discoveries of astrophysicists, is summoned into existence by the mind of the author. Cosconna returns to Earth in a bid to save her favourite planet. She is angry with God for his incompetence in allowing the Earth to fall into ruin, and she is exasperated with his followers - belligerent war-mongers and avaricious entrepreneurs - who plunder her planet. High on her agenda is to call a halt to men’s habitual mistreatment of her human sisters.

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony and outrage, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York—or be anywhere in particular—she flees to Berlin....

It’s 1969, and Bobby’s just returned from Vietnam with a Purple Heart and the wrecked face and arm it honors. Unfortunately, the small town he’s returned to no longer welcomes folk who are maimed, deformed, diseased, or otherwise “disgusting”. In fact, there’s a push on to not just fine them, but actively round them up.

The greatest president you've ever had is the last president you'll ever need. When he’s not making America great again, Trump Ninja fights to save the world from S.N.O.W.F.L.A.K.E., the conspiracy behind the conspiracies. Trump Ninja. My secret identity. Cat's out of the bag. I have all the best stories. You want to hear about the time I took down the Eiffel Tower? Flappity-crack. Spider kick. Pam. They never saw it coming. But this audiobook is about the time I took on Area 51. You've heard of it. Famous. Almost as famous as me. Crawling with aliens. Build a wall. Keep 'em out.

Travin es un joven judío apasionado de la política comunista y admirador de la Unión Soviética. Junto a su madre y su hermana, viajan a Córdoba, Argentina, para pasar el verano. Ahí, con un país dividido por las fuerzas armadas, Travin queda fascinado con la presencia de un grupo social totalmente diferente al suyo. Bajo una identidad falsa, la vida de Travin se desdoblará.

In una Rimini mai dimenticata, un po' felliniana e un po' rock, si incrociano le vite di quattro ragazzi uniti da un'amicizia nata sui banchi di scuola: Giulio, l'incorreggibile vitellone, Giacomo l'avvocato, Lorenzo, figlio del proprietario del Grand Hotel e l'inquieto ingegnere Simone. È l'estate del 1967, e nulla sembra impossibile. Nemmeno costruire una piattaforma in acque extraterritoriali per accogliere una comunità di giovani artisti, poeti, musicisti, dove la ricerca del bello sia l'unico scopo da perseguire.

Le maccarthysme a beau déferler sur l'Amérique au tournant des années cinquante, Ira Ringold se croit à l'abri de la chasse aux sorcières. Non seulement parce que son appartenance au Parti communiste est ignorée même de ses amis, mais surtout parce que l'enfant des quartiers pauvres de Newark, l'ancien terrassier au lourd passé, s'est réinventé en Iron Linn, vedette de la radio, idéale réincarnation de Lincoln, et heureux époux de Eve Frame, ex-star du muet.

"La sombra azul" es una investigación sobre el llamado D2, el Departamento de Informaciones de la Policía de Córdoba, que durante la última dictadura militar argentina estuviera a cargo de uno de los peores centros clandestinos de detención.

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

Paul Locksley's latest assignment was supposed to reestablish his career as a dependable spy. Not an excellent or indispensable one, but dependable. If only things had turned out that way.  

Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem is it doesn’t appeal to her at all. She is working as a secretary but longs to make a difference. Then, one day, she gets her chance. She is recruited by the British government as a spy. Under strict instructions not to tell anyone, not even her family, she moves to London and begins her mission - to infiltrate the Communist movement.

In neun Episoden erzählt Cemile Sahin von neun Menschen, die ihr Exil in einem Hochhaus im Westen der Türkei finden. Sie alle haben Folter, Gewalt und Verschleppung durch Einheiten der türkischen Armee und der Polizei erlebt. Darunter: Eine Mutter, die ihren toten Sohn auf einen Pick-up lädt. Ein Mann, der seine schlafende Tochter draußen ins Gebüsch legt, bevor er sein Haus anzündet. Eine Frau, die angekettet in einer Hundehütte gehalten wird. Während sie von ihrer Flucht berichten, holt sie der systematische Terror des türkischen Militärs wieder ein.

It is 1909 in Spokane, Washington. The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While 16-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. When Rye finds himself drawn to suffragette Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, her passion sweeps him into the world of protest and dirty business. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all....

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont massivement arrêtés tandis que des pluies torrentielles s'abattent sur la ville. Un corps est découvert dans Griffith Park à la faveur d'un glissement de terrain.

Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky’s secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin’s orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today.

Uscito nel 1976, "Un borghese piccolo piccolo" racconta la crudele, sanguinosa vicenda di Giovanni Vivaldi, impiegato di un ministero romano che, nell'Italia spietata del boom economico, tenta di farsi largo nel mondo tra sotterfugi e piccole furbizie, ed è pronto a tutto pur di garantire al figlio quel benessere che lui ha potuto solo sfiorare.

In Jonathan Dee’s elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?

Five years ago, Jane helped presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay after an unspeakable crime. Now it’s Jane who stands accused, caught at the heart of a presidential candidate’s scandal that threatens her very life. As people in her life turn up dead, she swears she’s innocent, but forces around her continue to make her look like the betrayer - and possibly, the murderer. Can her bodyguard, Silas, save her? Better yet - can he trust her as the two fight an attraction that could put them both in danger? Or is Jane not who she seems?