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Delving into a world once shrouded in mystery, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people, The Bilderberg Group. Since first meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, The Bilderberg Group has been comprised of prime ministers, presidents and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all deliberating the economic and political future of humanity. The press has never attended these meetings, which have...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
All Gabe Coulter ever wanted was to live a comfortable life as a successful gambler, but a confrontation with a disgruntled cowboy who'd just lost to Gabe leads to a family man dying in his arms. Even though it was self-defense, the only way Gabe knows to get rid of his guilt is to return the money he won to the man's wife. Lara Talbot sees Gabe as a derelict like her husband and wants nothing to do with him. But as she struggles to provide for her family and makes plans to claim...
| Автор | Vickie McDonough |
Der Winter 1595 ist kalt, das merkt auch die Theatergruppe um William Shakespeare. Halbseidenes Gesindel sind diese Schauspieler, immer verfolgt von Obrigkeit und Geistlichkeit. Aber die Königin liebt die Bühne. Zur Hochzeit einer hohen Adeligen soll das Ensemble eine neue Komödie auf die Bühne bringen:"Der Sommernachtstraum". Auch Shakespeares jünger Bruder Richard spielt mit, dabei sind sich die beiden gar nicht grün. Dann geschieht eine Katastrophe: Eine rivalisierende Gruppe lässt das Stück...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
Volksheld und Reformator. Martin Luther war ein faszinierender willensstarker Mensch, der die Welt aus den Angeln hob. Als er im Jahr 1517 seine Thesen verkündet und sich weigert, sie zu widerrufen, macht er sich mächtige und gefährliche Feinde. Nicht allein der Papst, auch der Kaiser versucht, ihn mundtot zu machen, doch Luther widersteht und wird zum Volkshelden und Rebell wider Willen. Martin Luthers Schicksal schien vorgegeben – er würde Jurist werden, wie es sich seine Familie wünschte....
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Wenn du bei einer Hinrichtung nicht die Wahrheit sagen kannst, wann wirst du sie jemals sagen können? England 1536: Mit der Hinrichtung Anne Boleyns ist Thomas Cromwell mehr denn je der engste Vertraute Henrys VIII. Loyal gegenüber dem König, gerissen im Umgang mit Verbündeten, gnadenlos gegen Feinde triumphiert der Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen über alle. Doch was wird geschehen, wenn seine Feinde erstarken und sie den König auf ihre Seite ziehen?
| Автор | Hilary Mantel |
In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country. Smith and Garnet met as schoolboys at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School, an educational...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Die Wanderfotografin Mimi Reventlow lebt seit einiger Zeit in der kleinen Leinenweberstadt Laichingen und kümmert sich um ihren kranken Onkel Josef. Durch ihre offene Art ist es ihr gelungen, die Herzen der Dorfbewohner zu erobern und Freundschaften zu knüpfen. Als eine Katastrophe das Dorf erschüttert, wird sie mit ihren wunderschönen Fotografien für viele der Bewohner gar zum einzigen Rettungsanker. Doch nach einer schweren menschlichen Enttäuschung muss Mimi erkennen, dass sie sich nicht nur...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
England zur Tudor-Zeit: Als Sekretär und erster Minister von König Henry VIII. hat Thomas Cromwell 1535 den Zenit seiner Macht erreicht. Er ist zusammen mit der neuen Königin Anne Boleyn aufgestiegen. Nun wartet ganz England ungeduldig auf die Geburt eines männlichen Erben. Doch Anne Boleyn vermag dem König keinen Thronfolger zu schenken und henry verliebt sich in die schüchterne Jane Seymour. Erneut liegen die Geschicke Englands in Thomas Cromwells Händen.
| Автор | Hilary Mantel |
51 n. Chr.: Endlich kann Vespasian seinem Kaiser einen der zähesten Widersacher Roms vorführen: den britannischen Häuptling Caratacus. Doch Agrippina, Claudius' neue Gemahlin, blockiert Vespasians Karriere, wo sie nur kann. Gleichzeitig stiften Parther Unruhe in Armenien und anderen oströmischen Provinzen. Gehen die Spannungen auf eine List von Agrippina zurück? Um sich und seine Familie zu retten, muss Vespasian den weiten Weg bewältigen und es herausfinden.
| Автор | Robert Fabbri |
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries – beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalysed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists – mostly women, mostly queer – whose public...
| Автор | Maria Popova |
1314. On a marsh-fringed plain south of Stirling Castle, King Robert the Bruce led the Scottish army in a singularly devastating victory over the English. Bannockburn was Scotland's greatest battlefield triumph, achieved against the odds by a combination of brilliant tactical leadership and the fatal overconfidence of the English King, Edward II. On the 700th anniversary of the battle, Peter Reese's definitive history shines a spotlight on this pivotal moment in Scottish History...
| Автор | Peter Reese |
‘A brave and beautiful exploration into food, race, memory and the very meaning of life. I read it greedily – and so will you’ Meera Sodha, author of Fresh India The dinner table, among friends, is where the best conversations take place – talk about the world, religion, politics, culture, love and cooking. In the same way, Be My Guest is a conversation about all these things, mediated through the sharing of food. We live in a world where some have too much and others not enough, where...
| Автор | Priya Basil |
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Clustered together in azure-blue waters are a collection of little islands whose culture, history and people have touched every corner of the world. From the moment Columbus gazed out at what he mistook for India, and wrote in his journal of 'the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen,' the Caribbean has been the subject of fantasies, myths and daydreams. It was claimed, and its societies were built to enrich old...
| Автор | Joshua Jelly-Schapiro |
Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of World War I to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and...
| Автор | Герман Гессе |
Through the eyes of William, one of Abelard's acolytes and companions, Farewell, My Only One tells the story of Peter Abelard, the most famous philosopher and theologian of 12th-century Europe, and his passionate, but ultimately doomed, love affair with the gifted and beautiful Heloise, niece of the canon of Notre Dame in Paris, who extracts horrifying vengeance on his ward's lover. One of the great romances of all times, Antoine Audouard has based his narrative on Abelard's...
| Автор | Antoine Audouard |
Humans have always sought ecstatic experiences – moments where they go beyond their ordinary self and feel connected to something greater than them. Such moments are fundamental to human flourishing, but they can also be dangerous. Beginning around the Enlightenment, western intellectual culture has written off ecstasy as ignorance or delusion. But philosopher Jules Evans argues that this diminishes our reality and denies us the healing, connection and meaning that ecstasy can bring. He sets...
| Автор | Jules Evans |
A novel about the aberration and endurance of the human condition translated by Tiina Nunnally. Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great because he is taken by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will Peter takes her to St. Petersburg where she becomes a jester in his court, Forced to live a life that both compels and repels her, she gives in to the attentions of the Tsar’s favorite dwarf, Lukas and carves out an...
| Автор | Peter H. Fogtdal |
New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award Introduction by Porochista Khakpour. "One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year"—Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisiacal garden. Exploring...
| Автор | Can Xue |
Neuman's earlier novels—Traveler of the Century and Talking to Ourselves—were both critical and commercial hits. This is his first collection of stories to appear in English. Andrés will be teaching in Columbia in the fall of 2015 and will be available for interviews, events, etc. He was named to the «Bogata39» list of the most important Spanish-language authors under the age of 40, and was also part of Granta's «Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists» special issue. His books have...
| Автор | Andres Neuman |
A 2013 Best Translated Book Award Finalist[/b] When he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted from his home years ago, during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s. He convinces himself that M must have died in this explosion, and he begins to tell the story of their friendship through a series interconnected vignettes, hoping in this way to reanimate his...
| Автор | Sergio Chejfec |
From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow—to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know—which is no small offering."—Sophie Hughes, Music & Literature Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a...
| Автор | Bae Suah |
"When Mondru's prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist’s soul is a veritable party. . . . By God she's a great prose stylist full of character."— Politiken Danish Women Writers Series Stylistically provocative, Justine tells the story of a young female artist whose life is upended when her house burns down with all of the artworks for her upcoming exhibit inside. With little time left to recreate every-thing she's lost,...
| Автор | Iben Mondrup |
"Some books grow old with years, some are rejuvenated, some remain the same. But extremely rare are those that manage to force reality to change and adapt to what is written in them. Some twenty years ago The Cyclist Conspiracy seemed like postmodern brick-a-brack. Today, it is a historical record that becomes more and more true with every new day."—David Albahari The Cyclist Conspiracy tells the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from...
| Автор | Svetislav Basara |
Winner of the Eduard Vilde Literary Award[/b] The Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of men—men who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother's estate. Resigned to giving up on her dreams and ambitions, Laila took this swindling in stride, something that Brother won't stand for. Soon after his arrival, fortunes change dramatically, enraging this group of powerful men, motivating...
| Автор | Rein Raud |