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John Quincy Adams is the missing link in the classical era of American history which began with the Revolution and ended with Emancipation. Between these bookends lies the absorbing yet overshadowed epic of a new nation spearheading liberty's cause in a world skeptical of freedom arriving at all, much less in slaver's garb. M. B. Zucker takes listeners back to that adolescent country in the care of an enigmatic guide, John Quincy Adams, heir to one president by blood and another, Washington, by ideology.

Pulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians.

In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches.

Fin da bambino Ferdinando ha odiato la morte al punto da fare della salvezza la sua ossessione di medico. Ma una vocazione così grande, scontrandosi con le iniquità subite, non può che fallire e trovare casa nella follia. Olga, nella sua infanzia a Rostov, ha dovuto misurarsi proprio con l'alienazione materna, quintessenza di Storia e fragilità. Unico scampo da essa la fuga, frenata da una radice nascosta sotto la neve e dalla zoppia, che diventa destino e comunione con l'imperfetto. Ma si può vivere a un passo dall'ideale?

La fama siempre tiene un precio. Julien Meadow era el chico de la eterna sonrisa, el que cantaba en el garaje con su hermano y el que se enamoró de unos ojos valientes ocultos tras una mecha rosa, los de Crysta. Nunca hubiera esperado que, a raíz de un vídeo subido a YouTube, le llegaría la fama. De repente, su voz inunda el mundo y su cara protagoniza todas las noticias. Julien debe hacer frente a un nuevo universo lleno de altibajos, lujo, descontrol y poder. Uno en el que te vuelves adicto a focos que queman y a palabras que muerden.

Laugh out loud funny! The “West Texas Folks” Series is a satirical, historical saga encompassing three generations of three families from West Texas from the turn of the Twentieth Century to present day. Told with the raw humor of the many characters that include: Grandma Jessie Belle; a flamboyant grandmotherly prostitute who achieved success in her profession of “running the girls” at the local truck stop. Amos; a shrewd and uneducated pioneer of cocaine trafficking that paved the route to the American northeast by networking through the brothels and truck stops up the Mississippi...

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

Mila Beldarrain, autora, ente otras novelas, de El Templario y La Verdad de Moctezuma, se adentra ahora en la vida de Napoleón Bonaparte. A través de un diálogo apasionante con el mismo Napoleón, gracias a la consulta y lectura de una bibliografía exhaustiva, tanto actual como de aquellas obras que escribieron aquellos que le conocieron, vamos conociendo la verdadera historia de Napoleón, desterrando mitos, desmintiendo falsedades, explorando las razones últimas que le empujaron a hacer lo que hizo, llegando, en fin, al fondo de lo que de verdad ocurrió. Este tú a tú de Napoleón ...

After being certified mad and committed to the Nut House at the tender age of two, four year old Coofan Bragg is delighted to discover that he is being moved to St Moggin’s home for young Wizards and Witches in the magical hamlet of Wadi Ormton. Once there he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author who brought us Inspector McGowan, this first volume of unforgettable memoirs chronicles Coofan Bragg’s first summer at St Moggins, with the signature storytelling magic that has made him a favourite the world over.

Una versión diferente del conocido como crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla. En 1952, las hermanas Encarnación y Matilde Silva Montero fueron asesinadas en el interior del estanco que regentaban en la ciudad de Sevilla. La policía no tarda en detener a los tres autores: Juan Vázquez, Antonio Pérez y Francisco Castro, siendo condenados a pena de muerte mediante garrote vil. El verdugo, Bernardo Sánchez Bascuñana, coincide unas semanas después de la ejecución con un amigo suyo, un guardia civil jubilado, y le cuenta una terrible verdad: los acusados eran inocentes. El guardia civil ...

Hitler. Conversando con el Führer” se encuadra dentro de los trabajos de la autora englobados en “Entrevistas con la Historia”. A través de las conversaciones entre la autora y el propio Adolf Hitler y, gracias a la consulta de una bibliografía exhaustiva, así como al acceso a los últimos hallazgos relativos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y a la biografía del Führer, conocemos la historia real de Hitler, desterrando mitos, desmintiendo falsedades, explorando las razones últimas que le empujaron a hacer lo que hizo, llegando, en fin, al fondo de lo que de verdad ocurrió. Estas ...

Relato de un policía nacional infiltrado en el independentismo catalán. La misión de Arnau como miembro de los autodenominados CDR, los Comités de Defensa de la República, discurre con cierta tranquilidad durante meses pero se ve obligado a participar en los disturbios de octubre de 2019 en Barcelona. Hasta entonces ha llevado una doble vida como universitario interesado en la política y forma parte de varios círculos del movimiento independentista, a los que también pertenecen varios miembros de su grupo de amigos. Pero nadie, ni siquiera su propia novia, sabe que Arnau se llama en...

They put a bounty on cancer to save their friend. Find a cure and the bounty is yours. Benji Rosen, Nikki Denton, Joe Bracken, Rebecca Scott, and Charlie Robbins have been best friends since birth. Hailing from the Hubbard Hills neighborhood, they are known around town as the “Hubbard Hills Five.” While packing for a summer vacation before their senior year of high school, the Hubbard Hills Fives’ charmed lives are thrown into turmoil when Benji is stricken with a malignant brain tumor. The initial treatments are ineffective against Benji’s cancer. With Benji’s health ...

Goin' Up To Cripple Creek is historical western fiction of the Cripple Creek Mining District, and the men who established it, and mined its gold. The time period is from the discovery and settlement of this alpine valley, through the establishment of the town of Cripple Creek, to the fires of 1896. This is the first work in The Gold Trail Series. Filled with action and romance, it is a well researched and historical fiction of an exciting time. Starting with the settlement by Levi Welty, and the discovery of gold by Bob Womack, it tells the story of the establishment of the District. A ...

Born of a mother who was left on the side of the road to die, Fiona learned that she was different from the other dogs when she witnessed the person at the pet store replacing the tag on her crate that read “Pit bull” with one that said “Boxer mix.” Taken in by a loving family, she watched as they experienced a wide range of reactions from people they met as new dog owners. There was admiration from Pit bull lovers. Others were terrified to walk within 50 feet of her. Some scooped up their small dogs, saying “Aren’t you afraid she’s going to attack?” She was asked to leave a...

La historia de Roger Tur, cónsul honorario de Francia en Zaragoza. Corre el año 1972 cuando tres activistas de extrema izquierda provocan un incendio en el consulado francés de Zaragoza, causando la muerte, por accidente, de Roger Tur, cónsul honorario. Años más tarde, en una desclasificación de los archivos de la CIA, se sabe que el cónsul fallecido fue un agente doble durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, espiando a los nazis que pasaban por Zaragoza y enviando escuetos informes a los aliados, a través de la embajada de los Estados Unidos. Esta es su historia.

Morgan Michael a chaplain who does the hospice circuit. This is the first published journal of what happened one day on the job. If you are up for mystery and people making the most of their final moments and the choices, they make. Naturally the stories include the best and worst of the human experience, so we have conspiracies, murder, mayhem, rape and revenge. The members of “The Society”, all have contracted the exact same lethal non-communicable cancer. For the last 50 plus years they have been fighting the battle against ecological degradation of the planet in their own way. They ...

In the depths of winter, Sir Ralph Percy holds the castles of Dunstanburgh and Bamburgh for the Lancastrians. Queen Margaret of Anjou has fled into Scotland, and no one knows if or when she will return with another army. Supplies are low and the snow is falling. Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, brings his forces to Dunstanburgh first, circling the fortress in a ring of steel. He attempts to cajole Ralph into a surrender with the promise of a second pardon from King Edward. Ralph is not certain...and he is not ready to surrender just yet... A short story 10,000 words long, based on true ...

Bo ha ottantanove anni ed è arrabbiato con il suo corpo che non obbedisce più, con le sue braccia un tempo forti che ora non riescono a fare più nulla. Ma, soprattutto, Bo è arrabbiato con Hans che vuole portargli via Sixten, il suo cane, perché si è convinto che un quasi novantenne non sia in grado di prendersene cura. Delicato e potente, questo ritratto dell'ultima età della vita, protagonista invisibile della ma nostra epoca, è un romanzo sovversivo che ci riguarda tutti.

‘ What if you raised the lid of a piano stool in a bombed-out house and discovered a photograph of your mother with a German soldier… in NORMANDY? Vera Lawson accepts an offer of employment with the aristocratic Wellmont family in London as a tutor. But she has an ulterior motive. Could her mother, the scatterbrained Caroline Montieff, have fled to France in search of her lost freedom? Gunther Polt, a Waffen SS Tank Commander, aristocratic, arrogant and wealthy with vast estates in Germany, finds himself in an impossible position. Vera knows the family are hiding the connection between ...