Títulos em Político

In a luckier universe, in which the Kennedys were not assassinated and the Vietnam War ended before it began, we find President Richard Nixon and Dr. Timothy Leary, the escaped convict Nixon calls “the most dangerous man in the world” for turning America’s youth into no-good hippies. Nixon is the same profane, venal S-O-B that made him such a hit in our universe, but here he is unleashed in a world where there was no Vietnam war to slow him down and Watergate is just a fancy hotel.

En manos de Francisco Martín Moreno el arte narrativo es un eficaz instrumento para ahondar en nuestra realidad histórica, política y social. En esta novela, que combina ficción y realidad, se desentraña la intimidad de un hombre poderoso, paradigma de aquellos que detentan el poder político y económico en nuestro país, el cual se ha convertido para ellos en una necesidad existencial. A través siempre de una absorbente narración, el poderoso es sometido a un análisis exhaustivo de su cotidianidad, sus relaciones, su intimidad...

“Abigail Savitch-Lew opens up doors to a Brooklyn world that most of us will never see. She reveals the convergence of cultures that is the real New York to life with flair and grace that make this an utterly enjoyable read.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven...

Éthiopie, 1954. Nés de l'union secrète d'une infirmière indienne et d'un chirurgien britannique, Marion et Shiva ont grandi livrés à eux-mêmes. Orphelins de mère et abandonnés par leur père, ces frères jumeaux sont toujours restés unis comme les doigts de la main. Mais alors que la révolution gronde, ils se déchirent pour l'amour d'une femme, forçant Marion, fraîchement diplômé de médecine, à fuir sa patrie pour l'Amérique.

Als Jina Mahsa Amini ermordet wird und die erste von Frauen geführte Revolution im Iran ausbricht, stehen Jina, ihre Schwester Roya und ihre Nichte Nika vor der entscheidenden Frage: kämpfen oder sich verstecken? Was als Versuch beginnt, den Schmerz der Gegenwart zu verstehen, wird zu einer intensiven Reise in ihre Vergangenheit und zu einer poetischen Reflexion über Heimat, Freiheit und Verantwortung.

Deported is a poetic, mythic tale of Keir—a nameless, voiceless man with no passport, no past, and a calm, otherworldly presence. Mistaken for Mexican and deported from the U.S., he becomes a wandering exile, passed through over a hundred nations. In each, he creates beauty—gardens in prisons, hammocks from light, meals from memory—never causing harm, always inspiring quiet transformation. Authorities can’t identify him. His fingerprints vanish from databases. Blonde hair darkens inexplicably. Still, Keir remains serene. He becomes a whispered legend across detention centers worldwide.

In Philadelphia, in 1776, a British spy has been sent to assassinate leaders of the Continental Congress. Only one man stands in his way—an epileptic with a penchant for deciphering codes and solving puzzles.

Empty Country imagines a quiet, seismic shift in history. After President Donald Trump orders all undocumented immigrants to leave the U.S. within 24 hours, there is no protest—only silence, and then movement. Millions walk south. As they vanish, the U.S. begins to crumble. Crops rot, businesses shutter, and invisible labor scaffolds collapse. In a visionary response, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum offers a 50-by-50-mile sanctuary in Sonora—a tax-free, autonomous zone. The migrants build a new city: Nueva Esperanza.

A play about the 1916 Rising in Dublin, a seminal moment in the formation of statehood for Ireland. Heroes Michael Mallin and Countess Markiewicz spend their last days together.

Washington compromised. Insurrection rising. There's only one woman for the job… Rainey never says no to her country. So when she’s tapped for an all-hands-on-deck damage control mission to deal with a hack to the FBI’s database, the elite assassin accepts without hesitation. And with overwhelmed national security agencies reeling from planted foreign assets, the talented killer gets to work infiltrating sinister domestic terrorist groups. Battling Russian agents and American traitors, Rainey uncovers a plot to topple the government.

Darah, a tech writer living in the democratic nation of California, is dismayed to see the game she's helping develop for a Silicon Valley tech company has been tampered with. When her hacker friend Jedd investigates, he uncovers a conspiracy that could change the nation—and the world. With a circle of close friends, Jedd digs deeper and deeper into the darknet and exposes the unthinkable: an app is being developed that uses quantum computing and neuroscience to alter people's brains, totally unbeknownst to them.

There is no room for love when politics are involved. It may have only been a few weeks, but Ileah Vasileiou fell hard and fast for Finn Gallagher—the one man her father would never approve of. Instead of following her heart, she marries Delaware Governor-hopeful, Timothy McKinnon. As a rising political star, he’s the perfect political match—if he wasn’t more devoted to his career than her happiness. Forced to placate her family and the nation, her own ambitions are buried beneath a decade of public appearances and private silence.

The impressive new novel from the award-winning author — a heartrending, enthralling mix of cold-case mystery and political suspense. In 1968, during the anti-war demonstrations in Chicago, four people are killed in the explosion of a militant’s hideout: two policemen and two radicals. Two others manage to escape. Fifty years ago, Cate and Joe Davis’s family was torn apart by the Vietnam War, the protests, and the disappearance of their older sister, Bobbie. It left their mother and father dead. It left what remained of their family fractured almost beyond repair.

From French literary talent and Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Baptiste Andrea, a “sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story” (The New York Times) following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts the moments in his life that inspired his mysteriously powerful masterpiece—perfect for...

Otto Steven was an idiot who held a doctoral degree in agricultural economics. Otto performed sophisticated-looking analyses of data from surveys of livestock producers for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and got papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Otto’s work was pure garbage, but was exactly what the scientific journals wanted. Patsy Nowak was a bright young university student who had a part-time internship, thanks to a special USDA program for individuals with disabilities. Otto was her supervisor.

Al desolado Madrid de la posguerra llega un joven sacerdote polaco, Stefan Berman, acogido por la Iglesia católica en calidad de refugiado huido del comunismo de su país. Con la intransigencia de la jerarquía religiosa como telón de fondo, se ve envuelto en un mundo de maquinaciones políticas, delación y chantaje que le arrastran en una vertiginosa sucesión de acontecimientos que no será capaz de controlar.

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.

What if what you believe in is wrong? What if your beliefs are a myth no more valid than Greek and Roman mythology? What if the ancient philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, got it wrong? Can’t be. Not after all these millennia. And who says they got it wrong, anyway? Kyle Ignatius Llano, The Savant, the barrio dumpster baby, and the Sisyphean toiler, says they got it all wrong. Kyle’s brilliant manuscript, Cogitatio Universum, challenges centuries-old ideas underpinning the core of contemporary Western thought.

Découvrir qu'elle est enceinte et que son père, qu'elle n'a pas connu, était iranien, c'est l'occasion parfaite pour Lila, jeune Parisienne à la vie tourbillonnante, de partir pour Téhéran à la recherche de ses origines. Elle y calmera peut-être ses ardeurs en matière de sorties et de séduction... ou pas. Car, au fil de son enquête, Lila va goûter, en même temps qu'aux joies de la grossesse, à une multitude de saveurs et de plaisirs inattendus. Elle va aussi faire la connaissance de son grand-père et d'une partie de son histoire, entre blessures de l'exil et souvenirs enterrés.

Zora est peintre et enseignante à l’académie des Beaux-Arts de Sarajevo. Au printemps 1992, face à la montée des tensions dans la toute jeune Bosnie-Herzégovine, elle demande à son mari, Franjo, d’emmener sa mère en Angleterre, où vit leur fille. Mais ce qui ne devait être qu’une séparation temporaire prend une tournure dramatique quand les premiers tirs de mortier serbes s’abattent sur la ville depuis les collines. En quelques jours seulement, le piège se referme sur les habitants de Sarajevo, quelles que soient leurs origines.