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Bestselling author Joe McGinniss is a renowned investigator of politicians and political image-making, with deep knowledge of Alaska gained from residence and reporting there and a talent for writing riveting narratives about noteworthy topics. His forty-plus-year career as an investigative journalist and author has been ideal preparation for a book on Sarah Palin, the embodiment of contemporary political packaging and self-professed exemplar ...

From a leading historian of the left, an intimate history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore.

The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. No-one expects that Edna Pontellier should be preoccupied with anything more than her husband and children. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.

AN UNWINNABLE WARCocaine is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society.A MAN ON A MISSIONEx-CIA special ops, Paul Devereux, intellectual, dedicated and utterly ruthless, is given what seems like an impossible task: Stop the drug barons, whatever it costs.

Spine-tingling suspense!' LISA GARDNER'A killer twist' Financial TimesSometimes I wish that she'd just leave me in peace . . Psychologist Evi has taken on a new patient: a grieving mother who lost her daughter in a fire two years ago - but who is convinced her little girl is still alive.

Robert Leckie was born on December 18, 1920 in Philadelphia. After enlisting in the United States Marine Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he worked in the 1st Marine Division as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout during the Battle of Guadalcanal. He was later awarded the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow received the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents' Annual Award in 1957. He died in December 2001.

Introduced by the author, this is a collection of vignettes about the romantic as well as the brutal aspects of espionage.

A remarkable story of the resilience of the human spirit, set against the backdrop of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A funny, moving and brilliantly original novel, which crosses all cultural boundaries with the skill and inventiveness of its storytelling. "If you read only one novel, make it this one" "Le Figaro".

Includes some of Maugham's most famous tales: "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Man With The Scar" and "The Vessel of Wrath" among others.

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company¿s ¿Most Innovative Business People¿ and as a Forbes ¿Names You Need to Know, ¿ and is the seventh ¿most powerful¿ personality on Newsweek¿s Digital 100 Power Index. He is an early-stage tech investor and advisor, working with Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, and over fifty other organizations, and the author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, ...

Can you forgive the past?It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straighforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished.

Auf der Schönhauser Allee, die seit über zwei Jahren meine Heimat ist" - sagt Wladimir Kaminer - "ereignen sich ständig merkwürdige Geschichten. Jedesmal, wenn ich sie jemandem erzähle, denkt derjenige, ich spinne. Dadurch werde ich auch selbst unsicher - vielleicht ist das alles doch nur im Traum passiert? Das würde jedoch bedeuten, dass ich selbst auch eine imaginäre Figur bin, die mit dem wirklichen Leben nicht zu tun hat. Aus Angst zu vers...

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Scharfsinnig und unglaublich unterhaltsam." Isabel Duncan ist Wissenschaftlerin an einem Institut für Menschenaffen. Sie arbeitet mit Bonobos, einer Schimpansenart, die eine große Begabung für Sprache besitzt. Die Menschen versteht Isabel oft nicht. Wohler als unter ihresgleichen fühlt sie sich bei den ihr anvertrauten Affen. Als eines Tages im Institut eine Bombe explodiert, wird Isabel schwer verletzt. Die Affen flüchten in Panik. Eine Tragö...