Fleeing the New England coast after foiling a British man-of-war's attempt to seize his cargo, merchant sea captain Isaac Biddlecomb finds himself in the middle of a brewing rebellion and at the...
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Auteur: Nelson, James L.Sommaire:Genre: Historical fiction, Sea fiction -
Auteur: Lewis, C. S.Sommaire:
C. S. Lewis's reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own.
Genre: Literary arts -
Auteur: Mann, PeterSommaire:
Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during WWII. One is the journal of a German officer, and the other belongs to the secret...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Pamuk, OrhanSommaire:
From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel–part murder mystery, part love story–set amid the perils of religious repression in...
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Auteur: Pamuk, OrhanSommaire:
The profound and moving novel from the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature is finally available on audio. Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt...
Genre: Political fiction -
Auteur: Pamuk, OrhanSommaire:
Selling Turkish spirits on the street and dreaming of becoming rich in a rapidly developing Istanbul, street youth Melvut Karatas elopes with the wrong woman and builds a family over decades...
Genre: Literary fiction -
Auteur: Pamuk, OrhanSommaire:
From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost...
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Auteur: Shaffer, Mary Ann.Sommaire:
"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from...
Genre: Epistolary fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Nesbø, JoSommaire:
A fantastically gripping thriller from the internationally acclaimed author of The Snowman, The Leopard, and Phantom: antihero police investigator Harry Hole chases a desperate, faceless contract...
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Auteur: Macintyre, BenSommaire:
The celebrated author of Double CrossAmericansIf anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents...
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Auteur: Nesbø, JoSommaire:
Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims ... on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue--fragments of rust and paint in her...
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Auteur: Collins, WilkieSommaire:
When Walter Hartwright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The story, full of...
Genre: Gothic fiction, Psychological fiction -
Auteur: Dahl, ArneSommaire:
Following a complicated but successful dismantling of a hostage situation, Detective Paul Hjelm is facing the prospect of a potentially career-ending investigation by Internal Affairs. Instead, he...
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Auteur: Mayle, PeterSommaire:
The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons...
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Auteur: Nesbø, JoSommaire:
Harry Hole returns--or does he?--in a terrifyingly paced, vertiginous new roller coaster of a thriller by the internationally best-selling author of The Snowman and The Redeemer, "the king of...