The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ("e;the ruler by order of God"e;), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as a whole and of the conflicts within his own mind.
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)PalestinianArmenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England.
WINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from one of the rising stars of Arab fiction (New York Times)Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation.
Don t venture into the future without having read this book ANDREW ROBERTSIt is twenty years on from the nuclear war between the US and China that brought down the old world order, and the American president has held power for over a decade.
El licenciado Jorgelino Lachotta es un historiador del fútbol argentino, probablemente, según la opinión de Quique Macaya Erdmann, el hombre que más sabe de fútbol argentino.
Dostoevsky’s classic pitting one man against society Widely considered to be the first existential novella, Notes from Underground presents the diary of a bitter, misanthropic man.
The protocols of the Elders of Zion is a book dating back to the early twentieth century and claims to reveal a widespread plot of global Jewish control.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING THRILLER FROM 10 MILLION COPY AUTHOR REMIGIUSZ MROZ - NOW A HBO MAX TV SERIES'First it was Stieg Larsson, then Jo Nesbo, and now it's time for another sensational crime author to enter our shores' - TESS GERRITSENWhen whip-smart criminal defence lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of her law firm's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time in her career.
El cese es la apasionante historia de un importante cargo público que, de la mañana a la noche, se convirtió en un ángel caído de la política, fruto de un terremoto incontrolable de pasiones, azares, obsesiones y trivialidades cruzadas tan vulgares como decisivas, tan imprevistas como habituales, tan inocentes como destructivas.
Ane Armentia, periodista de investigación y azote de políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos, sale de casa para reunirse con Mario Laredo, el juez instructor de la causa Alondra, una red de corrupción política, pero antes de rebasar el portal, un desconocido le asesta una puñalada mortal.
Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conferences are held annually on one of the many beautiful island member states of the British Commonwealh and are usually very boring.
A couple in Washington, DC, is torn apart when a friend is accused of treasonJane and David Graham live upper-middle-class lives in mid-century Washington, DC.
Auszeit auf Baliein Adrian Metz Krimi - Band 1Cecilla erklärte ihren Eltern, dass sie keine Lust mehr auf das Studium hat, und bricht die Lehramts- Ausbildung ab.
The first novels of the writer Faisal Hourani, published in the year 1973, in Damascus, and the writer reproduced and issued in a new edition in the year 2004, in Ramallah, and the events of the novel take place in the months between 1970 and 1971, in which that conflict that takes place in prison is embodied Between the prisoner and the intelligence investigator, the conflict that each of them strives to defeat the other; The prisoner, with his ability to harm and reject the temptations that the investigator offers; This investigator, with his authority to harm his prisoner and the temptations available to his country to push the prisoner to bowing to its will; It is a conflict that one of these two must win.
Paul Schrager, 22 Jahre alt, frisch examinierter Geologe, hat seinen Vater nie kennengelernt; seine Mutter hat alle Erinnerungen verbannt, es gibt keine Fotos und Fragen hat sie immer abgeblockt.
The Edge is the pulse-pounding second Travis Devine thriller from international number one bestselling author David Baldacci, following the runaway bestseller The 6:20 Man.
A chilling geopolitical thriller and real-world cautionary tale presenting a dark yet very possible future of war between the US and China from two former military officers and award-winning authors THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A rippingly good read Wired______________12 March 2034.
A Chicago law student tangles with a sexy attorney as she works to free an innocent man in this romantic suspense tale by a USA Today-bestselling author.
