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Roald Amundsen, polar explorer and tragic hero: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an...

In Radicalism, journalist and economist George Soule examines the political, economic, and psychological roots of American radical thought in the years following World War I. Soule argues that genuine radicalism is not simply a demand for greater material wealth. At its core lies a deeper desire...

A thrilling magical fantasy debut about an ancient feud between Queen Titania and King Oberon. "A fantastical treat for readers of 10 and up." —Literary Review All is not well in the kingdom of Silvanland. An ancient feud between Queen Titania and King Oberon has turned into a merciless war...

One of the masterpieces of English fiction, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two characters as they each come to discover the truth of their natures. Gwendolen Harleth is the beautiful, high-spirited daughter of an impoverished upper-class family. Daniel Deronda, the adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman, is searching for his path in life.

Hero and Leander is a Greek myth concerning the tragic story of two lovers. One was a priestess of Aphrodite who lived in a tower in Sestos, and the other a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her, with Hero's lamp at the top of her tower as his guiding light, and they shared a warm summer of love.

A dança dos dragões é o quinto livro da saga As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, dando continuidade à trama de O festim dos corvos e trazendo personagens novos e conhecidos em disputas acirradas por um reino à beira da ruína.

Alles über die berühmteste Familie aus "Game of Thrones" und "House of the Dragon". Jahrhunderte lang herrschte das Haus Targaryen über den Kontinent Westeros, während seine Drachen die Lüfte regierten. Dieses Hörbuch widmet sich dem Aufstieg dieser Dynastie, beginnend mit der Eroberung von Westeros durch Aegon Targaryen bis hin zum legendären Drachentanz, der die Familie fast auslöschte. Die Targaryen – und ihre Drachen – erwachen in dieser Chronik eindrücklich zum Leben.

No straight women. No parents of students. Nobody under 35. Vanessa Martini makes no apologies for her dating checklist. She’s been up close to enough messy breakups to know what havoc they wreak in life. Just because people see her as fun and happy, and just because she loves her life in general, that doesn’t mean she can’t be careful. Or discerning. Or, okay, fine, super picky.

In this vivifying omnibus, historian and popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz abridges and introduces more than twenty world classics of inspiration, motivation, and successful living.

Sotto la guida di Major, vecchio e saggio maiale che mal sopporta i soprusi dell'uomo, gli animali di una fattoria si ribellano, instaurando un nuovo ordine in cui vige, tra gli altri, il comandamento: "Tutti gli animali sono uguali". Ma l'uguaglianza, l'armonia e la concordia che regolano i rapporti di questa inedita comunità presto vacillano: proprio i maiali, leader della rivolta, iniziano infatti a distinguersi come nuova classe dominante.

One of the first psychic vampire novels of its time - where the vampire feeds off of more than just blood - The House of the Vampire is an early classic in its genre. This Victorian novel operates in the continuum of life and death. What has been can be again, though often terribly transformed. Energetically inventive and infused with a relish for the supernatural, especially the trappings of the dark, The House of the Vampire delivers a horror which we know does not - but none the less conceivably might - exist and threaten ourselves. 

George Orwell ofrece en este audiolibro una de las reflexiones más lúcidas sobre los nacionalismos. En tiempos como los que estamos viviendo, los nacionalismos y los extremismos en todas sus formas resurgen con fuerza. En este extraordinario ensayo, publicado en mayo de 1945, en los estertores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y disponible ahora en su versión audiolibro, George Orwell establece una definición del nacionalismo que vas más allá del vínculo con un lugar geográfico, como un pernicioso estado de rigidez mental en el que no tiene cabida ni el debate ni la reflexión.

Named for the fictional community in which it is set, Middlemarch is George Eliot's rich and teeming portrait of provincial life in Victorian England. In it, a panoply of complicated characters attempt to carry out their destinies against the various social expectations that accompany their classes and genders.

Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square - and Germany's first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant: Was Alexanderplatz itself to blame? Was the socialist architecture? The brutality of capitalism?

For Addison Fairchild, success is a guarantee. Groomed since childhood to run a division of Fairchild Enterprises, she takes her birthright seriously. Maybe a little too seriously, if you ask her friends. But work is so much easier than the rest of her life. For Katie Cooper, money has never been important. That is, until her father gets dementia and needs full-time care. As the bills start to pile up, Katie takes a second job as a temporary personal assistant. Two minutes and one spilled cup of coffee later, she's sure she's not ready for Addison Fairchild.

Un joven anarquista se roba un frasco que contiene una peligrosa bacteria, desde el laboratorio de un patólogo. Cuando el científico se da cuenta de lo ocurrido, se origina una loca e incansable persecución.

Herbert George Wells, más conocido como H. G. Wells, fue un escritor y novelista británico. Wells fue un autor prolífico que escribió en diversos géneros: ciencia ficción, docenas de novelas, relatos cortos, obras de crítica social, sátiras, biografías y autobiografías. Es recordado por sus novelas de ciencia ficción.

El nuevo acelerador, de Herbert George Wells es un cuento sobre los efectos de una droga capaz de llevar al corazón a 1000 latidos por minuto, a fin de acelerar el metabolismo y aprovechar el tiempo por la aceleración del pensamiento y movimiento humanos.

On the evening of 20 April 1944, 16-year-old Ferenc Göndör is crushed into the overcrowded synagogue in Ujfehértó. All the Jews in the Hungarian city are to be deported. Ferenc, his mother and his sister are transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his new identity "A-6171" is tattooed on his arm. Ferenc suffers unimaginable atrocities and lives his days surrounded by death. After the liberation, he returns to Hungary, but none of his closest relatives are alive anymore.