Kim Thuy - Em (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose...

Charles Cumming - Judas 62 (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth… 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia in the guise of a language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. Top secret intelligence agency BOX 88 has ordered Kite to extract a chemical weapons...

Charles Cumming - Box 88 (2020) ENG Formato: EPUB An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. Years ago, a spy was born… 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on the...

Jeremy Paxma - Black Gold (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It drove industry, religion, politics, empire and trade. It powered the industrial revolution, turned Britain into the first urban nation and...

Marina J. Lostetter - Activation Degradation (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB When Unit Four&;a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere&;is activated for the first time, it&;s in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose...

Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira. Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns...

Sharri Markson - What Really Happened in Wuhan (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring...

Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe - Vanderbilt. The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he...

Scott Gottlieb, M.D. - Uncontrolled Spread. Why Covid-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America&;s pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect...

Rick Bragg - The Speckled Beauty. A Dog and His People (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound...