Xiran Jay Zhao - Iron Widow (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB The boys of Huaxia dream of the celebrity status that comes with piloting Chrysalises – giant transforming robots that battle the aliens beyond the Great Wall. Their female co-pilots are expected to serve as concubines and sacrifice their lives. When 18-year-old...

Max Chafkin - The Contrarian. Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The...

Harper Bliss - That Woman Next Door (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Olivia Chevalier is perfectly happy living a quiet life of solitude with her two cats in the tempestuous countryside of Brittany. Olivia’s peace is disrupted when heartbreaker extraordinaire Marie Dievart moves in to the holiday home next door after an...

Colm Toibin - The Magician (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second,...

Carolyn Arnold - The Silent Witness (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB It’s 4 a.m. when her mom shakes her awake. “Get up baby, we’re going to play hide and seek.” The little girl presses back into the dark space, holding her breath as she hears the shots ring out. She knows she’s next… When the bodies of a local family are...

Rebecca Griffiths - The Girl at My Door (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB The young friends were unaware of the man who had followed them through the park. With his trilby pulled down, he moved stealthily through the trees. He was careful and kept to the shadows. He worried it might not have been his wisest move to join the...

Tarana Burke - Unbound. My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the “me too” movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those...

Joseph Pfeifer - Ordinary Heroes. A Memoir of 9/11 (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning...

Craig Whitlock - The Afghanistan Papers. A Secret History of the War (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon...

Nathaniel Philbrick - Travels with George. In Search of Washington and His Legacy (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen...