Robert Emmet Meagher - Albert Camus and the Human Crisis. A Discovery and Exploration (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB As France—and all of the world—was emerging from the depths of World War II, Camus summed up what he saw as "the human crisis”: We gasp for air among people who believe they are absolutely right,...

John Little - The Donnellys. Powder Keg, 1840–1880 (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise...

Amie Kaufman - Aurora's End (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait . . . Not. So. Fast. When we last saw Squad 312, they were working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out)...

Steven Maxwell - All Was Lost (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Orla McCabe has found a case of money. Willing to do almost anything to give her family a better life, she flees with her husband and baby daughter - and the money. Meanwhile, detectives Lynch and Carlin are investigating a botched human trafficking deal on the...

Roderick Beaton - The Greeks. A Global History (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical...

Debby Applegate - Madam. The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of...

Huma Abedin - Both/And. A Life in Many Worlds (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB The daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advocates who split their time between Saudi Arabia, the UK and the United States, Abedin grew up in many worlds. Both/And grapples with family, legacy, identity, faith, marriage and...

Michael Burlingame - The Black Man's President. Abraham Lincoln, Black Abolitionists, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB In a little-noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's...

Alan Jones - Blood and Stone (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB Jennifer Ormiston, a lively and controversial local radio presenter, is found dead in an antique bath in her upmarket flat, an apparent suicide. Three weeks earlier, we meet a number of very different characters, all of whom are connected in some way to Jennifer...

John Boessenecker - Wildcat. The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit (2021) ENG Formato: EPUB On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist...