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It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice-president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national-security conference has just been held, bringing together the world's greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It's American politicking at its best. That's when all hell breaks loose.

When the president of the United States is blackmailed into releasing five detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a sadistic assassin with a vendetta years in the making is reactivated. Suddenly, the people closest to counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath are being targeted and he realizes that somehow, somewhere he has left the wrong person alive. With his life plunged into absolute peril, and the president ordering him to stay out of the investigation, Harvath must mount his own covert plan for revenge.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett, read by John Banks. This is the third book in the House of Niccolo series. Set in 15th-century Cyprus, this novel continues the saga of Nicholas van der Poel, international mercenary who started out as a dyer's apprentice, as he plays for the highest stakes with the greatest superpowers in Europe.

Across Europe, a secret organisation has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules - all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before.

In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Rd crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where he will have more sex, bury his dead father in a matchbox, and get on the wrong side of the Stasi. In 2016, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Rd crossing. He is not fine at all; he is rushed to hospital and spends the following days in and out of consciousness. Jennifer is sitting by his bedside. His very-much-not-dead father is sitting by his bedside. Someone important is missing.

In 1461, the mysterious, enigmatic Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing from the crown of the Ottoman Empire. But trouble lies ahead. Nicholas's step-daughter - at the tender age of 13 - has eloped with his rival in trade: a Machiavellian Genoese who races ahead of Nicholas, sowing disaster at every port. And time is of the essence: Trebizond may fall to the Turks at any moment.

On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.

'I was a penniless, landless petitioner, my Neville blood a curse, my future dependent on the charity of those who despised me....' Anne Neville is the heiress and daughter of the greatest powerbroker in the land, Warwick the Kingmaker. Trapped in a deadly tangle of political intrigue, she is a pawn in an uncertain game, used by the houses of Neville, York and Lancaster alike. In England's glittering, treacherous court, not all wish to see the Nevilles raised high.

Lord Titmuss is still a figure with formidable influence in his constituency, but now the Conservatives face a difficult by-election after the strange death of the sitting Tory MP. Terry Flitton, the New Labour candidate, is confident of victory. But Titmuss seems to know a great deal about Terry, and quite a lot about the late and unmourned MP.... The Sound of Trumpets represents the triumphant completion of a political trilogy that began with Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained.

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmostphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello....

New York: a woman waits in the shadows, a Colt .25 in her elegant hand. Her target: Senator Michael Cohan, member of an extremist organization dedicated to destroying the peace talks. Run by Britain's most wanted terrorist, Jack Barry, its secret links stretch all the way to the Oval Office. Washington: the president calls Blake Johnson, head of secret White House department 'the Basement'. He needs to see him now.

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

It is 1917, and Korea has yet to be divided into North and South. With the threat of famine looming, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school in cosmopolitan Pyongyang, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status. Jade flees to Seoul, where she forms a deep friendship with an orphan boy called Jung Ho, who scrapes together a living begging on the streets. As Jade becomes a sought-after performer with unexpected romantic prospects, Jung Ho is swept up in the revolutionary fight for independence.

Set in contemporary India, A Burning is the story of three unforgettable characters, all dreaming of a better future, whose lives are changed for ever when they become caught up in the devastating aftermath of a terrorist attack. Jivan - a poor, young, Muslim girl, who dreams of going to college - faces a possible death sentence after being accused of collaborating with the terrorists. Lovely - an exuberant hijra who longs to be a Bollywood star - holds the alibi that can set Jivan free, but telling the truth will cost her everything she holds dear.

حازت هذه الرواية على المركز الأول لجائزة المجلس الأعلى للثقافة وذلك ربّما بسبب موضوعها الشائك الذي تناولته فهي تتحدّث عن ظاهرة الاغتراب التي يعيشها الشباب بعد الربيع العربي وتركّز على مرحلة فقد الأب وجدلية الموت بشكلٍ عام عن طريق قصّة حب بين رجلٍ مصري وامرأةٍ سورية تنتهي بالزواج وبطفلٍ يملأ عليهما بضحكاته البيت الدّافيء، لكن ما تلبث هذه الصّورة أن تتدمّر بهروب الزوجة إلى أمريكا مع ابنها لأنّها لا تشعر بالأمان في الوطن العربي المضطّرب بالحروب والصّراعات السياسية لتبدأ الحكاية.

المجلّد الأول من الخماسيّة التي حملت مجلّداتُها الخمسة هذا العنوان العام : دروب المنفى، والتي حمل كلّ مجلّد منها عنوانا إضافيا بجانب العنوان العام. إنها الخماسيّة التي رسمت بلغة الأدب بانوراما المشهد الإنسانيّ الفلسطينيّ بوجوهه العديدة ، الاجتماعيّ، والأقتصاديّ ، والفكريّ ، والسياسيّ ، وذلك خلال الفترة المتمدة بين 1939 وبين 1978. المجلّد الأول هذا يُغطّي الفترة من 1939 إلى 1.

رواية صدرت طبعتها الأولى في العام 1983 ، في دمشق ، تجري أحداثها في النصف الأول من خمسنيات القرن العشرين ، في منطقة البطيحة السورية المحاذية لبحيرة طبريا

صدرت الطبقة الأولى لهذه الرواية في العام 1979، في بيروت . تجري أحداث الرواية في الشهور التي امتدت من أيار مايو 1948 حتى صيف 1949 . إنها الشهور التي شهدت الوقائع الكبيرة التي اكتملت بها نكبة الشعب الفلسطيني : انتهاء الاحتلال البريطاني لفلسطين بعد أن مهّد الطريق لتنفيذ وعد بلفور ؛ وإعلان الحركة الصهيونية تأسيسَ دولتها ؛ واندلاع الحرب العربيّة الاسرئيلية الأولى وإذا شكّلت الأحداث التاريخية خلفيةً للمشهد الذي ركّزت الرواية عليه ، فحياة الناس العاريين هي التي رسمت تفاصيل المشهد ، التفاصيل التي اهتمت الروايا بإبرازها.

روايةٌ صدرت طبعتها الأولى في العام 2013 ، في رام الله. تجرى أحداث هذه الرواية ، الأقرب ما يكون إلى صنف الرواية غير المتخيلة ، في بيروت ، في صيف الغام 1982 ، حين أحكم الجيش الاسرائيلي حصاره للقسم الغربيّ من عاصمة لبنان ، حيث وجد الفلسطنيون ، مدنيين ومقاتلين، وحيث وُجدَ أيضا سكّان هذا القسم اللبنانيّون ومقاتلوا الحركة الوطنيّة اللبنانيّة المتحالفون مع الفلسطينين . لا تؤرّخ الرواية وقائع الحصار ، بل ترصد سلوك الناس العاديين أثناء هذا الحصار ، وتظهر مقدرة الأنسان عل.

هذا المجلّد الثالث يتابع سرد الحكاية الفلسطينية في المنفى . يبدأ بالعام 1958 الذي شهد انضمام سورية إلى مصر في دولة الجمهورية العربية المتحدة ، كما شهد تبلور السعي الفلسطينيّ لإعادة بناء الحركة الوطنيّة الفلسطينية التي دمرتها نكبةُ 1948. ويُغطّي المجلّد الفترة من 1958 حتى 1963، أي الى العام الذي تسلّم فيه السلطة في سورية التحالف الذي ضمّ حزب البعث العربي الإشتراكي والحركة الناصريّة وهو ذاته العام الذي شهد انفكاك هذا التحالف ودخول طرفيه في صراع دام هو صراع الذي بلغ ذروته في 18 تموز/يوليو 1963 ،