"In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship--until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After François Duvalier's rule turns deadly in the 1950s, Sisi moves to Paris, while Gertie marries into a wealthy Dominican family. Across decades and continents, through personal...

In the winding streets of Valsor, a vibrant city steeped in a rich and tumultuous history, emerges an epic political showdown between two titans: Marcus Valentin and Isabel Montenegro. Amidst the chaotic backdrop of scandals, fragile alliances, and dark secrets, both candidates embark on a desperate race for leadership of the city, each driven by their own ambitions and visions for Valsor's future. While voters are captivated by passionate rhetoric...

A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate. On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory...

In this new international thriller from the author of The Geneva Option, UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay is drawn into a web of betrayal and intrigue that leads from deep within America's military-industrial complex to the Middle East and beyond. Yael Azoulay went rogue in Geneva and nearly lost her life; although her physical wounds are healed, she will never be able to forget what happened. Now back in New York, when the secretary-general asks...

In Cuba, Castro has finally relinquished power. . . . now a mysterious exile (Che Guevara?) returns to finish the revolution. When a strange man appears in rural towns around Cuba quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls "the True Republic," old-timers begin to suspect that the elderly stranger, who calls himself Ernesto Blanco, may actually be the martyr Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Shortly after Blanco's appearance, Fidel Castro steps down...

A God in Ruins Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that...

Il est coutume de dire que l'Histoire est écrite par les vainqueurs, mais c'est oublier la partie de l'humanité qui engendre ces hommes. L'effondrement de l'empire d'Alexandre Le Grand va donner naissance à de multiples royautés disséminées sur le monde méditerranéen. Ces nouveaux mondes seront dirigés par des volontés hégémoniques, et les femmes n'en seront pas absentes. Le présent ouvrage dresse le portrait holistique et sans concessions...

Man versus machine. Anarchy versus order. Power versus love.Centuries of war have ravaged the world. Those left are sheltered under domed cities -- like the decrepit city of Kennedy -- but they're not really protected. Class warfare wages. The lower classes are kept down by the upper class that strives to eventually replace them with easily-controlled artificial intelligence. The man who created this AI is Jerrid Fieger, the most powerful man in Kennedy....

"La Ligue des Aigles bleus" plonge le lecteur au cœur des enjeux cruciaux du vingt et unième siècle. Maryse Ledoyen, fraîchement élue Secrétaire générale de l'ONU, se trouve face à des défis monumentaux. Pour affronter ces obstacles, elle rassemble une équipe d'élite, la Ligue des Aigles bleus, composée de personnalités mondialement connues. Ensemble, ils parcourent le globe, défiant l'adversité à chaque étape de leur mission. Dans...

Pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique, Léa, jeune scientifique passionnée, a choisi de faire carrière dans le secteur des SMR, les fameux petits réacteurs nucléaires. Estimant que, face à la concurrence, son employeur ne prenait pas les bonnes décisions elle décida d'agir. Grâce à un ami devenu un champion de golf renommé elle part « surveiller » un concurrent américain dont les compétences l'interpellent. Débute alors...