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Since the age of thirteen, Lanny Budd has been more than an eyewitness to history. From the Paris Peace Conference to the Battle of the Bulge, he has played key roles in the extraordinary events of his age. Now, forty years later, Presidential Agent 103 is coming out of retirement to serve his country—and the free world—once more. A counterfeiting conspiracy hatched by unrepentant neo-Nazis threatens to gravely damage America’s efforts to rebuild and stabilize a divided Germany. Lanny’s previous experience makes him the ideal operative to foil the sinister plot.

As a spy for President Franklin Roosevelt, Lanny Budd was able to infiltrate the inner circle of the Nazi high command and glean essential information on behalf of the Allied cause. Now, as the terrible global conflict approaches its long-awaited conclusion, the newly commissioned Captain Budd of the US Army is on hand to witness the final collapse of the Third Reich in the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge. The nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brings World War II to an end, but not even the death of Franklin Roosevelt can release Lanny from his obligations.

藤壺は光君との不義の子を出産、葵の上は六条御息所の生霊で命を落とす――名場面が続く、2巻！

栄華の頂点と、忍び寄る影――藤壺の宮との秘めた子が新帝に立ち、理想郷である広大な六条院が落成する。愛とかなしみに、ますますドラマが動く！

夕顔の忘れ形見、玉鬘をめぐる、恋の駆け引き。揺るぎない地位を築いた光源氏の苦悩と迷い――人間ドラマを描く筆が冴えわたる巻！

日本文学最大の傑作を、小説としての魅力を余すことなく現代に甦えらせた角田源氏。輝く皇子として誕生した光源氏が、数多くの恋と波瀾に満ちた運命に動かされてゆく。「桐壺」から「末摘花」までを収録。

A respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan’s most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May Welland, a beautiful young woman of fine social standing. But the arrival of the worldly and exotic Countess Olenska, May’s cousin, changes everything. Ellen Olenska’s scandalous intention to divorce her husband, a Polish nobleman, is so far outside the realm of Newland’s experience that he cannot help but be fascinated by her, and by the independence she represents.

Ein Kampf mit allen Mitteln: der Klassiker von 1981 erstmals als deutsches Hörbuch. Smalltown, USA, 1973: die erste Energiekrise. Aber der neue Highway soll trotzdem gebaut werden. Und die Planierraupe nähert sich unaufhaltsam dem Haus, in dem Barton Dawes seit 20 Jahren lebt. Ist es da ein Wunder, dass Dawes alles tut, um das zu verhindern?

Finstere Intrigen, schauerliche Geheimnisse und unverzagte Helden – ein Frühwerk Karl Mays! Der Roman beginnt in den Wäldern des Nordens und führt zu den sonnendurchglühten Ufern des Nils. Die märchenhaft-geheimnisvolle Handlung erzählt von Abenteuern in der Wüste und im Mittelmeer und vom Aufstieg eines Nilbarkenführers zum Kapudan-Pascha, zum Großadmiral des Sultans. I. Der schwarze Kapitän II. Das Geheimnis der Gitana

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.

In 1943, the once-unstoppable Nazi war machine is starting to falter. For a decade and a half, Lanny Budd’s cover as a fine-art dealer and Fascist sympathizer has held firm, earning him the confidence of Hermann Göring and other top officials, including Adolf Hitler himself. With the Allies preparing to retake Europe, Lanny must make certain that the location of the invasion remains hidden from the Nazi high command. But his mission is compromised and his life endangered when Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s feared Gestapo chief, uncovers Lanny’s true loyalties.

In dieser letzten Reiseerzählung Karl Mays finden Eindrücke von seiner Amerikareise 1908 ihren Niederschlag. Die Bedeutung früherer Geschehnisse um den edlen Indianer Winnetou tritt hervor, und das große Menschheitsproblem erfährt am Beispiel der roten Völker seine gerechte Lösung. Zu Karl Mays Lebzeiten erschien dieser Band im Verlag Friedrich E. Fehsenfeld unter dem Titel Winnetou. 4. Band!

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road. Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox—two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground—The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America’s field of vision.

When ten-year-old Maureen Sutton disappears from a sleepy village in Kent, the crime unleashes a wave of voyeuristic obsession and hysteria. With nerve, inspiration and deadpan brilliance Caroline Blackwood draws us into the village to witness the macabre and devastating effects of the story on the fragile world of Rowan Anderson, his inscrutable wife Cressida and their sickly daughter, as Cressida becomes increasingly desperate to save Mary Rose from the same fate - and perhaps even from Rowan himself.

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, alongside the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Nesta obra, Paulo Honório conta sua história de vida, desde a conquista da fazenda São Bernardo até a amargura da velhice. Nesta versão adaptada para áudio, os diálogos diretos foram incorporados à narração, visando a facilitar a compreensão para o ouvinte. Foram mantidos, porém, o conteúdo do texto e os trechos narrados em primeira pessoa tal qual o autor os escreveu.

The year 1942 marked the turning point of World War II. The Americans destroyed the Japanese Battle Fleet in the decisive engagements of Midway and the Coral Sea. General Montgomery defeated General Rommel at El Alamein … But for President Roosevelt, 1942 was the darkest hour of the war. He knew the Germans were developing the atomic bomb. Our victories would be meaningless if the Nazis perfected the “A” bomb first. There was only one man who could find out the biggest Nazi secret of the war—Lanny Budd!

Ambitious. Ruthless. Unprincipled. With their blurred morals and relatable imperfections, it’s no wonder we find anti-heroes so appealing and fascinating. Featuring a mixture of male and female anti-heroes across England, Scotland, France and New York, these fantastic adaptations of five of the best-known and best-loved classics of literature follow some of these flawed, nuanced characters as they steal the spotlight and make their presence known.

Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich. At the president’s personal request, Lanny Budd gained the confidence of the Nazi high command and began transmitting valuable information back to the White House. Espionage is a dangerous game, however, and Presidential Agent 103 soon finds himself a target of the French Resistance fighters he is attempting to assist.