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London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the railway tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a whole community thrives: with hundreds of bunk beds...

Her mother was taken by the Nazis. Would she ever find her way home? Inspired by the true story of how Jewish people escaped fascist Germany, helped by two extraordinary sisters. 'I adored it. A truly heartrending, stirring, important novel, perfect for anyone who enjoys a cracking good tale'...

In 12th-century Ireland, four rival kings fought ferociously, leaving scorched earth and bloodshed as the Church’s saints tried to intervene. In the end, death and destruction rendered the country unable to defend itself from invaders across the sea. Who were the kings and how did sixty years of desperate wars set in motion the events leading to a divided land? Based on the actual events recorded by monks, this novel tells a compelling story about the most pivotal event in Irish history.

1659. Maaval province. Shattered after the rape of the women in his family, the young, hardscrabble Hiroji searches for self-identity and burns to exact revenge for his loss. His journey throws him into the cauldron of rape, loot, slavery, and pillage that has been ongoing in the Deccan for the last 300 years. He pledges his sword to the charismatic leader of a native rebellion that is battling for independence against the tyranny of the foreign invading Islamic hordes who have created these conditions. What begins as a fight for survival turns into a holy quest.

With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But who bought them? And what is their intended target? Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in...

Als Izzy Astor 2011 in ein Flugzeug steigt, rechnet sie höchstens mit ihrer üblichen Flugangst, aber ganz bestimmt nicht mit Nate Phelan: dunkelhaarig, strahlend blaue Augen, charmant und irgendwie genau der Mensch, den sie nie gesucht hat. Zwischen ihnen entsteht sofort eine tiefe Verbindung. Doch kurz nach dem Start stürzt das Flugzeug in den Missouri River. Ihre Leben verändern sich. Sie verändern sich. Nate macht Karriere beim Militär, Izzy verfolgt ihren eigenen Weg als Juristin. Trotz der Entfernung verlieren sie nie den Kontakt, aber das Timing scheint nie zu stimmen.

In the summer of 1320/1941 while the war is raging in Europe and spreading to the borders of Iran, the illustrious Azimi family migrate to their summer home and sprawling property in the north of the city as they do every year. This is a humorous story of the summer of war conspiracy theories and the Azimi family dealing with the war at their door step.

Zmam is a multilayered journey where Israeli secret service conspiracy, physics, and philosophy collide in foreign cultural and legal terrain before a Canadian tourist. A young state of Israel reborn in war hosts many a secret. Among them, the events surrounding one intellectual family unwittingly muddied in operations of the country’s own security service.

Chris Hodge is a private military contractor, groomed for the job by his handler, intelligence officer Abbott Mazuski. Hodge’s duty is to hunt down and eliminate radical Islamist terrorists during the height of the War on Terror. If he does well and proves himself relevant, Mazuski might just choose to share the truth behind the death of Chris Hodge’s Marine father in the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings.

In the scorching heat of Afghanistan, Corrado believes everything will be all right if he can just focus all of his energy on following orders and maintaining his sanity, until he learns that - even though he’s just a supply guy, in the rear with the gear - every soldier in the Army is an infantryman first. Surrounded by officers and enlisted soldiers from almost every walk of life, both the beauty and ugliness of America are revealed. But will this revelation allow Corrado to get back home and live the American Dream?

Three years after the 9/11 attacks, Mike a staff sergeant in the Army, has command of a squad of 10 soldiers stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan. The squads orders are to protect the Kabul markets as the city comes back to life after years of war. Mike learns of a time honored tradition favored by the Taliban warlords and corrupt businessmen. The buying of “Bacha Batzi Boys”, meaning “Boy Play”, boys trained to entertain for the Taliban warlords. The abused and exploited boys are taken to the caves deep into the Hindu Kush mountains.

WINNER OF THE ‘FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR’ AT CRT 2021 Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the author discussing his inspiration for Ashes and his family’s history during World War II. A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will...