Wanneer een jonge vrouw dood wordt gevonden in Brooklyn, wordt de ambitieuze rechercheur Julia Keane geconfronteerd met een zaak die niets is wat het lijkt.Haar zoektocht naar de waarheid raakt verstrengeld met die van Romeo Rascetti, een charismatische zakenman met meer macht en geheimen dan hij laat zien.Al snel vervaagt de lijn tussen gevaar, verlangen en waarheid.En niets blijft zonder gevolgen.Sommige keuzes lijken onmogelijk. Andere... onvermijdelijk.

In ‘Onbreekbare eed’ van Andrew Huff leidt predikant John Cross zijn gemeente op het goede pad. Hij is niet iemand van wie je verwacht dat hij een duister verleden heeft, maar de waarheid is dat hij in een vorig leven in dienst was van de CIA. Toen John zich bekeerde tot God, heeft hij zijn oude leven achter zich gelaten, maar nu is een oude vijand hem op het spoor die hem voor zijn zonden wil laten betalen met zijn leven. Kan John zich aan zijn eed houden en het probleem oplossen zonder dat er bloed wordt vergoten? Kan hij zijn gemeente en zichzelf beschermen? Als het erop aankomt, is zijn leven misschien wel het enige wat hij nog heeft om op te offeren…

Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces. With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.

Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces. With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.

From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movementIn late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa’s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a Dutch word meaning both “care” and “worry”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.After reaching Africa, The Zorg was captured by a privateer and came under British command. With a new captain and crew, the ship was crammed with 442 slaves, and departed in 1781 for Jamaica. But a series of unpredictable weather events and mistakes in navigation left the ship drastically off course and running out of food and water. So a proposition was put Save the crew and the most valuable of the slaves—by throwing 140 people, mostly women and children, overboard.What followed was a fascinating legal drama in England’s highest court that turned the brutal calculus of slavery into front page news. For the first time, concepts such as human rights and morality entered the discourse on slavery, in a notorious case that boiled down to a simple but profound Were the Africans on board the Zorg people or cargo?The case of the Zorg catapulted the nascent anti-slavery movement from a minor evangelical cause to one of the most consequential moral campaigns in history. In this book, Siddharth Kara utilizes primary source research, masterful storytelling, and painstaking investigation to uncover the Zorg’s journey, the lives and fates of the slaves on board, and the mystery of who finally revealed the truth of what happened on the ship.

The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth. The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made. Those who will die, and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Loved ones who have passed. Shopping and child-rearing. Our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory. Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before and what it means to be truly living. Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, Ravn's crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of longing, The Employees probes into what it means to be human, emotionally and ontologically, while simultaneously delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by work and the logic of productivity.

Esta introducción esencial a la historia de la filosofía universal contiene citas memorables y significativas de 100 de los más reconocidos pensadores del mundo desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días. Cada cita y su autor están contextualizados en su época y espacio históricos. De esta manera, el libro recorre más de 2500 años de historia y nos acerca de forma excepcional a las mentalidades y culturas de todo el mundo a lo largo de los tiempos, destacando las inquietudes que siguen uniéndonos y dividiéndonos a día de hoy. Desde Lao Tse en la China del siglo siglo VI a. e. c. hasta Platón en la Grecia clásica, y desde Jean-Jacques Rousseau en el siglo XVIII hasta Noam Chomsky en el XXI, la amplitud del pensamiento filosófico ofrece al lector una visión única de las diferentes actitudes y culturas de todo el mundo, junto con los problemas que nos unen y nos dividen. Este oportuno libro es una introducción al pensamiento mundial y al debate intelectual a través de los ojos y las mentes de quienes, por su propia naturaleza, hacen las preguntas más importantes y pueden impulsar el cambio y el progreso.