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International best-selling author Ken Follett has captivated listeners with over 50 titles including Eye of the Needle and The Century Trilogy. The Kingsbridge series was Ken's first venture into the middle ages, and after the astounding critical acclaim with which The Pillars of The Earth and World Without End have met, a third instalment has been in high demand. Ken visits the Audible Studios to introduce A Column of Fire, the long-awaited continuation of the saga.

Audible Exclusive. We welcome Ken MacLeod to Audible to discuss Dissidence: The Corporation Wars.

At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They Dared Return is their story - a tale of adventure, espionage, love, and revenge.

A real-life story of love and betrayal set in America's favorite playground, Casino is a Mafia tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, as well as the inside account of just how the mob lost control of the neon money-making machine it created.

Lektor Fvonk har arbejdet i Vandre- og Motionsforbundet i en periode hvor der foregik noget snavs. Og selvom det ikke var fra Fvonk, initiativet til medlemsbedrageriet i organisationen udgik, blev han trukket med ned. Han er nedtrykt og ensom, men fast besluttet på fra nu af at holde sin sti ren og distancere sig fra snavs og fuskeri. Så får han en logerende som ikke er hvem som helst. Snarere tværtimod. Han hedder Jens og er Norges statsminister.

LEGETØJ er Branners debutroman, hvor han i et fremragende og fængslende sprog skildrer livet i et engrosfirma, der handler med legetøj. Men dens egentlige tema er løgnen og bedraget mellem menneskene, fremkaldt af angst og magtbegær. Firmaet er et minisamfund, et forfærdende billede på tiden i 30’erne med fascismens fremvækst.Udgives i Gyldendals Klassikerkollektion, der forbinder de store litterære klassikere på tværs af tider og temaer. Serien tæller foreløbigt fem kollektioner: Kærlighed, Erindring, Gys, Rejse og Andre klassikere.

"Alberto" er en roman om Bertel Thorvaldsen, den danske billedhugger, som på sin karrieres højdepunkt var verdens mest berømte kunstner. Bertel Thorvaldsen vokser op under kummerlige forhold i 1770'ernes København. Faderen er billedskærer og ligesom moderen dranker. Thorvaldsen bliver forældre for sine forældre, som oven i købet slår mønt af sønnens talent for at kunne købe snaps. Men elendigheden skærper hans sanser og gør ham stærk, hvor man mindst ville vente det. Han kommer på Kunstakademiet, men kan ikke ryste sin opvækst af sig. Han er ulærd og utilpasset.

Kim er vokset op i en Jehovas Vidne-koloni langt ude på landet i Norge. Faren bliver udstødt af sekten og flytter til Danmark, og da Kim er 17 år flygter han ned til ham. Han finder en far, der er god at snakke med, og som er tolerant. Men faren begynder at misbruge Kim. "Kalak" er et dødsridt af en erindringsroman om incest, narkomani og Grønland i 1990'erne.

Following up rumors of trouble on his old home ground, Ryan Cawdor and his band seek shelter inside the walls of what was once the largest shopping mall in the Carolinas. The baron of the concrete fortress gives them no choice but to join his sec teams. As outside invaders step up their raids on the mall, Ryan has to battle both sides for a chance to save their lives.

Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is — and what it can be.

Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. The book combines illuminating personal anecdotes with Trebek’s thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy. Trebek also addresses the questions he gets asked most often by Jeopardy! fans, such as what prompted him to shave his signature mustache, his insights on legendary players like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, and his opinion of Will Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live impersonation.

Heroic Leadership examines military leadership principles as they apply to business and life. Leadership expert and retired general William Cohen describes the eight universal laws of leadership and explains why heroic leadership has worked so successfully and ethically for thousands of years despite severe conditions of risk, uncertainty, and hardship. He also shows how to implement Heroic Leadership to attract fellowship, use influence tactics, develop self-confidence, build, coach, and motivate a team, take charge in crisis situations, and take action.

Presenting invaluable advice from the world's most famous computer security expert, this intensely listenable collection features some of the most insightful and informative coverage of the strengths and weaknesses of computer security and the price people pay - figuratively and literally - when security fails. Discussing the issues surrounding things such as airplanes, passports, voting machines, ID cards, cameras, passwords, internet banking, sporting events, computers, and castles, this book is a must-listen for anyone who values security at any level.

From the best-selling coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams comes an all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined "formal" organization of a company - the management structure, performance metrics, and processes - and the "informal" - the culture, social networks, and ad hoc communities that spring up naturally....

Once, Frank Morgan had a wife and a future on the land - until a rich man with a grudge drove him out of Colorado. Since then, Morgan's taken up the one skill that always came easy - gunfighting - and drifted to a mining town in the New Mexico Territory. But there's nothing easy about two vicious gangs descending on the town and threatening to wreak havoc. With his reputation preceding him, Morgan is elected to stand in the outlaws' way. And with nothing left to lose, he's the last man who will ever back down....

On nothing more than a lark, he leaves his family and begins a journey from Ohio westward. Along the way, he runs up against badlands and bad men, loses his freedom, gains his freedom and learns the first rule of the frontier: Do whatever it takes to survive. With ruthless enemies after him - both White men and Indians - he’ll head for a place as brutal as it is beautiful - the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Atrum Terra: Dark Lands tells the story of two people from different sides of the nation who struggle to survive after a devastating attack breaks the back of the United States. It is a journey in which the whole world is sent spiraling toward a dark future where humans are an endangered species.

Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese American author John Okada is set during the aftermath of the US government's incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II and the resettlement of Japanese Americans to the West Coast. In the play, Ichiro returns to Seattle, where he struggles to transition into post-war life.

Two Harvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thought along with the latest research drawn from the biological and social sciences to propose a new theory, a unified synthesis of human nature. Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria have studied the way people behave in that most fascinating arena of human behavior - the workplace - and from their work they produce a book that examines the four separate and distinct emotive drives that guide human behavior.

In Outperform, authors John Baschab and Jon Piot have written an approachable, pragmatic guide for individual investors who want to understand the proven investment strategies of large academic endowments and enhance the performance of their portfolios. It provides a unique look into the world of endowment investing through extensive and exclusive interviews with current and former Chief Investment Officers of leading endowments at both public and private universities.