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Fiction River: Hard Choices

Fiction River: Hard Choices

Fiction & Literature

In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor's mission to deliver one last message, each of these stories demonstrates extremely hard choices—and some very real consequences. "The Fiction River series is a wonderful mind-expanding read…"—Astro GuyzIncluding:"Equal Justice" by Annie Reed"Payback" by Tonya D. Price"Eric the Monkey" by Dan C. Duval"Prospecting" by Ron Collins"Toots" by Michael Kowal"The Devil's Muse" by Laura Ware"Clean and Godly in Denmark" by Diana Deverell"Killshot" by Annie Reed"Four Hundred Yards" by Dale Hartley Emery"A Life with Meaning" by David Stier"Nightmare Scenario" by Chuck Heintzelman"Echo" by Leslie Clare Walker"Haunted" by Jamie Ferguson"Skinwalker" by Valerie Brook"Missiles of October" by Dan C. Duval"Girl with a Mission" by Dayle A. Dermatis"A New Day" by Kendall Heintzelman"They Taught Us Wrong" by M.L. Buchman"Tendrils" by Leigh Saunders"Little Byte and Big Pieces" by Valerie BrookFiction River is an original fiction anthology series. Modeled on successful anthology series of the past, from Orbit to Universe to Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, the goal of Fiction River is to provide a forum for "original ground-breaking fiction of all genres." Each Fiction River volume comes in ebook and trade paperback format, published by WMG Publishing, and features some of the best new and established fiction writers in publishing. Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are award-winning editors, as well as award-winning writers, and act as series editors for the anthologies. 

Safe Haven

Safe Haven

Fiction & Literature

In a small North Carolina town, a mysterious and beautiful woman running from her past slowly falls for a kind-hearted store owner . . . until dark secrets begin to threaten her new life.When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathetic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.

Vad som helst är möjligt

Vad som helst är möjligt

Fiction & Literature

Vad som helst är möjligt understryker Elizabeth Strouts position som en av Amerikas mest respekterade och hyllade författare. I sin nya bok tecknar hon starkt berörande porträtt av människor i en amerikansk småstad. En handfull oförglömliga karaktärer som försöker orientera sig i livet och hantera längtan, kärlek, sorg och besvikelse.Här finns två systrar, den ena byter bort sin självrespekt mot en välbärgad make, den andra söker svar i böcker och finner en själsfrände som förändrar hennes liv. Ortens skolvaktmästare rubbas i sin tillit till andra då han försöker hjälpa en medmänniska i nöd. En vuxen dotter längtar efter moderskärlek från en mor som söker lyckan i ett annat land. Lucy Barton – huvudpersonen i författarens förra roman – återvänder hem efter sjutton år för att besöka sina syskon …Vad som helst är möjligt påminner om bästsäljaren Olive Kitteridge som filmades och blev dramaserie för HBO år 2014. Lika raffinerad och komplex utforskar den nya boken själens innersta skrymslen och speglar hur personerna kämpar med att förstå sig själva och andra. Elizabeth Strout gestaltar lyhört människans sårbarhet och längtan efter att bli förstådd samtidigt som hon ingjuter hopp om möjlig försoning.

Fiction River: No Humans Allowed

Fiction River: No Humans Allowed

Fiction & Literature

Humans prove great fodder for fiction. But what about the universe of possibilities offered by the nonhuman protagonist? The eighteen daring humans of Fiction River’s latest volume explore just that. From a goblin who must choose whether to risk everything for love to a heroic rat adventuring at sea to sentient underpants (yes, underpants), these nonhuman tales demonstrate why Adventures Fantastic says: “If you haven’t checked out Fiction River yet, you should. There’s something for everyone.”“…a great set of unique and fast-paced tales of the imagination!”—Astro Guyz on Fiction River: Recycled PulpTable of Contents“In the Beginnings” by Annie Reed“At His Heels a Stone” by Lee Allred“In the Empire of Underpants” by Robert T. Jeschonek“The Sound of Salvation” by Leslie Claire Walker“Goblin in Love” by Anthea Sharp“Slime and Crime” by Michèle Laframboise“Always Listening” by Louisa Swann“Here I Will Dance” by Stefon Mears“Rats at Sea” by Brenda Carre“Sense and Sentientability” by Lisa Silverthorne“When a Good Fox Goes to War” by Kim May“The Game of Time” by Felicia Fredlund“The Scent of Murder” by Angela Penrose“Still-Waking Sleep” by Dayle A. Dermatis“Inhabiting Sweetie” by Dale Hartley Emery“The Legend of Anlahn” by Eric Kent Edstrom“Sheath Hopes” by Thea Hutcheson“We, The Ocean” by Alexandra Brandt

The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail

The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail

Fiction & Literature

This book documents that every trope and stereotype of the Western Genre were firmly in place as of 1914, when this volume was published. The Canadian Mounted Police in southern Alberta confront a potential native uprising in the 1880s. Their best hope in defeating the schemes of a treacherous halfbreed lie in the abilities of one retired trooper.

Ne pas écrire (suivi de) Sauvegarde

Ne pas écrire (suivi de) Sauvegarde

Fiction & Literature

L’auteur nous explique tout le processus créatif qui s’effectue en amont de l’acte d’écrire.Frappé par la tragédie, un homme fait appel aux services offerts par une compagnie très particulière pour récupérer sa femme et son enfant. Mais la procédure se révèle moins fiable que promise par la publicité... Thriller, horreur, fantastique, littérature générale ou science-fiction, aucun genre n’est à l’abri de l'immense talent de Michael MARSHALL : « Révélation » pour Le Monde, « Surdoué » pour Le Nouvel Observateur, « Écrivain majeur » pour The Guardian.

La donna che sembrava Greta Garbo

La donna che sembrava Greta Garbo

Fiction & Literature

Ambientato in una Stoccolma estiva e soleggiata, fra le migliaia di isolette che la circondano, un thriller carico di suspense che conferma la eccellenza nel genere di Maj Sjöwall che, questa volta in compagnia di Tomas Ross, riprende le strade del giallo già percorse con Per Wahlöö indagando tra i segreti più inconfessabili delle democrazie del Nord Europa.

El Patito Feo

El Patito Feo

Fiction & Literature

Era verano, y la región tenía su aspecto más amable del año. El trigo estaba dorado ya, la avena verde todavía. El heno había sido apilado en parvas sobre las fértiles praderas, por las que ambulaba la cigüeña con sus rojas patas, parloteando en egipcio, único idioma que su madre le había enseñado.

In Her Shoes

In Her Shoes

Fiction & Literature

From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up, semi-employed little sister to straighten up and fly right.Meet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old and drop-dead gorgeous. Although her big-screen stardom hasn't progressed past her left hip's appearance in a Will Smith video, Maggie dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her big sister on a skin-care regimen.These two women, who claim to have nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that they're more alike than they'd ever imagined. Along the way, they'll encounter a diverse cast of characters -- from a stepmother who's into recreational Botox to a disdainful pug with no name. They'll borrow shoes and clothes and boyfriends, and eventually make peace with their most intimate enemies -- each other.

A Good Hard Look

A Good Hard Look

Fiction & Literature

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward, a novel set in Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, and a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself"A wholly believable world shaped by duty, small pleasures, and fateful choices."—O, The Oprah MagazineForced by illness to leave behind a successful life in New York, literary icon Flannery O'Connor has returned to her family farm in the small town of Milledgeville, Georgia. With her health and time both limited, all she wants is to be left alone to write.But Flannery's plans are soon upended by Melvin Whiteson, a banker from Manhattan who has recently married the town belle. Melvin is at loose ends with his new life; though he has every opportunity, he's not sure where to begin. Flannery knows exactly what she wants, but is running out of time. Through their unusual and clandestine friendship, both will come to reflect on the decisions they have made and the paths they have chosen.Literary history and fiction gracefully intersect in this emotionally charged novel of small town Southern life, which asks us all to consider how we can live our lives to the fullest.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fiction & Literature

“I wish I could love” “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable.” Oscar Wilde said it and we almost felt revenged. And since you`ll beg to know why, picture the following: You open a fashion magazine (say, Vogue’s thick September issue). In between the make-up/skincare/perfume/you-name-it adverts showing the immaculate faces of splendid creatures in no need of botox, your eyes fall upon a ten-page interview with the latest god of style-cum-dandy of the day: a certain Dorian Gray. Had he lived nowadays and outside the confines of a print book’s pages, he would have graced the most fashionable covers with his beauty, while giving witty, melancholic interviews about pleasure, fun times, love-as-a-chimera and the decadent power of the New Überhedonism. When asked “Beauty over truth?”, he would have sighed, cracked a whimsical smile and answered, looking away: “I wish I could love…” Forty-five minutes (and as many side glances from his agent) later, he would have finally stated, nonchalantly yet slightly bored: “I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.” A brief moment of silence on the glossy page and in your mind, then the reporter regains composure: “And found it, Mr. Gray?” “Often. Too often.” Does the above sound too bitter or cynical to you? Than you must read the book and you`ll understand why we–and everybody else–love Dorian. Now, witticisms aside and as shallow as we might picture Mr. Gray, we ought to give him credit. As a true artist of pleasure, whose art was his life, he is one of the best written and most intriguing literary characters, not to mention envied or downright adored. And, although “art has no influence upon action”, we urge you to try and poison your soul with this book–the effect will be a thorough cleansing of the mind and the pleasure of finding countless treasures on the page, for this is one book that reads with a pencil in hand. You will want to underline everything, remember it all and emulate its every single deed. Oh well, almost every single one. In our world in which ugliness and old age have become both taboos and “the great Boos”, reading Dorian Gray remains an incredibly refreshing–and rewarding–experience. Beauty over truth? Beauty over kindness? Is it better to be beautiful than to be good? Here are as many questions for your own inner interview. Enjoy!

Victory

Victory

Fiction & Literature

The novel's most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section.

Thumbelina

Thumbelina

Fiction & Literature

Have you read Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen? You haven’t? Then make yourself comfortable. This tiny girl has been through many troubles, but remained kind and compassionate. Are you eager to learn what happened to her? Let’s go then.

Il buio oltre la siepe

Il buio oltre la siepe

Fiction & Literature

“L’unica cosa che non è sottoposta alla legge della maggioranza è la coscienza di un uomo” In un sonnolento paese del profondo Sud degli Stati Uniti l’avvocato Atticus Finch è incaricato della difesa d’ufficio di un afroamericano accusato di aver stuprato una ragazza bianca. Riuscirà a dimostrarne l’innocenza, ma il diffuso, duro pregiudizio razzista della cittadina renderà vano il suo impegno. Questo, in poche righe, l’episodio centrale di un romanzo che da quando è stato pubblicato, oltre cinquant’anni fa, non ha più smesso di appassionare non soltanto i lettori degli Stati Uniti, ma quelli di tutti i paesi del mondo. Quale il segreto della forza di questo libro? La sua voce narrante, che è quella della piccola Scout, la figlia di Atticus, una Huckleberry Finn in salopette che ci racconta la storia di Maycomb in Alabama, della propria famiglia, delle pettegole signore della buona società che vorrebbero farla diventare una di loro, di bianchi e neri per lei tutti uguali, e della battaglia paterna per salvare la vita di un innocente. Un libro che ha cambiato la percezione della convivenza tra bianchi e neri negli Usa più di tante manifestazioni di protesta e che è tuttora tristemente attuale, tanto da essere adottato nelle scuole di tutto il paese.

Matar un rossinyol

Matar un rossinyol

Fiction & Literature

«Dispareu a tants gaigs com vulgueu, però recordeu que és un pecat matar un rossinyol.» Aquest és el consell que un advocat dóna als seus fills mentre defensa l'autèntic rossinyol d'aquesta novel·la fascinant: un home negre acusat d'haver violat una noia blanca.Des de la seva publicació el 1960, Matar un rossinyol, l'única novel·la de Harper Lee coneguda fins ara, ha rebut nombroses distincions, entre altres el Premi Pulitzer i Millor novel·la del segle XX, segons els llibreters nord-americans. Robert Mulligan en va fer una esplèndida adaptació cinematogràfica. Traduïda a més de quaranta llengües, amb més de quaranta milions d'exemplars venuts a tot el món, aquesta magnífica novel·la s'ha convertit en tot un clàssic.Recentment Harper Lee ha decidit treure a la llum una altra novel·la, Vés, aposta un sentinella, la pròxima publicació de la qual s'ha convertit en el fenomen literari editorial més important dels últims anys.«Una persona poc corrent ha escrit aquesta esplèndida novel·la; una escriptora amb un vivíssim sentit de la realitat i amb un humor extremament tendre i sincer. Un llibre commovedor.» Truman Capote 

The Possessed (The Devils)

The Possessed (The Devils)

Fiction & Literature

One of Dostoyevsky's most famous novels, this 1872 work utilizes five main characters and their philosophical ideas to describe the political chaos of Imperial Russia in the nineteenth century. Based on an actual event involving the murder of a revolutionary by his comrades, this novel depicts a band of ruthless radicals attempting to incite revolt in their small, rural community.

Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1828

Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1828

Fiction & Literature

Vor vielen Jahren, als im Spessart die Wege noch schlecht und nicht so häufig als jetzt befahren waren, zogen zwei junge Bursche durch diesen Wald. Der eine mochte achtzehn Jahre alt sein und war ein Zirkelschmidt[1]; der andere, ein Goldarbeiter, konnte nach seinem Aussehen kaum sechzehn Jahre haben und tat wohl jetzt eben seine erste Reise in die Welt. Der Abend war schon heraufgekommen, und die Schatten der riesengroßen Fichten und Buchen verfinsterten den schmalen Weg, auf dem die beiden wanderten. Der Zirkelschmidt schritt wacker vorwärts und pfiff ein Lied, schwatzte auch zuweilen mit Munter, seinem Hund, und schien sich nicht viel darum zu kümmern, daß die Nacht nicht mehr fern, desto ferner aber die nächste Herberge sei; aber Felix, der Goldarbeiter, sah sich oft ängstlich um. Wenn der Wind durch die Bäume rauschte, so war es ihm, als höre er Tritte hinter sich; wenn das Gesträuch am Wege hin und her wankte und sich teilte, glaubte er Gesichter hinter den Büschen lauern zu sehen.

Extraits Rentrée littéraire Robert Laffont 2015

Extraits Rentrée littéraire Robert Laffont 2015

Fiction & Literature

En avant-première, découvrez les premiers chapitres des titres de la rentrée littéraire 2015 des éditions Robert Laffont: Littérature française- Jean d'Ormesson,Dieu, les affaires et nous - Sorour Kasmaï,Un jour avant la fin du monde - Jean-François Kervéan,Animarex - Eugène Green,L'inconstance des démons - Julien Suaudeau,Le Français - Jean-Marie Rouart,Ces amis qui enchantent la vie Littérature étrangère- Colm Tóbín,Le Testament de Marie

Ataúd cerrado

Ataúd cerrado

Fiction & Literature

Vuelve la sucesora de la Gran Dama del Crimen en el caso más difícil de Hércules Poirot.En el centenario de su creación, vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más famoso y brillante de la historia de la novela negra, que ha conquistado a más de 2 billones de lectores.Irlanda, 1929. Lady Athelinda Playford, una reconocida escritora de novelas de detectives para niños, ha invitado a varias personas a pasar una semana con ella en Lillieoak, su casa de campo. Además de su hijo y su hija con sus respectivas parejas, su secretario personal y la enfermera de éste, también dos abogados, Gathercole y Rolfe, han sido citados, así como los detectives de Scotland Yard, Hércules Poirot y Edward Catchpool. Nadie conoce el motivo a semejante invitación. Sin embargo, el misterio es rápidamente desvelado: Athie anuncia que los herederos de toda su fortuna no serán sus hijos sino Joseph, su secretario, aquejado de una enfermedad terminal. ¿Qué razón ha impulsado a Athie a dejarle todo su dinero a alguien que no es de su familia? Pero todos los invitados deberán hacer frente a otra fatídica sorpresa: uno de ellos ha sido asesinado. ¿Quién y por qué ha cometido el crimen? El misterio está servido. ¿Será capaz el peculiar Hércules Poirot de desvelarlo?