Iskry jak gwiazdy

Iskry jak gwiazdy

Kabul, rok 1978. Dziesięcioletnia Sitara Zamani wiedzie beztroskie i pełne przywilejów życie w stolicy Afganistanu. Jej ojciec jest prawą ręką prezydenta Dauda. Świat Sitary zmienia się na zawsze pewnej kwietniowej nocy, gdy przeciwnicy obecnej władzy dokonują zamachu stanu, zabijając nie tylko prezydenta, ale też całą rodzinę dziewczynki, która staje się jedyną ocalałą. Przemycona z pałacu przez jednego z żołnierzy, trafia do domu amerykańskiej dyplomatki, która adoptuje ją i zabiera do Ameryki. W nowym kraju dziewczynka przyjmuje nowe imię – Aryana – i poświęca się nauce.Trzydzieści lat później Aryana wiedzie spokojne życie szanowanej lekarki. Jej świat znów zaczyna się chwiać, gdy w gabinecie pojawia się mężczyzna, którego nie spodziewała się już nigdy zobaczyć. To Shair, żołnierz, który ją uratował, ale prawdopodobnie też zamordował całą jej rodzinę. Jego widok budzi w Aryanie chęć zemsty, lecz przynosi także wiele pytań o wydarzenia z przeszłości. Kobieta wyrusza więc do Kabulu, by znaleźć odpowiedzi.Powieść Nadii Hashimi oddaje hołd podróży, którą jest życie, przypominając jednocześnie, że po nocy zawsze przychodzi dzień i wato mieć nadzieję.

The Princess and Curdie

The Princess and Curdie

They must overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning Irene's father, the king. Irene's grandmother also reappears and gives Curdie a strange gift. A monster called Lina aids his quest.

Verano del 69

Verano del 69

En el verano en que el hombre llega a la luna, el senador Ted Kennedy hunde un coche en Chappaquiddick y la música exalta los espíritus en Woodstock, Jessie experimentará los altibajos del amor y las relaciones familiares y será una espectadora privilegiada del verano más icónico del siglo XX.Sumérgete en el verano más icónico del siglo XX. El año que todo cambió para siempre.Más de dos meses seguidos en la lista de más vendidos de The New York Times.

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway’s first published novel, and the novel that introduced the term “Lost Generation” to describe the generation that came to adulthood during World War I.The novel follows Jake Barnes, an American expat living in the Parisian café society of the roaring 20s. A wound sustained during the war has left him unable to have sex, and that drives a wedge between him and the woman he loves: Brett Ashley, a twice-divorcée who has embraced the sexual freedom and independence of the age. As they drift through their lives in postwar Paris, they find themselves on a trip with some friends to Spain to witness the Festival of San Fermin, a week-long bacchanal whose highlight is bullfighting.Hemingway explores the aimless, heavy drinking, and dramatic lives of Jake, Brett, and their friends as a means to reflect the Lost Generation as a whole. Jake is a character of troubled masculinity: his war wound has fundamentally changed him as a man, and his behavior is often tentative, unsure, and placating. On the other hand, Brett is an enigmatic New Woman: free to drink and carouse with the men, she is seductive, but aching for the reassurance and love of a real relationship, and not just sex. The satellites of friends that orbit around them are equally troubled, drinking to excess and fighting with themselves and with others.These complex characters are now mere spectators for the bullfight, a microcosm of war and death whose masters, the matadors, are the powerful and elegant emblems of masculinity that the Lost Generation finds it impossible to compete against.Though initially met with mixed reviews, modern critics consider it to be Hemingway’s best novel. The characters and events are largely based on real-life people in Hemingway’s social circle and his time spent in Paris and Spain. Thus, the book sold very well in its first print run, as the expatriate community was eager to read about the coded scandals of their peers. Today it is recognized as a foundational work of the modernist style, and an American classic.

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Twelve Days of Christmas The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Christmas Angel (A. Brown) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White…

The Apology

The Apology

The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions.

No Great Magic

No Great Magic

Published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1963, this is a supernatural thriller about a theater troupe, narrated by the costume girl. The author Fritz Lieber is one of the fathers of “sword and sorcery” fantasy, having in fact coined the term.

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

They saw their work in gathering the fairy tales of Europe as an academic exercise, but the Brothers Grimm-aka German folklorists and linguists JAKOB and WILHELM GRIMM, are today remembered best as tellers of dark stories for children. Here, in one compact volume, are 53 of the most beloved of the stories they assembled, from well-known ones such as "The Sleeping Beauty," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," and "Hansel and Grethel" to more obscure ones including "The Rabbit's Bride," "Six Soldiers of Fortune," "Faithful John," and "The Three Spinsters."

A queda da casa de Usher

A queda da casa de Usher

Roderick e sua irmã gêmea, Madeline, são os únicos herdeiros da tradicional e misteriosa família Usher. Ao chegar na casa, o narrador se surpreende com o ambiente assustador onde seu amigo vive. A famosa Casa de Usher parece estar envolvida por uma atmosfera opressiva, que causa calafrios em seu visitante.

Sam no es mi tío: Veinticuatro crónicas migrantes y un sueño americano

Sam no es mi tío: Veinticuatro crónicas migrantes y un sueño americano

Con crónicas de Daniel Alarcón, Jorge Volpi, Santiago Roncagliolo, Ilán Stavans, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Claudia Piñeiro, Jon Lee Anderson, Joaquín Botero, João Paolo Cuenca, André de Leones, Aileen El-Kadi, Gabriela Esquivada, Diego Fonseca, Eduardo Halfon, Yuri Herrera, Hernán Iglesias Illa, Andrea Jeftanovic, Camilo Jiménez, Juan Pablo Meneses, Diego Enrique Osorno,Guillermo Osorno, Carola Saavedra, Wilbert Torre y Eloy Urroz. Veinticuatro cronistas participan en Sam no es mi tío, escritores, periodistas, y académicos latinoamericanos que se propusieron narrar América, las Américas. Para ellos la realidad está compuesta por millones de historias como las suyas que conforman nuestras sociedades. Estas crónicas son los relatos de la microhistoria americana contemporánea. Donde las eternas migraciones, la violencia, las partidas y los regresos, el éxito y la derrota, los cruces lingüísticos y culturales, el racismo y la xenofobia cohabitan dentro de un relato que permanecerá siempre incompleto. El lector de estas crónicas va a acompañar trayectos tan fascinantes como familiares. Se acercará a mundos bajos de los que ya escuchó hablar alguna vez. Reirá y sufrirá con los protagonistas de historias reales, tan reales como las de aquel amigo, aquella prima, aquel padre que se fue al Norte, pero nunca contó qué pasó por allá. O la de una mujer y su amante que ven por la tele la caída de las Torres Gemelas mientras especulan si su esposo murió en el ataque; o un norteamericano que se dedica a defender latinos pobres que más tarde lo van a traicionar.

The Sackett Brand

The Sackett Brand

In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalked like a wounded animal. While he hides from his attackers, his rage and frustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, why they are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife. Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, it will be their turn to run.

His Lost and Found Family

His Lost and Found Family

A secret baby reunites a wife with amnesia with the husband she no longer remembers in this sexy second chance romance. Getting hit with divorce papers isn’t the fresh beginning Jake Holt wanted with Skye Taylor. But when he returns to their Texas hometown, he finds Skye has a child . . . and no memory of the couple’s painful breakup.After a long coma, Skye doesn’t remember being swept up in a tornado or nearly losing her baby girl. Seeing Jake again rekindles their all-consuming passion. Then she starts to remember . . . Is their love strong enough to overcome the past so they can become a real family?

A Baby Between Friends

A Baby Between Friends

What Are Best Friends For?More than anything, Summer Patterson wants a baby. What she doesn't want is a husband. Thankfully, her best friend, Ryder McClain, makes the perfect sperm donor. Ryder is loyal, undeniably sexy and the one man she trusts—the only reason she agrees to conceive their baby naturally.When baby-making nights with Summer blaze like the West Texas sun, Ryder feels the heat. He never expected Summer to say yes to sharing his bed. Now he's falling for her—and the prospect of fatherhood—while hiding a secret that could destroy her faith in him forever.

The World Inside

The World Inside

Earth is home to seventy-five billion souls in this Hugo Award–nominated novel: “A major work of contemporary science fiction.” —LocusWelcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity’s salvation.Life in Urbmon 116 is cherished—and highly regulated. The culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god’s plan. Conflict is abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment—even being sent “down the chute” to be recycled as fertilizer.But not everyone has fallen completely in line. Jason Quevedo, a historian, searches records of the twentieth century hoping to find the root of his discontent with the perfection of Urbmon life. Siegmund Kluver, a young. ambitious administrator, strives to reach the top levels of the Urbmon’s government and discovers the civilization’s dark truths. Michael Statler, a computer engineer, harbors a forbidden desire to leave the building—to walk in the open air and visit the far-off sea. This is a dream he must keep secret. If anyone were to find out, he’d face the worst punishment imaginable . . .The World Inside is a fascinating exploration of society and what makes us human, told by a master of speculative fiction and winner of numerous Nebula and Hugo Awards.

Home to Pebble Creek

Home to Pebble Creek

This free short story e-romance is a prequel to The Pebble Creek Amish Series by Vannetta Chapman. Fans of the series will enjoy this chance to briefly revisit Pebble Creek, and new readers will be introduced to an Amish community that is more deeply explored in the three full novels, A Promise for Miriam, A Home for Lydia, and A Wedding for Julia.When Joseph Bontrager left Pebble Creek, all of Esther Schrock's dreams and hopes for the future went with him. Bravely picking up the pieces of her broken heart, she resumed her life teaching at the schoolhouse with Miriam King. Now, nineteen months later, Joseph has returned. Despite her initial excitement, Esther feels anger rise up instead of love. Will she be able to forgive him for leaving? Forgive him for more than a year and a half of silence without a single letter? With Miriam's encouraging words, and despite ominous clouds on the horizon, will Esther be able to replace the bitterness in her heart with affection for Joseph once more?

Stars In The Darkness

Stars In The Darkness

Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced. The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to alternate realities. Every tale, whether set in ancient Egypt, in a future where only the rich can afford to increase their children’s intelligence through genetic engineering, or about a man turned into a zombie by accident, sends a message about what matters. These stories show bravery, compassion, courage—and consequences.

Saltwater Sorrows

Saltwater Sorrows

Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men's return, have been passed down through the ages.But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? There is transformation and exaltation—magic—in the ocean and women alike. And both know that while the sea gives, the sea also takes.Sink into the icy depths of the ocean with these stories by: E.E. King; Natalie Cannon; Morgan Melhuish; Paul A. Hamilton; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Sarah Van Goethem; Adria Laycraft; Dino Parenti; B. Zelkovich; Lisa Carreiro; Lea Storry; Nikoline Kaiser; Elin Olausson; Chandra Fisher; Hayley Stone; V.F. LeSann; Catherine MacLeod; and Jennifer R. Donohue.

I nostri primi 20 anni

I nostri primi 20 anni

In 20 anni abbiamo pubblicato 1000 libri tra narrativa, saggistica e poesia. Per celebrare questa ricorrenza abbiamo scelto i 100 libri che ci sono piaciuti un po’ più degli altri, e ve li presentiamo attraverso i loro incipit. In appendice troverete le schede dei nostri 10 autori più significativi: John Fante, John Keats, Hilary Mantel, Stephenie Meyer, Boris Pahor, Elizabeth Strout, Gore Vidal, Cesarina Vighy, John Williams, e Valentino Zeichen.

Drive to the East

Drive to the East

“Turtledove never tires of exploring the paths not taken, bringing to his storytelling a prodigious knowledge of his subject and a profound understanding of human sensibilities and motivations.”—Library Journal It’s 1942. For twenty-five years, the USA and the CSA have been entrenched in an era of simmering hatred, locked in a tangle of blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure up for themselves and their enemies. In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia—killing U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked. “First-time readers can jump in and enjoy Turtledove’s richly rearranged cultural and political landscape.”—The Kansas City Star “Engrossing . . . thoroughly satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly

Corazón helado

Corazón helado

Dana Nolan apenas había comenzado su carrera como presentadora de noticias cuando fue secuestrada y torturada por un asesino en serie. Tras su liberación, ella queda no solo con las cicatrices físicas, sino también con una lesión cerebral. No recuerda nada sobre su secuestro y poco de su vida anterior, su memoria a corto plazo está afectada y su personalidad ha cambiado. Pero de vuelta a casa se esforzará por recuperar su entorno.