The Man Without a Planet

The Man Without a Planet

He was PRTSAC: Permanent Resident Through a Special Act of Congress. A set of initials, a title unique in history. And a human being -- the most homesick human being in history. Fred Hunter was the permanent resident of the space station...the doughnut...because a hideous accident had rendered him physically incapable of returning to Earth. For ten years he sweated it out, while others came and went on tours of duty only a few months long. For ten years he stayed sane, while space gnawed at the minds of his companions. Then came the invaders, the strange beings who seemed to be not men, not beasts, not machines. Fred Hunter knew he must face them alone...and what could one crippled man do against their might? Note: This book has also been published under the title "Siege Perilous."

The Famished Road

The Famished Road

Winner of the Man Booker Prize: “Okri shares with García Márquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece” (The Boston Sunday Globe). Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions come to him often, hounding him to leave his mortal world and join them in their idyllic one. Azaro foresees a trying life ahead, but he is born smiling. This is his story.   When President Bill Clinton first went to Africa he quoted from The Famished Road, which has inspired literature, art, politics, and pop songs—and even been referenced in an episode of The Simpsons. A transformative story for all ages and all times, it means many things to many people. Few contemporary novels have aroused as much passion as this one. Indeed, twenty-five years after its breakout publication, the iconic story of Azaro’s travels continues to mesmerize new generations.   For readers of Things Fall Apart or One Hundred Years of Solitude, this Man Booker Prize–winning blend of fabulism and gritty realism by the Nigerian author of Astonishing the Gods and Dangerous Love is a “dazzling, hypnotic” journey through Africa that “weaves the humblest detail with the most extravagant flight of fancy to create an astonishing fictional tapestry” (San Francisco Chronicle). Already considered a classic of world literature, it is “a masterpiece if ever one existed” (The Boston Sunday Globe).  

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land”. In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz.

James

James

"Ad Hannibal, una cittadina lungo il fiume Mississippi, lo schiavo Jim scopre che a breve verrà venduto a un uomo di New Orleans, finendo per essere separato per sempre dalla moglie e dalla figlia. Decide, quindi, di scappare e nascondersi nella vicina Jackson Island per guadagnare tempo e ideare un piano che gli permetta di salvare la sua famiglia. Nel frattempo, Huckleberry Finn ha simulato la propria morte per sfuggire al padre violento recentemente tornato in città, e anche lui si rifugia nella stessa isola. Come tutti i lettori delle Avventure di Huckleberry Finn sanno, inizia così il pericoloso viaggio – in zattera, lungo il fiume Mississippi – di questi due indimenticabili personaggi della letteratura americana verso l’inafferrabile, e troppo spesso inaffidabile, promessa di un paese libero. Percival Everett parte dal capolavoro di Mark Twain per raccontare la storia da un punto di vista diverso, quello di James, ma per tutti Jim, mostrando tutta l’intelligenza, l’amore, la dedizione, il coraggio e l’umanità di quello che diventa, finalmente, il vero protagonista del romanzo. Un uomo disposto a tutto pur di sopravvivere e salvare la propria famiglia, un uomo che da Jim – il nomignolo usato in senso spregiativo dai bianchi per indicare un nero qualsiasi, indegno anche di avere un nome proprio – sceglie di diventare James, e sceglie la libertà, a ogni costo. Percival Everett con l’umorismo, l’arguzia, lo stile e l’intelligenza che lo contraddistinguono e che l’hanno reso uno degli scrittori più importanti della sua generazione, ci regala un romanzo che cattura il lettore dalla prima all’ultima pagina e che diventerà un punto fermo nella storia della letteratura americana. James è un grande libro che non ha paura di raccontare la vera storia d’America, e dei soprusi e violenze che l’hanno costellata. “Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn è un capolavoro. E anche questa versione di Everett lo è.” The New York Times “James è un capolavoro che aiuta a ridefinire uno dei capisaldi della letteratura americana. Everett è uno dei più interessanti, se non il più interessante, scrittore americano contemporaneo.” Chicago Tribune “Percival Everett è un’icona letteraria.” Oprah Daily"

Dubliners

Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

Shadowrun: Shaken

Shadowrun: Shaken

DOWN THESE DARK STREETS… Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle's got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greed, poverty and slums, vice and corruption, where crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool. Jimmy Kincaid, though, calls it home. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a Puyallup brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, that it's a place of life, magic, and starving hope. A former combat mage, now as burned out as his neighborhood, he does what he can to police the worst excesses of the crime-riddled city he loves. In the darkness of the Seattle Sprawl, what's one more murder? To Kincaid, it's everything. He's got a dead mentor, a hermetic group in need, and a mysterious file that might have been worth killing for. To unlock the data and get a little justice, he'll face the worst the Sprawl has to offer, wading through blood, darkness, and a murderous web of lies. It's a good thing he's got friends—in high and low places…

Harlequin Desire October 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Desire October 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! A CONTRACT ENGAGEMENT by Maya BanksIn a reader-favorite story, billionaire businessman Evan Ross has special terms for Celia Taylor, the sexy ad executive desperate to seal a career-making deal. But she's turning the tables with demands of her own…A ROYAL TEMPTATION (Dynasties: The Montoros)by Charlene SandsWhen Princess Portia Lindstrom shows up at his coronation, it's love at first sight for King Juan Carlos. But soon her family's explosive secret could force the unwavering royal to choose between his country's future and his own.HIS 24-HOUR WIFE (The Hawke Brothers)by Rachel BaileyTheir spontaneous Vegas marriage should have ended the day after it began! But when they partner on a project, Adam and Callie must pretend they're still together to avoid a high-profile scandal. Will they soon want more than a short-term solution?Look for Harlequin® Desire's October 2015 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!

The Greatest Classics of All Time

The Greatest Classics of All Time

Sharp Ink presents to you this grand collection of the greatest masterpieces ever written: British: Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Paradise Lost Odes The Waste Land Ode to the West Wind Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders The History of Tom Jones Tristram Shandy Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Tenant of Wildfell Hall Vanity Fair Middlemarch The Mill on the Floss David Copperfield Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure The Enchanted April Sons and Lovers The Mysteries of Udolpho Dracula Frankenstein A Study in Scarlet The Sign of the Four The Woman in White Heart of Darkness The Picture of Dorian Gray Diary of a Nobody The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Innocence of Father Brown Howards End Alice in Wonderland The Secret Garden A Little Princess Irish: Ulysses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Pygmalion Arms and the Man The Second Coming Scottish: Ivanhoe Guy Mannering Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Treasure Island The Wind in the Willows Phantastes Peter and Wendy American: Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer The Call of the Wild White Fang Moby-Dick The Scarlet Letter Little Women My Antonia The Age of Innocence The Awakening The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of the Dove The Yellow Wallpaper Walden Leaves of Grass The Madman Uncle Tom's Cabin The Life of Frederick Douglass Ben-Hur The Last of the Mohicans The Raven The Black Cat The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Call of Cthulhu The Beautiful and Damned The Rise of Silas Lapham The Sleepy Hollow The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Canadian: Anne of Green Gables German: Faust Siddhartha Thus Spoke Zarathustra… French: Swann's Way Les Misérables Candide Germinal... Russian: Anna Karenina War and Peace Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov… Spanish: Don Quixote Dona Perfecta… Italian: The Divine Comedy The Prince… Norwegian: A Doll's House Ancient: Iliad & Odyssey Meditations… Middle East: Arabian Nights Indian: Gitanjali The Jungle Book… Chinese: Tao Te Ching Art of War… Japanese: Bushido, the Soul of Japan…

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and arranged with notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey [and others] ... New and complete edition. With portrait and illustrative engravings.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and arranged with notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey [and others] ... New and complete edition. With portrait and illustrative engravings.

The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire.

Rising Tides

Rising Tides

A hurricane isn’t the only trouble looming as a family assembles for a will reading in this sequel to Iron Lace by a USA Today–bestselling author.Nine people have gathered for the reading of Aurore Gerritsen’s will. Some are family, others are strangers. But all will have their futures changed forever when a lifetime of secrets is finally revealed.Aurore Gerritsen left clear instructions: her will is to be read over a four-day period at her summer cottage on a small Louisiana island. Those who don’t stay will forfeit their inheritance. With the vast fortune of Gulf Coast Shipping at stake, no one will take that risk.Tensions rise as Aurore’s lawyer dispenses small bequests, each designed to expose the matriarch’s well-kept secrets. Longtime loyalties are jeopardized, and shocking new alliances are formed as the family feels the sands of belief shifting beneath their feet.As a hurricane approaches and survival itself is threatened, the fourth day dawns and everyone waits for the final truth to be revealed.Praise for Rising Tides“Richards’s ability to portray compelling characters who grapple with challenging family issues is laudable.” —Publishers Weekly“This novel features a multilayered plot, vivid descriptions, and a keen sense of time and place.” —Library Journal

Harvard Classics: Essays

Harvard Classics: Essays

JONATHAN SWIFT WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY I. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? II. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY III. UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THE STUDY OF POETRY MATTHEW ARNOLD SESAME AND LILIES LECTURE I—SESAME: OF KINGS' TREASURIES LECTURE II—LILIES: OF QUEENS' GARDENS JOHN RUSKIN JOHN MILTON WALTER BAGEHOT SCIENCE AND CULTURE THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY RACE AND LANGUAGE EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE SAMUEL PEPYS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING CLASSES WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING THE POETIC PRINCIPLE EDGAR ALLAN POE WALKING HENRY DAVID THOREAU ABRAHAM LINCOLN DEMOCRACY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Zamieszkać z szefem

Zamieszkać z szefem

Nina otrzymuje niezwykłą ofertę zawodową. David, szef firmy, w której do niedawna pracowała i z której została zwolniona w związku z programem oszczędnościowym, chce ją zatrudnić prywatnie. Potrzebuje osoby, która pilnowałaby jego terminarza, organizowała spotkania biznesowe i przyjęcia z udziałem partnerów w interesach

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Frank Richard Stockton - John Kendrick Bangs - Kenneth Grahame - Julian Hawthorne - A. E. W. Mason - Richard Middleton - Pierre Louÿs - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole - Ethel Richardson - Gertrude Stein - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Mór Jókai - Andy Adams - Bertha Sinclair - Fitz James O'Brien - Eleanor H. Porter - Valery Bryusov - John Ulrich Giesy - Otis Adelbert Kline - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Frank Lucius Packard - Barry Pain - Gertrude Bennett - Francis Marion Crawford - William Pett Ridge - Gilbert Parker - Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Elizabeth Garver Jordan - Richard Austin Freeman - Alice Duer Miller - Leonard Merrick - Anthony Hope - Ethel Watts Mumford - Anne O'Hagan Shinn - B. M. Bower

The Fallen Leaves

The Fallen Leaves

Amelius Goldheart is banished from his Christian community is Illinois. He travels to England to live with his uncle John. His uncle's wife wants to find the answer to the disappearance of her child and for that reason Amelius's niece is kept away from him. Amelius glimpses his uncle's daughter and is fascinated by her.

Alfred de Musset : Oeuvres Complètes

Alfred de Musset : Oeuvres Complètes

Toutes les oeuvres d’Alfred de Musset réunies dans un unique volume spécialement conçu pour une lecture numérique ! Dans cette édition, vous trouverez: - Les 78 titres d’Alfred de Musset. - Plus de 500 notes explicatives. - De nombreuses illustrations originales. - Un système de navigation intuitif et et ergonomique:  • Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. • Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée globale. • Une table des matières est placée également au début de chaque titre. Vous bénéficiez également de: - Un service qualité qui s'engage à vous répondre sous 2 jours: servicequalite@arvensa.com L'assurance de mises à jour gratuites régulières, sur la base des recommandations des lecteurs. Contenu détaillé: L’OEUVRE POÉTIQUE: Premières poésies : Don Paez • Les Marrons du feu • Portia • Chansons • Mardoche • Le saule • La coupe et les lèvres • À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles • Namouna • Poésies diverses. Poésies nouvelles : Rolla • Une bonne fortune• La nuit de mai • La nuit d’août • La nuit d’octobre • La nuit de décembre• La loi sur la presse • À la Malibran • À la mi-carême • Dupont et Durand • Idylle • Après une lecture • Le treize juillet • Sur trois marches de marbre rose • Poésies diverses. LES COMÉDIES ET PROVERBES : La nuit vénitienne • André del sarto • Les caprices de Marianne • Fantasio • On ne badine pas avec l’amour • Lorenzaccio • Barberine • Le chandelier • Il ne faut jurer de rien •  Un caprice • Il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée • Louison • On ne saurait penser à tout • Carmosine • Bettine. LES NOUVELLES :  Les deux maîtresses • Emmeline • Le fils du Titien • Frédéric et Bernerette •  Margot. LES CONTES :  Croisilles • Histoire d’un merle blanc • Les frères Van Buck • Pierre et Camille • Le secret de Javotte •  Mimi Pinson • La mouche. LES ROMANS :  La confession d’un enfant du siècle • Gamiani ou Deux nuits d’excès. LES MÉLANGES DE LITTÉRATURE ET DE CRITIQUE : Le tableau d’église • Articles du journal Le temps • Une matinée de Don Juan • Un mot sur l’art moderne • Salon de 1836 • Lettres de Dupuis et Cotonet •  Faire sans dire • De la tragédie • Théâtre français : reprise de Bajazet • Concert de mademoiselle Garcia • Théâtre italien: débuts de mademoiselle Pauline Garcia • Au citoyen rédacteur • Discours de réception à l’Académie française • Discours à l’inauguration des statues … LES OEUVRES POSTHUMES :  Le songe d’Auguste • Un souper chez mademoiselle Rachel • La servante du roi • Faustine • L’âne et le ruisseau •  Poésies diverses. LA CORRESPONDANCE :  Correspondance générale (1827 à 1857) • Correspondance de George Sand et d’Alfred de Musset (1833 à 1835) • Lettres d’amour à Aimée d’Alton (1837 à 1848) LES DESSINS : LA BIOGRAPHIE : Vie et œuvres d’Alfred de Musset par Paul de Musset ARVENSA Editions Numéro 1 des Ebooks classiques en langue française. www.arvensa.com

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is Flaubert’s first novel, and considered to be both his masterpiece and one of the most influential works in literary history, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery of day-to-day mediocrity by engaging in adulterous affairs and overspending on luxuries. She remains unsatisfied even though her husband adores her and they want for little, and her shallowness eventually leads to their ruin.The story was first serialized in Revue de Paris, where prosecutors tried to have it censored for obscenity, arguing that not only is the story immoral, but that realism as a literary style is an offence against art and decency. The trial only served to increase the story’s fame, and when it was published as a single novel it quickly became a bestseller.The novel is groundbreaking in its emphasis on the psychological and emotional lives of its characters. Literature up to then had mostly focusing on the external events that make characters react, instead of focusing on the internal thought processes of those characters. Madame Bovary changed that forever. It was also revolutionary in its criticism of the middle class, which at the time was a still-new social class vying for elbow room between the working poor and hereditary aristocracy. Flaubert critiqued the middle class as being ambitious, shallow, greedy, materialistic, and totally without culture; Emma’s burning desire to reach even higher social strata, contrasted against that satisfaction being fundamentally denied to her by her middle-class nature, is an early echo of Marx’s theory of alienation in industrial societies.Today Madame Bovary, with its careful but charming description of the banality of everyday life, is considered the first great example of literary realism in fiction novels. Eleanor Marx-Aveling’s translation, though over a hundred years old, is remarkably fresh and smooth, and is a pleasure even for modern readers.

1636: The Cardinal Virtues

1636: The Cardinal Virtues

Book #19 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must contend with France's infamous Cardinal Richilieu, who is determined to keep his grip on power no matter what history says. France, 1636 . . . It has been twenty years since King Louis took Aña Maria Mauricia, daughter of Spain's King Philip III, as his wife, and their union has not yet produced an heir. Under the guidance of his chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu, a plan is developed to remedy that situation. Once she is with child, Queen Anne goes into seclusion to guard her health and protect her from those who would prefer that the child is never born—France's foreign enemies as well as schemers such as Monsieur Gaston d'Orleans, the King's younger brother and heir. When the Crown's opponents make their move, factions inside and outside France must choose sides and help determine the future and fate of the Kingdom. At the publisher’s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The Lion and the Boar(Read To Me and Interactive)

The Lion and the Boar(Read To Me and Interactive)

This eBook has a new enhanced version of eBook with special audio, video and illustrations. This story has originated by Aesop.  Especially it has included full illustrated story scenes, narrative audio, interactive function, background sound and video for the whole story.  Have fun with Read To Me and Interactive! Read To Me and Interactive is Trademark of OrangeDigit Inc.

Christmas at Rosewood

Christmas at Rosewood

Looking for the perfect Christmas? Then take a trip to Rosewood this winter and watch the snow fall - the perfect festive getaway!All Freya Hollis wants to do is hide from the world, instead she’s spending Christmas Eve driving her son and nagging mother through the snowy countryside to spend the holidays at Rosewood, with her brother’s new family.Already nervous about trying to merge two family traditions together, Freya is shocked to find out that Rosewood has an extra guest for Christmas…Aiden, her brother’s best friend and the – almost – love of her life.She’s never told anyone about the Christmas they spent together and has no intention of dredging it up now! Except Rosewood has a way of drawing out even your most buried secrets and Freya might discover that this ghost from Christmas past could just be a part of her future…Spend your Christmas at Rosewood with this gorgeous novella and prepare yourself for family, snow and romance!What reviewers are saying about Sophie Pembroke‘I loved the descriptions of Rosewood and its gardens, how I long for an English county house of my own!’ – For the Love of Books on The Last Days of Summer‘Families are often complicated and Sophie Pembroke has chosen a fabulous group of people to write about. I couldn't wait to read more about each member. The gripping secrets are all well worth finding out and I liked the unexpected ending. I highly recommend this wonderful summer story.’ – With Love for Books on The Last Days of Summer‘This is a compelling summer read which should be on everyone’s ” to read” list’ – The Reading Shed on The Last Days of Summer‘I won’t give too much away but this book is definitely a page turner – and a perfect read for The Last Days Of Summer.’ – After the Rain Comes Sunshine‘I was completely engrossed in this fascinating novel’ - The Chicklit Club on The Last Days of SummerReviewsPraise for Sophie Pembroke‘You know you’ve found a great book when you are left with a warmth in your heart and a smile on your face!’ - @Mommyreading (Twitter)‘A lovely story about all the things we value – friends, home and our connections to the past – but sometimes lose sight of. Highly recommended’ - Rosee (Goodreads) on ‘An A to Z of Love’‘Room for Love turned out to be just as delicious and enjoyable as the cover. I absolutely LOVED it! It was sensational and I would definitely love to read more from the lovely author. She definitely has a smooth way with words, and Nate was just one of the many delights of this story.’ - Becca’s BooksAbout the authorBorn in Abu Dhabi, Sophie Pembroke grew up in Wales and now lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and two children. She blogs about books, writing, and her home and family in between writing books. In Sophie’s world, happy is for ever after, everything stops for tea, and there’s always time for one more page. Stop by her website sophiepembroke.com or follow her on Twitter @Sophie_Pembroke