Category: Fiction

By Karen Thompson Walker

ISBN-10: 0812992970

ISBN-13: 9780812992977

With a voice as special and unique as that of The stunning Bones, and for the fanatics of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel approximately coming of age set opposed to the backdrop of an completely altered world.

“It nonetheless amazes me how little we actually knew. . . . perhaps every thing that occurred to me and my family members had not anything in any respect to do with the slowing. It’s attainable, i suppose. yet I doubt it. I doubt it very much.”

On a probably traditional Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her kin unsleeping to find, besides the remainder of the area, that the rotation of the earth has abruptly started to sluggish. the times and nights develop longer and longer, gravity is affected, the surroundings is thrown into disarray. but as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting panorama, Julia is usually dealing with the conventional failures of daily life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the lack of outdated acquaintances, the hopeful affliction of past love, the weird habit of her grandfather who, confident of a central authority conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the recent common, the slowing inexorably keeps.

By Aaron Dembski-Bowden

ISBN-10: 1844168859

ISBN-13: 9781844168859

  Distraught on the judgement of the Emperor, the observe Bearers forged their fury and keenness onto the battlefield. the entire whereas they discover the outdated methods of Colchis, looking their very own course - person who can in basic terms result in damnation and heresy…

By Ken Follett

ISBN-10: 0525950079

ISBN-13: 9780525950073

Ken Follett has ninety million readers all over the world. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling booklet of all time. Now, eighteen years after the ebook of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the main expected sequel of the year-World with no End.
Unabridged version learn by means of John Lee

By David Hewson

ISBN-10: 0385341504

ISBN-13: 9780385341509

It’s the peak of the tourist season in Rome, and defense is tight as global leaders assemble for a G8 summit. whereas politicians bicker in the back of the partitions of the illustrious Palazzo del Quirinale, a bad hazard is lurking outside—a hazard that’s been dormant for a very long time yet is now greatly unsleeping. In David Hewson’s robust new mystery, Detective Nic Costa and the lads and girls of the Questura needs to paintings in mystery to thwart a conspiracy that reaches greater than any of them can have imagined.
 
In the early hours of a sultry summer season night, a central authority motor vehicle comes below fireplace alongside the slender through delle Quattro Fontane. whilst the pictures die away, one individual lies lifeless and another—Ministry of inside reputable Giovanni Batisti—has been abducted.

The bad destiny of the lacking bureaucrat is quickly revealed—leaving all of Italy in surprise. Who might do this sort of factor? And why? All indicators aspect to a mysterious terrorist team that calls itself the Blue Demon, a firm whose final crusade of violence ended twenty years ago.

For Detective Nic Costa, fixing this example is an all-consuming obsession. yet as he and his crew commence their research, they locate themselves lowered to dear bodyguards—and their palms tied with purple tape—until tragedy moves and claims one among their own.
 
Hampered at each flip through the Ministry of Interior’s meddling defense leader and a cagey and robust major minister, Costa and the participants of his workforce are made up our minds to pursue their quest for justice. As one terror assault after one other sends the everlasting urban spiraling into panic, Nic Costa vows that not anything will cease him from catching a vengeful madman bent on tearing aside his urban, its humans, and its very heritage.

By Tom Sharpe

ISBN-10: 0436204959

ISBN-13: 9780436204951

The panorama is faultless, the bushes majestic, the plants and the fauna are correct and correct, the complete is picturesquely average of rural England at its top. Sir Giles, an MP of few rules and curius tastes, plots to wreck all this via development a dual carriageway smack via it, to line his personal pocket and while to get rid of his spouse, the capacious woman Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his facet Hoskins, a corrupt neighborhood legitimate, Lord Leakham, the surroundings an identical of a dangling pass judgement on, and Dundridge, a difficult bureaucrat with an dangerous ardour for order. by contrast robust foyer are ranged a trifling handful of neighborhood citizens led via woman Maude. infrequently in the beginning sight a staff to resist the batteries of legit inertia, obligatory buy Orders and bulldozer blades.

By Daniel Quinn

ISBN-10: 8493469971

ISBN-13: 9788493469979

MAESTRO busca alumno.
Ha de tener verdadero deseo de salvar el mundo.
Presentarse personalmente.

Tras este sorprendente anuncio por palabras podría esconderse l. a. clave para salvar el planeta. Cuando el protagonista come to a decision responder al anuncio, descubre con gran sorpresa l. a. identidad de su maestro: se trata de un enorme gorila de media tonelada, llamado Ismael.

Del diálogo entre este sorprendente profesor y su alumno surge una nueva versión de los angeles historia de l. a. humanidad, y se plantean auténticas alternativas para salvar el mundo de l. a. acción destructiva del hombre.

Ismael es una novela única, con un formato sorprendente. Las teorías que Quinn plantea han sido objeto de estudio en muchas universidades, y l. a. obra ha alcanzado categoría de culto en una sociedad donde los angeles defensa de los angeles biodiversidad es primordial.

Ganadora del Premio de los angeles Sociedad Turner the following day para “soluciones creativas y positivas a los problemas globales”.

Una verdadera aventura espiritual que ha conquistado a lectores y críticos de todo el mundo. Traducida a más de 20 idiomas.

By Natsume Sōseki

ISBN-10: 1462900151

ISBN-13: 9781462900152

Happily filling a request for a retail ePub

Translated to English through Norma Moore Field

And Then, ranked as one in every of Soseki Natsume's so much insightful and stirring novels, tells the tale of Daisuke, a tender eastern guy suffering from his own goal and identification, in addition to the altering social panorama of Meiji-era Japan. As Japan enters the 20 th century, old customs collapse to western beliefs, making a excellent typhoon of swap in a tradition that operates at the razor's fringe of societal legal responsibility and private freedom.

By Dayna Lorentz

ISBN-10: 0142425974

ISBN-13: 9780142425978

Life As We Knew It meets Lord of the Flies in a mall that appears similar to yours

A organic bomb has simply been came upon within the air ducts of a hectic suburban mall. in the beginning no one is familiar with if it's even lifestyles threatening, yet then the whole complicated is quarantined, humans begin getting in poor health, offers commence working low, and there's no means out. one of the hundreds and hundreds of trapped consumers are 4 teens.

those 4 diverse narrators, each one with their very own tales, needs to cope in detailed, incredible manners, altering in methods they wouldn't have estimated, searching for solace, defense, and get away at a time whilst the adults are behaving badly.

this can be a gripping examine humans and the way they can--and must--change less than the main dire of circumstances.

and never consistently for the higher.

By Charlotte Wood

ISBN-10: 1743311842

ISBN-13: 9781743311844

Charlotte wooden has been defined as 'one of the main clever and compassionate novelists in Australia' (The Age), and 'one of our best and so much chameleonic writers' (The Australian). Her newest paintings, Love & starvation: options at the present of nutrition, is a publication of contemplations on cooking. Her fourth novel, Animal humans, used to be published in past due 2011 to serious acclaim and was once long-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her prior novels, the bestseller the kids, The Submerged Cathedral and items of a lady have been shortlisted for varied prize together with the Miles Franklin Award and nearby Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

By Tom Bradby

ISBN-10: 0375713336

ISBN-13: 9780375713330

Shanghai, 1926: a sultry urban awful with opium, warlords, and corruption on the maximum degrees. Into this steamy morass walks Richard box, an idealistic Brit haunted by way of his prior and lately appointed to the overseas police. He’s no longer there lengthy earlier than known as to the flat of a Russian prostitute, former daughter of privilege discovered sadistically murdered, handcuffed to her mattress. while he discovers between her possessions a cryptic delivery log, he senses that this homicide is greater than a random crime of perverse ardour. What unfolds is a searing tale that propels box right into a war of words with the city’s such a lot ruthless and strong gangster, and a perilous charm to a different salacious Russian whose sordid connections look destined to make her the subsequent sufferer. Scintillating and sophisticated, The grasp of Rain is a wonderful debut.