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It’s the late 16th century and 18-year-old Willy Hughes is still heartbroken over the loss of his first great love, Barnaby Stubb. He’s also desperate to escape his impoverished existence. To survive, beyond mucking out the toilets for pennies, he cons drunken men into believing he’s a beautiful young woman—then robs them of their purses.

When my pack rejects me on Christmas Day for not being their scent match, I’m devastated. My stepmom sets me to work in her luxury hotel like I am an Omega Cinderella. My gorgeous childhood best friend from the poor Sinner pack becomes my boss, protector, and secret Alpha. He may fall first, but I fall harder. Except, it breaks my heart because our love is forbidden.

This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant...

One bridgehead. Four lives. Zero margin for error. Lieutenant Grant Richardson's mission is simple: blast through enemy fire and take the Volga Bridgehead. Failure means certain death—and the collapse of the entire front. Nearby, his brother Zach leads the last tank platoon holding the line...

"Paradise is a loan. The debt collectors are here." For ten thousand years the Sienoan people have existed as gods. In Sienoa – a city of gleaming crystal – both hunger and death are merely things people once talked about. The ‘Pulse’, providing endless, unsoiled power, means every desire is satisfied before anyone even has it.

അപസർപ്പക കഥകളുടെയും മാന്ത്രിക കഥകളുടെയും സാമ്രാട്ടായ കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥ് രചിച്ച ആവേശോജ്വലമായ ഒരു നോവലാണ്...

Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states—locked in a cold war—lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies . . .

1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The listener decides.

In 1942, New Chicago was born. The goal was to build a new world that promised the American dream. Now, two years later, the city is a volatile mixture of high society and organized crime. Smiling corporate devils peddle the future while wrestling for control with criminal kingpins from a rapidly fading era. Caught in the middle of this transitional period are the young Whitlock siblings and their friends—the last remaining members of the infamous Whitlock gang, once led by their now-deceased father.

'Brilliant' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series. 'Masterful' – Harlan Coben, author of I Will Find You. Jason Dessen has been abducted. His life has been stolen. To get it back, he will go on a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have possibly imagined...

'Ken Follett can't write a bad book, and Never is his best' – Stephen King Expertly researched and visionary in scale, international no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett’s Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a World War Three scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you...

Cadence Lightbringer, daughter of a legendary archangel, has always known her gods-endowed magic comes with a price. As an angel in the Legion of Angels, she lives where the Legion commands her to live, trains how the Legion tells her to train, and marries whom the Legion instructs her to marry. Somehow it all sounded simpler in her head. When Cadence is ordered to marry the enigmatic angel Damiel Dragonsire, a man she hardly knows, her whole perfect, predictable life is turned upside down.

Romanzo di fantascienza e romanzo femminista, dopo cinquant'anni La female man ( The Female Man , 1975) non ha perso il suo contenuto provocatorio. «La fantascienza è connaturata al pensiero radicale» ha dichiarato l'autrice: «è molto efficace se si vogliono presentare le preoccupazioni di un gruppo marginale, perché queste si collocano in un mondo in cui le cose sono diverse». E niente è più diverso della "female man", un essere che incorpora le caratteristiche di entrambi i sessi, protagonista di questa storia che fin dal titolo appare come un monstrum linguistico.

For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.