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It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle 'There was a wall. It did not look important - even a child could climb it. But the idea was real. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which...

FOR THE FIRST TIME UNABRIDGED IN AUDIO READ BY ALAN CUMMING and ANGUS KING WITH ARCHIVAL RECORDINGS FROM ALASDAIR GRAY HIMSELF 'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Nick Appleton is a menial labourer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. When they both fall in love with...

Mit „Der Großinquisitor" schuf Fjodor Dostojewski einen der bedeutendsten philosophischen Texte der Weltliteratur. Die phantastische Geschichte ist eingebettet in den Roman Die Brüder Karamasow: Im Sevilla der Inquisition erscheint Christus erneut auf Erden – wird jedoch vom Großinquisitor gefangen genommen. In einem eindringlichen Monolog wirft dieser ihm vor, den Menschen mit der Freiheit überfordert zu haben. Dostojewski entfaltet eine tiefgründige Reflexion über Religion, Macht, Verantwortung und die ewige Frage, ob der Mensch Freiheit wirklich ertragen kann.

Três amigos, que foram uma pequena família galês vivendo em uma casinha de campo numa colina de Brecon em sua vida passada, retornam do Annwn (antiga palavra galesa para Céu) para ajudar Gales e o mundo numa luta contra o mal da falta de abrigo. Alguns chamam eles de Bodhisattvas, alguns...

At 3:47 a.m., Michael Reeves's heart stops. The monitor records a flat line. Michael stands in a field. Five people. Five cardiac arrests. Five disappearances from the world medicine can document — and five arrivals in territories it cannot explain.

Some books tell you a story. This one gives you a map. He had the career. The house. The family. Everything that was supposed to matter — and a growing, quiet certainty that something essential was missing. So he got on a motorcycle and rode west.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient...

AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021 On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more “If you’re looking...

“You only live once” is a lie…It began with Raymond Quinn and extraordinary conversations in a place that exists beyond logic and time. Raymond visited the lives he might have lived had he made different decisions, including a relationship with a complicated woman. Shelly Bennett’s alternative lives took her around the world and to the same mysterious place that drew Raymond in: Other Worlds Coffee. At the crossroads between multiple realities, Other Worlds is a way station for those seeking the right path through the multiverse.

Ein Ingenieur aus dem 21. Jahrhundert findet sich im Körper eines Lehrjungen aus der Zeit Peters des Großen wieder. In einer Zeit, gezeichnet von Schmutz, harter Arbeit und einem blutigen Krieg gegen Schweden. Dabei will er einfach nur überleben und in der Welt vorankommen. Ach ja, und den Fortschritt vorantreiben … alles für den Fortschritt und die Weiterentwicklung! Gesprochen von Dominik Steffens Toningenieure: Matthew Badrin, Vlad Badrin Editorin: Vivienne Schiefner. Musik: audionautix.com. ISBN: 979-8-89858-103-9

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A prosperous, hard-headed fruit-merchant comes to call on the half-brother he has always despised – a ruined dreamer living in squalor at the world's edge. But in the wild, neglected garden stands something no ledger can ever account for: a vast and...

Shelton Keyes would not be on death row if the one good moment in his life had not been used to make him into a dupe for drug runners. An hour from his execution, officials from the International Office of Special Science offer him a chance to take part in an experimental, off-world prison where, whether he lives or dies, he is free. One question convinces Shelton to go: If he knew his life was over after pulling the trigger, why didn't he make the police officer's partner kill him?

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? In the late 1960s a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. A struggling science Fiction writer...

Crack open the case files of a Ghostorian and venture into the depths of mysterious historic paranormal investigations! • The Inscription Of Evil Times †¢ An ancient stone tablet with a mysterious inscription and paranormal secrets is unearthed in mid †¢ 1800s America. • Mysteries Of The Church Of Darkness †¢ Mysterious crawling shadows, graves of unknown cowboys and the plight of a young murdered girl are unearthed at a rural church.

Rozmaryn never knew his mother. When he finds an old photograph of her in the company of a stranger, he goes looking for answers. What he finds is Tefil. Tefil lives in a garret flat in a quiet Polish town. He is balding, not especially fragrant, and fiercely committed to avoiding the repayment of small debts. His philosophy centers on mould. Mould, Tefil argues with full conviction, is the only truly unconquerable living thing—it survives being eaten and digested, it outlasts civilisations, and it is destined to consume everything, including humanity itself.

ليتصور القارئ قبل إقدامه على مطالعة الكتاب مرجًا واسعًا في سفح جبل، هناك يتلاقى رجلان على غير ميعاد أحدهما شيخ والآخر فتى. الأول خرج من المدينة والثاني من الغاب، أما الشيخ فيسير بخطى ضعيفة متكئًا على عصاه بيد مرتجفة، وفي غضون وجهه وشعره الشائب المسترسل ما ينم على أنه عرك الدهر وعرف أسرار الحياة ومخاتها فذاق منها مرارة أوصلته إلى التشاؤم منها. يصل هذا الشيخ إلى المرج، فيستلقي هناك على العشب قصد الراحة، وإذا فتى جميل غض الإهاب قد لوحت الشمس بشرته وأكسبته الحياة جذلاً وانبساطًا، خرج من الغاب يحمل نايه فيسير حتى يصل إلى مكان راحة الشيخ فيضطجع بجانبه.

A dark, surreal, and vividly imagined novel about a woman whose fall from grace transforms her into a feminist hero in the afterlife. Maria-Therese Mandapat, a controversial figure in life and death, is known by many descriptors. Survivor of a cold and brutal childhood under her grandfather's...

Quando a primeira neve cai na Ilha das Camélias, uma pousada abre suas portas. Lá, as almas dos mortos vão passar 49 dias tomando chá, ouvindo música e compartilhando histórias, para então decidir se voltam à vida ou se partem para a existência no além. Desta vez, quatro pessoas chegam de trem, ainda sem saber como foram parar lá: uma jovem que perdeu a memória, um estudante solitário, um idoso cansado e uma mulher que passou a vida limpando a sujeira dos outros.