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The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts to wheedle her fellow nursery rhyme characters to settle in the Prairies with her and their mixed responses to her plans. Responding to a cease and desist command from No. 10 Downing St., M. Goose categorically makes her case for the out-migration and re-migration of her stories. She supposes they will continue to live if she gives them leave to change as time, place, and experience dictate.

In our own time, when the dark threat of a dystopian world is not an alien or avoidable concept, The Last Man (1826) is revealed as a trailblazing novel. With a truly global view, Mary Shelley’s futuristic romain à clef–containing portraits of her husband Percy (Adrian), Lord Byron (Raymond) and several others–spearheaded the apocalyptic genre for an intimidated 19th-century readership that rejected her ‘diseased imagination’ and ‘polluted taste’.

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants...

‘A superb satirical novelist’ WASHINGTON POST In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant – who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. ‘An incendiary provocateur’...

A deeply compassionate portrait of a cosmopolitan group of friends—a glimpse of the volatility of life under totalitarian rule, from Egypt's most celebrated contemporary novelist. It is 1964 in Alexandria. Nasser has risen to power and, faced with the upheaval of his regime, many Alexandrians...

كونهم حيوانات لا يعني أنهم لا يدركون معنى الثورة، كونهم يمشون على أربع لا يعني أنهم لا يفقهون كيف تكون جلسات العروش.

In Reconstruction-era Baltimore, members of the city's elite keep turning up dead. When Jane Gray Wharton's husband, Ned, dies unexpectedly while overnighting at his brother's home, Jane has no reason to question the circumstances of his death. But on a visit to the same house a few weeks later, both Jane and her daughter fall gravely ill, and Jane begins to suspect foul play.

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together...

The war ended five years ago. At least, that's what the world believes. Garrick Solren fought at Bracken Ridge—the final battle that supposedly brought peace to the continent. Now he lives quietly in Eldoria, far from the battlefield. Until the records start to surface.

The characters in Robert Miner’s extraordinary debut novel all share America’s obsession with guns—and are willing to go to extremes to remake the world in their own flawed images. Thoughts and Prayers is a propulsive literary thriller by a former Army Soldier and West Point graduate that...

Luzia wächst in einer Gemeinschaft auf, die für ganz unterschiedliche Menschen eine Zuflucht bietet. Im »Haus« werden queere und platonische Formen von Liebe sowie geteilte Elternschaft gelebt. Später, als Erwachsene, kämpft Luzia als Theaterregisseurin gegen patriarchale Strukturen an und versucht, etwas zum Guten zu verändern. Ihre Jugendfreundin Marle verspürt mit Anfang vierzig einen starken Kinderwunsch und entscheidet sich für einen ungewöhnlichen Weg abseits von Beziehungen mit Männern.

Worth Sullivan is the celebrity pastor of the globally renowned Harvest Fields megachurch. Kirk Madison is an esteemed former US Army general and popular US senator. Both men came from humble beginnings in the Ozarks, but today are highly successful beacons of hope and leadership in a nation torn apart by political and social divisions. Then Kirk announces he's running for president.

Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests? Westminster has always run on spin. Now it runs on an AI. In a near-future Britain where algorithms guide government policy, Sarah Perriam is a journalist who no longer believes in the stories she writes. Once an investigative reporter who held power to account, she’s now a burnt-out tech correspondent stuck producing safe coverage about the very companies reshaping the world. Questioning them isn’t encouraged. So Sarah tries not to. Until a government AI quietly recommends demolishing a major housing estate.

Una niña recuerda los días en que su favela está por ser desfavelizada; al hacerlo construye simultánea y magistralmente a otro personaje: la memoria colectiva, siempre cargada y en constante tensión con el presente. Por eso este libro tiene un efecto espiral único, es ubicuo y fragmentado, se trata sin duda de una de las novelas memorialistas más importantes de la literatura brasileña, en la que Evaristo ejerce la escrivivencia.

La noche del 24, un comando de extrema derecha irrumpió en un despacho de jóvenes abogados laboralistas de Madrid, militantes del Partido Comunista. Fue en el número 55 de la calle Atocha, en Madrid. "Atocha 55", novela ganadora del V Premio Albert Jovell, pone el foco en los rostros y voces de aquellos letrados.

Leningrad, 1958. Die Zwillingsschwestern Maja und Natascha sind unzertrennlich. Gemeinsam träumen sie davon, beim Kirow-Ballett zu tanzen und mit der Kompanie nach Amerika zu reisen. Doch ein neues Gesetz erlaubt nur einer von ihnen, das Land zu verlassen. Aus Schwestern werden Konkurrentinnen, aus Nähe wird Distanz.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What happens when freedom is just a brand—and democracy a memory? Authoritarianism by Design is a searing and timely historical fiction novel that exposes the engineered erosion of democracy in modern-day America. Through the lives of Black, Latino...

Nordamerika, 1784. Die Vereinigten Staaten sind noch jung. Der Revolutionskrieg ist gerade zu Ende gegangen, die Verfassung noch längst nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Einer der Gründer dieser neuen Nation ist Alexander Hamilton: Patriot, rechte Hand George Washingtons und erster Schatzminister des Landes.

An evocative, unsentimental love story set across four days and twenty years. For fans of André Aciman, Olivia Laing, or the Before Sunset trilogy. In a large house in a country which has changed its size and name so many times in the last hundred years it has lost its identity, a woman is...

Als Alexander von Waldheim im Nachlass seiner Eltern das Tagebuch seiner Urgroßmutter Camilla findet, ist ihm gleich klar: Das wird die Geschichte für seinen nächsten Roman werden! Fasziniert taucht er in die Vergangenheit ein und erfährt so von den turbulenten Leben von Camilla und Tessa, zweier sehr unterschiedlicher Frauen, die sich in einem nicht endenden Krieg zwischen Liebe, Eifersucht und Tod durchs Leben kämpfen müssen ... Berlin, 1862: Camilla schlägt sich alleine durchs Leben.