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THE FUTURE CRASHED INTO THE PAST. NOW, 1955 IS BURNING. It has been six weeks since the Cold War went hot. In a timeline broken by the arrival of a twenty-first century naval task force, history has derailed. The year is 1955, but it is a world transformed. The Soviet Union armed with history...

A journey weaving historical events and cutting edge science with a thought-provoking concept that points to science and a higher power being one in the same. A tooth believed to be that of Jesus follows an arduous journey of adventure through a centuries long path, placing it in the hands of many a caretaker until its final arrival in the hands of impatient Russian Oligarch Demyan Sokolov. Demyan's ego gets the best of him and leads to him overstepping scientific boundaries even the Russian Government frowns upon.

In the gripping novel "Echoes in the Rift", a routine private jet flight from New York to Chicago in 2020 spirals into chaos when a mysterious temporal anomaly catapults the crew and passengers a century into the past. Thrust into the vibrant yet perilous world of 1920s America amid Prohibition, speakeasies, and rapid change, Captain Nathan Cole, Copilot Lena Vasquez, Flight Attendant Jordan Hale, and their enigmatic companions must navigate cultural shocks, forge unlikely alliances, and grapple with budding romances while desperately seeking a way home.

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.”

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 . . .

É intrínseco ao mito ser passado adiante, projetado, pela oralidade. Nada mais incrível que ouvir esta história – a história – de Héracles, nosso Hércules, por meio do timbre icônico do Professor Clóvis de Barros Filho no curso “Deuses e Heróis – Hércules”. E, de igual teor, não há maneira melhor de homenagear os que participaram e participarão desse acertadíssimo curso do que com esta obra: uma releitura, de coautoria entre Clóvis de B. Filho e Joel Jota, dessa narrativa que é a representação da resiliência em sua mais pura denotação.

Der Untergang Galmanars rückt näher, während Risa und Jaro sich mit ihren Verbündeten auf die Auswanderung vorbereiten. Bald schon wird ihnen klar, dass der Platz auf den Rettungsschiffen nicht reichen wird, um alle zu retten, die sich ihnen angeschlossen haben, denn der Zulauf an verängstigten Flüchtlingen aus beiden Stämmen wird immer größer.

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...

Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons---and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes---and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether.

'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...

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe and his armada lies in wait for Nelson's smaller fleet, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies - a deadly shield for the cumbersome canon-firing vessels. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, they engage in a swift, violent combat with flying tooth and claw...for these aviators ride dragons.

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress has been shattered: there's no telephone, no radio and an American warship sits in the harbour. England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy has decided that salvation lies in a union—political, military and economic—with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together.... In the 21st century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world.

A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn 17th-century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are. Edited by Eric Flint and inspired by his now-legendary 1632, this is the fun stuff that fills in the pieces of the Ring of Fire political, social, and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives, loves, and life-changing stories.

If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic elegance in a new translation based on the restored original manuscript.

'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...

The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an...

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.