Era Fiction

कई बार ज़िंदगी में कुछ अनकहा, अनसुना सा रह जाता है. कुछ ऐसा ही दो दोस्तों पल्लवी और पल्लव के बीच है. वे दोनों एक बार फिर सालों बाद मिलते हैं लेकिन उनकी ज़िंदगी बहुत बदल चुकी है. ऐसे में क्या वो अपने मन की बात कह पायेंगे?

In Era Emilia, I. I. Mendor crafts a thought-provoking and imaginative tale set against the backdrop of the Chernobyl disaster. Emilia, raised by strange, otherworldly beings, gains insights that may change humanity’s destiny. But when these mentors vanish, Emilia faces the profound challenge of carrying their legacy alone.

From outer space to inner space, Microwaves is a collection of sci-fi short stories that ranges from the silly to the serious. So whether you have five minutes or fifty, prepare to launch into a galaxy of the strange, fantastic, and unbelievable.

What an era it was, racks of magazines with hot guys on the glossy cover and hotter ones inside. Tucked in among the slick photos were stories, two or three to an issue, of fiction by a host of writers, including Dale Chase who spent eight lively years writing about sex with mechanics, bikers, professors, politicians, and a host of others; sex in traffic school, supply rooms, and onstage at the theater; and sex in just about every venue you can imagine and a few you can't.

William and Lila find themselves flourishing in their newly renovated ranch on the picturesque Saddleback Ridge. As William rises through the ranks to become the vice president of the local bank, Lila continues to entertain patrons as a ‘whore for hire’ of the town bar—Faded Rose. All is well until the sudden and shocking death of the town's beloved sheriff, Robert "Bob" Brockton, throws the community into chaos.

When 28-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer at a local bathhouse in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. As Twain steamed, played cards, and drank beer with Sawyer (a volunteer firefighter, customs inspector, and local hero responsible for having saved 90 lives at sea), he had second thoughts about Shirley Tempest, his proposed book about a local girl firefighter, and began to envision a novel of wider scope.

Frank ha diciannove anni ed è figlio dell’attraente tenutaria di una casa di appuntamenti in una città del Nord durante l’occupazione nazista. Freddo, scostante, insolente, solitario, Frank vuole in segreto una cosa sola: iniziarsi alla vita. E crede che il modo migliore per farlo sia uccidere qualcuno senza ragione. Con sbalorditiva sicurezza, Simenon entra nella testa di questo personaggio al limite fra l’abiezione e una paradossale innocenza, e intorno a lui fa vivere il mondo della neve sporca – la sordida scena di una città dove tutto è tradimento, rancore, doppio gioco.

Me van a matar. Si os dijese que no tengo miedo os mentiría. Mi único consuelo es que sé que valdrá para algo. Estoy segura de que esto significará un antes y un después en la vida de muchos. Y que mi sacrificio puede servir para que, por fin, todo cambie.

For as long as anyone could remember, the Carlisles had been caretakers of Castlemartin, a sprawling estate perched atop Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Its latest caretaker, the mysterious historian Lord M. Nigel Carlisle, was rumored to work tirelessly within its book-filled confines, endlessly refining his secretive research on imperialism.

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of all creeds demanded their equality. We begin with two speeches that represent the old order, by Bismarck. Between the two speeches he went from being Prussia’s last Minister President to being the Germany’s first Chancellor. A statesman in the oldest mold, he argues for nationalist dominance against forces temporal and religious.

Gabriel Josipovici, un dels més prestigiosos escriptors anglesos, ens proposa en aquesta ocasió que llegim només per diversió. Com si juguéssim a una mena de Cluedo. Trobarem al baró, un home d’edat avançada amb una gran fortuna, a la seva esposa Espelth, una nerviosa dona que vol seguir sent rica, a Alphonse, un antic pallasso reconvertit en investigador privat que s’involucra en una trama d’espionatges creuats, a Isabelle, estudiant d’art que, gràcies als seus encants, s’aprofita de tots els homes amb qui es creua, i una intricada xarxa d’enganys, xantatges, robatoris i plans d’assassinat. Amb aquests elements i la qualitat literària de Josipovici ens espera una gran lectura, i segur que alguna cosa més que simple diversió.

यंग वारिद एक कैंसर सर्वाइवर है और अपनी कहानी बेस्ट सेलर राईटर, रूबीना से लिखवाना चाहता है. लेकिन रूबीना इंकार कर देती है...क्या वारिद का सफर अधूरा रह जाता है?

Southampton, 1910. When the Oceanic sets sail its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, to pick up internationally renowned financier and art collector J. P. Morgan, fresh from a continental buying spree. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, the ship’s detectives, are nervous about the presence of such an important passenger, not to mention his valuable cargo. After all, it is rare for a transatlantic voyage to pass without incident for the two sleuths.

For the past 150 years, the elves and terrans of the Third World have struggled under the brutal rule of the Scourge. No one knows how they arrived, but their motives are horrifyingly obvious: the complete and total extinction of all life on the planet.

When the skies dried up, Gloria thought it was temporary. When the dust storms rolled in, she thought they would pass. But now the bank man’s come to take the family farm, and Pa’s decided to up and move to California in search of work. They’ll pick fruit, he says, until they can save up enough money to buy land of their own again.

Veinte años de un Premio Nadal paradigmático: la obra que dio a conocer a un gran narrador. La soledad era esto es la historia de una mujer que inicia, a partir de la muerte de su madre, una lenta metamorfosis hacia la liberación a través de un doloroso aprendizaje. La mirada cada vez más humanizada de un detective y el progresivo alejamiento de su marido serán elementos esenciales de este camino de perfección.

The dragon mage reigns supreme! Finally, all of Lance's visions are coming to fruition. The Draconis Clan has been restored, his enemies have been vanquished, and unity has been restored to the northern province under the banner of the red dragon. But… there's a problem. Lance isn't the only dragon in Oracle.

शहर में एक के बाद एक हो रही हत्याओं ने इंस्पेक्टर नितेश को उलझा के रख दिया है. वो तलाश में है उस हसीन कातिल के जिसके निशाने पर हैं नौजवान लड़के आखिर कौन है किलर और क्या है उसका मकसद... क्या नितेश इस गुत्थी को सुलझा पायेगा?

Estefanía Uribe nos presenta aquí una colección de cuentos cuya trama es, en esencia, infantil. Y por infantil debemos entender algo muy serio. Un universo cuyas leyes son maleables, donde la magia es omnipresente y el tiempo es caprichoso. Un lugar de amigos imaginarios pero no menos reales que las personas que nos rodean en la edad adulta. La fantasía es lícita y necesaria en la vida de un niño. Solo desde el reino de lo fantástico podemos sintonizar con la infancia. Racionalizarla con la mente adulta es un despropósito.

Uma viagem improvável reúne um escritor cínico, uma eterna romântica e uma urna funerária, mudando suas vidas para sempre. Millicent Watts-Cohen tem uma missão a cumprir. Determinada a reafirmar o poder duradouro do amor, ela decide levar as cinzas da Sra. Nash, uma idosa de 98 anos que se tornou uma grande amiga, de Washington até a Flórida. Seu objetivo: reuni-la, ainda que simbolicamente, ao grande amor de sua vida, oitenta anos depois.