Era Fiction

Only a fool would venture into the freezing mists that steal the souls of men. And that’s exactly where Odin is going. When a frost giant murders his father, Odin swears blood vengeance. Guided by his blood-brother Loki, Odin battles rival tribes and perilous ghosts. His quest leads him to a chance at immortality...but the price will be more than he can imagine.

Após uma década de trabalho mediana, Rick Dalton acha difícil engolir a ideia de que a indústria cinematográfica passa muito bem sem ele, obrigado. Sentindo que sua carreira de ator está cada vez mais próxima do fim e mergulhado em uma crise existencial, Rick está disposto a se submeter ao lobby cruel de Hollywood para tentar adiar sua ruína. Para isso, vai cogitar uma investida no cinema italiano, encarnar um vilão controverso em uma série de faroeste e aceitar conselhos profissionais de uma respeitada atriz de oito anos de idade.

Clayton Stonemason idolized his father, a hometown hero in their small Missouri town. But when his father’s life unravels, Clayton loses his way, too. He tries to escape his father’s legacy but discovers he can’t run from his destiny. AMERICAN JUKEBOX, a story of small-town America in the last decades of the twentieth century, explores the many ways our relationships, hopes, and dreams can alter the course of our lives.

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.

It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression. But when young Nellie, digging for pirate treasure, discovers the tiny blue-black hand of a dead baby, rumors begin to fly. Narrated by Nellie and her two older sisters, the story follows the girls as they encounter a patchwork of threatening circumstances and take it upon themselves to solve the mystery.

James, Kennedy, and Elijah Reed have waited their entire lives to see how this Culling would play out. Now it's time for the final four debates, the last chance to sway voters into choosing worthy leadership for the nation. But when the debates take a surprising turn and a horrific incident rocks the township tour, the Reeds know trouble lies ahead. They still have enemies—both outside the Culling and from within.

Roman krupneyshego francuzskogo pisatelya-naturalista XIX v. Emilya Zolya "Kar'era Rugonov" (1871) otkryvaet dvadcatitomnuyu seriyu "Rugon-Makkary", predstavlyayushchuyu "estestvennuyu i social'nuyu istoriyu zhizni odnoy sem'i v ehpohu Vtoroy imperii". Eto svoeobraznyy prolog k grandioznoy ehpopee, v kotoroy posledovatel'no proslezhivaetsya razvitie harakternyh rodovyh osobennostey, peredayushchihsya po nasledstvu ot odnogo pokoleniya k drugomu i oopredelyayushchih, v sootvetstvii s principami naturalizma, povedenie personazhey v opredelennyh istoricheskoy situacii.

Brian White lleva tras de sí un misterio que se remonta a su concepción y nacimiento. El amor, siempre presente en la vida del ser humano, irrumpe con fuerza en su vida cuando apenas era un púber. Lucrecia, una mujer de ensueño, será al mismo tiempo la tentación que lo acompañará a lo largo de esta extraña Aventura.

Matt Cooper, having recently left the L.A. police force, begins to develop his P.I. business in Hollywood, California during the years 1947 through 1971, when his son, Clay joins him in the business.

Miel y Sam siempre han sido diferentes. Una chica latina a la que le crecen rosas de las muñecas, con el borde del vestido siempre mojado, y un chico pakistaní sin familia que pinta lunas y las cuelga de los árboles. A pesar del secreto que Sam esconde y a veces amenaza con abrumarle, a pesar del pasado que Miel es incapaz de recordar, y de su miedo irracional al agua y a las calabazas, a pesar de todo ello se tienen el uno al otro. Pero su pequeño mundo se tambalea cuando las hermanas Bonner, las gringas bonitas, se obsesionan con las rosas de Miel.

«Añoro la vida cuando era nuestra», comenta Lola mientras trastea en la cocina de su casa. Esa vida, que era tan suya y tan llena de ilusión, estaba hecha de libros y de charlas de café, de siestas lánguidas y de proyectos para construir un país, España, que aprendía las reglas de la democracia.

HayleAnna is just a small town Oklahoma girl, and is the only daughter of Seraphina and Taven Mayall. She has been training her whole life to join E.R.A, since it is the closest thing to a military that America has left. After a complete government fall in the year 2040, there are no laws, no rules, and the only people trying to stop all of the rogue groups from taking over and making America a dictatorship is the E.R.A.

Milano. Massimo Gerosa, manager in carriera, viene improvvisamente licenziato dalla COMOR, il colosso dell'informatica dove lavora. Le motivazioni sono vaghe. La moglie lo costringe ad andarsene di casa e anche la figlia diciannovenne, che all'inizio mantiene i rapporti con il padre, a un certo punto se ne allontana. Dopo nove mesi vissuti tra alberghi di quart'ordine e il suo SUV adibito a dimora, Massimo finisce a fare il guardiano notturno nella sede di un movimento di estrema destra, di cui gradatamente sposa l'ideologia impregnata di nazionalismo, di razzismo e di antisemitismo.

After twenty years in a loveless marriage, Evelyn Henderson will do anything to escape her stifling suburban life. She boards a train for Reno, Nevada, a former frontier town that’s booming thanks to “six-weekers”: women from all walks of life who take up residence there just long enough to secure an uncontested divorce—a right they don’t yet have in their home states.

En esta ocasión, la improbable heroína tiene su origen en el barrio de Soweto, el tristemente célebre gueto de Johannesburgo. Corren los años setenta, en pleno auge del apartheid, cuando Nombeko Mayeki, condenada a una vida de infortunio y con altas probabilidades de que ésta acabe a una edad temprana ante la indiferencia de sus semejantes, encuentra un resquicio para escapar de su aciago futuro.

July 1839, without the permission of the English Government, the New Zealand Company ship, Tory, quietly departed England, anxious to reach New Zealand with the utmost speed. Expedition leader, Colonel William Wakefield's objective is clear - acquire millions of acres of valuable land from the natives at the lowest possible price. On board the Tory, Andrew and Eleanor Stewart, young Scottish emigrants indentured to the New Zealand Company, are excited at the prospect of beginning a new life in a perfect town called Britannia. It's the Utopia the company promised.

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.

No one would have guessed during this prosperous time that our species' most desperate struggle loomed. Long after we’d made nuclear peace following the Cold War era, bioweapon peace after the Red Death Epidemic, and even survived the battle with self-aware AIs during the Proxy Wars, we had no idea mankind would, less than a full century later, battle its greatest threat, a period that came to be known in universal history as...the Extinction Era.

POR LA AUTORA DE EL PRIORATO DEL NARANJO Y EL DÍA QUE SE ABRIÓ EL CIELO. TERCER LIBRO DE LA SERIE LA ERA DE HUESOS. UNA REBELDE QUE SE CONVIERTE EN REINA. Después de una sangrienta batalla contra sus enemigos, Paige Mahoney se ha elevado a la peligrosa posición de Subseñora, gobernando así sobre la población criminal de Londres. Sin embargo, después de haberle dado la espalda a Jaxon.