Global Fiction

No one can resist Victoria Leung. She's beautiful, brilliant, and fearless. Since leaving the fraud department of the Hong Kong Police, she has enjoyed her new status as senior detective at Pegasus, an international security firm based in London. She climbed the ladder by taking down Sun Hung Kai Properties' Kwok Brothers, a real estate empire, and earned the nickname "The Flying Dragon" in the process.

An inspirational story about a young man who learns what is truly valuable in life.... Through a simple yet charming coming of age story, Life, Lessons, and Lemonade will ask you to reflect on what you value in life and how you learned those lessons.

This is the continuing tale of Billy Joe Bob, Liam, and Ethan, three young souls driven by curiosity, empathy, and a burning desire to make a difference. From the vibrant streets of Rio de Janeiro to the breathtaking landscapes of Africa, the awe-inspiring wonders of Australia, and the haunting historical sites of Europe, the Mediterranean, and Southeast Asia their student exchange program took them on a Journeys of Compassion: Destinations and Global Impact and transformative journey of self-discovery and cultural immersion.

Im post-revolutionären Ägypten bestimmt das Tor über das Schicksal der Menschen. Ein nicht näher benanntes Land im Nahen Osten: Seit der Niederschlagung der Revolution brauchen die Bürger für jede noch so kleine Kleinigkeit in ihrem Leben die Genehmigung des Staates - sei es für die Überweisung zum Arzt oder für die Erlaubnis, Brot zu kaufen. Um die zu erhalten, müssen sie sich vor einem riesigen Tor anstellen, das angeblich jeden Tag nur einer gewissen Anzahl an Anträgen stattgibt.

Dall'autore di l'energia del vuoto, il racconto profetico di una possibile catastrofe. Pianure screpolate, argini di fango secco, fiumi aridi, polvere giallastra, case e capannoni abbandonati: in un'Europa prossima ventura, devastata dai mutamenti climatici, decine di migliaia di "migranti ambientali" sono in marcia per raggiungere la Scandinavia, diventata, insieme alle altre nazioni attorno al circolo polare artico, il territorio dal clima più mite e favorevole agli insediamenti umani. Livio Delmastro, anziano professore di neuroscienze, è uno di loro.

Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel’s newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes It Alone presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel - and thrilled and offended his audiences. Lyrical, grotesque, and elegiac, Peaches Goes It Alone adds new music and menace to Seidel’s masterful body of work.

En route to the National Prayer Breakfast, the US vice president’s motorcade is hit in a vicious, expertly planned attack that throws Washington, DC, into chaos. Everyone assumes it’s terrorists - everyone but young FBI agent Jennifer Lin. She is certain that the easy answers here are not the likely ones. Half a world away, former military contractor Tom Locke has his own doubts about what happened - and who did it. He suspects his former employer, Apollo Outcomes. But why would the global private military corporation orchestrate such a brutal strike on US soil?

When the Secretary of Defense is assassinated, Michael Patrick Santini, a former Senator and Vietnam POW, is pulled from his Wall Street firm back to Washington to lead the Pentagon. Once there, he discovers that the United States is under attack by a silent, sinister force. Someone, somewhere is determined to destroy America as a global power - and Santini must uncover and expose this force before more acts of deceit and destruction draw the US into a war where millions will die. Rejecting a direct order from the President of the United States, Santini races across the globe....

Meet Blake and Jasmine. They have been friends since they were two years old. Nothing has ever been able to come between them, not even the difference in their skin color. Blake's young life is hit with opposition at the hands of his abusive father, Frank, at the mere age of nine. He still refuses to give up his friendship with Jasmine.

Eternal happiness has never been high on Viktor’s list of desires. He’s lived a life up to his neck in danger, mythological threats, and family drama on a truly cosmic scale. But after bringing the world back from the brink of Armageddon -- more than once -- he’s ready to take a break. However, it turns out that old stories, and old foes, have a way of finding their way back into the narrative...and they rest for no one. This time, his enemies are the fractured Loa who are weaponizing wraiths, deadly creatures conjured with tainted blood.

After Lamia escaped the island prison of Poros, Viktor knew it was only a matter of time before she showed up in his neck of the woods. Now that she has, he’s got work to do. And he’s going to need help, because she’s not travelling alone. Lamia’s arrival heralds the origins of the vampire and might just give Viktor the key to their demise. But it’s not all good news...with Lamia’s maker now gone forever, there remains the question of what became of his brother.

His ex-wife’s family are less than subtle when it comes to leaving messages, especially when they’re spelled out in blood. Now they’re leaving a trail of bodies in their wake, which means his long list of enemies just got longer. Even though he’s used to high risk situations, the stakes take a sharp turn when his daughter is drawn into the fray with absolutely no clear way out. With all that he holds dear hanging in the balance, he must make impossible choices. Each one brings him closer to the answers he’s sought about his past.

After living through a bloody encounter with the mysterious Cult of Fenrir 20 years ago, Viktor returns to New Orleans, hoping to forget the horrors he endured. He keeps busy dealing with unusual cases as head of a global security firm specializing in paranormal threats. For once in his long life, everything seems to have fallen into balance. But Fate has a funny way of catching up with a person. And this time it’s bringing his past - and possibly the end of the world - along for the ride.

Tyrese Thompson is a little different from all his classmates. But he could never have imagined that his star-gazing hobby would lead to him becoming the only person who can save the world. Tyrese is contacted by Twinkle, a star from another galaxy, who warns him of Earth’s imminent peril.

Tuesday, June 17th is a day that will be seared in the minds and hearts of these warriors until the day they take their last breath. Though they have many victories to celebrate, the war has not been won. The Kingdom of Darkness will not simply stand by and the let the Light ruin all their well-laid plans. Satan has asked for permission to go after one of the warriors and it has been granted. He does not plan to squander this opportunity so he enlists the help of the Seven Principalities of Hell.

The World Is Curved reveals how today's risky environment came to be - and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions on everyone's mind: How bad could things really get in today's volatile economy? And what can we do about it?

THE NEWCOMERS tells the story of a global invasion and is Pamela Jekel's first novel of the future. When alien crafts are parked over every capital city on earth, Chase Cummings is sent by his family from Atlanta, Georgia to live with an African family as part of the Children Transfer Program initiated worldwide to save gifted children from the work camps of the Advisors. THE NEWCOMERS tells a story of human resilience and of two families on opposite sides of the world, struggling to survive and ultimately finding salvation in the wild places of the planet.

In the wake of the Baghdad disaster, President Amy Coffman is battling to get her administration back on track when eco-terrorists threaten to unleash a gruesome contagion, one that transforms ordinary people into blood-thirsty savages.

Carson Jeffers and Nichole Lewis have been thrown into a battle for the survival of their lives. After surviving a deadly missile attack over Salt Lake and witnessing a devastating terrorist strike in Los Angeles, they are facing an additional lethal conflict. Deadly adversaries within the government of the United States are marching to destroy what’s left of Carson’s life.

Eric is as passionate as a scientist can be, and while his friends and colleagues remain staunchly gloomy in regards to the future of the planet, Eric comes at things with a distinct sense of hope and adventure. But while collecting data in the arctic, Eric's sense of adventure ends up getting the best of him. After attempt to get a sample from a strange blue plant that has adapted in the icy waters, thanks to global warming, Eric ends up transformed into a beautiful young woman with an appetite for sex.