Global Literature

Jolly Copper is one of the few people who know the world is on the brink of cataclysmic destruction.... not because he had any scientific knowledge or prophetic dreams, but because he is nosey and read what was on a fellow bus passenger's phone one day. He learns there will be an unprecedented series of natural disasters, and the expected grand finale disaster is predicted to be a tidal wave massive enough to swallow half the globe.

Primeiro romance de José Lins do Rego, Menino de engenho traz uma narrativa cativante composta pelas aventuras e desventuras da meninice de Carlos, garoto nascido num engenho de açúcar. No livro, o leitor se envolverá com as alegrias, inquietações e angústias do garoto diante de sensações e situações por ele vivenciadas pela primeira vez. Publicado originalmente em 1932, o romance comprova, sem sombra de dúvidas, o talento monumental de um escritor, cuja obra nortearia os rumos do moderno regionalismo brasileiro.

Die Geschichte handelt von einem schönen, jungen Indianermädchen namens Pocahontas und ihrer Liebe zu einem jungen, weißen Mann namens John Smith, zu der Zeit, als die ersten weißen Seefahrer Amerika entdeckten. Die Indianer galten zur damaligen Zeit als gefährliche Wilde. Doch John Smith lernt durch Pocahontas die wahre Seele der Indianer kennen und schätzen. Pocahontas und John Smith geraten zwischen die Fronten der Indianer und der Weißen. Sie kämpfen für ihre Liebe, denn echte, wahre Liebe kennt keine Grenzen.

Former MI6 operative Max Grant has created a new life in Chicago, heading up the cybersecurity arm of a global security company. He is also building a relationship with author Cress Taylor, the woman he has dreamed about for 20 years. But Max’s past is about to catch up with them both.

Oxford, England 1993. An awkward American grad student runs into a gorgeous English undergrad with her bicycle. She’s embarrassed. He’s intrigued. They go their separate ways, but neither forgets. Chicago, Illinois 2013. When Cress Taylor starts receiving anonymous threats, the successful novelist feels her world crashing down. Max Grant turns up at a book signing and wants to renew their fleeting acquaintance. Is the timing coincidental or suspicious? Should she fall into his arms or run like hell? Then the plagiarism accusations start.

The infamous brothers have found themselves at a crossroad. Their assignments have led them to some strange places, but none as bizarre, complicated and painful as coming face-to-face with their brother’s daughter. The emotional and mental tug-of-war begins the moment they find out who she is and what she’s capable of. Not only are they contending with their family ties, but one of the most notorious demons the dark side has to offer – Insidious.

Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by "the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves", he decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money - and sailing classes - to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder.

Jon and Jake share a passion for basketball, but their experiences on the school team could not be more different. Superstar, Jon, is allowed to make mistakes and play all game. Benchwarmer, Jake, barely sees the court. Jake's resentment for Jon and his coach continues to grow until Jake can't stand the unfairness of it all and decides he's going to do something about it. To make matters worse, Jon and Jake's parents are friends.

In a world where silence reigns and humanity has all but vanished, James Jacoby grapples with the crushing loneliness and the haunting memories of a life that once was. Left to navigate the desolate streets of his abandon city, he searches for a reason to keep going amidst the ruins of society.

Micki Press and JL Martin both have complicated lives, but when they come together, the sparks are undeniable. Micki is trying to make it to the top of one of the most conservative corporate law firms in Chicago. JL is the CEO of WatchDog Inc., a successful security company, and is struggling with his own family complications. When Micki's former lover stalks her, JL steps in to protect her, and the two soon realize their feelings go beyond friendship.

Juan Carlos Luna, the newly appointed Director of NASO, has his own dangerous mission to complete during the opening of a new Global Federation campus in Cuba. And convicted terrorist Noah Bridger is left to confront the sins of his past while imprisoned on a harsh northern tundra. With danger lurking around every corner, this gripping continuation of the Global Federation of Nations saga is a must-read for fans of conspiracy and adventure. And in a battle this important, there will be casualties.

Four years after Chad Hunter and Frank Baldwin secured the most successful small arms weapon system in American history, the Hypershot, they are thrust back into a new adventure that propels them from Southeast Asia to Scandinavia and back to the wilderness.

An Imperfect Woman transports you back into historical eras seemly different from ours, yet familiar with human foibles. In this novel, you will meet Mary, an unforgettable woman with a lifetime of chasing perfection but challenged with unexpected turns of fate and complex relationships. From dirt floors and crude wooden plates of a dismal Missouri childhood to velvet curtains and imported porcelain china settings in early Denver society - . . will Mary's single-minded pursuit for perfection be her salvation or downfall?

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design.

La nuova serie thriller I Tredici di G. L. Barone: riuscirà il procuratore Lorenzo Fossati a sventare una minaccia globale proveniente dal cielo ma ben radicata sulla terra? Venezia. Due terribili delitti sconvolgono il mondo dello spettacolo: prima il regista Dante Bertoletti, possibile vincitore del Festival del Cinema, viene trovato senza vita nel suo albergo. Poi, anche lo sceneggiatore Steven Lucas viene ucciso sull’isola di Poveglia. Il procuratore Lorenzo Fossati viene incaricato di seguire le indagini: perché il regista sembra aver inserito nel film indizi che presagivano la sua morte?

A dark, scorched surface. A black mist that destroys on contact. A serum that keeps you young. The reality as explained in the Global Divide. A sci-fi series that will have you in suspense while you immerse yourself into a world unrecognized by our current standards. A world deep in the future where the apocalypse has taken place and society has destroyed itself leaving a small group of survivors in its wake. In this new aftermath, survivors must adhere to their new subjectors. The elites that are now in control demand loyalty without compensation.

Young Ephraim Goldman is the author of a perennial best seller. A celebrated academic lion, he hobnobs with the movers and shakers of his era, such as Einstein, Berenson, and Bertrand Russell. Ephraim's son Bernard is a young writer desperate to make his own reputation in the literary world. After a shrewd publisher hires Bernie to write his father’s biography, he stumbles across a startling photograph. As the mystery of his father slowly unfolds, Bernard has to come to terms with both the present and the future.

Sátira en torno al desarrollo sostenible y la gestión medioambiental de una gran empresa energética que explota una refinería en el litoral gaditano. Federico Castilla es director de Responsabilidad Corporativa y Desarrollo Sostenible de Oilgas International, multinacional del sector petroquímico con implantación en Europa, África y Oriente Medio. Una mañana recibe una llamada desde Oilgas Ibérica, su planta de distribución de refino en España, y le comunican que se acaba de producir un accidente laboral en dicha planta.

My father, Armand Cascade, aka Horns, was president of the Red Skulls MC. It’s members were all soulless demons whose only lot in life was to siphon souls from other MCs. Over time, my father became the king of demons and relied on me to lure in victims. It was an honor for me, until I was assigned to the Lost Lark MC and fell in love with a human, Mykel "Kaniac" Kane.

Em O burrinho pedrês, narrativa que abre um clássico de Guimarães Rosa, Sagarana, acompanhamos a movimentada jornada de um grupo de vaqueiros a tocar uma extensa boiada do sítio do Major Saulo até o arraial, num dia de névoa e chuva. Ao longo do percurso, "causos" são contados pelos homens que integram a viagem. Também faz parte da comitiva o burrinho Sete-de-Ouros, animal já idoso que, à primeira vista, não teria muita serventia. Os acontecimentos que compõem a travessia, contudo, acabariam reservando ao animal um papel transformador.