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After Earth is decimated, the entire remaining human population is marooned on an unfamiliar beach. The enigmatic winged Orangemen leave the survivors with instructions to remake their society, basic tools and weapons, and a few thousand books, including Bibles in many languages. As two generations are born and raised, conflicting theories as to the nature of the apocalypse continue to simmer. Fifty years later, the arrival of a new family that shouldn't exist threatens the delicate peace holding humanity together.

In this spare novelette, acclaimed flash-fiction writers James Claffey and Tara Lynn Masih collaboratively create an original tale of loss and love, as The Bitter Kind deftly alternates between Stela, the daughter of a ship’s captain, burdened by her family secrets, and Brandy, a Chippewa orphan, haunted by ghost wolves and spirits. The authors cross genres and borders between historical and contemporary, speculative and realistic, presenting two unforgettable characters on a journey toward their inevitable, fateful destination.

Mary and Eddie are meant for each other - but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood.

La giovinezza fa da sfondo alla narrazione di questi racconti, che prendono spunto dai ricordi dell'autore. I sentimenti vissuti si fan teatro di atmosfere che pullulano di fragranze: l'aria è limpida e profuma di "incantevoli essenze naturali", quelle che fan tanto bene al cuore, indispensabili perché la loro mancanza impedisce di Sognare e di Respirare la magnificenza di cui è intrisa la vera Aria.

Una vittima del terremoto. Un feroce pirata. Cosa accomuna le loro storie? Una spasmodica ricerca di risposte. Ogni personaggio è posto faccia a faccia coni suoi più profondi interrogativi, con le sue ombre, ma anche con la scintilla di luce che guida il suo destino. Ogni ambientazione ospita un viaggio e manifesta i lati della psiche umana con i suoi archetipi: l’acqua, la morte, il potere, la conoscenza, la paura, la follia, il fuoco.

Un piccolo capolavoro senza tempo, che sconvolge le nostre normalità quotidiane, un mondo in cui la Vertigine è dovunque, e la tecnologia è quasi mistica. Vidherr fa parte del movimento letterario del Connettivismo, gruppo di autori e illustratori, lavora nell'informatica e in questo racconto ha utilizzato la tecnologia per rappresentare un mondo in cui predomina una volontà di fuga dal razionale. L'audiolibro è proposto da Kipple Officina Libraria per la lettura di Lorenzo Visi. Contenuto: "Vertigine".

Due dei racconti più rappresentativi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo, due storie eccezionali, che vi proietteranno in mondi lontani e bizzarri, al limite dell'assurdo, ma scientificamente rigorosi, facendovi staccare dalla quotidianità. La meccanica quantistica e l'orizzonte degli eventi di un buco nero sono i protagonisti di queste due storie ai limiti dell'universo. Marco Moretti, Giovanni De Matteo e Sandro Battisti sono tra i più attivi autori del Connettivismo (due di loro ne sono anche i fondatori).

Tema del racconto è il desiderio di essere altrove: in un altro Universo. Riaffiora, così, l'antico ricordo di un sogno fatto d'ingenuità e romantico sentimento. È l'incanto perduto che diviene rimpianto, nostalgica rappresentazione catartica di un pianto che lacrima di delusione, solitudine e malinconia.

There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs. Young, for instance, after she had watched him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery. André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.

Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy, encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation. Searching for clues about the Monument-Makers, teams of 23rd century linguists, historians, engineers and archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on a number of planets, uncovering strange, massive false cities made of solid rock. But their time is running out.

On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie "family" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift - "the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies" - tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but "cineautistic," sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he's haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith.

In this short story by bestselling author Myla Goldberg (originally published in Harper's magazine), an unemployed artist lands a freelance job that gives him a strange brand of influence over the population of a distant island nation and places him in an equally strange relationship with the...

Брат святого ордена доминиканцев инквизитор Бернар на воскресной мессе увидел прекрасную горожанку Маргариту Ситтов и потерял покой. Чтобы получить желаемое, брату Бернару нужно лишь забрать золотой медальон, дающий защиту своему владельцу. Через много веков защитный амулет попадает в руки скромного редактора Оксаны Карасевой.

Молодая талантливая программистка Хан Совон в детстве пережила трагедию, в которой продолжает себя винить. У нее проблемы с общением: она мечтает найти хотя бы одного друга. Для того чтобы с кем-нибудь подружиться, она разрабатывает приложение, исполняющее любые самые тайные и заветные желания. Так Совон пытается поддержать тех, кто считает свои мечты мелкими и незначительными, тех, кто стремится добиться отмщения или справедливости, тех, кто одинок или несчастен. Нужно только прийти на интервью в ее офис, и она настроит приложение индивидуально под каждого клиента.

Ponaders philosophische Märchen sind sinnliche und poetische Texte, die zum Innehalten anregen und zur Reflexion von Gedanken jenseits unserer Kategorien von Zeit und Raum anregen. Diese Geschichten handeln von der Liebe, der Wertschätzung kostbarer Augenblicke und den grundlegenden Fragen des Zusammenlebens – sowohl zwischenmenschlich als auch im größeren Zusammenhang in unserer Gesellschaft.

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is...

From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand—or do we?—through one woman’s ever-unfurling...

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated...

I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's...

A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one...