Global Fiction

On May 6, 2010, financial markets around the world tumbled simultaneously and without warning. In the span of five minutes, a trillion dollars of valuation was lost. The Flash Crash, as it became known, represented the fastest drop in market history. When share values rebounded less than half an hour later, experts around the globe were left perplexed. What had they just witnessed? Navinder Singh Sarao hardly seemed like a man who would shake the world's financial markets to their core.

Kaitlyn just wanted to keep her head down and do her job. She didn't want to be noticed. Notice would mean attention from Harbinger, and that is the one thing she doesn't need. The epileptic siphon doesn't have a choice, however. Her world is turned upside down at age 34 when she's forced to all but murder her assigned-husband for treason. Add in an evil government agency creating zombies to take out magic, and Kaitlyn must become more than she's ever wanted to be.

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.

The next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another. From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy.

For years, Trent Turner has worked in the shadows using his vigilance and determination to covertly defend his country. His anonymous days dispatching of the world's dark realities are interrupted when the unthinkable happens and sends him on a path that could destroy him. He finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy where political and financial powers collide when members of a hacktivist group are strong-armed into helping a sworn enemy of the United States rise to power once again.

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.

Grey is strategically placed in the middle of the battle as the secret she's been keeping from her husband is forced out. What happens next in their marriage might just be the thing the enemy has been hoping for to put a crack in their once-unbreakable union. Hers isn't the only dangerous secret that's waiting to explode. One of the attacks sparks a righteous indignation in the angel of death his fellow comrades have never seen. In all of eternity, Death has rarely joined a battle. This attack offends him so much that he calls for his pale horse to personally deliver a message to hell.

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?

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.

Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the rugged beauty of the world her ancestors once called home. All her life, she’s been taught to fear the “Earthbound”, and their generosity and kindness surprise and touch Phaet. But when the Lunar Bases attack Wes’s isolated village, Phaet’s past catches up with her, and she’s forced to choose: Stay on Earth and fight beside the boy she’s falling for, or stow away on a Moon-bound ship so she can save her brother and sister from the government.

A gripping and mind-bending journey into a dystopian world where reality is twisted and sanity hangs by a thread. Prepare to be enthralled as you dive into this psychological thriller that will leave you questioning your own perception of truth. With its unique blend of science fiction and dystopian fiction, "Slithering Plague" promises to take you on a rollercoaster ride of suspense and intrigue that will leave you breathless. Step into a not-so-distant future, where society has succumbed to the clutches of a mysterious and malevolent force. In a world plagued by uncertainty, the setting ...

Brett and Alyssa have decided to tie the knot in a big way. They invite the whole gang out to spend the week leading up to Christmas on the beach. The emotional baggage their friends bring with them spills out, turning the rehearsal dinner into a disastrous Christmas Eve. To make matters worse, Brett and Alyssa find themselves in a predicament that has one of them wondering if they even want to say, “I do.”

On his first day as a cashier at Dream Grocers, Daniel imagines that the worst he’ll have to deal with on the job are the occasional grumpy customers and long days on his feet. But in just one week’s time, reality changes entirely as the COVID-19 pandemic creates a frenzied panic. As the uncertainty and paranoia around the virus spread rapidly, Daniel tries to stay afloat and not let the irate hordes of customers bring him down. He learns more than he ever expected to about humanity’s response to fear.

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.

Lançado em 1943, Fogo morto é considerado por muitos críticos a obra-prima de José Lins do Rego. O livro encerra o que se convencionou denominar, dentro da obra do escritor paraibano, o "ciclo da cana-de-açúcar", série iniciada pelo romance Menino de engenho, de 1932. A obra é dividida em 3 partes, cada uma delas dedicada a um personagem específico. Na primeira parte do livro, conhece-se as agruras de José Amaro, mestre seleiro que habita as terras pertencentes ao seu Lula, protagonista da parte seguinte da obra e homem que se revela autoritário no comando do Engenho Santa Fé.

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.

Tumult in Mecca masterfully weaves Henrik’s personal quest for fulfilment with the global turbulence of 1979, capturing the tension between career and adventure, ambition and family, security and risk.

Learn about three powerful witches from mythology and literature—Circe, Baba Yaga, and the White Witch.

Private Beijing is ripped apart after an attack leaves three agents dead and the head of the team missing. With the Beijing branch in turmoil, Private's owner and global head, Jack Morgan, immediately gets on a plane from LA. Soon after Jack lands in China, another Private office is attacked. It's clear that the entire organisation is under threat. As Jack launches a global investigation from unfamiliar territory, he will need the loyalty of his team now more than ever.

In the untamed frontiers of the American South, Jack, a resilient man shaped by loss and duty, finds solace alongside his trusty blue roan horse, Exoh. Their bond, cultivated in the sprawling landscapes of the Big South Fork National Game Reserve in Tennessee, is more than just man and beast—it's a partnership forged in the crucible of personal trials and the vastness of the wilderness.