Global Fiction

He tried to be a hero, but the bomb still went off. Months after failing to save his city, Griffon longs for redemption. But he cannot turn back the anarchy that has overtaken Chicago. For one killer, it’s the perfect setting to unleash a deadly new virus. And he plans to use Griffon as Patient Zero. In a race against death, Griffon’s quest for redemption might be the downfall of everyone.

Waves of crime were washing the shores of Kenosha by Lake Michigan. Could the police solve the crimes before the next person got hurt? Teressa LeRoy, a young worker at Kenosha Public Library used to rescue street children on her own time. She went missing on the gala night from her workplace and Detective Nathan Adams was assigned the case to find her. One afternoon the gown that Teressa wore on the gala night was found hung on a bookshelf of the library. On another evening, some of the children saw a ghost in the library. One morning, a mangled body appeared in the Library Park and ...

Turning 50 is bad enough without Mercury Retrograde. Nothing is working out as planned. Viviana, a struggling addict and former stripper, finds out she’s been dumped by her boyfriend once again…this time humiliating her on Facebook! Her jealous Scorpio nature takes over, and there’s hell to pay. Viv’s fragile sobriety is in jeopardy. Trying to keep her head above water, figuratively and literally, will take a miracle.

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.

Humanity begins to move out from a dying earth. On a particular planet, colonists are attacked by monsters looking like an ancient Egyptian God. On another planet, a young explorer finds a race of dragons through a transit portal. Befriending them, she discovers how to use powerful space ships left behind by another race, long gone.

Jack Wilson, a recently demoted RCMP officer, has given up on life after losing his grandfather to a deadly virus that has the world in its grips. Dr. Michael Chung has the secrets to the vaccine for the viral disease that is the cause of the pandemic. Dr. Emily Rogers pushes her work aside to travel to China, to pursue the truth about the mystery her late father revealed in a letter. Emily recruits Jack to go to China and convince Dr. Chung to help them develop a vaccine for her.

Flip Into Christmas is a story that begins with a young boy who hears that Santa might not make it to Chicago in time for Christmas. Upon learning that his friends might not be able to get gifts due to their parents paying their lunch debt, he decides to take action and save his friends Christmas by embracing the entrepreneurial spirit + Christmas spirit.

Farry and Kammy are two little sisters who love cooking and baking delicious treats with their mom. One Christmas Eve they decide to surprise their parents and bake a magical rainbow cake for them. Once they have all the ingredients they need, Farry and Kammy set to work. But when they put a little too much magic into their cake something amazing happens.

The End of the End of the Earth is a collection of Jonathan Franzen's essays and speeches from the past five years, in which he grapples with the most important and heated ethical subjects of the day: environmentalism, capitalism, wealth inequality, race, technology, and the role of art. He challenges us to ask difficult questions: What is our civic responsibility in the face of climate change, the greatest ever threat to our planet and species? Does technology give us a sense of control or community or is it stripping these from us?

10 Gute Nacht Geschichten zum Lachen, lernen und... gut einschlafen! Das Sandmännchen erzählt Geschichten: Die Giraffen Geschwister - Mirandela hat Halsschmerzen/Der kleine Außerirdische Orpo und das Osterfest/An Bord der Adelaide - der Matrose Philipp und Kaptain Klippi Klabauter/Klippi Klabauter und die Poltergeister/Der Regenmacher/Dackel Apolonius und der Schatz im Palmenwald/Mäusefamilie Graumeier hat ein Problem/Die Turmuhr von Blumenau/Der kleine Zauberer tröstet Tamara Eule/Apolonius Dackel muss mit in die Oper.

10 Gute Nacht Geschichten zum Lachen, lernen und... Gut einschlafen! Das Sandmännchen erzählt Geschichten: Der kleine Eskimo geht angeln/Amalia Knopf und ihr Kirschbaum/Der kleine Eskimo und sein Schlittenhund/Klippi der Klabautermann und sein erstes Schiff/Der kleine Eskimo auf dem Markt/Im Zoo von Dr. Florentin - Rosalinde Nilpferd will abnehmen/Der Eskimojunge Üknük und das Hundebaby/Üknük hat Geburtstag/Der kleine Zauberer lernt chinesisch/Im Zoo bei Dr. Florentin - Das Kamel hat Kummer.

Das Mädchen Lucy und die verlorenen Taschentücher/Murli Kätzchen und seine Geschwister, drei kleine Kätzchen gehen auf Entdeckungsreise/Benjamin Kaninchen heiratet Flopsy Kaninchen und gründet eine Familie/Der Frosch Johann Fischer lädt zum Abendessen ein/Emma Ente und der listige Fuchs/Frau Waldmaus hat ungebetenen Besuch.

Benjamin Kaninchen, Peter Hase und die Vogelscheuche/Das rote Eichhörnchen Knusper und die anderen kleinen Eichhörnchen besuchen die alte Eule/Zwei freche Mäuse stürmen das Puppenhaus von Gerlinde und Johanna/Peter Hase und seine drei Geschwister bei ihrem ersten Ausflug/Der Schneider von Cluster: Der arme Schneider und die fleißigen Mäuse als Helfer in der Not.

Hans Hausmaus, die Stadtmaus und Timmi Willi, die Landmaus werden Freunde/Die sieben Hasenkinder geraten in große Gefahr. Im Wald von Bobby Dachs, dem Fuchs und den anderen Waldbewohnern lauern Gefahren/Albert Hörnchen und seine Frau Berta bereiten sich auf den Winter vor/Die Schweinchen Schwappi und Schlaui gehen auf den Markt zum Einkaufen, doch alles geht schief.

Raymond Antrobus’ astonishing debut collection, The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet’s much anticipated second collection, All the Names Given, continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory.

Jack Duffy is average. He lives an ordinary life with a mediocre job. He is a distracted husband, lives in a comfortable apartment, and is married to an extraordinary wife. That's how he would explain it. At the end of an unusually bad day, his life is turned upside down. The only thing that can catch him from falling is the soul collector. Will he be allowed to keep his soul? Or will he have to give it back?

Orik likes to run, bark and play like most other dogs. But Orik also is a trained service dog who takes his job very seriously. He helps his person, Christy, accomplish many things that come up during her day. Come along with Orik and Christy as they demonstrate what teamwork is all about, even when Orik gets into mischief. Their story of loyalty, determination and forgiveness will put a smile on your face.

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.

Joe has just about given up on his chances of finding a job. Day after day, he scours the ads, stands in line, and is crushed by disappointment. But one day, a letter comes in the mail that will change his life. He is given strange directions by an unidentified potential employer. Thus begins the most unusual job interview he's ever had, culminating in the revelation that he, and he alone, can do a job he never dreamed existed.

There is one thing in life you can be certain of: If you don't truly understand grief, it will take you down.