Global Literature

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.

This Mardi Gras festival is like none ever seen before or will ever see in the future. Experience sibling rivalry at its finest as two sisters square off against each other for control of the book of roots. Unite with our hero George Genois as he is drawn deeper into the realm of magic and the forces of good and evil.

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.

Sona Van (właściwie: Ter-Howhannisjan) to znana ormiańska poetka i podróżniczka. Urodziła się w Erywaniu, Armienii. Jej dziadek, szanowany ormiański duchowny z wschodnioanatolijskiego miasta Wan (stąd - pseudonim literacki poetki) w straszliwym 1915 roku przebywał w Istambule wraz z dużą częścią swej rodziny. Wszyscy oni byli naocznymi świadkami czy wręcz ofiarami okrucieństw młodotureckich bojówek.

After the events of Ahriman: The Spirit of Destruction, Petra Shirazi settles into a life in Paris under the alias of Ana Zagini. Her new world comes crashing down after a visit from a former Agency colleague forces her back into fieldwork. As they race to stop a mole that has infiltrated the Agency, they uncover an insidious plot to destroy the leadership of the International Monetary Fund and place it in the control of a corrupt Russian politician.

Das Sandmännchen kommt - Gute Nacht Geschichten für die ganze Woche. Niemand weiß soooo viele Geschichten wie ich, denn ich bin das Sandmännchen. Immer wenn Friedrich schon schläft, wartet er sehnsüchtig auf seine Geschichte. Montag: Der Buchstabe S ist ganz zitterig und unzufrieden, weil Friedrich ihn so schlampig in sein Heft geschrieben hat. Und dann kommt auch noch das dicke O und fängt einen Streit an.

Wie immer hat Quaxi nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen das Wetter im Fernsehen vorhergesagt. Daraufhin bekommt er einen Beschwerdebrief von Claudia. Weil Quaxi Regen vorhergesagt hat, wurde der geplante Besuch bei ihrer Freundin Anna abgesagt. Und nun ist Anna richtig sauer auf ihre Freundin. Dem armen Quaxi lässt das keine Ruhe, er hat Alpträume und traut sich fast nicht mehr Regen vorherzusagen. Herr Nowotny beschließt, daß er Quaxi helfen muss und will den wirklichen Grund für den Streit der beiden Mädchen herauszufinden.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1770. Delphine lives in the shadows of London: a secret, vibrant world of smugglers, courtesans and small rebellions. Four years ago, she escaped enslavement at great personal cost. Now, she must help her brother Vincent do the same. While Britain’s highest court fails to administer justice for Vincent, little rebellions are no longer enough. What’s needed is a big explosive plot – one that will strike at the heart of the transatlantic slave trade. But can one Black woman, one fuse and one match bring down an Empire?

Seit mehr als einem Jahr herrscht Krieg. So lange ist es her, dass China einen Überraschungsangriff auf die Vereinigten Staaten durchgeführt hat. An jenem schicksalhaften Tag stürzten EMP- und Cyberattacken große Teile der Nation in ein heilloses Chaos. Tausende von Anti-Schiffs-Raketen zerstörten die US-Pazifikflotte. Das mit China verbündete Nordkorea startete einen Großangriff auf Südkorea. Und die chinesische Informationskriegsführung löste einen eingeschränkten Atomschlag Amerikas aus.

A pandemic in the 21st century creates a technical elite class which shuns physical contact and depends on virtual reality for all social interactions. Duke Landon is among the top echelon of the Royal World Commonwealth and poised for success. His life is a privileged orchestra of politics, finance, and leisure pursuits which rarely intersect with the framework of boring reality. The elite rule the world and rarely bother with the primitive humans who eke out a minimal existence in the hot, violent climate that has reclaimed the earth.

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.

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.

As beautiful as marriage is intended to be, many of us have learned through firsthand experience that expectations are often a far cry from reality. The covenant of marriage is always riddled with paradoxes that are seemingly a struggle to make feasible and such seems to be the case for Marcellus and his wife Sara in this touching narrative, U.N.I.O.N, (undermining, neglect, infidelity, omission, and naive), all traits that exude the opposite of a healthy and loving partnership.

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the moon. She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government's radar. Then her mother is arrested. The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading shelter is to enlist in the militia, the faceless army that polices the lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth dwellers.

JJ Smith, the reluctant hero of the Infocrat party, fights for her life on the debate stage and on the run, battling to keep the Infocrat’s political movement alive. Presidential candidates Senator Freeman of the Democratic Liberal Socialists and General Harrison of the Republican National Conservatives conspire to annihilate JJ Smith and her passionate supporters.

This story by southern author, William See, also known as "Tennessee Bill" is a story of a boy who climbs out of a horrific childhood event and uses his natural witts to improve himself and chase his ambitions. The story travels with fun and frequen hillarity through past and present on a journey of adventure, accident, and discovery. There are a few suprises along the way.