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A collection of 36 short stories of the imagination that would make Rod proud, "Only these have a biblical twist." All done in the style of old-time radio dramas.

Was wird gewonnen und was geht verloren, wenn eine Frau sich entschließt, ein Kind zu bekommen? In ihren späten Dreißigern, als die Freundinnen sich fragen, wann sie endlich Mutter werden, fragt Sheila Heti sich, ob sie es überhaupt werden will. In einer mehrere Jahre umspannenden Selbsterkundung, mal hierhin, mal dorthin gezogen von ihren Mitmenschen, ihrem Partner und den Verpflichtungen gegenüber ihren jüdischen Vorfahren, versucht sie eine weise und moralische Entscheidung zu treffen.

Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next 40 years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.

‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.

Aos 14 anos, Tully Hart era linda, alegre e popular. O que ninguém imaginava era o sofrimento que ela vivia: nunca conhecera o pai, e a mãe, viciada em drogas, costumava desaparecer por longos períodos. Mas sua vida se transformou quando ela se mudou para a alameda dos Vaga-lumes e conheceu Kate Mularkey. A garota era inteligente, compreensiva e tão amorosa que logo fez Tully se sentir parte de sua família.

No final do século XIX, o sertanejo Tonho Pólvora compra a fazenda Alvorada, no interior de Minas Gerais. Com trabalho duro e falando a língua da terra, ele faz o lugar prosperar e se torna uma das lideranças da região. Na mesma época, em São Paulo, o jovem contador José Antônio dá um golpe na empresa onde trabalha e se lança, em fuga, para o interior do país, atrás de um lugar seguro para se estabelecer.

In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.

O mundo pós-aniversário aborda o relacionamento aparentemente sólido de um casal dos EUA radicado em Londres. Ele é um disciplinado pesquisador de um instituto de estudos estratégicos; ela, uma acomodada ilustradora de livros que se depara com uma vontade incontrolável de beijar outro homem: um velho amigo do casal, impetuoso jogador de sinuca que figura no topo do ranking do esporte, um dos mais populares entre os britânicos.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. 

The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.

Este libro capital para la cultura del siglo XX transcurre en Argelia y narra la anodina vida de Meursault, un joven oficinista que vive en perpetua apatía. Cuando recibe la noticia del fallecimiento de su madre, la encaja con la mayor impasibilidad. Obligado a abandonar la capital y viajar para asistir al funeral, Meursault desea que la ceremonia sea breve para regresar a su casa.

La inspiración para escribir este libro le llegó a García Márquez con una insólita noticia que tuvo que cubrir como periodista. El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para edificar sobre él un hotel de cinco estrellas, a presenciar el vaciado de las criptas funerarias y a cubrir la noticia. Se exhumaron los restos de un virrey del Perú y su amante secreta, un obispo, varias abadesas, un bachiller de artes y una marquesa.

El mayor fenómeno editorial de los últimos años. Literariamente adictivo.Quién mató a Nola Kellergan es la gran incógnita a desvelar en este thriller incomparable cuya experiencia de lectura escapa a cualquier tentativa de descripción. Intentémoslo: Una gran novela policiaca y romántica a tres tiempos -1975, 1998 y 2008- acerca del asesinato de una joven de quince años en la pequeña ciudad de Aurora, en New Hampshire.

En un país cuyo nombre no será mencionado, se produce algo nunca visto desde el principio del mundo: la muerte decide suspender su trabajo letal, la gente deja de morir. La euforia colectiva se desata, pero muy pronto dará paso a la desesperación y al caos. Sobran los motivos. Si es cierto que las personas ya no mueren, eso no significa que el tiempo se haya detenido. El destino de los humanos será una vejez eterna.

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: This is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: A sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: The scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill...

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 - now called Acheron - has been colonised. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph - the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden, seeking a fortune that eluded them on Earth.

Mata Hari foi a mulher mais desejada de sua época: a famosa bailarina de danças orientais que chocava e encantava as plateias ao se desnudar nos palcos, a companheira de confidências e de encontros amorosos com os homens ricos e poderosos de seu tempo, a pessoa de passado enigmático que despertava o ciúme e a inveja das damas da aristocracia parisiense. Ela ousou libertar-se do moralismo e dos costumes provincianos das primeiras décadas do século XX e pagou caro por isso.

Hope Anderson está numa encruzilhada. Aos 36 anos, namora o mesmo homem há seis, mas não tem perspectivas de casamento. Quando seu pai é diagnosticado com uma grave doença degenerativa, ela resolve passar uma semana na casa de praia da família, na Carolina do Norte, para pensar nas difíceis decisões que precisa tomar em relação ao próprio futuro. Tru Walls nasceu numa família rica no Zimbábue. Nunca esteve nos Estados Unidos, até receber uma carta de um homem que diz ser seu pai biológico, convidando-o a encontrá-lo numa casa de praia na Carolina do Norte.