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They called her the scourge of Cheviot Hills. Emily Best took it as a compliment. Fresh out of prison for looting a Roman hoard, Emily has no intention of going straight. She has a metal detector, a reliable fence in Newcastle, and a complete disregard for England's Treasure Act. She also has a...

Novembre 1982. Tutto ebbe inizio con quel film, Il Poeta Scozzese. La vita di Lorenzo Bisetti, studente di violino presso il Conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano, da quella pellicola non fu più la stessa. Il primo viaggio del 1985 in terra californiana aprì una breccia "americana" nella sua anima: ma il successivo viaggio del 16 Marzo 1986 ne decretò la finale metamorfosi. Hollywood scardinò definitivamente l'equilibrio della sua giovane, già "instabile", esistenza, ma fu l'amore, o forse meglio la morte dell'amore, ad infliggergli una severa sentenza... eterna.

* Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, The New York Times, Fresh Air (top 10 pick), NPR, the Los Angeles Times (top 15 pick),The Washington Post, and more! The...

Matthew Dunsratty is trapped in a nightmare of his own creation. Worse yet, he can never escape from it. All he wanted to do was add a little spice to his dull life. That's why he had devised a way to place new ideas in the minds of younger versions of himself. "Just a little fun." Ultimately, that joyriding-in-time led to him accidentally murdering a young classmate. That heinous act landed Matt in the state mental hospital with no chance of ever leaving it alive.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From from the Booker Prize–winning author of Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the point of view of two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar—for fans of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey "Ingenious." ―The New York Times "Superb."...

The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly’s first legal gig - a supply run for the Seattle Underground - will be paid for by sap money. New Orleans is not Cly’s first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute named Josephine Early - but that was a decade ago, and he hasn’t looked back since.

After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century. The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In this world, the Cold War never happened because the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1941...

Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past...