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A provocative and "dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Alex wakes on a bench in Split with no memory of Mars, the Children, the Nine-Screen Room—or the woman who has loved him across lifetimes. His wallet says he is Alex. His nearly empty refrigerator offers half a lemon. Neither explains why strangers...

1943. The tide of war is turning. For months, the Japanese Empire has dominated the Pacific. Now, for the first time, it is being pushed back. Across the ocean, the Allies are striking on every front. Pearl Harbor is under relentless assault, American industry is surging back to life, and new fleets are entering the fight. In China, Japanese armies are reeling. In the Pacific, their once unstoppable advance is slowing… then faltering.

Combined for the first time in one volume are books #10-#12 of the internationally best-selling CLOAK MAGE series: CLOAK OF EMBERS, CLOAK OF TITANS, and CLOAK OF ILLUSION. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my responsibility to broker a peace deal between the dwarves and the Elven commoners... and there are lots of Elven nobles who would like to see the deal fail. So when the Lord Inquisitor Arvalaeon arrives on my doorstep, critically wounded and missing the last week of his memory, things have just gotten even more complicated.

The artist formerly known as Local Boy was the biggest folk rock sensation of the 1970s—until one day he wasn't. His time traveling son made him a star, but later went back and undid it. Local Boy was back to mowing lawns, fame nothing but a passing daydream. Now Local Boy has another shot at greatness when his future self travels back to teach him one song for the sake of the timeline. It's an offer he can't refuse—until another time traveler also arrives with an offer he can't refuse.

Reporter Edward Malone seeking a really heroic assignment to impress his would be paramour; Gladys, is sent to try to gain an interview with the irascible Professor Challenger. But he has little idea of the strange chain of events he is about to become embroiled in! He soon finds himself as a...

What if the world ended not because of lies—but because of truth? Coherence is a sweeping alternate history epic that begins with a single divergence: what if all formerly enslaved Africans in America had been legally repatriated to Liberia in the 1800s? From that premise unfolds a centuries-long saga of identity, power, philosophy, and the fragile architecture of civilization. Across generations—from the early AmericoLiberian nation to global upheavals, ideological revolutions, and the rise of the Wordkeepers—Liberia becomes the unlikely center of world order.

There are people who have achieved immortality, living guides who have always worked behind the scenes to keep humanity on track. Keeping their existence a secret for many centuries, now as humanity faces its most critical moment, their presence is revealed. One of the immortals, a woman who is 3500 years old, tells us how she achieved the state that defies death.

There could never be a thirteenth Ledes cousin, not when the Devil himself promised to claim them as his own. The mist-shrouded town of Galloway needs every ounce of protection from the demons lurking in the Barrens. Harper Ledes longs to escape the cursed village her family rules. As the youngest Ledes cousin, she’s always been an outcast, despite her noble name.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Leonid Andréiev admirado por Máximo Gorki, Fiódor Dostoievski fue su gran referente. De él heredó la obsesión por la psicología anormal, los dilemas morales extremos, la locura y los conflictos espirituales; respetado por Tolstói y Chejov desarrolló una...

A visionary work of early science fiction and philosophical thought, The New Atlantis imagines a remote island society where knowledge, discovery, and scientific inquiry are dedicated to the betterment of humanity. When European sailors arrive on the island of Bensalem, they encounter a civilisation shaped by learning, innovation, and enlightened governance, offering a compelling vision of progress centuries ahead of its time.

Humankind rose from the carcass of a dead world. Lifetimes later, billions of people live in superstructures constructed atop the only habitable lands left, the Hawaiian Islands. Kilohana “Kilo” Ressler lives in Hawai'i City (known to the people as Big City) along with his illegal Digital Psychological Manifestation (DPM), EO, a pseudo-twin only perceptible to the host, designed during the rebuilding years to provide companionship in a world of horrors.

A cruise to Antarctica turns deadly when a crew member is murdered, revealing a sinister plot to control the riches at the bottom of the world, and the power that comes with it. A group of strangers must uncover who is willing to destroy a continent for money and power. A fierce battle for the planet is brewing. The entire human race is at stake. Who will live? Who will die? Whose lives will be changed forever? A fictional story based on real facts. A book written to educate, inspire and change the way we see our world. Our home. We’re all in this together. Adult fiction.

Bienvenidos a Tombstone, Arizona. Michael puede ver y hablar con fantasmas. También puede hablar con ciertos animales. Penny, una gata calicó, no se puede confiar, y es sarcástica. Neil, el Cuervo, es muy entrometido y siempre tiene algo que decir, quieras oírlo o no. Michael conoce a Doc Holliday, quien le presenta a todos los fantasmas locales de Tombstone y a la diligencia fantasma semanal que llega semanalmente, recogiendo y dejando lo mejor y lo peor de Tombstone. Estos fantasmas no pueden evitar volver a Tombstone.

A kingdom on the brink The Shadow Castles arrived without warning, burdening the Celtic nation of Dalria with a host of questions. What are they? Where are they from? What is their purpose? In the quest for answers only Artemis Macintyre and her Shieldman James Guthrie seem to have their heads in the game. That’s until a dash to Aberdeenshire in pursuit of a digital key reveals other parties willing to kill to win control of a Shadow Castle. Back in Stirling, the Dalrian court is increasingly divided while all around them, domestic threats and foreign enemies ramp up the pressure.

What if “emancipation” didn’t mean freedom—only removal? In this alternate history of early America, the 1816 Emancipation Proclamation declares that all formerly enslaved people must be repatriated to the new colony of Liberia. Freedom and exile become the same decree. Those who refuse are hunted. But some choose to stay. 

Vor Jahrhunderten entwickelten die Roboter auf dem kleinen Mond Panga ein Bewusstsein ihrer selbst – worauf sie umstandslos in der Wildnis verschwanden und zu einem Mythos wurden, zu einer urbanen Legende. Den Menschen hingegen ist es seither gelungen, die Klimakrise zu überwinden und zu einem gedeihlichen Dasein im Einklang mit ihrer Umwelt zu finden. Dex zieht als Teemönch mit Fahrrad nebst Wohnanhänger durch die Lande und lädt in den Siedlungen zu besinnlichen, therapeutischen Gesprächen ein.

The Final Examination for my first year at Krysfelt is coming up! My freshman year has been anything but orthodox: ogres, a draconic bloodline, and a nest of corrupted bureaucrats who'd love to see me fail. I've survived it all thanks to the team at my side—loyal, lethal, and lovelier than I ever thought I deserved. Now we have to prove we belong here in a trial designed to break squads that aren't perfectly in sync. And we're about to add a new piece to the puzzle: Seema, a late-starting lionkin with almost a whole year to make up for.

Over 23 hours of explosive military sci-fi adventure in one epic boxset! Humanity survived the apocalypse. Then the alien invasion started. Major Ethan Irons thought rebuilding civilization would be difficult enough. Then humanity made first contact and immediately found itself caught in a war between civilizations capable of turning planets into cautionary tales. Now Ethan must lead a battered fleet through impossible battles, uneasy alliances, ancient rivalries, and enough political backstabbing to convince him that aliens invented bureaucracy just to ruin his day. His advantages?

In 1850, a rising tide of evil plagues a small Indiana town. Only one woman’s long-buried secrets can stop it. But revealing them will spell her doom. In the years since her father disappeared and her mother perished under suspicious circumstances, Emily Hampshire has endured relentless scrutiny in New Harmony. Yearning to simply blend in and finally escape the gossip and glances, she strives for the expected —get married and live an uneventful life. But when Emily finally falls in love, everything falls apart. A brutal murder thrusts her once again into the center of scandal and terror.