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Um guarda-florestal salta de um arco de 200 metros de altura. Um artista tenta construir sua obra-prima em um castelo. Uma professora procura o filho desaparecido seguindo rastros de um estêncil manchado de tinta. Um jovem e seu ex-técnico de futebol americano viajam para sequestrar uma garota. Os personagens de Daqui até o Mar Amarelo e outros contos são pessoas comuns, mas a narrativa de suas jornadas nada usuais se aprofunda nas incertezas da existência humana, sem, no entanto, tentar desvendá-la.

Told by Alexander the Great himself, this “sharp and colorful” (Washington Post Book World) novel presents a stunningly intimate account of the battles, the loves, the triumphs, and the tragedy of a man who conquered the world, from the bestselling author of Gates of Fire. “Simply superb...

A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in 'Encounters' illustrate her extraordinary talent for capturing the spirit of a place and drawing us into the...

Told by Alexander the Great himself, this “sharp and colorful” (Washington Post Book World) novel presents a stunningly intimate account of the battles, the loves, the triumphs, and the tragedy of a man who conquered the world, from the bestselling author of Gates of Fire. “Simply superb...

Alexander’s Den: a place very few people know about and even fewer actually venture into willingly. Everyone here has a story; some want to tell it, and some don’t. Alexander won’t give Thomis a warm homecoming, even though he has something Alexander might want. Will a special egg be enough to get his foot back in the door? Will Alexander want too much from him in this storyteller’s final days?

Denis Johnsons Storysammlung Jesus' Son, 1992 in den USA erschienen, berichtet von Verwirrung, Leiden und Heilung eines jungen Drifters und hat den Autor zur lebenden Legende gemacht. Dies ist eines der herausragendsten Bücher der jüngeren amerikanischen Literatur; es schuf einen Ton, der in zuvor nie gehörter Weise Grauen und Komik, Schrecken und Zärtlichkeit einschließt.

The third novel in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs trilogy sees von Igelfeld suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the arrows of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure. Between trips, von Igelfeld returns to his beloved Regensburg only that to discover while he has been away his murine colleagues have been at play.

Un encuentro casual en una gasolinera perdida, un asalto rutinario con consecuencias inesperadas, la mezcolanza de anhelos y de voces en la salida de un hotel para jalear a los jugadores de un famosísimo equipo de fútbol, los pensamientos de una francotiradora en sus largas esperas… Una mujer cualquiera vuelve a casa es un compendio de cómo lo sublime, lo injusto, lo irónico o lo aciago puede aguardarnos, a cualquiera de nosotros, a la vuelta de la esquina de nuestras vidas de rutina.

George arrives in New York with a suitcase, a British accent, and the uneasy confidence of someone who believes reinvention should feel steadier than this. Act I traces his first days in Manhattan: Bowery apartments, Equinox workouts, subway lines learned too quickly, and a series of encounters that blur the line between intimacy and distraction. Through hookups, half-dates, and carefully misjudged connections, George begins to understand that desire can anchor you just as easily as it can unmoor you.

Die Hand eines verstorbenen Onkels macht sich selbstständig und terrorisiert fortan den Neffen des Verstorbenen. Köstlich, mit schwarzem Humor und der nötigen Brise Grauen, die einem einen Schauer über den Rücken jagt. Bereits zweimal verfilmt (1949 und 1981) gilt Das Biest mit 5 Fingern von W.F. Harvey als ein Meilenstein des fiktiven Horrors, dessen Geschichten viele Filmemacher und Autoren beeinflusst haben.

Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the condescension of his colleagues with regard to his unmarried state. But when his friend Ophelia Prinzel takes it upon herself to match-make, and duly produces a cheerful heiress with her own Schloss, it appears that the professor's true worth is about to be recognised.

Children of the New World introduces listeners to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.

This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin’s short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin’s work reflects these sensibilities, and he combines this with stories of his Russian ancestors that his grandmother would relate to him and his siblings during their summers near Moscow.

It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words, but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them. Who were those people, what were their stories, why were they smiling, what made them sad? What emerges are surprising and poignant tales of love and friendship in a variety of settings.

"Der Schnaps, der Rauchtabak und die verfluchte Liebe" ist eine Sammlung von 101 Anekdoten aus der Feder von Sandor Friedrich Rosenfeld (Roda Roda). Amüsant geben sie Einblick in das Leben und das Militär der k. u. k. Monarchie und nehmen auf liebevoll satirische Weise die Eigenheiten und Kuriositäten der Donaumonarchie und im Besonderen des Offizierstandes aufs Korn. Was eine Laterne mit einem Militärarzt zu tun hat, wie ein Befehl zum Kirchgang ausarten kann oder wie ein General verzweifelt versucht, ein passendes Pferd zu finden.

Alexander Weinstein's debut story collection, Children of the New World, imagines a near future of social-media implants and instant connection, environmental collapse and postrevolution discord. It grapples with our unease in the modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.

Universal Love welcomes listeners to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed.

Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943, much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late September that year. He failed to send a single report back to Germany, and when the War came to an end in May 1945, he fell to his knees and wept with relief.

Some people have basic needs of foods and materials that only theft can provide an answer for, and some others just pursue the taking of what they want, whenever they want and from whoever they want. These are their stories.

A construction project beneath the National Mall reveals a dark secret dating back to the Civil War, something buried by a cabal of scientists, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who helped found the Smithsonian Institution. It is a cache of bones, preserved in amber, protecting a wonder like no...