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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them. A bleak moon...

Vuoi evadere dal quotidiano e concederti qualche ora di ascolto distensivo? Ti piace dare via libera all'immaginazione e lasciarti trasportare dalla MAGIA del racconto? Sei un genitore o forse un insegnante e cerchi delle storielle che riescano a trasmettere SAGGEZZA e conoscenza senza il rischio di annoiare? Sei alla ricerca di uno strumento didattico capace di coinvolgere, interessare e offrire spunti di riflessione? Sì? Allora questo audiolibro fa per te.

This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies.

La giovinezza fa da sfondo alla narrazione di questi racconti, che prendono spunto dai ricordi dell'autore. I sentimenti vissuti si fan teatro di atmosfere che pullulano di fragranze: l'aria è limpida e profuma di "incantevoli essenze naturali", quelle che fan tanto bene al cuore, indispensabili perché la loro mancanza impedisce di Sognare e di Respirare la magnificenza di cui è intrisa la vera Aria.

The Star Rover is a 1914 collection of science fiction short stories with the theme of reincarnation. It tells the story of Darrell Standing, an inmate of San Quentin’s death row. The narrator escapes the horror of prison life by withdrawing into altered states and the memory of past lives. Forming the body of the work, the accounts of these past lives are vivid but disconnected. They include a desert island survival story, one which involves a Roman perspective on Christ, a tale of medieval Korea, and one which takes place in a prehistoric era.

The international bestselling author is back with a page-turning tale of the origins of the peaceful warrior In the heart of nineteenth century Tsarist Russia an orphaned boy born of both Jewish and Cossack blood desperately seeks to find a place in a dangerous world. Sergei Ivanov’s...

Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems...

1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives...

Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for The Story Prize Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New American Voices Award...

From internationally renowned medium, spiritual teacher and bestselling author Gordon Smith comes a captivating tale about finding your way through death, grief and loss.'Nothing that lives can truly die,' said the stag, 'but we must all experience a winter in our lives, otherwise we haven't...

Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic...

Big bugs, cloned cats, and feral star-children play leading roles in the seven stories that make up Fast’s unconventional and thought-provoking collection. The Edge of Tomorrow is a significant foray into science fiction by one of the 20th century’s most prolific novelists. In looking beyond our universe, Fast reveals much about the America of his time - where the Cold War and a nascent civil rights movement stoked unconscious fears and desires.

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings

Jodorowsky revisa y amplía su audiolibro de cuentos "El tesoro de la sombra", dándole nuevas dimensiones y prácticamente duplicando el volumen. Alejandro Jodorowsky explica que, en su infancia, la lectura de cuentos "le impidió morir", ya que encontró un alimento que reencantó su difícil existencia. Desde entonces le gusta crear cuentos: cortos, largos, sabios o locos.

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

Uno dei capolavori della letteratura italiana, Sillabari raccoglie una serie di racconti brevi sui sentimenti nella loro essenzialità

Фантазер и мечтатель писатель Гарт сбегает из серой и дождливой Москвы в Севастополь. Здесь никто и ничто не сможет помешать ему полностью погрузиться в вымышленный им мир пиратов и бродяг, которым в дальнейшем суждено стать героями его рассказов.

In this compendium of delightful short stories, David Michie draws us into the extraordinary experiences of everyday people as they encounter those tell-tale cracks exposing reality as not quite what it seems. Through intriguing story-lines and revelations, Michie offers life-enhancing insights. How better to gently unwind at the end of the day - and to prepare for the infinite possibilities we may encounter in the realms of our dreams?

Una vittima del terremoto. Un feroce pirata. Cosa accomuna le loro storie? Una spasmodica ricerca di risposte. Ogni personaggio è posto faccia a faccia coni suoi più profondi interrogativi, con le sue ombre, ma anche con la scintilla di luce che guida il suo destino. Ogni ambientazione ospita un viaggio e manifesta i lati della psiche umana con i suoi archetipi: l’acqua, la morte, il potere, la conoscenza, la paura, la follia, il fuoco.