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Just in time for Sherlock Holmes, the major motion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law: the world’s greatest fictional detective and his famous sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they solve crimes all over 19th-century America - from the bustling neighborhoods of New York, Boston, and D.C. to fog-shrouded San Francisco. The world’s best-loved British sleuth faces some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer and meets America’s most famous figures.

A poignant, highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever.... After years of struggling as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally gets his big break when his novel sells to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie, or Mrs. Onassis as she's known in the office, loves James' candidly autobiographical novel about his own dysfunctional family. 

Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. From Archimedes' bath to Newton's apple, vivid accounts of scientific discovery help us understand the principles behind each theory, and add to the larger narrative of how the universe works, and how we came to be here. This anthology draws out and distils science's love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories.

As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages - of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain - the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other, but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required intelligence and clear-sightedness as characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.

Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, 20 authors have assembled to reimagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003.

From Julius Caesar to the King James Bible, from modern masters like Theodore Roosevelt and Stephen Crane, this thought-provoking and compelling collection captures the variety and depth of feeling inspired by war, from the devastating to the uplifting.

Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only―, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One sister remains in the British Cape Colony and finds a way to...

New adventures of the iconic sleuth, an icon of detective fiction. Readers, listeners, investigators, and artists have come across Sherlock Holmes and his mythical stories of crime and adventure for generations. Now comes an outstanding anthology of never-before-seen short fiction stories featuring the much-loved powers of deduction and unerring quest for the truth - however improbable it might first appear. The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories brings together some of the most renowned American and British crime and thriller authors of today.

Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse, following the success of Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology. Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the...

Um padre encarregado de investigar documentos do Primeiro Reinado se vê envolvido em um antigo romance proibido dentro de uma aristocrática casa do Rio de Janeiro. À medida que segredos familiares vêm à tona, a verdade revela as rígidas convenções sociais que moldavam destinos no Império.

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves works of neo-Victorian fiction and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call "fantasy of manners", all of which fit under the larger umbrella of gaslamp fantasy.

Um romance fascinante sobre a guerra e as consequências chocantes de nossas escolhas. Malásia, 1945. A família de Cecily Alcantara corre perigo: Abel, seu filho de quinze anos, desapareceu, e Jasmin, a caçula, passa os dias confinada em um porão para escapar do risco de ser levada às estações de conforto. Jujube, a filha mais velha, trabalha em uma casa de chá frequentada por soldados japoneses, e sua raiva só aumenta. Cecily tem certeza de duas coisas: é tudo culpa dela, e sua família não pode nunca saber a verdade.

Cuando Remy Wadia dejó la India para poner rumbo a Estados Unidos, se llevó consigo la herida abierta de una madre fría e inescrutable, y desde entonces ha mantenido la distancia. Años más tarde, regresa a Bombay con la intención de adoptar un bebé y de reencontrarse con su anciana madre antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Está hospitalizada, ha dejado de hablar y parece haber renunciado a la vida. Atrapado por la culpa de no haber percibido la gravedad de su estado, Remy se entrega a la tarea de ayudarla a recuperarse y volver a casa.

Baseado em fatos reais, A parteira de Auschwitz é um romance comovente e inspirador sobre coragem e amizade feminina durante o Holocausto. Em 1943, ao chegar a Auschwitz, Ana Kaminski se identifica como parteira e, com isso, salva a própria vida e a de sua amiga Ester Pasternak. Designadas para trabalhar no galpão que serve como maternidade, elas se deparam com a terrível realidade do campo de concentração, mas também com uma missão: proteger os recém-nascidos.

At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House...

For ussel mammon er Hans Peter Bechs anden roman i serien om Henrik Bertelsen og udspiller sig fra sensommeren 1985 til foråret 1986 – en tid præget af koldkrigspolitik, spirende reformtanker i Sovjetunionen og et vestligt erhvervsliv på jagt efter nye markeder i øst.

En las profundidades de las ruinas de Derinkuyu, la legendaria ciudad subterránea situada en el corazón de Capadocia, el arqueólogo David Birch descubre un artefacto de bronce cubierto de inscripciones griegas y dotado de mecanismos increíblemente avanzados para su época. Mientras descifran los orígenes del artefacto, tropiezan con la asombrosa leyenda de la Máquina del Destino, un dispositivo poderoso oculto al mundo, ligado a los secretos de los dioses y capaz de vislumbrar el porvenir de los días.

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense. ‘Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This series continues to delight with the high standard of forgotten gems that Medawar...

Um dos passatempos preferidos da bela Lily Lawson é fazer coisas que deixam a sociedade londrina em choque. E ela é capaz de quebrar todas as regras para conseguir o que quer. No momento, sua obsessão é impedir que a irmã caçula se case com Alex, o lorde Raiford, um conde lindo e arrogante que jurou nunca se apaixonar por ninguém.

Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2023 volume is another indispensable collection for crime fans. The sixth volume of Bodies from the Library includes the usual eclectic mix of pre- and post-war stories by classic crime and thriller...