Era Fiction

Based on her research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.

Billed as the Little Girl with the Big Voice, blues singer Lucille Arnetta Love always dreamed of life under the lights. From traveling family gospel band to lead singer in a riotous vaudeville troupe, Lucille is on the rise. But a devastating family secret, one that’s poised to shatter every dream she’s ever had, casts an inescapable shadow over Lucille’s career. Decades ago, a botched robbery ended in a suspicious death—and all signs point to Lucille’s own father as the culprit. It’s a secret that Lucille’s family is determined to keep buried—even from Lucille herself.

When the brilliant Cynthia May—a Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty—starts work as a human “computer” at the Observatory, astronomer Hugh Allison has found just the partner he needs for a radiant, half-crazed scheme that will make him live forever in the annals of science and space. But first the two scientists must overcome the very earthly obstacles presented by powerful Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and a fraudulent astrologer who just might know their future.

Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different. Outspoken Leona lives to break rules, have a good time, and scandalize their respectable hometown of Lexington. Fiona is a seemingly demure churchgoing girl who is the apple of her domineering, widowed mother Mavis’s eye. But together, the twins have fooled teachers, boyfriends, bosses, racist police—and most importantly, straitlaced Mavis.

A ghost in his deserted childhood home in Virginia, Tom Smiley can’t forget the bloody war and its meaningless losses, nor can he shed his revulsion for his role in the Confederate defense of slavery. But when a young couple moves in and makes his home their own in the early twenty-first century, trouble erupts—and Tom is forced to not only face his own terrible secret but also come to grips with his family’s hidden wartime history.

La desaparició misteriosa de l'Ariadna, una adolescent de disset anys, en un poble anomenat Arveda, desencadenarà les reaccions dels seus familiars i amics en un ambient asfixiant on res no és el que sembla. "Soc aquesta llarga acumulació d'angoixes. Soc les parpelles obertes mirant el cel estrellat. Soc una glopada de fàstic. Soc minúscula. Engruna. Formiga. Un gargall. Soc la dolenta de tots els contes. Soc fang. Un truc de màgia. Soc vella per dins. Soc vella. Soc i em moriré."

From outer space to inner space, Microwaves is a collection of sci-fi short stories that ranges from the silly to the serious. So whether you have five minutes or fifty, prepare to launch into a galaxy of the strange, fantastic, and unbelievable.

Scappato da un'infanzia difficile, Jimmy O'Brien si trova nella cerchia di George Finn, boss irlandese e braccio destro di Bugs Moran, famoso rivale di Al Capone. Da quel momento, Jimmy diviene parte di un mondo fatto di violenza e cieca fedeltà al capo, pur con il tormento interiore che alcuni incontri gli provocheranno. In questo mondo per "veri uomini", in cui non c’è spazio per la debolezza, Jimmy si troverà a dover lottare per la propria vita e quella delle persone a cui tiene, tenendo a freno le sue passioni e i suoi desideria più privati.

When the skies dried up, Gloria thought it was temporary. When the dust storms rolled in, she thought they would pass. But now the bank man’s come to take the family farm, and Pa’s decided to up and move to California in search of work. They’ll pick fruit, he says, until they can save up enough money to buy land of their own again.

El joven vikingo Arnulf es tan salvaje como el águila y el lobo que dan forma a su nombre. Ansía lanzarse a una vida de aventuras y acción, pero sus planes pronto se verán truncados cuando el barco de su hermano Helge regrese a casa hecho añicos. Ciego de dolor, Arnulf se embarca junto con un esclavo noruego en un viaje de venganza. Sin embargo, el viaje que le aguarda estará plagado de peligros y vicisitudes, desde una incursión a un encuentro real, pasando por multitud de batallas a cual más sangrienta hasta encontrar a los vikingos de Jomsborg.

When lady’s maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they indulged in S&M games of imaginary crimes and sublime punishment. Now they’ve been unexpectedly reunited - in subservience to the brooding Wythe Bornholdt and his frail wife, Diana. A master and mistress with their own dark secrets.

Whether you play basketball, watch basketball, or you’re simply a history buff, there is something for you here! Crafted for both hardcore NBA fans and curious newcomers to the sports world, this book dives into the history of basketball and specifically the tales of certain players that revolutionized the game.

The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. For Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, the only assignment tougher than exposing a conspiracy to assassinate the new president is training her new mentee, Hattie MacLaughlin, in the art of detection. The two women’s mission to save the president takes them from the granges of rural Maryland to the heart of secessionist high society, and sets them on a collision course that could alter the course of history.

After taking a risk and opening her own clothing boutique, she begins to embrace her potential. She stands at the precipice of change, armed with newfound clarity about herself. She is no longer a bystander in her own life; she has the power to choose what aligns with her true self. And through this journey of self-discovery and growth, there’s Cole.

La notte in cui un colpo di pistola alla testa mette fine alla vita di Felix Roatta, uno dei soci di uno squallido locale londinese, il Parallel Club, il corpo della giovane Dora Suarez viene ritrovato orribilmente seviziato. Un delitto misterioso quanto efferato, il tipo di indagine che ogni poliziotto vorrebbe evitare e che solo il sergente della sezione Delitti irrisolti sembra in grado di gestire. La morte di Dora Suarez diventa però per lui un’ossessione quando l'autopsia rivela dettagli a dir poco sconcertanti.

1949. La guerra ha terminado. Hamburgo queda reducida a escombros y muchos se encuentran sin un hogar al que regresar. Como Henny, quien no ha podido olvidar la mirada de su amiga Kathe en ese tranvía... Lina, por su parte, ha abierto una librería, Ida está decepcionada por su relación con Tian, a pesar de todo lo vivido. Los años pasan, los hijos de las protagonistas crecen y ellos también tienen historias que contar.

"Tutto il mondo affrontava la stessa prova. Qualcuno ne approfittò per cambiare." Cosa racconteremo di noi e della nostra vita ai nostri nipoti? Mattia decide di inizia­re dalla primavera dei suoi nove anni, nel 2020, quando, mentre il mondo da un gior­no all'altro si rinchiude in casa, si ritrova costretto nel microcosmo di un condominio di ringhiera a fronteggiare il suo più grande nemico: quel padre che l'aveva abbandonato quando aveva solo tre anni. Mentre tutto si stravolge, l'ansia e la paura prendono il sopravvento, la scuola viene racchiusa in un computer.

Dana do Mar è il titolo e il nome della protagonista di questo libro. Un essere libero e solitario per natura e per destino. L’autore ci accompagna lungo le tappe che hanno segnato l’esistenza di questo personaggio, toccando difficili contesti della vita reale. Dalla finzione della storia raccontata, alla realtà di scenari di guerra e contraddizioni sociali, che dovrebbero superare i confini entro cui esistono, per diventare patrimonio della coscienza di tutti.

The planet is dying, a mega-corporation controls everything, but at least you don’t have to work another day in your life, not when an Organic AI controls your body every night. Eric Noble is beginning to realize that nothing makes a Day feel more like a complete waste of space than having all the time in the world. Detective Noble is starting to see the truth that he and the other Nights are nothing more than programmable slaves living inside someone else.

En el palacio de cristal de una tierra lejana con dos soles, al cumplir quince años, Alanna, la bella princesa del Reino de Goês, podrá conocer parte de la historia de sus antepasados que se halla en los manuscritos sagrados.