Era Fiction

"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.

Anna, una mujer que dejó su trabajo en la gerencia de un hotel para ocuparse de sus hijas y de su marido, recibe un mazazo al conocer la noticia de la muerte de su esposo en un accidente. El golpe es doble al enterarse de que, en el momento de ser atropellado, salía de un hotel de la mano de su mejor amiga.

Aaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky, played-out fields of the Adirondack farm he inherited from his sadistic father. One winter morning, he follows footprints in the snow to his barn and discovers a man freezing to death in a horse stall. What unfolds between the two men, past and present, is a brisk, gritty depiction of crime and punishment. But their harrowing story is more than that, exposing the shocking hypocrisy of the people who live in the nearby bucolic town.

Clayton Stonemason idolized his father, a hometown hero in their small Missouri town. But when his father’s life unravels, Clayton loses his way, too. He tries to escape his father’s legacy but discovers he can’t run from his destiny. AMERICAN JUKEBOX, a story of small-town America in the last decades of the twentieth century, explores the many ways our relationships, hopes, and dreams can alter the course of our lives.

Laura Dearborn, a young woman is courted and pursued by three men: Curtis Jadwin, Sheldon Corthell, and Landry Court. She marries Jadwin, who over time loses interest in her as he gets more involved in wheat speculation at the Chicago Board of Trade. As his risky investments start to lead him to ruin, Laura reunites with Corthell, but she eventually rebuffs him. Jadwin’s fortunes turn as he is able to corner the market and ruin even good friends, but in time his luck runs out, and he is ruined.

If There's a Heaven Above takes the listener on a tour of the Southern California demi-monde Goth scene of the mid-1980s, as seen through the eyes of club-kid, Matt. The novel combines innocence with experience, sex and drugs, Love and Rockets, with just the right touch of poetry. It is a thrilling ride along the freeways and turntables of that era: when AIDS was new, Reagan was King, and hope was a wounded kitten, cared for by the creatures of the night.

1932. Ernie and Lily Hass and their daughter, Girlie, have lost almost everything in the Depression; all they have keeping their small family together are their secrets. Abandoning their failing wheat farm and small-town gossip, they make a new start on the west coast of Australia, where they begin to build a summer guesthouse. But forming new alliances with the locals isn't easy. Into the Hasses' new life wanders Lily's shell-shocked brother, Tommy, after three harrowing years on the road following his incarceration.

Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother - or what happened to her. When Dahlia’s father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she’s desperately lonely. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she’s white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him.

Anita è l'unica ragazza della squadra di pallanuoto del suo paese, è appena diventata capitana ed è innamoratissima di un suo compagno di allenamento. Quando è da solo con lei, Ste è dolcissimo, ma cambia appena si ritrova con gli altri maschi della squadra. Un giorno Anita si scatta una foto con altre ragazze davanti allo specchio dello spogliatoio e da quel momento, apparentemente insignificante, tutto comincia a cambiare.

The fighters are preparing themselves to step into Tovar's realm and put an end to the war he's started. They aim to rescue their captured allies and stop Tovar before he can resurrect Draorahm. They have no idea what waits for them on the other side of the portal, but they are ready to face anything that comes their way. The fate of Paxanthus rests on their shoulders, so they have no choice but to step into the unknown and face the greatest threat they've ever met.

Pablo es un viejo exentrenador de la élite del baloncesto español. Ahora, haciendo vida de jubilado en un pueblo perdido de la mano de dios, junto con Pepe, su antiguo y fiel delegado del cuerpo técnico de sus equipos, se embarcará en la aventura de entrenar a un grupo de patanes del club de al lado de su casa. Cuando piensas que esta historia ya la has visto en Campeones o, si eres más mayor, en Hoosiers, empiezan a pasar cosas raras: a Pablo le suenan las caras de los entrenadores rivales con los que se va cruzando y empieza a tener la sospecha de que algo raro está sucediendo.

La misteriosa morte di un giovane studente, erede di un cospicuo patrimonio, mette in moto una spirale di intrighi e vendette destinata a durare più di vent'anni e nella quale viene coinvolta una dinastia di banchieri consumata dall'ambizione e dalla cupidigia. Un romanzo ambientato nell'Inghilterra vittoriana, nel quale l'autore descrive una dura guerra economica combattuta a colpi di delitti, ricatti e torbide passioni.

Nuevo México, 1880 A unas millas de Silver City, en medio de la nada y rodeado por arena y matorrales, se alza el Golden Paradise, el salón más famoso y exclusivo de todo el territorio. Una fría noche de enero, Diego Suárez desmonta de su caballo y se adentra en el fastuoso local. Lleva la determinación escrita en su mirada de fríos ojos plateados. Nadie sabe lo que busca el peculiar forastero de aspecto misterioso y origen mexicano, pero sus andares y su forma de portar el revólver parecen indicar que se trata de un pistolero.

Hamburgo, 1970. Henny celebra su cumpleaños rodeada de su familia y de sus inseparables amigas. El hilo de la complicidad que unía su vida con la de Käthe, Lina e Ida continúa ahora en las nuevas generaciones: Florentine, la modelo que regresa de París con una inesperada noticia; Katja, que sueña con fotografiar conflictos por todo el mundo.

For the past 150 years, the elves and terrans of the Third World have struggled under the brutal rule of the Scourge. No one knows how they arrived, but their motives are horrifyingly obvious: the complete and total extinction of all life on the planet.

皇室贵胄的恩怨情仇，武举子造反案，太原血案，看万历十九年宁重生家庭巨变的前后经过……皇室貴冑的恩怨情仇，武舉子造反案，太原血案，看萬曆十九年寧重生家庭巨變的前後經過……

This highly anticipated sequel to Delaney's People takes listeners on a turbulent, surprise-filled journey from Depression-era rural Alabama through 2011's devastating tornadoes and their impact on Delaney's family and friends. Family ties, love, loss, betrayal and a characteristic dead mule combine in a perfect book for devotees of Southern literature.