Era Fiction

Era Zwodnika to historia sensacyjna, z elementami science fiction. Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się w amazońskiej dżungli, a kończy w arabskim mieście Doha. Świat przyszłości znajduje się w kryzysie związanym z upadkiem cywilizacji i niszczeniem gospodarki przez nieroztropnych polityków. Być może ten upadek nie jest efektem niedoskonałości natury ludzkiej, lecz celowym działaniem, mającym za cel spowolnienie rozwoju Homo sapiens. Może rozwiązanie tej zagadki znajdziemy w Piśmie Świętym, w kilku początkowych wersach Genesis?

Arthur Conan Doyle was a GP before he became a writer. He uses his medical knowledge widely in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He bases the deductive skills of his hero detective on the diagnostic techniques a GP uses with a patient. He even gives Sherlock a GP sidekick. This all contributes to the enduring popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, over 130 years after the first story was published.

Em Era uma vez… Julia Lopes de Almeida, leva o leitor para o mundo da fantasia. Uma bela princesa que perde a mãe ainda bebê é criada pelo pai com muito zelo e excesso de mimos. Crescendo neste mundo onde todas as suas vontades são atendidas a princesa torna-se cruel e egoísta. Um dia passeando pelo reino ouve três cegos falarem de seu comportamento abusivo. Revoltada, ela cria desafios impossíveis que eles deverão cumprir para salvar suas vidas.

Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she’s a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city’s wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York’s underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found, if not love, then something like it with her bootlegger sweetheart, Leo.

Quizás cuando Elsa Triolet publicó Rosas a crédito en 1959, no imaginó cuánta vigencia tendría, más de sesenta años después, esta poderosa historia, la cual se desarrolla entre rosas, lavadoras, plazos por pagar, pasión por el confort moderno, esperanzas…Y tal vez tampoco imaginó la obsesión que puede sentir alguien por la sola posesión de un simple colchón de muelles, al punto que sea tan avasalladora que no importe nada más.

Grace Alnott is out of time. To save her younger brother from an abusive guardian, her merchant father's will demands she must marry a peer. Handsome but destitute Everett Hetherington, earl of Westbury, agrees to her offer of a marriage of convenience but stipulates she must live with him for six weeks. No matter how honorable he seems, she can't allow him to get too close, because the aristocracy cannot be trusted.

An urgent note from a friend spurs Ann Gay to visit her recently married cousin, Jacqueline Heaton. Upon her arrival at Fiddler's Fingers, a remote, pine-grown estate on Lake Superior, Ann immediately senses her cousin's fear - someone has been playing increasingly malicious tricks on the Heatons, a proud family of Minnesota lumber tycoons, and all signs point to Jacqueline as the instigator. Ann quickly resolves to take Jacqueline and her young daughter, Toby, away from the danger. But what began as seemingly trivial pranks escalates to direct attacks and ultimately murder.

Frankreich in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts – es ist die Zeit von großen Veränderungen, die nach der Revolution von 1789 zu einer stürmischen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und einer tiefgreifenden sozialen Umschichtung führten. Gabriel Lambert ist ein Mann mit einer besonderen Fähigkeit und einem großen Wunsch: er kann die Feder grandios führen, er will unbedingt nach Paris. Henri de Faverne ist ein Mann mit zwei dunklen Geheimnissen – eines über seine Herkunft, das andere über seinen Reichtum. Welches ist die Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden Männern?

Captain Cornelius Fernley has spent the last five years of his life entrenched in a world of espionage as he works to uncover a coup against the Prince Regent. The stage is set at a grand house party hosted by the Marquess of Blackwell, a man who is deeply established as one of the leaders of a group known as the Cavaliers. Lady Elise Wells is determined to prove herself a valuable asset to the Home Office. As this is her first assignment, she is far from the perfect spy, but she has one virtue no one else on her team can claim.

In the city's pulsing heart, where every corner holds a surprise, Loki, a silver-tongued charmer, locks eyes with Sigyn, a woman rooted in nature's embrace. But Sigyn isn't one to fall for Loki's usual sleight of hand. She's on her own path, with no room for romantic distractions. Yet fate has other plans—a chance rendezvous at a café, another among the pages of a bookstore, and even the vibrant buzz of a local community affair.

Como foi para você junho de 2013? Bom, para os personagens dos contos deste audiolivro foi um mês bem intenso, que não passou despercebido. Em qualquer lugar dos cenários criados pelo autor estão reverberando as consequências das decisões tomadas sob influência daquela atmosfera estranha, de onda gigante se formando na praia pronta para te dar um caldo sem você perceber.

In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized.

The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece a year later. Although wildly popular during Shakespeare's lifetime, to modern readers both works are almost impenetrable. But in her enthralling new book, the Shakespearean scholar Clare Asquith reveals their hidden contents.

The world ends in fire. Odin has vanished and Ragnarok unfolds across Midgard. Hel’s armies swarm across the world to blanket it in her freezing wrath. Draugar, jotunnar, and more terrible monsters run rampant. Can the broken Aesir stem the tide of destruction? In the south, a fire spreads. A blaze that will consume all creation. Even if Odin returns, will anything be left for him to save? You’ll love this grim fantasy because it retells classic Norse myths in a whole new way.

No one returns from Hel. Hermod aims to change that. With Baldr’s death, Ragnarok has begun. Now, Odin has one last desperate gambit: To send Hermod to the farthest reaches of creation to bring back his son’s soul. The son of a valkyrie, Hermod alone can make such a trek. But to do so he must descend into horrors beyond imagination. But even if he makes it there, can he make back? You’ll love this grim fantasy because it retells classic Norse myths in a whole new way.

After centuries bound in Alfheim, Odin escapes, only to find himself trapped in the fathomless darkness of Svartalfheim. What will he do when his only ally is a woman who no longer trusts him? Svartalfheim is home to the strange and corrupt dark elf courts. Eager for Odin’s oracular sight, they pull him into their unending power struggles. And while the king is missing, the world hurtles toward Ragnarok. If Hermod cannot find and retrieve Odin, Midgard faces annihilation on all sides. Can Hermod reach Odin before the end of all things?

Odin’s endgame draws near. Only a few obstacles remain between him and his goal of reaching Alfheim. His most valuable piece has become Sigurd, son of Sigmund, and a fierce warrior. Odin, now, must prompt Sigurd on a quest to slay a dragon and unravel a dynasty. But what fate lies in store for a god’s pawn? And if Odin finally reaches Alfheim, what awaits him?

Odin’s mind is lost in the mists of time, unable to make sense of cryptic visions. He remains certain of one thing alone: a final battle is coming. One that, should he lose it, all humanity will die. Ragnarok. To win this battle, Odin must harness his prescient knowledge, but the only way to do so is to drink from the lost Well of Mimir. The Well lies beyond the perilous stretches of Jotunheim.

Even gods can bleed. Odin’s people are the new gods of Midgard. Odin’s son has become a champion of mankind. But fame has a price.Odin lost his beloved Freyja. How far will he go to reclaim his lost love? The latest instrument of his will is Sigmund - a werewolf obsessed with vengeance on a despotic king. Can Odin’s machinations bring him back to Freyja without destroying all around him? You’ll love this grim fantasy because it retells classic Norse myths in a whole new way. Get it now.

The final steps are the longest. Odin arrives in Vanaheim. A timeless paradise of the gods greets him. There he meets Freyja, a woman with whom he’d gladly pass eternity. But the Fates are fickle. Freyja is the daughter of the king Odin has come to overthrow. Will he choose destiny or his heart? Either way, he will lose something dear. You’ll love this grim fantasy because it retells classic Norse myths in a whole new way.