Global Fiction

Civilization has an off switch. The Russians call it Lunnaya Pesnya. Moon Song. They bring the device aboard the International Space Station disguised as an experimental electromagnetic propulsion system. Just a harmless EmDrive prototype, ferried into space for testing in microgravity. But the device is not what it appears to be, and it’s far from harmless. When military cosmonauts hijack the ISS, Russia’s plans of global conquest are revealed. Moon Song is a game-changing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of attacking any location on Earth from orbit.

A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children...

One of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaid’s Tale”; one of the “11 Best Summer Books Of 2018” by Women's Health; this “perfect beach book” (Entertainment Report) follows the search for a missing sister in a near-future world...

Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach."...

As Michael maneuvers through his working-class neighborhood delivering groceries, he enters the homes and lives of his customers. He’s confronted by the school yard and street corner violence of local thugs. With the 1967 Arab-Israeli War fresh in public memory, he passes for Greek or Italian...

The next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another. From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy.

FIVE FAIRYTALES. NINE KINGDOMS. ONE PRINCE. 'This is not your Disney fairy tale. It is much, much better' WILDER'S BOOK REVIEW 'Brilliantly subverts the classic fairy tale' ONE CHAPTER MORE 'Loads of fun... Pinborough repositions Snow White as a feminist icon' THE INDEPENDENT Imagine a land...

Ein achtloser Hashtag stürzt die ganze Welt ins Chaos: Die Armen erheben sich gegen die Reichen, der Zorn derer, die nichts haben, lodert hell und hoch. Nur Tage später kommt es überall zu Unruhen, Demonstrationen und Anschlägen. Straßenschlachten und Polizeigewalt bestimmen das tägliche Leben - alles dokumentiert unter dem Hashtag #KillTheRich. Und das ist erst der Anfang! Es gibt nur zwei Personen, die den globalen Bürgerkrieg noch verhindern können: die mutige niederländische Diplomatin Conrada van Pauli und der alternde indische Starjournalist Bimal Kapoor.

Ein achtloser Hashtag stürzt die ganze Welt ins Chaos: Die Armen erheben sich gegen die Reichen, der Zorn derer, die nichts haben, lodert hell und hoch. Nur Tage später kommt es überall zu Unruhen, Demonstrationen und Anschlägen. Straßenschlachten und Polizeigewalt bestimmen das tägliche Leben - alles dokumentiert unter dem Hashtag #KillTheRich. Und das ist erst der Anfang! Es gibt nur zwei Personen, die den globalen Bürgerkrieg noch verhindern können: die mutige niederländische Diplomatin Conrada van Pauli und der alternde indische Starjournalist Bimal Kapoor.

'Pyre glows with as much power as [One Part Woman] did, and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature'-The Hindu Saroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harboring a dangerous secret: their marriage is an inter-caste one, likely...

Im post-revolutionären Ägypten bestimmt das Tor über das Schicksal der Menschen. Ein nicht näher benanntes Land im Nahen Osten: Seit der Niederschlagung der Revolution brauchen die Bürger für jede noch so kleine Kleinigkeit in ihrem Leben die Genehmigung des Staates - sei es für die Überweisung zum Arzt oder für die Erlaubnis, Brot zu kaufen. Um die zu erhalten, müssen sie sich vor einem riesigen Tor anstellen, das angeblich jeden Tag nur einer gewissen Anzahl an Anträgen stattgibt.

Dall'autore di l'energia del vuoto, il racconto profetico di una possibile catastrofe. Pianure screpolate, argini di fango secco, fiumi aridi, polvere giallastra, case e capannoni abbandonati: in un'Europa prossima ventura, devastata dai mutamenti climatici, decine di migliaia di "migranti ambientali" sono in marcia per raggiungere la Scandinavia, diventata, insieme alle altre nazioni attorno al circolo polare artico, il territorio dal clima più mite e favorevole agli insediamenti umani. Livio Delmastro, anziano professore di neuroscienze, è uno di loro.

Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by "the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves", he decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money - and sailing classes - to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder.

“We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact.” –Bernie Sanders A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as...

William S. Cohen, the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense, has walked the most powerful corridors in the world. Now, in the intricately woven Dragon Fire where it's nearly impossible to distinguish fact from fiction, he takes listeners into the top secret rooms where the fate of the...

A dazzling, kaleidoscopic debut novel about the life of a precocious girl in Philadelphia trying to figure out who—or what—she is. One afternoon, on a visit to the Bronx Zoo, a jaguar tells six-year-old Grace Goldberg-Li she isn’t human. Not that this comes as a total surprise. Her life...

The president orders Captain Deke Mallory to penetrate a mysterious brotherhood of Neo-Nazi billionaires. They've financed a coup d'etat in Central America to begin their takeover of the Global Monetary System.

Il nuovo romanzo di Ken Follett costituirà una sorpresa per i suoi milioni di lettori. Per niente al mondo segna un cambio di rotta rispetto ai suoi romanzi storici. Ambientato ai giorni nostri narra di una crisi globale che minaccia di sfociare nella terza guerra mondiale, lasciando il lettore nell'incertezza fino all'ultima pagina. Più di un thriller, Per niente al mondo è un romanzo ricco di dettagli reali che si muove tra il cuore rovente del deserto del Sahara e le stanze inaccessibili del potere delle grandi capitali del mondo.

In a world where silence reigns and humanity has all but vanished, James Jacoby grapples with the crushing loneliness and the haunting memories of a life that once was. Left to navigate the desolate streets of his abandon city, he searches for a reason to keep going amidst the ruins of society.

What if your past came back to haunt you and stalked the present until it became your worst nightmare? J.J. Hughes explores the lengths to which we'll go to keep the past from overshadowing the present and destroying the future.