Global Literature

Yukon ist der Platz, von wo aus die Goldgräber in die Wildnis aufbrechen, auf die Suche nach Gold. Es ist Winter. Jack Convey trifft Alex Larsen, einen Bekannten seines verstorbenen Vaters, und mit ihm und Kelly macht er sich schließlich auf den Weg auf die Suche nach seines Vater Goldmine. Dieser Weg soll ein langer werden, voll Unheil und Abenteuer. So werden sie von hungrigen Wölfen verfolgt, wobei Kelly und ein Schlittenhund ums Leben kommen.

It has been over a year since the war began. A year since China launched its surprise attack on America. EMP and cyber weapons plunging much of the nation into a dark chaos. Thousands of anti-ship missiles gutting the US Pacific fleet. A Chinese-allied North Korea launching an all-out attack on South Korea. Chinese information warfare campaigns triggering America to launch a nuclear strike on China's own nuclear stockpile. And the international political consequences that followed.

This compilation of poetry/works is a heartfelt account of life in the eyes of the author. This book has been designed with love, hope, and forgiveness to put into words what often is lost through life experience from the university of life.

Young Ephraim Goldman is the author of a perennial best seller. A celebrated academic lion, he hobnobs with the movers and shakers of his era, such as Einstein, Berenson, and Bertrand Russell. Ephraim's son Bernard is a young writer desperate to make his own reputation in the literary world. After a shrewd publisher hires Bernie to write his father’s biography, he stumbles across a startling photograph. As the mystery of his father slowly unfolds, Bernard has to come to terms with both the present and the future.

Sátira en torno al desarrollo sostenible y la gestión medioambiental de una gran empresa energética que explota una refinería en el litoral gaditano. Federico Castilla es director de Responsabilidad Corporativa y Desarrollo Sostenible de Oilgas International, multinacional del sector petroquímico con implantación en Europa, África y Oriente Medio. Una mañana recibe una llamada desde Oilgas Ibérica, su planta de distribución de refino en España, y le comunican que se acaba de producir un accidente laboral en dicha planta.

Cada día crece más el pueblo musulmán en los Estados Unidos, implantando consigo su cultura y su religión. Cinco jóvenes, estudiantes sobresalientes de diferentes universidades, son asignados por el Gobierno para que hagan un estudio profundo sobre el porqué del aumento exagerado musulmán en el pueblo de Hamtramck, Michigan. Pero el enfoque de la investigación muy pronto toma otro rumbo, cuando descubren que varios jóvenes han sido enviados a cumplir una peregrinación a La Meca, en Arabia Saudita, pero nunca regresan.

The infamous brothers have found themselves at a crossroad. Their assignments have led them to some strange places, but none as bizarre, complicated and painful as coming face-to-face with their brother’s daughter. The emotional and mental tug-of-war begins the moment they find out who she is and what she’s capable of. Not only are they contending with their family ties, but one of the most notorious demons the dark side has to offer – Insidious.

Primeiro romance de José Lins do Rego, Menino de engenho traz uma narrativa cativante composta pelas aventuras e desventuras da meninice de Carlos, garoto nascido num engenho de açúcar. No livro, o leitor se envolverá com as alegrias, inquietações e angústias do garoto diante de sensações e situações por ele vivenciadas pela primeira vez. Publicado originalmente em 1932, o romance comprova, sem sombra de dúvidas, o talento monumental de um escritor, cuja obra nortearia os rumos do moderno regionalismo brasileiro.

In her latest poetry collection, Du Noyer explores themes around grief, hope, fear, and isolation documented through observations during the worst global health crisis since the Spanish flu in 1918: the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic. This audiobook captures the essence of a realized mortality, the will of human spirit, and the beauty of togetherness in a humanitarian crisis. A historically significant audiobook and commemorative of this unprecedented moment in global history.

Four years after the events that took place in Delaney's first book, The Shaft, the Global Calling organization is now making a dynamic impact across India. As they host the largest ministry event in their history, with over 100,000 worshippers in a crowded Mumbai cricket stadium, a radical anti-Christian militia (Indian Liberation Resistance Organization) orchestrates a brutal terrorist attack.

In the shadowed Velora Mountains, Elias Draggon uncovers the Codex of Ghor’Vahn, an ancient artifact pulsing with the Breath of the Dragon—a force to balance or shatter the universe. Hunted by Shadow Dragons, harbingers of chaos, Elias must master the Codex’s light and dark energies. Guided by cryptic mentors, his journey reveals the Matrix Heart, a cosmic nexus tied to a destiny beyond his world. But as victory dawns, a darker shadow whispers of a red planet’s rise.

A romance at the surface, but look closer, and you'll see this hybrid love story also addresses the fate of the planet. Julian, a workaholic-romantic, returns to school and falls head-over-heels for Allison, a lithe and lovely twenty-year-old college student while taking a course that examines the nuances of global warming. In class, they pass notes, flirt, and slowly a relationship evolves. When Julian discovers that Allison is due to marry her high school sweetheart, he risks all-including his job-to impress her, seduce her and steal her away. During a final exam, dressed as a dictator, he reads a treaty on the social economics of climate change, threaded with stanzas from a divine poem written centuries ago by Sappho. Allison is moved by his courtship.

Join Viktor as he uncovers part of his past in this collection of Warden Global books and short stories. Hidden in the shadows is a supernatural world, filled with wonders that coexist alongside our own. Standing on the threshold of both, he fights for those who can’t protect themselves. It isn’t fun; it isn’t glorious, but it is important.

Em A festa da Lua, Ana Maria Machado surpreende mais uma vez com seu olhar ao mesmo tempo singelo e magistral. A obra nos apresenta um menino muito observador. Caê repara em tudo. Tudo mesmo. Tanto, mas tanto, que encontra encantamento nas coisas simples e fantásticas que o cercam. Agora, imagine seu deslumbramento ao conhecer as diferentes fases da Lua? Considerada uma das mais completas e versáteis autoras brasileiras, Ana Maria Machado ocupa a cadeira número 1 da Academia Brasileira de Letras.

An inspirational story about a young man who learns what is truly valuable in life.... Through a simple yet charming coming of age story, Life, Lessons, and Lemonade will ask you to reflect on what you value in life and how you learned those lessons.

My father, Armand Cascade, aka Horns, was president of the Red Skulls MC. It’s members were all soulless demons whose only lot in life was to siphon souls from other MCs. Over time, my father became the king of demons and relied on me to lure in victims. It was an honor for me, until I was assigned to the Lost Lark MC and fell in love with a human, Mykel "Kaniac" Kane.

O convívio familiar, o cultivo das amizades, a dura vida no sertão e a necessidade incontornável de encarar os desafios que a condição humana apresenta são elementos centrais desta narrativa. Neste livro, tem-se o privilégio de captar o âmago da vida no sertão através do olhar de uma criança, uma escolha que revela a grandeza literária de Guimarães Rosa.

Recently, Shyamala Mehta’s life in LA feels stagnant: she’s undervalued at work, newly single, and constantly clashing with her marriage-obsessed mother. So when she’s offered a transfer to Mumbai, she travels halfway around the world to the now drought-stricken city her parents left behind.

Only the most hardened survivalists can endure living in the scorched deadlands of the former state of Arizona. Among them is nineteen-year-old Georgia Reno, who lives in an isolated desert settlement with her father and younger brother. Roads don’t exist here; visitors are more dark fairy tale than reality. But when two mysterious strangers arrive on their land, Georgia begins to question her sheltered existence. Soon, her tentative curiosity blooms into a fledgling desire to leave the settlement, even if it means venturing into a world her father has only ever warned against.

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.