Global Literature

Il livello delle acque del mare si è alzato, sommergendo improvvisamente l'intera città di New York. Ogni strada si è trasformata in un canale, ogni grattacielo in un'isola a sé stante. Ma per i residenti di un edificio di Madison Square, la New York del 2140 è ben lontana dall'essere una metropoli isolata e perduta, e tutto sembra procedere esattamente come prima del disastro climatico.

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.

As the host of Radio Free Vermont - "underground, underpowered, and underfoot" - 72-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location". With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy.

Jolly Copper is one of the few people who know the world is on the brink of cataclysmic destruction.... not because he had any scientific knowledge or prophetic dreams, but because he is nosey and read what was on a fellow bus passenger's phone one day. He learns there will be an unprecedented series of natural disasters, and the expected grand finale disaster is predicted to be a tidal wave massive enough to swallow half the globe.

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.

Humanity begins to move out from a dying earth. On a particular planet, colonists are attacked by monsters looking like an ancient Egyptian God. On another planet, a young explorer finds a race of dragons through a transit portal. Befriending them, she discovers how to use powerful space ships left behind by another race, long gone.

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.

Grey is strategically placed in the middle of the battle as the secret she's been keeping from her husband is forced out. What happens next in their marriage might just be the thing the enemy has been hoping for to put a crack in their once-unbreakable union. Hers isn't the only dangerous secret that's waiting to explode. One of the attacks sparks a righteous indignation in the angel of death his fellow comrades have never seen. In all of eternity, Death has rarely joined a battle. This attack offends him so much that he calls for his pale horse to personally deliver a message to hell.

Grey and Neil have finally tied the knot! They are heading to their honeymoon. What they think will be a romantic getaway from all the madness is actually a date with destiny. God has sent them there to equip them for what's to come. However, Satan and his minions have decided that this is the end of the road for Grey and her assignment. As an added bonus, they've decided to take out Neil too.

Technical Sergeant Scott Rees figures this will be just another hot August day on base for him and his team of United States air force security policemen. Little do they know they are about to become subjects in a top-secret time travel experiment, forcing them into a fight for their lives in the middle of the American Civil War. Major General Richard Lucas and Chief Master Sergeant Joe Black want more time to test the Clio time machine before putting it into use, but their request falls on deaf ears as impatient government officials push forward.

Four years later, Blake and Jasmine are back with their friends and some new faces, but life isn’t done with them yet. Secrets they thought were long ago buried resurface with a vengeance and threaten to rip apart their family. While Jasmine, Blake, Lucy, and Jeremy remain at odds, tensions build, and their bond is threatened. Just when they think things can’t get any worse, tragedy strikes unexpectedly.

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.

Four years after Chad Hunter and Frank Baldwin secured the most successful small arms weapon system in American history, the Hypershot, they are thrust back into a new adventure that propels them from Southeast Asia to Scandinavia and back to the wilderness.

Angel Martin plans to marry Tony and live happily ever after, until Tony disappears. Nursing a broken heart, she takes a job at Tetterbaum's Pub, unaware it is the most prestigious Mafia hangout in Chicago. She finds herself suddenly caught in the middle of a revengeful scheme from a past she's never known and a blackmail scandal that has left several dead; and she's next on the hit list. Racing to find answers, Angel's life is left hanging in a twisted balance of deception and revenge...

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.

Special agent Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters head straight for his home. His tiny Alaskan island, with a population of just 80. What he doesn't know yet is why. Russia is playing a dangerous political game, reclaiming Rake's island as their own, even if it antagonises the US. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.

Rudolph "Rudy" Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world's largest, multi-trillion-dollar corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist - an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what's best for the rest of humanity. How does Rudy's struggle to reconcile business and family impact the world's future? And who, if anyone, can break the Consortium's iron grip on the status quo?

Zapinette spends Christmas in the Big Apple! She reveals a slice of life from a perspective that is both rare and familiar. She is unique in her worldly travels, having been born in the United States, currently living in Paris, and visiting faraway lands with her beloved Unky Berky. She is all too common in her pain as the child of a broken home, her anger and hostility over her mother's new beau ("Fermin the Virmen"), her confusion over the baffling realities of the adult world, and her inner longing to find her real father.

In the year 2030, the war on drugs has evolved into a brutal battle. Once-ordinary cartels have transformed into formidable forces, equipped with their own armies boasting tanks, jets, and submarines. And as the line between good and evil blurs, both sides are set to deploy cutting-edge weaponry in a deadly dance for control. Enter Team Reaper. With a high-stakes battleground, where survival is measured in firepower and strategy, one highly-skilled unitcomprised of John Kane, Cara Billings, and Raymond Knocker Jensenfind themselves at the heart of the chaos.