Global Literature

Turning 50 is bad enough without Mercury Retrograde. Nothing is working out as planned. Viviana, a struggling addict and former stripper, finds out she’s been dumped by her boyfriend once again…this time humiliating her on Facebook! Her jealous Scorpio nature takes over, and there’s hell to pay. Viv’s fragile sobriety is in jeopardy. Trying to keep her head above water, figuratively and literally, will take a miracle.

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.

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.

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.

For years, Trent Turner has worked in the shadows using his vigilance and determination to covertly defend his country. His anonymous days dispatching of the world's dark realities are interrupted when the unthinkable happens and sends him on a path that could destroy him. He finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy where political and financial powers collide when members of a hacktivist group are strong-armed into helping a sworn enemy of the United States rise to power once again.

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...

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.

This is the fourth volume in The Pacification of Earth, speculative science fiction series of novels. The author brings China and India to join the developed world in fighting human caused global warming. After lust, love, and battle, science invents a rescuing technology.

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.

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.

Tumult in Mecca: From Civil Servant to Global Business Adventurer transports listeners to 1979, a year of upheaval and change. Henrik Bertelsen, a Danish civil servant and baby boomer, is dedicated to his stable life in Copenhagen. Alongside his English wife, Sammy, they are building a co-housing community and navigating the complex adoption of a child from Indonesia. Henrik longs for peace and stability to secure his career. But life takes an unexpected turn when he is offered the chance to renovate hospital kitchens in Saudi Arabia.

Tumult in Mecca masterfully weaves Henrik’s personal quest for fulfilment with the global turbulence of 1979, capturing the tension between career and adventure, ambition and family, security and risk.

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.

Perfect for fans of Frank Peretti and Joel Rosenberg, The Shaft explores the questions of greed and morality in the world of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. In this riveting supernatural thriller, a chilling murder spree places a church leader in the crosshairs of a killer determined to stop a religious movement. Delaney reminds us that we are called to great responsibility on both a personal and professional front and that on this journey, angels are at work behind the scenes in ways we can only imagine. Are you looking for a riveting, new, fast-paced supernatural thriller?

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.

In the untamed frontiers of the American South, Jack, a resilient man shaped by loss and duty, finds solace alongside his trusty blue roan horse, Exoh. Their bond, cultivated in the sprawling landscapes of the Big South Fork National Game Reserve in Tennessee, is more than just man and beast—it's a partnership forged in the crucible of personal trials and the vastness of the wilderness.

Tracers are the foundation of Emilyn’s world. The ability to see into the soul of another and project what is found for all to see has become a staple of what it means to create art in Unity Falls. But souls work in mysterious ways. What is one’s memory is not meant to become another’s tool. When this power is abused, heroes rise.

Realm of the Four Parts, 1532. Gonzalo Pizarro craves the recognition received by his brother Francisco. When the young Spaniard helps capture the Incan Emperor against overwhelming odds, he’s convinced that God himself smiles on their expedition.