Editorial: James Parducci
A woman seems to be simply lying on a beach, taking in the sun, and enjoying a summer day, but the story goes deeper and uncovers what may seem both disturbing and typical at once.
Carl Obermeier, a cadet at the Time Corps Academy, discovers he has been admitted to his second year on Conditional status. This is due to his high "emotional liability." He is advised to mediate and study the precepts and disciplines of the Corps. But on his first day back, his class is shown an example of Temporal Crime committed by the Time Pirates, enemy of the Ordered Society, and he is smitten by the pirate Armand's beauty. Troubled, Carl remains true to the Corps when he is kidnapped by the pirates and meets Armand face to face. Armand lives a free and easy life with the pirates ... until he sees Carl, and realizes the cadet has fallen for him. As the pirates deprogram Carl from the rigid tenets of the Ordered Society, the two men fall in love. But a pirate's life is never safe, and when Armand fails to return from an Action against the OS Marines, Carl steps up to save him. Unfortunately the men are caught on either side of the Time War. Can they find their way out?Ver libro
A mysterious woman on the run joins an aging A-list actor on a tropical film set where a sudden tragedy puts everyone in jeopardy. Sofia is having her Cinderella moment. She's been plucked from obscurity, flown to a luxurious location as a companion to an older but still bankable Hollywood power player. The catch? His family is there for a free vacation, and they're as damaged as they are hard to ignore. There's the older son, an actor himself, but with a massive chip on his shoulder. There's the daughter, a spoiled teen who treats the world as her personal playground. And then there's the ex-wife, a fading star who's loud and rude, but surprisingly likeable, in her own special way. All of them want something from Sofia. Can she be everything to everyone, or was inviting her to paradise a huge mistake? They all think they know Sofia, but they're all wrong. By the time the bodies start piling up, it's already too late. If you love bad girl antiheroes who make questionable choices without apology, this is the book for you. Fans of darkly funny psychological thrillers from Liane Moriarty and Lisa Jewell will love this twisted tale from bestselling author Angela Pepper (Wisteria Witches Mysteries, Stormy Day Mysteries) writing contemporary women's fiction as Gia Pere.Ver libro
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. Classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences. (Summary by Wikipedia)Ver libro
When Hugh Mathews decides it's time to get out from under his tyrannical father's thumb and away from the life he's been living, he does it in a big way. Packing what he'll need to survive in the wilderness, and with only his dog, Orion, for companionship, he heads into the mountains. When they find a abandoned cabin, Hugh begins the arduous task of repairing it, as well as hunting for food and everything else they'll need to stay alive. Soon after, Ansel Jeffries, a nature photographer, arrives at Hugh's cabin, seeking an abandoned mine he wants to photograph. After talking with him, Ansel sees the potential for a story in what Hugh is doing -- and why. Ansel convinces Hugh to let him tell it, meaning he'll be living at the cabin with Hugh. When he moves in, will what becomes friendship between the two men grow into more?Ver libro
Stanley Featherstonehough Ukridge is willing to do anything to get a buck – except, of course, work. Bombastic and big-eared, Ukridge has a bottomless well of corking ideas that never seem to work out, yet he’s always willing to volunteer others to tackle the inconvenient bits. Whether he’s commandeering a dog college, managing a tender-hearted pugilist, or brushing the perpetual chips off his aunt’s shoulder, Ukridge’s spotty success record never gets him down. Ukridge had a special place in Wodehouse’s heart, appearing in stories for 60 years, with the last published as late as 1966. Ukridge first appeared to American audiences in Love Among the Chickens (1906). While this collection is the second published (1924), the events take place before the dodgy poultry adventure.Ver libro
In a world united by technocrats, being different is a curse. 2089 C.E.: Wars over genetically modified food, human DNA experiments, and mass testing on Earth’s populations have altered the human genome. A great genetic divide among humanity has erupted, as have aspirations for gene unity. For an Abnormal like Tory, a minority group of people unaffected by the gene mutations, this means a bleak and devastating reality of segregation and sterilization. With powerful AI tech governing over society and blaming Abnormals for all of the world’s problems, and a tyrant group of the old world’s oligarchs, Absolutists, enforcing this regime, the world seems adamant about keeping Tory in her lowly place. But when her new boss, Vasil, acquires sole control over White Tunnels, an Itrep mining facility in Antarctica where Tory works as an Itrep Hunter, everything she’s ever hoped for now seems possible. Encouraged by Vasil to join him and a covert organization known as The Council in their plans to overthrow the Absolutist Regime, Tory must find it in herself to help lead a new era or risk a life sentence of misery. In Craig T. Stewart’s staggering debut novel Emergence, a rebellion is on the rise and a war for individual rights is about to consume the world.Ver libro
