Maison d'édition: BookRix
Telekinesis and other paranormal gifts are often scorned at and derided by main-stream science, but this story should convey, that the scientific mind should at least rethink its materialistical worldviews. In this story, you will meet a doctor, who tests a boy, who seems to have humongous telekinetic abilities. Please review this book, if you liked it!
Love of Life by Jack London is a gripping tale of survival, grit, and the unbreakable will to live. Set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Arctic wilderness, this powerful short story follows a man abandoned by his companion and battling starvation, injury, and the relentless pursuit of a predatory wolf. With each agonizing step, London’s unnamed protagonist fights to survive—not through strength alone, but through sheer willpower and a primal instinct that drives him onward. Through stark natural imagery and emotionally charged prose, London explores the raw power of human determination and the elemental law of existence. This audiobook delivers an immersive listening experience, bringing out the existential weight and quiet courage that define London’s style. Whether you're a fan of classic literature, survival stories, or reflective fiction, Love of Life is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and its unyielding desire to endure.Voir livre
The fifteen stories in A Foreign Country is the Past aren't glimpses into worlds, but worlds themselves. Entire lives are spun in each few pages as time reveals itself a strange fiction, everything ever present, leaking from the past into the future and back again. Sdrigotti's prose is immaculate, incisive and evocative with only the most minimal of gestures. The cumulative effect of reading these stories, which may all be in the same country, or same place, is disorienting, dazzling, and – crucially – re-orienting, as we rethink our own pasts, presents, and potential futures. – C.D. Rose At a secluded weekend home, a girl becomes entranced by the sound of the cicadas, as she grapples with the stifling summer heat, and her mother's recent death. Overwhelmed by a sense of foreboding, a young man seeks solace in a privatised cathedral, comically navigating religious bureaucracy, economic crisis, and existential angst. A journey to scatter his grandparents' ashes turns into a tragicomedy, as an unnamed man explores the changes in the city he left behind. A Foreign Country is the Past is the sensorial new collection from the acclaimed author of Jolts. Centering on identity and memory, viewed through a distinctive Argentine lens, these fifteen tales are a profound exploration of the spaces between places and the echoes of time.Voir livre
All snowed in and nowhere to go… Forty year-old Natalie Leonidis booked her stay at Crystal Springs Getaways long before the weather report came in. With her ex getting remarried, the successful author of a popular detective series was just looking for a quiet way to spend the holidays. She wasn’t counting on the travel agent double booking her coveted one bedroom cabin! Bron Beckett needed a break from running his Fortune 500 company. After two failed marriages, he could attest to the fact that women and wealth were not always friends. It was getting harder to know if a woman wanted him or what was in his bank account. Being single during the holidays was the worst. It was like everyone had a cousin or sister for him to meet—but not this year. He had plans to get away from it all. With the latest release from his favorite author and a tumbler of his favorite label, Whiskey Neat, Bron was going to kick back while the yule log crackled in the fireplace. Sounded like a perfect Christmas. But he wasn’t the only one with designs on cabin 1225. His uninvited guest could stay and make the best of it. Or leave and take her chances with the incoming blizzard. One look at her luscious figure and Bron knew exactly what he wanted—to spend Christmas Eve with the curvy Natalie wrapped around him. No reservations. No rules. Just her yule and his log.Voir livre
There’s only one word to describe Amara’s life: picturesque. From her complacent husband and their cookie-cutter house to her impeccably-timed morning routine, Amara has what appears to be the perfect life. During one of her runs, Amara veers off her set path, leaving her routine and expectations behind. What starts as a search to find a neighborhood cat in the off-limits forest turns into an unexpected adventure filled with countless ups and downs. Designed to listen in one sitting, Pushing the Leaves Aside is an inspiring story of finding your way through the darkness when doing so feels impossible.Voir livre
How far should Viviana’s family go to avoid being thirteen at the table? Should Melina and Tanino attend a New Year’s party hosted by Melina’s old flame? Why do Don Pericle’s clients want a Christmas wedding at all costs? Ten humorous and heart-warming short stories shining with the Sicilian sunshine, fragrant with red wine and ringing with Christmas bells, perfect for the festive season. Also available as ebook, paperback and Large Print Hartley’s stories are a tonic: full of delightful, down-to-earth characters and recognisable life dilemmas, as well as unexpected twists. Above all, each story reminds us that simple human goodness can still be found and shared. —Sandy SalisburyVoir livre
"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know." In this volume of essays, more than in any other single work, we get to see clearly just what Joseph Conrad's years working on sail-powered ships meant to him — and they certainly meant a great deal to him, for all Conrad's subsequent fretting that he might be typed as "only" a writer of the sea. This collection is particularly renowned for the lengthy episode titled "The Tremolino", where Conrad gives us, in the character of the real-world Dominic, the model of his fictional Nostromo, as well as an account of personalities and gun-running activities he would later depict in "The Arrow of Gold".Voir livre
