The war may be over, but the fight to belong is just beginning. Left homeless, starving, and almost killed by the Second World War, the Saforo family are refugees fleeing Italy for a better life. The shores of Australia are calling to them and they head off, packing dreams of jobs, a home and … soccer. But from the moment they get off the boat, adapting to the Australian way of life is harder than it seems. Their family doesn’t speak right, eat right or even look right. As they struggle to build a simple life against the backdrop of 1950s racism, they start to wonder if they will be outsiders forever. A true family affair, Wanderers No More will make you laugh, remind you of your family, and warm your heart.

Van die begin van tyd, is twee antieke te?standers in ? stryd vir beheer van die aarde. Een man het opgestaan om by die mensdom te staan. 'n Soldaat wie se naam ons steeds vandag onthou... . Engelagtige Magte Kolonel Mikhail Mannuki'ili word wakker, noodlottig gewond, in sy skip wat neergestort het. Die vrou wat sy lewe red het vermo?ns wat bekend lyk, maar met geen geheue van sy verlede, kan hy nie onthou hoekom nie! . Ninsianna se mense het profesie? van 'n gevlerkte Kampioen, 'n swaard van die gode wat haar mense teen 'n Bose Een sal verdedig. Mikhail dring aan dat hy geen demi-god is nie, maar sy geheimsinnige vermo? om dood te maak vertel ‘n ander storie. . Intussen, in die hemele, fluister boosheid vir 'n stuurse prins. 'n Sterwende spesie probeer om uitsterwing te verhoed. Twee keisers, gevestig in hulle antieke ideologie?, kan nie die groter bedreiging sien nie. Alles in hierdie wetenskapfiksie oorvertelling van die mensdom se mees epiese verhaal oor die stryd tussen goed en kwaad, die botsing van keiserryk en ideologie?, en die grootste superheld op die aarde, die Aartsengel Mikhail. . Hierdie boek is NIE godsdienstige fiksie nie! . Boek 1 van die "Swaard van die Gode" saga . Spesiale BONUS: sluit die reeks se oorsprong storie in, 'Helde van Ouds 'n Novella.' . "?'n Kreatiewe alternatief vir die geskiedenis van wat ons noem ons engele. Dit voel soos... Star Trek ontmoed Mythos." —Leser hersiening . "?'Mikhail word wakker—' soos die voorblad sê '—noodlottig gewond in sy skip wat neergestort het' ... maar dit is net die begin van sy dilemma." —Cape Cod Times Koerant . "Ek was lief vir die samesmelting van die bitter wetenskapfiksie en fantasie genres. Dit is verskriklik moeilik om die twee saam te voeg. Die skrywer doen dit naatloos..." —Leser hersiening . * Afrikaanse taal, Afrikaanse boeke, Afrikaanse uitgawe - Afrikaans language, Afrikaans edition

AURORA AWARD WINNER A Heroka story.? The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert government agency that hunts his kind—a battle that cost him the woman he loved. But to save an old friend, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel—and his own dark past. “A vivid and wonderfully written tale about Native Canadian spirits, in the vein of Thomas King.” —Challenging Destiny “Draws on North American Indian myths, particularly the idea of shapeshifters... Smith once more creates a credible and sympathetic protagonist, Gwyn Blaidd, [who] returns to his old stomping ground to help out some fellow shapeshifters who have become embroiled in a conflict with a large logging concern.” —The Fix

Cuatro historias que en su clara delimitación permiten entrever cómo las diferencias se encuentran atravesadas por algo que trasciende mientras devienen: vasos comunicantes de las formas. Matices de divergentes eventos que se unifican para invitar al lector a transitar un camino que le llevará a inquirir, no sin admiración, cómo los hechos dejan su estado inerte y comienzan a moverse cuando es la voz humana la que les otorga vida. Marcos Prado Llusela

During the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Zahra, a young Afghan refugee has to make a terrible choice. Stay with her lover or leave to save her anarchist cousin's life.

Novela basada en dos leyendas artúricas: "Tristán e Isolda" y "Merlín y Viviana", entreteje textos conocidos con versiones nuevas con el objetivo de moralizar a un público lector, presumiblemente de fe única, poseedor de prejuicios religiosos arraigados en la cultura de la época.

My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light Slept with a mermaid one fine night. From this union there came three: A porpoise, a porgie and the other was me. Jack studies accountancy, lives with his maiden aunt in an upright Victorian household, and smells like a fish. The fishy smell drives girls away faster than they can be introduced. When Jack visits his lighthouse-keeper father on the Eddystone rocks, he meets his mother for the first time since he was a baby. She's a mermaid. Jack's mother sends him on a quest to find his two lost brothers, a porpoise and a porgie fish. Along the way, Jack falls in love, battles carnival hucksters, and is scolded by a porpoise... and that's before he meets the mermaids.

La tía Tula, es, según su autor, ?la historia de una joven que, rechazando novios, se queda soltera para cuidar a unos sobrinos, hijos de una hermana que se le muere. Vive con el cu?ado, a quien rechaza para marido, pues no quiere manchar con el débito conyugal el recinto en que respiran aire de castidad sus hijos. Satisfecho el instinto de maternidad, ?para qué perder su virginidad? Es virgen madre?. Pero sobre este ca?amazo argumental teje Unamuno una obra cargada de sentidos plurales: Tula, la protagonista, que encarna la concepción tradicional de la familia y de la mujer y que es, a al vez, víctima de ella, ejemplifica la figura del agonista unamuniano dividido en mil contradicciones.

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

Loongunis need constant changes to thrive, while the strange-haired Earthmen hate the endless moving around. When a sabotage impairs the shift engines of their traveling Box, the forced immobility might drive all Loongunis mad… unless their translator can work out a solution!?? Science fiction adventure at its best, told by multiple award-winning author Michèle Laframboise.?? ?? If you like first-contact situations featuring an alien POV, this one is for you! A chunky 7000-word SF story.?? ? * "The author does a good job narrating from the point of view of an alien who thinks in very different ways from a human." --Tangent Online "...the psychological and mathematical elements of the tale come even more to the fore and they are quite interesting." -- Featured Futures

The egalitarian nation of Aotearoa may be a safe haven for freedom fighters, but former Sky commander Breta yearns for more. The sudden build-up of troopers in the southern Brown Zone, and a conviction that someone is still betraying the Women’s Line, provide a stimulating assignment. Breta gets more than he bargained for during his clandestine visit to the bay region, but this only serves to strengthen his resolve to implement an alliance between the Sky pilots, the Kauri-Australia Line (KAL) and the Women’s Line to overthrow the totalitarian Australian government. The situation alters when villagers in the northern Brown Zone stage their own small but successful insurrection - the Sky Lines Alliance is formed and Operation Unity begins. But they’ll soon discover that radical change cannot be achieved without recourse to the dark side.

A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them.

Aurora Award Finalist.? The colony ship, The Last Chance, has fled a plague-poisoned Earth with the remnants of the human race. Launched before completion of its biosphere, the ship is only partly self-sustaining. Humanity has to find a new home—and time is running out. It isn’t called The Last Chance for nothing. When they find the planet, it seems a dream come true. Earth-like, breathable atmosphere, unpopulated. They name it Aurora, for the beauty that dances in its skies. At least, it had seemed beautiful at the time. Now they aren’t so sure. Now people are dying. Gar Franck is the ship’s communication expert. When signs point to a non-human intelligence on the planet, Gar becomes the key to communicating with it. But how can he communicate with an alien being when he can’t even talk to his autistic son, Anton, or his increasingly distant wife, Clara? "There are two stories in "Symphony"...both converge in a spectacular, explosive finale. Smith's prose is poetic and evocative. He creates an intricate fabric of light, color, and sound with effortless flair. The story’s fluid style and the abundance of complex, wrenching emotions [make this] another recommended story in this issue." —Eugie Foster and Marsha Sisolak, Tangent Online "A strong SF-nal story about a 'sentient light symphony' that objects to humans colonizing 'its planet.' How would you communicate with such and how would it react to a baby who lacks all 'human baggage' are some of the issues addressed here. (A+)" —Fantasy Book Critic

Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event based not on the pleasure or pain that it brings, but solely on the intensity of the emotion created. Pain brings pleasure, grief gives joy, horror renders ecstasy. Now give this drug to a soldier. Tell them to kill. Not in the historically acceptable murder of war, but in a systematic corporate strategy—of xenocide. They will kill. And they will revel in it. Welcome to the world of Scream. Jason Trelayne is a Screamer, a soldier forced to take part in the enslavement or death of entire races. But Trelayne falls in love with Philomela, a Scream Angel, an alien who produces the addictive drug. Does he love her for her beauty, for the drug she gives him, from guilt for what he has done to her people? And does she love truly him as she swears? Or is he simply her only hope for freedom, for her and her entire race? Forced to choose between freedom and love, what will they do? "…a multi-layered tale about a circus that features a pair of ‘angels’ who have the ability to produce a drug that produces pleasure based on intensity of emotion. Factor in that the owner of the circus is in love with one of the angels as well as addicted to the drug she produces, and the story quickly becomes one that holds the reader’s attention until the very end." —SpecFicWorld "Smith describes a disturbingly plausible military application for the narcotic … The basic concept behind the drug strikes me as one of those rare ideas that seems at once so perfect and so natural that someone must have come up with it before; but if someone has, I haven't heard about it, and regardless Smith exploits the potential of the idea extraordinarily well here." —Strange Horizons "…remind[ed] me of the reasons I love the author’s writing: his characterisation, attention to detail and recurring themes of love, faith and redemption." —SF Crowsnest Reviews "A visceral work […] a true pearl of the fantastic literature. Breath-taking." —Café de Ontem "The story has so many layers that I'm still sorting them out. And like an onion, I'm not sure if I'll ever find the final layer." —Tangent Online "A dark and powerful story with a first line that sets the tone for what is to come: 'They stopped beating Trelayne when they saw that he enjoyed it.' (A++)" —Fantasy Book Critic "Scream Angel was especially horrifying and compelling, and I wound up re-reading it again after I had finished the book." —Fluidity of Time

Jan Mirocek used to be a hunter. A very special hunter. Once, he had hunted the things that haunt the forests of the night in every culture of the world. The kallikantzari of Greece. The loup-garou of France. The kitsune of Japan. Were-beasts. Shape-shifters. Until one night, Jan made a mistake, and the woman he loved died. Now he shuns the dark and his own past, hiding in a big city. For the were-beasts never come here. Or do they? People are dying in Toronto, and all signs point to a shifter. But can Jan conquer his own fears to track down the killer? And what kind of shape shifter would be at home in a modern city? "A creature-hunter tale that kept me guessing until the very last paragraphs. I was on edge throughout the whole story!" —Melissa Minners, Global Pop Culture reviews "A police officer skilled in hunting supernatural entities encounters a new breed of shape-shifter specifically adapted to the urban environment." — Innsmouth Free Press

From New York Times bestselling author CJ Lyons: An average Pittsburgh soccer mom, baking brownies and carrying a loaded forty-caliber Glock... ? From New York Times bestselling author CJ Lyons comes an irresistible read that's "everything a great thriller should be—action packed, authentic, and intense" (Lee Child). With over 500 five-star reviews! ? A loving mom and wife, dutiful daughter, consummate professional, and kick-ass federal agent, Lucy is living the perfect life as a Supervisory Special Agent running the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement squad. ? Until the day she comes up against a predator more vicious and cunning than any she's ever tackled before, one who forces Lucy to choose between the life of the young victim she is fighting to save and her own daughter's....and Lucy's dream life is shattered.

Il libro della giungla (The Jungle Book) è una raccolta di racconti dello scrittore Premio Nobel per la Letteratura Rudyard Kipling; pubblicati, mentre viveva nel Vermont, su vari giornali e riviste tra il 1893 e il 1894. Questa pubblicazione contiene 89 illustrazioni di Maurice de Becque e altri disegnatori, fra cui anche il padre stesso dell'autore, John Lockwood Kipling.I più conosciuti tra questi racconti rimangono difatti le storie che narrano le avventure del "cucciolo d'uomo" di nome Mowgli, abbandonato nella giungla indiana e adottato da un branco di lupi.Tra gli altri racconti, i più noti sono probabilmente Rikki-tikki-tavi (la storia di un'eroica mangusta) e Toomai degli elefanti (la storia di un giovane conduttore di elefanti). Il secondo libro della giungla seguì nel 1895, comprende, tra le altre, ulteriori cinque storie che vedono protagonista il piccolo Mowgli.I racconti del libro della giungla che narrano le avventure di Mowgli (detti per l'appunto storie di Mowgli) sono utilizzati come ambientazione dai lupetti, la fascia d'età più giovane del movimento scout. Quest'uso venne approvato da Rudyard Kipling dopo una richiesta diretta da parte di Robert Baden-Powell, il fondatore dello scautismo.Attraverso i vari personaggi della storia (positivi e no) vengono incarnati qualità o difetti soggettivi. Questo particolare metodo viene definito la "morale per tipi". Per esempio Tabaqui rappresenta il disordine, la trasandatezza e la viltà, Baloo rappresenta la saggezza e la spiritualità individuale, Bagheera rappresenta l'agilità e la forza fisica, Shere Khan la prepotenza, Kaa la bontà d'animo e la cortesia. I pregi dei personaggi positivi sono inoltre riassunti in alcune frasi chiamate parole maestre, queste frasi sono anch'esse tratte dal libro della giungla ed insegnate ai lupetti.

Join New York Times bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons as she returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenching tale of good and evil, despair and hope, and the unexpected gift of grace that comes with embracing our mortality. Fatal. Insomnia. “FAREWELL TO DREAMS has it all: a heroine you'll never forget and a story that whips by at bullet speed." ~Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author of DIE AGAIN “CJ Lyons scores a major triumph with FAREWELL TO DREAMS. Totally absorbing and impossible to put down.” ~Douglas Preston, #1 NYT bestselling author In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long, especially when accompanied by other worrisome symptoms: night sweats, tremors, muscle spasms, fevers. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun’s heart in her hand. “Find the girl,” the nun commands—although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling directly into Angela’s brain. “Save the girl.” Falling into catatonic states where she freezes in the middle of a resuscitation and hears dead nuns talking to her? Not good. Maybe she should check herself into her own hospital…except a lost girl’s life depends on Angela. Because the girl IS real. The threat to her is deadly. Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gangleader and stumbling onto a serial killer’s lair. Her desperate quest to save the girl leads her to the one thing she least expected to find: a last chance for love. As her symptoms escalate in bizarre and disturbing ways, Angie realizes exactly how serious her illness is. She might be dying, but she’s finally choosing how to live…

This is the first series of Samuel: A story about finding God's will and purpose in our lives. Samuel Beckman's journey back to his past began with a simple nagging thought—what if...? Maybe it was the failed Nelson merger, or he was getting older and trying to make sense of his life. He was still unmarried and had not found the one woman who, he hoped, would complete him. Remembering... a certain girl came to mind: a face, beautiful, young and laughing—captured his imagination. She filled the space around him and made his chest tight with a palpable regret. Could she have been the one to bring meaning and fulfillment to his life? These are some of the questions he pondered.

From New York Times bestselling author CJ Lyons: After surviving her serial killer father, Morgan Ames has her first chance at a life without killing. Until temptation crosses her path as she’s working at an anonymous call center and realizes someone there is playing vigilante…and getting away with murder. ? Morgan’s fascinated, unable to look away as the killer grows bolder. ? Only Morgan sees the pattern, only Morgan has any idea the vigilante exists, and they’re never going to stop killing—unless Morgan stops them. ? But should Morgan accept that sometimes the only way to get justice is outside of the law? Should she join forces with the vigilante and return to her old life of murder and mayhem? Or risk her new life trying to stop them?

A fantasy geek locked out of his car in a raging snowstorm, misled by his GPS. A scarred-face woman at her window, her hopes waning as the snow piles on. Will this heavy snowfall doom their Valentine blind date? A quirky romance told by multi-award winning author Michèle Laframboise