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Other Voices, Other Rooms

1994

by Truman Capote

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth.

But when Joel arrives at Skully’s Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks.

Fueled by a world-weariness that belied Capote’s tender age, this novel tempers its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence with an appreciation for small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

The Last Command

1994

by Timothy Zahn

The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers.

As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins.

Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope—sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines.

There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.

The Day After Tomorrow

1994

by Allan Folsom

The Day After Tomorrow is a gripping thriller that intricately weaves together three stories of international intrigue. In the first, a doctor must bravely confront the man who killed his father. Meanwhile, a detective is on the trail of a series of horrific murders, each more shocking than the last. Finally, a shadowy international organization is devising a master plan of apocalyptic dimensions, threatening to change the world forever.


This novel spans two continents and five decades, drawing the reader into a world of suspense and adventure. It's a tale of conspiracy and mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

The Subterraneans

1994

by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco.

The subterraneans come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger.

Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing.

The Memory Police

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance.

As in The Master and Margarita, the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. Heart of a Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.

Murphy

1994

by Samuel Beckett

Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938. Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him.

Set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic, the title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days.

Eventually, Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

Disclosure

Thomas Sanders experiences a dramatic turn of events within just 24 hours. Passed over for a promotion, he faces unexpected advances from his new boss, a woman who soon accuses him of sexual harassment. This accusation threatens to sever him from the millions he would earn from his high-tech company's stock market success.

As Sanders strives to clear his name, he finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, uncovering a manipulative scheme that could bring his career to a halt. This electrifying thriller, from the author of Jurassic Park and Sphere, delves into the complex dynamics of power, ambition, and betrayal within the corporate world.

Join Sanders in this gripping psychological game of cat and mouse, where every move is crucial, and the stakes are nothing less than his future.

A Personal Matter

1994

by Kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburō Ōe, internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, is known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son.

His most personal book, A Personal Matter, is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage. His utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. Bird is left with a disconcerting picture of the human predicament as he navigates shame, disgrace, and self-discovery.

This novel is a profound exploration of personal crisis and the search for meaning in the chaos of life.

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita, recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature, is an audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate. The novel's portrayal of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during Bulgakov's lifetime, appearing only in a censored edition in the 1960s.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue including a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: the Master, a writer criticized for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate, and Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing to go to hell for him.

A novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, Bulgakov's work emerges splendidly in this English translation, revealing its nuances for the first time.

Tropic of Capricorn

1994

by Henry Miller

Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods, and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

Monkey: The Journey to the West

1994

by Wu Cheng'en

Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth-century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure.

It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.

This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original.

Sexus

1994

by Henry Miller

Sexus is the first novel of Henry Miller's frank, autobiographical trilogy known collectively as The Rosy Crucifixion. This captivating narrative uses dream, fantasy, and burlesque to portray the life of a struggling writer in pre-World War I New York.

Delve into Miller's tempestuous marriage and his relentless sexual exploits in the vibrant city of New York. The trilogy continues with the novels Plexus and Nexus, exploring further the depths of human desire and artistic ambition.

Galileo

1994

by Bertolt Brecht

Galileo, considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility. The brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition.

Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority.

This version of the play is the famous one completed by Brecht himself, working with Charles Laughton, who played Galileo in the first two American productions in Hollywood and New York (1947). Since then, the play has become a classic in the world repertoire.

The Visit

This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Dürrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it was published and performed in German.

The action of The Visit takes place in the small town of Guellen, "somewhere in Central Europe." An elderly millionairess, Claire Zachanassian, returns to Guellen, her home town, after an absence of many years. Merely on the promise of her millions, she shortly turns what has been a depressed area into a boom town. But there is a condition attached to her largess, which the natives of Guellen realize only after they have become enmeshed in her vengeful plot: murder.

Out of these elements, Dürrenmatt has fashioned a many-leveled play which is at once a macabre parable, a deeply moving tragedy, and a scathing indictment of the power of greed.

Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire

1994

by Art Spiegelman

Maus raconte la vie de Vladek Spiegelman, rescapé juif des camps nazis, et de son fils, auteur de bandes dessinées, qui cherche un terrain de réconciliation avec son père, sa terrifiante histoire et l'Histoire. Des portes d'Auschwitz aux trottoirs de New York se déroule en deux temps (les années 30 et les années 70) le récit d'une double survie : celle du père, mais aussi celle du fils, qui se débat pour survivre au survivant. Ici, les Nazis sont des chats et les Juifs des souris.

A Morbid Taste for Bones

1994

by Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for Bones

In the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic villagers of Gwytherin passionately divided by the Benedictine's offer for the saint's relics.

Canny, wise, and all too worldly, he isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice... where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's own ruin.

It Had to Be You

What if a woman who knows nothing about sports inherits a professional football team? The Windy City definitely isn't ready for Phoebe Somerville, the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who's taking over their hometown team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind.

Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy boss is everything Dan despises - a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound. So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach's good ol' boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied...and ready to fight?

The mismatched pair spark fireworks of all sorts in this sexy, heartwarming, and hilarious story of two stubborn people who believe in playing for keeps.

Mensagem - Poemas Esotéricos

1993

by Fernando Pessoa

Mensagem é o único livro de poemas de Fernando Pessoa publicado em português durante a sua vida. É também realmente um só poema, como escreveu, dada a unidade perfeita conseguida pelo seu canto das grandezas passadas da nação - que se refletem no futuro, potenciadas pelo Quinto Império.

Sem a simetria de composição nem a vastidão narrativa da epopeia clássica, é a obra minimal de um Supra-Camões concentrado na construção de um mito, o de D. Sebastião, entendido como a síntese da ousadia dos heróis anteriores e como a promessa de um "dia claro" por vir.

Earth Abides

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.

Dolores Claiborne

1993

by Stephen King

“Among King’s best.”—San Francisco Chronicle

When housekeeper Dolores Claiborne is questioned in the death of her wealthy employer, a long-hidden secret from her past is revealed—as is the strength of her own will to survive...

Schindler's List

1993

by Thomas Keneally

Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.

Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity.

Ballet Shoes

Pauline, Petrova, and Posy are orphans determined to help out their family by attending the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it's going to be such hard work!

They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice!

Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she'd rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream.

Love Medicine

1993

by Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, this novel is a part of Louise Erdrich's highly acclaimed Native American trilogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace. This edition has been re-sequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.

With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

Filled with humor, magic, injustice, and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction.

Sacred Hunger

1993

by Barry Unsworth

Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered fully into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew, who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved.

The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.

Beautiful Losers

1993

by Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers is one of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, showcasing Leonard Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work.

As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell, two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again.

Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy—and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.

First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

1993

by Alan Bullock

Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside those of Joseph Stalin—his implacable antagonist and moral mirror image.

Daggerspell

1993

by Katharine Kerr

Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future.

Four hundred years—and many lifetimes—ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers.
Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd righted that wrong—and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness. . . and a quest to fulfill the destinies determined centuries ago.

Here in this newly revised edition comes the incredible novel that began one of the best-loved fantasy series in recent years—a tale of bold adventure and timeless love, perilous battle and pure magic. For long-standing fans of Deverry and those who have yet to experience this exciting series, Daggerspell is a rare and special treat.

Gandhi: An autobiography

1993

by Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.

In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bok urges us to adopt Gandhi's attitude of experimenting, of testing what will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot be adapted to new circumstances, in order to bring about change in our own lives and communities.

All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

Pleasure of a Dark Prince

1993

by Kresley Cole

Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole is a seductive tale that will enrapture readers with its intense romance and thrilling adventure. This novel follows the story of a fierce werewolf prince, Garreth MacRieve, who will stop at nothing to protect the lovely archer he covets from afar.

A Dangerous Beauty...
Lucia the Huntress: as mysterious as she is exquisite, she harbors secrets that threaten to destroy her—and those she loves.

An Uncontrollable Need...
Garreth MacRieve, Prince of the Lykae: the brutal Highland warrior who burns to finally claim this maddeningly sensual creature as his own.

That Lead to a Pleasure So Wicked...
From the shadows, Garreth has long watched over Lucia. Now, the only way to keep the proud huntress safe from harm is to convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do this, Garreth will ruthlessly exploit Lucia's greatest weakness—her wanton desire for him.

The General's Daughter

1993

by Nelson DeMille

Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate and the daughter of the legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.

Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the Army's "golden girl." And how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell's shocking secret life.

The Shadow Lines

1993

by Amitav Ghosh

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families—one English, one Bengali—as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways.

The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

The Call of Earth

As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain.

Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop an army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it?

April Fool's Day

1993

by Bryce Courtenay

In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that’s how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love.

Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool’s Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man’s life. Damon’s story is one of life-long struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family, and a fight to the end for integrity.

A testimony to the power of love, April Fool’s Day is also about understanding: how when we confront our worst, we can become our best.

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Chicken Soup for the Soul is a heartwarming collection of tales that will inspire you to live your dreams. This book brings together the very best of collected stories and favorite tales that have touched the hearts of people everywhere.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen share their wit and wisdom, offering hope and empowerment to buoy you through life's dark moments. These stories demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity, and faith.

Discover how your life could be turned around too with this inspirational collection that has touched the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Drawing Blood

1993

by Poppy Z. Brite

Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Trevor McGee returns to confront the past. He finds himself haunted by the same demons that drove his father to insanity.

The novel concerns Trevor McGee, a comic book artist and sole survivor of a family murder-suicide, and Zachary Bosch, a bisexual hacker. Their arrival at McGee's old family home in Missing Mile, North Carolina, a fictional town featured in Brite's previous novel, Lost Souls, sets the stage for a thrilling journey.

Lasher

1993

by Anne Rice

The Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages, and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, represents an incalculable threat to the Mayfairs.

Rowan and Lasher travel together to Houston, and she becomes pregnant with another creature like him, a Taltos. Lasher seeks to reproduce his race in other women, but they cannot withstand it. Rowan escapes and becomes comatose as her fully-grown Taltos daughter is born. The Mayfairs declare all-out war on Lasher and try to nurse Rowan back to health.

Michael remains entwined in the Mayfair family and learns how he comes by his strange powers. Michael's ghostly visiting from a long-dead Mayfair reveals the importance of destroying Lasher. In the investigation, Lasher's origins are revealed, the new Taltos Emaleth returns, and the climax of death and life engulfs the family.

Pigs in Heaven

Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak, and love.

Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue.

The mother and adopted daughter duo soon become nationwide heroes - even landing themselves a guest appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions stemming right back to her Cherokee roots.

The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her guardian, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. Embark on an unforgettable road trip from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.

Rama Revealed

Rama Revealed is a science fiction novel that concludes the Rama series, co-authored by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. This final installment picks up immediately after the cliffhanger ending of The Garden of Rama.

The story follows Nicole Wakefield as she escapes from imprisonment. The colony, once a hopeful settlement, has turned into a brutal dictatorship, terrorizing both humans and their alien neighbors. Nicole's journey takes her across the Cylindrical Sea to the mysterious island called New York, where she reunites with her husband and family.

However, their reunion is short-lived as they are pursued and forced to flee into the subterranean corridors inhabited by the enigmatic octospiders. As they delve deeper, they face the challenge of determining whether these creatures are allies or adversaries.

This epic adventure is filled with massive scope and extraordinary revelations, offering a stunning conclusion to the generations-long odyssey of the Rama starship.

Through a Glass, Darkly

1993

by Jostein Gaarder

It's almost Christmas, and Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustles around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window.

So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family.

Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion, and an enquiring mind. Through a Glass, Darkly will not only bring comfort to the bereaved; it will move and amaze everyone who reads it.

Toda Mafalda

1993

by Quino

Toda Mafalda es un compendio completo de las tiras cómicas de Mafalda, desde la primera hasta la última. Este libro incluye obras inéditas y especiales como Al fin solos, Y digo yo, y muchas más.

Disfruta de:

  • Mafalda inédita
  • Al fin solos
  • Y digo yo
  • ¿A dónde vamos a parar?
  • Mafaldas (casi) privadas
  • Mafaldas públicas
  • Mafaldas ineditísimas

Este libro es toda, pero toda toda Mafalda, hasta el cierre de esta edición.

Worlds' End

1993

by Neil Gaiman

A reality storm draws an unusual cast of characters together. They take shelter in a tavern, where they amuse each other with their life stories. Although Morpheus is never a focus in these stories, each has something to say about the nature of stories and dreams.

Reminiscent of the legendary Canterbury Tales, THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END is a wonderful potpourri of engrossing tales and masterly storytelling. Improbably caught in a June blizzard, two wayward compatriots stumble upon a mysterious inn and learn that they are in the middle of a "reality storm." Now surrounded by a menagerie of people and creatures from different times and realities, the two stranded travelers are entertained by mesmerizing myths of infamous sea creatures, dreaming cities, ancient kings, astonishing funeral rituals, and moralistic hangmen.

After being caught in the vortex of a reality storm, a group of travelers find themselves at the Worlds' End inn where they share stories of the places they have visited and the people they have met.

Le Roman de l'adolescent myope

1993

by Mircea Eliade

Le Roman de l'adolescent myope invites readers into the world of a precocious and tormented adolescent in early 20th century Bucharest. The narrator, with precision and candor, unveils his daily life: the quirks of his teachers, the plots of his classmates, their sexual desires, and his first erotic exploits. At the heart of his journey is the compelling need to write, intertwined with his discovery of personal identity and otherness.

This novel, found in a Bucharest attic, is not only a captivating story but also an invaluable document about the great writer Mircea Eliade, who was once this genius adolescent, revealing himself while pretending to discover.

The Season of Passage

Dr. Lauren Wagner was a celebrity. She was involved with the most exciting adventure mankind had ever undertaken. The whole world admired and respected her. But Lauren knew fear.

Inside--voices entreating her to love them.

Outside--the mystery of the missing group that had gone before her. The dead group. But were they simply dead? Or something else?

A terrifying novel of horror--and, surprisingly, of salvation--from one of America's bestselling writers. A novel you won't forget.

Women of the Silk

1993

by Gail Tsukiyama

Sent by her family to work in a silk factory just prior to World War II, young Pei grows to womanhood, working fifteen-hour days and sending her pay to the family who abandoned her.

In "Women of the Silk", Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.

Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.

Wraeththu

In this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts. They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle.

Here at last in a single volume are all three of Constantine's Wraeththu trilogy: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire.

Jack the Bodiless

1993

by Julian May

In the year 2051, Earth stood on the brink of acceptance as a full member of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of worlds spread across the galaxy. Leading humanity was the powerful Remillard family, but somebody—or something—known only as "Fury" wanted them out of the way.

Only Rogi Remillard, the chosen tool of the most powerful alien being in the Milieu, and his nephew Marc, the greatest metapsychic yet born on Earth, knew about Fury. But even they were powerless to stop it when it began to kill off Remillards and other metapsychic operants—and all the suspects were Remillards themselves.

Meanwhile, a Remillard son was born, a boy who could represent the future of all humanity. His incredible mind was more powerful even than his brother Marc's—but he was destined to be destroyed by his own DNA... unless Fury got to him first!

Parable of the Sower

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

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