Under normal circumstances, lifting a landmass is impossible. Under normal circumstances. But a lot can change in a year as Richard Cronin discovers. While attending the Messengers of Hope Reunion, a chance to remake the world's former greatest source of inspiration, his best friend and co-founder is killed when the event is taken hostage. Rich inherits the property and decides to turn around his life and bring purpose to it by finding ways to do...

A journalist takes on a double professional mission: a paper on the closing of a marble factory of funeral monuments in Saint-Maurice-des-Carrières, his native village, and an article on a circus camped out in Brémondville. These reports are gradually invaded by fiction, by the illusions of childhood, dreams, entertainment, drugs, and death.Excerpt« A muffled siren, followed by a flash: Guy used his electronic flash to photograph Antoine standing...

Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours? Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39. And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,and no idea that they've been...

New folio of seven theatre plays written by Ukrainian author Volodymyr Serdiuk in Kyiv, Ukraine, during the year 2022 when this city and the whole country fight back against Russian Army mass offense.

No one can stop the curse laid on him-and breaking it may kill me.I may not have much in this world, but I do have a life plan: work hard, save every penny, get that college degree, and build a better life for myself.Getting involved with the guests of the hotel where I work would derail me from that path. I have been specifically warned to keep away from the ones who stay in the top-floor suite, the best the hotel has to offer.That includes the mysterious...

Clay, a young Portland photographer, devastated by the recent murder of his girlfriend, Lane, boards a midnight ferry across the river to Bardonia, a town full of the city's recently deceased, called Polters. The residents there are in chaos since their way forward, the train station, is blocked by a reactionary gang. As he searches for Lane in the land of the dead, he meets Ella, a Polter, and is horrified at feeling attracted to a dead person,...

When a girl sets a boy a strange challenge, he must venture into some extraordinary places in pursuit of his goal.

Collection of 16 short stories in Spanish witten in a magic realism style by a prize winner colombian writer.

A tale of magic and murder The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police-but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Nadira's secret gifts have been revealed, but can she harness her powers for good?Rome, 1495. No longer a slave, Nadira is revered for her ability to read and apply the teachings in the mystical ancient text, the Hermetica of Elysium. No, she has earned her place in the company of adventurers who travel to Istanbul to uncover another ancient text.However, Nadira finds herself torn between competing agendas. The Templar Knights are intent on recovering...