Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems...<br /> <br />Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas’s departure, it’s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room—and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation.<br /> <br />To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There’s more to Casales’s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes...

<b>'A total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br /><br /><i>
<b>She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . .</b>
</i><br /><br />In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga - literally 'victory city' - the wonder of the world.<br /><br />Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's as she attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and as years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, Bisnaga is no exception.<br /><br /><b><i>'</i>A celebration of the power of literature and the endurance of storytelling' <i>Guardian</i></b>

In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.<br /><br />But when the Eastwood sisters--James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna--join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.<br /><br />There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.

"La peur était pour le peuple iranien une compagne de chaque instant, la moitié fidèle d'une vie. Les Iraniens vivaient avec dans la bouche le goût sablonneux de la peur. Seulement, depuis la mort de Mahsa Amini, la peur était mise en sourdine : elle s'effaçait au profit du courage."Fin 2022, au plus fort de la répression contre les manifestations qui suivent la mort de Mahsa Amini, François-Henri Désérable passe quarante jours en Iran, qu'il traverse de part en part, de Téhéran aux confins du Baloutchistan. Arrêté par les Gardiens de la révolution, sommé de quitter le pays, il en revient avec ce récit dans lequel il raconte l'usure d'un monde : celui d'une République islamique aux abois, qui réprime dans le sang les aspirations de son peuple.

This Nebula Award-winning sequel to <i>Parable of the Sower</i> continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren must fight back to save the new world order.

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flightbag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit – by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.
Traversing the American South, from the garrulous bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the
.
If the
is the world's greatest war epic, then the
is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.
In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an
to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation.
This is an
to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.
--
Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.

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.

De nos jours. Ici, ailleurs et partout.<br />Le haut joueur connu sous le nom d’Argent a défié la Maîtresse des Jeux elle-même : le temps du Grand Jeu est advenu, et comparé à lui, tous les autres sont désormais dérisoires. Le monde entier s’en trouve réduit aux dimensions d’un échiquier, avec en guise de pièces des groupes mafieux, des armées officielles, des gouvernements, des nations… Et pour prix de cette partie sans égale, la réponse à la question qui les contient toutes : à qui échoira la Maison des Jeux ?

Bangkok, 1938. Remy Burke, membre madré de la Haute Loge, qu'il pratique depuis un demi siècle, reprend conscience dans la moiteur de sa chambre d'hôtel après une nuit trop arrosée. Beaucoup trop. Il s'est fait manoeuvrer et a accepté le défi du redoutable Abhik Lee. Avec en guise d'enjeu le plus précieux des biens : sa propre mémoire, misée dans une partie de cache-cache à l'échelle de la Thaïlande toute entière. Les règles sont simples : Lee dispose d'un mois pour dénicher Burke, après quoi, en cas d'échec, les rôles seront inversés. Une partie qui commence maintenant, tout de suite. Burke doit désormais courir... Eperdument.

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
With its experimental form and literary playfulness,
has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."

Amalia Van Esqwill est une jeune aristocrate de Dehaven, issue d’une puissante famille : son père possède une compagnie commerciale et sa mère tient un siège au Haut Conseil. Progressistes, ils lui ont offert, à elle et à d’autres enfants de la Citadelle, une instruction basée sur les sciences et les humanités. Jusqu’au jour où le fiancé d’Amalia se met en tête de reproduire un sortilège ancien dont il a appris l’existence dans un livre. Au moment précis où la tension accumulée dans les Faubourgs explose et où une guerre semble prête à éclater dans les colonies d’outre-mer, la magie refait son apparition dans la ville si rationnelle de Dehaven. Et malgré toute son éducation, Amalia ne pourra rien pour empêcher le sort de frapper sa famille et ses amis.

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

<b>The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.</b><br /><br />Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.
Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

Homme mûr de 40 ans, transporté dans la peau de l'adolescent qu'il était à 14 ans, Hiroshi continue la redécouverte de son passé. Questionnant sa grand-mère, ses parents, ses amis, il réalise tout ce qui lui avait échappé lorsqu'il était jeune. Et petit à petit, l'année scolaire avançant, il voit se rapprocher la date fatidique où son père disparaîtra, pour toujours, sans aucune explication. Peut-il changer son passé ou est-il condamné à le revivre, impuissant ? Et retrouvera-t-il son existence normale, sa femme et ses enfants ?

«Moi qui jadis sur un frêle pipeau modulai mon chant, qui sortant de mes bois contraignis les campagnes voisines de se plier à tous les désirs de leur maître, œuvre bénie des gens de la terre, - voilà que maintenant je chante l'horreur des armes de Mars et l'homme qui, premier, des bords de Troie vint en Italie, prédestiné, fugitif, et aux rives de Lavinium; ayant connu bien des traverses et sur terre et sur l'abîme sous les coups de Ceux d'en haut, à cause de la colère tenace de la cruelle Junon, il souffrit aussi beaucoup par la guerre comme il luttait pour fonder sa ville et installer ses dieux dans le Latium; d'où la race latine, les Albains nos pères et les murs de la haute Rome.»

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?

WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

" Le voyageur, écrit Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998), est une source continuelle de perplexités. Sa place est partout et nulle part. Il vit d'instants volés, de reflets, de menus présents, d'aubaines et de miettes. Voici ces miettes... " Voici donc ces textes sur le Japon : là où d'autres convoquent une bibliothèque entière pour se donner des airs de penseur zen, l'écrivain voyageur sait nous livrer en une ligne le pur diamant d'une sensation. Car avec " Chronique japonaise ", Nicolas Bouvier réussit ce que les anciens maîtres artisans appelaient un chef-d'œuvre ". (André Velter, Le Monde).

The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries"" Nineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document? Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.