When Gold was Black - formato ePub

Hiroto Takahashi è uno degli ecopoli più famosi che esistano, un uomo che ha dedicato tutta la sua vita a coniugare i bisogni della civiltà umana con le esigenze del nostro pianeta. Il suo scopo è creare...

Hiroto Takahashi is one of the most popular living ecopols on Earth, a man who has dedicated his entire existence to harmonizing the needs of our civilization, and the needs of our planet. His job is...

Perfino gli dèi possono sanguinare... In questa raccolta, i miti di tre dei personaggi più ribelli della mitologia greca—Persefone, Sisifo e Orfeo—sono raccontati come mai prima d'ora. In Regina di due...

Lupi demoniaci assetati di sangue. Decisioni ad alto rischio. Non è così che mi immaginavo la pensione. Pensavo che uscire dallo stomaco del lupo sarebbe stata la fine dei miei problemi. Mi sbagliavo. Ho...

«Una lettura originale che mi ha ricordato una versione dark de L'alchimista di Paulo Coelho.»Eileen Cook, vincitrice del John Spray Award «La quarta di copertina mi ha catturata e la storia mi ha tenuta...

Even gods can bleed… In this collection the myths of three of the most defiant characters in Greek mythology—Persephone, Sisyphus and Orpheus—are retold like never before. In Scion of Gaia, Persephone...

Chiunque vinca la contesa… noi perdiamo. Re Cecrope è perseguitato da un incubo: la sua città, Cecropia, ridotta in macerie e i suoi sudditi massacrati per mano degli Olimpi. Notizie inquietanti sono...

Ci sono eventi che cambiano per sempre la nostra vita. Il giovane Pigmalione è perseguitato da un'infanzia difficile. Senza padre, tradito dalla madre e costretto a scappare di casa, ha giurato che non...

La musica di questa dea risuona nella lama di una spada. Quando la Musa Calliope e le sue sorelle fuggono da una Grecia in fiamme, la titanide Mnemosine le spinge ad andare a nord, in una terra barbara...

So come va a finire la storia. Cappuccetto Rosso viene mangiata dal lupo cattivo, per poi essere salvata dal coraggioso cacciatore. È un bel racconto, ma non spiega come la bambina sia uscita viva dalla...

Tales of the ancient Greek world—populated by monsters, gods and mortals—have been with us for millennia. But you've never heard these mythological tales told quite like this. In this box set you will...

POTENTE. ANTICA. IMMORTALE. La mitologia greca raccontata per la prima volta dagli eroi e dalle divinità più famose della cultura occidentale. In questo esclusivo cofanetto i miti di Pandora, Medusa, Prometeo e...

Every legend hides a truth as dangerous as a double-edged sword. On the far island of Sarpedon, a snake-haired she-monster known to inhabitants as the Soul of Stone turns people into statues. For decades,...

Ogni leggenda nasconde una verità pericolosa quanto una spada a doppio taglio. Nella remota isola di Sarpedonte un mostro, conosciuto dagli abitanti come Anima di Pietra, trasforma gli umani in statue. Da...

Sometimes the truths we choose to ignore cast the longest shadows … In the distant Caucasus Mountains, an ancient demon is chained to a rock. People say the gods put him there as punishment for an unspeakable...

Le verità che scegliamo d'ignorare celano i mostri più spaventosi. Nelle lontane montagne del Caucaso, un demone è incatenato a una roccia. Si narra che gli dèi lo abbiano imprigionato perché reo di un...

-THE DOUBLE- centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his...

'Truly unnerving' Jane Bailey'I raced through it in little more than a single session' 5* Reader Review They said a mother knows best and I believed them. Was I wrong? It is supposed to be a dream. James...

Upon being arrested for the gruesome murder of her father, all college student Kanna Hijiriyama tells the police is, "It's up to you to find the motive." Amidst the media frenzy about the woman "too beautiful...

17. yüzyıl İspanya'sında edebiyat düşkünü bir maceraperest; günümüzdeyse klasikleşmiş bir yazar: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. İspanyol donanmasına katılıp Kıbrıs'ta, İnebahtı'da, Tunus'ta, Navarin'de...

Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930....

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon*Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum;...

THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE...IS IF SOMEONE CONFESSES TO MURDER.***GUARDIAN CRIME AND THRILLERS OF THE MONTH***'Fiendishly clever and impossible to put down' SHARI LAPENA'Writes with his foot pressed hard...

She'll save Christmas just to spite him...There's only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving a small town's Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates.Single dad Noah takes his responsibilities...

If you were given the opportunity to disappear and start your life again, would you take it?Paris 1933. Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's...

'This sleek ride of a novel further cements Phillips's position as one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction.' New York Times In a hot and gritty city populated by super-intelligent robots...

ONE WAY IN. NO WAY OUT.'Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts. The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception.'When...

'Once I started I just did not want to stop. So atmospheric and written in such a way I felt like I was truly there transported back in time living it all... A highly thrilling, fast paced and totally...

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE. AN ENCHANGED LEGACY. A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY.The stunning conclusion to Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt...

THERE'S A PUZZLING MYSTERY WHEN A BELOVED PUB BURNS DOWN...BUT LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE.After learning of a suspicious attempt to burn down a beloved old pub, The Crooked Horse, amateur detective...

THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSIC OF 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale. 'One of the...

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series with over ten million copies in print! ‘Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills...

WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR is a wonderful collection of short stories that provokes the mind with its weird and intriguing tales. We catch glimpses of worlds that are similar to our own, but always different...

'OMG this book is so tense! I couldn't stop reading!' Lauren North'Totally gripping . . . I absolutely loved it!' Lisa Timoney A twisty, addictive page-turner about marriage, secrets and betrayal - perfect...

In this smart and swoony adventure rom-com, a journalist and a movie star find themselves teaming up to cover up a murder... What could possibly go wrong?When freelance journalist Khin Haymar is assigned...

A cold case returns to haunt Blix, as a cold-blooded killer taunts him with evidence of further victims, while Ramm investigates a murder with no body… Blockbuster, explosive Nordic Noir.`Contemporary...

'So much fun!' KATIE FFORDEIla has her pride. And she's about to discover just how much trouble that can be... It's 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class,...

Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa's father is out of work. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees, she thinks it might be the stroke of luck they all...

A new job. A new home. A new start.It's all Anna wants.But in a closed rural community, strange traditions and a suspicion of outsiders mean everything is not as it seems. Three teenage girls have vanished...

Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they'll be expecting you. These are the directions...

On a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back...

THE BRAND NEW FESTIVE ROMANCE FROM ISLA GORDONSIX PASSENGERS . . . When six ex-friends are invited to a winter wedding in Canada, the last thing they want is a reunion. But bride-to-be Bryn is desperate,...

Anna is on the brink of losing it all when she is handed the career opportunity of a lifetime - working as a ghostwriter for charismatic neuroscientist Nate. Nate's work at the mysterious Pain Laboratory...

The latest Bob Skinner mystery from the legendary Quintin Jardine.'The legendary Quintin Jardine . . . such a fine writer' DENZIL MEYRICKAn expensive mobile home, abandoned in a new housing development,...