Bump Time Origin (Bump Time Series) by Doug J. Cooper

 

 

On his twenty-fifth birthday, Diesel Lagerford is visited by a twenty-six-year-old version of himself. His look-alike spins impossible tales of their shared future, claiming they have dozens of “brothers” from parallel timelines who can visit each other using a T-box, a machine they bankroll with lottery winnings. He introduces Diesel to the incredible Lilah Spencer, the T-box operator, and Diesel falls head-over-heels in love. But during his travels across timelines, Diesel learns that Lilah will soon die under suspicious circumstances. Devastated, he joins his brothers in a race to save her. Can they solve the mystery of her death before it’s too late? And will their unusual solution play out over time in the ways they had anticipated?

A Flame Through Eternity: It started 3 000 years ago. It ends now. Who survives? (The Wanderer) by Anna Belfrage

 

 

It started 3 000 years ago. It ends now. Who survives the final confrontation?

Meeting up with your fated lover after 3 000 years apart is not bad—at all. Having your ancient nemesis show up at the reunion party is no fun—at all.

Helle may believe in second-chance love, but she sure doesn’t believe in reincarnation. Okay, she didn’t believe in stuff like that until she met Jason Morris a year or so ago. By now, she has accepted that sometimes impossible things are quite, quite possible—like an ancient princess being reborn as an ambitious financial analyst.

Finding Jason was like finding the part of her that had always been missing—a perfect match. But handling Sam Woolf, the reborn version of their ancient nemesis is something of a trial. No sooner do you have him well and surely beat, but up he bounces again. Sheesh, will it take an oak stake to permanently rid their lives of him?

Sam Woolf is a powerful adversary. Too powerful, even. Jason and Helle will need help from unexpected quarters to finally bring this tangled, ancient love-and-hate triangle to some sort of conclusion. Question is, will they survive the experience? 

No Sweat Pants Allowed - Wine Club by Jan Romes

 

 

Suddenly single, in her forties, and eager to do what it takes to start over, Elaina Samuels meets three women with similar circumstances at a cash-for-gold event. They quickly become friends and form the No Sweat Pants Allowed - Wine Club. This newly found alliance brings about some humorous escapades, a few tears, and a bond so strong no man can break as they try to cling to the past and finally step out of their comfort zones to find a happiness they thought they'd never feel again. Discover Elaina Samuels, Tawny Westerfield, Stephanie Mathews, and Grace Cordray.

Married to Maggie (Texas Boys Falling Fast) by Jan Romes

 

 

 

Ty Vincent needs a short-term wife to convince his grandfather and the Board of Directors of Vincent Oil that he's changing his carefree ways, so they'll name him CEO. He gives into one last temptation and ditches an environmental conference in Atlanta to play in Reno. At the airport, karma catches up. The woman who renders aid fibs to keep airport security and paparazzi from descending on him. She's brilliant, unemployed, and not his type; which makes her the perfect choice for a temporary spouse.Cardiac rehab nurse, Maggie Gray finds herself the victim of hospital downsizing. A former patient - Ty's grandfather - offers her a deal to get his grandson under control and Maggie is pressured into accepting it. She tracks Ty down at the Reno Airport and finds him in the middle of chest issues. Soon she's eyebrow-deep in a second deal.Six months. No sex. No telling each other what to do. It should've been a win-win for them both, but it wasn't -- not even close. Enjoy the chaos and surprises that are in store for Ty and Maggie.

Dispassionate Revenge: The Agathe House Series by Anne Watters

 

 

 

Xavier Whitemore, Viscount St Esher, has lived through the brutality of an abusive family, horrors of war, and the death of his newborn daughter. He grows more reserved, a little colder, understanding war is not the only reason he is a changed man. Never will he be the youth that left England and the betrayal that brought Xavier to wish death.

Muryn Crane knows nothing of war, spies, or the danger that follows her. She has spent years building Agathe House into a home that cares for and helps those returning from the war, wanting to support those wishing to escape the nightmares. The building holds a special place in her heart, not due only to her brother or late husband, but to the one veteran who hates her very existence.

The fates have thrown Xavier and Muryn together to fight a sadistic enemy. Will they be able to protect the family? And, most significantly, can they overlook the passion that will soon engulf the pair?

Desire Me Again by Annabel Allan , Patricia Elliott, R.M. Olivia, Carol Schoenig, and others ...

 

 

The hopeless romantic believes that a soulmate exists for each of us. That there is one person who makes us feel how good it is to love them. For some couples, things trigger them to push that love away. They find out too late they’ve lost true love. Sometimes genuine love deserves a second chance at the happy ending that eluded them the first time.Desire Me Again is an eclectic assortment of short stories exploring a second chance at love. The collection is as diverse as the authors who wrote them. Here’s a chance to read the work of talented writers you may not have read before. Within these pages, there are blends of tender, often moving and thought-provoking stories.

Sublime Shadows Of Life Paperback by BALROOP SINGH

 

 

Sublime Shadows of Life is a comment on life, its turbulent curves and relationships. It envisions people through the prism of poetry. I, you, he, we and they are universal symbols which highlight the fact that happiness is not a destination but a chasm to bury agony, anguish, grief, distress and move on! No sea of solitude is so deep that it can drown us. Sometimes aspirations are trampled upon, the boulders of exploitation and discrimination may block your path but those who tread on undeterred are always successful.

AL CLARK: (Book One) by Jonathan G. Meyer

 

 

There are planets not meant to be colonized by humans.

For three decades they will sleep, while their great colonial starship transports them to what is believed to be the perfect world. Their ship is state-of-the-art and totally automatic, allowing the passengers to remain in suspended animation for most of the journey.

When they wake, they expect to find a virgin planet, unspoiled by the hands of man - a world where they can pursue happiness in a safe and free environment.

The naive colonists from Earth are both right and incredibly wrong.

Readers Favorites AL CLARK (Book One) Literary Review ★★★★★ by Paul F. Johnson Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer grabs the readers attention from the first page. One of my favorite genres is science fiction, above all, space opera. I found Al Clark to be space opera and more. I call it space adventure. The author has created a strong, believable set of characters, particularly the First Six. The story plot is strong and steady with several well designed twists, leaving a true space opera and space adventure fan expectantly waiting to turn the next page. I strongly recommend this book for those that enjoy good sci-fi. Good story. What the readers are saying: ★★★★★ Scifi as it was meant to be - Jennifer Seidler ★★★★★ I have a new (to me) author to add to my favorites - Lesley Wood ★★★★★ Scifi at its best, intrigue, robots, action, mystery, and very witty. Loved it! - Montzalee Wittman ★★★★★ Good old fashioned sci-fi - CenVillager ★★★★ Reminds me a little of the Sci-Fi of days gone by - jcat-top 500 reviewer ★★★★★ Classic Space Opera at its best - K.G. Evans Jr. ★★★★★ Finally, A Great World Exploration Sci-Fi Book - GeneK6 Available in Digital, Paperback, and AudioBook

 

Vite in attesa di Julia Sabina

 

 

Nella vita Maribel ha preso molte decisioni sbagliate e pochissime buone. Ma ora sente che le cose stanno per cambiare. Ha appena accettato un dottorato a Lille, in Francia. In fondo, nulla la trattiene a Madrid, così parte, piena di speranza: è giovane, e ha tutte le carte in regola per essere felice. Non fa altro che sentirselo ripetere. L'emozione di un nuovo paese, di una nuova lingua, di nuove persone da conoscere all'inizio la travolge. Ora Maribel riesce a vederle, le mille possibilità che ha davanti. Ma l'incantesimo presto si spegne. Intorno, tutto sembra vorticare a gran velocità e lei non riesce a stare al passo. Tutti perseguono il proprio obiettivo senza tentennamenti, come la sua coinquilina Paula o il suo amico Alessio. Lei, invece, trascina le sue giornate lavorando in un bar e facendo finta di scrivere una tesi di cui non importa a nessuno, forse nemmeno a lei. Per non parlare del bel Guillaume che un giorno appare e quello dopo scompare. Maribel si sente di nuovo al punto di partenza. Come se l'incertezza non derivasse dal luogo in cui si trova o da chi frequenta, ma risiedesse dentro di lei. Fino a quando scopre  che anche i suoi amici in realtà non hanno idea di dove stanno andando. Perché essere giovani è una fortuna ma è anche una grande sfida: il mondo ti disegna in un modo e tu non sai ancora chi vuoi diventare. Maribel vuole capire chi è veramente, senza condizionamenti. Vuole un lavoro, ma solo se migliora la sua vita. Vuole amare, ma solo se può farlo con passione. Vuole dare un senso a una realtà che sembra averlo perso molto tempo prima. Perché sarà pure disorientata, ma ha tanta voglia di vivere.

Il sesto comandamento di Anna-Vera Sullam

 

 

Venezia, 1940. L’Italia è entrata in guerra da quattro mesi, troppo pochi perché si sentano i morsi della fame, troppi per chi aveva creduto che sarebbe durata qualche settimana. Ma ciò che brucia alla comunità israelitica della città sono le leggi razziali che hanno sconvolto l’esistenza di tutti i suoi membri. È per che hanno acquistato un edificio che possa ospitare alunni e professori a cui il regime impedisce di frequentare le scuole pubbliche. Ma proprio lì, nella biblioteca, un pomeriggio, il segretario scopre il cadavere di Ida Forti, professoressa di lettere antiche, uccisa da un colpo in testa inferto con una statuetta del Duce. È l’inizio di un’indagine che viene affidata al vicequestore Gigli, il quale ha una gran fretta di concluderla, tanto che in tempi brevissimi annuncia il nome dell’assassino. Ma la soluzione del caso non convince il suo sottoposto, il maresciallo Russo. Sarà lui a condurre un’indagine parallela che porterà alla luce segreti e misteri, fino al sorprendente finale. Sullo sfondo di una città magica, un giallo avvincente e appassionante che scava, con grande garbo, nei meandri più oscuri dell’animo umano.

ATHANOR: The Secret Science of the Heart (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

The time of our civilisation, which is only one of the possible civilisations, can be transcribed synthetically through the categories of thought that specified axiologically its structure and continually remodelled it. Passages never clearly marked, if anything connoted, by that “barbarian residue” which, due to a certain instinctual pertinacity, were painstakingly exceeded. The border between reality and appearance is always very subtle, we find it so, even today in the persistence of certain scientifically anachronistic expressions; let us say, for example, that the sun rises and sets, instead of referring to the horizon. We need some time to get used to something that differs from the perception that we had of the world that is, we need time to change.This, for what it’s worth, is what we believe. In fact, however, it is only the persistences that weaken our conscious presence, which, in turn, manifests itself in a wealth of forms commensurate with the capacity we have to intuit them. Every achievement is as if a new mental being is produced, almost incapable of empathy with the past self. Ultimately, the shift over time determines a change of perspective, by regressing in the memory, we lose the sharpness of the state of mind that led to the choice or for which we risked that move. We simply change our mind and this has the effect of no longer permitting us to be that which we once were. It’s as if they slowly vanish, all the humours or moods that we have experienced converge here - there is no other time and if every shift creates a different vision of the world, everything can be changed in a single instant.

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Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski

 

 

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.

Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day.

With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace.

This is Essential Bukowski.

 

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

 

 

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.

Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned ​a curiosity ​of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.

The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.

Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?

After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

Letters from Elvis: Shocking Revelations to His Secret Confidante by Gary Lindberg

 

 

Letters from Elvis may be the most important and revealing book ever written about 'The King.' It is based on material contained in hundreds of handwritten and authenticated letters that Elvis and his friends-Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte and Tom Jones-secretly wrote to their spiritual guide, Carmen Montez. Never has such an intimately revealing collection of letters surfaced about such a well-known celebrity.

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk: The Battle for Oil in A Field of Broken Dreams by Caleb Pirtle III

 

 

In the mid 1970s, a band of men with little expertise in the oilfield defied the hard ground of Giddings, Texas, to search for oil in a barren, poverty-stricken land that was littered with dry holes, shattered hopes, and empty pockets. Max Williams, the former hot-shot basketball player at SMU, and Irv Deal had been in high-dollar real estate until the real estate market collapsed. Both were facing the wrath of hard times. Pat Holloway was a lawyer who operated drilling funds but had never tested the ill-fated Austin Chalk. He drilled the most and earned the most but lost it all in the shady confines of a Dallas courtroom. Jimmy Luecke was a highway patrolman who stopped Holloway for speeding one night and promised not to take him to jail if the lawyer/oilman would agree to drill on his family’s land. Bill Shuford was right out of college and more interested in finding the next beer joint than his next job. Jim Dobos was a constable who used his badge to lease land, struck it rich, and was found with a gunshot in his head. Was it murder or suicide? Clayton Williams was the only big-time oilman in the bunch, but in the beginning, he made the mistake of employing the wrong geologist. Only those who used the geologic genius of Ray Holifield found oil. Holifield had cracked the code of the chalk. Gamble in the Devil’s Chalk is the true story of their fights, their feuds, their trials, their tribulations, and their triumphs as they discovered the second largest oilfield in the United States during the past half century. Once they came, Giddings would never be the same again.

Ishraat's Long Night (Ishraat Sarabhai Murder Mystery Romance) by Bob Young

 

 

Ishraat Sarabhai is a chemist and manager of QA when her company is taken over by terrorists with her as a hostage. Despite being injured by her captors, she finds a way to escape locked confinement. As she heads for an exit she finds another manager dead. She takes a sample of a bodily excretion, returns to her lab, and discovers he's been poisoned by a substance used for production only accessed by top management. In hiding, Ishraat texts her fiance, Raj, who is a professor at a university ninety miles away. He's heard of her company's takeover and commits to joining her. Ishraat stays elusive until Raj gets into the building to help her. They find another manager poisoned in the same way. The police finally retake the building when the last terrorist escapes. Ishraat and Raj need to solve the murders or be charged with them.

Clarity: A Memoir by Diana Estill

 

 

“Estill writes with the wit and grit of Mary Karr and Jeanette Walls.” – BookLife Prize

At age four, Diana manages her family’s banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana’s narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him.  

Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad. 

In this thought-provoking tale of resilience, the author pierces the fog of emotional abuse.

 

UNDER THE BUS by Kyle Keyes

 

 

Homicide detectives, Donde Clark and Juanito Lewis moved to Hobbs Creek just days before banker, Richard Ghetti was gunned down in the front room of his Lake Powhattan, water front cabin.Barbershop talk had it that divine providence played some part in transferring the two NYC lawmen from the Big Apple to this backwater town in South Jersey. Hobbs Creek Police Chief, Alvin Phillips believed it was his lucky silver dollar. The Six-O-Clock news refused comment because the incident did not relate to the Corona virus.

Romeo Stalker by Irene Woodbury

 

 

Jen and Colton's lives unravel when Zane Hollister, Jen's toxically jealous ex-boyfriend, returns to Las Vegas after two years in prison and discovers they're a couple.

Stalking and taunting them for months gets him nowhere, so Zane masterminds a devilish zip line accident and a terrifying car crash. Later, there's a horrific drive-by shooting, a harrowing kidnapping and forced marriage.

With events rapidly spiraling out of control, a grisly finale is inevitable, climaxing a novel that brims with suspense and drama as well as truth and heartfelt passion.

 

Rapture and Beyond by Stefan Angelina McElvain

 

 

The climatic finale to the Beyond series. It is the end-of-times. What started off as a voyage to explore the multiverse triggered a series of events that could end creation itself. The veils separating realities are collapsing. Is there a way out or is this the final curtain? The clones and their friends battle to find an alternate exit plus a new beginning.

The Rainbow Blots: A children's storytime book about rainbow colours and learning through play. Ages 1-6 by Carlie Wright (Author) and Victoria Mikki (Illustrator)

 

 

Meet the Rainbow Blots. They are playful, happy, rainbow spots! 

Have fun learning about rainbow colours with Mummy Rainbow and her Rainbow Blots. The Blots love to play with their colours and to play together as a family. Join in with their day and keep a lookout for their special trick!

 

Adventures in Mythopoeia by John Dolan

 

 

Pádraig O'Breasail - publican, drunk and ex-Arsenal footballer - is up to his neck in debt to the Chinese gangster Mingzhu Tang. With time running out, the desperate Irishman goes for a tarot card reading at Driscoll's Circus hoping to find a way out of his predicament.

Meanwhile, the world is descending into anarchy and his nephew Jason is considering quitting his job as a male escort.
Plus, there's the little matter of the sheep…

So begins a modern-day epic drawing on the Greek Myths, Don Quixote, the Quest for the Holy Grail and Carl Jung's treatise on UFOs. Packed with dark humor and eccentric characters, Adventures in Mythopoeia will take you on a madcap journey of criminality, enchantment, laugh-out-loud gags and British weather.

Bring your umbrella.

The Final Destiny: Vesta Mansion Trilogy - Book Three - Fantasy by P.A. Priddey

 

 

After discovering portals to other worlds, Alex Aylward has a dream of Dagur. The evil elf tells him he will open the portals to the Dark Worlds. With friends, elves, dwarves, goblins, and gnomes, they face many battles. Alex learns of Dagur’s master who has a plan to gain enough power to end the world. Alex’s own power keep growing and starts to become unbearable. He has powerful friends, wizards, white witches and a vast army, but none can help him face the Final Destiny.

The Village Narcissist by Glenis Kellet

 

 

A body is found hanging from a noose made from a bell rope! Is this just the start of things to come?

The deceptively quiet remote village is shattered after a brazen obnoxious outsider purchases The Old Vicarage - strange disappearances occur. It wasn’t until the gruesome village history was revealed - that the baffled police could solve the chilling mysteries connected to the bell tower.

The fictitious villager's characters play a colourful and humorous part in this book - bringing the small village to life - it's a gripping murder mystery, injecting the gruesome, spine-chilling history of this remote village into its final sinister twists and turns.

 

Demons Dancing by P.A. Priddey

 

 

A series of strange deaths around the country bring a group of people together.Frank Wright is forced to go on a mission to retrieve a sacred item, what he finds is far more sinister.Detective Inspector Devon Fields investigates a series of murders, including those of a headless corpse and a man wedged into a tree.Tarin Barkley, a reporter, finds her friend, Gina, dead in bed and looking three times older than she should. When other bodies similar to Gina’s are found, she goes searching for the murderer.Ex-soldier, Jack Flint’s holiday in the Lake District is spoiled by his dreams. One night he hears screams and runs to investigate. He finds a small camp covered in blood but the campers had gone.A humpbacked man is attacked in an alley by hooded figures when a biker comes to his aid. The biker takes him to retrieve a weapon to kill demons.Others join them in the fight against the demons as more powerful ones appear. A group of Elders, a poet, and many others help them in the fight against the oncoming darkness.

Bitches, she is Madonna by Ludovico De Bonis (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

“I dedicate this book to those who know how to wait, to those who do not stop believing in their dreams, to those who know how to earn things with sweat and will of mind, to those who keep smiling in hard times, to those who think that emotions and passions are the engine of the world.”

Ludovico De Bonis

The author Ludovico De Bonis, with his book, tried to combine his passion (Madonna) with his cultural background, as an expert in Communication and Media Analyst. What makes his work outstanding compared to other works about the artist, is that none of them has neither analyzed the phenomenon from the point of view of the audience, nor focused on the artist's fandom, on her complex identity (as a woman, as a mother and as an international icon) and on the discovery that the performer artist Madonna, according to various sociologists and experts in the sector, is the emblem of popular culture.

Translation - Giacomo Bleve

Cover - Debora Conte

Additional digital editing - Serena Garganese

 

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Il treno notturno di Thom Jones (Minimum Fax)

 

 

A pochi anni dalla sua scomparsa, Thom Jones torna in libreria con un'antologia nella quale, accanto ai migliori racconti delle sue tre raccolte (Il pugile a riposo, Sonny Liston era mio amico e Ondata di freddo), vengono proposti sette inediti assoluti che rappresentano forse il vertice della sua arte. Una galleria di personaggi ora adorabili, ora sgradevoli, ma comunque difficili da dimenticare, ci scorre davanti: reduci del Vietnam, pugili dilettanti, medici devoti al loro mestiere, sfaccendati e truffatori, copywriter, aspiranti presidi, ubriaconi e ipocondriaci, sognatori, anziani e adolescenti che si scontrano con le durezze e le stramberie della vita. Con visioni spietate che ricordano i terrificanti ritratti di Francis Bacon, Jones ci trascina dentro un mondo unico, sospeso tra l'abiezione e la trascendenza, le tenebre e la luce, e dosando perfettamente umorismo e pathos ci racconta la rabbiosa resistenza di chi, anche di fronte al peggio, non rinuncia mai al proprio sogno di riscatto.

Huck Finn nel West di Robert Coover (NN editore)

 

 

Huckleberry Finn è diventato grande; ha abbandonato da tempo la vita civile vissuta da ragazzo e insieme a Tom Sawyer si è avventurato nel Far West, dove le regole non esistono. Insieme, cavalcano sulle rotte del Pony Express, mentre attorno a loro divampa la Guerra di secessione. Ma ben presto Tom capisce di non voler fuggire dalla civiltà: sposa la sua antica fidanzata Becky Thatcher e torna a Est per inseguire potere e successo. Huck rimane solo: doma cavalli selvaggi, guida carovane di fanatici religiosi, diventa amico dell’indiano Eeteh che gli racconta le storie dei Grandi Spiriti. Sotto i suoi occhi, l’America moderna nasce e si impone con la violenza e con l’inganno, pagando il progresso con il sangue dei nativi e dei neri, non più schiavi ma non ancora liberi. Robert Coover si confronta con una figura chiave della letteratura mondiale: Huck è disincantato ma ancora innocente, affronta la vita senza pregiudizi e senza filtri. Al contrario di Tom, che conosce il potere e ne ha imparato ogni astuzia, vede la verità oltre le parole e porta alla luce le profonde contraddizioni del sogno americano. Denso di poesia, esilarante e a tratti crudele, "Huck Finn nel West" è un romanzo d’avventura e insieme la storia stessa dell’America contemporanea; e parla a quella parte di noi che si nutre di miti, che li inventa continuamente, e attraverso la narrazione riscopre e plasma la propria vita.

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

 

 

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.

Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.

 

 

 

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

 

 

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.”
―Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds

Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between.

Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids.

Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.

Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families―the ones we are born into and the ones we create.