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Bernhard Bernhardson är en samvetsgrann byråsekreterare. Han anser sig besitta varken humor eller intelligens. Efter trettio år på den gigantiska myndigheten Stuk har han motvilligt funnit sig i att smälta in med möblemanget. Men en dag råkar Bernhard avslöja en nyhet som väcker stor...

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. This collection includes "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala—fashion's biggest night. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture.

H.G. Wells gilt mit seinen Romanen und Erzählungen als ein Magier, der die Zukunft voraussah. Nicht wenige gaben ihm zu Lebzeiten den Beinamen „die Sphinx", da er so viele Dinge bereits Jahrzehnte im Voraus benannte. Hier, in seinem Debütroman, der gleich zum Welterfolg wurde, wird nun die Geschichte des visionären Zeitreisenden erzählt, der mit der Erfindung der vierdimensionalen Geometrie das Zeitreisen entdeckt und dabei in eine Zukunft reist, die erschreckender nicht sein könnte. Das Gleichnis der Eloi und Morlocks inspirierte zahlreiche Künstler in ihren Werken wie z. B.

Step into G.K. Chesterton's whimsical masterpiece The Napoleon of Notting Hill. In a futuristic London, an ordinary clerk becomes a legendary leader in a tale of imagination, satire, honor, and unexpected heroism. Listen now on Audible and...

A brutal uprising in the Kingdom of Alluvia has shaken the Allied Lands, and Emily finds herself accused of starting it. Desperate, all too aware the kingdom is on the verge of becoming a vortex of chaos, Emily travels to Alluvia in the hopes of calming both sides long enough to secure peace. However, she's unaware that the uprising is merely the first step in a plan to shatter the Allied Lands beyond repair.

The instant New York Times Bestseller In Platonic, psychologist and friendship expert Dr Marisa G. Franco unpacks why undervaluing friendship in our culture has led to an epidemic of isolation, and what we can do about it. 'Wise, concrete and effective - my friendships are better for it' –...

The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful business from scratch or maximizing an existing business' performance. Loaded with practical, powerful advice you can easily use, this one-stop guide helps you realize all...

I see the world through statistics. Logic and routine. That's what keeps me sane. Killian Doyle is my polar opposite. His merciless, passionate nature terrifies me. He kidnapped me to force his brother, my friend, out of hiding and back into the mafia. He says he'll let me go when he doesn't need me anymore. I understand what he wants. The only real question is what I want from him. Because right now, I'm confused enough to think I want him to keep me forever.

Winning a seat on the Council was supposed to be the victory lap. Instead, Alex finds himself guarding the Unravelling Engine—a magical doomsday device ticking down to erase every scrap of magic from the world. Six beautiful, deadly witches who wield magic more powerful than anything the Courts have seen in centuries are his warriors, his strategists, his family... and his lovers. An ancient, parasitic madness—the Insanity—is spreading through the Celestial Courts, turning allies into monsters and leaders into puppets.

A teenage ghost in love with life becomes bound to the house of the grieving artist who summoned her via Ouija board in this darkly funny YA paranormal. One hot dog with banana peppers. That’s all Hot Dog wants. An invisible teenage ghost, she haunts a food cart outside the Metropolitan Museum...

I was their perfect student—now I'm going to bring Bloodstone Academy down. Every generation of the Daygan family went to Bloodstone Academy, but it was all a lie. I was taken as a baby, manipulated and used, my memories and time stolen. Now they want me to marry Hemlock Mercury. Over my dead...

Uno scrittore ottuagenario, premio Nobel per la letteratura, scopre di essere prossimo alla morte per una malattia rara. Dopo anni vissuti rinchiuso nel suo appartamento, acconsente a concedere una serie di interviste. I primi tre giornalisti vengono schiacciati dal cinismo, dal sarcasmo e dalla superiorità intellettuale del vecchio. Ma nell'ultima intervista, non a caso condotta da una donna, le schermaglie verbali cedono il passo a un gioco al massacro, nel quale i ruoli di vittima e carnefice si ribaltano.

Érase una vez un reino muy, muy lejano donde un príncipe premió a un mago por ayudar a rescatar a una joven en apuros. Encantador. Lástima que nada de esto sea verdad. En realidad, el príncipe sueña con gloria y venganza; el mago, con que sus hechizos no sean siempre un desastre y la joven en apuros, con huir de un pasado que la atormenta...y del recuerdo del hombre al que ha matado.

The G.K. Chesterton Faith Collection brings together six of Chesterton's major works on faith and religion, including his seminal early work on moral theology, Heretics, all the way to his late-life writings on Saint Thomas Aquinas. This collection takes you through the broad breadth of Chesterton's thinking—from his early full-throated philosophy on everything from war to morality, to his later focus on the Church and his conversion from high church Anglicanism to Catholicism.

Never remember, never look back, and do not trust the wolves… The triple goddesses made a huge mistake. They chose me, a human with memory issues, who was locked in a dungeon (because she got stabby with a shifter's foot), to enter the deadliest set of trials designed to make new alphas for...

Is fear holding you back from the things you desire to achieve in life? Would you like better relationships that are filled with love and encouragement? Would you like to rid yourself of toxic emotions that are preventing you from being what God has meant you to become?

In Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Dr. Gerald Jampolsky gives you 12 easy steps to follow that will allow you to attain a life without unrealistic fear.

Many of us have never really considered how subtly and profoundly our sense of national spirit has colored our view of the world and of ourselves. The Psychology of Nations by GE Partridge shines a light on the philosophy of nationalism and uses this to delve deeply into its shaping of both psychology and sociology.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lionel Wallace recounts his lifelong pursuit of a mysterious green door that leads to an enchanted garden – a place of unimaginable beauty and peace. But is this door a portal to a higher reality or a figment of a dreamer's imagination?...

Rhett has struck a blow at the heart of the Queendom of Georgia. He destroyed their royal palace, killed an up-and-coming general, saved a princess, and bruised a lot more than the Queen's ego. But despite the success of his raid, he still has one important task left to complete down south... he has to get out of there alive. There is only one option.

Al principio fue lo de siempre: chico conoce chica, chico conquista chica, chico se acuesta con chica. Nuestra historia debería haber terminado justo después de la primera vez, cuando cada uno se fue por su lado. Pero nos volvimos a encontrar...en otras circunstancias. Unas circunstancias prohibidas. Y ninguno de los dos fue capaz de resistirse.