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I always imagine each of the signoras who lived in this house—where she shelled peas, rocked the grandchild, placed a vase of the pink roses. Now I would like to take one of these women back to my house in California to show her how Bramasole traveled to America and took root, how the doors...

Spend your next 30 minutes traveling to a future where first adopters have the most advanced robot butlers or where everyone has a superpower - except the young man you just met. Or perhaps you prefer a good hard-boiled detective story or one about a hardscrabble life in the Australian outback.

Amerika in der nahen Zukunft. Zwischen den Föderalen, die ihre Körper mit Implantaten und Genmanipulation verändern, und den Humanisten herrscht ein blutiger Bürgerkrieg. Die freien KIs, rein digitale Wesen, die im Infospace leben, sind dabei nur Zuschauer. KI Mal findet es wahnsinnig spannend, in Drohnen über den Schlachtfeldern zu fliegen und das zu studieren, was nach den Kämpfen übrig bleibt. Doch eines Tages wird er dabei vom Infospace abgeschnitten und muss sich in die Implantate einer Söldnerin flüchten. Bis er wieder Zugang zum Netz hat, ist er auf sich allein gestellt.

In the American Civil War that began in 1861 the War was seemingly fought to end Slavery. A War for Good. The result a win for the good guys but a society that still bears fractures from this seminal period. The stories in this volume show the true scars that are endured as a riven Nations authors try to explain and reconcile.

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. Whether it’s a long-lost returning soldier wondering how best to return to the arms of his family without too great a risk of shock... Or a prodigal son whose taken path has driven pain into his own and others hearts… These stories reveal much about the human condition.

A lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza “A love letter to Italy written in precise and passionate language of near-poetic density.”—Newsday In Tuscany...