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Brought to you by Penguin. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to...

In 2055, Lina Grahame was diagnosed with cancer. An experimental brain scan was meant to give her family peace of mind—insurance against the unknown. But when the system misfiled her consciousness, Lina was left dormant, forgotten, and reclassified as “simulation-grade.” Four centuries later, she wakes, not as the woman she was, but as a synthetic echo: fleshless, mislabeled, unacknowledged. The cities she wanders are alive with drones and faceless machines, but empty of people. The humans she longs for are gone—not extinguished, but voluntarily replaced.

A timeless story of isolation and inner torment, Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human follows Yozo Oba, a man who hides behind laughter while drifting toward self-destruction.

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

Philip Carey, un estudiante de medicina, se une a la camarera Mildred Rogers, una mujer sin escrupulos, cruel y sin ningun afecto ni moralidad. Ella se aprovecha de la deformidad de Philip para humillarlo y cuando finalmente se arruina y tiene que interrumpir sus estudios lo abandona. El relato de como acaba por sobreponerse es el final de esta novela, un distinguido retrato humano.

En el verano de 1998, el doble azote del puritanismo y la corrección política recorre Estados Unidos a causa del escándalo Lewinski. Coleman Silk, un viejo catedrático de una pequeña universidad de Nueva Inglaterra, se ve obligado a jubilarse cuando sus colegas lo acusan de racista. Lo asombroso del dictamen es que la verdad sobre Silk podría acallar hasta al más virulento de sus detractores.

After a devastating accident, a young athlete wakes up to find everything has changed—his body, his identity, and the way the world sees him. Struggling to reconcile the person he was with the stranger in the mirror, he is thrust into a reality he never chose. Friends, family, and even his own reflection feel unfamiliar, leaving him to question what truly defines him. As he searches for answers, deeper mysteries begin to unfold. His survival came at a cost, but was it worth it? And more importantly, is he still the same person inside?

Unlocking living DNA and refolding it like origami was what The Book spoke of. The first key, the hallucinogen, was the easy part. But beneath the transcendent surface is a cloaked memory, which Dome believes he must resist. Can he reconcile it? The Fifth Key is short novel from the Arizona shaman, Paul Caldeaux. Mashing visionary concepts and extravagant fun, it is told through the modern eyes of Dome, an irreverent psychonaut, Dome's search is symbolized by an over-the-top journey to transform the human race and uncover the true nature of reality.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

In Gezeichnet, dem meisterhaften Roman von Osamu Dazai, navigieren wir durch die zutiefst persönlichen Aufzeichnungen von Yozo, einem Mann, der sich von der Menschheit entfremdet fühlt. Dieser introspektive Rückblick auf ein Leben voller Missverständnisse und Fehlinterpretationen lädt uns ein, die Facetten der menschlichen Existenz zu betrachten, die oft im Verborgenen liegen. Mit feinsinnigem Witz und einer beklemmenden Offenheit erkundet Dazai die Dunkelheit, die sich hinter der Fassade des Lächelns verbirgt.

How many mass shootings, school shootings, and domestic violence events can you be personally involved in or hear about? Robin Alexis, mystic, Spirit Lady, and clairvoyant, has precognitively learned about too many of these violent attacks on our individual and collective peace. Enough is enough.