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Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The...

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The...

No Humans Involved stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She’s on a television shoot in Brentwood, Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms, she sees movements out of the corner of her eye, and unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime’s used to seeing the dead and hearing them clearly. But now, for the first time in her life, she knows what humans mean when they say they’re being haunted.

Ed Bush lives with his family in the coastal settlement of Chelmsford in South Britain, one of the United States of Europe. Their way of life is dictated entirely by the government known as Europarl. Every year at a four day celebration of human rights the people coming of age are assigned to their posts within the country. Ed doesn't think there is anything he can do about it until he meets an old man on the beach who lives outside the system, unknown to Europarl. Ed is recruited to join a rebel group and plans are made for him to leave with the old man, when he is distracted by the arrival of his new stepsister, Suzie. Will Ed leave with the rebels or stay with his family and accept his fate?

I Himmerige og helvede mistede drengen sin bedste ven til havet og uvejret. I Englenes sorg mødte han og postbudet døden i snestormen på fjeldet. I Menneskets hjerte, som er det tredje og sidste bind i Stefánssons trilogi, bor han i landsbyen hos Geirtrud, en egensindig kvinde, som må slås for sin selvstændighed mod købmændene, der er byens magtfulde mænd. I landsbyen handler alt stadig om fiskeri, men også her melder de nye tider sig med dampskibet, telefonen og nye ideer. Menneskets hjerte er en bog om kærlighed og frihed.

En La alegoría de la caverna, de Platón, se describe a un grupo de prisioneros desde su nacimiento con cadenas que los sujetan del cuello y de las piernas de forma que solo puedan mirar hacia la pared. Detrás de ellos se encuentra una hoguera y la entrada a la cueva desde el exterior. Los encadenados consideran como verdades a las sombras que ven, porque no pueden girarse y ver la realidad.