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Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial...

The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.

It’s a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, "smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen’s critically acclaimed novel The Resisters.

Season Two, Volume One. Four cryptic cases involving murder, mayhem, and mysterious disappearances. Is one mastermind behind them all?

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

«So il nome e le proprietà di tutte le erbe che curano il corpo» dice con fierezza la protagonista tredicenne di uno dei racconti qui riuniti, da cui sembra spirare il profumo mielato dei fiori d'acacia e quello amarulento del latte di fico. La natura è del resto l'unico sapere di chi non ha per orizzonte che indigenza, campi, vigne, stagni, colline, e l'unico riparo dal dolore per le creature difettive che Inès Cagnati sa raffigurare con un ritegno che lascia intravedere abissi di tristezza.

ROZUM JEST SŁUGĄ NAMIĘTNOŚCI. Rodion Raskolnikow siekierą morduje starą lichwiarkę i jej siostrę, Lizawietę. Wierzy, że ma prawo zabijać. Morderstwo jest dla niego sprawdzianem odwagi i determinacji. ALE TAM, GDZIE JEST ZBRODNIA, MUSI BYĆ I KARA. Siedmioro autorów bestsellerowych kryminałów mierzy się z tematem jednej z najsłynniejszych powieści Fiodora Dostojewskiego, „Zbrodni i kary”.

Not all nightmares come from sleep. Some come from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeneva Rose. Three horror stories. A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop. You’ll recognize the setup. You won’t recognize what comes next. Never Kill the Medium A thirtieth birthday dinner turns...

The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu. Meanwhile, an ambassador from the Mughal Empire of northern India is being held captive in Austria by the Habsburg dynasty. Mike Stearns decides to send a mercenary company to rescue him, led by two 17th-century mercenary officers: an Englishman and a Irishman, who seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

In the aftermath of WWII, an alien virus struck the Earth, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Originally published in 1987, the newly expanded saga contains additional original stories by eminent writers.

Guys Like Him: Kieran is broken when he arrives at Redemption Ridge. A wrongful conviction and twenty months in lockup will do that to a man. The ranch is a place for second chances. Finley is a sucker for bruised spirits. The horse whisperer and broken-boy magnet is on a hiatus from love when...

Experience the bundle of the first three volumes from the series Rise of the Weakest Summoner in one go! Jump straight into the vast world of Kraedorion and multiple other realms to explore them alongside Asterios and his adventuring party as they discover more about him and his life!

From summer vacations soaked in blood to cursed castles buried deep in Europe, Allen DeShawn’s life has been anything but ordinary. This pulse-pounding omnibus collects all five terrifying, action-packed books in the I Kill Cursed Creatures series—a coming-of-age saga drenched in horror, heartbreak, and tooth-and-claw survival.

There are those who are natural-born leaders. Others are forged in the fiery crucible of battle. Some are just built that way. Emerson Avery was already exceptional when suddenly, events would conspire to thrust the mantle of leadership into his young hands. Stationed at a secret military facility on the edge of human-controlled space, the war was simply a fact of life. But in one fateful moment, Emerson’s world would be torn apart, changing his destiny and the future of the entire galaxy forever.

Whimsical and zany but edged with darkness, evocatively lyrical with goosebump-eliciting endings, Gretchen Astro Turner's 13 short stories in But I Digretch are for the romantic in all of us-but also the cynic. This fiction collection is for the surrealist and the dreamer.

A short story on forbidden love. The society may frown on their relationship, but sometimes we do not choose who we love.

Best-selling author Susie Bright’s first work of fiction and her first collection of short stories. Bright reveals the outlier reaches of family, tribe, last rites—as well as the elegiac care and feeding of the fast-disappearing.

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart. “A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian I, Robot, the first and...

The theme that unites these stories in this dazzling first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld is how even the cleverest people tend to misread others and how much we all deceive ourselves. Sharp and tender, funny and wise, this collection shows Sittenfeld’s knack for creating real, believable characters while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit.