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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...

Brought to you by Penguin. The brilliantly uplifting, page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse. If you could see your future, how would you live now? Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode...

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

Miles Walker has the life most people want. A career. A family. A sense of having made it. But when everything begins to unravel, Miles is pulled into a strange, unsettling journey that forces him to confront secrets he believed were long-buried.

Qui, nascosta tra condomìni anonimi e vicoli bui, c'è una clinica speciale. Il trattamento che offre, infatti, è unico nel suo genere: a ciascuno, secondo il caso, si prescrive un gatto. Ad affidarsi con un po' di sorpresa e di iniziale scetticismo alle cure feline saranno un impiegato stufo delle sopraffazioni, un uomo che si sente sempre fuori posto, una ragazzina immalinconita dal rapporto conflittuale con la madre, una stilista di borse alla ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio emotivo e un'apprendista geisha oppressa dal senso di colpa.

The White Feather is a poignant, romantic, and sometimes tragic novel set in both the battlefields of World War I France, and in a small, Cotswold village named Claybourne-on-Coln. This engaging novel presents the reader with unforgettable characters, courageous and cowardly, generous and self-serving.

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is the first book of G. I. Gurdjieff's monumental trilogy All and Everything. Conceived as both a cosmological epic and a profound work of inner instruction, the book presents its teachings through an unusual narrative framework that deliberately challenges the reader's habitual modes of perception and understanding. The story is framed as a series of conversations between Beelzebub — a high-ranking cosmic being exiled from the Solar System — and his beloved grandson Hassein.

In una sala misteriosa, sospesa tra ombre e attesa, un re ascolta voci che sembrano provenire da ogni direzione. Sono sussurri che guidano e confondono, lampi di verità e inganni intrecciati. Giorno dopo giorno, il tempo scorre come un copione già scritto, ma dietro le mura si cela un enigma che nessun potere può dominare. I consiglieri del re non sono soltanto figure al suo fianco: sono echi, riflessi, presenze che svelano e nascondono al tempo stesso.

Retired bank manager George Pearmain is apparently dead. According to the behaviour of everyone around him, it seems he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also passed away – and on the eve of her 99th year. Not only that, it could be that they were both murdered. Apart from that he feels fine.

In questa novella Pirandello continua a scavare nel profondo del nostro inconscio. Dopo la morte della moglie un pover'uomo è distrutto dal dolore, è terrorizzato dal suo futuro e cerca disperatamente di rivivere i momenti felici della sua infanzia, come quando correva a piedi nudi sull'erba. Ma agli occhi del mondo quel gesto sembra soltanto una follia di chi non è più capace di intendere e di volere.

Sergey finally escapes from Paris-only to have his multidimensional shelter invaded. His time in France may have been rough, but it was a walk in the park compared to what's in store for him...central Europe is going to be a wild ride!

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and caretakers drift in and out. All the women who have ever lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

Sometimes the most ordinary people are faced with extraordinary circumstances and discover an inner greatness they didn’t know they had. When strange things start occurring around him, Brian knows everything is about to be turned upside down all over again. Soon he meets Destiny and Sage, two homeless people living on the streets of Philadelphia who are not what they seem to be. Brian learns that an updated version of the spiritual app called e-Ternity is destroying humanity’s higher potentials. To save the soul of the world, Brain must join forces with Destiny and Sage.

Rachel fends for herself in a country brought to its knees by climate change. Since Jason left two years ago, she only ventures beyond the safety of her storm wall when food supplies dwindle. Her one contact with the outside world is through Noah, who runs the market. Hoping he might be the answer to her isolation, she proposes a date. When another man turns up in Noah's place, she is intrigued and repelled in equal measure.

Книга Две жизни — мистический роман, который популярен у людей, интересующихся идеями Теософии и Учением Живой Этики. Первая часть романа повествует о глубоких духовных поисках героев, горьких разочарованиях, а также дальних путешествиях в поисках истины... Этот текст был написан известной оперной певицей, ученицей К.С. Станиславского, солисткой Большого театра Конкордией Евгеньевной Антаровой (1886–1959). Как вспоминала сама Кора Антарова, книга писалась под диктовку во время Второй мировой войны и являлась знанием, переданным через общение с действительным Автором посредством яснослышания.

Ma chi sono questi uomini, chi sono i "demoni"? I demoni sono anzitutto "uomini d'idea", come li definisce Bachtìn, cioè uomini posseduti, tormentati, divorati da un'idea, cioè da una concezione onnicomprensiva, onniesplicativa e onnirisolutiva della realtà, uomini che si credono in possesso della "Verità", ma ognuno dei quali si è costruito una sua "verità" in una forma aberrante, distruttiva, catastrofica.

Ma chi sono questi uomini, chi sono i "demoni"? I demoni sono anzitutto "uomini d'idea", come li definisce Bachtìn, cioè uomini posseduti, tormentati, divorati da un'idea, cioè da una concezione onnicomprensiva, onniesplicativa e onnirisolutiva della realtà, uomini che si credono in possesso della "Verità", ma ognuno dei quali si è costruito una sua "verità" in una forma aberrante, distruttiva, catastrofica.

A Masserie di Cristo, lungo le pendici del Monte Capraro, nel cuore di un Sud viscerale, fantasmagorico e magico, i vivi e i morti s'incontrano, talvolta senza riconoscersi. E non sono né vivi né morti. In questo luogo inesistente e remoto, la giovane Assuntina è scomparsa, e tutto il villaggio non si dà pace. Tebaldo costringe la piccola figlia Italia a ucciderlo, e la madre la punisce rinchiudendola in una cantina.

Joey Taylor jokingly starts a public page for "God" on FaceSpace and forgets about it when he goes off the grid from social media. Four years later, he returns to the page to find that it has over 30 million "likes". When Joey discovers the immense power and responsibility that comes with this incredible online audience at his disposal, the former pizza delivery driver develops a God complex of his own. Joey's newfound fame on FaceSpace takes a turn nobody could ever see coming.