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First published in 1887, The Canterville Ghost is Oscar Wildes witty and imaginative tale that blends humor, satire, and the supernatural. The story follows the Otis family, an American household that moves into an old English manor haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville.Expecting fear and terror, the ghost instead finds himself frustrated by the practical and unshaken Americans, who treat his eerie appearances with indifferenceand even humor. Through this clever reversal, Wilde gently satirizes cultural differences between America and England while exploring themes of redemption, compassion, and forgiveness.Charming, humorous, and unexpectedly touching, The Canterville Ghost remains a timeless classic that delights readers with its blend of comedy and heartfelt storytelling.

First published in 1935, Of Time and the River is Thomas Wolfes sweeping and deeply personal novel that continues the story of Eugene Gant, a character closely based on Wolfe himself. Expansive and lyrical, the novel traces Eugenes journey from his Southern roots to his search for identity, artistic purpose, and belonging in a vast and changing world.Blending autobiography with fiction, Wolfe explores themes of ambition, loneliness, memory, time, and the relentless passage of life. Through richly detailed prose and emotional intensity, he captures the struggles of youth, the yearning for greatness, and the complex ties between family, home, and personal destiny.Epic in scope and poetic in style, Of Time and the River stands as a landmark of American literature, offering a profound meditation on growth, aspiration, and the human experience.

First published in 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wildes only novel and a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and philosophical drama. The story follows the handsome young Dorian Gray, whose portrait mysteriously ages and reflects the moral decay of his soul while he himself remains outwardly youthful and untouched by time.Influenced by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian embraces a life devoted to pleasure and indulgence, free from visible consequences. As his sins accumulate, the hidden portrait grows increasingly grotesque, symbolizing the cost of vanity, selfishness, and moral corruption.Elegant, provocative, and rich in wit, this timeless novel explores themes of beauty, art, temptation, and the duality of human naturecontinuing to captivate readers with its haunting psychological depth and sharp social commentary.

First published in 1922, Siddhartha is Hermann Hesses profound novel about a young mans quest for enlightenment in ancient India. The story follows Siddhartha as he leaves a life of comfort to seek wisdom, experiencing the richness of the world, love, and suffering along the way.Through encounters with ascetics, merchants, and the river that teaches him the rhythm of life, Siddhartha discovers that true understanding cannot be taught but must be experienced. Hesses lyrical prose explores themes of self-discovery, inner peace, the nature of desire, and the path to spiritual fulfillment.Poetic, reflective, and deeply philosophical, Siddhartha remains a timeless classic, inspiring readers to contemplate the meaning of life and the journey toward personal and spiritual awakening.

Set twelve years after Riders of the Purple Sage, the novel follows John Shefford, a former clergyman, on his quest to find Fay Larkin in the remote Arizona-Utah borderlands. He discovers a hidden Mormon village of "sealed wives" and meets the enigmatic Sago Lily. As federal authorities move in to prosecute polygamists, Shefford confronts secrets that test his beliefs on faith, justice, and personal freedom in the harsh desert frontier.

Set against the rugged Arizona wilderness, the story follows Carley Burch, a young New Yorker drawn West by a letter from her fiancé, Glenn Kilbourne, changed by war. As she journeys through harsh landscapes, she confronts love, transformation, and the contrast between city life and untamed nature. The opening follows Carley on the train to Flagstaff, anxious and reflective, preparing to face Glenn and the challenges of their renewed relationship.

First published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is the harrowing autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free African-American man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the antebellum United States. For twelve years, Northup endured brutal labor, inhumane treatment, and the constant struggle for survival before regaining his freedom.His account provides a detailed and personal perspective on the daily horrors of slavery, the resilience of the human spirit, and the importance of hope, courage, and determination. Northups narrative is both a historical document and a testament to the enduring fight for justice and human dignity.Intense, moving, and historically significant, Twelve Years a Slave remains essential reading for understanding slavery, American history, and the triumph of perseverance over oppression.

First published in 1839, The Charterhouse of Parma is Stendhals masterful historical novel set in early 19th-century Italy. The story follows Fabrizio del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman whose life is marked by passion, political intrigue, and personal ambition as he navigates the complexities of love, war, and society.Through vivid characterization and richly detailed settings, Stendhal explores themes of romance, honor, social ambition, and the clash between personal desires and societal expectations. The novel balances thrilling adventure with keen psychological insight, offering a portrait of both individual emotion and the broader political landscape of the era.Epic, engaging, and elegantly written, The Charterhouse of Parma remains a timeless classic, celebrated for its narrative sophistication, emotional depth, and enduring exploration of the human heart.

Some islands are erased from maps.Others are erased from memory.This story belongs to the latter.!Island of the Damned is not merely a work of speculative fiction. It is an examination of a recurring human impulsethe belief that isolation grants permission, that secrecy absolves responsibility, and that power, when hidden far enough from public sight, can reshape morality itself.Across history, islands have served as laboratories of ambition. Removed from law, distanced from conscience, they become ideal vessels for experimentationnot only on bodies, but on ethics, identity, and the very definition of humanity. In this novel, Aethelburg Island stands as such a place: a sealed ecosystem where science detaches from accountability, where progress is pursued without restraint, and where the human form becomes raw material.Island of the Damned asks a simple but unsettling question:If humanity could be redesigned.Who would be trusted to decide what must be removed?This book does not offer comfort. It offers reflection. It invites the reader to confront the seductive nature of control, the danger of believing oneself exempt from moral limits, unsettling truths

"A Science-Fiction Novel"The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series.The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carters wife Dejah Thoris. It was first published in The All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January-May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918 and in many editions subsequently.As usual for him, Burroughs begins with a frame story that explains how he (Burroughs) came into possession of the text. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter was unwillingly transported back to Earth. The story proper begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation with Dejah Thoris, their unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window.It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet."Glenn has been gone over a year," she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet."She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Years Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carleys friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window.

This gentle volume gathers three winter-touched dream journeys by Christopher T. Winters into one continuous collection of calm, stillness, and quiet reflection.Across moonlit snowfields, sleeping gardens, and forests where light itself learns to dream, these stories invite the reader to slow down and rest within carefully crafted atmospheres of silence and warmth. Each narrative unfolds without urgency, allowing the mind to soften and the imagination to drift naturally toward sleep.Winters Quiet Stories Volume I is designed as a companion for nighttime readinga place where thoughts can loosen their grip, breath can deepen, and the world can feel gentle again. There is no conflict to resolve, no tension to overcome. Only presence, memory, and the soft reassurance of quiet landscapes shaped by moonlight.This collection includes: The Moon Wrote Its Quiet Secrets in Snow The Moons Quiet Garden The Forest Where Moonbeams Learned to DreamIdeal for readers seeking calming fiction, bedtime reading for adults, and poetic stories that linger softly at the edge of sleep.

The Boxcar Children is a childrens book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner. The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse.When a baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they make plans the children dont like. They plan to send the children, who live in a house next door to the bakery, to live with their grandfather, but the children have been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they have never met, because he did not like their parents marriage. The baker and his wife plan to take the three elder children, who are old enough to be helpful in the bakery, but to send the youngest, Benny to an orphanage.Finding an abandoned boxcar, the children start a new life of work.

Elara, however, had been raised on whispers and forbidden texts by her grandmother, a descendant of a hidden lineage. She wasnt interested in turning lead into gold; she was interested in the essence of things, their vibrational frequency, how they interacted not just on a molecular level, but on a well, a soul level. Her laboratory, powered by scavenged solar cells and hidden beneath a sprawling hydroponics farm, was a haven of bubbling beakers, glowing crucibles, and the pungent aroma of rare earth elements.Above the earth, the Techno-City rose like a monument to precisionglass towers, perfect algorithms, emotions regulated into compliance. Below it, buried beneath living roots and whispered knowledge, alchemy never truly died.Fire still remembered.Matter still listened.And frequency still told the truth.Elara was never interested in turning lead into gold.Gold was inert. Predictable. Dead.Elara, standing at the edge of her hydroponics farm, watched the city bloom with newfound life. She had saved them, not by replacing science, but by complementing it. The age of alchemy had returned, not as a mystical art, but as a vital, missing piece of a complex puzzle

A group of scientists, driven by the understanding that "singularity points" exist not only in cosmic phenomena but also within human consciousness and moments in time, embark on an ambitious quest to understand the fundamental nature of life and the universe.Their research leads them to explore quantum dimensions, where they uncover a profound interconnectedness that binds all existence. This interconnectedness, they realize, is the embodiment of pure love. However, their pursuit of this truth attracts the attention of a terrifying and malevolent force, an entity that actively seeks to prevent humanity from realizing or spreading this revelation.The scientists find themselves in a desperate race against this dark force, which relentlessly attacks them in an effort to silence them and suppress the knowledge of universal interconnectedness and love. The narrative details their frantic struggle for survival and their determination to safeguard this crucial discovery.Ultimately, through their perseverance and the inherent power of good, the scientists emerge victorious, defeating the malevolent force and ensuring that the truth of universal love can be known..!

1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians are close to creating an atomic bomb.Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ is sent to Scotland, to a listening station in the Highlands at Kilbray. Beatties arrival is greeted with suspicion by the stations staff. She faces an uphill battle to turn things around. When Beattie discovers that her uncle Howard, who lives nearby, has gone missing, she becomes convinced his disappearance is more sinister. She learns Howard has been visiting a remote Highland lodge used during the war to hide out of favour special operation executive officers. As she delves deeper, there is no one she feels she can trust except for private detective Patrick Corrigan. But Corrigan has troubles of his own as he needs to get out of London after crossing the Kutsnetsov brothers, a pair of notorious Russian gangsters.As the snow begins to fall hard and fast, Beattie realises the search is putting her life and that of Corrigans in danger, and that the answers she is looking for lie buried in her wartime past.

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. On their terrifying journey, they must face the pain of their own unbearable loss alongside incredible danger. Above all, they must journey to find each other again. This compassionate and beautiful play is a story of connection between friends, families and strangers.Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spanglers adaptation of Christy Lefteris bestselling novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo was first seen at Nottingham Playhouse and on tour in 2023, and is revived in 2026.

Neste terceiro volume da coleção César Aira, uma nova leva de novelitas inéditas no Brasil dão a ver a criatividade inesgotável deste que é um dos mais importantes escritores da América Latina. Desde

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Light Year by Jennifer Wong is a meditation on time. These poems delve into the mind of a poet crossing spaces of deep wounds, love and healing: a constellation of friendships and love as she moves through upheaval, transformation and change.The collection offers glimpses into the journeys of a migrant, a daughter, and a mother; with the passage of years, the poems ask what it might mean to move like light itself, beyond expectations and into new ways of understanding ourselves more profoundly. With sublime precision, Jennifer Wongs poetry brings clarity to the spaces between the stars the time difference between memories and place, between our loved ones, and everything we hold dear in life.A Poetry Book Society Recommendation