"Un gorgo d'angoscia governa l'alterno respiro delle storie che nel romanzo si tramescolano. Il commissario Montalbano è in apprensione. Gli orli sfumati di un sogno trasudano malessere, sensazioni superstiziose, oscure premonizioni. Un pensiero laterale stenta a chiarirsi, e perdura nella realtà come sospettosa vigilanza; e come soprassalto a ogni minima coincidenza con lo squallore infausto del sogno che di uno straccio di terra aspra e solitaria ha fatto un obitorio a cielo aperto, con bara chiusa e cadavere da riconoscere, sotto una luce itterica e di meteoropatica influenza. Persino il consueto barbugliamento di Catarella si è dato in sogno negli arcani costernanti di una locuzione latina. La rotta sequenza delle indagini, su un'aggressione a mano armata e violenza carnale, su un traffico d'armi, e su degli esportatori di opere d'arte rubate, allinea e intreccia storie di donne di forte e deciso temperamento; mentre il commissario, così esposto al lato oscuro delle cose e ai clandestini giochi della mente, è in attesa che qualcosa di non del tutto delucidato esca fuori, alla fine, da un qualche retroscena, e si riveli. Si sedimenta lo spaesamento in Montalbano. Nella vita del commissario va crescendo un senso di solitudine che accascia e predispone a una morbidità di sentimento. Livia continua a essere una voce nel telefono, una minaccia costante e fastidiosa di baruffe. Un'assenza. Una lontananza impegnativa. Irrompe in carne e ossa una donna fatale...". Salvatore Silvano Nigro

Logan Black, former Marine and bodyguard for the Seattle Wolf Pack, hates weddings and has no plan to walk the path to matrimonial misery. But when he’s hired to protect a hot-to-trot wedding planner with a werewolf stalker, he’s forced to put his feelings aside. Not such an easy task when the damsel can turn him on with a single smoldering glance.

Wedding planner Veronica Vale knows werewolves exist, but hates them. One bit her sister, changing their lives forever. When a sexy Marine shows his gorgeous face at one of her wedding appointments, Veronica finds it hard to focus on the task at hand.

The chemistry drawing Logan and Veronica together seems fated, but with Logan’s playboy attitude, Veronica’s hatred for werewolves, and a stalker lurking in the shadows, these two need more than passion to keep them together.

A principios de la década de los cincuenta, cuando en el panorama de la ciencia ficción dominaba aún la escuela tecnológica —Clarke, Asimov, J.W. Campbell— comenzó a afianzarse lo que sería con el tiempo una verdadera revolución en el género: el nuevo "humanismo" (Bradbury, Sturgeon, Simak). La figura más solitaria y reveladora de entonces fue quizá Walter M. Miller, que con sólo tres obras se convirtió en uno de los maestros indiscutibles de la nueva generación. Miller introdujo problemas y situaciones tradicionales de tipo histórico en el contexto de una elocuente visión del futuro, a veces irónica, a veces satírica, apoyada en un notable sentido de la caracterización y una cuidad invención de situaciones y escenarios. El presente volumen reúne tres extraordinarias novelas cortas: una lúcida indagación de la naturaleza del hombre como mascota ("Condicionalmente humano"), los límites de la soberbia humana ("El darfsteller"), los prejuicios culturales y raciales ("Bendición oscura")

A Leibowitz-rend apátságában a Memorabíliákat gyűjtik, a Tűzözön előtti civilizáció becses írott emlékeit. Nem veszélytelen hivatás ez, hiszen a tudományellenes közhangulat épp a tudományt, a kultúrát okolja az új nyomorúságért.

A szerzet a kőkorszaki körülmények között is jó munkát végez. A nemzedékről nemzedékre átmenekített és megőrzött források révén az emberiség újra megalkotja az „első” gőzgépet, az „első” izzólámpát, majd természetesen az „első” atommáglyát.

És 1200 évvel a Tűzözön után végre ismét elhárulnak a technikai akadályok az újabb Tűzözön elől…

Az először 1959-ben megjelent (és 1988-ban magyarul is közreadott) amerikai regény valóságos mérföldkő a sci-fi irodalom történetében, műfajának klasszikusa. Szerzője, Walter M. Miller (1923–1996) szinte nem is írt egyebet. Hiába próbálkozott, képtelen volt tökéletes művét felülmúlni. Könyvét második világháborús élményei ihlették: bombázótiszt volt az itáliai hadszíntéren. Ötvenhárom bevetésen vett részt, ő találta telibe a Benedek-rendiek ősi apátságát. A tragédia súlya egész életében nyomasztotta. Önkezével vetett véget életének.

Ideea Evului Mediu postatomic şi a repetării ciclice a istoriei găseşte în romanul de faţă una dintre expresiile sale cele mai puternice şi mai coerente. În momentul începerii povestirii, cu şase sute de ani după catastrofa atomică, mici comunităţi religioase încearcă, la modul cel mai naiv cu putinţă, să conserve ultimele ale ştiinţei străvechi, apărându-le în faţa barbariei.

Después de la hecatombe nuclear el Venerable Leibowitz, muerto seiscientos años antes, va a ser canonizado. De la antigua civilización no quedan otros vestigios que los conservados por la Orden Albertiana, cuyos monjes consumen sus vida en la interminable tarea de iluminar e interpretar las obras del Venerable para reconstruir sobre ellas el mundo tal como fue.

Son muchos los misterios que perduran. Por ejemplo, el documento que reza: . Es un enigma. Pero los monjes saben que la luz se hará algún día y que, con ella, la antigua cultura retornará.

¿Ridículo? ¿Grotesco?

Bien, si nuestro civilizado y orgulloso mundo sucumbe un día ante una catástrofe de proporciones millones de veces superiores a las del hundimiento del mundo clásico, ¿qué ocurrirá? ¿Qué quedará de nuestra civilización? ¿Cómo y por quién serán conservados, interpretados y aprovechados los vestigios tecnológicos que heredarán los hombres del mañana?

Sheldon Horowitz — 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable — is staying with his granddaughter’s family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger’s child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son’s death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly.

To Norway’s cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He’d heard the boy’s eastern European mother being murdered, and he’s determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. With an endearing combination of dexterity and daring, Sheldon manages to elude the police in what is hostile, foreign territory for him. But what he doesn’t know is that the police and the gang both know where he’s heading.

Miller’s revelatory protagonist, Jess, is fourteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family and left their Montgomery home to drive west to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mother and rebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at every rest stop, waffle house, and gas station along the way. As Jess’s belief frays, her teenage myopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family.

Using deadpan humor and savage charm belying deep empathy for her characters, Miller’s debut captures the angst, sexual rivalry, and escalating self-doubt of teenage life in America while announcing Miller as a fierce new voice

Elaina Morrison has loved Neil McManus her whole life. She doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t love him. Through heartbreaking tragedy and years of separation, her love holds true…until life stomps all over her heart, shattering her perfect dream, teaching her how hard it is to let go.

Real life doesn’t have anything on romantic dreams though, as these two have learned repeatedly. It sucks big time, leaving painful scars in its wake.

But Neil isn’t giving up. He’s endured years of longing and sacrifice to wait for her. Always a soldier, he knows his way around a battlefield, and winning Elaina is no different. So that’s precisely what Neil is going to do. He'll go in fighting, and make Elaina see what he already knows.

That she will forever be his Cherry Girl…

BL Miller offers romance, sizzling passion, humor and great angst all wrapped up in an orginal, well-written story you won't want to put down. The story begins on a cold winter evening in modern day Albany with Rose Grayson on her way home after working her shift as a cashier in a local supermarket. Heading home that evening also, slightly inebriated and in a bad mood after an unpleasant business dinner, is wealthy executive Veronica "Ronnie" Cartwright -- her life about to be forever changed when a fleeing figure suddenly darts in front of her Porsche. Ronnie finds herself falling deeply and completely in love while trying to deal with old fears from the past and with the knowledge that what happened on a cold winter evening may very well come back to haunt her someday.

Joanna Carey, senior instructor at Sapling Hill wasn't looking for anything more than completing one more year at the facility and getting that much closer to her private dream, a small cabin on a quiet lake. She was tough, smart and she had a plan for her life. When tough Instructor Carey meets angry and disillusioned Grace Waters, neither is prepared for what comes next. Stubborn and angry Grace meets her match in Carey, the strong and disciplined woman who's determined to help Grace help herself. What she's not expecting is that Grace will break through her own defenses. Together they will change each other's lives in ways that neither thought possible.

What if you never had to fall?

Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is following what Lux recommends. When she’s accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn’t use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux’s recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore — a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.

From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. Repeatedly it seemed that in days, even hours, global nuclear conflict would sweep away much of the United States, the Soviet Union and Europe. They would be obliterated in what President Carter described as ‘one long, final and very bleak afternoon’. When the Cold War ended, the Warsaw Pact was wound up and the vast military forces which had flourished for over forty years were disbanded. As with all wars, however, it was only then that the realities of what had been involved began to emerge; indeed, much has remained hidden until now.

In , David Miller discloses not only the vast scope of the military resources involved, but also how nearly threat came to terrible reality. Most chillingly of all, he reveals that while the menace of nuclear war predominated, it was actually little understood even by the experts. The book examines each military area in turn, covering the formation of the two great alliances, and the strategies and major weapons in the rival navies, armies and air forces. That the Cold War ended without a conflict was due to professionalism on both sides. The result, Miller suggests, would have impressed the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tsu, who, writing in the fifth century BC, said that ‘to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill’.

An original novel set in the widely popular Wild Cards world created by science fiction scion George R.R. Martin. Edited by Hugo award winning and New York times bestselling author, George R.R. Martin. It's really quite simple. Mr. Nobody wants to do his job. The Midnight Angel wants to serve her Lord. Billy Ray, dying from boredom, wants some action. John Nighthawk wants to uncover the awful secret behind his mysterious power. Fortunato wants to rescue his son from the clutches of a cryptic Vatican office. John Fortune just wants to catch Siegfried and Ralph's famous Vegas review. The problem is that all roads, whether they start in Turin, Italy, Las Vegas, Hokkaido, Japan, Jokertown, Snake Hill, the Short Cut, or Yazoo City, Mississippi, lead to Leo Barnett's Peaceable Kingdon where the difference between the Apocalypse and Peace on Earth is as thin as a razor's edge and where Death himself awaits the final terrible turn of the card. Wild Cards: Death Draws Five is an original novel set in this shared world utilizing characters from other Wild Card adventures. John J. Miller Splitting his life between the Empire State and The Land of Enchantment, John J. Miller currently resides in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife Gail, five cats, two dogs, two goldfish, and too many books to count, approximately ten of which he's written. He's contemplating getting more goldfish, and, probably, books. George R. R. Martin was born in 1948 in Bayonne, NJ. Four-time winner of the Hugo Award, two-time winner of the Nebula and editor of over two dozen novels and anthologies, and the writer of numerous short stories. His New York Times bestselling novel, A Storm of Swords (the third volume in his epicfantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire" (was published in 2000. Martin lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Julia Lang expected a nice night away from the office — free of thoughts about the case, her failed engagement, her past. But she should have known better. Her past haunted her every chance it got these days, and tonight it came in the form of lyrics she didn’t ever expect to hear again — not after a decade, not with a thousand miles between them, not in the arms of another man — and definitely not in the form of a confession. Now, faced with the lyrics she had waited so long to hear, Julia must decide if the song — and more importantly, the boy behind it — is enough to leave her new life behind.

They say in every guy’s life there’s a girl he’ll never forget and a summer where it all began. Well, for me, 1999 is that summer, and Brooke Sommerfield is that girl. But that was nearly nine years ago. And what they don’t tell ya is that you’ll blink, and both the summer and the girl will be gone.

I have no idea where Brooke ended up. She disappeared that same summer I met her. And kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time and everything around it is faded, that’s how I feel about Brooke. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed. That is until a letter postmarked the year she left mysteriously resurfaces. And call me crazy — everyone else has — but I have to find her. I have to know what became of the green-and-gray-eyed girl who stole my last perfect summer. I have to know if she believes in second chances — because I do — even if they do come with good-byes.

When Logan was nine years old, her father landed a promotion and moved the family back to his old stomping grounds in Columbia, Mo. Logan traded in her old friends and a familiar setting for a new school filled with new faces, but she did get at least one good thing out of the trade — Andrew Amsel. Andrew and Logan spend a childhood playing hide and seek and then four years at Truman High falling in love and dreaming about their future together. Then on graduation night, Andrew asks Logan to marry him. Logan doesn't even think twice before saying yes. Five days later, they elope.But life has different plans for Logan. And now at twenty-two, she is in the midst of starting over when Jorgen Ryker moves in next door. Jorgen, a paramedic who grew up along the Missouri River bottoms, seems normal, and he's definitely easy on the eyes, but Logan still has her reservations — and her secrets. Can she put her old life aside to start anew? And what big secret is she hiding that Jorgen might already know?Set in small-town Missouri, For All You Have Left is a love story with an unexpected twist centering on three lives, two great loves and one epic journey in learning to love again.