K D Halbrook

Silver Batal and the Water Dragon Races

Silver's dreams of becoming a legendary water dragon racer come true when she befriends a rare dragon that can swimand fly. Twelve-year-old Silver Batal calls the desert home, but her heart belongs to the waters. Although she's expected to become a jeweler like her father, Silver harbors a secret and forbidden wish to race water dragons. Destiny comes calling when her friendship with a mysterious old woman leads her to Hiyyan, a baby dragon that can swim and fly. Risking everything, Silver, Hiyyan, and her resourceful cousin Brajon set off across the desert to join the legendary races in the royal city. But the road to Calidia is filled with danger, and the trio must band together as they encounter ferocious cave beasts, clever desert foxes, and cutthroat competition. Set in a vivid, Arab-inspired world filled with friendly and fearsome water dragons, K.D. Halbrook's middle-grade fantasy adventure is perfect...

Ursula K Le Guin

Szigetvilág 6 - Óceánföld meséi

Evan Hunter

Me and Mr. Stenner

For Abby O’Neill, those “new plans” mean some big changes in her life, like living in a rented house with her mother and Mr. Stenner, the man her mother plans to marry as soon as a couple of divorces are out of the way. And like seeing her real father only on weekends. The trouble is, Abby still loves her real father, and she is growing to love Mr. Stenner, who is alternately the villain and the hero of her life. But how can she love one without betraying the other?

In his first important novel for young readers, Evan Hunter portrays the traumas and triumphs of a child caught in the middle of a divorce. With tenderness, insight, and humor, he shows that change is a part of life, and that accepting change is what life is all about.

Ursula K Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin - Valós _és valótlan I.

P W Hillard

The Knower of Truths

Knowerverse

They wanted a saviour, what they got was a tour guide. Michael liked his nice, normal life. It was fine. Until aliens arrived on Earth, looking for their holy planet. But Michael adapted to life on an alien filled Earth. That is, until he’s kidnapped at gunpoint and whisked off to the stars by an alien who thinks Michael is his holy saviour. Chased across the stars in a case of cosmic mistaken identity, Michael must face angry pirates, strange aliens and impossible worlds. The drums of war beat across the universe, stirred up the by appearance of the fabled messiah. A millennia-old standoff threatens to crash down around Michael, as he learns that belief has a power of its own. All Michael wants to do is go home.

Ursula K Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin - Valós _és valótlan II.

Jude Hardin

The Reacher Code: Timestream 1

Jack Reacher

Set in the Reacher Universe by permission of Lee Child   Jack Reacher is about to be murdered. By a man from the future... October 2101     Rock Wahlman… Former Navy Master-At-Arms, Jack Reacher’s genetic duplicate—his actual clone, produced from a blood specimen that was drawn over a hundred years ago.   Recently recruited by a secret government agency, Wahlman has been sent back in time to protect Reacher from a faction called Topple, a rogue group of time-traveling criminals determined to alter the past in an effort to make the future more profitable for themselves. You might say that Wahlman is extremely motivated. Because if Reacher is killed before the blood that was used to produce Wahlman is drawn, then it’s possible that Wahlman will cease to exist. He definitely has his work cut out for him. He knows he’s in Germany for a reason, but after being in a coma    for three days, he can’t remember exactly what that reason is. In fact, he can’t even remember his own name.  Before being recruited as Jack Reacher’s time-traveling bodyguard, Rock Wahlman got chased and shot at and beat some bad guys senseless in The Reacher Experiment series of thrillers. Pulse-pounding action from the first page to the last!

Francisco Pérez Gandul

Celda 211

La mala suerte lleva a un funcionario de prisiones novato a presentarse en la cárcel de Sevilla el mismo día en que se produce un motín de presos. Enredado en un destino tan caprichoso como trágico, que lo obliga a utilizar al máximo los recursos de su inteligencia, este hombre va descubriendo que no es tímido, que no es débil, que quizá ni siquiera es un hombre bueno, como siempre había creído: es un superviviente nato al borde del abismo.

Pieter Hintjens

The Psychopath Code: Cracking the Predators That Stalk Us

There are some scary people around. People who hurt others casually, and without remorse. These predators take what they want, using charm, wits, and a lack of any empathy. We call them psychopaths, sociopaths, malignant narcissists, or trolls. Are they mentally ill, or are they a sub-species of human? How can we identify them, and how can we stop them doing so much damage? Based on years of field research, this book cracks the psychopath code, and gives answers.

Francisco Rojas González

Cuentos completos

Los Cuentos completos del también etnólogo Francisco Rojas González ofrecen, con certera visión y oficio literario, historias del México íntimo que revelan los ricos aspectos de las culturas indígenas en un juego de contradicciones de alto contraste. Su narración es contundente y retiene al lector al filo de la sorpresa.

Gavin Hyde

Sparkie's Fall

A few years back, in Ireland, Ray Bradbury spent some very productive months. Not only did he write the script of one of the best motion pictures of recent years—Moby Dick was its name—but on a side trip he met a young writer who had just turned his hand to science fiction, and persuaded him to let American editors see the results. Star was delighted to acquire two of them; the first was "Nor the Moon by Night," and the second is—

Vas Gereben

Adomák

Maurice Henry Hewlett

Little Novels of Italy

In  (1899), a collection of brilliant short stories, English historical novelist, poet and essayist, Maurice Hewlett showed again his power of literary expression together with a close knowledge of medieval Italy.

На обложке: акварель «Молли, герцогиня Ноны» (Molly, Duchess of Nona, 1905) английского художника Фрэнка Кадогана Коупера (Frank Cadogan Cowper).

Vaszary Gábor

A szőkékkel mindig baj van

Amikor újra kiadjuk ezt a regényt, bizony meg is hatódunk: magyarországi kiadónál hatvan éve nem jelent meg. Pedig a könyv ártalmatlan, csupán csak folytatja Vaszary halhatatlan Párizs-regényeinek sorát: vagyis azt a borotvaélen táncolást bulvárregény és irodalom között, amit legkecsesebben Vaszary Gábor tudott. Az ő iróniája az a tünékeny, finom humor, amin „hol sírunk, hol meg nevetünk”. Párizs zamatát, illatát, bohémségét, könnyedségét senki nem tudja jobban megeleveníteni, mint ő. Ez a regény az 1950-es években tizenhat nyelven jelent meg. Világsiker volt. Ám az 1960-ban Münchenben napvilágot látott magyar nyelvű kiadásának fülszövegében így idézik Vaszaryt: „Nekem a legnagyobb siker még ma is, ha magyar nyelven szólhatok a magyarokhoz.” Ajánljuk a mai olvasó figyelmébe ezt a páratlanul könnyed stílusbravúrt.

Elin Hilderbrand

28 Summers

Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the summer that changes everything. When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020 and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet summer of 1993: Mallory has just inherited a beachfront cottage on Nantucket from her aunt, and she agrees to host her brother's bachelor party. Cooper's friend from college, Jake McCloud, attends, and Jake and Mallory form a bond that will persevere -- through marriage, children, and Ursula's stratospheric political rise -- until Mallory learns she's dying. Based on the classic film Same Time Next Year (which Mallory and Jake watch every summer), 28 Summers explores the agony and romance of a one-weekend-per-year affair and the dramatic ways this relationship complicates and enriches their lives, and the lives of the people they love.

Xingjian Gao

El libro de un hombre solo

Un hombre recuerda el principio de la vida en China, su familia, su país, sus aprendizajes y cómo esa vida plácida desaparece de repente con el estallido de la Revolución Cultural, que va a acabar con el pensamiento y la libertad. Cada uno va a convertirse en ese momento en un hombre solo, una mujer sola, un ser humano solo ante la desesperanza y el terror. Su supervivencia exige "que el cerebro desaparezca", que no haya cerebro en las miradas ni en las palabras ni en los actos del día a día, y, sin embargo, "se puede violar a un ser humano con violencia física o violencia política, pero no se lo puede poseer por completo", porque su mente siempre le pertenecerá. Y ésa es la gran belleza de El libro de un hombre solo, que, reflejando hasta hacernos estremecer la cobardía, el lado oscuro y la tristeza, ha sabido introducir asimismo la esperanza, ese pequeño resplandor en una oscuridad espesa como el barro. La dulzura de los recuerdos y de la infancia, la violencia política, el amor y también el erotismo se mezclan en esta novela sencilla y sorprendente, resumen de la vida de un hombre solo y testimonio literario esencial y sublime.

George Gamow

Biografía de la física

Dentro de la tradición de la gran divulgación científica, GEORGE GAMOW (1904-1968), destacado físico teórico que trabajó con Niels Bohr, ocupa un lugar sobresaliente. Entre sus aportaciones científicas destacan la propuesta de un modelo nuclear, el concepto de «barrera de Gamow» (o barrera potencial en el interior del núcleo) y el modelo cosmológico del «Big Bang». BIOGRAFÍA DE LA FÍSICA expone la historia de esta disciplina con admirable sencillez y rigor. También en esta colección: «Historia del tiempo» (CT 2001), de Stephen W. Hawking, «Einstein y Cía.: La ciencia moderna a través de sus protagonistas» (CT 2504), de Ernst P. Fischer y «Sobre la teoría de la relatividad especial y general» (CT 2005), de Albert Einstein.

P W Hillard

The Teller of Lies

Knowerverse

The galaxy burns with the flames of war and both sides want Michael dead! Michael never thought he would see the galaxy, not until he was abducted by aliens. Believed to be a messiah by those that took him, Michael has found his legend growing with every adventure. Pirates, aliens, gangsters and marauding war fleets have stood in Michael’s way as he crossed the galaxy. Now Michael is a wanted man, both sides in an interstellar war eager to get their hands on him. A new discovery grants safe haven to Michael and his followers, but an ancient evil threatens to upset the balance of the war and plunge the galaxy into darkness. Michael must face down this new threat and decide if he wants to be the hero everyone believes he is.

George Gamow

El pais de la maravillas

Se ofrece aquí un mágico recorrido por los temas fundamentales de la física, a través de las peripecias del simpático aventurero señor Tompkins, inventado por George Gamow (1904-1968), uno de los científicos más eminentes y populares del siglo XX.

E W Hornung

No Hero

No Hero…A woman from his past…A mysterious, sealed letter…A mountain with a deadly reputation…What brings these things together? And will they confirm or deny a man’s assertion that he is no hero? The scene is laid in Switzerland, with a background of piquant hotel gossip, the narrative being in the words of a friend of the boy’s mother who has undertaken the task of disillusionizing the lad. The result is as unconventional as it is unexpected. ‘.’