Julianna Baggott es una autora aclamada por la crítica y bestseller cuyas obras abarcan novelas y poesía. Su escritura profundiza en la experiencia humana, explorando a menudo relaciones complejas y las vidas interiores de sus personajes. Baggott es reconocida por su estilo evocador y su habilidad para atraer a los lectores a narrativas ricas y cautivadoras. Sus libros han sido traducidos a numerosos idiomas y presentados en destacados medios literarios, lo que subraya su importancia en la literatura contemporánea.
En el segundo libro de la Trilogía Pure, Partridge debe enfrentar su desafío más aterrador para salvar a millones, mientras Pressia se embarca en un viaje sin rumbo. Si no logran su misión, la humanidad enfrentará graves consecuencias. La tensión aumenta con la amenaza de vidas en juego.
Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others! In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who's been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been "banned for life," and finds herself falling in love. In "Backwards," a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In "Welcome to Oxhead," all the parents in a gated community "shut off" when the power goes out. In "Portals," a small town deals with hope and loss when dozens of portals suddenly open. In "The Now of Now," two teenagers who can literally stop time find themselves falling in love. In "How They Got In," a grieving family starts to see a murdered girl in all of their old home videos. In "The Versions," two stand-in androids fall in love at a wedding, even though they're not programmed to have emotion. And many other stories of the weird and wonderful.
Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by “the father of artificial intelligence,” Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.
The final part in the PURE trilogy for fans of THE PASSAGE, THE ROAD and THE HUNGER GAMES.
We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently. Pressia Belze has lived outside of the Dome ever since the detonations. Struggling for survival she dreams of life inside the safety of the Dome with the 'Pure'. Partridge, himself a Pure, knows that life inside the Dome, under the strict control of the leaders' regime, isn't as perfect as others think. Bound by a history that neither can clearly remember, Pressia and Partridge are destined to forge a new world.
Still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive 7-year-old son and Charlotte, her jaded 16-year-old niece, to a small village in the south of France. There, she uncovers old family secrets - and a few startling new ones.
Lissy Jablonski was fifteen years old when her father ran off with the red-haired bank teller. That same summer, Lissy and her mother embarked on an adventure of their own - a return to her mother's home town and its cast of extraordinary characters. Their comforting 'girl talks' suddenly began to yield startling secrets, quickly turning those months into what Lissy's mother referred to afterwards as 'the summer thaI never happened'. Now, thirty-year-old Lissy finds herself looking back. The arrival of an old boyfriend from that same summer triggers a realisation in her that pleasures and sorrows can come from the most unreasonable realities of the heart - and that from the past can come a way to face the future.
1919 The Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. And with that act, the Curse—and the lives of the Cursed Creatures—begins. Oscar Egg believes he is cursed, just like his favorite team, the Boston Red Sox. Oscar's real parents didn't want him, and now his adopted mom has dumped him off to live with her estranged husband—Oscar's strange and sickly adoptive father. But Oscar's dad has a secret. He lives deep below Fenway Park, and is one of a number of strange magical souls called the Cursed Creatures, a group that has been doomed to live out their existence below Fenway until the Curse is broken. What no one could have predicted is that Oscar is the key to breaking the curse. But someone wants Oscar to fail—and the Curse to remain. Forever.
Britský vojnový veterán Tom Forsyth sa po návrate z Afganistanu ocitá bez cieľa a bez domova. Po prepustení z nemocnice sa vracia k matke, známej trénerke koní, len aby zistil, že je pod tlakom vydierača, ktorý ohrozuje jej stajňu a jej kone. Tom sa rozhodne pátrať po pravde a čelí nebezpečenstvu, aby ochránil svoju rodinu. Malá Eleonora Kohenová sa narodila v roku 1877 a od detstva preukazuje neobyčajné nadanie. Po príchode do Istanbulu sa jej život mení, keď sa ocitá v intrigách osmanského dvora, kde jej jasnozrivosť môže ovplyvniť osud ríše. David Harwood plánuje rodinný výlet, no jeho manželka Jan záhadne zmizne. David, obyčajný reportér, sa ocitá v strede intenzívneho pátrania, ktoré odhaľuje šokujúce tajomstvá a dostáva ho na zoznam podozrivých. Musí sa sám postarať o záchranu svojej rodiny. Heidi, po tragickej smrti manžela, sa snaží vyrovnať so svojou situáciou, zatiaľ čo sa jej sestra chystá na svadbu. Keď jej matka navrhne, aby sa postarala o opravu rodinnej usadlosti v Provensalsku, Heidi sa vydáva na cestu, ktorá by mohla priniesť uzdravenie a nový začiatok.
Dívka Sarah se učí jezdeckému umění od svého dědečka, bývalého špičkového drezéra. V jejích čtrnácti letech dojde ale k tragické události a mladičká krasojezdkyně se od té chvíle musí protloukat životem sama.. Vydání je doplněno o další dva podobně laděné romány angloamerických ženských autorek: Tichý muž od Sandry Brown a Dům v Provenci Bridget Asherové, oba rovněž ve zkrácených verzích.
