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The Chino called Covid-19 is a man who develops magicians' skills and concentrates his skill in making others' dreams come true. Chino's popularity expanded to other countries through social media and by mouth to mouth of others, to the point that people of different social classes and around the world were motivated to meet him. The Chino was visited by people of different countries with different types of petitions. Chino put all those petitions together and he regroups all in one project. Chino accepted all the projects and told them: After a dream is done, I am not able to reverse the dream once is done". So, Chino requested for them to sign a Contract of Confidentiality and Agreement of Understanding. Chino regroup all the projects, he concluded that he could make one project that will cover every group's dream. As a result, Chino created the Covid-19 project. Their dream come true, but no one thought about the consequences of their dreams will be. Elena Restituyo was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic. In her adult life, she relocated to Roswell, New Mexico, in the United States of America in 2009. Elena was raised with Cristian values and educated by an all-female Catholic school managed by nuns. While in school, she was to be the center of attention with her excellent sense of humor as well as in her family reunions. When reaching her Senior year, she was inspired and touched by her Literature teacher. She found a profound connection with literature. Therefore, during her free time, she enjoyed reading classic literature. During the Pandemic Elena was inspired by a joke that came to her head, immediately she grabbed a piece of paper and pencil and wrote her idea as they were flowing. The intention of her book was meant to be humorous and add a few much-needed laughs to the Covid-19 pandemic.

"Mommy... Are you a witch?" Catholic, suburban housewife Cat couldn't answer her young daughter. Not now. Not when her entire sense of 'normal' was being shattered. Sure, she had always felt different but she didn't realize just how different she was... until the dreams began. Join Cat on a journey that spans 50,000 years in time and takes her to her own past in a little Swiss town called Couvet. Here, she discovers her magic, her future, her birthright and herself.The story of 'Absinthe, Alewives and Alchemy' is the story of women, witches and wanderers, who dared to make their mark on the world and now to dare to reclaim what was once lost. Through one woman's journey we learn mysteries and hidden histories that span centuries of ancestral stories and adventures. Along the way she discovers that the story of Absinthe was much more magical than ever imagined and the women, accused of witchcraft, who produced it, were much too powerful to ever be completely erased by an incomplete history that still bears its mark on women today. 'Absinthe, Alewives & Alchemy' is not so much a memoir as it is a grimoire. Not so much revisionism as it is a re-envisioning and more about truth than true. Based on what is historically known, it is much more about the unknown.

Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel, 2019 Hell is empty and all the demons are here.

"e;Magnificent in every way."e;-Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree"e;A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."e;-Zen Cho, author of Black Water SisterShe Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor.To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything"e;I refuse to be nothing..."e;In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family's clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Includes an excerpt form "Throne of jade."

John Laurens should have died on the 27th of August, 1782.After a failed skirmish at Combahee River, John Laurens is invited to live with his dearest friend, Alexander Hamilton, in New York City. They study the law at King's College together and dream of becoming avid members of congress so they may continue fighting the good fight for America.However, on John Laurens' 28th birthday, his vision for the future changes immensely when he discovers he is expected to raise his daughter, Frances Eleanor Laurens, all by himself. He wonders whether this is divine punishment for hiding such sinful secrets or a miraculous blessing from providence.John wonders if he is truly able to make a real difference for the foundation of his country and for his daughter, or if his "sinful nature" will get in the way and be his greatest downfall...

An unexpected encounter at the central bus station with a woman identical to the Expelled's wife but thirty years younger, who happens to be the same person. An adulterous relationship that is not quite what it seems. A bus hijacked by terrorists, where two castes are formed, one superior, the front people, and another inferior and oppressed, the back people that support and justify the oppressor. Books within books and an ending that connects the past with the future to turn the expelled into an improved person. A novel that affects us deeply, by a writer who refuses to write like everyone else.When the Sephardim were chased from Spain in the fifteenth century and they arrived in Morocco, they were called "Megorashim" (expelled), which had an opposite meaning to the term "Toshabim" (settled). However, for centuries, it didn't have a negative connotation, on the contrary, being an expelled person was like belonging to nobility. Five hundred years later, the narrator feels expelled from everywhere, his town, his family, his lovers, his countries, to gradually start understanding that "I had become, just like my ancestors, an expelled."

La burra se ventosea al compás del paso que lleva y el abuelo que tiene un instinto musical muy desarrollado, no se queda atrás y la acompaña. Y yo montado en ella, la pico con los talones, me desternillo de risa y suelto estruendosas carcajadas.Le pasa lo de los gases desde hace muchos años. Yo aún no había nacido cuando le operaron del estómago, y, para pagar lo que costó la operación, tuvo que vender la suerte de secano, en la que cada año cultivaban el trigo. Y desde entonces se quedó sin suerte, sin trigo, y casi sin estómago. En aquel tiempo no había Seguridad Social y cada cual respondía con su peculio.El abuelo interrumpió de pronto aquel concierto exclamando: - ¡Mira, Toño, qué bonito está el barrio del Postigo! Pero cuanta hambre y necesidad caben en él- ¡Maldita sea!-, es mejor que no se vea. Por eso mirémoslo desde aquí, no se nota nada su miseria y está bien visto.

1944Seul espoir de sauver le IIIe Reich, l'équipage d'un u-boot par à la recherche d'un passage vers l'Agartha, ce royaume mythique habité par des surhommes dotés de pouvoirs magiques.Partagés entre sens du devoir, peur et cupidité, chaque membre de l'équipage sera confronté à ses propres démons... et une démone qui ne pardonnera aucune faiblesse.

Stevens is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious to the real life that goes on around him--oblivious, for instance, to the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake here--namely, Stevens's own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.

Wenn ich wollen würde, würde ich wollen.Welche Kräfte versuchen den Willen zu (zer)stören? Erinnern wir uns an diese Funktion?Kann man lernen zu wollen?Und was hat das mit Liebe zu tun?

If I would will, I would will.What forces try to (up)set the will? Do we remember this function?Can one learn to will?And what does this have to do with love?

« Surcouf, roi des corsaires » est un roman d'aventures historique d'Arthur Bernède paru en 1925. En prenant certaines libertés avec la liberté historique, Bernède nous trace le portrait d'un corsaire attachant, patriote au possible, courageux, fidèle, loyal, élégant, un gentleman-détrousseur des mers, dont les péripéties tournent autour de la prise du Kent, l'amour (inventé) pour la femme (inventée) de son meilleur ami Marcof, l'attaque sur les pontons de Portsmouth, la rencontre avec Bonaparte et Pitt, et le coup d'éclat final. A l'origine un ciné-roman, Surcouf, roi des corsaires est un roman d'aventures construit comme un scénario, aux multiples rebondissements, et l'une des meilleures fictions écrites sur la vie du corsaire Surcouf, un des meilleurs symboles de l'esprit malouin. Précédé d'une préface et d'une biographie originales.

Set in an unstable world where the British Empire rules over all, this genre-defying novel blends steampunk, alternative history, and time travel science fiction It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire--a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII. A new world order, with peace and prosperity for all under the law. Yet, moved by the politics of envy and perverse utopianism, not all of the Empire's citizens support the marvelous equilibrium. Flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into this world of the future, Captain Oswald Bastable is forced to question his most cherished ideals, discovering to his horror that he has become a nomad of the time streams, eternally doomed to travel the wayward currents of a chaotic multiverse. The first in the Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy, The Warlord of the Air sees Bastable fall in with the anarchists of this imperial society and set in train a course of events more devastating than he could ever have imagined.