Global Fiction

There is one thing in life you can be certain of: If you don't truly understand grief, it will take you down.

Here are the words to that bedtime story about the little orphan girl, Christiana, who dared to dream big dreams about one day joining the "big top" and that beloved old hobo clown that helped make those dreams come true. Now, without further ado...Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, presenting for your entertainment, the world famous, the one and only Papa Balloons!

Zapinette spends Christmas in the Big Apple! She reveals a slice of life from a perspective that is both rare and familiar. She is unique in her worldly travels, having been born in the United States, currently living in Paris, and visiting faraway lands with her beloved Unky Berky. She is all too common in her pain as the child of a broken home, her anger and hostility over her mother's new beau ("Fermin the Virmen"), her confusion over the baffling realities of the adult world, and her inner longing to find her real father.

Aquí las sensaciones, percepciones, fantasías, imágenes y recuerdos de este porteño sexogenario que deja este testimonio de sus vivencias cristalizadas en forzadas cuartetas.

Dr. Ann McLannly blames herself for her niece’s tragic death. And after her mother dies, this young doctor volunteers with an international aid organization for a mission in Rwanda. Pressed into a grueling work schedule with limited facilities, she has little time to adjust. Still, she forges relationships with the remarkable people she meets and finds herself drawn into a relationship with a priest, who introduces her to a Catholic orphanage that needs a physician to care for the growing number of orphans.

Nick is an ex-Army translator whose facility for language allowed him to escape a difficult childhood in rural Connecticut. His mother is a former addict, now dying and requires expensive care. Desperate for money though ambivalent about finance, Nick is employed as a researcher at a Boston hedge fund. The head of the fund, the Boss, is a financial genius who believes US financial collapse is imminent, in part due to past inequities, including slavery.

The story of Polly is a gripping tale of love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the pioneer West. The author has taken family history and spun it into a story you won't be able to pause. The book's trailer won three Telly Awards in 2014 for Entertainment, Editing, and the "People's Choice". Based on stories passed down over generations, this remarkable novel is an easy-to-listen-to adventure encompassing over 150 years of legend.

Sona Van (en realidad: Ter-Hovhannisian) es una famosa poeta y viajera Armenia. Nació en Ereván, Armenia. Su abuelo, un respetado clérigo armenio de la ciudad de Van en Anatolia oriental (de ahí el seudónimo literario del poeta) en el terrible 1915, se quedó en Estambul con una gran parte de su familia. Todos fueron testigos presenciales o incluso víctimas de las atrocidades de las jóvenes milicias turcas.

The president orders Captain Deke Mallory to penetrate a mysterious brotherhood of Neo-Nazi billionaires. They've financed a coup d'etat in Central America to begin their takeover of the Global Monetary System.

Eric is as passionate as a scientist can be, and while his friends and colleagues remain staunchly gloomy in regards to the future of the planet, Eric comes at things with a distinct sense of hope and adventure. But while collecting data in the arctic, Eric's sense of adventure ends up getting the best of him. After attempt to get a sample from a strange blue plant that has adapted in the icy waters, thanks to global warming, Eric ends up transformed into a beautiful young woman with an appetite for sex.

Carson Jeffers and Nichole Lewis have been thrown into a battle for the survival of their lives. After surviving a deadly missile attack over Salt Lake and witnessing a devastating terrorist strike in Los Angeles, they are facing an additional lethal conflict. Deadly adversaries within the government of the United States are marching to destroy what’s left of Carson’s life.

Angel Martin plans to marry Tony and live happily ever after, until Tony disappears. Nursing a broken heart, she takes a job at Tetterbaum's Pub, unaware it is the most prestigious Mafia hangout in Chicago. She finds herself suddenly caught in the middle of a revengeful scheme from a past she's never known and a blackmail scandal that has left several dead; and she's next on the hit list. Racing to find answers, Angel's life is left hanging in a twisted balance of deception and revenge...

Jack Wilson, a recently demoted RCMP officer, has given up on life after losing his grandfather to a deadly virus that has the world in its grips. Dr. Michael Chung has the secrets to the vaccine for the viral disease that is the cause of the pandemic. Dr. Emily Rogers pushes her work aside to travel to China, to pursue the truth about the mystery her late father revealed in a letter. Emily recruits Jack to go to China and convince Dr. Chung to help them develop a vaccine for her.

Cada día crece más el pueblo musulmán en los Estados Unidos, implantando consigo su cultura y su religión. Cinco jóvenes, estudiantes sobresalientes de diferentes universidades, son asignados por el Gobierno para que hagan un estudio profundo sobre el porqué del aumento exagerado musulmán en el pueblo de Hamtramck, Michigan. Pero el enfoque de la investigación muy pronto toma otro rumbo, cuando descubren que varios jóvenes han sido enviados a cumplir una peregrinación a La Meca, en Arabia Saudita, pero nunca regresan.

Esta comedia dramática, ambientada en un futuro próximo, cuenta la historia de una mujer de 40 años, que cansada de los hombres que nunca quieren asumir compromisos, harta de intentar nuevos vínculos a través de aplicaciones en línea, decide encarar una relación romántica y tener una familia con un robot: Mi Principe Azul. Nuestra protagonista intenta así solucionar sus eternos problemas de relación con los hombres desarrollando una relación sentimental con un robot que no tiene ninguno de los defectos masculinos que tanto la agobian.

10 Gute Nacht Geschichten zum Lachen, lernen und... gut einschlafen! Das Sandmännchen erzählt Geschichten: Die Giraffen Geschwister - Mirandela hat Halsschmerzen/Der kleine Außerirdische Orpo und das Osterfest/An Bord der Adelaide - der Matrose Philipp und Kaptain Klippi Klabauter/Klippi Klabauter und die Poltergeister/Der Regenmacher/Dackel Apolonius und der Schatz im Palmenwald/Mäusefamilie Graumeier hat ein Problem/Die Turmuhr von Blumenau/Der kleine Zauberer tröstet Tamara Eule/Apolonius Dackel muss mit in die Oper.

Das Mädchen Lucy und die verlorenen Taschentücher/Murli Kätzchen und seine Geschwister, drei kleine Kätzchen gehen auf Entdeckungsreise/Benjamin Kaninchen heiratet Flopsy Kaninchen und gründet eine Familie/Der Frosch Johann Fischer lädt zum Abendessen ein/Emma Ente und der listige Fuchs/Frau Waldmaus hat ungebetenen Besuch.

Jack Duffy is average. He lives an ordinary life with a mediocre job. He is a distracted husband, lives in a comfortable apartment, and is married to an extraordinary wife. That's how he would explain it. At the end of an unusually bad day, his life is turned upside down. The only thing that can catch him from falling is the soul collector. Will he be allowed to keep his soul? Or will he have to give it back?

Ein achtloser Hashtag stürzt die ganze Welt ins Chaos: Die Armen erheben sich gegen die Reichen, der Zorn derer, die nichts haben, lodert hell und hoch. Nur Tage später kommt es überall zu Unruhen, Demonstrationen und Anschlägen. Straßenschlachten und Polizeigewalt bestimmen das tägliche Leben - alles dokumentiert unter dem Hashtag #KillTheRich. Und das ist erst der Anfang! Es gibt nur zwei Personen, die den globalen Bürgerkrieg noch verhindern können: die mutige niederländische Diplomatin Conrada van Pauli und der alternde indische Starjournalist Bimal Kapoor.

Ein achtloser Hashtag stürzt die ganze Welt ins Chaos: Die Armen erheben sich gegen die Reichen, der Zorn derer, die nichts haben, lodert hell und hoch. Nur Tage später kommt es überall zu Unruhen, Demonstrationen und Anschlägen. Straßenschlachten und Polizeigewalt bestimmen das tägliche Leben - alles dokumentiert unter dem Hashtag #KillTheRich. Und das ist erst der Anfang! Es gibt nur zwei Personen, die den globalen Bürgerkrieg noch verhindern können: die mutige niederländische Diplomatin Conrada van Pauli und der alternde indische Starjournalist Bimal Kapoor.