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Worlds That Weren't

Harry Turtledove,S. M. Stirling,Mary Gentle,Walter Jon Williams
Four award-winning authors. Four amazing alternate histories. In this collection of novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been. Bestselling author Harry Turtledove imagines a different fate for Socrates (now Sokrates); S. M. Stirling envisions life "in the wilds of a re-barbarized Texas" after asteroids strike the earth in the 19th century; Sidewise winner Mary Gentle contributes a story of love (and pigs) set in the mid-15th century, as European mercenaries prepare to sack a Gothic Carthage; and Nebula nominee Walter Jon Williams pens a tale of Nietzsche intervening in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Penguin Publishing Group 2003-09-02 304 pages

Satellite Sam

Matt Fraction,Howard Chaykin
Chi ha ucciso la star dello show televisivo Satellite Sam? E perché lo ha fatto? Il figlio di Carlyle White, che ha dovuto prendere il suo posto come attore protagonista della fiction, è deciso a fare luce sul mistero e, aiutato da una vecchia amante del padre, indaga scavando nel passato. Ma quello che ne emerge è un intrigo ben più complesso e sfaccettato di quanto si potesse pensare, perché il mondo della televisione degli anni Cinquanta è un labirinto fatto di sesso e potere in cui ognuno ha qualcosa da nascondere. Primo tra tutti, lo stesso Carlyle White, le cui ossessioni e abitudini erano, con ogni probabilità, più morbose persino di quelle di suo figlio. Ora però ogni mistero, non importa quanto sarà scandaloso, verrà svelato. Con questo terzo e ultimo volume, Matt Fraction (Ody-C, Adventureman, X-Men) e Howard Chaykin (Black Kiss, American Flagg!, The Shadow) tirano le fila di Satellite sam, una serie violenta e morbosamente raffinata, ambientata nell'età dell'oro della televisione americana. Consigliato a un pubblico adulto.
Capitol Times Media Llc 2021 144 pages

The collected stories of Isaac Babel

Babelʹ, I.
"A book that will last, that you will reread all your life and then pass on to your grandchildren. Or ask to be buried with."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of his fiction ever published in paperback. Babel was best known for his mastery of the short story form—in which he ranks alongside Kafka and Hemingway—but his career was tragically cut short when he was murdered by Stalin's secret police. Edited by his daughter Nathalie Babel and translated by award-winner Peter Constantine, this paperback edition includes the stunning Red Cavalry Stories; The Odessa Tales , featuring the legendary gangster Benya Krik; and the tragic later stories, including "Guy de Maupassant." This will be the standard edition of Babel's stories for years to come.
W.W. Norton 2002-10-29 511 pages

Why Noah Chose the Dove

Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Singer's retelling from the Old Testament gives a new dimension to the story of the Flood. Children will enjoy hearing the different animals praise their own special qualities so that each will be assured a place on Noah's Ark. Of course, all are taken on board, but because the dove is the only one that did not boast, Noah makes the bird his messenger. Commenting that there are more doves in the world today than there are ferocious beasts, Singers says, "The dove lives happily without fighting. It is the bird of peace." Eric Carle's brightly colored collages make this an inviting addition to collections." -School Libaray Journal "Eric Carle, who has a special way with animals, contributes sumptuous pictures to a book which is not to be missed." -Publishers Weekly "This great storyteller has put a new and mildly moral twist on the story of Noah's Ark...and Eric Carle does not disappoint. His cut-out portraits of the animals are colorful and vigorous, and, combined with his paintings, varied and provocative. This is good stuff for hungry little eyes." -The Boston Globe
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) 1987-09-01 32 pages

Married Lovers

Jackie Collins
Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees her abusive boyfriend in Australia and ends up in L.A. Cameron soon gets a job at a private fitness club where she encounters the city's most important players. She has plans to open her own studio, and while every man she meets comes on to her, she is focused on working hard and saving money to achieve her goal. Until she meets Ryan Lambert, that is. An extremely successful independent movie producer, he's married to overly privileged Mandy Lambert, the daughter of Hamilton J. Heckerling, a Hollywood power-player son-of-a-bitch mogul. Ryan has never cheated on his demanding Hollywood Princess wife, but when he meets Cameron, all bets are off.--From publisher description.
St. Martin's Press 2008 631 pages

The Love Killers

Jackie Collins
Strong, sexy women are the lifeblood of Jackie Collins's novels, and The Love Killers takes this to a bold new level! Famed activist Margaret Lawrence Brown had always been a staunch advocate for women through her Free Women Now organization, especially for sex workers in New York City. When Margaret is shockingly murdered during one of her women's empowerment lectures, three of her nearest and dearest step in with an insatiable desire to destroy the lives of those responsible. The result: a bloodbath of sexual mayhem through the lethal corridors of organized crime. Three beautiful women set out to prove that when it comes to revenge, the female is far deadlier than the male -- especially when they're The Love Killers...
Chances, Incorporated 2022-05-05 241 pages

Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast

Jane Yolen,Robert J. Harris
A wild girl with a mysterious past When her adopted father is slain by a strange beast, Atalanta is determined to take care of herself. She is happy in the forest with only her friend Urso -- a giant bear -- for company. She wants nothing to do with the world of men. But the ferocious creature that killed her father is still out there, and Atalanta can't resist the opportunity to hunt it down, even if that means she has to join forces with a group of hunters to do so. Atalanta must prove that she is as strong and brave as any of the others, as they search together for the deadly Arcadian Beast.
Harper Collins 2004-02-17 256 pages