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Chandrakanta is a romantic fantasy novel written by Devaki Nandan Khatri, a popular writer from the first generation of modern Hindi novelists. This book is considered to be one of his finest works, and it has spawned numerous sequels related to the original story. The story centres around a romantic couple, each of whom came from kingdoms at dissent with each other. Chandrakanta is the princess of Vijaygarh while Virendra Singh is the prince of Naugarh. Kroor Singh, one of the courtiers in the King’s court at Vijaygarh, is a schemester with grand plans of his own.

Nicht nur die Erde mit ihren Umweltproblemen steht vor einer nie dagewesenen Herausforderung, sondern auch die Wunschwelt, in der egoistische Wünsche immer mehr die Oberhand gewinnen. Ami kämpft darum, ihre Ängste zu überwinden und Nido das Leben zu retten. Gleichzeitig fühlt sie sich als Wunschelbe verantwortlich für die ganze Welt. Wird sie der Willkür und dem Laster des Lebens etwas entgegensetzen können? Wird sie die Wahrheit über ihre eigene Geschichte aufdecken? Aber vor allem: Wird die Liebe zwischen Ami und Nido stärker sein als ihre Vergangenheit?

Stell dir vor, es gäbe einen magischen Ort mit einem gigantischen Turm und tausenden Türen, an dem alle deine Wünsche erfüllt werden! Ami lebt in einem kleinen Dorf und fürchtet sich, ihre vertraute Welt zu verlassen. Dabei spürt sie tief in ihrem Inneren eine starke Sehnsucht nach mehr. Als plötzlich Nido, ein ziemlich cooler und geheimnisvoller Typ, auftaucht und sie in die Welt der Wünsche entführt, bleibt nichts mehr, wie es war.

Es ist der Tag vor Heiligabend - Tamara, Ingmar und Elisabeth packen ihre Kinder, Geschenke und Partner in die Autos und fahren "nach Hause", um mit ihren Eltern Weihnachten zu feiern. Schneeflocken fallen sanft vom Himmel, und das vertraute Heim weckt für einen Moment die Hoffnung auf ein besinnliches Fest. Doch wie jedes Jahr ist es mit der Idylle vorbei, sobald alle an einem Tisch sitzen: Tamara ist neidisch auf Elisabeth, die nicht nur beruflich erfolgreicher ist, sondern jetzt auch noch diesen attraktiven neuen Freund mitgebracht hat.

Tras terminar sus estudios de arquitectura en Europa, Lavinia regresa a Latinoamérica para emprender su camino como mujer independiente. Pero sus planes cambian cuando conoce a Felipe, con quien establece una profunda relación sentimental. A su lado le llega la oportunidad de implicarse en las luchas populares y los movimientos de liberación de la dictadura de su país, conectando de ese modo con Itzá, una indígena que luchó contra los invasores españoles y que ahora despierta reencarnada en un naranjo para acompañar, apoyar e inspirar a Lavinia.

In 1923, 17-year-old Esther arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a 22-year journey, woven against the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God....

Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Mauricio Segura’s Oscar evokes periods across time, from the Depression-era Montreal neighbourhood of Little Burgundy to the swinging cabarets of the 1950s, while offering a reflection on the bonds between an artist and the Caribbean diaspora from which he comes. But above all, Oscar is a poignant homage to a musical giant, a man who changed the face of jazz forever.

Qui a dit qu'on ne choisissait pas ses parents ? Quand Sasha apprend que l'homme dont elle attend un enfant s'est évaporé pour toujours quelques heures avant son accouchement, le monde s'effondre autour d'elle. Comment faire face à cette nouvelle vie, chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un bébé, seule et le cœur démoli ? Comment expliquer à sa fille qu'elle n'a pas de père à lui offrir ? Face aux inquiétudes de sa mère, Thelma décide de prendre les choses en main et de se montrer, en toutes choses, un bébé modèle. Mais sous son petit crâne exemplaire se concocte en silence un plan de bataille plus ambitieux encore : trouver elle-même un "papa" pour sa maman.

Après un accident qui a bouleversé sa vie et détruit son mariage, Joyce Conway ne doit la vie qu'à une transfusion sanguine. Mais des phénomènes étranges commencent à se produire. Elle se souvient de choses qu'elle n'a pas vécues. Elle peut parler durant des heures des rues pavées et sinueuses de Paris, ville qu'elle n'a jamais visitée, ou disserter sur l'architecture baroque. Et, toutes les nuits, elle rêve d'une petite fille aux cheveux blonds.

Meses después de descubrir la infidelidad de su novio, a Elva la consume una profunda depresión. La noche de los deseos se refugia en casa ahogando sus penas entre el alcohol y la lectura el fin de semana que su ex va a contraer matrimonio. Esa noche una lluvia de estrellas fugaces surca los cielos lista para conceder deseos.

When Baby Kiriti arrived in this world, he was like a lost butterfly in a sea of white. A baby who is born and thrust into the huge sea of humanity called India, he rides and steers his destiny ship as he constantly grapples with the Clown inside him, who meanwhile brings out his own set of funny oars in these troubled waters.

Ella Keyes thought the death of her twin brother, Stuart, was the last time she'd let life surprise her. She's up for tenure at her university, she escaped a doomed engagement, and her fluffy cat knows exactly when to expect her home every day. But when her grandmother passes and leaves Ella her house, Ella discovers that the third-floor corridor of keys is more than just a family pun. The seemingly unremarkable keys don't unlock any doors in the house, but each time Ella touches one, something in her life shifts.

Dimitri siempre fue un niño diferente a los demás. Lo encerraron en un psiquiátrico a los once años porque pensaron que había asesinado a su familia, pero no era un demente. El director del hospital descubrió que poseía una inteligencia fuera de lo normal. Lo quieren hacer pasar como un niño índigo, pero...la verdad va más allá de toda elucubración que pudieran imaginarse.

Brian White lleva tras de sí un misterio que se remonta a su concepción y nacimiento. El amor, siempre presente en la vida del ser humano, irrumpe con fuerza en su vida cuando apenas era un púber. Lucrecia, una mujer de ensueño, será al mismo tiempo la tentación que lo acompañará a lo largo de esta extraña Aventura.

On a streetcar, on Christmas Day, 1950, clutching the chrome rail in front of him, Martin Radey looks at the woman seated beside him, a stranger, and utters his last words: "I can't breathe." Like millions, billions before him, it is his turn to die. But death is not what he expected. The journey has only begun. From 1880 to 1950, time happens to the world around him, not to memory, because memory, he discovers, is beyond time, traveling forward with him, shaping the earth, the sky, the heart.

Pace's voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable.

Adamine Bustamante is born in Jamaica, inside one of the island’s last leper colonies. When she goes to a Revivalist Church, she discovers her gift of warning. But no one has bothered to warn Adamine that when she migrates to England her prophecies of hurricanes and earthquakes will no longer be respected. People will think she is crazy and lock her away in a mental hospital.

Lo incontriamo da ragazzino mentre "scarpagna" verso le Bisacconi (le scuole elementari del paese). Sono gli anni '50 e mentre ruba in una vigna un grappolo di schizzozibibbo, Lupetto, così lo chiamano, vede un uomo alto, con una barba immensa e un vecchio cane. È una divinità pagana, sporca come un letamaio, che gli regala una facoltà meravigliosa: un orologio interno, un orobilogio, che gli consentirà di correre avanti nel tempo.

C'era una volta il favoloso mondo di Lossiniere, un paese dove non suonano i telefoni e si viaggia in carrozza. Napoli, invece, è un inferno vero di traffico e spazzatura. Uno scrittore, appena arrivato da Roma, scopre che l'evento a cui doveva partecipare è stato annullato all'ultimo minuto. Il viaggio, in apparenza inutile, gli fa conoscere una enigmatica maestra e lo porta all'incontro fortuito con un manoscritto ambientato nel paese di Lossiniere, "Il libro di Clara e Riki", e con il mistero della sua autrice: una bambina di otto anni.

"Gli esordi" è il big-bang dell'universo narrativo di Moresco. Appare qui per la prima volta il personaggio del Gatto, nelle vesti dell'enigmatico, inquietante prefetto del seminario dove vive anche il protagonista e narratore, assieme a tanti altri personaggi che si muovono in un mondo attraversato da una vibrazione luminosa e segreta e da uno sfondamento di piani, di tempi e di spazi che ne svelano una vertiginosa natura mai percepita prima.