Jude Fawley moves to Christminster where he works as a stonemason after his wife abandons him where he falls in love with his cousin. Poverty soon threatens when they are shunned by society for deciding to live together.

Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick.

The timely story of the forces of change that converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazonian rain forest.

The earth continues its relentless plunge toward total environmental collapse in the final book of the Science in the Capitol trilogy. By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just a few of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington D.C. area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a...

TEACHER SEEKS PUPIL. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime. So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanity's origins and its relationship with nature, in search...

The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prizewinning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.

Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.

"José Carlos es un joven tímido y poco popular en la escuela hasta que conoce a Sheccid, una niña-mujer llena de misterios, un personaje fascinante cuya belleza destructora esconde un terrible secreto; pero él, motivado por el amor, hará todo por conquistarla. La fuerza de Sheccid es una novela intensa, emocionante, íntima. Un viaje al idealismo, las relaxiones tóxicas, la amistad, los conflictos, desafíos y miedos de todo joven ante el reto...