Gerard: 1631 books

Thought is more dangerous than you think... Roman Doyle has been living a normal life as a married 25-year-old schoolteacher. When five large men attack him, he’s confident in his ability to defend himself. But, this isn’t an ordinary mugging. Roman doesn’t know that he is Prince Sakara,...

When Jonathan and his friends spend a stormy, fall evening fantasizing about a possible apocalypse, they concoct a plan of action, never expecting to have to act upon it. That same night, Jonathan is unwittingly introduced to lucid dreaming and meets with a benevolent being who introduces herself...

The Cloud Knights. A sort of cross between Biggles and Sharp, set in a crazy world you will not recognise.

Dans un monde post-apocalyptique, régi par un gouvernement qui annihile les masses, un groupe de dissidents décide de se rebeller. Par Gerard Way, le brillant créateur d’Umbrella Academy ! Des années auparavant, un terrible affrontement opposa les Killjoys à la méga corporation B. L....

Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the world, Latour has introduced...

Powers awaken and stretch new muscle. Demons stalk into the realms of humanity. A beaten people receive new hope, an infernal virus corrupts and twists, yet not all is lost. Dark Magic, technology and sheer will struggle for dominance in a broken future. One angry man holds the key, and his resistance will spark a legend.

It’s summer, 1963, and Early and Toby dream of building an opera house in Africville, a black community struggling with poverty and illiteracy tethered to the north shore of Halifax, considered by many, a festering sore. But to simple-minded Early Okander, brightly painted houses sprinkled haphazardly...

If Nicholas Sparks rewrote Hemingway's short stories in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the result would be this dazzling collection.

Seven sources of power, demons, unknown heroes and an all-powerful religion clash in a titanic struggle. Ex-Corporal Walters has been sent to die; abandoned by his own side his only thought is to find a way off-planet, but between him and his goal are two hostile armies. Raw courage, luck and sheer bloody-mindedness combine to deliver an unexpected outcome.

O NAVIO is a collection of fictional stories and poetry including a rollicking tale about the discovery of Australia as well as a number of exciting short stories covering politics, humour and adventure. Gerard R.M. Carvalho is a Portuguese Australian. He lives and works in Melbourne Australia.

The Soul Reader is the exciting sequel to Gerard Websters award-winning debut novel, In-Sight. The two people Ward McNulty most wished he could forget were the woman he once loved and the man he still hated. He succeeded sometimes by smothering their memory under mounds of activityhis...

The lessons author Gerard Healy learned growing up in Bostons neighborhood of Dorchester prepared him well for the life that followed. His parents, teachers, kind neighbors, true friends, and the culture of Dorchester provided Healy with a solid base of values. Trial and error would fill in the gaps. The...

A haunting canvas of jealousy, betrayal and atonement that can take its rightful place alongside Fall on Your Knees and Mercy Among the Children. A tiny fisherman’s shack on the dark Nova Scotia coast, eccentrically covered with folk art images (à la Maud Lewis), which are all the work of...

'Hugely enjoyable' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies Arnold Proctor’s quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and one of his wife’s friends. Vera seems untroubled by her wrongdoing, yet faithless Arnold is wracked...