Orlando: 233 books

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO EXPERIENCE SUCCESS Only if you ask will you know the answer. On an average day, an average person spends less than 4 hours doing anything that is productive. What is productive? Is making a phone call or browsing the internet or watching TV or attending...

From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement...

In zijn nieuwste boek biedt de grote Ruslandhistoricus Orlando Figes een originele visie op de Russische Revolutie, waarbij hij deze historische omwenteling niet als een op zichzelf staande gebeurtenis bekijkt, maar als een honderdjarige poging om utopische dromen waar te maken. Met zijn elegante...

Giallo - short story (22 pagine) - The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes with a mystery: who killed his predecessor? Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories. But he never got around to writing a whodunnit and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in...

Orlando Cepeda enjoyed a stellar baseball career in the late fifties and throughout the sixties, but after it ended in the mid-seventies, his life fell apart. In Baby Bull, Cepeda shares his story for the first time. He reflects on his baseball career and shares his twenty-year struggle to rebuild his life and regain his reputation.

The key to professional success in Brazil is understanding Brazilians. But how do you understand an unfamiliar culture? Seasoned cross-cultural trainers Orlando R. Kelm and David A. Victor use Victor’s groundbreaking approach of evaluating a culture’s language, environment, social organization, context,...

Bill is a small fish in the big ocean that is Orange County California.  He just can’t reach the top, and he just can’t let that fact go.  He’s miserable and miserably bored. But when a series of natural and man-induced calamities brings the apocalypse into high gear, Bill’s life...

Steve Orlando (Supergirl: Rebirth, Midnighter) brings us his only original series of 2016, a gripping story about the nature of identity. Once every seven years, Earth overlaps with Ektae, a world where alchemy is not pseudo-science but the driving force of industry. For seven days, Ektae breaches...

From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padrón is a social service fixer to many of the tens of thousands of Latino immigrants living in his neighborhood....

A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag "I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little envious, I didn't expect anything...

Fighter, faker, student, spy: heart-pounding action and spine-tingling suspense intertwine in an electrifying debut for fans of emotional thrillers with just the right dash of high school drama. Seventeen-year-old Reagan Elizabeth Hillis is used to changing identities overnight, lying to every...

Download the first five chapters of YOU DON'T KNOW MY NAME. Fighter, Faker, Student, Spy. Seventeen-year-old Reagan Elizabeth Hillis is used to changing identities overnight, lying to every friend she’s ever had, and pushing away anyone who gets too close. Trained in mortal combat and weaponry her...

Sono qui, spogliata dei miei pensieri, nero su bianco. Ho compiuto un percorso senza immaginare che quanto provassi sarebbero diventate pagine di un diario. So bene quando ho iniziato, ma non so per quanto ancora saprò parlare di me, in versi. Vivo ogni istante della mia vita divisa in molte cose,...

“You have to wait until after you die in order to become a famous artist,” is what people often told me. Well, it’s a good thing that I don’t listen to people!!! No, I don’t expect to be famous … Hey!! Being infamous is just fine with me … but that would be missing the whole point. The...