Contemporary Metaphysical

Fractured magic. Unraveling threads. The more they fight, the more everything falls apart. Vesper Ainsley's Resonant power has become both her greatest weapon and her most dangerous vulnerability. Now she faces her most impossible challenge yet — shadow magic spreads across Nightreach, the Threads are unraveling, and Lucian D’Arco grows ever closer to harnessing the Echo’s devastating power. Joined by Rafe, whose own magical connection grows deeper with each passing moment, and Detective Blair Calloway, whose street-smart determination matches her investigative skills, Vesper must ...

Una nit en què està a punt de nevar, una dona espera la seva filla petita, que no acaba d''arribar mai. El periple londinenc d'un escriptor a qui han encarregat una missió compromesa i que acabarà realitzant-ne una altra de ben diferent. Un professor enigmàtic torna gairebé dues dècades més tard, quan ja ningúno pensava en ell. Una angelical collidora de flors que s'acosta als noranta anys.

Ricardo Gómez presenta unos cuentos que, pese a su crudeza, están cargados de esperanza. ¿Cómo sería tu vida en una ciudad bajo las bombas? ¿Qué harían tus padres para sobrevivir hace un millón de años? ¿Qué sería de tus hermanos en tu país sembrado de minas? ¿Cómo llega un ladrón a convertirse por un día en Papá Noel?

The Roots of Elmore's Existence is a story about the importance of connection to family, to friends, and to the world in which we live. It is a story of love and escapism, and it speaks of the adventurous nature of the human spirit and the power of dreams. Willoughby Elmore is the last in line to the family name and sole steward to a forest of sequoia trees in Northern California. After having spent too many years in solitude, his life appears empty, and his spirit has waned. One morning, Willoughby rises from a dream so vivid he cannot distinguish it from reality.

Intriguing blue doors and ethereal mists beckon people who are devastated by mankind's greed, corruption, and indifference, such as Zachary, a young man whose family's organic farm is ruined by fracking; Haruto, a Miko living in Fukushima, Japan, where the nuclear meltdown is raging out of control; Mahakanta, a cotton farmer in India, who used GMO seeds with devastating results; Amazonian tribe members, Conchita, and her father, Pahtia, who are fighting against the intruders.

Una nit de carnaval. Una nit de carnaval després de cinc anys sense cap nit desbarjo. Disfressar-se. Ser un mateix. Estar sol. Agafar un bon pet. Entregar-se. Perdres. Riure. Convertir-se en pare. Enyorar. Cardar. Plorar. Barallar-se. Trobar-se. Mantenir-se dret. Sentir-se part dalguna cosa. Viure. La travessia catàrtica d'un personatge inoblidable a través d'una nit d'alcohol, drogues, sexe i tot tipus de trobades que el portaran a topar-se amb si mateix.

The dying embers of book one are rekindled when the Astraeans are forced to step back and reconsider all they have ever assumed about the multiverse. Their purpose is not only called into question but threatened. When this leads to the strength of relationships being tested, some falter while others are intensified. Never before have the Astraeans been challenged to such a degree in relevance, technology, or alliances.

On a beautiful, spring afternoon, a broken man stands at his wife's funeral and hears the words, “Heaven Enough.” Thus begins a poem about longing, about wishing for something more. "What would it be like if I had heaven enough?" it reads. Matt Murphy reads these words for the first time at his wife's funeral. After a death shrouded with mystery, it is the first time he learns that she wrote poetry. He and Diva were married for nearly twenty years, yet he did not "know" her. A poet and lover of culinary delights, she is struck by a car and killed instantly.

Vides creuades en un país de somni. Un viatge a Islàndia impossible doblidar. Un rellotger que mai no ha sortit de Sabadell i ha danar a Islàndia a reparar un antic rellotge. Un jove nòrdic que busca un grup per tocar la música que li agrada. Una parella de geòlegs que fan el seu viatge somiat. Un escriptor de culte retirat i un jove periodista que lha dentrevistar. I un presumpte triomfador. Una novel·la que, com la Route 1 que voreja la costa islandesa, connecta les vides duns personatges que reflexionen sobre si la seva vida és la que volen i si encara són a temps per a canviar-la.

Aquesta és la història de Moor Park. I aquesta és també la història duna amistat. En el decurs dels seus llargs passejos pels parcs londinencs, Jack Toledano explica al seu amic Damien Anderson els seus progressos en l'escriptura del que ha de ser el llibre de la seva vida. Al voltant de l'escriptura d'aquest llibre sorgeixe n temes com la història de la família de Jack, les idees sobre els fets de llegir i escriure o les paradoxes i contradiccions del nostre temps, que, com el mateix Jack, té aspiracions clàssiques però un temperament romàntic.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de lhora punta, Pedro sentreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rum ors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de lautobús.

Fabio ormai adulto e con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, torna per l'ultima volta nell'appartamento in cui è cresciuto e che sarà venduto. Da qui parte un viaggio nel tempo che lo porta ad evocare gli episodi più rilevanti della sua infanzia ed adolescenza.

Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's fourteen-year-old daughter, a girl who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble.

A la sala d'espera de la consulta de la seva metge, una dona espera el diagnosi definitiu. Sap que es mor. En aquella sala d'hospital, la protagonista rememora la joventut, l'amor, l'amistat, els desenganys, els somnis. Els records de tota una vida esdevindran una reflexió sobre el fet ineludible de la mort. Per més que neg uem aquest fet biològic, a tots ens atraparà en un moment o altre.

Abigail Argent stands out. Some people notice that she always wears gloves and shudder when they know why. The ones who know her best notice her ability with metal. Abigail's particular talent lies in the coloring of alloys, for seeing the beauty in a plain piece of metal and being able to draw it out. Her study leads her to discover a connection between her own craft and that of her favorite childhood myth: changing lead into gold.

2 Erzählungen des Schweizer Autors Jean-Pascal Ansermoz auf der Suche nach dem Sinn und dem Glück und was beides ausmacht. "Regensymphonie" erzählt die Geschichte des 12jährigen Kadirs, der nach der Flucht aus Syrien mit seiner 16jährigen Schwester ohne Eltern in einem italienischen Auffanglager lebt. Als unbegleitete Minderjährige riskieren die beiden jeden Tag, entdeckt und getrennt in Heime gesteckt zu werden.

Il fumo della pipa che se ne va lontano aiuta l'io narrante (l'autore vive e lavora ormai da molti anni a Rio de Janeiro) ad invocare lo spirito di Pai Joaquim, vecchio nero angolano che lo protegge e lo aiuta a concentrarsi.

Returning to the home town of his missing father on a search for his own origins, Dominic Rackett is swept up in a murky conspiracy involving a suspicious scholar, a Himalayan legend, and subliminal clues from a silent film festival. As those around him fall prey to rising fear and shrill fanaticism, he follows the branching trails of cinema monsters and figures from a very real past, as phantoms invade the streets of his once-familiar city and one of them, glimpsed in distorted shadows of alleys and urban parks, begins to look uncannily familiar.