Contemporary Metaphysical

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.

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.

Praga. In una fredda sera d'autunno 3 uomini siedono al tavolo di un Café nel centro della città. Sono due scienziati (Dominik e Adam) e un esperto di sicurezza informatica (Roberto Boris). Due di loro sono intenti a giocare una partita a scacchi alla cieca, senza l'ausilio della scacchiera, e al tempo stesso tutti e tre discutono dell'affascinante e inquietante "Teoria dell’universo come simulazione".

There is enough in this world to be enchanted with, whether we are children spontaneously wonderstruck, or adults with a romantic bent of nature or otherwise. Believing that everything in this world, visible and invisible, animate and inanimate, has feelings and intelligence can be transformative. The stories in this collection lead us through an enchanted path into a new world. They help us reconnect with nature and the many beings who share the planet with us; not just birds, insects, and animals, but fairies, gnomes, and tree spirits.

Billie Nickerson debe aceptar su propia mortalidad como la única manera de que su hijo reciba los dones intuitivos que nació para heredar, para salvar a su familia, y quizás al mundo, de un destino desastroso. Pero enterarse de que ha muerto demasiado pronto crea una crisis kármica, ya que Billie intenta escapar del más allá y volver a sus seres queridos. Aunque la vida de Billie está llena de peligros y espíritus oscuros, la historia es una ilustración del amor y la devoción de una madre que trasciende los límites del aquí y el más allá.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A god-haunted pool in the Yucatan waits for a girl from the future to come of age and accept her obligation to the PaperClan in this literary thriller hailed by critics as a bewitching, breathtaking, lyrical masterpiece. Part Maya myth, part hipster stream-of-modern-day-life, part love letter to this beleaguered planet, this memoir of a time traveler teems with unforgettable characters - some despicable, some lovable, including a charming burro named Pants-on-Fire and the story’s heroine, a doubt-riddled young woman who carries an ancient bloodline with a spark of Maya divinity.

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.

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.

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?

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.