Metaphysical Mysteries

Nik Munro has the same nightmare every night. Refusing to listen, he carries on as normal, until Corbie - the crow of thorns - tells him the great spirits have chosen him to become a shaman. Taking him through his first steps to fulfill his destiny, Nik has to journey to the Underworld and retrieve his soul. Trying to balance his old and new lives, Nik soon understands that Corbie has a hidden agenda that comes with a heavy price.

A compelling, gripping thriller with a brilliant twist that will keep you awake until the early hours. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Behind Closed Doors, and Gone Girl. In a garrison city of North Queensland, Australia, a child has been tragically, accidentally killed. Years before, her own mother, Erin, wrote a strikingly similar scenario into her acclaimed novel. Is she somehow responsible? Years later, Erin's trying to cope with the unanswered questions, and thinks she's finally come to a solution.

A BIG story about a small boy who sees the world a little differently. Nine-year-old Milo Moon has retinitis pigmentosa: His eyes are slowly failing and he will eventually go blind. But for now he sees the world through a pin hole and notices things other people don't. When Milo's beloved gran succumbs to dementia and moves into a nursing home, Milo soon realises there's something very wrong at the home.

The day Liz Evans went for a run in the forest, she didn't expect to die. She didn't expect to turn into a vampire, either. Her world is turned upside down in an instant, and her dreams of college and falling in love have gone right out of the window. Now all she can think about is blood. But with a little help from her vampire boyfriend Sam and his brother Zac—the guy she’s definitely not meant to have feelings for—her life is able to go back to normal. Well, as normal as being a vampire can be. When Liz can finally cope with her new reality, she wants answers, knowing she may never ...

He knew he was going to fail his Rite of Passage because he always failed. But sometimes things don’t always work out the way you expect. The ending will surprise everyone, here... and there. Delphus is one of the many worlds within the broader Trigellian Universe. It is a binary world connected across a parallel continuum.Delphus Alpha is a desperately barren, arid, lightning and hurricane scoured planet that is now over run with dreaded Xanthan hive warriors. There is no water, food or life on Alpha, except the dreaded hive beasts frantically searching for humans to eat. But, that is a ...

Deadly secrets. Murder and revenge. The end of the world is nye and Camelot is the last bastion of hope… Madeleine Greenbriar has returned to Earth, only to find a world on the brink of destiny. Camelot is in danger and with it, the Earth faces a terror like no other. Morgana has risen, determined to deliver revenge owed for thousands of years of suffering. Drawing the last of the Dark forces to her side, she’s amassing an army to march against the Naturals, and if they fall the Druids are next. Their only hope of stopping the coming cataclysm lies with Madeleine. She holds the key to ...

Ciaran survives the fight for the truth behind the crucifix, but it has triggered an even bigger disaster that might tear Ciaran and Madeline apart forever. The truth behind the crucifix is trivial compared to the catastrophes built into the aftermath. To solve these crises, Ciaran and Madeline face a basic but difficult question: Who are they really?

Magic only has to be right once. Or twice. One time might have been a coincidence. Lucky. But the second time was undeniable. Something magical is happening to Charlie Holiday and he doesn't have the foggiest idea what to do about it. Has he been called to save the world? Maybe they got the wrong guy?

When dark magic descends and super technology fails, power rises from the heart. Lyla has it all: beauty, intelligence, and the protection of a legion of soldiers. That is, if she stays in her universe. When a two-minute job turns into an impossible mission, the princess from the most powerful universe is stranded on Earth with a lone guard. Michael only takes Lyla to Earth because it is supposed to be a small mission. Now, not only the job goes pear-shaped, but technology also fails them.

Frank Boston, retired Air Force Pararescueman, experienced two separate incidents involving three back-to-back deaths early in his Air Force career. He concluded after the second incident that he has a strange power he calls nose-smell, a sort of mystic instinct of seeing who will die in a group of related deaths. He goes years without using his ability until a small girl drowns in a pond on the nearby Air Force base. He knows two more water-related deaths will soon follow.

This is the story of Doug Metzger, a pizza delivery specialist, who finds himself caught up in the gears of a world-changing revolution. As the world undergoes the greatest paradigm shift since the Copernican Revolution, he finds himself on the cutting edge of societal evolution. Yet, as the world burns, there's only one thing one his mind: will he capture the heart of the woman he is incapable of trusting before it's too late?

This short story by Philip K. Dick takes us back to the Cold War era, when nuclear war was everyone's fear. A family suddenly wakes up in the future. A future too terrible for the people living in the present to accept. The family has a choice: They can stay in the future, go underground, and be dehumanized or take a chance by staying in the house of surviving the next ROM bomb attack and being blown back to the present.

Questo romanzo di Gustav Meyrink, scrittore ed esoterista, viene pubblicato nel 1917, subito dopo il grande successo de "Il Golem", ma in realtà venne scritto in contemporanea al Golem dal 1906 al 1916, e il parallelo tra le due città, Praga e Amsterdam, è molto interessante. Anche questo romanzo, intriso di magia e di mistero, ci porterà in una spirale di suggestioni e riflessioni verso quello che era l'obiettivo dell'autore: la profonda conoscenza di se stessi.

"It was that most loathsome of all things: an uncanny, routine-disrupting inconvenience and anomaly." That's what, as the result of an unforeseen event, unexpectedly invades and upsets Elmore Wiggins' safely ordered life. For Elmore had never reckoned on the paranormal or the preternatural. But now that he's had his accident, he is "seeing" certain events in the near future - including his own (although he doesn't know it yet).

An ancient malice. An unknown legacy. Just when things were looking up, the world begins to crumble…again. Holly Burke is haunted by the legacy left behind by not only the Trine, but her own family. Handed everything that ever belonged to the witches of Dunloe, she doesn’t know what to do with it all. How do people go on living after the end is written? But when mysterious happenings begin to crop up all around town, Holly realises that for the supernatural, there’s no such thing as a ‘happily ever after’. Reports of strange lights, shadowy figures, mutilated cattle, and diseased ...

When humans Ciaran, a billionaire technology genius, and his wife Madeline, a quirky, psychic journalist, are forced to enter the multiverse with few resources beyond the love they share, countless lives hang in the balance. Traversing in this strange new world with unfamiliar technology and a language neither Ciaran nor Madeline understand, the pair struggles to distinguish friend from foe, allies from an enemies, and reality from elusion. As their family grows, so too do the dangers around them. Can they muster the strength and gather the necessities in order to save millions of lives and emerge unscathed?

Il commissario Falò, uomo integerrimo la cui intransigente, coriacea, ferrea volontà morale di natura abissale e ancestrale, una volontà illesa e duramente intatta, da nessuno demoralizzata, tantomeno infranta, fluttua morbida nella spirale avvolgente, delirante e al contempo affascinante, misterica e cabalistica della sua fervida mente alla perenne, infrangibile ricerca immarcescibile delle verità più pure, nitidamente e nudamente cristalline in modo suadente, verità grandiosamente splendenti.

¿Cómo ganas una guerra si no sabes quién es el enemigo? Masa intenta contestar a esa pregunta. Porque es una novela visionaria, de máxima actualidad. El título alude por un lado a los medios de comunicación de masas, y por otro a la masificación del mundo tal y como lo conocemos, la cual alcanza proporciones grotescas en las distopías salidas de la mente de Joost Vandecasteele. Es una crónica sobre las fuerzas invisibles que manejan el mundo.