Showing titles in Metaphysical & Visionary

Neste conto de fadas moderno, melancólico e sensual, Paulo Coelho narra a transformação de Maria, uma brasileira que sai de casa ainda jovem determinada a entender o papel do sexo nas relações amorosas e, principalmente, em sua própria vida. Desiludida com o amor, ela decide ir à Suíça em busca de sucesso e acaba por se tornar prostituta, a mais requisitada de um cabaré de luxo. Nesta odisseia de autoconhecimento, Maria faz profundas descobertas sobre a natureza humana e a liberdade, colocando à prova sua visão do amor.

Michiko Nakatomi, an ancient vampire and leader of the Dark Council, is missing. After giving up control of the blood blades - weapons designed to destroy supernaturals - the Dark Council challenged Michiko’s leadership…and her right to exist. Rising tensions within the alliance of vampires, mages, and weres are threatening to tear the Dark Council apart.

On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion, offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcome new members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them to release their burdens and create a better world, in a journey of self-discovery and spiritual teachings. But the Bastion has secrets. The Bastion has a destiny. Deep in the Inner Pinewood, a place of real magic and beauty, they are all that stands against the dark forces that would tear the sky wide open.

La vida es un sueño es una obra en español de Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Publicado por primera vez en 1635 durante el período barroco español, es una alegoría filosófica sobre la situación humana y el misterio de la vida. La obra ha sido descrita como "el ejemplo supremo del drama español de la Edad de Oro". La historia se centra en el ficticio Segismundo, príncipe de Polonia, que ha sido encarcelado en una torre por su padre, el rey Basilio, siguiendo una profecía que el príncipe traería el desastre al país y la muerte al rey.

Taking Jorge Luis Borges’ famous story “The Zahir” as a reference or “hypotext,” The Book of Things Unknown offers a surprising variant. Set in the cultural framework of post-Communist Orthodox Romania, Simon Palamas’ love of books, his marriage, and his travels lead him on a spiritual and literary quest through diverse religious and literary traditions (Chinese mythology; Sufi, Hindu and Buddhist mysticism; and both Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity), yielding an astonishing end to the journey.

Join Asbestos and the other 12 heads in their spiritual and philosophical journey through life and death. Meet Pin Head the hyper-active, hyper-critical, hypocrite; Figure Head the mystic mathematician; Pot Head the shamanistic high school teacher; and Dead Head the politically-active radical environmentalist. You'll meet a host of unique personalities in this humorous and thought-provoking philosophical fiction novella.

" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)

When I died and became a portal jumper, the system glitched. Did that bother me? Not a bit. After all, I'd dreamed of traveling to a different world all my life! The system malfunction turned out to only benefit me. I didn't just lose nothing; I also gained something really cool.

Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Grief-stricken by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he's ever known. His hopes for safety rest with the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son.

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2017 A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere...

Bloomsbury presents Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar, read by Rory Alexander, Kishore Walker, Justin Avoth, Sara Alexander, and Lara Sawalha. SIX LIVES Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold. THE GUANO...

Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries, its heart beating to the stamp and thrum of the printing presses in the Printing Quarter. Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil, the looming prospect of war with their rival Venice ever-present. 

The fictional debut of bestselling author, Deepak Chopra...

Transcending religious boundaries to offer a deeply human perspective on the life, teachings, and enduring legacy of the revered figure, Gibran brings to life the story of Jesus Chris. He presents a fictionalized account of the life of Jesus Christ, through the eyes of 79 different accounts. A beautiful exploration of Jesus teachings, actions, and the influence he had on those around him.

When Trevor Harrison founded New Argana, he envisioned it as a place magical and nonmagical people could call home without fear of the powerful and sadistic Talented. An arcane shield protected them from the deadly magic of the Calanarian Wastes and allowed them to live in peace.

Imagine you find yourself in a world that prizes martial arts above all else, and that I am the descendant of an ancient clan who have honed their skill from generation to generation to rise to the ranks of the most powerful . . . Bet you're surprised, right? The thing is, most of my teachers say I'm a hopeless, talentless loser. No big deal, at first glance at least. I can survive just fine without talent. There's just one catch—I'm already dead. Or am I?

Cora and Hudson are in the middle of the mating dance, meaning he's overbearing, obsessed, and a little unhinged. The heat is on from both of their families to tie the knot officially. However, when White Castle is suddenly overrun with an army of ghosts, Cora and the gang get sucked into another supernatural disaster. At the center of the chaos? Eloise Roberts. But to wield that kind of power, she'd need more than demons, shifters, or vampires—she'd need a deity.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it; don't want it near me.' This is a story about now. It's a story about a woman, and the family she has made for herself. It's about the dramas unfolding on our screens and behind...

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in Bear’s powerful Jacob’s Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob’s Ladder with a new captain—Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship’s recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows.