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You don’t wake up in the afterlife. You get processed. After a school shooting, sixteen-year-old Remy Moreau is uploaded into Afterdeath—a digital hereafter that’s orderly, optimized, and eager to flatten her rough edges. The system expects her to pick a realm, follow the prompts, and reach closure on a schedule. Remy isn’t ready. Instead she scavenges meaning in places the algorithms can’t quite control: half-remembered campfires, endless aisles in an impossible department store, fleeting connections with others who refuse to fit the mold.

Some gifts can't be put down. Some gifts won't let you. Calla has been a remote viewer for as long as she can remember. She has built a quiet life on the edge of a Washington state park — an ordered house, a careful routine, a single unbreakable rule: no active cases involving children. She learned that rule the hard way. She intends to keep it. Then seven-year-old Iris Vance disappears into the woods sixty feet from her back fence, and the sheriff calls.

From reviving a declining town, to running a shop, to dungeon diving for alchemic ingredients, Nate the potion maker has done it all. A subclass of alchemy, the potion maker class proved time and time of its usefulness. Well Nate’s going to need it more than ever against the town’s legendary horror. When the Axem showed that he was able to do more than just threaten the townspeople, Nate and Potion’s Will, along with a Herald guest from Ironhelm, decided to conquer the S-ranked dungeon once and for all to dethrone a King. It is time for a miracle…

There are texts that describe enlightenment. And there are texts that describe the one who is seeking it. This is neither. The Siddhartha Tragedies is a manuscript said to exist in a scriptorium where only unfinished lives are recorded—lives that never fully resolve into history, yet continue to unfold wherever consciousness mistakes itself for a separate seeker.

Elias ist Ingenieur und sucht nach einer Antwort auf eine einfache Frage: Wie kann aus toter Materie Leben entstehen? Seine Suche beginnt in der Welt der Wissenschaft – bei Physik, Evolution und Bewusstsein. Doch je tiefer Elias denkt, desto deutlicher spürt er, dass hinter der sichtbaren Welt etwas Größeres liegen könnte. Er beginnt zu beobachten: seine Gedanken, seine Gefühle, seine Reaktionen.

The Bridge is a quiet and profound journey into the nature of reality, consciousness, and human existence. Through the story of Elias, an engineer driven by logic, the reader is invited to explore deeper questions about life, truth, and the power of awareness. This book is not a doctrine, but an invitation to reflect, to observe, and to awaken.

Wenn man zwischen einer Grippe und der Behandlung durch die Großhexe Ophelia wählen muss, verliert die Hölle ihren Schrecken. Das jedenfalls ist Trulys Eindruck.

The Ultimate Truth, Echoes of the Past, is the second book in a gripping tapestry of suspense, intrigue, and metaphysical warfare. It challenges the very essence of humanity, questioning our capacity for faith in the face of unspeakable horror. As the story progresses, listeners are drawn into a world where the lines between good and evil blur, and the power of choice becomes the ultimate weapon.

This love story doesn't follow the rules of time... Jack and Sara fell in love in 1995 - two teenagers with stars in their eyes - sharing mixtapes, cheap fizzy pop, and a first kiss that felt like the whole world was theirs. Decades later, their marriage is crumbling and their daughters are...

Some dreams warn you. Others pull you under. First, there are the dreams, terrifying and lifelike. Emma senses they could be premonitions. Then there is Fredo. Charismatic, fit, and intellectual—he's the perfect partner whose public speeches are gaining him a cult following in their hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado.

In this collection of fifteen curious and delightful short stories, you never know who you’re going to meet or where you’re going to end up. You can be certain, however, that you’ll always find yourself smack dab in the middle of some befuddling predicament of existence. Using humor and horror, satire and allegory, fabulism and realism, Tales From the Liminal takes you for an extraordinary ride, submerging you in spaces where anything is possible, especially transformation.

In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts; a different kind of human time is happening...

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her smalltown chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a...

A surreal theme park where nothing is as it seems. Jade and her sister Louise are in the Belle Epoque, a twisted and strange version. For fans of Poor Things and Westworld, this novella is delightfully absurd.

Kafka’s finest works adapted for BBC radio – plus a biographical play, three discussion pieces and the award-winning Kafka The Musical A lawyer by day, Franz Kafka spent his nights writing visionary stories and novels exploring bureaucracy, power and alienation – iconic fiction that gave...

Brought to you by Penguin. If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a...

When Terra chose to wield the power of her patron goddess, she expected challenges. What she didn't expect was to become a magnet for magical adversaries, each more cunning and powerful than the last. Now, she faces a new breed of enemies, ones who wield magic that rivals her own god-gifted abilities. But why are they targeting Terra? And what do they want with the artifacts of a goddess? Terra's journey has taken a perilous turn. Gone are the days of simply fending off pursuers. Now, she's entangled in a game with twisted rules and high stakes.

Azrael-angel of death, grim reaper, destroyer of worlds-has messed up. Instead of taking Molly Molloy's soul, he patted her on the back and saved her from choking on a chicken wing. Now this extraordinarily ordinary New York City waitress can see him. Talk to him. Touch him. Say 'no' to him. And make him question every assumption he has about what it means to live.

Nach 17 Jahren im Gefängnis will der Kriegsveteran Melvin endlich die Vergebung erfahren, die ihm trotz Haftstrafe nicht zuteilgeworden ist. Auf den Ratschlag seiner besten Freundin Carlotta hin begibt er sich auf den spanischen Jakobsweg, um sein Seelenheil zu erbitten und zu sich selbst zu finden. Während seiner Reise auf dem Camino de Santiago macht er irdische und übersinnliche Erfahrungen, die ihm zeigen, was nötig ist, um ein glückliches Leben zu führen.