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This story starts with the premise that we are not our bodies. We are our souls. Our consciousness live on when we leave the Earth through death. It is only our body that decays and dies. We continue to develop our souls during each lifetime we visit the Earth and then go back to being only consciousness. In choosing a new lifetime, each soul knows there are natural Earth stages we each must endure to develop new Earth lessons.

Like many of us, Grace lives in the midst of a hectic rat race. On the surface, she seems to do well: She lives in a beautiful home, drives a luxurious car, and has a promising career in the most prestigious law firm in Toronto. But inside, Grace is dying. Recent tragic events bundled with years of pressure to achieve, impress, and be recognized have taken their toll. Her once genuine smile is now forced.

In the year 2067, Britain struggles to rebuild after the crushing devastation of the Great Flood. Those in power have formed a new regime in the wake of the disaster. Whether it is a hard-won utopia or an oppressive nightmare depends entirely on gender. Unmarried women have no legal rights or protection, and their access to education and employment is limited to ensure their servitude. Yet a fire burns within them to prove they are far from the weaker sex, and their rebellion seeks to tear down the patriarchal rule.

This novel is visionary fiction. While the plot is a gripping thriller, there is a subliminal message being transmitted to listeners, which will make them more perceptive, and more effective, as human beings.

This book is sort of written like a preppers version of a school paper entitled “What Did You Do on Your COVID 19 Summer Vacation?” It provides an apocalyptic fiction author’s attempt to give his prepper perspective of the pandemic, quarantine, lock downs, stupid mask rules, power mad governors, and how this all ties into the strife America is facing and how he is preparing himself for it.

Une mini collection d`histoires surréalistes à fort impact émotionnel, chacune caractérisée par une couleur. Un rappel constant des fantômes de la vie intérieure, peints avec intensité et délicatesse.

Silicon Valley resident Marjorie Veil has been conditioned to ignore her own truth, to give away her power, to subjugate in relationships with others, and to settle for the path of least resistance. But she has many surprises in store, for there are synchronistic forces at work in her life that, if she listens, will lead her to her authentic heart and happiness.

The year 2095: Dr. Emily Bircher is the most brilliant, celebrated research scientist on earth, a botanist, and a medical doctor. Emily loses her husband, Alaric. She dims her memory of him, calculating that is how to move on. The US government invites her to embark on an interstellar mission to the exoplanet Proximus b, Earth’s nearest neighbor. The planet has a strong magnetic field allowing it to retain an atmosphere like Earth’s. Emily refuses to go. She is still grieving. The government deceives her, stealing her memories of Alaric from the chip in her brain.

After unleashing the power of the neutralizer, Tristan finds himself without the ability to cast magic. Assured this is a temporary condition, Tristan and Simon decide it’s the perfect opportunity to take some much needed time off. That is until a group of dark mages enters the city looking for Master Yat. Now the Montague & Strong Detective Agency must face and eliminate the threat. There’s only one problem. William Montague, Tristan’s lost brother, is leading the mages.

A struggling photographer Thelma searches for direction in her life. She is drawn to a group conducting plant medicine ceremonies on a mysterious farm in Florida’s southern Everglades. After drinking a mescaline tea made from the San Pedro wachuma cactus with the group, she receives an unusual message and meets a young Persian man suffering from kidney failure, named Saman.

Her gift of shapeshifting may have disappeared, but Meg Porta won’t let her new home perish. Clinging to a slender thread of hope, she’s forced to fulfill her mysterious part in an ancient prophecy. But when the three leaders of a dark religion each make violent plays for ultimate power, Meg and her allies are plunged into a race to destroy the source of their magic.

In the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire sunset, Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound and complaining of a rare bone disease that no doctor can diagnose, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older, more malign energy has passed, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration, his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector, their unlikely saviour.

Heroines of Avalon and Other Tales by Ayn Cates Sullivan transports readers into the time of legend and revisits deities and legendary female characters linked to Welsh and British mythology. In this book, the author shares her insights and her journey to discovering her past, a journey that compelled her to research the extraordinary characters in her book.

A groundbreaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin, invites you to see the world from a new point of view - one that focuses on what connects us to each other and brings us happiness. The Mosaic follows the journey of Mo, a boy who loses his parents two years apart on the same day.

An ancient map, a strange prophecy, and anyone who dares speak of it, dies. A new enemy enters the Valla arena, but this one is as old as time and seeks a forbidden place. An ancient map points the way. Sorcery and technology work together to contain a creature created of time and fire. The terrible secret of the source of Valla power is uncovered and, as friends and family are murdered, Torrullin reveals the truth about the Valla Dragon, a secret about greed from the era of Nemisin.

Magister Coelus, the College’s young and brilliant theorist, finally has a student capable of learning theoretical magery at the level at which he can teach it. He invites her to help him with his current research project, which promises to funnel through the hands of one mage more power than any mage has ever had. Ellen, who knows more about both the theory and practice of magic than a first year student should know, refuses, arguing that the Cascade will do more harm than good.

No one knew it at the time, but April 19, 2011, was the most important day in the history of the world. After his only friend and colleague John Manta disappears without a word, Dave Randall further entrenches himself in the humdrum life of an unenthusiastic lawyer. But once he begins to understand what happened, he embarks on a journey to uncover the deeper meanings and implications of John’s fate.

Due dei racconti più rappresentativi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo, due storie eccezionali, che vi proietteranno in mondi lontani e bizzarri, al limite dell'assurdo, ma scientificamente rigorosi, facendovi staccare dalla quotidianità. La meccanica quantistica e l'orizzonte degli eventi di un buco nero sono i protagonisti di queste due storie ai limiti dell'universo. Marco Moretti, Giovanni De Matteo e Sandro Battisti sono tra i più attivi autori del Connettivismo (due di loro ne sono anche i fondatori).

What if all brain disorders were treatable? Few would lament the passing of dementia or autism, but what if the twisted mind of a sex offender or murderer could be cured, too? Or how about a terrorist or maybe a political extremist? What if we could all be "corrected"? Welcome to the Condition: The Complete Trilogy, a series of near-future fiction novels on the cusp of becoming a frightening reality.

Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown.

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society.

Was ist notwendig, um auf seine eigenen Wünsche zu hören? Eine ganze Menge Vertrauen und die Fähigkeit, dem eigenen Herzen zu lauschen. Angelica versucht genau diesen Weg zu gehen, doch ihr Kopf macht ihr das Leben nicht so einfach. Glücklicherweise überredet sie ihr Herz zu einer abenteuerlichen Reise nach Sizilien, auf der sie Unglaubliches erlebt. All das bereitet sie auf eine Herausforderung vor: Ihren eigenen Weg bedingungslos zu gehen, um die Welt zum Positiven zu verändern. Ist sie dazu bereit?

Se Danubio abbracciava una vastissima area geografica e storica, in "Microcosmi" Claudio Magris ci guida alla scoperta di luoghi circoscritti, via via più piccoli. Dalla descrizione del paesaggio - anche nei dettagli più sfuggenti - al racconto delle esistenze minime o grandi, dei destini, delle passioni, delle comiche o tragiche vicende che lo hanno segnato, sgorga una narrazione randagia e fluttuante che segue un suo percorso nascosto, come la corrente di un fiume.

Lo scenario inizialmente serale (topos del fantastico) è complice perfetto dell'ambiguità che lo scrittore vuole creare. Non è caso la novella è collocata in questo momento del giorno, che favorisce una sorta di dormiveglia, durante il quale è difficile individuare la linea di demarcazione tra realtà e fantasia: "la notte incombe sullo spirito, conquista la fantasia e concede all'immaginazione le più strane visioni" afferma il narratore-protagonista di Garofani rossi.

"La tana" è uno degli ultimi racconti di Franz Kafka, scritto durante la sua permanenza a Berlino nel 1923, all'incirca sei mesi prima della morte. Il racconto narra dei continui disperati sforzi intrapresi da un protagonista - per metà umano e per metà animale - di costruirsi un'abitazione perfetta, così da potersi proteggere efficacemente dai suoi nemici invisibili. In tutto il testo (rimasto incompiuto) vi è l'idea ossessiva di riuscir a realizzare una complessa opera architettonica, e dalla paura d'esser attaccato da potenziali nemici i quali però non danno mai prova d'esistenza reale.

In una notte rubata a una vita senza scosse, Emma ricerca la poesia nella passione di un abbraccio con il suo amante, vivendo la sua avventura ignara delle conseguenze cui il destino la metterà di fronte. Con una prosa modulata alla perfezione sulle emozioni e i sentimenti dei protagonisti, Arthur Schnitzler, alter-ego letterario di Sigmund Freud e autore del racconto "Doppio Sogno" che ha ispirato "Eyes Wide Shut" di Stanley Kubrick, ci mette davanti a un dramma umano fatto di egoismi, frustrazioni e banalità di una vita senza direzione.

Questo racconto dalle atmosfere oniriche e fiabesche, ambientato in terra d'Irlanda. L'azione si svolge in un'unica notte fatale, la notte di Halloween, vigilia di Ognissanti, quando l'incontro con una donna misteriosa darà al protagonista una lezione impossibile da dimenticare: il tempo non fluisce in un'unica direzione, ma è una forza arcana dal moto circolare, senza inizio né fine. Due amici si incontrano dopo il soggiorno di uno dei due all'estero. Il banjo portato in dono sembra molto antico e la storia che racconta è strana ed appassionante.

El autor presentaba la edición italiana de este libro, que tuvo un éxito extraordinario, con estas palabras: Ésta no es una novela. Ni siquiera es un cuento. Ésta es una historia. Empieza con un hombre que atraviesa el mundo, y acaba con un lago que permanece inmóvil, en una jornada de viento. El hombre se llama Hervé Joncour. El lago, no se sabe. Se podría decir que es una historia de amor. Pero si solamente fuera eso, no habría valido la pena contarla. En ella están entremezclados deseos, y dolores, que no tienen un nombre exacto que los designe. Esto es algo muy antiguo.

Durante buena parte de esta novela Gonzalo es un poetastro que quiere ser poeta y un padrastro que se comporta como si fuera el padre biológico de Vicente, un niño adicto a la comida para gatos que años más tarde se niega a estudiar en la universidad porque su sueño principal es convertirse -también- en poeta, a pesar de los consejos de Carla, su orgullosamente solitaria madre, y de León, un padre mediocre dedicado a coleccionar autitos de juguete.

Caín pone de manifiesto lo que hay de moderno y sorprendente en la prosa de Saramago: la capacidad de hacer nueva una historia que se conoce de principio a fin. Una reflexión acerca del origen del poder y de las manipulaciones que las distintas religiones y sus aliados temporales han ejercido sobre las conciencias de los hombres para evitar que el pensamiento sea libre y el uso de la voluntad independiente de criterios religiosos.