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In the face of tragedy and torn between the pressure of his father and the temptations of a mysterious woman, Caleb Uriel is unanchored and lost. Caleb is a budding young lawyer and observant Jew in the 1980s in New York City who struggles with his faith and direction in life. The sudden death of his mother awakens an inner earthquake and reveals the fragile nature of his beliefs. A chance meeting with a street sweeper and hidden mystic named Elijah in Times Square, though, proves to be the spark to set him on a path for personal discovery and renewal.

On the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people . . . or control them. Some wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi’s only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields. Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi they come from communities where such abilities are valued.

En su decimotercer cumpleaños, Inés recibe un collar de su abuela en México que la convierte en mariposa monarca: el cumplimiento de una profecía que vincula el destino de Inés con el legado de su familia y con la supervivencia de las mariposas. La aventura continúa cuando Inés se une a las mariposas para su migración al santuario de las monarcas en México, una odisea que se ha vuelto cada vez más peligrosa debido a la actividad humana.

Niamh el Ri'ili spends her days locked away at the shining court and her nights playing fiddle across the veil in the world of men. All of that changed the night she met the vampire Connor O’Brien. Because of him, her long dormant hand of power awakens in a new world of blood and sun. As supernatural forces fan their appetites and desires, a web of courtly intrigue and seduction entangles them. Suddenly, an old foe arises when they are least expecting it. Niamh is robbed of her memories and power, and hidden away in the world of men—away from the safety of the Other World.

Während der Lektüre eines Buchs über das Leben des Buddha fällt der Erzähler in einen unruhigen Traum, in dem er sich im geheimnisvollen Labyrinth des Prager Ghettos wieder findet. In dieser gespenstischen Atmosphäre voller Liebe und Leidenschaft, Intrige, Hass und Verbrechen, Angst und Grauen begegnet er dem Golem, einem von einem weisen Rabbiner aus einem Lehmklumpen geschaffenen künstlichen Menschen. Dieser grandiose Roman entführt den Hörer in eine verwirrend surreale Welt, in der die Grenzen zwischen Traum und Wachen, Wahn und Wirklichkeit auf unheimliche Weise verschwinden.

Always Coming Home is Ursula K. Le Guin’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Having survived ecological catastrophe brought on by relentless industrialization, the Kesh are a peaceful people who reject governance and the constriction of genders, limit population growth to prevent overcrowding and preserve resources, and maintain a healthy community in which everyone works to contribute to its well-being. This richly imagined story unfolds through a series of narrated “translations” that illuminate individual lives.

For the past few years, Ethan has been trying to get his life back on track. Desperate to find his true purpose, he realizes that it won’t be found down at the car dealership where he and his buddy Manny currently work. After a stressful week, Ethan is ready for some relaxation on the yacht he and his friends take each year for their annual “Bachelor Boat Trip".

The survivor writing to us is an empathic 18-year-old named Tommy. He’s been sealed in a three-acre biosphere with just one other person, and the outside world has been radio-silent for the three years of their enclosure. Tommy is in telepathic contact with someone living during our time who may hold the key to an evolutionary metamorphosis. The journals, entitled Parallel Journeys, have been sent back in time to inspire you to create your own metamorphic butterfly effects to help our species avoid extinction and survive in a new form.

The Birthmark Scar originated as a way to psychologically record and process the death of a father and how coping with death introduced concepts regarding psychics, past-lives, and synchronicity. The Birthmark Scar includes angels, tarot readings, energy work, intuition, past life experiences, magick, Pagan rituals, psychics, and witchcraft. We believe that sometimes the best learning comes from story.

How many mass shootings, school shootings, and domestic violence events can you be personally involved in or hear about? Robin Alexis, mystic, Spirit Lady, and clairvoyant, has precognitively learned about too many of these violent attacks on our individual and collective peace. Enough is enough.

All Frances wants is a cure for her daughter, but that would take a miracle, and miracles aren't something Frances believes in anymore. Newly divorced from her pastor ex-husband and excommunicated from the church community she once worked within, she wrestles alone with the prognosis of her terminally ill child. Any suggestion of ‘divine intervention' is salt in the wound of her grief. So when Frances is forced to take in a homeless and pregnant teenage girl who claims to have had an immaculate conception, she's deeply challenged.

A psychological and metaphysical thriller in epic poetic form about nearly dying of cancer and descending into a Dantean-type of Hell where both the dead and the soul-dead are each in their separate wards. Meet awful family members, dire friends, a dreadful boss, a perverted pupil and a murdering neighbour; plus, some infamous (and some contemporary) politicians, poets and philosophers all contributing to human misery in their self-righteous and mad words, actions and productions.

This suspense novel chronicles how five characters end up on the world stage in the Thousand Islands Region of the St. Lawrence River Valley. David, a young Palestinian is traumatized watching his house demolished. Later as a teen he is recruited to become a terrorist. How he deals with his conflicting emotions will influence the future of the world.

Eden Martin had the perfect life in New York City: amazing job as a professor, successful fiance, great apartment on the Upper West Side. But in one night her whole world comes crashing down. So, she does what any sensible woman would do; she abandons her life and moves to a tiny village in England, leaving everyone and everything behind. Lost and confused, a new life emerges as she follows her dream to write a book.

In this enchanted family saga, Kate is a neuroscientist who reveres logic and order, unless she’s sleeping with her married lab director and then logic goes out the window. So does Kate’s orderly life in Manhattan after she takes the fall for their affair and Kate’s mother presses her to accept responsibility for her nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ireland.

When her charismatic mentor, Ernesto, publicly chooses her as his professional partner, all indications are that Vera's bodywork career is about to ignite. There is just one glitch—no, make that two. Vera—single mother of savvy, smart teenage India and her scruffy mutt, Francisco—is having an affair with Ernesto.

The Essential Revolution by Michael McGinnis is a transformative tale that will not only leave you questioning how you perceive the issues in your life but the ones the whole world is facing right now. Follow the story of Marcus Ogabi, a policeman whose life is turned upside down when he shoots a young man, Dimitri Tanomeo, in the toughest part of town known as the Pit. Little did he know, this encounter would lead him to join forces with Zach Markland, a technological genius, and Dimitri himself, to start a movement that would change the course of humanity.

Everybody loves a good ghost story, yet poor dead Vee feels anything but “good” being stuck upstage in the heavens of her own afterlife. She can peek in on Val, who’s “downstage” with the living but haunted by ghosts. Then there’s Julie, stubbornly stage left but longing to be downstage with Val. And finally, poor Peter remains solitary in his stage-rightness with the sneaking suspicion he might be dead wrong. Trapped at center stage lurks the demon Iago, willing to bridge heaven and hell to exit this cursed performance once and for all.

Ashi has excelled in her lessons as a student at Hyanchalth-Murira, but when a mysterious woman gives her an ancient relic, it is only the beginning of her pilgrimage to find her place in Aurduin. Unable to help Miraanni any longer, Ashi must flee with blood on her hands, her fate calling her into the unknown while the Tal proclaims her the Kyandara and Holy Warrior of the religion that grows in Miraanni and Ashi’s, name.

Time is a thief that steals from everyone. Weeks occur in days. Years occur in months. We think we know how our life will unfold, where we’re heading, and that we control our years, but perception has its own power, and time has its own plan. Eventually, we’re humbled by a common thread uniting us all.