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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.

The Andy Series: Season One is an omnibus collection of the eight novellas in the thought-provoking Andy science fiction series. If you like AI with a soul, biting social commentary, and quirky characters, then you’ll love Dirk Walvoord’s futuristic fable.

On her 21st birthday Katie Harper has only one wish: to become a real Harper woman. Mystical powers are passed down her family generation after generation - some even call them witches - yet every spell Katie attempts goes disastrously wrong. When her magic does appear, it’s in a form nobody expected, and suddenly Katie is thrown into a dangerous new world with shadowy consequences. For the realm of the deceased is not as peaceful as she once thought. The dead are buried with their secrets, and only Katie can help the ghosts of the past finally find peace.

Despised by her mother’s people and demeaned by her absent father’s legacy, Meridia has one friend - Damon, an eccentric photologist. When Damon shows Meridia a stone he discovered in an old photo bag purchased from a vagrant peddler, she is transfixed. There’s a woman, she says, a dancing woman. And a song. Can a stone hold a song? Can a song contain worlds?

He aprendido a ser paciente. A que las expectativas no condicionen mi futuro. Y que, a veces, cuando no esperas nada, sucede todo. He conseguido amar por encima de cualquier cosa. Pero queriendo tanto el corazón se vuelve más frágil. Y las cicatrices que deja el amor no dejan de doler jamás. Esta es mi vida. La historia de alguien que tuvo que perderse en la oscuridad para encontrar la luz.

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?

"Come sospettavo, non c'è nulla di prevedibile, nella vita, nell'arte e tantomeno in questi viaggi. Tutti abbiamo viaggiato per lo stesso motivo. Per cercare delle risposte al nostro esistere, ma qualcuno una volta mi disse che siamo tutti fili di un immenso quadro di un ricamo, visto da dietro". Giorgio è un ragazzo universitario sempre alla ricerca di risposte a dubbi e domande che affollano la sua giovane esistenza. Grazie all'aiuto di un cruciverba speciale Giò intraprende un viaggio interiore, fatto di sogni incrociati e condivisi con la sua amica Stefania.