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Cancel your plans, witches and warlocks! You're invited to tonight's Firewick Festival. Taking multiple lovers is a family tradition. Hell, it's a witch tradition, but Charice Brixton isn't having it. She doesn't have time for a man, let alone two powerful warlocks. She's perfectly fine running...

Ivan Morozov has clawed his way to the heights of power and influence where few dare to tread, contending with the Empire's real movers and shakers. And in their world, power needs to be proven daily. Will Ivan once again rise to the occasion—when his enemies are about to launch an underhanded...

Ten exciting and unique stories! This collection features stories by James Agee Jr., Adam Rose, Lorraine Bradner, Katie Johns, Damian Stevenson, Chris Manning, and Ted Garcia.

Connie’s life is a mystery, her background unknown, her future uncertain. Driven by desperation, she uses her powers to investigate crimes. If she can’t unravel her own past, she’ll seek justice for others. A chance encounter, a brace of poisoned partridges, and Connie is knee deep in trouble again. Her story is slowly unraveling, the truth almost within reach. If only she could remember.

Semejantes a Dios es una ficción sonora deslumbrante en la que El Quijote de la Mancha entabla un diálogo filosófico, místico y científico con Anaïs Nin, Hildegarda de Bingen, Schopenhauer, Safo, Nietzsche, entre otros pensadores de todas las épocas. Sus voces, finamente entretejidas, exploran el vértigo de ser —sin saberlo— imagen y semejanza de D/os, y tensionan los límites entre la locura, la creación y lo divino.

Take the plunge down the rabbit hole of insanity and wonder in this fast-paced, nonstop psychological thriller that will leave you questioning the very nature of reality and beyond. Part thriller, part romance, part existential horror, A Dream of Waking Life delves into lucid dreaming, psychedelics, existential ontology, video games, the nature of love, the nature of reality, and more.

Jared Crandall’s life seems as broken as the Utah landscape surrounding him. With the Great Quake having shattered roads throughout the country and isolating him in his cabin, Jared assumes he will die alone. But Keith Martin, his old LDS missionary companion, finds him, arriving on an unusual motorcycle called the XEB. Keith brings a letter from Church headquarters asking Jared to serve again as his companion—to cross a desolate country where anarchy prevails and to fulfill a mission whose purpose is unclear. A call Jared cannot refuse.

Devorah Fields, a former teen actress and model, is hiding out from her estranged, abusive husband in her childhood home in the Malibu hills. With every odd creak, she fears the worst—her husband’s return. Her father, a former Hollywood heavyweight turned con artist, is serving time in federal prison. Her mother, an English born actress, has fled to her home country out of shame and embarrassment.

Il progresso tecnologico avanza spedito, la popolazione invecchia e non gli sta dietro. Per questo Laura Annibali, una mezza genia nel campo informatico, arrivata ai cinquant’anni ha deciso di fondare la Huf, un’associazione no profit con la missione di sostenere le persone tecnologicamente inabili.

From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life—and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife. The hands and pendulum of the old wooden...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of...

A novel rich in spiritual perspective…and human temptations: If you crave a literary experience that fuses the spiritual with the everyday, that both challenges and comforts, A Monk's Way will resonate deeply within you.

David, who lives outside Philadelphia, receives a call from his best friend's doctor in California. Gordon is suffering major organ failure and is on the brink of death! Gordon, an unmarried quadriplegic, has been in a wheelchair since he was twenty-two. His life is one of isolation, fear, and relative silence, except when David visits with stories of the world.

A bond forged through secrets. A devastating, simmering attraction. And beneath it all, the truth that will save or doom me. The heart-wrenching sequel to Among Shadows.

Joe Vallen weaves a tale that transcends convention, introducing a narrative that breaks the fourth wall and unfolds like a Russian doll of unpredictable events. With Michael Hijantonis as the captivating narrator, listeners are in for a treat as they witness the protagonist, Joe, facing misfortunes and unexpected challenges. "The Narrator," Joe's harshest critic, takes center stage in this mind-bending journey, observing Joe's struggles until his own reality becomes threatened. Forced to make the ultimate choice, The Narrator becomes an integral part of the unfolding events.

Quite by accident she thinks, Henrietta Draper (Hattie) finds herself standing on the surface of a distant planet orbiting the star HD10307 in the constellation Andromeda. Bad enough . . . but it seems the planet's inhabitants expect her, somehow, to "save the universe."

Banger and Mash knew something strange was happening when their peoples’ scent began to fade. Sweetpea the cat knew it too, but…you know…he just wasn’t that worried about it. But when their human vanishes into thin air right before their noses, they race to get help from the other dogs in the village, only to discover that EVERYONE'S humans have disappeared.

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize 'Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction' Books+Publishing DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a...

On her way to a weekend ski vacation, Natalie Locke is involved in a head-on collision on a snowy highway and finds herself traveling through the space between life and death, where she sees a Native American man who visited her rock shop earlier that day. Lone Eagle went to Locke’s Rocks in Albuquerque to find an important tribal artifact and return it to his father, Chief Looking Elk. Before the elderly chief passes away, he makes Lone Eagle promise one thing – to teach Natalie the ways of their tribe.

You think you know your world, right? Taxes, traffic, and the everyday routines that shape your life. It's a world where predictability reigns, where the only constants are corrupt politicians and the ever-looming specter of pollution. But then there's Olivia—a brilliant and determined scientist who suspects something else is below the surface. She firmly believes that the reality surrounding all of us is nothing more than an intricately woven computer simulation.

A deep-seated confusion guides the lives of domesticated humans, causing a crisis of planetary proportions. With all their fervor and devotion, the forest keepers summon the presence of the Great Mother to assist their human Under the guidance of a variety of creatures, Artemio embarks on a journey through the uncertain and bewildering paths of the Wild Spirit.

Awakening among the remains of a smoking forest, panic sweeps through the boy. All he knows is he does not belong. Not to the tribe whose lifeless bodies adorn the forest floor or to the hard-eyed, fur-clad warriors that surround him. And he knows that he hates the red-haired beast who gloats in his face. Called by a past he can no longer remember and driven forward by powers beyond his control, the half-witch, Du Mu, finds himself caught in the grip of the most powerful Cro clan to walk the Plains.

Lythe’s homeroom teacher is dead. Her angry ghost says she was murdered. The hidden ward in the teacher’s house is evidence the ghost is telling the truth and witchcraft is involved. When a witch takes the dead teacher’s place and offers to help Lythe develop her magic, the teenager is caught up in a high-stakes battle.

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events that set the world on its course to disaster were the stories his step-father, now long-dead, recorded in his manuscript, The Forcing. But there are huge gaps in the story that his mother, still alive but old and frail, steadfastly refuses to speak of. When he discovers evidence that his mother has tried to cover up the truth, he knows that it is time to find out for himself.

Un livello dopo l’altro, un’esperienza dopo l’altra, Silvano Rei si trasforma. La sua evoluzione non è graduale, ma si compie attraverso momenti violenti di introspezione e di esibizione. Vuole cambiare, vuole stare nel tempo, e cambiare la sua percezione delle cose, e con la percezione delle cose cambiare gli universi, come opere d’arte contemporanea, attraenti, incomunicabili. Rei non resta mai uguale: è necessario mutare per appartenere a un mondo, per comprenderlo e conviverci, anche se per poco. Ogni frame è una performance, e ogni performance è la vita.

Oriana emerges as the re-birth of Tara's evolution and biological mutations. She is now Mother Nature's warrior, messenger and illuminator. Her mission is to enlighten humanity into awareness and the urgent need to live with respect, care and harmony with all life forms. Her siblings, Link and Angie, are by her side in spirit and conviction, even as they experience their own life dramas. They're vigilant and determind to protect Oriana from capture at all personal costs.

Spirituality and urban living serve as a purposeful backdrop of Moment Before Creation, both “otherworldly” and deeply rooted in the saga of living in the ghetto. It’s a hypnotic tale that boasts good old-fashioned story-telling, Quantum Physics, “street smarts,” and wisdom of the ages. Engaging and wittingly original, Moment Before Creation promises to deliver on all that has come before it.

In the seemingly ordinary town of Meadowbrook, Jay is a teenager grappling with the usual challenges of adolescence. But beneath the mundane lies a tapestry of secrets rooted in the ancient Roji heritage that he is only beginning to discover. As mysterious events ripple through Meadowbrook, Jay finds himself at the heart of it all, with his mother's silver necklace—a relic from a past she rarely speaks of—playing a pivotal role.

Story is told by a narrator who is a psychologist in Indian country. What appears to be a consultation with a patient ends up being a meeting with his teacher, Tarrence. Tarrence proceeds to take the narrator into a dreamtime journey that melts the worldview held by the storyteller. The dream leads the narrator to a place in which the energy generated by ancient dreamers must be balanced. The lack of balance brought on by the power dreamers and their ceremony resulted in the atomic bomb.

Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment. At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep security” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and the uncertain future ahead.