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Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another – something she finds out the hard way when her best friend Ruth suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea touches the arm of the man responsible when he comes to check if Ruth is all right. As Ruth comes to, the man quietly slumps to the ground, dead. Thea realises that she has a godlike power: but despite deciding to use her ability for good, she can’t help but sometimes use it for her own benefit.

In questo libro di Evolvenza sono raccontati il pensiero umano e il pensiero superumano, durante un amichevole confronto tra Roberta, appassionata del pensiero umano e Giulio, appassionato del pensiero dei maestri definitivamente disincarnati, che hanno comunicato per decenni e continuano a comunicare, attraverso, ad esempio, il Punto F.

During his research on Near-Death Experiences, Dr. Prasad Vedurmudi, a genius neurologist at the prestigious University of Chicago, made a mind-bending discovery. A specific region of the brain acts as a gateway, transporting the departed to the next dimension. But there's more—a tantalizing possibility nobody has ever explored…Until now. Prasad believes that if he repairs that crucial part of the brain before death, he could unlock a profound secret—the key to controlling the afterlife experience itself. The implications are staggering.

The religion of the Tal is spreading its message of the Holy Kyandara and the Mother of the Perfect Creation across the face of Aurduin. A determined group of resistance fighters is gathering in Jeaniaurduin, ready to strike out against the invading Jolao Empire. As the Jolao ready their ultimate weapon, their leader, Rin Jao, is dreaming of a mysterious temple that houses an enigmatic egg.

Vicki becomes fearful when she learns of a conspiracy involving advanced alien technology, genetic manipulation, and a plan to take control of the lives of everyone on Earth. And that’s just the humans. The aliens have their own agenda.

Thirty-three years after his untimely death in 1983, Terry returns to the land of the living to discover the world has somewhat changed. Why is he back? And who is Deana, the old acquaintance suggesting he must atone … demon, angel, or diva? Humour, romance, suspense, the two most unlikely guardian angels, and a time leap from the 1980s.

Allein in Japan eine halbe Million verkaufte Exemplare: Der inspirierende Bestseller-Roman aus Japan über die Magie der Kalligrafie und handgeschriebener Briefe. Inspirierend und poetisch erzählt der Bestseller aus Japan von der öffentlichen Schreiberin Hatoko und feiert die heilende Kraft des geschriebenen Wortes und das Glück einer unerwarteten Gemeinschaft. Nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter kehrt die 25-jährige Hatoko nach Japan in ihren Heimatort zurück, um den Schreibwarenladen der Familie zu übernehmen.

Jake Perlman’s fate changed forever as a child when a dam broke on the way to school, washing his bus over a bridge. Before the Angel of Death could claim him, a Shepherd named Omiel stole Jake from his fate. Now as a Stolen in his adulthood, Jake uses his powers under Omiel’s guidance to assemble his coterie, a group of Stolen with abilities like his. Yael Taube learned in her youth she would become a Companion, the soulmate to a Stolen. After an unfortunate event finds Yael in the presence of her Stolen, Jake, things take motion.

It’s the late 1980s, and Connie Martin, a doctor working for the Epidemiology Intelligence Service of the CDC, is called to Colorado to investigate an alarming outbreak of birth defects. Born illegitimate in the San Luis Valley as Consuela Martín, a name known only to close friends and to her beloved gamer and programmer husband, she arrives as an unknown. Joined by environmental activists who suspect the state’s Superfund sites and by doctors and parents who fear for its children, Connie attempts to discover the link between habitat destruction and damage to innocents.

The night before his eighteenth birthday, Toby Kellerman fell ninety feet down a well. Seven weeks passed in what he describes as “suspension h***,” a rotating bed for spinal cord injuries compounded by bone breaks. Able to move only his arms and watch life through an adjustable mirror, Toby had plenty of time to think about how he got there. Somebody had pushed him.

The world is changing. Maddie and Cynthia are being watched. They’ll have to run. Gino Morelli is alive. But is he still Gino? The Teacher admits that he can feel. Will he pursue his feelings? Earth is destroying itself.

The relationships that Joyce worked hard to build begin to crumble as new revelations unfold. As Joyce tries to navigate her professional and personal life, Eden is faced with something even worse than before. Something that is stronger than a reaper and may be impossible to stop. Someone who is the beginning and may very well be the end. An entity who everyone should fear—God.

On an abandoned beach on the Southern California Coast near midnight, Everett Durant reaches into the pockets of his jeans as he approaches the water’s edge. He unburdens himself of all personal belongings as he prepares to commit suicide by drowning but fails. During his unsuccessful drowning, Everett experiences the appurtenance of a Guardian Angel, of sorts. When he wakes, he sees only the impression of a sand angel remaining where he washed ashore.

A tiny spy observing the constant flow of private meetings between His Holiness and everyone from Hollywood celebrities to philanthropists to self-help authors, the Dalai Lama’s cat provides us with insights on how to find happiness and meaning in a busy, materialistic world. Her story will put a smile on the face of anyone who has been blessed by the kneading paws and bountiful purring of a cat.

Dee's world shatters in an instant when a devastating car crash leaves her trapped in a mysterious and infinite labyrinth of memories. Each one opens to a different fragment of her past in this endless hallway of doors. As Dee navigates through these poignant and sometimes haunting moments, she is driven by a singular goal: to reunite with her soulmate, Luke. With each door she opens, Dee confronts the defining events of her life, grappling with the profound questions of existence, love, and destiny.

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge—from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions.

Sculpted and lucid, strange and uncanny, this is an explosive collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch.

Lima, 1954: Auf Einladung eines spanischen Archäologenteams gelangen der amerikanische Archäologe Professor Crichton und seine Studenten um Max Falkenburg nach Peru. Die Spanier sind dort auf der Suche nach der legendären Inka-Stadt Paititi. Aber schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft in Südamerika werden die Archäologen das Ziel eines Anschlags. Der Gefahr trotzend, gelingt es den Forschern, einer der vergessenen Legenden der Inka auf die Spur zu kommen: Dem sagenumwobenen Stab des Inkarrí! Ihre Expedition führt sie bis in die entlegensten Gebiete der Anden, wo der Mythos seinen Ursprung hat.

The second book in The Edinburgh Files series.