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On a Tuesday morning that defied every meteorological prediction, three hundred souls entered a localized silence that the world is still trying to decode. Flight A350 didn’t crash. It didn’t vanish into the ocean. It departed from the very concept of terrestrial weight. As the runway lights of the Atlantic coast flickered into a geometric pattern mirroring the constellation of Orion, the passengers felt a thinning of the air that tasted of ionized jasmine.

Sometimes to move forward you have to go back... Sarah and Kevin are twin flames--two souls created as one in the beginning. They recognized their connection within minutes of meeting at a party neither had wanted to attend, and soon vowed to stay together forever. But now, seven years later, amidst life's inevitable sorrows and misunderstandings, they are on the verge of losing each other-and not for the first time. For, as they discover through dreams and visions, their shared embodiments were often scarred by painful separation.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A fable about the quiet terror of arriving. A man who has everything wakes at four in the morning and cannot say what any of it is for. Adrian is forty-seven. The house is paid for. The business runs itself. His marriage is warm, his children are grown...

Grace Jensen survived a horrific fire at age fifteen. The flames changed her: badly scarring her body and mind, but also giving her a new gift, an ability to feel other people's pain. Reclusive and unable to bear human touch, she lives with her mother, tends wounded animals, and nurses a little...

"Hidden Powers and Deadly Secrets: A Tale of Witchcraft, Intrigue, and Betrayal in the 15th Century–a thrilling journey through a perilous and uncertain world." Meg Gifford feels she is different. Her mother watches anxiously as Meg comes of age, aware that the women of their family are gifted with the Sight–the ability to know things before they happen. We see Meg change from a playful child to a young woman, when, without warning, she is plunged into a dangerous world where discovery means an accusation of witchcraft.

Nel cuore di San Pietroburgo, lungo la celebre Prospettiva Nevskij, si incrociano destini, illusioni e apparenze che ingannano. Tra caffè affollati, strade eleganti e inquietanti contrasti sociali, la città diventa il palcoscenico di una realtà mutevole, dove ciò che appare raramente coincide con ciò che è. Con "La prospettiva Nevskij", Nikolaj Gogol' offre un ritratto brillante e tagliente della vita urbana russa: una narrazione sospesa tra ironia e disincanto, in cui la città stessa sembra trasformarsi in un organismo vivo, capace di sedurre e ingannare chi la attraversa.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Al Centro dell’Universo Batte il Cuore è un romanzo filosofico e introspettivo che attraversa alcune delle domande più profonde dell’esistenza: perché siamo qui? Che cosa significa essere coscienti? Quanto delle nostre scelte nasce davvero da noi?...

Tre amici, che erano stati una piccola famiglia gallese, e vivevano in un cottage di una modesta fattoria sulla collina a Brecon nella loro ultima vita, ritornano dall`Annwn ( antico termine gallese che significa Paradiso) per aiutare il popolo gallese nella lotta mondiale contro la piaga...

A pair of monastic siblings struggle to help a sentient spaceship suffering through an existential crisis in this philosophical novel about what constitutes life, love, humanity, and death for fans of Martha Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries and The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei. Unable to forgive...

Hierdie verhaal, skitterend in sy eenvoud, gaan oor ’n Andalusiese skaapwagter genaamd Santiago wat uit sy vaderland Spanje vertrek en deur Egipte se woestyn reis op soek na ’n skat wat by die piramides begrawe is. Langs die pad ontmoet hy ’n sigeunerin, ’n man wat homself ’n koning noem, en ’n alchemis. Hulle almal help Santiago om tydens sy soektog op koers te bly. Niemand weet wat die skat is en of Santiago die struikelblokke langs die pad sal oorkom nie.

In this elegant set of stories, three modern women are touched in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse. In “Medusa’s Ankles,” a distinguished translator visits a hair salon hoping to regain a hint of her youthful looks. Hung on the wall before her is one of Matisse’s iconic...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted for the 2019 CBC Canada Reads Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award An unforgettable love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart, for readers of Station Eleven. America is in the grip of a deadly flu...

In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A. S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. In "Morpho Eugenia", a shipwrecked naturalist is rescued by a wealthy family...

In 1953, at an isolated boys' school in the Yorkshire moors, is a young teacher, Alexander Wedderburn, whose imagination had been captured by the Queen Elizabeth of Shakespeare and Spenser and who has written an historical verse play about her. Now, suddenly, his play has been taken up by a...

A new novel—and new direction—from the bestselling author of A Dog Named Christmas Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Life of Pi meets On the Road meets Travels with Charley in this quirky spiritual journey across the wild highways and byways of America. Free spirit Angel Two...

Four inhabitants of the Jewel Empire find themselves summoned for an audience with the empress. Each one knows why: Kane, the ambassador of the Jewel Empire, who is surely being blamed for some of the chaos that has plagued his home. Captain Yasira, who's certainly in trouble for her crew losing...

Alexey Mechnikov is used to treating disease. But now he'll have to learn to treat more than illness. Curses need a healer, too. His pet Tox has been infected with necrotic energy, and the Oath of the Healer demands that the animal be put down. But that's not an option. Time to find a cure! In...

Alexey Mechnikov is a doctor who just wasn't fated to die. Instead, he awoke in the body of a stranger: a young healer who'd run afoul of his own family. He's in a new world, in the nineteenth century, with magic as the foundation of civilization—and not a single privilege to his name: his...

Cometa Minor is a 94-track album/novel: It is an American exploration of virtue, brutality, and the humanistic ideals necessary to the survival of a democratic republic. When political upheaval strikes a hidden forest commune on a distant planet from another age, the clash rings throughout the cosmos with unexpectedly far-reaching consequences that transcend both space and time.

Un homme, Ethan Chanseuil. Un androïde, Milo-128. Cent-vingt minutes d'interrogatoire. À l'issue, le vote du public. Sur une question simple : qui dit la vérité ? Quand Black Mirror rencontre Anatomie d'une chute, une fiction mêlant thriller judiciaire et anticipation hyper emballante, où...