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Ophanim nu e tocmai cel mai prietenos nume din lume. Rezonanțele biblice și ecourile de început și temelie de lume nu-s chiar o mîngîiere, de multe ori, iar personajul care dă numele romanului Anei Barton nu constituie o excepție. Un super-erou altfel, malgré soi, cu o super-putere specială, e un personaj botezat sub numele unui dar și hărăzit zodiei altuia, neinvocat, neghicit. Dar nu mai puțin greu de dus.

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles historical eras – from the first Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.

Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle brutality of the mundane, A Manual for How to Love Us is a tender portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find genuine meaning in the aftermath of loss. In these unconventional and unpredictably connected stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the stereotype of the soft-spoken, sorrowful woman in distress, queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us.

En este relato de imaginación desbordante y gran belleza, Karina Sainz Borgo mezcla la realidad con lo fantástico y el mito para levantar, con una prosa cuidadísima y muy poética, un mundo nuevo centrado en una isla imaginaria donde habita el doctor Schubert, medio médico y medio aventurero.

In this creative and often humorous re-envisioning of the Christian Creation Story, Lucifer is unceremoniously yanked out of Hell by his Father so he can return to his old job in the Garden of Eden. When he arrives, broken, battered, and bleeding, he falls into the arms of Eve who is unsure about seeing her old lover again as are the Gods and Goddesses now living in a dying paradise.

The senator's assistant has been put on a hit-list by the senator himself. Bradley's time is limited, but his memories and letters to his families will be mailed out before everything is over. The POST's reporters, Jacob and Ron, feeling grateful for the assistant's help, call him to say thank you but are cut short by Bradley himself.

Take a journey into a lost world. A world of endless wonder and terror. Beyond the everyday known world and into a place very few have traveled. Into the world of The Rave. Follow two wandering travelers of the beat down a path of self-awareness and self-destruction. Climb down the concrete rabbit hole into a sonic world of madness and mayhem. Through the back alleys of the subconscious mind into a man-made psychedelic Eden of tomorrow.

Cafe Noir tells the story of an intimate online friendship between two artistic women who never meet but sustain each other emotionally during the rigors of COVID lockdowns. They share so many highs, lows and confidences from one personal bubble to another. It seems the perfect sustainable friendship until something goes wrong, with only one of the women truly understanding what is happening.

Tyrese Thompson is a little different from all his classmates. But he could never have imagined that his star-gazing hobby would lead to him becoming the only person who can save the world. Tyrese is contacted by Twinkle, a star from another galaxy, who warns him of Earth’s imminent peril.

Sometimes, la sangre atrae, "the blood calls you back," and when Maya gets the call to go back to her agave roots to claim the body of her long-missing father, her world changes forever. Set against the backdrop of her childhood in Mexico, Agave Blues is the story of ailing attorney Maya, in a broken relationship and butting heads with her teenage daughter, Lily.

Remnant. The story, new in its conception, tells a tale of greed, lust, hatred, and power. All of the things the world is full of. We see it daily. But, in comparison, the story also has the qualities that we hope to find in ourselves: hope, love, trust, friendship, commitment, and resolve. These qualities, often an endangered collection, will stand the test of time. As in ages gone by, these attributes will be successful in accomplishing the end result.

Nadine's family waits for her to awaken after destroying her nemesis. They wait in fear because they are unsure which Nadine they will find when she wakes, the Nadine they had come to know or the old wild child they all dreaded. They are worried because Nadine has some of her memories back. Meanwhile, Nadine's friends and family in the Real have no idea what has happened to her. All they know is Nadine is in a coma and it is a mystery if she will ever wake up.

In this installment of the Jackson Stafford' series, the listener will come face-to-face with powers that govern the universe as we know it. The Transdimensional name La Tulipan, who is also Jackson Stafford's protector, has been called into the Council Chamber where he will be ordered to give an account of the progress in fulfilling his mission. Don and Nancy, NSA, have found out that the very head of our Government is involved in the cover-up and supports the Pandora Project.

Marvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week. Oh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?

Concealing my psychic "gifts"' is exhausting. I'll be happy when my brother Dusty grows up and finds a girlfriend. I'd be grateful for Dusty's offer to help me move if we weren't trading favors.

Born to a family of elegant yet shallow Beige Witches, 17-year-old Hazel loves brightly colored cupcakes. Her Beige game is so weak, she can't even pull off a proper messy bun spell, a level one hair glamour. Hazel 's resigned to never being good enough...till she discovers she was never meant to be a Beige Witch at all. But when her magical abilities take off, not everyone in Hazel's orbit is thrilled to see the forgotten middle sister finally owning her power.

In But a Wandering Voice, the Returned are hell-bent on taking the White House. The Knight Nurses of the Order of St. John are fearless in combat, but they are no match for the Returned’s propaganda machine. When a magic ritual goes awry at the end of the first crusade, a group of Knights Hospitaller are mistakenly made immortal, doomed to be reborn after each death. The knights fight with sword and magic, and, like the Hospitallers they once were, they care for the sick and dying.

Together alone: Meena and Rahm have crossed into a world that is unrecognizable. What comes next is so dangerous that it could break them both.

“Skin witch” Mikkie Locke has spent her life running from her past, running from hate, and running from shame. And when you’re a taroe working in an “in plain sight” magic shop, that’s easier said than done.

Written exactly 20 years after the first novel A Window in the Earth, the sequel tells a unique story throughout time as different members of the Janes family return to Pine Hallow in order to discover the past. Some come with hopes of revisiting the hopeful memories they have long since left behind, while others seek to forge a new future.

Winnie loves her little brother more than anything. She knows most big sisters loathe being around their younger brothers, but she and Lucas have always been close. But after they are both in a serious accident, everyone starts acting strangely towards her. She struggles to understand even as she deals with crushes and horrible girls from school.

Hers was the plight of a gothic heroine, banished from her home by a cruel brother and his heartless wife, the Dragon Sage. Misunderstood and maligned, Georgiana’s only hope of rescue were letters to aunts describing the medieval dungeon to which she had been sent.

Did you ever wonder what might happen if your cat turned human? When feisty Tiffany loses her temper with boyfriend Anthony, and accidentally topples a set of inherited Egyptian figurines, ancient forces take their mischievous revenge...and grant her careless wish that men were more like her tabby cat Felix. It's fun at first, as Tiffany and Felix gleefully launch him into her social circle, but it soon becomes clear that charismatic Felix spells trouble.

A cryptic message from Nana as she dies sends Ruth rushing to her special place in nature, The Listening Tree, for help. Transported through time by the Tree, from 1896 to 2035, she meets Michael and Arabeth from the future.

By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up. This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it's more than that, for this breath-taking tale takes the listener into the heart of a vibrant world, a complex and intriguing civilization of warriors and kings, philosophers and artists, parents and lovers. A world and culture which is about to end, for glimpsed on the horizon, seen but unsuspected, beautiful ships with white sails are waiting.

Meshkwadoon is a tale that delves into the minds of a woman, a man, and a boy as they are dragged through an experience of fear, obsession, trauma, and terror. The foundational spirit of the land seeks to fulfill its obligation to an exchange of life for the life of all.

No one believes what five-year-old Bennett Asherton spotted among the dense brush in the lowly rural town of Lindlow. Fourteen years later, he is determined to bring to light old memories, devoting his young life to proving what he saw that night was not just a tale brought about from his vivid imagination. But perhaps some memories are better left in the past.

Marcelino lives alone on his parents’ farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of Asturias, northern Spain. It’s the place where he grew up, where he doted on his beloved baby brother, where he protected his mother from his father’s drunken rages. But when Marcelino’s brother tricks him out of his land and home, a moment of uncontrolled anger sparks a chain of events that can’t be reversed.

El realismo mágico que surge desde las páginas de la novela "Casa Ananda" entreteje a cada persona con hilos infinitos de cada vivencia que allí se respira. La imaginación del lector navega en un fascinante escenario donde se entrelazan el amor, la espiritualidad, el misticismo, la vida, el miedo, la muerte, los tabúes con las vivencias reales de cada historia. El camino de Santiago llena de energía a la posada Casa Ananda y enseña que el vínculo de sus senderos es la vida misma. La sincronía de Casa Ananda y el camino de Santiago te invita a sentir cada paso narrado allí.

When life’s got you down, it’s often difficult to be grateful for the good things you have. We often long for different circumstances in our past with hopes of making our present better.