Metaphysical Fiction

After Gleb Yanovsky, a celebrated guitarist, is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age fifty, he permits a writer, Sergei Nesterov, to pen his biography. For years, they meet regularly as Gleb recounts the life he's lived: a difficult childhood in Kyiv, his formative musical studies in St. Petersburg, and his later years in Munich, where he lives with his wife and meets a thirteen-year-old virtuoso whom he embraces as his own daughter. In a mischievous and tender account, Gleb recalls a personal story of a lifetime quest for meaning, and how the burden of success changes with age.

Suspended in an eerie state of limbo, an entity called the Gatekeeper tells Nikki, Ronnie, and Mrs. Hawthorne they are on the cusp of entering the afterlife—but only if the women can persuade him that in their earthly lives, they knew the meaning of love. Fragments of their memories return, plunging them back into their pasts, and forcing them to face the desires, disappointments, addictions, lies, and obsessions they battled in life. But before time runs out, will they find the answer to the ultimate question: what is love?

Angela returns to Earth to search for and find the last two members of a group called the Ring. Together, the Ring can access crucial knowledge that the world desperately needs. Each member has unconsciously carried a piece of this knowledge over thousands of years. By reconnecting the pieces, they will help turn mankind’s negative, violent development on Earth into a positive, loving, and constructive progress. If the Ring doesn’t reunite now, it is doubtful that they will ever succeed.

As the world descends into chaos, a young cyborg tightens the noose around his neck. How could life spiral down into such a black hole? The cyborg terrorist revolutionaries attacking the clones; the riot police retaliating with public hangings; executions being streamed live across the entire sector; and true love failing. The new world order brings a class struggle, social unrest, and injustice where an interracial love has no hope to survive.

Eva Monroe is returning from a three-week business trip, one in which she left her five-year-old son in the care of her estranged ex-husband, when the plane that's taking her home crashes. The accident leaves her in a coma, unresponsive to doctors' attention and the urgings of her little boy. However, while Eva's body lies on the precipice of death, Eva's spirit has traveled to a place known as the In-Between - a world that is hovering in the clouds above our planet.

As the pandemic loosens its grasp Peter and Ellisha Kelso find their lives spiralling out of control. But Edinburgh is a city of secrets and, through a chance encounter, they stumble across the most dangerous one of all, known only as The Woman’s Secret. Armed with this knowledge, they set out to heal a damaged world and, before they know it, the idea has gone viral. American and mixed-race, Ellisha is an unlikely messiah, but she soon becomes the new face of hope for despairing people everywhere.

What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? Half the world would become trapped in endless night, the other half in relentless day. Global communications would be crippled. The oceans would migrate to the Earth's magnetic poles, and global tremors would threaten the stability of the entire planet. That's what happens in Skybound. Theories about the impossible phenomenon run the gamut from broken physics to little green men to the dawning of the end times. But everyone agrees on one thing: The massive metallic object that suddenly appeared in the sky is to blame.

With Mahnes defeated, Monty and Simon must now face the entity behind the attacks. They must face one of the old gods…Chaos.There’s only one slight problem—they aren’t strong enough.

Sion Zona thought he at least had a sense of security in Nordica…until realization strikes that he is nothing more than a pawn in yet another game. He could’ve seen Tamuria playing this game. But Nordica? Sion spent the last year believing that Nordica was the Land of Elementals. A place where elementals could freely practice their ability on their own terms, unlike the perpetual restrictions Tamuria set.

Utilizând Minotaurul ca pe o metaforă structurant, naratorul îndelung așteptatului roman al lui Gospodinov construiește un labirint din povești despre propria familie, sărind dintr­o epocă în alta și dintr­o perspectivă în alta, într­o explorare incredibil de minuțioasă și de amuzantă a mentalității est­europene. Fizica tristeții este o carte ce are la bază obsesia pentru arhive, colecții, muzee și capsule ale timpului, despre urmele lăsate de timpul pierdut în texte, imagini și asupra obiectelor.

Desperate and despondent, Yitz struggles forward to find Adina’s heart. The final pieces have been played, and the architect of New Dis’s upheaval has been revealed. With Hephaestion indisposed and Boudica missing, few heroes remain to rectify the oppression promised by this new enemy.

Pisica lui Dalai Lama se confruntă acum cu un adevăr neplăcut: începe să îmbătrânească. O vizită de rutină la medicul veterinar confirmă aceasta. Dar un viitor al decrepitudinii, cu hrană pentru feline senioare, este neapărat un motiv de deznădejde? Ea va descoperi curând că o reamintire surprinzătoare a efemerităţii noastre este exact de ce avem nevoie ca să retrezim recunoştinţa faţă de viaţă, să ne destindem, să ne acceptăm pe noi înșine şi să apreciem ceea ce contează cu adevărat.

River of Angels, set on a tropical island in the Caribbean, reveals the multiple facets of life condensed within a small town. The story examines individuals caught between the world of conventional society and the world that speaks to an individual's true self.

If you could live forever, would you want to? This is the story of Anita and Kimmo's struggle against cancer, of Aender and Kiyoshi and the first interstellar war, and of An and Ki and Earth’s last days.

US, the first title in The Gallo Chronicles series, follows Alexander Gallo from a life of abuse, violence, and treachery to a life he’d never imagined. With the help of the enigmatic Aton, and with the support of the only woman with the soft feminine strength to reach his wounded heart, Alex sets off on his odyssey. As Alex’s adventures circle the globe, he betters himself and increases his understanding of the universe–and his task in his current incarnation.

After narrowly escaping Aleron’s monster, Tashon is left with a connection to the fourth dimension that grants him new insights and grand visions. What he sees leads to the discovery of two living, intelligent species on Aethera. One believes in pacifism above all else, while the other thinks Aethera belongs to them alone.

A unique award-winning novel that combines side-splitting humor with the quest for enlightenment. Orthodontist Jacob Silverstein is not your typical tooth-straightener. He’s a novelist by night who dreams of becoming a best-selling author.

Soul’s Sojourn is a fictionalized account of an ongoing true story that may or may not have ever occurred. It is a metaphysical excursion through time and space, and between realities, with an 800-year-old Atlantean wizard and teacher, and a young English lad, his student. Author, teacher, healer, and psychic Mani Pureheart has skillfully built upon his detailed past life memories, augmented by a lavish touch of fantasy and fiction, to build an intoxicating journey through time, space, and several different realities.

Why is it that everything seems to come in threes? Three reincarnated gods. Three evil villains. Three days until the Storm Moon and the possible end of the world....

Sion Zona narrowly escaped Tamuria’s wrath. But the empire has taken some of the brewing war’s most important elementals prisoner. Sion was told Tamuria’s prisons were unplottable. What he didn’t realize was that unplottable indicated different worlds.