Metaphysical Fiction

The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates and she finds herself on a path toward personal discovery and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African landscape.

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness.

The world is broken. The powerful machines that once ruled over land and sky fought and died, leaving humanity in a primitive age of swords and monsters. But that was long ago, and only legends of the Schism remain. Enoch has never been frightened by these tales. He sees things differently from the other youth in Rewn's Fork, and that makes him an outcast. Where others see crops and weather and flocks of sheep, Enoch sees numbers and patterns.

Al más puro estilo de los relatos de enigmas de Javier Sierra. El maestro del Prado presenta un apasionante recorrido por las historias más desconocidas y secretas de una de las pinacotecas más importantes del mundo, el Museo del Prado. Una historia fascinante de cómo un aprendiz de escritor aprendió a mirar cuadros y a entender unos mensajes ocultos que difieren de la ortodoxia de la Iglesia católica, una institución que en el Renacimiento era visto más como opresores que como espiritual.

The world’s only superhero was discovered in 1969. No others were ever found. Until now. With Station destroyed and their friends dead, might Daniel and Abos finally be allowed some peace? Yeah, right. Daniel’s talents are needed by a UN department taking on the bad guys, including rogue halfheroes. Abos is searching for more of her species. She soon finds she’s not the only one looking. There’s a new threat that no one saw coming. And halfheroes are being targeted. When Daniel goes missing, it’s down to Abos to find out what’s going on and try to stop it.

It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home - or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.

Qui si narra di un Viaggio trascendente, intrapreso dall'Io per conoscere l'essenza del sé e del Tutto. Il percorso si svolge alla ricerca della Libertà e Felicità, passando attraverso Ricordi, Sogni, Speranze, Illusioni, Delusioni, Incanti, Disincanti, Sentimenti e Prove vissute dall'Io. Il Viaggio riserverà una sorpresa, che culminerà in un incontro con un'Anima singolare: Figura intramontabile, tra i massimi autori della letteratura italiana e universale di tutti i tempi.

La giovinezza fa da sfondo alla narrazione di questi racconti, che prendono spunto dai ricordi dell'autore. I sentimenti vissuti si fan teatro di atmosfere che pullulano di fragranze: l'aria è limpida e profuma di "incantevoli essenze naturali", quelle che fan tanto bene al cuore, indispensabili perché la loro mancanza impedisce di Sognare e di Respirare la magnificenza di cui è intrisa la vera Aria.

Il tema dell'audiolibro si svolge lungo l'analisi del significato di Felicità. La Felicità è quella necessità che deriva dalla sua proverbiale mancanza. La sua stessa essenza implica l'esistenza dell'antipode, che si definisce Infelicità.

In this lyrical and deeply moving tale, Ingo Swann weaves a story of love, memory, and reincarnation — of souls who find one another again and again across lifetimes, carried by the invisible winds of destiny. Through radiant, visionary prose, Swann explores the mystery of consciousness and the unseen threads that bind one life to another. Fictional yet deeply personal, The Windy Song reflects his lifelong inquiry into the enduring journey of the soul — and the gentle forces of love that guide it.

Antoine, la quarantaine, est expert en assurances. Depuis longtemps, trop longtemps, il estime, indemnise la vie des autres. Une nuit, il s'intéresse à la valeur de la sienne et nous entraîne au cœur de notre humanité. Du nord de la France à la côte ouest du Mexique, "On ne voyait que le bonheur" offre aussi une plongée dans le monde de l'adolescence, pays de tous les dangers et de toutes les promesses.

Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow émigrés who are too distracted to pay him any heed.

Six months ago, the young Dr. Joseph risked his practice, patients, and his safe and secure future on an idea - a theory universally denounced by his peers. Joseph's decision takes him on a journey through peaks and valleys, a trek that reveals mysteries along the way - secrets that light his path.

Krygelski writes a compelling and startling story centered on the mysterious arrival of a man who claims to be the Creator. Clearly not a mortal, Elohim - as the stranger prefers to be known - astounds those he meets with unexplainable miracles and reality-altering answers. All of this is but a prelude to his announcement that he has come to do something...something which will affect every person on Earth...something which will occur in five days.

Professor Blip Korterly is arrested, his friend Dr. Flake Fountain is drafted into a shadow-government research project to develop the ultimate biological weapon, and an accidental outbreak turns into a merry-hearted, babble-inducing apocalypse that will either destroy humankind or take it to the next step in evolution.

Tema del racconto è il desiderio di essere altrove: in un altro Universo. Riaffiora, così, l'antico ricordo di un sogno fatto d'ingenuità e romantico sentimento. È l'incanto perduto che diviene rimpianto, nostalgica rappresentazione catartica di un pianto che lacrima di delusione, solitudine e malinconia.

As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth.

Josh was trying to straighten out his life and get back to his four-year-old daughter, Sophie, when Sen, a young Immortal (with his own family and relationship issues), shanghaied him to stop a genocidal-soul harvester. All because Josh has a briefcase handy!

Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot's shame in Sodom; Noah's isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the 17th century.