Titoli in Metafisica e visionaria

Tebas, XVIII dinastía. Amenofis III, llamado el magnífico, se encuentra en la cumbre de su poder. Su joven hijo Nafuria siente tanta aversión por las armas como amor al estudio y en la corte es llamado despreciativamente el príncipe filósofo. Ansioso por conocer la vida más allá del palacio, escapa una noche para verse envuelto en una aventura mágica y espiritual en la que recibe las enseñanzas de un maestro llamado Mawlana, incluyendo la noción de una divinidad impersonal o gran inteligencia universal muy por encima de todos los dioses conocidos.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, en Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, la Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de l'hora punta, en Pedro s'entreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rumors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de l'autobús. Tot això influirà poc a poc en el seu voluble pensament. Al final del viatge ja no serà el mateix. Tot el que ha vist i pensat durant el trajecte el portarà a un coneixement més crític i profund de les coses, les persones i la societat en què viu, una societat que decideix el seu destí amb unes cartes marcades des de l'inici.

Ante la enormidad de la vida, con sus largos años y su final que pareciera que nunca llegará, ¿qué nos motiva a vivirla? Cuando un viaje prometido de una madre a un hijo se ve aplazado en el tiempo, movida desde el futuro cercano a la perpetuidad, ¿Qué se siente saber que el viaje nunca llegará? La residencia Ramsay conocerá la muerte y la pérdida a medida que venga. Son aspectos inseparables de la vida, pero a la vez lo son el amor y la euforia de conocerse a sí mismo en el transcurso de los años.

Una nit en què està a punt de nevar, una dona espera la seva filla petita, que no acaba d''arribar mai. El periple londinenc d'un escriptor a qui han encarregat una missió compromesa i que acabarà realitzant-ne una altra de ben diferent. Un professor enigmàtic torna gairebé dues dècades més tard, quan ja ningúno pensava en ell. Una angelical collidora de flors que s'acosta als noranta anys.

La certeza de vivir al final de los tiempos desafía a nuestro personaje a desentrañar un misterio que lo abarcará todo: el pasado, el presente, el futuro, la Tierra, la vida en la Tierra, su propia gesta personal. Develar cuál es su papel en el momento más trascendental de su mundo, le exigirá descubrir el propósito de la existencia y la herencia genética. Para proyectarse al futuro y cumplir su misión, tendrá que escapar de la matrix alienadora y alcanzar la libertad de la reconciliación.

Lucian Taylor, the hero, is damned either through contact with an erotically pagan "other" world or through something degenerate in his own nature, which he thinks of as a "faun". He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. One of the first explorations in fiction of the figure of the doomed artist, who is biographically so much a part of the decadent 1890s.

Debido al trabajo de su padre, Elena una niña que vive en Barcelona tiene que dejar su ciudad para irse de repente a vivir a un sitio completamente distinto: el Valle Sagrado de los incas en Perú Lógicamente para la niña va a ser difícil sobrellevar ese cambio tan repentino y brusco en su forma de vida, pero va a ayudarla para poder adaptarse a su nuevo entorno un personaje fascinante: un chamán llamado Galpi.

En Milenio, a través de sus personajes, Álvaro Joaquín y Rebeca, el autor analiza el paso del tiempo y cómo nos afecta. La obra transcurre en la terraza de la casa de los padres de Álvaro en los momentos anteriores a los fuegos artificiales que anuncian la llegada de la noche de San Juan. Vamos a revivir varios momentos de la vida de los tres amigos, a lo largo de los cuales, iremos escuchando su evolución personal íntima, su orientación sexual, sus rupturas de pareja, maternidad....

El Universo acabará borrando toda huella de la existencia de la humanidad. La memoria del ser humano, sus recuerdos, desaparecerán para siempre, a no ser que encontremos un vehículo para su transmisión hacia el infinito temporal. Jesús Blanco, profesor y empresario de éxito en el campo de las nuevas tecnologías, se niega a aceptar lo que le depara el destino y está dispuesto a protagonizar una aventura, que posiblemente le permita existir por siempre.

Evan Michaels struggles with being different, with having the complete memories of two other people who lived sequentially before him. He fights loneliness and believes he is unique until he meets Poppy. She recognizes his struggle because she is like him, except that she is much older, remembering seven consecutive lives. But there is something else she must share with Evan - she is a member of the secretive Cognomina. They are, in effect, immortals - compiling experiences and skills over lifetimes into near superhuman abilities that they have used to drive history over centuries.

Finally, Cameron Decker is reunited with Heather - the love of his life, now a fellow galactic traveler in her own right. Each has survived their own hellish experiences. Now onboard their new starship, they settle in for the journey home to Earth - or what's left of it. News is not good: the massive, tentacled Loths are multiplying at an astounding rate, and much of humankind has either perished, succumbing to the rampaging beasts, or moved on to other worlds.

Author and philosopher Sydney Banks once again brings to life his wise and simple gardener as a voice through which Banks presents more implications of the Three Principles that create human reality, calling on us to realize that to fully understand the Principles is to liberate one's spirit. In this sequel to Sydney Banks’ book The Enlightened Gardener, two colleagues return to England to meet once again with the remarkable gardener whose simple yet profound philosophy made such a difference to their lives.

Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author’s generation.

Okano, a convenience store employee with a troubled past, is but one of the many unforgettable characters found in this collection of four stories. Among the others are three boys facing a frightening lesson in mortality, a woman using garbage to fill a hole in her heart, and a nurse struggling to cope with the oft-brutal cycle of birth, life, and death. Remaining constant even as it fades in and out of view is the great Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s Three Holy Mountains. It serves as the anchor for these characters’ lives, and for Randy Taguchi’s Fujisan, an exploration of redemption, discovery, loss, and remembrance.

When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his 20th birthday.

On his 21st birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can’t remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up alongside the woman he loves. The next time he wakes, two years have passed and Jeremy is now a spectator of his own life. Victoria has given him a child, but the man alongside her is a cruel, egotistical, seemingly unknowable Jeremy. Is it amnesia? Insanity? Or has Jeremy been cursed for his selfish, destructive act?

An epic adventure, Ships of Song, A Parable of Ascension, explores the holographic nature of humanity, integrating science, religion, philosophy and fantasy into a cinematic view of human existence. It reveals the intricate tapestry of a loving universe which orchestrates the delicate dance of oneness with All That Is, offering hope for a brighter future and the realization that we are not alone in the universe.

Trouble always finds Angela Constantine. And Angela's impulsive, hot-tempered colleague Wanda is about to cause more trouble than anyone could know. Except Angela. She's not like the rest of us. She sees things we don't - she can recognize a killer just by looking in their eyes. And Angela knows that sooner or later, one way or another, everyone pays for their sins. She'll make certain of it.

Cass Neary made her name in the 70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.

Brian Polk had been stateside for barely a year after leaving the Air Force when the unthinkable happened. It was an interstellar invasion. The Earupitans' technology and weaponry was so remarkable, humanity never really had a chance. The aliens now walk brazenly among humans - their reptilian eyes always watchful, always scrutinizing. Humanity now lives in fear - freedom is a thing of the past. And then there are those who have befriended the enemy. But not Captain Brian Polk. When he acquires some of the alien technology, he finally has hope of making some small difference.

In the year 2129, a storm of meteorites unleashes strongzine, stradamine, and starlox, poisoning Earth's atmosphere. Acid rain decimates life, sparing only a handful of humans. This disaster, known as the Ruin, shapes a world where survival is brutal. Five centuries later, humanity persists. Conn Brataich, a noble Cloudwalker, navigates the treacherous New York Skylands above the cloudbank. Misty Casper, a Grounder, endures the harsh life in the remnants of Manhattan's subway tunnels below.