Showing results for "Fire" in Metaphysical & Visionary

A seven percent grasp of the infinite. The universe may be limitless, but our senses are not. Just as the human eye sees but a small percentage of the cosmic wave spectrum, in the same way, most of us are only able to perceive a similar sliver of what we brazenly term “reality”, even with the use of all five of our scientifically acknowledged senses. This month-by-month account of people-supernatural relations spans its own sci-fi/fantasy/horror/comedy spectrum, touring the weird side of the cosmos while leaving the passengers comfy and unscathed in their listening chairs.

When Vicky becomes the target of a serial arsonist plaguing the city, Darien calls on the supernatural community to help. Pulling the creatures of the night together to cooperate on any project is troublesome at the best of times. The fact that the one responsible for the city's woes is a being of fire and magic leads the reluctant groups to a truce that makes Vicky start to think that her job might be a bit more than one normal human can handle.

Rada Dunn is used to the solitary life of the arid valley north of the little town of Peace. Nothing much happens there, and her bean and wheat crops provide her with just enough to keep her away from the rest of her kind...which is how she's come to like it. But when she comes upon human remains that have recently been burned so intensely that they are merely sticky black bones, her serenity is shattered.

Deep Into the Fire: A Thriller Beyond Time follows the extraordinary life of Agent Norbu LaNart. Norbu is just a normal intelligence agent, except that he is a reincarnated Tibetan lama. His partner, Fiona, just shot the beloved director of the agency, a genius deviant is trying to steal their DNA, the Russian mob has him surrounded and he fulfils a Tibetan prophecy.

Disenchanted with her personal life and faced with mounting career pressures, 39-year-old Michelle Black dreams of escape. But the high-octane finance professional and mother of two is ashamed to admit the depth of her struggles. Michelle’s frustration intensifies when her fumbling attempts to ask for help go unheeded. Then, work goes from bad to worse. Desperate to relieve the bleakness inside, Michelle turns to unspoken addictions and dangerous behaviors for a balm to her wounded soul. When the band-aids fail, what can she do next?

When a big project at work goes south, Michelle Black finds herself in the CFO's crosshairs. Trapped in a world that's dictated by everyone else's rules and her own lies, Michelle's controlled mask shatters. Awake or asleep, long-buried memories rise up to re-traumatize her. Faced with the nightmarish prospect of returning to work after a ruinous family vacation, she finally finds the courage to ask for help.

Julian Michelson is a firefighter in a small town in Alabama. He's been struggling for years to prove to himself that Word Speakers, people who can pull characters from books, exist. Why? Because he's supposed to be one and he's failed every step of the way and a war is supposedly coming. Serena, a princess in fictional medieval Britain, is the epitome of a good girl. She lives to appease her father and her country. That is, until she felt a strange voice in her head before waking up and seeing a handsome man through the flames of a fire in a strange world.

The ensemble characters in this story are women who meet in massage school and become just one of the circles in Baba's life, each a mother, each with her own hard choices, and each loving themselves more as their relationship to Baba, spirituality, and to each other allows them to "find their female."

When dark magic descends and super technology fails, power rises from the heart. Lyla has it all: beauty, intelligence, and the protection of a legion of soldiers. That is, if she stays in her universe. When a two-minute job turns into an impossible mission, the princess from the most powerful universe is stranded on Earth with a lone guard. Michael only takes Lyla to Earth because it is supposed to be a small mission. Now, not only the job goes pear-shaped, but technology also fails them.

The Girl Who Invoked Fire continues the odyssey of Jian Byrne, an unassuming but gifted Irish orphan who bears the scars of lifetimes. Guided by unseen forces, Jian is shown visions of her mother as a young woman, which spurs her search into her family’s disappearance and beyond into life’s profound secrets.

Una vittima del terremoto. Un feroce pirata. Cosa accomuna le loro storie? Una spasmodica ricerca di risposte. Ogni personaggio è posto faccia a faccia coni suoi più profondi interrogativi, con le sue ombre, ma anche con la scintilla di luce che guida il suo destino. Ogni ambientazione ospita un viaggio e manifesta i lati della psiche umana con i suoi archetipi: l’acqua, la morte, il potere, la conoscenza, la paura, la follia, il fuoco.

Dooms entangle and karmas collide when a heroine from our mythical past reincarnates to save the future only to find she might be the pawn who seals our fate. Forced to wield metaphysics to break a curse, Cassandra Shavano - newlywed, avid hiker, environmentalist - traps herself along with seven others, a teenage ghost, and our parent species in a quantum labyrinth fraught with seduction, betrayal, and murder.

The wild and weird action continues nonstop in Chalcedony and the Truth, the third installment in the Piper Gods series. This time around we jump back in time to 1967, when revolution–and music–was in the air. April Corrigan and an ever-expanding group of friends become enmeshed in a bizarre mystery surrounding a vanished friend and pieces of chalcedony that seem to appear like breadcrumbs along a mysterious path to...well, they don't even know where they're going, but April and her friends can't resist the ride anyway.

Unityfest is more than just a huge pop event organized by superdivas Tarina, B-Word, and Kalli, globally renowned as the Sirens, for the chart-topping trio are in reality sorcerers many centuries old and the event is a ruse designed to drain the very life from their millions of adoring fans, thus making the three veritable gods on Earth.