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Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around" - welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast.

Victoria Sheldon's life couldn't get anymore mundane. Since marrying Adam, who's often occupied with more important matters than investing time in their marriage, Victoria got used to being lonely. She passes the time by watching movies, including those with Kyran Cornell, her imagined flame. That's until she finds herself abducted and thrust into a fantasy guided by a madman with a bizarre appetite for brutality.

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.

The prophecy brought them together. But the Wolf has risen, and now their greatest battle begins. The four members of Warriors Riding have learned to wage war in the supernatural, to send their spirits inside people’s souls, to battle demonic forces, and to bring deep healing to those around them. But their leader Reece is struggling with the loss of his sight.

Allison Moore is making it. Barely. The Seattle area architecture firm she started with her best friend is struggling, but at least they’re free from the games played by the corporate world. She’s gotten over her divorce. And while her dad’s recent passing is tough, their relationship had never been easy. Then the bomb drops. Her dad had a secret life and left her mom in massive debt. As Allison scrambles to help her mom find a way out, she’s given a journal, anonymously, during a visit to her favorite coffee shop.

The day I pulled War Diary 666 from a dusty shelf in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg is one I will never forget. Hidden between the pages, I found a letter—apparently written from Adolf Hitler's Fuhrerbunker—just hours before his demonic den was captured by Russian soldiers.

The New Atlantis (1627) is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon in which he describes a vision of the future of human discovery, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humanity. The novel portrays a utopian world where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the dominant qualities of the inhabitants.

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.

Grandma's last will and testament names Ray to inherit the trailer park. It's a million-dollar estate with one hitch: To prove he's not as aimless as he seems, Ray must discover the meaning of life by the end of the month. (She left the answer in an envelope.) If he fails, the camp goes to his estranged family.

If techno-shaman Olivia Lawson thinks a trip to the Hopi mesas is the escape she needs, she is gravely mistaken. Abducted from her tour, Livvy quickly discovers that all is not as it seems in the quiet villages. Formidable shamans draw her into a bitter and centuries-old conflict. While Livvy struggles to do what's right, she can't help but pursue an unexpected chance to be with the man she loves.

Soulwaves is a metaphysical and cosmological adventure across space and time. Soulwaves are the missing dark energy and dark matter that cosmologists can’t find. They bond people to people, moons to planets, planets to stars, and stars to other stars to form galaxies. When this book proper begins in 2059, China has become the predominant force on the world stage. You will discover that events on planet Earth, and all other sentient planets, are nano-managed by greater and even more pervasive forces.

Elana has taken something that didn’t belong to her. Or at least she tried to, someone beat her to it. Whoever the thief is, it makes no difference to the Japanese storm god Susano-o and his eight headed snake monster, Yamata no Orochi.

At the end of a metaphysical conference, reluctant attendee Camille Dare discovers an envelope with her name on it. Filled with travel documents, a photograph, and bloody scarf material, the source of the envelope and its contents remain anonymous, but the directive is clear: Find the missing person in this unusual case. The missing person, Katherine Agurre, comes from a high-profile family. A growing obsession with the missing person case and her own quest for self-understanding compel Camille to begin a trip to meet people she never knew and locations she never expected to visit.

When Peace-in-the-Sky awakens as a captive with a young girl by her side, she only understands one thing: she must escape the tribe who captured her. A brutal head injury makes the past a swirling fog, so she is reliant on the girl—her precocious daughter Anissa—to guide them. She must return Anissa to the Tribes-under-the-Dome to keep her safe from warring and vicious tribes inhabiting the wasted landscape.

Todos nós, em algum momento, já ouvimos essa passagem da carta de São Paulo aos Coríntios. Mas será que realmente compreendemos sua mensagem? No final do século XIX, o jovem missionário Henry Drummond é convidado a substituir um famoso pregador. A princípio a plateia fica contrariada, mas logo é cativada por sua análise das palavras do apóstolo Paulo. Esse sermão, The Greatest Thing in the World, tornou-se um clássico e sem dúvida é um dos textos mais bonitos já escritos sobre o Amor. Drummond o decompõe em nove elementos.

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.

A man discovers that the dead have awareness and are tethered to their body for a year after they die, so he begins a frantic activism to try and convince the world to stop burying their loved ones.

Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he's never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".

O demônio e a srta. Prym é o último livro da trilogia que Paulo Coelho chamou de “E no sétimo dia...”—antes dele vieram Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei e Veronika decide morrer. Essas três histórias acompanham uma semana na vida de pessoas comuns que de repente se veem diante de um enorme desafio. É justamente isso que os habitantes do pequeno vilarejo de Viscos vão enfrentar. Certo dia, um estrangeiro chega à cidade em busca de uma resposta que já o atormentava fazia um tempo: os seres humanos são, na essência, bons ou ruins?

The collective unconscious is real. It's the guiding energy that works at influencing each person's subconscious mind with the universe's chaotic cosmic knowledge by using our dreams as a conduit. But it's weak. Humanity's thirst for consumption has rendered the collective unconscious fragile, and Frank Cutler wants to take advantage of this. But Engella Iblis has other plans, as she unknowingly embarks on a quest to help humanity reconnect with the energy of the cosmos.