Metaphysical Fiction

High-school senior Meera has big plans. She's going to make the world beautiful. The only problem is that to do this she's got to attend interior design school at the university, hundreds of miles from home. She hasn’t gone on a sleepover since seventh grade. Thank God, her BFF Penn is there for her because with Lorraine, her mom, it’s complicated. When Meera discovers something unexpected, a whole lot of confusing things suddenly make sense and, simultaneously, absolutely nothing is clear.

Sweeney is a druggist by trade; Danny, his son, is in a persistent coma, the victim of an accident. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the Peck Clinic, a fortress-like haven in a post-industrial city overrun by gangs. Doctors there claim to have resurrected two patients who were similarly lost in the void.

In 1975 a black child named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born to white parents. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists who stage experimental art for people suffering under war-time sieges, Radar is forced to confront the true nature of his identity.

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.

When a solid-gold reliquary missing from a church in Belgium suddenly resurfaces in America, a young newspaperman begins to investigate the story. At first it seems like just another case of a treasure stolen during World War II that has resurfaced. But it soon becomes apparent that much more is at stake.

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy - Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience - presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect America and the world in the digital age of the 21st century.

In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake—if it was a mistake—until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn’t feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls and launches into the business of life, determined to be happy.

A "La gran caiguda", Peter Handke ens porta a seguir a un personatge durant les seves aventures per la ciutat. El protagonista, un actor experimentat, desperta a casa d'una dona desconeguda. No recorda com o per quin motiu ha arribat allà. Començará a caminar sense rumb per la ciutat a l'espera del rodatge que comença el dia següent, i durant el seu camí es trobará a tot un conjunt de personatges a partir dels quals en Peter Handke parla de temes com la memória, la identitat i el passar del temps.

What happens when a young Florida champion athlete and his high school sweetheart resolve to do whatever it takes to unravel the mysteries of human spiritual transformation? John Wilder and Devi Duran go on a revolutionary journey of change through heart, mind, body, breath, and sexuality. Join them as they uncover The Secrets of Wilder - sacred techniques for cultivating deep inner silence, ecstasy, and enlightenment. Their discoveries are destined to change the world, but at what cost?

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.

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

Upon waking up from a cataclysmic dream state that engulfed an entire region, the author-to-be Lyan Ling tells her husband Lao Tzu about the fantastical vision that she witnessed in the depths of her consciousness. A world enclosed within gigantic walls, the ground is made up of large steps, each step large enough to house a medieval town. The world is populated by a hierarchal kingdom and animals that grow through photosynthesis. The sky rains gemstones and glass shards.

Life-transforming, priceless, and world-enhancing wisdom may be attained by studying and embracing the message in this spectacular novel about each human's potential to plan and prepare for, then embark on their own "Pilgrimage to Eternity." By carefully studying the background, upbringing, perspectives, attitudes, motivation, inspiration, compassion, empathy, altruistic actions, life philosophy, and angelic motherly behavior of these "Two Sisters, The Dynamic Duo, Pilgrimage to Eternity" as described in this book, every listener will be empowered by wisdom and enlightenment.

Curious? This thought-provoking and original novel blends humor, philosophy, science, and history into a captivating story that celebrates the beautiful mess of being human. A novel that promises to touch your heart, make you laugh, and leave you thinking.

En esta fascinante historia solo está Manrique. Es un iluso joven que es arrastrado por su soledad. Quizás buscando salir de esa soledad que cada vez se apodera más de él, le parece ver a una muy linda damisela perdida entre la espesura de la noche. Este, se enamora perdidamente de esta aparición. A lo largo de su extravagante fascinación, logra desarrollar un completo apego y unas fantasías increíbles con esta persona, que en realidad solo vive en la mentalidad de Manrique. Todo esto sigue sin parar hasta que finalmente logra desvelar el famoso misterio de la chica de sus sueños.

The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century. In this collection read by Sir Cedric Harwicke, Robert Newton and David Moore are poems by John Donne, Robert Southwell, Richard Crawshaw, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell.

The Butterfly’s Apprentice is a modern day tale of universal wisdom and spiritual discovery reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach. Written in a fashion that is as driving as a thriller yet as thoughtful as a philosopher’s contemplation, this literary work seamlessly blends heart-pounding momentum with profound introspection, leaving readers exhilarated and enriched in equal measure.

Alcuni fatti misteriosi scuotono la vita semplice e apparentemente tranquilla di un villaggio abbarbicato sulle montagne andine. Tutti gli abitanti della piccola comunità appartengono a uno dei due clan familiari, i Rojas e i Montoya: due ceppi dinastici che convivono da sempre pacificamente, anche se in un clima di concordia obbligata più che voluta. Ma all’improvviso strane e inquietanti apparizioni cominciano a manifestarsi nei sogni di uno dei capifamiglia, per poi diffondersi in quelli dell’altro patriarca e infine di tutti gli abitanti del pueblo.

Through a dream, a little girl named Ember connects to the time she decided who she would be in this lifetime, before she was born. She travels through time to see different special moments in her life as Ember. Each scene honors one of the four elements; Water, Air, Earth & Fire.

A twisting journey through the fourth dimension leads Tashon through perils and wonders to a place he never thought he’d see again. Something cries for help from across the universe. With Aethera settled into its two new nations, Tashon sets out across the fourth dimension to find the source of the plea and, if he can, help it.