Metaphysical Fiction

Ma chi sono questi uomini, chi sono i "demoni"? I demoni sono anzitutto "uomini d'idea", come li definisce Bachtìn, cioè uomini posseduti, tormentati, divorati da un'idea, cioè da una concezione onnicomprensiva, onniesplicativa e onnirisolutiva della realtà, uomini che si credono in possesso della "Verità", ma ognuno dei quali si è costruito una sua "verità" in una forma aberrante, distruttiva, catastrofica.

In 1923, 17-year-old Esther arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a 22-year journey, woven against the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God....

Louie Hake is 43 and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome - ludicrously, spectacularly so - and fails to reach most of his other destinations.

Not everything someone sees is real. Now, both sides of the story are tested by those who hide their reasons. For some, the reasons are good, for others not so much. Molly, Oz, Joel, Sean, Jack, and the others are back in action, supporting the Etheric Federation to stop a planet from being destroyed. At the same time, Molly is working on a personal project to implement teaching at a higher level.

It was a hard sell, but Cameron had convinced Heather to return to the exoplanet Sang-Morang - where he had hoped they could experience the wonder of this majestic corner of the universe, together. The spacecraft Primion was flight-ready and the immense creature - the Minal Loth - seemed content to follow him wherever he went. And he still had the old Ford pickup truck, gassed up, and ready to explore more of that alien landscape. But Cameron’s well-intentioned plan turns out to be one of his very worst.

The Diamond of Freedom, book three in The Unaltered series, melds together history, geology, metaphysics, science, and fantasy in this non-stop nail biter. Calli and Chris race against the clock to identify the power-neutralizing stone that prevents Calli from healing her life-threatening injuries. She must also learn how to counter its effects before she can fight against the rogue Diamond Bearer named Freedom to save the boy she loves and the world of her friends.

In this keenly observant dissection of a love affair in limbo, award-winning author Inês Pedrosa masterfully draws readers into the feverish, unsparing dual confessions of a man and a woman who are finally baring their hearts, souls, fury, and grief over a relationship that was abruptly shattered and never forgotten. Until now, there was so much between them left unspoken. With each new unguarded, darkly funny, and emotional disclosure, they’re brought back together—though impossibly so.

When the General invites Molly and her crew to the ArchAngel, it's not long before news also arrives of a serious threat to the Federation. It falls to Molly and her team to deal with the threat, which winds up in an intense hostage situation. Meanwhile, back on Sark, Molly’s team helps Chaakwa along with her unconventional help to bring her father's killers to justice. Can Molly handle everything thrown at her?

Storms, hurricanes, and earthquakes everywhere, a savior appears, preaching of end times: rapture, damnation, Earth entering some supposed invisible force field he calls the "Photon Belt". Some say he's Jesus or Buddha, or some new master of light. Palo Alto software technician Egbert Benson sees he's a fake, cashing in on those weird calamities. Yet he has some mysterious power over dreams, and every day the world falls more into chaos.

Nel Medioevo leggendario del cattolicesimo monastico si snoda la storia dell'amicizia fra il dotto e ascetico Narciso, destinato a una brillante carriera religiosa al riparo dalle insidie del mondo e della storia, e Boccadoro, l'artista geniale e vagabondo, tentato dall'infinita ricchezza della vita e segretamente innamorato anche della sua caducità.

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.

Molly is back from the dead. And now even more capable. But the transformation is not without more serious issues. Problems that not even ADAM can help with. Feeling cursed, she undergoes a vision quest. The rest of the team prepare for the General's clandestine assignment back at the base.

Not yet 16, Bellamy Larson - or Beam, as she'd rather be called - remembers everything. Truthfully, there's a lot she'd just rather forget. Beam never knew her father and doesn't ever want to. Her little brother died while saving her. And her mother self-medicates, leaving Beam to fend for herself. She doesn't need friends. She just needs to get away. Buzz Donovan is on a journey across America. Luckily for him, he has a friend - a dog named Hush. It's because of Hush, though, that Buzz is homeless. But that's his choice, because if it weren't for Hush, he'd be dead.

Der Einzige Staat hat eine mathematisch unfehlbare Formel für das absolute Glück gefunden. Das Raumschiff Integral, entworfen von dem Wissenschaftler D-503, soll diese frohe Botschaft in ferne Galaxien tragen. Doch es gibt revolutionäre Kräfte, die auf individueller Entscheidungsfreiheit bestehen und den wohltätigen Diktator stürzen wollen. Eine von ihnen ist die schöne I-330. Sie wird auf D-503 angesetzt, um den Integral in die Hände des Widerstands zu bringen.

The discovery of a hidden extraterrestrial craft on Earth attracts attention from those who would seek to possess and learn from it. As the casualties mount, nobody is safe in this action packed story of deception and violence. The Pebble lay lost and undisturbed for millennia, harboring answers to eternal questions. Five sealed auction invitations, sent to heads of state to ensure that the Pebble does not fall into the hands of a clandestine organization by the name of Onyx, trigger an unforeseen sequence of events.

General Lance Reynolds needs Molly’s team for a clandestine operation. The only problem? It kicks off in one week, and the Syndicate needs cleaning up once and for all. So what is a girl to do? Go on the offensive, of course. But with the ultimate take down planned for the bad guys of Planet Estaria, you know it’s going to be epic. But at what cost?

It's August 1965, and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted.

The threat of a funding cut from the shadowy government agency supporting the Lazarus Project - a quantum machine that can emulate the human mind - leaves scientists Hammond Hinkley and Addison Royale in a predicament: demonstrate quick (and militarily useful) results to their backers or watch the plug pulled on the project that has preoccupied them for so many years. This leads to the hasty decision to digitize Hammond’s mind into Flux, his own largely untested machine, despite the risks known and unknown.

The artificial intelligence, Maitreya, first came into being 150,000 years ago. Over the millennia, it has spread Terran-based life, humanity, and its avatars throughout an empty galaxy, creating the New Integral Society. Now, a supernova threatens one of Maitreya's experimental worlds, Solandaria - the only such world that harbors the Sonoran desert toad and its powerful 5-MeO-DMT containing venom, the most profound entheogen ever discovered. Things are not what they seem, however, for someone is interfering with Maitreya's experiment, violating the rules of the NIS.

Hear the scintillating conclusion of the Splintered Universe trilogy. In Metaverse, Rhea Hawke travels back to Earth, hoping to convince an eccentric mystic to help her defend humanity from an impending Vos attack - only to find herself trapped in a deception that promises to change her and her two worlds forever.