Zen Fiction

In The First Christmas, Stephen Mitchell brings the Nativity story to vivid life as never before. A narrative that is only sketched out in two Gospels becomes fully realized here with nuanced characters and a setting that reflects the culture of the time. Mitchell has suffused the birth of Jesus with a sense of beauty that will delight and astonish listeners.

Neopolitan businessmen, politicians, and eminent mafiosi are assassinated as someone takes literally the job of cleaning up the city's tarnished image. In this mystery, Aurelio Zen discovers that in '90s 'New Italy', things are still the same.

When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell 150 feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silenced - by violent death. To crack the secret of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal.

From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous—and profitable—women’s clothing company in London, and is dating a hot Taiwanese pop star. But Renee is lonely. Estranged from her family in Singapore, she practically lives at the office, and now she’s just been dumped by her supposed boyfriend. Who she never saw anyway, so why is she ruining her Instagram-ready makeup by crying? Before she can curl up on the couch with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, Renee’s father calls.

A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.

The story of a dance with the divine. This book is number four of the tales of Zen and her travels.

内容紹介

小川未明の童話 全705話を朗読で収録しています。

小川未明の作品は明治～昭和にかけての当時の日本の生活、子ども達の暮らしなどが物語を通して感じることができ、日本の歩みを子どもたちに教えることができます。
そして、小川未明の作品の中には戦時中の背景が描かれているものあります。 今、語り継がれることの少ない戦時中の経験を物語でわかりやすく子どもたちに...

En las vísperas del año 2061, los espejos negros descienden para ocupar las principales ciudades del mundo. Con ellos llega la tecnología del Zen'nō a la Tierra, junto con su promesa de "perfección": cuerpos destrozados por la hiperrealidad, seres que habitan dimensiones hechas de vóxeles, espíritus que mueren y renacen en la búsqueda del Nirvana bioluminiscente.

大宋很文雅，大宋也曾富庶；正因如此，大宋有很多被人误解的另一面。大宋王朝三百年，风云变幻常如许？……大宋很文雅，大宋也曾富庶；正因如此，大宋有很多被人誤解的另一面。大宋王朝三百年，風雲變幻常如許？

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon. This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.

This is the fifth book in the Zen and her adventures series and features CQ the mermaid. This book is zany but does not come with a warning and anyone can listen to it. In this book, Zen comes back from being lost and tries to make up her mind as to what to do with all her newfound knowledge, but too many things, internally and externally, prevent her from becoming quiet enough to listen, and the pirates are, of course, no help.

Swiss equestrian William "Zen" Griegg skyrockets to the top of the European show jumping circuit. As he sets his sights on the 2000 Olympic Games, his beloved horse Tiger is abducted en route to a competition in the United States. Zen's father, Sigmund Griegg, again teams with American Alana Eastwood to solve an international mystery that leads them from a secret tunnel in the Owl Mountains of Poland, through the art galleries of Zürich, to the Hamilton Farm Equestrian Center in Gladstone, New Jersey.

Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday - relaxing in the sun, eating seafood and engaging in a little mild flirtation with the attractive woman sitting under the next umbrella.

When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental - until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione d'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related?

Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.

Pèlerinage mortel à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. Avocat du crime organisé, Björn Diemel a décidé de recourir à la méditation de pleine conscience pour retrouver la paix intérieure. C'est aujourd'hui chose faite. Il a éliminé, souvent au sens propre, tous ceux qui lui causaient du stress. Désormais à la tête de la mafia locale, il peut jouir en paix de sa situation. Mais un " incident " fâcheux lors de son anniversaire finit de convaincre son thérapeute que Björn n'a pas encore tout à fait lâché prise.

Christopher Sean, a middle aged single man known for visiting random bars just to meet new and interesting people, visits a bar in the south suburbs that is known for great drinks and karaoke. What he did not expect was to meet the love of his life, who he refers to as BABY.

After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment - to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family.

The Kingdom of Shivas Irons is the enchanting story of Murphy's return to Scotland to investigate reports of further visitations by Shivas Irons and to answer questions about him and MacDuff that have haunted Murphy since his original trip to Burningbush some 31 years before. Murphy and his companion, Buck Hannigan, a skeptical physicist fascinated by Shivas's connections to metanormal events, embark on a magical quest for Irons and MacDuff - and their wisdom about golf and human potential.

Lulu is a sweet and quirky girl who loves playing in nature! She loves to spend time with the animals and wrestling in the mud. The other girls don’t like to play with her and the boys only make fun of her. There are times when Lulu feels like she never fits in. But when Lulu discovers an opportunity to catch the moon, she soon learns about the value of true friendship, courage, and why you should always embrace who you are.