Zen Fiction

7 Tage zur Erleuchtung. Nordische Mythologie, Trolle, Formwandler, 8-beinige Pferde und mitten drin,... Shay Bellamy, die 25-jährige Tochter eines Londoner Multimillionärs, die am Scheideweg ihres Lebens steht. Nachdem ihr Vater bei einem tragischen Flugzeugunglück ums Leben gekommen war, hinterlässt er nicht nur ein gewaltiges Erbe, sondern auch eine junge Frau, die sich in einer Welt wiederfindet, in der Selfies mehr zählen als Selbstfindung.

【解説】友人から奪った妻との人目を避けた質素な生活を描く。『三四郎』『それから』に続く三部作完結編。 友人の安井から、その妻・お米を奪った宗助は、世間の目を避けて夫婦でひっそりと暮らしている。質素で単調ながら穏やかな愛情でむすばれた生活である。弟の小六が居候で同居しながら大学に通っているが、叔父の死によりその学費が打ち切られたり、職場の役所で人員整理の動きがあったり、あるいは大家の坂井の弟がたまたま安井と友人で、蒙古から一時帰国で坂井宅に立ち寄ったりと、小さな波乱が起こり、宗助の心は乱れる。安息を求めて禅寺に籠るが、悟りを開けないまま戻った宗助・・・。しかし、月が変わり、寒さが緩む頃、夫婦の上に平穏が戻った。 【朗読】wis(透明感のある声で知られる女性朗読家です)

When coffee shop owner Zoey Everwood takes her obsession with ex-boyfriend Braden too far, everyone - except Zoey - is convinced a bit of fun in the sun at the Moment of Zen Wellness Resort will help her get over him once and for all. But Zoey's relaxing vacation turns out to be anything but peaceful when she meets Shane Lawson, a resort guest who bears a striking resemblance to Braden.

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?

As an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma and her staff are treading very lightly. For unfathomable reasons, the paper's House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, is in a major snit, refusing to speak to her colleagues. So when a peculiar young woman walks in claiming her parents have been murdered and that she's in mortal danger, too, it fits right in with the rest of the craziness. Then, to the utter bafflement of her colleagues, Vida vanishes without a word to anyone.

Death deals no mercy to one man who rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body ghastly transformed. Straining to overcome his murderous instincts through Zen meditation and blood deprivation, he is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war against the undead. Time and time again his will to resist is tested by the killers who demand his allegiance and the Zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step. He strives to walk a tightrope between the living and the dead...to master himself, his hunger, and the way of the wooden stake.

In Metairie, Louisiana, a young woman revels in the solitary exercise that is riding in an elevator, as across town, a father attempts to pedal his way back into his childhood via a late-night bike ride in his quiet suburban neighborhood. Meanwhile, a young executive climbs the corporate ladder through the strangest of mind-bending means as just moments earlier, a lonely man awakens in his car to the fact that he may have the latent impulses and instincts of a serial killer. If only they knew just how interconnected their seemingly different timelines will become.

This is a collection of adventure stories. Some take the listener into the sea with US Navy SEAL Teams and frogmen. The author challenges the llistener with tales about the rigors of training and the dangers of combat. In this fiction, the sea is an enemy that tests the courage, determination and stamina of military and civilian men and boys in boats and ships.

Reanimate yourself for success with advice on life, love, and work from the undead!

Piet Verboom, oprichter van de "Hindistische Stichting", handelt in Oosterse wijsheid, gezond eten en innerlijke rust. Of tenminste: dat deed hij. Piet Verboom heeft zich opgehangen. Maar was het echt zelfmoord? Heeft zijn ex-vrouw er iets mee te maken? Of de leden van de Stichting, die hij vrolijk uitbuitte?

千寿がお花に求婚した。その様子を目撃してしまったおかやの甲高い叫び声は町内に隈なく響き渡り、噂は「ぜんや」の常連客や熊吉の耳にも届いていた。お妙の出産も近づき、体調を気遣った料理で無事の出産を祈るお花と只次郎。

El Londres de la Regencia, políticos y taumaturgos tratan de ocultar un secreto a voces: la magia inglesa está desapareciendo. El recién nombrado hechicero real, Zacharias Wythe, intentará recuperarla por todos los medios a pesar del desprecio de sus colegas por su condición de esclavo liberado. Tan solo Prunella intentará ayudarlo. Sus objetivos son más acuciantes: asegurarse una posición sin fortuna ni familia, y con un exceso de magia inaceptable en una mujer. Juntos deberán evitar un conflicto, el fin de la magia en Inglaterra y que sus propios secretos salgan a la luz.

周五郎の初期を代表する連作集でもあり第十七回直木賞に推されながらも受賞辞退で有名な「日本婦道記」全三十一編を収録

Our story begins on Earth, but an Earth with a past steeped in fantasy and science fiction. From humble beginnings, a boy is given a divine destiny, a chance to make his mark on human civilization, but he must embark upon a life-changing journey. Our hero struggles to understand what he has been given and what to do with it, losing himself in doubt and loneliness as he confronts the dark side of humanity.

どうもこの頃お妙の体の調子が優れない。俵屋の若旦那から、お梅との祝言の料理を何品か作ってもらいたいと頼まれたばかりだったのだが……。そんなお妙の代わりに、祝言の料理を作ると決めたお花。

【スキマ時間にも味わう文豪の世界】　品格、叙情、エゴ、真情、変態性、エロス、醜、美・・・巨星「川端康成」のあらゆる要素が凝縮された「掌の小説」。４０年余の歳月をかけて滴り落ちた掌編をあつめた、文豪の半生ともいうべき１２２編です。　【監督】吉田純子【...

Zen is a misanthropic grad student of physics and religion who wants to kill his Self before it kills him—if he can figure out where he ends and it begins. His friend Ellie wants to save him, but he won’t let her into his life. Her ability to surgically remove a soul’s facade with her penetrating, laser-scalpel eyes terrifies him. She’s every broken piece of him that’s missing, but someone would have to die to get them together.

This is the second book in the Zen series in which Zen, Kelek, George, and the others experience the city of Dongor and Count Stark.

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.

Nori Tanaka is thrilled to be studying abroad in Tokyo, Japan, but it isn't exactly what she had imagined. She expected tranquil gardens and swoopy-roofed houses, not concrete and neon. And everyone assumes that, with her traditional Japanese features, she's a native instead of the naïve...