Títulos em Metafísica e Visionária

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.

Adjustment Team is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Orbit Science Fiction (September–October 1954, No. 4) with illustration by Faragasso. A man called the Clerk approaches a talking dog, and explains in businesslike manner that "Sector T137" is scheduled for "adjustment" at 9 o'clock. He instructs the dog to bark at exactly 8:15, which the Clerk explains will summon "A Friend with a Car", which will take real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to work before 9, but while the Clerk is preoccupied, the dog falls asleep and as a result barks a minute too late.

On his journey in and around New York City, Evan learns to trust his instincts and intuition in discovering his true self. How is it that a young thirty-something, multi-millionaire stockbroker with all of the trappings that wealth brings could leave it all behind to live penniless? Is there more to life than having great wealth? Can one more readily discover the meaning of life, love and true happiness by living with nothing?

Gli Adami e le Eve è un libro racchiuso in un libro. Da ogni Adamo nasce una Eva, così come ogni foglia è aggrappata al suo stelo senza il quale non potrebbe esserci vita. Un romanzo spirituale che descrive il significato di anima gemella e racconta il modo in cui lavorare su sé stessi per poter vivere con essa, una volta incontrata.

What is the purpose of life? There is none. I exist so I find purpose. We exist so we find purpose. Kanon is forced to reevaluate his purpose when he suffers a loss. He decides to leave everything he has ever known behind and becomes homeless. Should he continue northbound, away from the life he left behind, or go back? Kanon will have to face reality either way.

19 febbraio 2080. Martedì grasso. C’è nebbia, sulla laguna deserta, i turisti non sono ancora arrivati. Affluiranno appena farà giorno, pagando il biglietto e passando dai tornelli: già, perché da quando Venezia è stata dichiarata non più agibile, evacuata e trasformata in Venice Park – la più pittoresca delle attrazioni italiane – non esistono più residenti. Solo il circo quotidiano dei visitatori e degli accompagnatori, oltre a un pugno di Resistenti che vorrebbe vederla tornare viva e abitata. In questo giorno d’inverno ci sono Michele e Sandro, guardiani che pattugliano la laguna.

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world.

Take the plunge down the rabbit hole of insanity and wonder in this fast-paced, nonstop psychological thriller that will leave you questioning the very nature of reality and beyond. Part thriller, part romance, part existential horror, A Dream of Waking Life delves into lucid dreaming, psychedelics, existential ontology, video games, the nature of love, the nature of reality, and more.

Devorah Fields, a former teen actress and model, is hiding out from her estranged, abusive husband in her childhood home in the Malibu hills. With every odd creak, she fears the worst—her husband’s return. Her father, a former Hollywood heavyweight turned con artist, is serving time in federal prison. Her mother, an English born actress, has fled to her home country out of shame and embarrassment.

Jared Crandall’s life seems as broken as the Utah landscape surrounding him. With the Great Quake having shattered roads throughout the country and isolating him in his cabin, Jared assumes he will die alone. But Keith Martin, his old LDS missionary companion, finds him, arriving on an unusual motorcycle called the XEB. Keith brings a letter from Church headquarters asking Jared to serve again as his companion—to cross a desolate country where anarchy prevails and to fulfill a mission whose purpose is unclear. A call Jared cannot refuse.

Il progresso tecnologico avanza spedito, la popolazione invecchia e non gli sta dietro. Per questo Laura Annibali, una mezza genia nel campo informatico, arrivata ai cinquant’anni ha deciso di fondare la Huf, un’associazione no profit con la missione di sostenere le persone tecnologicamente inabili.

A bond forged through secrets. A devastating, simmering attraction. And beneath it all, the truth that will save or doom me. The heart-wrenching sequel to Among Shadows.

David, who lives outside Philadelphia, receives a call from his best friend's doctor in California. Gordon is suffering major organ failure and is on the brink of death! Gordon, an unmarried quadriplegic, has been in a wheelchair since he was twenty-two. His life is one of isolation, fear, and relative silence, except when David visits with stories of the world.

Learn how this monk learns to think outside the box. Come along with him as he fights the temptation of an old flame and a dictatorial abbot.

Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport listeners into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mâche monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist.

Joe Vallen weaves a tale that transcends convention, introducing a narrative that breaks the fourth wall and unfolds like a Russian doll of unpredictable events. With Michael Hijantonis as the captivating narrator, listeners are in for a treat as they witness the protagonist, Joe, facing misfortunes and unexpected challenges. "The Narrator," Joe's harshest critic, takes center stage in this mind-bending journey, observing Joe's struggles until his own reality becomes threatened. Forced to make the ultimate choice, The Narrator becomes an integral part of the unfolding events.

Quite by accident she thinks, Henrietta Draper (Hattie) finds herself standing on the surface of a distant planet orbiting the star HD10307 in the constellation Andromeda. Bad enough . . . but it seems the planet's inhabitants expect her, somehow, to "save the universe."

Banger and Mash knew something strange was happening when their peoples’ scent began to fade. Sweetpea the cat knew it too, but…you know…he just wasn’t that worried about it. But when their human vanishes into thin air right before their noses, they race to get help from the other dogs in the village, only to discover that EVERYONE'S humans have disappeared.

DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.

You think you know your world, right? Taxes, traffic, and the everyday routines that shape your life. It's a world where predictability reigns, where the only constants are corrupt politicians and the ever-looming specter of pollution. But then there's Olivia—a brilliant and determined scientist who suspects something else is below the surface. She firmly believes that the reality surrounding all of us is nothing more than an intricately woven computer simulation.