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While confronting the final stages of a painful terminal illness, 89-year-old Dr. Daniel Nielsen considers his life to be a complete disaster for failing to save many of his patients, including his best friend and his wife. Feeling despondent and lonely, he attempts without success to take his own life. Too afraid to try again, he now considers himself a coward as well as an abject failure. While on his way to a local coffee shop, he meets a vibrant young woman with unique talents.

Gregor Buckingham, a young man scarred from a childhood fire, has little going for him - no family, a heartbreaking job, and an existence untouched by intimacy. Now, Sedona is calling to him. In the Northern Arizona town celebrated for mysterious energy vortexes, UFO sightings, and other paranormal activity, Gregor discovers a lost ancient power, his first requited love, and a zealous enemy he must fight to save them both.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, en Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, la Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de l'hora punta, en Pedro s'entreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rumors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de l'autobús. Tot això influirà poc a poc en el seu voluble pensament. Al final del viatge ja no serà el mateix. Tot el que ha vist i pensat durant el trajecte el portarà a un coneixement més crític i profund de les coses, les persones i la societat en què viu, una societat que decideix el seu destí amb unes cartes marcades des de l'inici.

Sette racconti, tutti ambientati nel corso degli ultimi decenni dello scorso millennio: In “Polvere per costruire montagne” seguiamo un giovane apprendista industriale erede, o presunto tale, d’uno stabilimento per la produzione di giocattoli e prodotti per modellismo, nell’Italia del boom economico dei primi anni ‘60, che si scontra con pregiudizi e cattiverie, con false apparenze e la megalomania altrui.

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Missing and presumed dead, Nick awakes in his bed, bloodied and bruised with no memory of where he has been or what happened to him. As Nick’s friends gather around him to help discover the source of his lost memories, they begin to understand that Nick did not return alone. Something dark is growing inside him. After the darkness forces Nick to go on the run, a stranger appears, knowing more about their situation than they themselves do. The stranger also gives a thin hope of stopping the darkness and its plan.

A god-haunted pool in the Yucatan waits for a girl from the future to come of age and accept her obligation to the PaperClan in this literary thriller hailed by critics as a bewitching, breathtaking, lyrical masterpiece. Part Maya myth, part hipster stream-of-modern-day-life, part love letter to this beleaguered planet, this memoir of a time traveler teems with unforgettable characters - some despicable, some lovable, including a charming burro named Pants-on-Fire and the story’s heroine, a doubt-riddled young woman who carries an ancient bloodline with a spark of Maya divinity.

A Year in the Borderlands writer Kevin Candela's wild second excursion into alternate realities includes 17 tales, twelve of which have appeared in previously released anthologies and are collected here for the first time. These short stories combine with five never before released works, including the novella It's Only Funny if You Laugh, to produce a wide-ranging panoramic view of the worlds and realities that exist beyond our own. Playing With Reality is another vividly detailed page in the Atlas of the Unknown.

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.

Was ist notwendig, um auf seine eigenen Wünsche zu hören? Eine ganze Menge Vertrauen und die Fähigkeit, dem eigenen Herzen zu lauschen. Angelica versucht genau diesen Weg zu gehen, doch ihr Kopf macht ihr das Leben nicht so einfach. Glücklicherweise überredet sie ihr Herz zu einer abenteuerlichen Reise nach Sizilien, auf der sie Unglaubliches erlebt. All das bereitet sie auf eine Herausforderung vor: Ihren eigenen Weg bedingungslos zu gehen, um die Welt zum Positiven zu verändern. Ist sie dazu bereit?

Tebas, XVIII dinastía. Amenofis III, llamado el magnífico, se encuentra en la cumbre de su poder. Su joven hijo Nafuria siente tanta aversión por las armas como amor al estudio y en la corte es llamado despreciativamente el príncipe filósofo. Ansioso por conocer la vida más allá del palacio, escapa una noche para verse envuelto en una aventura mágica y espiritual en la que recibe las enseñanzas de un maestro llamado Mawlana, incluyendo la noción de una divinidad impersonal o gran inteligencia universal muy por encima de todos los dioses conocidos.

Aquesta és la història de Moor Park. I aquesta és també la història duna amistat. En el decurs dels seus llargs passejos pels parcs londinencs, Jack Toledano explica al seu amic Damien Anderson els seus progressos en l'escriptura del que ha de ser el llibre de la seva vida. Al voltant de l'escriptura d'aquest llibre sorgeixe n temes com la història de la família de Jack, les idees sobre els fets de llegir i escriure o les paradoxes i contradiccions del nostre temps, que, com el mateix Jack, té aspiracions clàssiques però un temperament romàntic.

Best-selling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless admirers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising 11 stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the listener compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet.

El Universo acabará borrando toda huella de la existencia de la humanidad. La memoria del ser humano, sus recuerdos, desaparecerán para siempre, a no ser que encontremos un vehículo para su transmisión hacia el infinito temporal. Jesús Blanco, profesor y empresario de éxito en el campo de las nuevas tecnologías, se niega a aceptar lo que le depara el destino y está dispuesto a protagonizar una aventura, que posiblemente le permita existir por siempre.

Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love.

Una nit en què està a punt de nevar, una dona espera la seva filla petita, que no acaba d''arribar mai. El periple londinenc d'un escriptor a qui han encarregat una missió compromesa i que acabarà realitzant-ne una altra de ben diferent. Un professor enigmàtic torna gairebé dues dècades més tard, quan ja ningúno pensava en ell. Una angelical collidora de flors que s'acosta als noranta anys.

"Markheim" es un relato sobre un motivo constante en la obra de Stevenson: el demoniocomo forma depurada de la presencia del mal en el mundo. Markheim, sin embargo, le mira como a un ser "que no procedía ni de la tierra ni de Dios", pero, de cualquier modo, ligado al mal.El demonio acude al asesinato cometido por Markheim, como buitre a su carroña. El protagonista de la obra rechaza la ayuda "No haré nada que me ligue voluntariamente al mal". El mal de Markheim, su pecado, es el de una naturaleza humana contradicha, el de un hombre, como otros, a quien la vida "lleva a rastras", porque es "el pecador que no quiere serlo".

In einer stürmischen Dezembernacht werden zwei ungewöhnliche Männer vom Schicksal zusammengeführt. In einer einsamen Holzhütte in den Wäldern von Norwegen trifft ein spiritueller Krieger auf einen jungen Ausreißer. Zwei Männer, die auf der Suche sind. Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrhaftigkeit des Augenblicks. Und, nicht zuletzt, auf der Suche nach sich selbst. In ihrem ungewöhnlichen Aufeinandertreffen lernen die beiden voneinander, was die Reise, die wir unser Leben nennen, wirklich ausmacht.

Marie Michaels had a perfect life - a happy marriage to her college sweetheart, mother to two beautiful teenage children, and the owner of a successful business. Her life was everything she had imagined, until the day she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. After undergoing several medical treatments, she loses her ability to hear, making communication with her family and friends challenging.

The year is 2049, and we most certainly are not alone...A miraculous, life-enhancing microbe has been discovered on Mars and the race is on to bring the organism back to Earth. But failed physicist Jack Harding has his own reasons to get to Mars first - to save a dying, seven-year-old boy. All he must do to succeed is break the law - the law of gravity. To make the mission to Mars, Jack must perfect a ground-breaking anti-gravity technology and avoid being killed by ruthless billionaire, Travis Locke, a man who has no qualms with breaking a few laws himself - even murder.