Contemporary Metaphysical

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors.

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society.

This special edition brings together all four books of the Nanima Series in one complete volume. A contemplative journey of spiritual evolution, soulful relationships, and the quiet healing power of nature. Spanning four deeply personal and spiritually rich books—Nanima, Geboor, Sonder, and The Flat—this series follows Maliyan, an insightful and grounded seeker whose path unfolds across the quiet towns and wild landscapes of rural Australia. Through shifting relationships, ancestral stirrings, and encounters with both seen and unseen guides, Maliyan’s life becomes a mirror for our own...

The best-selling author of Second Nature, Illumination Night and Turtle Moon now offers her most fascinating and tantalizingly accomplished novel yet -- a winning tale that amply confirms Alice Hoffman's reputation not only as a genius of the vivid scene and unforgettable character but as one of America's most captivating storytellers.

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

First we live. Then we die. And then...we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to "get it right". Answer all the big questions. Achieve wisdom. And become one with everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn't make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her.

A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by his painful past. A woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil?

El autor presentaba la edición italiana de este libro, que tuvo un éxito extraordinario, con estas palabras: Ésta no es una novela. Ni siquiera es un cuento. Ésta es una historia. Empieza con un hombre que atraviesa el mundo, y acaba con un lago que permanece inmóvil, en una jornada de viento. El hombre se llama Hervé Joncour. El lago, no se sabe. Se podría decir que es una historia de amor. Pero si solamente fuera eso, no habría valido la pena contarla. En ella están entremezclados deseos, y dolores, que no tienen un nombre exacto que los designe. Esto es algo muy antiguo.

Bullied. Beaten. Betrayed. Jon Harper’s life is falling apart. Until he finds the serum. Until he meets Thorn. She's not just a vampire—she’s a weapon. And what she offers Jon is simple: one night of power and the chance to fight back. But the vampire formula doesn’t just change his body—it changes everything. Now, with a new hunger inside him and a growing darkness he can’t control, Jon must face a brutal truth: Some powers can’t be undone. And revenge costs more than blood. As he follows Thorn into her shadowed world, Jon realizes he’s fighting more than just his enemies. ...

~ Sometimes all it takes is the right person in our…AfterLife. ~ In this romance with comedy, a man purchases an abandoned farmhouse in a tax sale unaware it’s haunted by the woman…ahhhhh…ghost that will become the love of his life and he the love of her AfterLife and together bring the man who murdered her to justice as only a Trans Spectral, TSP, couple can.

In The Flat, the final book of the Nanima Series, the story shifts to a new town—but the inner transformations are more profound than ever. Maliyan enters a deeper phase of her spiritual path—marked by love without demand, vision without illusion, and connection beyond form. Her encounters with non-dimensional guides reveal truths that challenge even her finely honed awareness, while her quiet commitment to love is tested in ways both subtle and real. Luna, likeable, flawed, and vulnerable, faces the persistent call to become the man he could be. No longer able to hide behind charm or ...

Sheesh... Vampires can be like children sometimes. In our quest to unite the underworld against the coming flood of darkness, a visit to Darkeum Cove was first on the list. Although I would hardly call the Noctem island a popular vacation spot, it had to be done. Uniting the underworld meant uniting everyone, and that included the same vampires who would just assume I disappeared forever. It shouldn’t have mattered one way or the other, seeing as how full authority over the underground clan was Marco’s by right. At least, that was we assumed before an official challenge to his authority...

Story is told by a narrator who is a psychologist in Indian country. What appears to be a consultation with a patient ends up being a meeting with his teacher, Tarrence. Tarrence proceeds to take the narrator into a dreamtime journey that melts the worldview held by the storyteller. The dream leads the narrator to a place in which the energy generated by ancient dreamers must be balanced. The lack of balance brought on by the power dreamers and their ceremony resulted in the atomic bomb.

“This story is scary sauce with a side order of quirky. Pure Entertainment.” ~ Lighthouse Reviews Stella has an injured hip, but she’s hardly ready for a retirement home. At seventy-two, she’s enjoying life on her own for the first time. But when Stella’s daughter—Jennifer—begins to question Stella’s mental state, Stella must hide the happenings in her own house, or face being sent to a home for the elderly. Jennifer sees Stella’s mind slipping away. There’s no other explanation for her mother’s behavior--claiming to hear mysterious voices, carelessly destroying ...

Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divine half-brother, Jesus. As a child, she revels in her talent for walking on water, resurrecting dead crabs, and treating fireflies as luminous alphabet blocks. But after she reaches adolescence, her life becomes as challenging and ambiguous as any mortal’s.

A woman in her 30s begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet what she feels is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high school boyfriend. As she rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.

Amidst the mindless trudge of a small desert town and the invasive McLandscape eclipsing the natural surroundings, Jason Sanders is trapped in the monotony of his daily life and tedious employment. After buying a carpet from a peculiar man at a retail store, Jason is intrigued when he spots the same vagabond, Loansome, on the roadside. Against his better judgment, he agrees to drive him to a surprisingly lavish estate. Peak eccentricity occurs when Loansome shows up unannounced at Jason’s office, casually devouring a strawberry ice cream, and claims he can navigate dreams.

Bridget Blade survived an explosion and has absorbed radiation equivalent to a nuclear blast. Yet she survived and now her body has become an object of research interest to many international governments who seek its untold biological secrets. The truth is that Bridget is a reincarnated god with an insatiable desire for adoration. But she’s also human, plagued by a myriad of insecurities and anxieties, who just wants love and acceptance. As human or god, she relishes her life with the two men who love her. But the two men offer different things. If Bridget chooses her husband, then ...

Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict. Over six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival....

Stanley cannot find meaning in his life. Work is an endless drudgery serving only to pay bills. After being unemployed for six months, he can’t even do that. Religion doesn’t make sense. His family is the only thing that has any meaning in his life, but even that gets turned upside down when he is offered a two-month contract on the other side of the country, and he has to leave his family behind. His cross-country road trip gets strange right away as he reluctantly picks up an enigmatic hitchhiker who takes him on a difficult but soul-fulfilling road trip of self-discovery.