Immortality

New York Times Bestseller ""Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."" — Cleveland Plain Dealer Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a...

Want to be immortal? You can be in AD 2110. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Corporation and hook yourself up to the Machine. There’s nothing to fear. That is, if it happens to be working right, and if nobody slips another mind into your body when you’re not looking, and if you’re not on a poltergeist hatelist.

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham’s vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III.

A lost soul from Earth transmigrates into a world of cultivation and finds himself in the body of a playboy noble who is wasting his life. Except Chen Haoran doesn't have any memories, can't let anyone know he's not the same person, and is immediately involved in a conspiracy with another powerful noble family involving the downfall of a prominent young genius. Luckily, he came to this world with a power: Whatever he gives to someone as a gift he'll get it back 100 times better.

Rav Berg offers penetrating insights into the age-old mysteries of life, death, and immortality. He explores the true meaning of "mind over matter," and reveals why our own consciousness holds the keys to unending life. By opening ourselves to spiritual challenges, we can defeat “death” once and for all.

A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations.

Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world's eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by these extinctions. Evolution is operating in ways no one could have expected, and environmental damage may be the catalyst.

""An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous."" —Newsweek ""The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part...

In this, the first novel of the best-selling Incarnations of Immortality series, Piers Anthony combines a deeply moving examination of the meaning of life and death with a gripping story of romance and loyalty, all set in a world of magic and technical wizardry.

The Road to Immortality provides the reader with a sublime vision of the afterlife, allegedly communicated from ‘other side’ by the eminent psychologist and psychic researcher Frederic William Henry Myers. Myers was one of the founders of the Society of Psychical Research and he spent much of his life researching the survival of consciousness, so it is not surprising that having passed away in 1901, if he found himself conscious of his surroundings, he would try to communicate with his colleagues and loved ones still in the flesh. According to a renowned automatic writing medium ...

Huon has won the Tournament of Grace. He has now received a high boon from each of the four Sentinels of Taloniar, but the gifts he receives won't be enough to protect him from the oncoming threat...

What would you give for eternal life? An impossibly old man, a family gruesomely murdered and a woman whose collection of mythological artefacts defies belief: Professor Matt Kearns knows they are connected. These ancient clues bring Matt out of his self-imposed solitude to seek the fabled Fountain of Youth. This brings on a perilous odyssey across deserts and oceans and into the heart of a mountain, and Matt must overcome horrifying adversaries and creatures of legend and also unravel a 5,000-year-old mystery.

Qu'est-il resté des agonisants du Cambodge ? Une grande photo de la star américaine tenant dans ses bras un enfant jaune. Qu'est-il resté de Tomas ? Une inscription : Il voulait le Royaume de Dieu sur la terre. Qu'est-il resté de Beethoven ? Un homme morose à l'invraisemblable crinière, qui prononce d'une voix sombre : "Es muss sein!" Qu'est-il resté de Franz ? Une inscription : Après un long égarement, le retour. Et ainsi de suite, et ainsi de suite. Avant d'être oubliés, nous serons changés en kitsch. Le kitsch, c'est la station de correspondance entre l'être et l'oubli."

Rooted in the story of his own transformative journey, a monk and internationally beloved founder of Yoga of Immortals shares the methods he uses to help us tap into our unlimited potential. Ishan Shivanand was born into an ancient lineage of yogis spanning twenty-one generations, and spent the...

Book 3 of this epic Xianxia Cultivation Progression Fantasy Series from debut author, Plutus. Features detailed world-building, slice-of-life elements, three-dimensional characters, a unique progression system starring an MC who gains power through gifting things to others, and so much more!

I’m Johnny Vincento, leading Applied physicist of THE TELEPORTATION PROJECT. It is time to bring humanity into a new age. That project is not fiction and it is available for testing by all the nations of the world. In fact, a request to the United Nations was recently made to do just that. Now, I will give out some technologies that are not in existence yet. This means, by bringing the idea alive in the world, showing how it can be created, makes them become created. There are many such devices that I see happening: From frequency towers to lift one's mood, anti gravity waves, an ...

After a cataclysm, survivors in the Southwest have split into factions. Babylon thrives under the protection of two powerful Artificial Intelligences. Immortalization is within reach of a chosen few, but the cost of eternal life is far greater than anyone could have imagined. Outside the colony's walls, the New Amish, led by Jeb Thompson—the very man who unleashed the supercomputer MARTIN on the—reject all technology. Jeb is determined to rid the world of the abomination of Immortalization and guide the wayward Nons to God's light.

Features detailed world-building, slice of life elements, three-dimensional characters, a unique progression system starring an MC who gains power through gifting things to others, and so much more!

For those who reside in the outer regions of Aleria, the day of bestowal is what determines their destiny. It is the holy day of the Goddess. The day that allows those of age to step forward and receive their blessing, to embark on the path that she has chosen for them. To receive their Classification, which dictates their strength and ability. For those people, the holy day of bestowal represents fate itself. For Dante, it represents salvation.

This is a book of questions, not answers. It asks what can be known, what can be believed, and what it means to face the unknown. In the year 2060, death is outlawed. Surveillance is absolute. Life is mandatory. Markus Blackshaw has never left his apartment. Every moment of his existence is tracked by Milli, the artificial intelligence that governs the Global Protectorate. Nothing is left to chance. Not your sleep. Not your thoughts. Not your death. But then Elwood appears—a man who doesn’t belong. And with him, the truth: this world was never meant to last. The prophecy has been ...