Showing results for "The Visionary" in Coming of Age

A girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen.

It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home - or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.

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.

Join Dr. Zephon and the McCallister family on a transformational journey. Using the specially designed Jet Skis, Dr. Zephon takes his quantum leap into a new metaphysical realm. It is here that they discover many hidden truths of physics, metaphysics, and the nature of existence.

Fame. Fortune. Your most extravagant wish granted. These are the prizes promised to the team that wins the Faerie Race, the first and only reality television show to venture into the dangerous realm of the fae. But that's not why Jacqueline Cunningham wants in. She's after any sign of her sister - who vanished without a trace into the faerie world two years ago. Jacq thought getting into the race would be the hard part. But she didn't count on the other competitors - who will stop at nothing to finish first.

Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a small village with his pious widowed mother, and the purity of his soul is largely uncorrupted by worldly sophistication. But now, poised on the brink of manhood, he feels himself moved by strange new urgings - urgings that will lead him far from the quiet life he has known. Though these strings are unfamiliar to him, virtuous Hari recognizes them for what they are: a hunger for spiritual enlightenment.

Mary and Eddie are meant for each other - but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood.

Argentinian Mario Satz delivers a heartwarming story about a pediatrician who finds a new, deeper meaning to life. The doctor decides to throw himself off a mountain in depression. Right before he leaps, a tear falls into his right palm - it is a mystical sign from above. It takes the man on a fantastic journey - without him ever leaving the mountaintop.

Desde el sur del continente americano, en la soledad de las montañas y los bosques, cerca de los hielos y los valles, mirando de frente el desierto y el mar, estos relatos nacen con toda la fuerza de un pueblo que se nos revela con su mezcla maravillosa de paisajes y ciudades de bullicios vigorosos. Un desborde de energía en la urbe que se esconde entre las cumbres, poblada de gente creativa y heredera de culturas que lentamente se encuentran con el paso de la historia.

Segundo volumen de una colección de cuentos desde el sur del mundo donde la soledad de desiertos y estepas, montañas y campos incitan al relato, la conversación y la poesía. La naturaleza se hermana con el habitante americano y en una relación estrecha, simbiótica, hay un permanente acto de recreación que a veces es profundo y dramático, otras plácido y dérmico, siempre sensual y mágico.