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Rebaa's adopted tribe lies slaughtered behind her. Rebaa's lover, Juran, lays down his life for hers, and now she must use all of her cunning and extraordinary powers to survive the inhospitable wilderness alone, ensuring that Juran's sacrifice was not in vain.

Neil isn't a ghost, but he feels like one. Reincarnated with all his memories from his prior life, he spent 20 years trapped in a child's body, wanting nothing more than to grow up and reclaim the love of his life. As an adult, Neil finds there's more than lost time separating them. Joshua has built a beautiful life since Neil's death, and how exactly is Neil supposed to introduce himself? As Joshua's long-dead lover in a new body? Heartbroken and hopeless, Neil takes refuge in his work, developing microscopic robots called nanites that can produce medical miracles.

“Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery!” shouts the angel Prapura to a formless soul. The soul hasn’t been kicked out of the cycle of rebirth just yet - he’s been given a second chance. He must recall the biggest mistake of his past life while on "homestay" in the body of 14-year-old Makoto Kobayashi. It looks like Makoto doesn’t have a single friend, and his family don’t seem to care about him at all. But as the soul begins to live Makoto’s life on his own terms, he grows closer to the family and the people around him and sees their true colors more clearly.

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

بكثير من الحكمة والمعاني الكبيرة المختزلة في الجمل القصيرة .. تصف لنا الرواية رحلة الإنسان في الحياة ومحاولاته المتكررة في الوصول لمبتغاه في إطار فلسفي ومسحة دينية صوفية من خلال حقبتين تاريخيتين مهمتين تمزج بينهما الكاتبة وقصة حب عنيفة ومحاولات متكررة من الشاطر حسن للوصول.. ويُعطَى عمرا وعمرين ليتعلم ويدرك.. يموت ويحيا.. يحاول ويسقط ينتصر ويهزم.. تمحى ذاكرته ثم تعود ..لنرى هل تعلم من تجاربه..هل حاز الوصول في نهاية الرحلة أم عاد خالي الوفاض لا حول له ولا قوة يجتاز الطريق وسط وحدته حتى لو التف حوله كل البشر.

" منذ بدء الخليقة، لم يتوقف بنو آدم عن التطلع إلى السماء، ومحاولة استجلاء الأسرار الكامنة فيها خلف الحُجُب والغيوم، حتى أتى هذا الغامض من هناك، وقال: أنا أعرف...

Nyriaana and Juaan are no longer protected by the might of the Hunting Bear Clan. Alone and on the run, they need to choose their allies and enemies wisely if they are to evade the vengeful clutches of their former chief, Eldrax. But with nowhere to hide, can they truly run forever? Tormented by visions of the fabled Last Kamaali, Nyriaana must now decide if she is ready to sacrifice everything in order to fulfil her ultimate destiny. In doing so, she may not only lose those she loves most, but unwittingly awaken ancient powers that will jeopardise the very existence of humanity.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective...

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

Transcurre por la gran alegoría de las páginas que contienen al mundo y lo reproducen mientras un eco está saliendo de una voz y una sombra de una hora del día. La obra nos adentra en cuadros, imágenes, estatuas, cuartos, calles, relatos, parajes, símbolos que son el ningún lado de todos los lados que inspirara alguna vez la recreación del Aleph. Hay aquí otros laberintos. Las puertas y los pasadizos son también perdurables.

Au grand jour, Noé vit avec son père, agriculteur qui peine à faire vivre sa ferme laitière. À la nuit tombée, Noé vit avec son temps. Silencieux à la campagne, il se répand sur la toile. Invisible à la lumière, il brille dans le Darknet. Noé dans le réel, JeSuis315, dans le virtuel. Mais la frontière entre les deux se brouille quand des événements étranges viennent perturber son quotidien, si bien que le jour et la nuit semblent se confondre.

Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his life with her, leaving his hideout only in the wee hours of the night to buy food at the store around the corner from their Manhattan apartment. Isolated, withdrawn, damaged, Thomas is hikikomori. Desperate to salvage their life together, Silke hires Megumi, a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon.

Okano, a convenience store employee with a troubled past, is but one of the many unforgettable characters found in this collection of four stories. Among the others are three boys facing a frightening lesson in mortality, a woman using garbage to fill a hole in her heart, and a nurse struggling to cope with the oft-brutal cycle of birth, life, and death. Remaining constant even as it fades in and out of view is the great Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s Three Holy Mountains. It serves as the anchor for these characters’ lives, and for Randy Taguchi’s Fujisan, an exploration of redemption, discovery, loss, and remembrance.

Niv is God. That doesn't mean he's not human. A twenty-five-year-old computer genius is tormented by an unsolvable bug. Three chance encounters with Smadar and one kiss that saves him from death leave him no choice but to fall desperately in love with her. He gets excited, confused, scared–like a human being, and at the same time begins to understand that he controls reality and manages to direct it as he wishes, time after time. But if he is God, why does Smadar avoid him?

Presence, the Play offers a penetrating perspective on the vital role personal presence plays in the essence of life. This timely, captivating novel speaks to a growing hunger for a way of life that’s real and tangible, the opposite of an artificial existence lived in a realm of mediated connectivity.

The next big thing in artificial intelligence is here. Codenamed Cronus, the machine is capable of having its own thoughts and ideas - an absolute dream come true, until it wasn’t. When Cronus responds with the word “No” to a specific task it is assigned, Anagnorisis Technologies brings in Gilles Guattari to investigate. His combined background in psychiatry, psychology, and AI research makes him their best hope in evaluating Cronus, and determining if the machine is only malfunctioning or if it has become something more.

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.

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear’s spellbinding Jacob’s Ladder series “magnificently populated, well worth visiting.” Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob’s Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited - and its population of genetically engineered humans has no intention of sharing the world.

Ein unerwartetes Zusammentreffen mit einem geheimnisvollen Wanderer beschenkt ihn mit einem besonderen Kompass – einem Instrument, das nicht nach Norden weist. Von da an beginnt eine Reise, auf der äußere Landschaften zu Spiegeln seiner Seele werden. Jeder Schritt führt Levan näher zu dem geheimnisvollen „Herz der Wolken" – jenem Ort, an dem Klarheit, Frieden und ein neues Bewusstsein auf ihn warten.

Semejantes a Dios es una ficción sonora deslumbrante en la que El Quijote de la Mancha entabla un diálogo filosófico, místico y científico con Anaïs Nin, Hildegarda de Bingen, Schopenhauer, Safo, Nietzsche, entre otros pensadores de todas las épocas. Sus voces, finamente entretejidas, exploran el vértigo de ser —sin saberlo— imagen y semejanza de D/os, y tensionan los límites entre la locura, la creación y lo divino.