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When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but...

Precorrendo i motivi cari al cyberpunk, Philip K. Dick affonda la penna nei temi della decadenza, delle fantasie cosmiche e delle inquietudini interiori che attanagliano l'uomo moderno. Chi o cos'è Valis? È un'imperscrutabile entità intelligente che vive nello spazio? O forse un meccanismo, una formula o, ancora, un essere vivente vero e proprio, che emana uno sconvolgente flusso di informazioni sulla natura dell'universo?

From the author of the bestsellers Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It and Live Your Truth comes Rebirth, an inspiring novel about the magic that happens when you learn to follow your heart. After the death of his estranged father, Amit takes his parent's ashes to the Ganges to fulfill a...

"Heartfelt, haunting, and filled with moments of gentle compassion, Ghost Glasses is the kind of book that will have you contemplating the nature of memory and the traces of love that remain once we are gone. A beautiful story about friendship, healing, and transformation."-Paulette Kennedy...

The first New World monkey and his journey to become the first American astronaut. People forget NASA started with a stolen rocket, a captive scientist, and a poached monkey. For seventy-five years, his story was buried, classified and redacted, until now. In 1938, a pregnant rhesus macaque is...

In the long-awaited sequel to one of the world’s most beloved and widely read books of the last twenty years—The Shack—unrivaled storyteller Wm. Paul Young leads us back to the great questions of human existence: How does life go on in the face of irreconcilable loss? How can the...

Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave listeners their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

Episcopal bishop Timothy Archer is haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress, and must cope with the implications of the discovery of a religious artefact. These events drive him into a quest for the identity of Christ. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is Philip K. Dick's last...

A young man’s solitary pilgrimage to a tiny West Country church, a journey ostensibly inspired by the literary figure Sabine Baring-Gould, eccentric librettist of Onward Christian Soldiers, turns into a semi-mystical experience when the pilgrim, responding to some obscure prompting of the soul...

神々と怪物が支配する忘れられた架空の世界を舞台に、人間が自らの運命を切り開くための痛切な選択と代償を描き出す、全10編の壮大な創作ファンタジー短編集。静寂に包まれた夜のひとときや、日常から離れたい通勤...

記憶と忘却の狭間で揺れるオリジナル神話の世界に没入し、忘れ去られた神々と呪われた英雄たちが織りなすダークファンタジーの深淵で、見えない魔法の真髄に触れてください。静寂に包まれた夜のひとときに、ヘッド...

Book 2 in the RIP City Chronicles, drawing the battle lines between good and evil on earth. The story everyone thinks they know, told from the place where no one was looking. The war behind the world has always been there. For centuries the conflict has raged unseen. Angels move through the City...

Brought to you by Penguin. On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest...

Brought to you by Penguin. The brilliantly uplifting, page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse. If you could see your future, how would you live now? Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode...

Автобиографическая повесть "Охранная грамота" - о юности, встречах с замечательными людьми, путешествии по Европе, духовных исканиях, первой любви, становлении поэта.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its...

Un antico manoscritto peruviano, nove chiavi per interpretare il significato dell'esistenza umana, una ricerca cominciata sulle Ande e destinata a concludersi nel folto della foresta amazzonica fra le rovine di un'antica civiltà. Una parabola piena di verità, che si legge come un'avventura mozzafiato.

Rinpoche's Remarkable Ten-Week Weight Loss Clinic brings back two main characters from Roland Merullo's beloved Breakfast with Buddha series. This time, though, instead of cruising the American road together, Otto Ringling and Volya Rinpoche are part of the famous meditation master's offbeat weight loss clinic, held over the course of ten Saturdays in a New York City yoga studio.

"எழுத்து என்பது எனக்கு தவம் அல்ல: வேள்வி அல்ல: பிரசவ வேதனை அல்ல: ஆத்ம சோதனையோ சத்திய சோதனையோ அல்ல: பணம் சம்பாதிக்கும் முயற்சி அல்ல: பேரும் புகழும் தேடும் மார்க்கம் அல்ல: வாழ்க்கையை புரிந்து கொள்ளும் முயற்சி.

கல்வி என்பது கட்டாயமாக நம் ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் அவசியம். அது நம் சுவாசம். நாளை நம் விலாசங்களை அறிவிக்கப் போகும் சாதனம் கல்விதான்.