Metaphysical Fiction

கோடிப் பிரதிகள் விற்றுச்சாதனை படைத்துள்ள நூல் ஆன்மாவிற்குப் பரவசமூட்டுகின்ற ஞானத்தை உள்ளடக்கிய எளிய, சக்திவாய்ந்த இப்புத்தகம், ஆன்டலூசியா பகுதியைச் சேர்ந்த, சான்டியாகோ என்ற செம்மறியாட்டு இடையன் ஒருவனைப் பற்றியது.

It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life.

This extraordinary novel by Jim Rohn and Chris Widener will inspire you to take your life to the next level and beyond. It will challenge and encourage you to become the best you can be! Twelve Pillars blends together the fundamental principles and teachings of Jim Rohn into the unique tapestry of a fictional account that imparts the secrets to success in life.

Qui la vita interiore di un veggente e il suo rapporto con gli altri, è commentato alla luce dell’insegnamento delle Guide. Queste ripetono che ogni persona che partecipa a un cenacolo deve assumersi la responsabilità di fare un uso costruttivo di quanto questa esperienza le può offrire, non solo nei confronti di se stessa ma anche nei confronti degli altri. E anche noi crediamo che l’insegnamento non ci sia dato per essere nascosto affinché nessuno possa usufruirne, ma per trasmetterlo a chi ne ha bisogno. Ecco il vero motivo della divulgazione.

En una Portugal de inicio del siglo XX, nace un casino que promete una nueva y moderna sociedad, mientras que sus habitantes atraviesan una donde el espiritismo pone a prueba el temple del que están forjados.

Jack Valentine seemed to have it all. He made good money as an ad man and looked good doing it. He had a hot apartment, cool friends, even a slick car - at least until the hectic Monday morning a truck smashed into it, sending the critically injured Jack to the hospital. Everything happens for a reason, though, and Jack’s reason reveals itself in the silver-haired cancer patient who becomes his roommate one evening. The elderly man, Cal, shares his life story - one not dissimilar to Jack’s - of material wealth masking a gaping hole within.

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.

All Thorn wanted was to be a Battle Mage. He had the talent, and his whole future was before him. On the day of Choosing, he finds things don't always go as planned. Suddenly Thorn's life is thrown into fast forward, and he finds himself in a world not of his own choosing. In a world of spaceships and blasters, instead of horses and swords, Thorn needs to adapt and survive, make new allies, and rediscover that although nothing is familiar, he's still a Mage, and pirates and slavers beware.

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.

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In una sala misteriosa, sospesa tra ombre e attesa, un re ascolta voci che sembrano provenire da ogni direzione. Sono sussurri che guidano e confondono, lampi di verità e inganni intrecciati. Giorno dopo giorno, il tempo scorre come un copione già scritto, ma dietro le mura si cela un enigma che nessun potere può dominare. I consiglieri del re non sono soltanto figure al suo fianco: sono echi, riflessi, presenze che svelano e nascondono al tempo stesso.

Devdutt Pattanaik is the author of over twenty-five books and 500 articles on the relevance of mythology in modern times. Trained in medicine (MBBSfrom Grant Medical College, Mumbai University), he worked in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries for fifteen years before devoting all his...

Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho’s beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world’s most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self-discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith...

In questa novella Pirandello continua a scavare nel profondo del nostro inconscio. Dopo la morte della moglie un pover'uomo è distrutto dal dolore, è terrorizzato dal suo futuro e cerca disperatamente di rivivere i momenti felici della sua infanzia, come quando correva a piedi nudi sull'erba. Ma agli occhi del mondo quel gesto sembra soltanto una follia di chi non è più capace di intendere e di volere.

Il tema dell'audiolibro si svolge lungo l'analisi del significato di Felicità. La Felicità è quella necessità che deriva dalla sua proverbiale mancanza. La sua stessa essenza implica l'esistenza dell'antipode, che si definisce Infelicità.

Featuring a delightful cast of characters, timeless Buddhist wisdom and His Holiness' compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama's Cat is simply enchanting. The Dalai Lama’s Cat is back: irreverent, vain and as delightfully insightful as ever! When the Dalai Lama’s inner circle is set the task of providing His Holiness with a book he can give his visitors, an unexpected volunteer stretches out her paws.

In a remote, Himalayan monastery, Matt Lester has devoted five years of spiritual preparation for this moment: it is his destiny to open an ancient, sealed scroll containing prophetic wisdom the world urgently needs. But when his time comes, violent assailants steal the scroll. Matt is caught up in a dangerous, high-stakes hunt to recover it, turning him from the pursuer to the pursued. On the other side of the world, the results of scientist Alice Weisenstein’s mind-body healing research are about to be revealed.

Ninety-Three is the story of the Marquis de Lantenac, an exiled French nobleman snuck back into France to raise a Royalist army which will make the English invasion possible, Gauvain, Lantenac's great-nephew leading the Republican army to thwart him, and Cimourdain, a former priest and Gauvain's teacher and mentor, tasked to keep Gauvain on the right path. And in the end, who will face the guillotine?

This universalist spiritual treatise is the best known work by the Lebanese-born poet and artist Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931). The central figure of the narrative is a fictional prophet, Al Mustafa, who is about to set off on a journey back to his homeland. His departure is delayed when he encounters a group of people who urgently seek his advice on a wide range of topics ranging from the mundane to the highest flights of spiritual introspection.

** A NEW YORKER, OBSERVER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ** A new audio edition read by Genevive Gaunt, twice winner of the AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Tara Selter has slipped out of time. It was clear that the day always returned to...