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When occult enthusiast Sir Giles Tumulty comes into possession of a stone known as the Crown of Solomon, he is amazed at its startling powers. It can replicate itself infinitely, and can transport its holder to any place or time. Sir Giles and his nephew Reginald, an opportunistic businessman, conspire to exploit their new treasure. Seeking to enlist honest Lord Arglay in their plans, Arglay quickly realizes what is at stake. Unlimited power should not fall into the wrong hands...and it already had....

Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around" - welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast.

A pilot is lost in the Sahara Desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, that's where he meets a small prince from another planet. The story has a philosophical theme, which includes social criticisms aimed at the strangeness with which adults see things.

Действие романа происходит в то тяжелое время, когда на долю России разом выпали все испытания: Первая мировая и Гражданская войны, отречение царя, революция. Роман Бориса Пастернака - о судьбе его поколения, ставшего свидетелем, участником и жертвой этого безумия.

Not yet 16, Bellamy Larson - or Beam, as she'd rather be called - remembers everything. Truthfully, there's a lot she'd just rather forget. Beam never knew her father and doesn't ever want to. Her little brother died while saving her. And her mother self-medicates, leaving Beam to fend for herself. She doesn't need friends. She just needs to get away. Buzz Donovan is on a journey across America. Luckily for him, he has a friend - a dog named Hush. It's because of Hush, though, that Buzz is homeless. But that's his choice, because if it weren't for Hush, he'd be dead.

The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

Lucian Taylor, the hero, is damned either through contact with an erotically pagan "other" world or through something degenerate in his own nature, which he thinks of as a "faun". He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. One of the first explorations in fiction of the figure of the doomed artist, who is biographically so much a part of the decadent 1890s.

MI6 Agent Sam Noor isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty to protect his homeland. While overseas interrogating an enemy terrorist, he’s horrified to learn his beloved wife suffered the same brutal tactics from his own men. Determined to expose the betrayal and extract bloody justice, Noor uncovers an unbelievable fact: His wife died and somehow came back to life.... Swept up in an international power struggle, Noor goes rogue to uncover the eye-opening truth. The fallout from Sam’s revenge ripples from the Oval Office through the CIA and MI6.

People say Scotland is full of haunted houses. Scratch at the facts and you find most of these ghosts are imagined. Only one defies explanation, and it turns out she's a thief. DCI George Wiley has been keeping half an eye on the “Spectral Bandit” for six months now and has realised he’s got a ghost problem. An escalating string of audacious thefts is creeping onto the newsfeeds and Wiley’s bosses need him to catch the culprit. The only evidence he holds are short snatches of CCTV. And the solitary conclusion he has reached is that the spectral figure is a woman.

Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.

When you are closest to making a breakthrough in your personal growth, your fear throws up the greatest intensity. It will do whatever it can to deter you from moving ahead. That is the nature of human consciousness and growth. If you succumb to its frightening and treacherous threats, pick yourself up and try again. With perseverance, your fear will exit the scene, and you will be standing in a sparkling new world. The problems encountered by those closest to Maliyan intensify as their paths intertwine more densely and their individual journeys traverse sinuous inner terrain.

Banger and Mash knew something strange was happening when their peoples’ scent began to fade. Sweetpea the cat knew it too, but…you know…he just wasn’t that worried about it. But when their human vanishes into thin air right before their noses, they race to get help from the other dogs in the village, only to discover that EVERYONE'S humans have disappeared.

Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment. At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep security” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and the uncertain future ahead.

Kaya Thornton killed her best friend. On the run since the tender age of thirteen, she left the safety of her Community’s magicked walls and tried to disappear in the human world. Four years later, she’s found and dragged back kicking and screaming by Auden, her best friend’s older brother. The second Prince of the Wardwell line is antagonistic and unforgiving, but surprisingly gentle as he forces her home to face the judgement of his father and the Council. She expected hatred and bitter punishment, not private training with a hot and cold Prince and…demonology courses?

No seu audiolivro mais autobiográfico, Paulo Coelho nos leva a reviver o sonho transformador e pacifista da geração hippie. Paulo é um jovem que quer ser escritor, deixa os cabelos longos e sai pelo mundo à procura da liberdade e do significado mais profundo da existência. Da prisão como terrorista pela ditadura militar brasileira, em 1970, ao encontro de Karla, em Amsterdã, quando resolvem ir até o Nepal no Magic Bus. No caminho, vivem uma extraordinária história de amor.

In the year 2067, Britain struggles to rebuild after the crushing devastation of the Great Flood. Those in power have formed a new regime in the wake of the disaster. Whether it is a hard-won utopia or an oppressive nightmare depends entirely on gender. Unmarried women have no legal rights or protection, and their access to education and employment is limited to ensure their servitude. Yet a fire burns within them to prove they are far from the weaker sex, and their rebellion seeks to tear down the patriarchal rule.

I just sped across the galaxy to a strange planet, upgraded my first alien racer girl, and now will race to my inevitable death. I, Lorean Michaels, a budding stunt driver, just travelled back home after my father's passing to find I was left a unique vehicle. Never did I think that very car would take me places beyond my wildest dreams. Now, I must protect a team of high-octane women, unlock transformations, and ultimately win their freedom.

George is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crises, but George gets dragged into awkward conversations about love, fear, music, and the meaning of life with a quirky philosophical physics professor, who also asks George to beta-test an app he wrote. When tragedy strikes, George learns that Shiloh’s app lets him journey through alternate versions of his past.

A collection of stories that focus on love, lost love, death, the absurdity of the human condition, relationships, and beauty.

Akira Malone believes in the scientific method, evolution, and Einstein’s theory of relativity. And ghosts. All the logic and reason in the world can’t protect her from the truth — she can see and communicate with spirits. But Akira is sure that her ability is just a genetic quirk and the ghosts she encounters simply leftover electromagnetic energy. Dangerous electromagnetic energy.