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Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (233 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere between New York State and Connecticut lies a crack between our world and a parallel human reality known as Hortishland. Today, emissaries from Hortishland regularly walk unrecognized amongst us, showing us new ways of thinking and living. But it wasn't always that way. Before they could venture into our reality, Hortishlanders had to surmount the challenges of perfecting themselves and restoring their realm. This charming mystical adventure...
Author
Series
Publisher
Linda Acaster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The Bull At The Gate - Book 2 in the 'Torc of Moonlight' trilogy of occult thrillers set in northern England.". . .a crafted blend of Crime, Thriller and Myth makes the reader question their grasp of reality. . ."Nick has moved to York, a walled mediaeval city of crooked half-timbered houses and tight cobbled streets where historical re-enactment groups of Viking longshipmen thrill the tourists. Yet deep in the crypt of York Minster sit the foundations...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world. In this timely retelling of an ancient Buddhist parable, peace activist Satish Kumar has created a small book with a powerful spiritual message about ending violence. It is a tale of a fearsome outcast named Angulimala ("Necklace of Fingers"), who is terrorizing towns and villages in order to gain control...
Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Jumping is a work of visionary fiction that begins with a nihilistic act. The main character, a young man, feels life's limits are killing him, drives to a remote area, walks 100 yards, and leaps into a dark and mysterious chasm, known locally as the "Void." Friends and family are stunned. What he meets in the Void is his own larger spiritual history-a cohort of souls he incarnated with, a string of past lives he visits-and he's changed profoundly...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (517 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Roland Jarrell thinks he knows where his life is headed. Through a series of decisions that are all his own, he finds his simple vision of the world sharply contrasting with reality. A child of the Baby Boom, he comes of age in the '60s and '70s, becoming immersed in the technological revolution of the time. His financial and career success leads to conflicts at home, until eventually his vision comes crashing down. But underneath it all, there's...
Author
Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (168 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Overworked, overwhelmed, unsatisfied, and at her breaking point, an everywoman drops out of life for a day and meets a mysterious teacher. What she finds is her purpose--and a better way to live. In this entertaining and enlightening novel, chapters alternate between scenes in which our everywoman and her teacher discuss Life, and scenes in which she's living her everyday life (interacting with her husband, children, co-workers, and friends) and...
Author
Publisher
Marie Minnich
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A troubled young woman is on a journey of self realization She walks down a street in Santa Monica, California and meets the old gods. One by one, they hold conversations in the local Starbucks that consequently begin to unravel the dilemmas and mysteries of her all too human life. It's a totally modern story that reveals age old archetypes of knowledge and wisdom. --Provided by publisher.
8) Hellrise
Author
Publisher
David Howells
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The machinery of Time has been repaired. Chief of Intervention Masati has her beloved Moriah back, one of Heaven's most powerful Avenger Class Host. Yet she had strayed, and for that she must remain on Earth to perform penance, and learn a more humble demeanor. Her beloved, Barna, is tasked as her overseer. Their paths will be joined by Anna, who was Moriah's closest friend in Heaven before she strayed, and together they must also protect their human...
Author
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (311 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Who is the strange woman, and what is it about her that both attracts and worries James? Suddenly in over his head, James is horrified to discover the woman seems to be, quite literally, living in the past! He goes along with her apparent madness until he realises that a spate of other, seemingly impossible, happenings are now occurring around the world, practically each minute. Swept up in her deeds, from the tragic to the heroic, James has to battle...
11) Lavender
Author
Publisher
Fiero Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A small town in the Midwest is about to be transformed by a strip-mining conglomerate, and a professor at the local high school has called three of his former students to persuade the town to reject the change. When the first two go down in defeat, it's up to a sports writer who left the town years ago and is riddled with doubts. But sometimes the town itself provides inspiration... --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Six Degrees Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The Magic Formula follows a close group of boys from childhood who decide to meet every ten years to renew their friendship. Gradually their numbers are reduced by death, and suddenly, as adults, they see that the realities of their lives are far bleaker than they are comfortable admitting to one another. As they share their individual stories, they come to realize that they all are victims, struggling and hurting. Each man is unable to deal with...
13) Roger, at Sunset
Author
Publisher
WMG Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
September, 1963: Roger knows the future. Life in 1960s, the same as in the 1950s, certainly better than the 1940s. Roger's future looks exactly like his present: the job of his dreams, the wife of his dreams, everything perfect and in a row. Roger, representative of his privileged generation. Roger, who sits down to watch the news every night. . .in a golden twilight of a soon-to-be lost age."[Rusch's] short fiction is golden."-The Kansas City StarUSA...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (336 p.)
Language
English
Description
"The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable, it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny. Hoping for a miracle, Sweeney has brought Danny to the fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" patients who were similarly lost in the void. but the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a comic book world beloved by Danny...
15) Entrevoir
Author
Publisher
Luminis Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (208 pages)
Language
English
Description
The unveiling of a new work of art by Jacob Marsteller is typically one of the most highly anticipated events in the international art scene-but not this time. Jacob's new piece is a labyrinth of gossamer fabric perched on the peak of a mountain called Entrevoir in a remote corner of the south of France. It looks as if nobody except Jacob's teenage children and a few neighbors from the village will bother to show up at the gallery. As Jacob finishes...
Author
Publisher
Georgiann Baldino
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
If a tree falls in a forest and someone hears it, does the tree have an effect? When does watching break the rules? In Georgiann's short story a falling tree interacts with its observer and changes her in a profound way. The boundaries between sight, sounds and reality fall apart. Author Georgiann Baldino reworks the old philosophy question-this time with the tree in charge. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 pages)
Language
English
Description
"In the course of a single extensive interview, this novel recounts the colorful life of a wealthy, eccentric Italian composer through multiple layers of unreality. As Massimo recalls what his master, Tancredo Pavone, told him about his life, he often repeats Pavone's outrageous opinions on everything from the current state of the world to the inner life of each musical note. Eventually, it becomes comically clear that not only does Pavone not always...
Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Flight instructor Jamie Forbes guides a woman to landing her plane safely after her husband loses consciousness, then flies on to his own destination unimpressed by his act...flight instructors guide students every day. Only after she tells reporters that a stranger appeared in an airplane alongside hers and hypnotized her into landing, and after he meets his own guiding stranger does he solve the bigger mystery: how each of us creates, step by step,...
20) Lag
Author
Publisher
Eero Tarik
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
She only had half an hour for lunch, and it was bitterly cold outside. Forgetting the risks, she walked briskly down to the 54th street intersection but half way across she was hit by lag, and stopped dead in her tracks like all those around her. Even though she loved her government, the lag annoyed her,surely they could fix it. A fast paced sci-fi short story about a future world, with an unexpected ending. It is a world where everything is not as...
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