Showing results for "The Shadow" in Metaphysical & Visionary

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets...

A powerful, layered weaving of myth, prose and pure imagination – The Ships of Merior is book two in the epic fantasy series, The Wars of Light and Shadow. The second volume of Janny Wurts's incomparable series following Arithon and Lysaer, two brothers forced to take opposite sides in a...

The myth of Perseus, told through the story of the three women who knew him best - his mother Danae, his wife Andromeda, and his victim, Medusa. History remembers him as a hero. But the women who knew him best remember a different man... Perseus grows up wanting to be a hero, but he cannot...

Homicide detective Adam Garrett is already a rising star in the Boston police department when he and his cynical partner, Carl Landauer, catch a horrifying case that could make their careers: the ritualistic murder of a wealthy college girl that appears to have satanic elements.

In the debut novel DREAMS AND SHADOWS, screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill takes us beyond the veil, through the lives of Ewan and Colby, young men whose spirits have been enmeshed with the otherworld from a young age. This brilliantly crafted narrative - part Neil Gaiman, part...

No one knows quite what to make of Nigel Considine. He calls himself "the High Executive", and he has inspired the entire continent of Africa to revolt and make war upon Europe. Is Considine a magician, a charismatic politician, a divinely annointed prophet, or the antichrist? A small circle of London friends all seem to disagree, even as Considine's influence is tearing England apart....

Ebootu is a seeker living in an underground realm shaped by mystery, survival, and forgotten wisdom. When strange symbols, archetypes, and guiding forces begin to reveal themselves, he is drawn into a journey that challenges everything he believes about identity, power, and purpose. Each encounter forces Ebootu to confront fear, temptation, and choice while learning that balance is the key to transformation. As Ebootu steps closer to the light, he discovers that growth does not come from escaping the shadows, but from understanding them.

The half-Drow, Ellis Burton has finally reunited with her mother, Claire but something's not right. Her mother is hiding something where the agency, DRI is concerned, and Ellis isn't sure she can trust her. But she's willing to give her the benefit of doubt for now. Trust, verify, and then bring out the magic. Charlie is still locked up in the DRI offices. The director, who looks strangely familiar offers him a job. Question is, is he considering it to help Ellis or to save his own skin? Before he answers, he's got a plan to check out the facility, while no one is watching him. 

In the seemingly ordinary town of Meadowbrook, Jay is a teenager grappling with the usual challenges of adolescence. But beneath the mundane lies a tapestry of secrets rooted in the ancient Roji heritage that he is only beginning to discover. As mysterious events ripple through Meadowbrook, Jay finds himself at the heart of it all, with his mother's silver necklace—a relic from a past she rarely speaks of—playing a pivotal role.

A través de la vida del Dr. Edhuard Bennett, un psiquiatra de renombre cuya vida da un giro inesperado con la aparición de su doble cuántico, esta narrativa explora las profundidades de la existencia humana y las sombras que acechan en los pliegues de nuestras decisiones. ¿Qué sucede cuando las sombras de nuestra propia existencia cobran vida, cuando el lado oscuro que todos llevamos dentro se manifiesta en una forma física, real y perturbadora? La teoría cuántica nos ha planteado la posibilidad de universos paralelos, donde cada elección y posibilidad se manifiesta en realidades divergentes.