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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.

Cuentos completos de Leonora Carrington reúne los relatos publicados en La casa del miedo, El séptimo caballo e incluye tres cuentos inéditos en español: "El camello de arena", "El vuelo de Mr. Gregory" y "Jemima y el Lobo". La recolección de estas historias en un solo tomo permite al lector adentrarse por completo en la imaginación de Leonora Carrington y fascinarse por sus historias fantásticas, el mundo onírico y su percepción de la realidad de forma macabra, satírica y brillante.

*One of Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away* “Michaela Carter’s training as a poet and painter shines through from the first page of this vivid, gorgeous novel based on the lives of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst. Told with all the wild magic...

Marion Letharby, novantanovenne inglese ormai sorda da anni, riceve in dono dalla sua migliore amica un imponente cornetto acustico tempestato di argento e madreperla e la sua vita, sorprendentemente cambia. Quando il bisnipote sceglie per lei un non troppo costoso ospizio per vecchi, la Confraternita del Pozzo di Luce, Marion, invece di abbattersi per la perdita della sua amata solitudine, comincia a guardarsi intorno. Nel vasto parco della Confraternita trova padiglioni a forma di casine di gnomi, di fungo velenoso, di orologio a cucù, di vagone ferroviario, di stivale e di mummia.

Two broken souls scarred with wounds from their demons, playing a dangerous game of trust and love. Isabella Knight is a girl running from her traumatic dark past where fate leads her to Vincenzo King the boss of a feared Mafia in New York who is also living in his darkness will they be fall in love or drive each other to insanity?

This collection of really funny short stories in easy Italian can be used by English native speakers to improve their Italian and gain fluency by having fun with the funny story.

One night. That’s all I needed—a brief escape from the weight of the crown I never asked to wear. Heir to a criminal empire built on blood, loyalty, and ruthless power… and suffocating under the pressure of it all. Just one drink. One hour of quiet. One nameless woman to help me forget the war outside these walls. Then she walked in—and the world stopped breathing. She wasn’t just beautiful. She was lethal. The kind of woman you don't touch unless you're ready to burn. Grace wrapped in danger, fire dressed in silk. A siren in a room full of shadows. Men would kill for her ...

Una mujer indomable, un espíritu rebelde... una leyenda. Una de esas novelas que uno, simplemente, no puede perderse. Esta novela cuenta la historia de una mujer indomable, un espíritu rebelde. Destinada a crecer como la rica heredera de un magnate de la industria textil, desde pequeña supo que era diferente, que su capacidad de ver lo que otros no veían, de conectar con los animales, la convertía en especial. Desafió las convenciones sociales, a sus padres y maestros, y rompió cualquier atadura religiosa o ideológica para conquistar su derecho a ser una mujer libre, personal y artísticamente.

Año 5540 del calendario andino. Noa decide escaparse de su Guayaquil natal con su mejor amiga, Nicole, para asistir al Ruido Solar, un macrofestival popular que anualmente congrega, durante ocho días y siete noches, a miles de jóvenes —entre músicos, bailarines, poetas y chamanes— a los pies de uno de los numerosos volcanes de los Andes. Atrás quedan las familias y la violencia de las ciudades, y se despliega un paisaje alucinado que tiembla al ritmo de la música y las erupciones volcánicas bajo un cielo surcado por meteoritos.

יש ספרים שבתום הקריאה בהם אנו מרגישים שמשהו עמוק בתוכנו נפרץ, עולם עולה וצף מתוך התת־מודע – ואז נעלם ומותיר אותנו משתאים. כזה הוא קרן השמע, שהמחברת שלו, לאונורה...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a “beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship” (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and tarot devotees Remedios Varo and...

"Habrá tres pruebas, espaciadas en el curso escolar, que medirán a los campeones en muchos aspectos diferentes: sus habilidades mágicas, su osadía, sus dotes de deducción y, por supuesto, su capacidad para sortear el peligro." El Torneo de los Tres Magos se va a celebrar en Hogwarts. Solo los magos mayores de diecisiete años pueden participar, pero eso no impide a Harry fantasear con la posibilidad de ganar la competición.

On the face of it, a simple book of 26 poem fables sharing one man’s wisdom. But The Prophet is so much more than that. It has inspired people from John F Kennedy to The Beatles and became the '60s Bible of counterculture – all because of the timeless truths it shared. Each poem takes a different theme – pleasure, beauty, freedom, joy and sorrow – as the fictional Al Mustapha shares his thoughts and experiences as he prepares to travel back to his island home.

The Kabbalah is divided into three branches—the theoretical, the meditative, and the magical. While many books, both in Hebrew and English, have explored the theoretical Kabbalah, very little has been published regarding the meditative methods of the various schools of Kabbalah. Aryeh Kaplan's landmark work reveals the methodology of the ancient Kabbalists and stresses the meditative techniques that were essential to their discipline, including:

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe. But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female artist, she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic.

Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists. Torn between an intense love affair with a married Russian painter and her soaring ambition to create, Ivory's life is violently interrupted by the Second World War. She flees from Europe, leaving behind her friends, her art, and her love. Now over 90, Ivory labours defiantly in the frozen north on her last, greatest work....

Essere donna ed essere artista, agli albori del Novecento, era quasi inconciliabile. Eppure qualcuna è riuscita, con grande maestria, a lasciare incantevoli tracce del proprio passaggio nel mondo. Questa è la storia di Leonora Carrington e Remedios Varo: non più muse, ma "amabili streghe". Dall'Inghilterra alla Francia, dalla Spagna al Messico, dal Messico agli Stati Uniti, le loro vite sono unite da un labirinto di fughe, di guerre, di passioni e amicizie.

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