Amor y Predestinacion

Wrong will be that one to suppose that the practice of heroic virtues and spiritual life are the privilege of monks and hermits, confused is people who think that the list of men and women who have been elevated to sainthood is composed only of missionaries, martyrs, priests or any other member of the clergy. Error, the list of saints that the church has placed on the altar is full of a multitude of ordinary people, men and women who have gone through life loving and serving others from a common profession, from his workshop from your home, from your regular life of governors or parents.

The son of a proud naval dynasty, Gabriel Hawkins was born to command the sea, until he leaves the Royal Navy in disgrace and is disowned by his family. As captain of his own ship, he's earned his living in ways both legal and illegal, and his experience makes him the best choice to ransom an aristocratic beauty captured by Barbary pirates. Having avoided the traps of convention and marriage, Lady Aurora Lawrence is horrified by the prospect of spending her life as a harem slave. Her only hope of escape is a quiet, steely captain who has a history with her captor--and who will do anything to...

Desde su nacimiento, el súper genio Junior Thibodeaux escucha la voz de un coro griego que le transmite una fatal profecía: en treinta y seis años, un cometa arrasará la vida enla Tierra. Sólo él lo sabe, y Junior no para de preguntarse si hay algo que realmente merezca la pena. La misteriosa voz también le confiesa secretos acerca de su familia y Amy, el amor de su vida y su compañera en los actos heroicos que podrían salvarla humanidad. Mientras el mundo se transforma en una extraña nación al borde del fin, Junior provoca un desenlace de lo más inesperado.

A PRESENTIFICAÇÃO DA MORTE E SEUS MISTÉRIOS Se Mallarmé dizia que “tudo no mundo existe para chegar a um livro”, Airton Souza recolhe nesta sua obra, Pragmatismo das flores, a experiência de uma ausência, o que não pode estar no mundo, em sua existência, que é a morte. Algo que não poderia ser representado. E é a partir, paradoxalmente, da busca de uma presença, do corpo, da linguagem, de um “pragmatismo” que o poeta aqui em questão vai tentar solidificar a presença da morte. Giorgio Agamben, no maravilhoso livro, A linguagem e a morte, ao referir-se a Heidegger,...

When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires, and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.