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Avalon
by Anya SetonA spellbinding story of a young French prince and a Cornish girl caught up in the intrigue of the 10th Century English Court. '[Anya Seton] brought history so vividly to life' (Philippa Gregory)Merewyn has grown up in savage 10th Century Cornwall; a lonely girl, sustained by stubborn courage and pride in her descent from the great King Arthur. Rumon, a young French prince, has always dreamed of finding the idyllic island of hearsay and legend, Avalon. He gladly leaves his home in Provence but his hopes are dashed when his ship is wrecked off the Cornish coast. Rumon and Merewyn meet and from that hour their lives are intertwined. They make their way to the court of King Edgar and his beautiful young queen. At first they are dazzled but there is evil lurking in the corridors of power . . .Stretching from France to the eastern shores of America to the plains of Greenland, the journeys of Rumon and Merewyn make for an unforgettable saga.
Avalon
by Mindee ArnettFor fans of Josh Whedon's cult classic television show Firefly comes a fascinating and fast-paced sci-fi thriller from author Mindee Arnett, about a group of teenage mercenaries who stumble upon a conspiracy that threatens the entire galaxy.Jeth Seagrave and his crew have made their name stealing metatech: the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light. In a world where the agencies that patrol the outer edges of space are as corrupt as the crime bosses who control them, it's as much of a living as anyone can ask for. For years Jeth's managed to fly under the radar of the government that executed his parents for treason--but when he finds himself in possession of information that both government and the crime bosses are willing to kill for, he's going to find there's no escaping his past anymore.With pulse-pounding action, a captivating mystery, and even a bit of romance, Avalon is the perfect read for hard-core sci-fi fans and non-sci-fi fans alike.
Avalon
by Shiloh WalkerThe clock is ticking…Born with a powerful psychic gift, Erin’s entire life has been nothing more than a countdown. From the time she was fifteen, she’s had one clear image in her mind—she would come face to face with a vicious killer before she was thirty. He would die, but so would she.With that sort of knowledge, having a life, falling in love…was there any point? No. But life and love happened anyway.With time running out, Erin has to face the truth. She can’t fight her heart, but can she fight the inevitable?Seth fell hard for Erin, a fellow detective on the Avalon Police Department, but the woman he loved more than his own life did everything she could to keep him away.When he discovers why, it’s almost more than he can handle, but he almost lost her once.He isn’t going to lose her again.Previously only available in the Mythe & Magick Anthology.Includes the short story, Freak of Nature.
Avalon High
by Meg CabotHaving moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School, where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
Avalon, the Beautiful
by Zane GreyZane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling book. This is one of his stories.
Avalon: A Novel (Coronet Bks.)
by Anya SetonA novel of England during the Viking era, from an author who &“has vividly and colorfully portrayed life during the tumultuous Dark Ages&” (Historical Novels Review). The last quarter of the tenth century was a time of conflict and exploration—while the Anglo-Saxons fought against the Vikings, Norsemen voyaged into the unknown looking for new lands to pillage, and so discovered America. Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred, was a searcher. He had visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthur&’s Avalon, &“where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow.&” Merewyn grew up in savage Cornwall—a lonely girl, sustained by stubborn courage and belief in her descent from great King Arthur. Chance—or fate—in the form of a shipwreck off the Cornish coast brought Rumon and Merewyn together, and from that hour their lives were intertwined. Bound by his vow to her dying mother, Rumon brings Merewyn safely to England, keeping hidden the shameful secret of her birth. He considers his responsibility ended. At court, he is dazzled by the beautiful Queen Alfrida—but when a murderous truth is revealed, he turns to Merewyn, only to discover that he may have lost her. And he will journey across the Atlantic to find her again . . . From the beloved bestselling author of Katherine and Dragonwyck, this is a romantic tale of history and adventure &“characterized by an authentic sense of time&” (The New York Times Book Review).
Avalon: A novel
by Nell ZinkA profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America&’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager&’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.Bran&’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her &“common-law stepfather&” on Bourdon Farms—a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. She spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school, and imagining what life could be if she had been born to a different family. And then she meets Peter, a beautiful, troubled, and charming train wreck of a college student from the East Coast, who launches his teaching career by initiating her into the world of literature and aesthetics. As the two begin a volatile and ostensibly doomed long-distance relationship, Bran searches for meaning in her own surroundings—attending disastrous dance recitals, house-sitting for strangers, and writing scripts for student films. She knows how to survive, but her happiness depends on learning to call the shots. Exceedingly rich, ecstatically dark, and delivered with masterful humor, Avalon is a poignant portrait of a young woman who, against all odds, is determined to find her place in the world and find clarity in its remote corners.
Avalon: The Return Of King Arthur
by Stephen R. LawheadIt has been foretold:In the hour of Britain's greatest need, King Arthur will return to rescue his people.In Portugal, the reprobate King Edward the Ninth has died by his own hand.In England, the British monarchy teeters on the edge of total destruction. And in the Scottish Highlands, a mystical emissary named Mr. Embries--better known as "Merlin"--informs a young captain that he is next in line to the throne. For James Arthur Stuart is not the commoner he has always believed himself to be--he is Arthur, the legendary King of Summer, reborn. But the road to England's salvation is dangerous, with powerful enemies waiting in ambush. For Arthur is not the only one who has returned from the mists of legend. And Merlin's magic is not the only sorcery that has survived the centuries.AVALON"A rousing postscript to Lawhead's bardic Pendragon Cycle . . . Playing off snappy contemporary derring-do against the powerful shining glimpses of the historical Arthur he created, Lawhead pulls off a genuinely moving parable of good and evil."--Publishers Weekly
Avana Libre: Un viaggio incantevole
by Jesús María Flores LunaL'Avana, una delle città più abbaglianti del mondo, è la protagonista principale. In tre storie che si toccano e convergono, appaiono alla luce (e nell'ombra) personaggi indimenticabili, come un uomo ricco che si reca spesso a Cuba per piacere, uno studente universitario degli Stati Uniti, un giovane scrittore messicano che cammina per le sue strade, una donna cubana che lavora nella promozione culturale e si innamora di uno straniero, un filosofo ed ex modello cubano disposto a lasciare l'isola e un esperto di aneddoti su Fidel e Fidel Castro, un filosofo ed ex modello cubano disposto a lasciare l'isola e un esperto di aneddoti su Fidel e Cuba, un filosofo cubano ed ex modello disposto a lasciare l'isola ed esperto in aneddoti su Fidel e il Che, un trovatore sul Malecón che disprezza Silvio Rodríguez, un uomo che improvvisa insulti verso Trump al ritmo di una canzone cubana, una moglie che approfitta del viaggio coniugale per essere infedele al marito con un mulatto. Una festa letteraria e un divertimento.
Avana, libro 1: La profezia del Druido (Avana #1)
by Annie LavigneUn’appassionante serie fantasy che unisce mitologia celtica, magia e amore. Un’incredibile saga fantastica che ci trasporta in Irlanda e in Scozia, 2000 anni fa, quando gli dei celtici e la magia esistevano ancora. Una figlia della tribù di Dana, gli dei della terra di Erin, è nata nel regno degli uomini. Mezza dea e mezza mortale, Avana è la chiave che permette di aprire le porte delle Tenebre, e per questo il Sommo Zha’hor, sovrano delle Tenebre, brama il suo sangue. Adolescente, ignorando il segreto della sua nascita e frustrata perché le impediscono di conoscere i segreti dei druidi, Avana fugge in Scozia. Il fato le farà conoscere una donna iniziatrice pronta a trasmetterle il sapere della Fede Antica. In una fortezza piena di giovani ragazzi valorosi che si allenano per diventare guerrieri, la giovane Ulate incontrerà Valmir, il Connachta, nemico del suo popolo, che le farà tuttavia battere il cuore. Figlia del Dio Luce Lugh e della malefica Ess Enchenn, Avana dovrà affrontare la sua Ombra. Respinta dal suo popolo, riuscirà la Figlia della Lice a resistere al richiamo delle Tenebre? La profezia del Druido rivela che Avana aiuterà le Tenebre a invadere la terra di Erin, ma che sarà anche l’unica che potrà salvare l’isola dalla maledizione. Nel frattempo, il druido Emroth, con il cuore spezzato dalla partenza di colei che ama, si ritira sull’Isola di Man per imparare i segreti della magia elementale. Insieme ad altri Maghi, si impegnerà corpo e mente nella ricerca dei quattro elementi che, riuniti, saranno la sola speranza per gli abitanti della terra di Erin di sopravvivere all'invasione delle Tenebre. Lasciatevi trasportare in questa saga celtica piena di magia, il cui primo volume prende la forma di un romanzo iniziatico in cui i personaggi devono imparare a dominare la propria Ombra e a trovare la Luce dentro di sé. "Ess Enchenn si distese sulla schiena con le ginocchia piegate. Il viso le si contrasse come se il soff
Avana, libro 2: La ricerca dei Maghi (Avana #2)
by Annie Lavigne✤ Così continuano le avventure di Avana ed Emroth sulla terra di Erin ✤ Emroth prosegue la ricerca dei quattro elementi. In qualità di Mago dell’acqua, spetta a lui trovare la Madre degli oceani. Ma sembra che gli manchi qualcosa affinché la Madre si riveli: potrebbe forse essere l’amore di una donna? Sulla terra di Erin è scesa una strana nebbia, che annerisce i cuori e le menti di druidi e cavalieri, spingendoli a uccidersi a vicenda. Avana compirà un viaggio fino in terra nemica, nel Connacht, per convincere la regina Maeve a unirsi agli Ulati, per combattere fianco a fianco le potenze delle Tenebre. Riusciranno i cavalieri di Conor e Maeve a dimenticare il passato e unire le forze contro gli eserciti di Zha’hor? Il disco dei quattro elementi deve essere riunito al più presto e Avana, legata alla magia dell’aria, raggiungerà gli elementalisti e ritroverà Emroth. Riusciranno i due a dare finalmente una possibilità al loro amore? Questo secondo volume trasporta il lettore in una ricerca iniziatica in cui i personaggi devono trasformarsi interiormente per vincere la propria Ombra e unirsi alla Luce. Si tratta di una prova individuale e collettiva, e ogni abitante dell’Isola Verde deve prestare attenzione alla propria interiorità, mentre un’oscura foschia invade ogni luogo. Da dove proviene questa nebbia? Di cosa si nutrono le Tenebre che gli Ulati temono così tanto? E come si può sconfiggere un nemico che ci è così vicino? Oltre a condurci in un universo fantasy in cui si uniscono con brio la mitologia celtica, la magia e l’amore, l’autrice ci fa vivere attraverso i personaggi un viaggio interiore che ci spinge a illuminare le nostre tenebre personali. Un romanzo che sa essere leggero e profondo allo stesso tempo, duro ma tenero, spaventoso ma ispiratore. Una buona scelta per adolescenti e giovani adulti che cercano una storia piena di azione e avventura, ma anc
Avana, libro 3: Il risveglio del Drago rosso (Avana #3)
by Annie Lavigne✤ La fine delle avventure di Avana ed Emroth sulla terra di Erin ✤ In un mondo di dei e di demoni, Avana, la figlia della Luce, deve affrontare la sua Ombra e riuscire a domare il Drago rosso che si è risvegliato dentro di lei. Nel frattempo, i Maghi dovranno riunire il disco dei quattro elementi, prima che le Tenebre invadano il loro mondo. Il cammino verso il Soffio primordiale sarò lungo, e Avana dovrà affrontare la sua ultima prova. In questo volume conclusivo, la Luce e le Tenebre si sfideranno nella battaglia finale, in cui si gioca il destino dei popoli della terra di Erin. Sull’Isola Verde, la natura è stata corrotta dalle forze del Cythraul: i vulcani sono in eruzione e la terra trema. Mentre Maeve, regina del Connacht, si reca in Scozia per chiedere aiuto alle streghe della Fede antica, i sopravvissuti ai cataclismi si rifugiano a Cruachain, dove i cavalieri temono un altro attacco dei Fomoriani. In questo volume finale della serie, l’autrice presenta la ricerca personale di ogni personaggio, che verrà trasformato dalle proprie scelte e consapevolezze. Re, regina e comuni mortali, maghi, sacerdotesse e guerrieri, tutti contribuiranno alla risoluzione della saga dell’Isola Verde. Degna dei migliori romanzi fantasy, quest’appassionante trilogia è una storia che ci trasporta in un universo celtico di druidi e cavalieri, che, alla fine, non sono poi così diversi da noi. Il libro è adatto a un pubblico dai 16 anni in su.
Avana, volume 1: A profecia do Druida (Avana #1)
by Annie Lavigne✤ Uma incrível saga fantástica que nos leva à Irlanda e à Escócia há 2000 anos atrás, quando os deuses celtas e a magia ainda existiam... ✤ Uma filha da tribo de Dana, os deuses da terra de Erin, nasceu no reino dos homens. Meio deusa, meio mortal, Avana é a chave para abrir a porta das Trevas e será caçada pelo seu sangue pelo Grande Lorde Zha'hor. Quando adolescente, inconsciente do segredo de seu nascimento e entristecida por não lhe ensinarem os segredos dos druidas, ela foge para Scottie. O destino vai colocar em seu caminho uma mulher professora pronta para transmitir a ela os segredos da Fé Antiga. É em uma fortaleza cheia de jovens espirituosos que ela treina para se tornar uma guerreira Ulate. Nesse mesmo lugar, ela se encontrará com Valmir, o Connaughta, inimigo de seu povo, mas que fará bater seu coração bater mais forte... Filha de Lug, o Deus Luz, mas também da malvada Ess Enchenn, Avana estará frente a frente com sua Sombra. Rejeitada por seu povo por tentar libertar sua mãe, a criança iluminada será capaz de resistir ao chamado da Escuridão? Enquanto isso, o druida Emroth, com o coração partido pela partida de sua amada, se refugia na Ilha de Man para aprender os segredos da magia elementar. Na companhia dos Magos, ele se comprometerá de corpo e alma na busca pelos 4 elementos que, unidos em um disco, são a única esperança para os habitantes da terra de Erin sobreviverem à invasão das Trevas. Deixe-se transportar para esta saga celta repleta de magia, que assume a forma de um romance em que os personagens devem dominar sua Sombra e encontrar neles a Luz. A autora nos leva a um fantástico mundo de luz e escuridão que reflete a vida do homem, onde tudo nunca é branco ou preto, mas sim um certo tom de cinza. Qualquer mulher se identificará facilmente com Avana, que pode ter vivido 2000 anos atrás, mas que tem as mesmas aspirações em seu coração que qualque
Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
by Nicole BrossardIn June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and unashamedly feminist and lesbian. <P><P> Avant Desire moves through Brossard’s body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material to include ephemera, interviews, marginalia, lectures, and more. Just as Brossard foregrounds collaboration, this book includes new translations alongside canonical ones and intertextual and responsive work from a variety of artist translators at various stages of their careers. <P><P> Through their selections, the editors trace Brossard’s fusion of lesbian feminist desire with innovation, experimentation, and activism, emphasizing the more overtly political nature of her early work and its transition into performative thinking. <P><P> Devotees of Brossard will be invigorated by the range of previously unavailable materials included here, while new readings will find a thread of inquiry that is more than a mere introduction to her complex body of work. Avant Desire situates Brossard’s thinking across her oeuvre as that of a writer whose sights are always cast toward the horizon.
Avant-Garde Canadian Literature
by Gregory BettsIn Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century.Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange
by Mike SellAssembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.
Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
by Joel BettridgeAvant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde-now more than a century old-persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and moving poems, despite its profound cultural failings and its self-devouring theoretical compulsions. It can do so because a humanistic strain of its radical poetics compels adherents to argue over the meaning of their shared political and aesthetic beliefs. In ways that can be productively thought of as religious in structure, this process fosters a perpetual state of crisis and renewal, always returning innovative poetry to its founding modernist commitments as a way to debate what the avant-garde is-what it should and does look like, and what it should and does value. Consequently, Avant-Garde Pieties makes way for a radical poetics defined not by formal gestures, but by its debate with itself about itself. It is a debate that honors the tradition's intellectual founding as well as its cultural present, which includes aesthetic multiformity, racialized and gendered modes of authorship, experiences of the sacred, political activism, and generosity in critical disagreement.
Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union
by Marijeta BozovicThe remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic movement opposed to both Putin’s regime and Western liberalism.What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow: Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko, Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal experiments range widely, all share a commitment to explicitly political poetry. Each one, in turn, has become a hub in a growing new-left network across the former Second World.Joined together by their work with the Saint Petersburg–based journal [Translit], this circle has staunchly resisted the Putin regime and its mobilization of Soviet nostalgia. At the same time, the poets of Avant-Garde Post– reject Western discourse about the false promises of leftist utopianism and the superiority of the liberal world. In opposing both narratives, they draw on the legacies of historical Russian and Soviet avant-gardes as well as on an international canon of Marxist art and theory. They are also intimately connected with other artists, intellectuals, and activists around the world, collectively restoring leftist political poetry to global prominence.The avant-garde, Bozovic shows, is not a relic of the Soviet past. It is a recurrent pulse in Russophone—as well as global—literature and art. Charged by that pulse, today’s new left is reimagining class-based critique. Theirs is an ongoing, defiant effort to imagine a socialist future that is at once global and egalitarian.
Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France
by Leonard C. PronkoThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s
by Jean-Thomas Tremblay; Andrew StrombeckAvant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance's very possibility. Specifically, this collection casts contemporary avant-gardes as a reaction to a crisis in the reproduction of life that accelerated in the 1970s—a crisis that encompasses living-wage rarity, deadly epidemics, and other aspects of an uneven management of vitality indexed by race, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. The contributors collectively argue that a minoritarian concept of the avant-garde, one attuned to uneven patterns of resource depletion and infrastructural failure (broadly conceived), clarifies the interplay between art and politics as it has played out, for instance, in discussions of art's autonomy or institutionality. Writ large, this book seeks to restore the historical and political context for the debates on the avant-garde that have raged since the 1970s.
Avant-Guards, The #7 (The Avant-Guards #7)
by Carly UsdinAs Liv discovers that there is more to college basketball than just slam dunks and victories, the rest of the Avant-Guards work to cheer up their normally peppy Captain. Charlie especially seems concerned, and ready to do whatever it takes to get back the Liv she knows and loves.
Avantika’s Garden
by Prashant PingeAvantika's Garden is a simple, delightful tale for children about the adventures of a sprightly menagerie animals that live in and around a house in suburban Pune.
Avanu Shapagrasta Gandharva: ಅವನು ಶಾಪಗ್ರಸ್ತ ಗಂಧರ್ವ
by Santhosh Kumara Mehendaleಲೇಖಕ ಸಂತೋಷ ಕುಮಾರ ಮೆಹೆಂದಳೆ ಅವರ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ-ಅವನು ಶಾಪಗ್ರಸ್ತ ಗಂಧರ್ವ. ಹೆಣ್ಣನ್ನು ಅರ್ಥೈಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಲ್ಲಿ ಗಂಡು ವಿಫಲನಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ, ಏಕೆ? ಆ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮತೆ ಗಂಡಿಗೆ ಇಲ್ಲವೆ? ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ವೇಳೆ ಇದೇ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಗಂಡು ಶಾಪಗ್ರಸ್ತನಾಗಿಯೇ ಉಳಿದು ಬಿಡುತ್ತಾನೆ, ಪ್ರೇಮದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಎಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೋ ಅದು ಗಂಡಿಗೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸಿ ಹೇಳಲಿಕ್ಕಾಗದು, ಏಕೆ? ಇಂತಹ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಗೋಜಲು ಬಿಡಿಸುವ ಹಾಗೆ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಓದಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಥಾವಸ್ತು, ನಿರೂಪಣಾ ಶೈಲಿ, ಪಾತ್ರಗಳ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಕುತೂಹಲ ಕೆರಳಿಸುತ್ತವೆ.
Avast!: Pirate Stories from Transgender Authors
by Michael Earp Alison EvansGet ready to set sail with a crew of rebels and misfits in this thrilling anthology of pirate tales. From CD burners to space pirates with an otherworldly crew, these stories blur the lines between criminal and separatist, playful and heartfelt and showcase a range of unique characters and found families.Featuring seven long-form pieces of writing, including a graphic novella and a verse novella, this collection has been edited by and features trans and non-binary writers, ensuring a fresh and diverse perspective on the pirate genre. So come aboard and discover a world of queer pirates, grey morals and homebrewed ale.
Avatar - Maharakshkon Ka Agaman: अवतार - महारक्षकों का आगमन
by Abhilash Dutta"अवतार: महारक्षकों का आगमन" उपन्यास एक काल्पनिक कथा है जो रहस्यमयता और आध्यात्मिकता से भरी है। कहानी 2050 के भविष्य को दर्शाती है, जब ब्रह्मांड में महादेव के चार आंशिक अवतारों का अवतरण होगा, जो संसार की रक्षा के लिए चार सिद्धांतों पर आधारित होंगे। ये चार रक्षक - मृदंग, निलोहित, विशालाक्षी, और रूद्र - अपनी अनूठी शक्तियों और विशेषताओं के साथ दुनिया को बचाने के लिए आगे आएंगे। इस उपन्यास में ब्रह्मांड के रहस्यों, 'भविष्य सूक्त' ग्रंथ की भविष्यवाणी, रावण की विद्वता, मानव अस्तित्व के रहस्य, जीवन और मृत्यु, सम्मोहन शक्ति, ब्रह्मांड की उत्पत्ति, नागलोक, और महामानवों के रहस्यों की गहन चर्चा है। इस यात्रा में चार रक्षकों के साथ सात महामानव भी शामिल होंगे, जो ब्रह्मांड के रहस्यों को सुलझाने में मदद करेंगे। यह कहानी कल्पना, आध्यात्मिकता, और विज्ञान का अद्भुत मिश्रण है, जो पाठकों को एक अद्वितीय अनुभव प्रदान करती है। उपन्यास रहस्यों से भरा हुआ है, जिसमें पात्रों के संघर्ष, उनकी यात्रा और उनका उद्देश्य धीरे-धीरे उजागर होते हैं।