Don Miller is a heart broken college student who mourns the death of his ex-girlfriend, Beth. Trying to keep her memory alive, he discovers how to break a hole into the fiction world, using a movie reel of her favorite movie. Instead of ending up in the movie he wants to be in, he finds himself dragged into a horror TV series set in the 1980s. Friends who witness him crossing over watch him, on the screen, in the TV show that he’s trapped in. They’re only able to give him spoilers to keep ...

Americans are abandoning soft drinks and becoming tea drinkers. It has the ability to mellow us out as well as energize and exhilarate us. Pratt is a tour de force on the subject of tea. Let yourself be amazed by the history of tea, how it is harvested, the best way to brew it, and how it lubricates many social activities.

Turning Adversity into OpportunityThis is a tale of tenacity, of a soul that carved strength from struggle and rejected the destiny laid bare by a city's cold streets. Raised amid the tempests of Chicago's tougher quarters, our narrator weaves a powerful saga—a testament to the possibilities that lie beyond the boarded-up windows and shadowed alleys of youth.Navigating a world offering few escapes, the author confronts the harshest realities, seeking solace and identity wit...

“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.”The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of tumult: war, civil unrest, or significant damage to the stability of the global economy. Now James Rickards, ...

There is, and always has been, a widespread belief in Fate, or Destiny, that is, in an eternal and inscrutable Power which apportions definite ends to both individuals and nations. This belief has arisen from long observation of the facts of life. Men are conscious that there are certain occurrences which they cannot control, and are powerless to avert. Birth and death, for instance, are inevitable, and many of the incidents of life appear equally inevitable. Men strain every nerve for the...

As a Man Thinketh, first published in 1903, remains one of the most powerful, popular, and beloved books in the self-help movement.Its author, James Allen (1864–1912), published nineteen books in his lifetime, beginning with From Poverty to Power, published in 1901. But none of his other works have had the inspirational force of As a Man Thinketh. The title comes from Proverbs 23:7: “As he thinketh in his...

The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps.Cates knew that he and his small band of marines were in a desperate spot. Before handing the note over to a runner, he added three words that would resound through Marine Corps history:I WILL HOLDFrom the moment he first joined the Marine Reserves of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, Clifton B. Cates was d...

From New York Times bestselling author Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton comes the first book in a ferocious YA fantasy duology featuring ancient magic, warring factions, and a romance between the two people in the world with the most cause to hate one another.Darling Seabreak cannot remember anything before the murder of her family at the hands of House Dragon, but she knows she owes her life to both the power of her Chaos Boon and House ...

Finalist for the Locus AwardBelletrist Book Club PickFrom Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction.A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings es...

Alexia Bathory befriends a mysterious girl at school who brings revelations of a family secret that spans centuries. The truth leaves Alexia with a stark choice of conscience, stay with her family and live a life of wealth and power or runaway and tear her family apart.

Richard Attucks is a troubled student attending a new school. Recently he became homeless after his mother relapsed. Reaching out to potential new friends, he meets two students who publish a ‘zine (self-made magazine) titled Hack the Planet. Soon he learns secrets of the hacker culture, and his perspective changes. But one day, a dying man drops leaked information, and Richard has to make a choice between his freedom and his conscience.

2020 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book AwardAlongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles Fourier, envisioned a society in which basic human ambitions would be expressed and cultivated, tied together by the bonds of emotion. Fourier’s self-appointed disciple Victor ...