An award-winning astrophysicist leads a brisk, lucid tour of the human quest to uncover reality’s fundamentals, from myth-making to mathematical precisionSince the dawn of consciousness, humans have sought to make sense of this world into which we’re each born. The Shortest History of Reality explores the shifting boundary between what we perceive and what truly exists—tracing the idea of “what’s real” from its everyday, commonsense begin...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 1st volume contains the following 50 works...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of C. S. Lewis" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician's Nephew The Last Battle Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength The Screwtape Letters The Pilgrim's Regress The Great Divorce Till We Have Faces ...

This version of Lewis Carroll’s, classic children’s fantasy, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is retold in simple English while remaining true to the spirit and story of the original version. This version is significantly easier to understand for young readers.

This volume contains the following 20 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Anonymous: “Beowulf” Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh” Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan” Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Master and Margarita” Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars” Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “Tarzan of the Apes” Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Carroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking Glass” Chesterton, G. K.: “The Man Who Was Thursday...

In the third and final part of the Timeshock series, follow Nigel Saunders and his friends as they journey through space and time in an attempt to prevent an ancient race of aliens being revived and then destroying the Earth.Fresh from defeating Nazis from an alternative time-line, Nigel and friends discover that a plot has been hatched to revive an ancient alien civilisation that was frozen in cryrogenic storage on Mars, intent on colonising the Earth. Can they stop Raymond Devill...

Welcome to Monte Clara High. Home of the Blue Devils.The Class of 2005 is excited to attend the Monte Clara High ten-year reunion, which has been billed as the party of the decade. But at an event perfect for rekindling lifelong friendships and reminiscing over the teenage years, one former classmate has plotted something way more sinister.Everyone's curiosity is piqued when a mystery person masquerades as their high school mascot and posts strange videos on social...

"Some memories are meant to stay buried. Others demand to be found."In the small town of Lazy Rivers, where secrets run as deep as the river that gave the town its name, three generations of Rivers women are about to discover that some memories can't stay buried forever.When Serenity Rivers returns home to care for her dying mother, she brings with her a gift she's spent years trying to escape—the ability to see other people's memories. But as boys start di...

For the last 19 years and 363 days, Elizabeth Boone walked into the federal courthouse without a problem. On day 364, a bullet sends her to the hospital and changes her life forever.In the aftermath of the shooting, Liz quits her job and moves to a small house on the edge of a beautiful park in Spokane, but life doesn’t get back to normal. Visions haunt her, pushing her to the point of despair. Reaching out for help she meets a fellow survivor, Willow Blue, and together they discov...

Spanning centuries, 'The Greats of Sci-Fi: H.G. Wells Edition' emerges as a seminal anthology that traverses the varied terrains of science fiction. The works selected for this collection not only showcase the inventive richness that characterizes the genre but also illuminate the essential themes of exploration, societal critique, and technological speculation. From the haunting depths of psychological manipulation to the exhilarating realms of interstellar travel, the literary styles var...

The acclaimed bakers and authors of Baked return with an inventive array of treats to make any celebration even sweeter.Celebrating a year in desserts, BAKED's beloved duo Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito offer cookies, puddings, whoopie pies, cakes, brownies, and more to commemorate holidays both expected and unexpected. You'll discover creative treats like Rum-infused Hair of the Dog Cake for New Year's Day and Peanut Butter Sheet Cake for Texas Independen...

Over the years I cannot tell you how many readers have written me to say how hungry they get reading the books in the Maggie Newberry Mysteries! That’s not at all hard to believe since amazing food is such a dominant feature in the stories—and that’s not surprising because, as Lumière says in the famous song from Beauty and the Beast, “after all this is France!”So many readers have asked me to put the recipes located at the back of each mystery all in one place to make it easier fo...