From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS TitanicOn a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans...

When a sibling dies, society enforces a rigid, unspoken hierarchy of grief. Parents and spouses are placed at the center of the tragedy, while the surviving adult sibling is often relegated to the role of forgotten mourner—a piece of structural support expected to be strong for everyone else. This phenomenon, known as disenfranchised grief, affects over sixty percent of Americans by age sixty-five, yet it remains a profoundly isolating and unacknowledged experience. In "When Your Sibling D...

Epic, emotionally charged, and rich with speculative depth, this tale weaves legacy, sacrifice, and the courage to thrive in imperfection into a spellbinding saga that soars above the ordinary.In Stitches in the Clouds, Leah Starfall battles to safeguard her airborne homeland, Sky City, from Shiver—a sinister, shadowy force that invades minds and taints magic. As chaos swirls through the floating spires, Leah confronts twin horrors: her brother’s harrowing...

From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry—and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America.At noon on October 27, 1924, a factory worker was admitted to a hospital in New York City, suffering from hallucinations and convulsions. Before breakfast the next day, he was...

For over a century, parents have been told a convenient lie: that teenage rebellion is a biological inevitability. This foundational myth, born from G. Stanley Hall's 1904 concept of "storm and stress," has provided the ultimate alibi for generations, framing adolescence as a natural disaster to be endured, not a relationship to be nurtured. This book dismantles that fallacy piece by piece. It travels from Hall's academic pronouncements to anthropologist Margaret Mead's groundbreaking disc...

The Book of Daniel: How God Saved Me, A Story of Redemption(Awakened in Christ, Book 1)Have you ever felt like you've gone too far, done too much, or been too broken to be redeemed? If so, this book is for you.I'm Daniel Stone, and this is my story. It's a journey that starts off in utter darkness and moves towards the light of redemption through Jesus Christ. Prior to meeting God, my life was one of hurt, chaos, and devastation. I wasn't m...

Daniel L Stone's new novel is a powerful mix of suspense and paranormal mystery based on the connection between two love stories that take place 100 years apart. Both stories take place at the same manor on a beautiful island that legend said was the angels' playground on earth. The manor was built on a plateau between two tall mountains where the legend also said the angels ascended and descended from Heaven to their playground. This land was sacred and hallowed ground-not to be violated!...

Do you want to learn the fastest way to speak Italian fluently as a beginner without endless hours of memorization? Then keep listening...Without a doubt, being able to speak Italian opens doors to countless opportunities previously unavailable to you. From personal, professional, social, romantic opportunities.The challenge is that most other audiobook training programs that teach Italian make things either too long, complex, or obscure to be useful for you to master the lan...

There are some nightmares from which you can never wake.Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editoral team of Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, is Volume One in the Best of Grey Matter Press series. Selected by readers and horror fans, the twenty short stories contained within the pages of Dread include some of the darkest hallucinatory revelations from the minds of the most accomplished award-winning authors of our time.T...

Don't Just Feel Good—Do Good & Feel GreatThe science behind hugging. Dr. Stone's prescription is for a twenty-one-second hug today and every day. One of the many benefits of hugging is that longer hugs have proven physiological benefits. Hugs are good for your immune system, your stress response, your sleep patterns, and so much more.Hug Therapy brings to life the meaning of hugging. In this book, you will discover...

In this book, authors who are experts in their fields describe current advances on commercial crops and key enabling technologies that will underpin future advances in biotechnology. They discuss state of the art discoveries as well as future challenges. Tremendous progress has been made in introducing novel genes and traits into plant genomes since the first creation of transgenic plants thirty years ago, and the first commercialization of genetically modified maize in 1996. Consequently,...

If there is laundry waiting at home, bills to pay, unread messages on your phone, and at least one problem that feels like it would be easier to solve with magic, this book is for you.Claire is trying to keep an ordinary life from falling apart. There is coffee to reheat, work to survive, friends to answer, and a world that keeps asking more of her than she has the energy to give. But beneath the routine, something is waking.The Whisper moves through the ci...