He stole fire from the West and gave it to his people.They called him a savior. The world called him a supervillain.Set across eight decades—from the blood-soaked railway platforms of Partition-era Bhopal to the guarded villas of modern Islamabad—A Discourse on the Atomic Supervillain is a psychological thriller that examines the terrifying moment when patriotism becomes a license for atrocity.Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was a brilliant metallurgist who believed his natio...

The Midnight Compass is an inspiring journey about chasing dreams, crossing borders, and discovering who you truly are along the way.Sometimes, finding yourself means leaving everything familiar behind.Through unfamiliar streets, distant borders, unexpected challenges, and unforgettable encounters, this journey explores the courage it takes to step beyond your comfort zone and follow a dream. Each new destination becomes more than a place on a map—it become...

Pastor Konrad Fromm is thirty-four years old, has been in office for four years, and is exceptionally good at his job. He sits with the dying who would otherwise die alone. He conducts funerals after which the bereaved hold his hand for just a little too long. In an Eifel village with eight hundred and twenty inhabitants, they were fortunate to have him.One afternoon in April, he reads a poorly printed circular. A missionary organization is looking for staff for a social center in Pattaya....

Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce.

In the dead of a Scandinavian winter in 1938, Lise Meitner walks through the silent, frozen pine forests of Kungälv, Sweden. Behind her lies everything she built: her laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, her home in Vienna, her citizenship, and her life's work. As a Jewish woman stripped of her title and hunted by the Reich, her physical escape to Sweden saved her life—but left her mind trapped in the cold void of academic exile.In her pocket sits a letter from Berlin writte...

Paris, 1948. Captain Alistair Croft follows every rule the Service ever wrote for him. Extract the asset. Do not improvise. Do not share a bed. Do not let a cover require his mouth.Elodie Voss has already rented the attic as Mrs Croft.She is a French master of disguise with a laugh that comes through locked doors and a file full of gaps. He is a British intelligence officer who burns forged papers in alleys and writes the dead in the third person. London wants them to pose ...

If you get your health coverage through work and you are stuck with medical bills that should have already been paid, this book is for you.When the plan underpays or denies a claim, the doctor or hospital still wants to be paid. They send the invoice straight to you. That bill becomes real money out of your pocket. It can lead to collection calls, pressure on your household budget, and unnecessary stress. Most people never get told the simple truth. The employer is responsible for t...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

August 1945. Hiroshima sweats beneath the weight of a dying empire.In the coastal shipyards, Yuki Tanaka drives rivets into warships he knows will never return. In the red-brick fortress of the Hifuku Shisho, Akira Yamamoto stitches uniforms for soldiers who are already ghosts. They are two ordinary souls caught in the machinery of war, their love a quiet rebellion against a world that demands absolute sacrifice.But on August 6, at 8:15 AM, the sky turns white.The b...

Every life is shaped by connection.Some are forged through love, family, and friendship. Others emerge from loss, memory, technology, chance encounters, or the choices we make in moments that seem insignificant-until they change everything. Whether they bind us together or pull us apart, the threads connecting one life to another are often invisible until we look back and see where they have led.Where Connections Lead brings together twenty-six original stories by ...

History Echoes.Three artifacts hidden throughout the dimensions form the Adjunct Machina, a means to unshackle the Revenant Army; a merciless force that would hand the Kriva Rasturna control over all the dimensions.With the Kriva Rasturna already holding one of the artifacts, the race is on to locate the remaining two and stop the darkness from rising. Ethan and his coalition's best lead points them to the swamps of Alchemilla and into Helenium, a dimension well behind enem...