In this captivating novel, an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, forcing four vacationing Americans to reckon with the problems they'd hoped to leave behind in Barcelona.Whitney and Will are a perfect couple by all appearances, their relationship rock-solid, and their engagement soon to be announced. Before their impending nuptials, however, Whitney suggests a lighthearted experiment: why not give each other three romantic "free pa...

Treatise on Tolerance (1763) is Voltaire's urgent brief against religious fanaticism and judicial cruelty, framed by the Calas affair. Combining forensic analysis with humane rhetoric, he dissects testimony, surveys comparative religions, and marshals history—from St. Bartholomew's Day to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes—to urge civil concord. The prose is lucid and ironic, a model of Enlightenment polemic that weds reason to sentiment and appeals to natural law and common interest. V...

Yoder Hals is not a particularly impressive boy. He's fat, lazy, and painfully awkward. But when a Wizard comes knocking on his door and convinces him to play the role of Hero, how can he say no? With the help of an unlikely group of oddities Yoder must travel to the desolate land of Kurn where a powerful despot rules over his wicked people. Will Yoder live to fulfill the prophecy the Wizard spoke of, or was it all one big mistake? Join Yoder Hals as he follows an enigmatic and eccentric W...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Gabriel is a killer for the mega-corporation that raised him, trained in the ancient arts of Bushido.Hana was kidnapped, forced into a world of depravity and darkness.When the two meet by chance on the grimy, rain-soaked streets of a frightening future Harajuku sector, it changes both their lives forever. For honor, Gabriel must now face the group of trained killers and soldiers that he swore loyalty to and bloody his wh...

"Writing is a passion and I write about the hundreds of wild worlds that reside in my head. Each novel I create is a doorway into the strange and fantastical lands of my subconscious. Come, stay awhile and listen to my tales."A former kindergarten teacher and avid lover of written works, Daniel lives in Pennsylvania with his daughter and writes tales of fantasy and science fiction. His favorite authors are Roger Zelazny and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Daniel is a lifelong nerd o...

Autobiography of a Yogi traces Yogananda's path from a spiritually ardent youth in India to a world teacher of Kriya Yoga, weaving his meeting with Sri Yukteswar, portraits of saints such as Lahiri Mahasaya and Anandamayi Ma, and visionary episodes into a lucid, devotional narrative. Its prose, alternately anecdotal and analytical, balances humor with metaphysical exposition and seeks to reconcile yogic discipline with modern rationality. Published in 1946, it stands in a transnational mod...

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains gathers Isabella Bird's 1873 letters from the Colorado Territory into an epistolary travelogue of striking immediacy. Crossing high-country ranches, mining camps, and the open valley of Estes Park, she records harsh weather, rough hospitality, and fledgling frontier economies; her ascent of Longs Peak with the enigmatic Mountain Jim is a classic set piece. The prose is supple and exact, blending natural history with social observation, and stands within...

First published in 1893, John Bagnell Bury's survey of the Principate, from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, blends panoramic narrative with diagnostic analysis. Chronology is punctuated by thematic chapters on institutions, provincial governance, army and finance, frontier policy, and religious change. Reading Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio alongside inscriptions and coinage, Bury favors verifiable evidence over rhetoric; the prose is limpid and restrained, a late‑Victorian classic that tempers ...

Aurora Leigh (1856) is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel-in-verse, a nine-book Künstlerroman tracing a woman poet from Anglo-Italian childhood to artistic authority. In supple blank verse, it fuses epic ambition with the Victorian social problem novel: debates with Romney Leigh intersect the ordeal of Marian Erle, exposing poverty, sexual coercion, and the limits of philanthropy. Allusive to Milton and Dante yet alert to journalism and the city, the poem makes modern life the true field o...

Laney Griffin is a man who will do anything to save his son from leukemia, but the cost of treatment has broken him financially. When he pursues an elusive murderer in the wilderness of his small, rural community in the hopes of securing a substantial bounty, Laney is confronted with something he never could have expected: a werewolf. The captive Lycan, in human form, turns Laney's life upside-down, forcing him to confront his haunted past and race against the clock because there's only 30...

MINISERIES FINALE The end has come. No one will ever be the same. A fresh, engaging read for fans and newcomers alike, offering vivid storytelling, memorable characters, and a captivating journey from start to finish

SERIES PREMIERE Sam and Duncan LaMarr love their six-year-old daughter, Penny, more than anything in the whole world. But half a year ago, she was taken by the Cascade, an evil force they barely understand. Now, Sam and Duncan must fight side by side with the magical beings Penny cherished to try and get her back…before she's gone forever.