#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.“Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment WeeklyA world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade...

Discover more about the heroes of The Odyssey, now a major film directed by Christopher Nolan. Taking place before the events of The Odyssey, Homer's The Iliad tells the legendary story of the Trojan War.Paris, a Trojan prince, wins Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between three goddesses, and abducts her from her Greek husband Menelaos. The Greeks, enraged by his audacity, sail to Troy and begin a long siege of the city.

Celebrating 100 years of one of the most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh!The adventures of Pooh and Piglet, Kanga and tiny Roo, Owl, Rabbit, and the ever doleful Eeyore are timeless treasures of childhood. In this beautiful edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, each of Ernest H. Shepard's beloved original illustrations has been meticulously hand painted. Bright in color and elegant in design, this lovely volume of Milne's classic tales welcom...

Dive into the mesmerizing world of enigmatic tales with "British Mystery Books - Ultimate Collection: Detective Novels, Thrillers & True Crime Stories." This anthology showcases a compilation of riveting narratives that span the beguiling realms of detective fiction, thrillers, and true crime, highlighting the nuanced craft of mystery writing. With a myriad of plotlines, the collection captures the reader's imagination through an array of suspenseful scenarios and unforeseen twists. The st...

"Police Mental Barricade" is a raw, unfiltered look into the epidemic of suicides within law enforcement. Last year Blue Help alone reported 228 known suicides within the law enforcement profession. On the other hand, last year 147 officers were killed in the line of duty. We are losing more officers at their own hands than we are on the job. Why? The problem stems from poor leadership within the law enforcement profession. This is an epidemic, and "Police Mental Barricade" is the beginnin...

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Electric Ancient Egyptians: Manipulating Atomic Structure with Human Electricity boldly claims that the ancient Egyptians had an amazing understanding of natural forms of energy. They harnessed the energy of lightning, static electricity, magnetic force fields, and telluric currents to perform remarkable feats. What have been misinterpreted as ceremonies, or rituals on tomb and temple walls, were actually visual instructions for stimulating electrical and energetic pathways throughout the ...

Ernest Hill has always been a writer of great power and psychological depth, creating characters that resonate brilliantly beyond the boundaries of gender and race. Cry Me A River is a remarkable book. It runs deep and it runs fast. --Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange MountainAn absentee father from a "no good" family, Tyrone Stokes was imprisoned for shooting a man in a convenience store. His wife saw her chance ...

"A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers."—School Library Journal (starred review)Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present pioneering African American scientist Ernest Everett Just.Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He saw the whole, where others saw only parts. He noticed details others failed to see. He persisted in his research despite the...

Ernest Hemingway, (1899 – 1961) was an American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writings and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. A consummately contradictory man, Hemingway achieved a fame surpassed by few, if any, American authors of the 20th century. The virile nature of his writing, which attempted to re-create the exact physical sensations he experienced in...

Embark on a mesmerizing odyssey into the heart of the Antarctic through the pages of Ernest Shackleton's gripping narrative, "In the Antarctic: South Polar Exploration." This extraordinary account catapults readers into the frostbitten realm of Shackleton's ambitious Nimrod expedition, a daring venture that sought to conquer the last uncharted frontier—the South Pole.Feel the biting chill of the Antarctic wind as Shackleton's words paint an immersive portrait of the stark, icy land...

This is a collection of Kai Lung's entertaining tales, told professionally in the market places as he travelled about - sometimes to occupy and divert the minds of his enemies when they were intent on torturing him.