You picked up this book for 1 simple reason. You have stood at the edge of the ocean and felt the pull of a world that covers 71% of this planet and remains 95% unmapped. You want the deep story, not the surface story. What lives at 11,000 meters under crushing pressure, why a snailfish was filmed at 8,336 meters in 2023, and how machines built to survive 1,000 atmospheres are finally opening the last frontier on Earth. Whatever brought you here, you share the belief that the strangest pla...

Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say.When Princess Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy—and all the power that comes with it—she jumps at the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, her prophecy becomes doomed. No one believes her visions of an alluring, lonely girl who is going to start a war.Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love, though it's proving more elusive than she'd h...

' It' s easy to be an armchair critic but much harder when you' re the one making the decisions.' Eleven-year-old Ronni is basically a professional athlete … at watching sport. If it' s on a screen, she' s glued to it, just like her parents. But when Ronni and her best friend, Kai, are recruited to secretly coach the Australian women' s soccer team for the World Cup qualifiers, she discovers life looks very different on the other side of the screen. Suddenly, Ronni' s running training sess...

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...

RESILIENCE, GRATITUDE, LOVE... Not the stories you would expect from a 9/11 anthology, but what you get from THE FAMILIES.THE FAMILIES collects essays by 176 Cantor Fitzgerald family members, survivors and witnesses forever changed by September 11, 2001. Edited by Edith Lutnick and Caroline Aiken Koster, the anthology shares stories of love, loss, resilience, gratitude, healing, service and hope. Authors spanning generations share their 25-year journey and...

From the author of The Great Gatsby, this collection sees F. Scott Fitzgerald deftly chronicle heartbreak, astonishment and romance across three stories, where fortunes can change in an instant and couples break apart, only to be reunited again. An accomplished novelist and short story writer, renowned for his portraits of American society during the Jazz Age, these tales exemplify F. Scott Fitzgerald’s talent.The Bridal Party is set in 1930s Pari...

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”Jay Gatsby is mysterious, wealthy, and throws the most lavish parties at his mansion on Long Island. Among all the bright young things in Gatsby’s circle, the brightest is Daisy Buchanan – the girl he fell in love with before the war. Having lost her to marriage with the brutish Tom, Gatsby’s relentless pursuit of his perfect woman spirals out of control, sett...

A little boy and his new puppy both feel nervous before meeting for the first time in a tender tale that will resonate with any family taking home a furry companion.The big day is finally here—the day a little boy and his new puppy meet. The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting, and the boy’s tummy is swirling in anticipation. Is that his new puppy he sees, peeking out at the shelter? Will they really be friends and maybe play together, too? Louise Fitzgerald’s t...

This Side of Paradise chronicles the coming of age of Amory Blaine, born to a wealthy midwestern family. It begins with Amory as a spoiled youth, doted on by his eccentric mother Beatrice. It follows him as he attends preparatory school and Princeton, and then briefly attempts but quickly abandons at a career in advertising. His service in World War I is mentioned but mostly glossed over. Covered in much more detail are his various romances: youthful dalliances, a correspondence-b...

Anthony Patch, the grandson of a wealthy businessman, spends his youth in idle relaxation expecting to inherit his grandfather's fortune. But when he meets Gloria, a vibrant young flapper, the two feel an irresistible attraction and quickly get married despite their clashing personalities.The two embark on a lifestyle of Jazz Age living: hard partying, profligate spending, and generally living the high life. But Anthony's prohibitionist grandfather soon finds out and disowns Anthon...

The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers. Long taught as required reading in American schools, critics have consistently held it up alongside Moby Dick, Huck Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird as perhaps the quintessential Great American Novel.Nick Carraway is a young Midwestern man freshly arrived in New York to make his fortune. He rents a shabby apartment in Long Island next door to a sum...

Although perhaps best known for his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald was also a prolific writer of short fiction, having published a large number of short works in periodicals and collections throughout his literary career.Fitzgerald mostly wrote about post-WWI America, the "Jazz Age," and his stories tend to focus on the habits and excesses of the upper class.This collection includes many of his stories published in periodicals, as well as several of his collections: Flappe...