This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kay's life in 2050 is fast, messy, and unforgiving—endless deadlines, takeout dinners, and a mounting pile of chores she'll never get to. After one lonely night, she impulsively orders the Home Harmony Assistant Model 3000—a flawless android butler designed to keep her world spotless and stress-free. For the first time, Kay gets a taste of effortless luxury: dinner is always ready, her home sparkles, and life finally feels under control...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.On the far-flung world of Galaxara, Maya is torn from her ordinary life and thrown into a dazzling, dangerous marketplace where pleasure, power, and freedom collide. What begins as a desperate struggle for survival transforms into a passionate fight for liberation, as Maya rises from captive to leader in a revolution that will change the fate of an entire planet.In the aftermath of rebellion, Maya and her allies tear down the ol...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Rosie is a spiritually curious woman who's never been interested in romance—or sex. But everything changes the night she takes her first hit of DMT and slips into the Veil: a glowing, surreal world ruled by seductive fae and ancient energies.What begins as a personal journey into altered consciousness quickly becomes something far more intimate. Rosie is drawn to a mysterious fae male, Auron, whose body is carved from starlight ...

**Book Band: Gold (**Ideal for ages 6+)An entertaining retelling of a traditional tale, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school.The king has a problem. A big problem. He doesn't have any children to rule the kingdom next. But an old, wise lady has a plan: whoever grows the best flowers within three weeks shall be king! There'll be sweet peas and poppies, marigolds and morning glorie...

For a pinch of flavor, the world went to war.The salt, pepper, nutmeg, and sugar sitting in your kitchen cost a few dollars. For most of history, each was worth more than its weight in gold — and men killed, sailed, enslaved, and built empires to control them.Spice, Book Three of Materials That Changed the World, tells eight true stories of the flavors that seasoned empires. Follow a single craving — for something sweeter, saltier, hotter, richer — as it drags fleets across...

For three hundred years, Europe could not stop consuming the Egyptian dead. They ate them, painted with them, and sold them by the ton.In a London lecture theatre in the 1830s, a fashionable crowd in evening dress pressed in to watch a surgeon unwrap a three-thousand-year-old Egyptian body in front of them. Tickets were hard to get. It was entertainment. And it was only the most respectable use Europe had found for the mummies it had already been grinding into medicine, crushing in...

He had pardoned them all. On the Ides of March, they killed him anyway.On the morning of March 15, 44 BC, the most powerful man in the world walked into the Senate without a bodyguard. He had beaten every enemy Rome could throw at him, then spared their lives. Within minutes, a crowd of the men he had forgiven surrounded him with knives, and the Roman Republic began to die on the floor beside him.The Assassination of Julius Caesar: The Conspiracy That Killed a Dictator and ...

He became one of history’s greatest teachers by walking away from civilization.Lao Tzu is one of the most influential—and mysterious—figures in human history. Said to have lived in ancient China during an age of political decay and social disorder, he watched rulers compete for power, scholars argue over virtue, and society become increasingly rigid.Then, according to legend, he left.Before disappearing beyond the western frontier, Lao Tzu was asked to record his wi...

He was a prince who had everything. One night, he walked away from all of it.Twenty-five centuries ago, a young man slipped out of his palace, cut off his hair, and vanished into the dark to answer a single question: why do we suffer — and can it end? What he found would shape the inner lives of half a billion people, with no god, no holy book, and no promise of heaven.The Middle Way, Book Four of the Sages series, is the true life and clear-eyed philosophy of the Buddha — ...

Journey Back 5,000 Years Into One of the World's Most Fascinating CivilizationsWhat if you could walk beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramids, decipher the secrets of hieroglyphs, witness the rise of powerful pharaohs, and uncover the everyday lives of the people who built one of history's greatest civilizations?Ancient Egypt brings this extraordinary world to life through vivid storytelling, surprising facts, and unforgettable true stories from the land of the Nile.

Your favorite meal is a war memorial. You just can't taste it.The chili that defines Thai cooking, the tomato at the heart of Italian food, the potato that feeds half of Europe, the coffee that runs the modern world—none of them were "local" until an empire made them so. Behind every beloved national dish is a story of conquest, plunder, slave ships, and spice routes soaked in ambition and blood.The Empire Is the Chef: How Conquest, Trade, and War Cooked the World's Favorit...

Two titans. One room. A duel history tried to erase.Florence, 1504. The city commissions the two greatest artists alive to paint the facing walls of its grandest hall — at the same time, in full view of each other. Leonardo da Vinci: fifty-two, famous, untouchable. Michelangelo Buonarroti: twenty-nine, and hungry to dethrone him. They already despise each other. Now the Republic has handed them the perfect weapon — a wall, a rival, and an audience.What followed was the most...