An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes readers on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. With an irresistible blend of wit, insight, and the latest cutting-edge research, Seven Rasmussen looks at the thrilling possibilities of life in the cosmos through ...

The Kingdom of Restwick faced its greatest crisis since its founding, plagued by a two-year-long monster outbreak. In desperation, King James IV turned to ancient magic to summon a priestess.But the girl who appeared in the summoning circle was far from a willing savior. Clad in strange, foreign clothes, the gorgeous yet fierce girl declared:""This is abduction, pure and simple! And all who stand here are guilty! I've no obligation to help you! Much less save you!""Furious and resentful, t...

The Kingdom of Restwick faced its greatest crisis since its founding, plagued by a two-year-long monster outbreak. In desperation, King James IV turned to ancient magic to summon a priestess.But the girl who appeared in the summoning circle was far from a willing savior. Clad in strange, foreign clothes, the gorgeous yet fierce girl declared:""This is abduction, pure and simple! And all who stand here are guilty! I've no obligation to help you! Much less save you!""Furious and resentful, t...

The Kingdom of Restwick faced its greatest crisis since its founding, plagued by a two-year-long monster outbreak. In desperation, King James IV turned to ancient magic to summon a priestess.But the girl who appeared in the summoning circle was far from a willing savior. Clad in strange, foreign clothes, the gorgeous yet fierce girl declared:""This is abduction, pure and simple! And all who stand here are guilty! I've no obligation to help you! Much less save you!""Furious and resentful, t...

The Kingdom of Restwick faced its greatest crisis since its founding, plagued by a two-year-long monster outbreak. In desperation, King James IV turned to ancient magic to summon a priestess.But the girl who appeared in the summoning circle was far from a willing savior. Clad in strange, foreign clothes, the gorgeous yet fierce girl declared:""This is abduction, pure and simple! And all who stand here are guilty! I've no obligation to help you! Much less save you!""Furious and resentful, t...

The Kingdom of Restwick faced its greatest crisis since its founding, plagued by a two-year-long monster outbreak. In desperation, King James IV turned to ancient magic to summon a priestess.But the girl who appeared in the summoning circle was far from a willing savior. Clad in strange, foreign clothes, the gorgeous yet fierce girl declared:""This is abduction, pure and simple! And all who stand here are guilty! I've no obligation to help you! Much less save you!""Furious and resentful, t...

Binti had one ordinary face and one extraordinary figure. She knew which one people noticed. At twenty-five she had a college degree, no job, no husband, and a father who called her a burden to her face. That same night she opened her mother's Almera cupboard in the dark, took the jewellery kept for her wedding, and walked out of her Kochi home at four in the morning. She had no plan. She had no contacts. She had never been to Bangalore. What she had was a six month promise to herself. Eit...

Emma Lawson is a good mother. She makes her son's sandwiches into triangles every morning. She puts a little drawing in her daughter's lunchbox. She loves her husband. She laughs at the right moments. She remembers everyone's name. She also has a small glass vial in her handbag. Between 2022 and 2024, five people died at ordinary gatherings in Valencia, Spain. A street festival. A school parents' evening. A birthday dinner. A children's fete. A New Year's party. Nobody connected the deaths...

An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes listeners on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. With an irresistible blend of wit, insight, and the latest cutting-edge research, Seven Rasmussen looks at the thrilling possibilities of life in the cosmos throug...

⁣⁣Dad’s my hero.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣Since Mom passed away, he had taught me to be strong and accept our lives without the woman we both loved so much in it. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣But Dad isn’t the only man I could always count on.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣When he takes me to his beautiful cabin in the mountains, where we would spend one whole summer with his two best friends, Shepherd and Davis, I didn’t expect to fall in love. Let alone with both of them.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣It was innocent at first, but it quickly turned into something m...

Juno⁣⁣ ⁣⁣As his student, I should’ve kept my distance.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣Out of all the guys in the world I could’ve fallen in love with,⁣⁣ it had to be my new teacher.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣We fell in love slowly, hidden from others.⁣⁣ Keeping it secret, and falling deeper each day.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣But no love is perfect, and we learned it the hard way.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣When the truth came out and he left town,⁣⁣ he left me broken and alone.⁣⁣ He’s to blame, at least that’s what everyone says.⁣⁣ But to me, he’s still th...

When out-of-work athlete Justine Laing agrees to row on a modern reconstruction of a wooden slave galley – for one million dollars – even the knowledge that she will be naked, chained and forced to work under an overseer's whip can't prepare her for what she will face.The mysterious man known only as Joshua sees her saved from dire punishment at first, even as he delights in the suffering of the convicts and volunteers around her. Soon, however, she shares their suffering and hard ...