Come and immerse yourself into a story of fear, curiosity, humor, destruction, and romance.  Taking the first step out of an unfashionable little town a young boy named Laris meets Marvin, an eccentric man who rode on a flying ship. But not long after their first encounter, Marvin's ship is pillaged by a dangerous group of politicians and Marvin himself is taken away. Standing upon a deck of ruin, the devastated but willful boy decides to go on a journey across the world to rescue...

Vision Facts is a question and answer guide to the wonders of the human eye, its complex structures and the process of visual perception. It traces the journey of vision from a ray of light entering the eye to the processing done by the brain, to the development and aging of the human visual system and common disorders associated with both processes. Organized in an intuitive question-and-answer format and accompanied by clear diagrams, Vision Facts provides answers regarding your vision i...

The Institute’s festival begins! But a mysterious visitor also appears...Having eliminated the strongest Fiend, the Devourer, what awaits Alus when he returns is the Institute’s festival! The Institute is in the midst of these festivities when Alus finds himself bewildered by a visit from a mysterious younger student, Noir, and also gets dragged into a pseudo-date with Felinella. To complicate matters even more, a fearsome intruder shows up at the festival’s signature mock battles,...

After giving Lilisha the cursed mark of failure, the assassination organization Aferka finally bares its fangs. In the meantime, the ruler Cicelnia continues to carry out her secret plans, and Alus clashes with Lilisha’s brother Rayleigh, the leader of Aferka, over Lilisha’s past and Cicelnia’s life. How will Alus confront the highly skilled assassin who uses techniques unknown to the world at large?! Meanwhile, the world’s “hardest” Single Digit Magicmaster, Fanon, is making a move over i...

Everett de Schael has become something more than a magicker—but not in any way that actually helps him.Across dusty roads, lonely farmlands, and the indifferent economies of small towns, Everett walks a stubborn path. He can perform magic—real, undeniable magic—but every spell he possesses is flawed, inconvenient, or just shy of being useful enough to matter. His greatest success earns him payment in potatoes. His failures earn him nothing at all.When a moment of frustratio...

'Earth is real,' Dumarest insisted. 'A world old and scarred by ancient wars. The stars are few and there is a great single moon which hangs like a pale sun in the night sky.'In the quest for his legendary birthplace, Earl Dumarest has traversed galaxies. Now, at least, he reaches Ourelle, a planet close to Earth - out along a far arm of the Milky Way. There he finds Jondelle, a boy who may hold the key to Earl's search.But then Jondelle is kidnapped. And Dumarest's pursuit...

A stranger claiming knowledge of realms beyond the known world attempts to stop a war... in Max Gladstone's The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom, a Tor.com Original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.

A gruesome murder. A deadly secret. A horrifying truth.Buckley Grimes is a hardened detective and an agent of the infamous Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Sent to investigate a gruesome murder, what Buckley finds is not at all what he expected. In a deadly race against the clock, can Buckley find the answers he seeks before it’s too late?The Angles of Time is a thrilling short story set in the mysterious steampunk world of the upcoming series, T...

Men have fought and died for life and liberty since the beginning of time and they will continue the fight until time finally comes to an end. Here is a thoroughly readable story about just such a situation--a story which could well be a forecast of the chilling future of your children and ours.

Relentlessly a narrative as old as time drives forward to a climax as old as man--and points a finger as grim as Death.

"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend named Arsat. Upon arriving, he finds Arsat distraught, for his lover is dying. Arsat tells the distant and rather silent white man a story of his past.