This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Quiet Professionals is a post-apocalyptic military novel following six elite soldiers who return from isolated Arctic training to discover the world has been annihilated by a weaponized virus. With ninety percent of humanity dead and civilization collapsed, Master Sergeant David Reeves and his team begin a 3,000-mile journey south through the corpse of America, searching for their families.What they find are not answers but ...

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pas...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full ...

When the world ended, they were training in Alaska. When they returned, everything they knew was gone.Master Sergeant David Reeves and his elite Special Forces team deployed to the Arctic for a routine seventy-two-hour training exercise. Isolated. Off the grid. Prepared for every tactical scenario except one: while they practiced survival in the wilderness, civilization collapsed behind them.A weaponized pathogen swept through cities in days. Hospitals over...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Thief of Scales and EmbersTo save her dying sister, Lyra will steal from anyone—even a dragon.Bound by a cruel fae bargain, the master thief Lyra of the Silver Hand has one chance to earn her sister’s cure: infiltrate the mountain of Kaelan, the last obsidian dragon, and steal the legendary Heartstone. The mission is impossible. The mountain is a fortress of spell‑woven traps and ancient magic. And Kae...

WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDBy the Author of StonerIn Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher’s Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner...

A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young...

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife an...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossin...

This is the story how a 13 year old boy who was born the night the Empire fell and for critical hours was ;left alone on Space Station Quark. Not willing to be adopted, he finds adventure and romance with the new breed of space settlers.Aboard an ex battle station, Space Station Quark, Johnny at 13, meets another boy at the swimming pool, a place he always goes to mix and find friends though mostly distinctly unsuccessful and for this reason easily falls for a boy of the same age named Rob...

An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century.Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius—the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades...

The full eBook version of The Harry Potter Piano Anthology in fixed-layout format. The Harry Potter Piano Anthology contains 56 of the biggest and best musical themes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, arranged for intermediate level piano. From the best-loved John Williams tunes Hedwig's Theme and Harry's Wondrous World, to The Crimes of Grindelwald and Dumbledore's Theme from the Fantastic Beasts films, this book has been created for pianists to enjoy and return to again a...