**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the t...

Four ordinary bricks. One warning he should have listened to.All twenty-year-old pharmacy student Lwazi Ndlovu wants is a room he can afford, a door he can close, and somewhere to study that isn't a friend's lounge floor. The damp house in Makhanda offers him all three. There is only one condition: the bricks beneath his bed must stay exactly where they are.His landlady has measured the height. Every corner of the mattress must remain above the pencil line on the wall. Even...

**The New York Times Bestselling Travel Memoir!The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the world’s most famous lost city.“Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed.”—Hampton Sides**A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Far from alien conspiracy theories and other pop cultur...

Carl Bennett is driving home alone from a school reunion with a head full of awkward conversations and a stomach full of cheesy enchiladas. By the time the cramps hit, the tired little service station beside the A-road looks like salvation. He buys a large coffee, leaves his phone charging in the car and hurries into the public toilets.An hour earlier he was telling old classmates that life was going fine. He almost believed it when they smiled and moved on. Now the last person to ...

****The National Bestseller**From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America's last frontier**In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet...

You are Cassidy Mercer. Cass to everyone who matters.Eighteen years old. Five foot six. Irish on both sides. Twenty-three days into your new life in San Francisco, and you have never felt more like yourself.You left Dayton, Ohio with a twin bed, a paper airplane tattoo, a poster of Sade, and exactly one plan: want everything. The city has fog that presses against your windows like a drunk friend who wants in. Your roommates are asleep. The week str...

At half past one in the morning, the laundrette is warm, brightly lit, and almost empty. Beyond its windows, rain sweeps along Anchor Street. Inside, Nell Archer is counting the hours until her shift ends when a washing machine that has been out of order for years starts turning by itself.There is a yellow raincoat inside. Nell knows the drum was empty. She knows the water supply is shut off. What she cannot explain is why the coat is wet, warm at the shoulders, and labelled with t...

Norman Reed (Not Reedus) is just a gravedigger. A simple man with a shovel, a crossbow, and absolutely no desire to deal with anyone else's problems—especially not the ones that crawl out of their graves without asking.But in a world where people don't stay dead for long—thanks to a corrupted, bureaucratically bloated respawn system—being a gravedigger is not just pointless… it's practically suspicious. Corpses return. Dungeons overflow. And somewhere deep beneath ...

Grognar the Glorious (Sort Of) is the dungeon-crawling, crayon-wielding, chaos-infused comedy fantasy you never knew you needed.Meet Grognar: a Goregoblin with the leadership skills of a confused potato and the subtlety of a flaming battering ram. When High Warlord Skazgak orders him to stop a team of noble adventurers from seizing the dungeon core, Grognar does what any ambitious, barely-qualified middle manager would do — assembles a misfit squad of goblins, hobg...

Dave Fain professor of phycology at Miami University in Coral Gables is forced to take a sabbatical when the President learns of controversial Nazi research. Fain uses the time to delve into his 200 year old family roots uncovering more than he ever bargained for. Family secrets spanning centuries and continents, worn torn Europe, what did happen to Hitler? Darkest Africa dictators, dangerous Middle East machinations all woven together in thirteen novelettes spinning an intriguing tale.

Ecumenical examination of immigration issues drawn from engaging, first-person narratives.A group of bishops (Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and United Methodist), all based along the US-Mexico border, found common ground to jointly address some key immigration issues, especially those being played out in the state of Arizona. The bishops worked together on behalf of local immigrant populations to address theological and pastoral concerns—and prayed for those whose...

"A remarkable story. . . . It is to Mark Adams's great credit that, in Mr. America, he has rescued from obscurity a man whose influence is still felt in this country more than a century after he muscled his way onto the national scene." — Wall Street Journal"Hilarious. . . . Delightful. . . . If Macfadden hadn't existed, we would have had to invent him." —Was hington PostMr. America is the fascinating true story of Bernarr Macfadden, a se...