Words have power but what about stories. Since the beginning, stories were always going to exist. But what most people don't realize is that stories are real. Inside every book lies a pocket universe. They remained mostly harmless until the invention of the binding ring. The binding ring combines metal from both the inside of stories and from the world we live in. this unity of matter draws in Storyverse energy. Storyverse energy is what makes up everything inside stories. Authors can use ...

Tessa is used to being the voice of reason for her family. She's okay with helping out at her mother's comic book store, taking care of her chaos gremlin little brothers, and wondering what she should do with her life. Then her immortal grandmother–a veteran of the first Shakespearan war–says it's time for Tessa to join the ancient family business and awakens her ability to enter stories and draw upon their power.Now Tessa's thrown up against vicious operatives from the Red Council...

Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world's deepest caves.The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant.With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San August...

War Stories"Monsters hide in the dark. But in JacQ’s world, the shadows fight back."The Rift shattered reality. It bled nightmares into the streets of London—constructs powered by forbidden magic, murderous cults bound to ancient rituals, and entities that defy time and death. But standing between humanity and annihilation are the agents of the Cardinals.JacQ the Ripper leads a team of misfits: Evelyn, a blade-wielding enforcer haunted by her past, and Finch, an ecce...

At 7:02 PM on Valentine's Day, civilization stops. An EMP kills every screen, engine, and signal. As confusion hardens into violence, a man runs through a dying city to reach the woman he loves, while she arms herself and walks into the dark to find him first.

Tessa is graduating from Storyverse school...Tessa William and Snow have fought forbidden lords, Demons, men, and monsters... but never before have they been in this much danger. Tessa storm graduation will be filled with a secret force of cyborgs that threatens the very Storyverse itself. Tessa William and Snow have fought un imaginable horrors in Storyverse schoolbut the most powerful weapon they have fought against is the Ring of Everything. and now, the Ring of Everythi...

William Stone died on 10 January 2009 aged 108. He received a hero's funeral. Born in rural Devon, he joined the navy during the First World War, travelled the globe just before the British Empire's light began to fade and saw action in some of the most significant sea battles of the Second World War. Afterwards, he returned to Devon to run a barber's shop, an altogether more peaceable existence.As time passed, he became one of a dwindling number of men still alive who had served i...

Why does one man succeed and another fail? There is an answer. And it will be found in this book. For there are formulas, prescriptions, recipes, rules, principles, systems--even treasure maps, if you please--which, when followed in proper sequence, bring the good things in life to those who seek them. Often the rules for success are so simple and so obvious they aren't even seen. But when you search for them, you, too, can find them. And during the search something wonderful happens: you ...

A funny and weird biography of 'Mr Daniel Wheelwright' by the 'author of Tales and Sketches, Such as They Are'.

Mr. Stone seems to have intended this work for popular use; yet it is written with great care and commendable accuracy. The narrative, in many of its parts, is necessarily brief, but one can not notice a marked neglect. The history of New York City is divided into three periods, the settlement by the Dutch, the English conquest and the Revolutionary War, and the evacuation bf the British. Every period is laid out before the reader in several chapters.

The search for success has been prominent in the thoughts of countless millions from all walks of life. They yearn for fulfillment and desire to experience life's true riches. This goal is within each person's grasp as they discover those rules, principles, formulas, etc., that if followed properly, will lead to the goal. During man's search, he acquires knowledge, gains experience and becomes inspired - all steps to learning the secrets of success. In this book the author shares from his ...

When an EMP plunges the United States into darkness, Mark Caldwell must lead his wife, Sarah, out of a collapsing city where lawlessness reigns, but their daughter, Hope, is missing, and finding her becomes his first priority.With no power, no communication, and danger at every turn, survival becomes a desperate struggle against both ruthless survivors and the chaos of a society unraveling. Their only hope lies in a cryptic promise from Mark’s estranged brother, Jimmy, a prepper wi...