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**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...

**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...

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...

****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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

A photograph. A recording. A witness who cannot forget what happened.Some encounters survive long after the moment itself. They become newspaper reports, disputed footage, investigators' notes and stories repeated for decades. The Unexplained on Record: Volume 1 follows those traces through 32 case studies of alleged hauntings, cryptid sightings, apparitions on camera, possession and exorcism.From the Enfield poltergeist to the Patterson–Gimlin film, from the waters of Loch...

Grognar 2: Now with 75% More Glitter is a darkly absurd, side-splittingly irreverent fantasy romp through the underworld of dungeon management, where the greatest threat to adventurers isn't always the death traps—it's the glitter. So much glitter.Grognar, a Goregoblin with delusions of grandeur and a business sense powered by spite and shiny objects, returns in this explosive sequel to Grognar the Glorious (Sort Of). Now crowned (accidentally) as the Dung...

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) Book 2: Ashes and OathsThe world is breaking.The Respawn Network, once the miracle that made death temporary, is failing. Heroes vanish into corrupted loops. Dungeons spill nightmares into the open air. The Ministry buries panic beneath paperwork while the Anti-Respawn League scrawls their creed in ash and blood.Into this storm stumbles Norman Reed.He is no hero—only a gravekeeper with a shovel, a crossbow, and a stu...

The gods broke the world.Norman Reed has been left to bury it.The Anti-Respawn League has been beaten back, but victory has come at a brutal cost. Ralk's proto-core has been stolen by Caelith—a corrupted former Celestial Blade—and carried towards the Shattered Coast, where the forgotten powers of the world are beginning to stir.Thalya has returned from death, but she did not return unchanged. With vengeance in her heart and impossible power gathering around her, she...