George R. Wolfe's young adult adventure novel, Into the River of Angels, tells how a high school kid's ill-conceived plan to canoe the Los Angeles River spirals out of control—an urban journey on a dangerous, forbidden waterway, woven together by a series of epic fails.It starts when 17-year-old Sam Hawkins—an alienated, disillusioned, and sardonic renegade from the San Fernando Valley—decides he can flee his troubles with an impulsive escape on the infamous L.A. River, a 51-mile, ...

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.Shortly before the United States Revolutionary war against England, most inhabitants were her loyal subjects. France had control of much of southern Canada and the "western" lands of the current states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Skirmishes abounded for years between English settlers pushing west and French settlers and her Indian accomplices. The Seven Years War in Europe sp...

An anthology of post-apocalyptic short fiction from some of the biggest names in science fiction and speculative fiction - including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin and Orson Scott CardFamine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands . . . From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the...

We were never alone, and they aren't leaving. A priceless Egyptian artifact is stolen....Virginia's power grid is down....An 8.4 magnitude earthquake erupts at Mount Fuji....One choice will decide the fate of Earth.... Jackson Stone's life changed forever when he received a heart transplant. He's a man torn between those who saved him and his search for the truth. When Jackson interrogates a rogue operative, he uncovers a horrific worldwide conspiracy. The countdow...

The door to the Garden of Eden has been unlocked. An ancient bloodline haunts the world. Will humanity's origins be revealed?After a year spent in Special Operations, Jackson Stone is a man hardened by combat. He is recalled to Polaris and paired with Alabama for one more assignment. When the mission becomes Jackson's father, he leads an expedition to solve one of greatest mysteries of all time.Agent Alabama Wren has seven days to live. One artifact holds t...

In the Lebanese village of Bhamdoun in 1931, Joseph Friedmann is born to a 15-year-old Syrian-Jewish girl hastily married off to a Belgian businessman thirty years her senior. After his parents divorce, Joseph's new Christian step-father refuses to rear a Jewish child. At the age of eight, Joseph is banished to a Catholic convent, where he experiences betrayal, anti-Semitism, and a deep trauma he cannot bring himself to name. He learns to survive by locking away his feelings. But at the ag...

A massive disc hovers near Fort Hood Army Base....Eight people are dead. Will a shocking discovery enslave humanity forever?Agent Jackson Stone has been searching for UFOs his entire life. When he's saved by a clandestine organization, he becomes their weapon. Desperate for answers, will he betray the agency to uncover his past? Agent Alabama Wren's uncanny empathic abilities set her apart from other agents in the field. She's tough, smart, and rem...

George MacDonald was the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, who influenced the work of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. This book collects some of his finest fairy stories, including "The Gray Wolf," "The Cruel Painter," "The Broken Swords," "The Wow O'Rivven, the Bell" "Uncle Cornelius, His Story," "The Butcher's Bills," and "Birth, Dreaming, Death.""I do not write," MacDonald once said, "for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, ...

Zwischen März und November 1945 folgte George Orwell als Kriegsberichterstatter den alliierten Streitkräften durch Deutschland und Österreich. Seine Reportagen schildern frei von Triumph oder Hass, welche Zerstörung der Krieg über Städte, Länder und Menschen gebracht hat. Hier erscheinen sie erstmals geschlossen in deutscher Übersetzung. "Die Leute zu Hause haben keine Ahnung, wie das hier aussieht." In seinen Reportagen gibt Orwell seiner Erschütterung über das Ausmaß der Zerstörungen Aus...

Wolfe’s Howl contains the actual journals of George Wolfe, who in 1974, refused to settle for a life in mainstream society. George quit his job as a stockbroker and decided to live his life outdoors doing the things he loved most: big game fishing, hunting and traveling. Over the span of five years, George journaled about his travels and the various ways he supported himself. Those endeavors took him to several continents and literally into many bodies of water. In this book, follow George...

In "Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf," George W. M. Reynolds delves into the gothic and sensationalist traditions of the 19th century, weaving a narrative rich with supernatural elements and psychological intrigue. The novel follows the exploits of the titular character, Wagner, an enigmatic figure whose curse transforms him into a werewolf under the moon's glow. The text captures Reynolds's mastery of melodramatic prose and vivid imagery, reflecting the anxieties of Victorian society around the them...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar.In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts.' Herman begins with great zeal, although in tim...