**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 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...

**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...

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...

In a decadent city of twisted sorcery driven by sexual energies and brute force, one man, a reaver and magician, makes a desperate, brutal gamble to steal power from the most corrupt of cabals. But everything comes at a price…

• Illustrates the role of transpersonal fields of consciousness in healing a range of issues, from inherited family and ancestral problems, to past lives and womb trauma, to near-death experiences, merged identities, and spirit attachment• Shares remarkable cases of healing and personal transformation from the author’s more than 20 years of energy healing work, as well as experiences from other gifted healers, psychics, and shamans• Provides diagrams of the human energy bod...

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...

Theo's life was dull enough to bore a filing cabinet. Until he touched a humming bronze box in the museum basement and woke up in the Viking Age.Now he's dodging axes, pretending he knows how to use a shield, and trying not to fall for a woman who thinks sling-stones are a love language. The village he stumbles into is fighting for survival against Hrokk — a warlord in wolfskin who leaves black stones and broken fences wherever he prowls.To live, Theo must learn to stand sh...

The explosive first issue of Kord and Harley takes our heroes into a massive battle against the malevolent forces of Hell itself... In this gut wrenching tale of Good vs. Evil, prepare to be bombarded by bucket loads of puke, mega tons of ammo and a healthy helping of Divine inspiration. Join Kord and Harley as they embark upon their quest to purge the world of the massively flatulent demon known as... GLUTTONY.