This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Quiet Professionals is a post-apocalyptic military novel following six elite soldiers who return from isolated Arctic training to discover the world has been annihilated by a weaponized virus. With ninety percent of humanity dead and civilization collapsed, Master Sergeant David Reeves and his team begin a 3,000-mile journey south through the corpse of America, searching for their families.What they find are not answers but ...

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pas...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full ...

When the world ended, they were training in Alaska. When they returned, everything they knew was gone.Master Sergeant David Reeves and his elite Special Forces team deployed to the Arctic for a routine seventy-two-hour training exercise. Isolated. Off the grid. Prepared for every tactical scenario except one: while they practiced survival in the wilderness, civilization collapsed behind them.A weaponized pathogen swept through cities in days. Hospitals over...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Thief of Scales and EmbersTo save her dying sister, Lyra will steal from anyone—even a dragon.Bound by a cruel fae bargain, the master thief Lyra of the Silver Hand has one chance to earn her sister’s cure: infiltrate the mountain of Kaelan, the last obsidian dragon, and steal the legendary Heartstone. The mission is impossible. The mountain is a fortress of spell‑woven traps and ancient magic. And Kae...

'It's the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature' Ian McEwan, BBC Radio 4Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deser...

Octavian, nineteen and newly orphaned by Julius Caesar’s murder, becomes the heir to Rome and begins the fight to remake the republic into an empire.Set in ancient Rome from 44 B.C. to A.D. 14, Augustus follows Octavian as he becomes Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.After the murder of Julius Caesar, Augustus moves through power struggles, bloody wars, and family strife as Rome is transformed.Building on impeccable research and vivid charact...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of thos...

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, ...

The full eBook version of The Harry Potter Piano Anthology in fixed-layout format. The Harry Potter Piano Anthology contains 56 of the biggest and best musical themes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, arranged for intermediate level piano. From the best-loved John Williams tunes Hedwig's Theme and Harry's Wondrous World, to The Crimes of Grindelwald and Dumbledore's Theme from the Fantastic Beasts films, this book has been created for pianists to enjoy and return to again a...

On May 10, 1869, the Golden Spike linked the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah. The dream of a railroad across America had at last come true. This book tells the story of swaggering men with big plans, of an America emerging from the Civil War and reaching its manifest destiny. The men who imagined the transcontinental railroad were impassioned profiteers, an unlikely, often ruthless band, guilty of both financial double-dealing and ferociou...

An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century.Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius—the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades...