**A Waterstones and Financial Times Book of the Year 2025The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘Charming, clever, self-effacing, interesting and thoughtful’ – The Observer**‘Visionary . . . Full of warmth and humanity’ – Kate Bush‘A remarkable book by a remarkable man’ – The Mail on SundayThe groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is the story of ...

"It's a perfect circle, Chris. The god receives his audience, the grid receives the power—and we light up Chicago."After the perilous retrieval of a long-dormant god from Iraq, Chris Copeland—professional god hunter and company troubleshooter—is about ready to quit his job. But his employers at the Registry have other plans…plans to build a power facility on the shores of Lake Michigan. Adam Shailer, a rising star at the Registry, thinks he can cage the god, drain its energy, and p...

Tim Lee's new book I Saw a Dozen Faces ... and I Rocked Them All: The Diary of a Never Was chronicles the journey of a rock 'n roll lifer who was part of the national independent music scene of the 1980s.It's a story of perseverance, belief, disappointment, rock and roll rebirth, and, most of all, fun.Cool Dog Sound announces the release of a new non-fiction book titled I Saw a Dozen Faces ... and I Rocked Them All: Diary of a Never Was written by Tim Lee ...

Building on the evocative chill captured by 2024's Winter in the City , editors R.B. Wood and Anna Koon are back with a spectacular multicultural lineup to explore Spring in the City —yet wildflowers aren't the only things finding their way through cracked concrete in these dark speculative tales.Even in the shadows of skyscrapers, spring sees an awakening in the concrete jungle...

This story is part of a series. Ricky Davis is in the Navy. After being arrested for drug smuggling he is being escorted through the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier he is on when meteorites enter the atmosphere in that hemisphere. Many things are hit and damaged by the meteorites, including the ship he is on. He is critically injured and taken to a hospital where his wounds are treated. Dust from a meteorite got on Ricky, at the same time when a container of nuclear material being tran...

Entity is, at its core, a story about a young guy and his car. It is kind of like "Knight Rider" on steroids. Bobby Jamison is an average guy in his early twenties, working at a junkyard. His life changes when an alien entity, an orb of light, transforms a cheap Impala he bought into a supercharged 1970 Dodge Charger and chooses to be the Charger, in a sense, and becomes his friend. Entity is a screenplay, not a novel, but it is still a story and is in a less strict format than a screenpla...

Nick Rudolph is a young guy sentenced to death. He is a free spirit, determined not to be another victim of the execution process. While on death row he formulates a plan to escape, and he does so successfully, taking three other death row inmates with him. They are smart, sticking together and going to a place to lay low for a year and a half, not being seen, then eventually they go their separate ways.

Four thousand years ago a battle between good and evil took place. An evil sorcerer was cast into exile for four thousand years, but escaped from that exile a few years before it would end in present day. Drexol and his dragon wreak havoc. Beltzemar, the good sorcerer, cast a spell that would give a descendant of his in the future powers to use to fight Drexol. That descendant is Nicky. With the help of a cat, Kwadjol, that Beltzemar gave powers to, one being the ability to speak, Nicky pr...

This story is for anyone who is a gearhead or has an interest in cars on some level. It has strong female characters and should be inspiring in some way to those who decide to read it. Carrie "C.J." Baker is a girl who loves cars and enjoys working on them, doing custom airbrushing and other things. She is a teen in high school and encounters those who feel that only men should work in automotive-related jobs. She perseveres and focuses on succeeding, and does succeed, despite the unpleasa...

Staci Fox is a woman with a unique ability. She is a superhero. She uses her power to help others and makes a positive difference in the world, with the help of her unusual animal sidekick Skit. This is the fourth story in a series. This story introduces Staci Fox. The other three introduced the ther characters. The next story in the series will have all the characters together, each using their power, or helping in the way they can. There are many heroes, and within each person is the abi...

Protect yourself from the next financial meltdown with this game-changing primer on financial markets, the economy—and the meteoric rise of carry.The financial shelves are filled with books that explain how popular carry trading has become in recent years. But none has revealed just how significant a role it plays in the global economy—until now.A groundbreaking book sure to leave its mark in the canon of investing literature, The Rise of Carry exp...

Good Omens meets Office Space in this darkly humorous and suspenseful supernatural thriller by author Tim Lees.There's an art to capturing gods for electricity, and Chris Copeland is good at his job. Or at least, he was, until his insouciant partner accidentally loosed a pagan god on the world. Luckily, Chris had the good sense to smash the thing over the head with a lamp. It's dead.Or is it?Six years later, Chris is contacted by Anna Ganz, a brusque, chain-smoking ...