The definitive biography of a South Asian genius who conquered the international chess world on the eve of decolonizationIn the late 1920s and ’30s, the international chess scene was rocked by the success of Sultan Khan, a self-taught prodigy from colonial Punjab. In a brief international career, Khan stunned the chess elite by repeatedly defeating the world’s best players and winning the British Chess Championship three times. Despite his dazzling creativity and p...

The last competition Belasko won was the catch a slippery pig contest at his village fair.Now he has to beat the best warriors in the kingdom.Belasko, a farm boy who ran away to war, is a decorated soldier and war hero. When Markus, the Royal Champion, stages a competition to choose a successor, a world of possibility opens up to him. Possibility that Belasko cannot resist. Can Belasko fulfil his potential, beat the finest...

When a mysterious glowing backpack appears in the school hallway, Maya Khan and her friends discover something impossible inside: a tiny hidden version of their classroom, complete with strange rules, shifting hallways, and a world that seems to grow when fed by light.Maya, Leo, June, and Amir are ordinary middle-school students—until the backpack starts humming, writing warnings in a notebook, and opening a doorway into a miniature universe called Minicity. The ru...

The Changing of the Seasons explores the profound and fleeting moments that shape our lives. From Anna Leigh’s Petals in Passing to Lucky Fauho’s Journey Through the Endless Summer, these evocative poems and short stories celebrate the relationship between nature’s transformations and our ever-evolving sense of self. We invite you to pause, ponder, and embrace the beauty in both change and continuity—one page at a time.The Ink & Wit Society showc...

"Stolen Legacy" is a book written by George James in 1954. The book explores the history of ancient Greek philosophy and argues that much of the knowledge and ideas attributed to the Greeks were actually borrowed or stolen from ancient Egypt.James argues that Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were heavily influenced by the teachings of ancient Egyptian priests and scholars, who were the true founders of Western philosophy. He traces the history of Egyptian philosophy, from the...

A dead prince. A grieving king. A legendary swordsman accused of murder.Loyalty counts for nothing when the king demands blood.Royal champion, and confidant to the king, Belasko thought he was beyond intrigues and machinations. But when the grief-stricken King demands vengeance for his murdered son, Belasko discovers he is expendable. His options are clear: find the killer or die for a crime he didn’t commit.This bre...

This brilliant and evocative book is now widely regarded as the greatest single study of the age in any language. The late George Kitson Clark characterized it as "an historical essay of unique interest and importance." Though the book deserves to rank as a classic, its allusive style makes it rather difficult fare for the general reader. In less than two hundred pages Young paints a picture so subtle and compact that only the specialist in Victorian history can fully appreciate the value ...

Blue Monday is a poignant anthology that delves into the depths of human emotions and the quiet strength it takes to overcome them. From Dany Prince’s Tabula Rasa to Ashlynn Falls’ The Sloth, these powerful pieces capture the essence of resilience and self-discovery. We invite you to reflect, connect, and rediscover the beauty in overcoming struggles—one page at a time.Ink & Wit Society showcases poems and short stories b...

George Granville Monah James introduced the original, and rather scandalous theory, that the ancient Greeks borrowed their philosophical ideas from the Egyptians. In the book Stolen Legacy, James claims that Aristotle's ideas originated from books that were stolen when Alexander the Great looted the library in Alexandria.ames refers to Greek sources such as Herodotus, who described Greece's cultural debt to Egypt. He also mentions prominent Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras and ...

One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011One of Library Journal's Best Mystery Books of 2011**"Hugely funny, exquisitely well written, a tongue-in-cheek village mystery to be savored. G.M. Malliet's arch tone and wry humor make her a writer to be treasured." —**Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author“Rarely have I read descriptions that have left me gasping, in both their hil...

The premise of this book is that the Ancient Greeks stole information (i.e, their entire philosophy) from the Ancient Egyptians and passed it off as their own. James backs this up with classical and esoteric authorities, making some bold claims as he goes along, such as the fact that Alexander the Great and Aristotle plundered hundreds of books from the Great Library of Alexandria, which were later attributed to Aristotle. Lots of notes (N.B) inbetween as well as a lot of nested sub paragr...

The year is 1459. Constantinople has fallen, and the Romans are no more.Nearly fifteen hundred years after its founding, the greatest empire the world has known has ceased to exist, swallowed whole by the Great Ottoman tide. In the dying embers of the Byzantine world, its last rump states stand on the brink of collapse. Their fall will mark the end of any remnant of Roman rule.Nestled in the mountains of the Crimean Peninsula, the tiny Greek Principality of...