I must be off to the sea againWhere the waves are rolling high,To feel the wind against my cheekAs it scatters the spray in the sky.Whispers of Nova Scotia is a collection of Bernard W. Manzer’s verse, capturing his love for his native Nova Scotia as well as his thoughts and feelings about nature, history, and the many lessons of a long life. In this varied collection, meditations on life and death rub shoulders with playful poems about Jack Frost and water dro...

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities.The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a ...

What if free will and destiny are not opposites? What if science and spirituality are not rivals? What if the greatest discoveries in human history have all been fragments of a much larger truth waiting to be connected?In The Intersection of Free Will and Finiteness, engineer, philosopher, and independent researcher Lawrence I. Morris brings together the ideas developed across his three-book intellectual journey into a single framework that challen...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

International bestselling author Mark Lawrence continues the bold new world of dark fantasy he created in the Broken Empire trilogy with the first book of the Red Queen's War...For all her reign the Red Queen has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind nations, for higher stakes than land or gold. Her greatest weapon is The Silent Sister—unseen by most and unspoken of by all.The Red Queen’s grandson, Prince Jalan Kende...

**BOOK ONE IN THE BROKEN EMPIRE TRILOGY“Prince of Thorns deserves attention as the work of an iconoclast who seems determined to turn that familiar thing, Medievalesque Fantasy Trilogy, entirely on its head.”—Locus**When he was nine, he watched as his mother and brother were killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king...It’s time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrat...

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series.Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies—known as the kindly ones—against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred girls are sold t...

The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen’s War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors...At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works...

Convinced that the antichrist was “at our gates,” the Franciscan friar, alchemist, and prophet John of Rupescissa (ca. 1310–1366) wrote The Book of the Light of the Great Magistery to help his future brethren restore a devastated Christendom after the antichrist’s inevitable downfall. Written in 1354, John’s text provides a detailed process for making the philosophers’ stone, the substance able to transmute base metals into gold and silver. With this alchemical gold and silver, th...

Dive into a literary spark that ignites with every page. "A Collection of 18 Short Stories" by Lawrence G. Taylor delivers a vibrant burst of flash fiction—each piece a crackling jolt of wit, raw emotion, and cultural insight that captures the chaotic energy of modern life. From biting social satire to tender love stories, these crisp, electric narratives move fast and hit hard, leaving you breathless between turns of the page.Perfect for readers craving stories that punch above their weig...

Impermanence: A Memoir of Adventure, Pilgrimage, and Self-Discovery in JapanWhat begins as a long-distance walk becomes a life-changing adventure.In Impermanence, writer and adventurer Larry Iles sets out on a remarkable 879-mile solo hiking journey across the island of Shikoku, Japan, following the ancient Eighty-Eight Temple Pilgrimage. Carrying little more than a backpack and th...