*GOLD AWARD WINNER* -- Nonfiction Authors Association★★★★★ -- Readers' Favorite"Lively, appealing, and instructive; perfectly targeted to the millennial demographic." -- Kirkus Review"Be HAPPY"Find your inner happiness!Are you tired of people telling you to "be happy"? Are you exhausted from dating ap...

*GOLD AWARD WINNER* -- Nonfiction Authors Association★★★★★ -- Readers' Favorite"Lively, appealing, and instructive; perfectly targeted to the millennial demographic." -- Kirkus Review"Be HAPPY"Find your inner happiness!Are you tired of people telling you to "be happy"? Are you exhausted from dating ap...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 10 of the greatest classic novels ever written, from British, Irish, American, and German authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Keeble, David Rintoul, and many more.Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Jane Austen; Leo To...

Step into the shadows with three of the most influential works ever written in the horror genre. Essential Horror Classics: Volume One brings together tales of creeping dread, supernatural decay, and psychological terror that continue to haunt readers more than a century after their publication.The titles included here are:The Call of Cthulhu , by H. P. LovecraftA mysterious investigation uncovers fragments of an anci...

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut.Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents hi...

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German engineer, arrives at a luxurious Alpine sanatorium to visit h...

The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied–from awe and wonder to fear and loathing, from spiritual longing to peaceful acceptance.As he explores our high places, Ian Crofton conjures up those who have been there before: Neolithic axe-makers, mass trespassers, shepherds, quarrymen, botanists, poets, and pioneering cragsmen and women among them. At the same time, he is ever attuned to the present moment–a flash of bright moss in a bog, the ...

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholm's cobbled alleys.Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt – known as Ravn – is adrift after the brutal murder of his wife. Once a relentless detective in Copenhagen's special crime unit, he is now forced on leave, living in self-imposed exile on his neglected boat, with his grumpy Old English Bulldog.But when a friend pleads for help finding a missing young woman, Ravn ...

"When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys."Shooting an Elephant is an autobiographical essay set in colonial Burma where Orwell had served as a police officer. The story of the Englishman forced to shoot a rampaging elephant and then to kill it, even when it is no longer a threat, is used to explore themes of imperialism, power, and personal conscience, and functions as a powerful metaphor for the destructive nature of imperialism.Born E...

The inspiration for a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson."Delicate, absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving." — VogueA mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man’s search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades beforeWhen the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even a...

The stunning sequel to Christian Cameron's epic TYRANT.Kineas, the Athenian cavalry commander, has come a long way since being dismissed from the army of Alexander and vengefully exiled by his own city. Together, his mercenary force and their Scythian allies have defeated a mighty Macedonian army at the Ford of the River God, and his adopted city of Olbia is now free once more. But his destiny will not allow him to enjoy the fruits of victory for long. Far to the e...

The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is s...