This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass.And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it.It is a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew.A story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home.Th...

Odin is preparing to move…again.Odin’s daddy is in the military, and though he is very proud of his daddy, the thought of having to uproot their life one more time is terrifying. Thankfully, Odin has his mom. Throughout their moving journey from the United States to Japan, Odin’s mom reminds him that being a military child is different from normal families. Their family still has all the love, support, and roots as others, but it is all tucked nicely in a pot. Now,...

Do You Have A Problem With Your Self Esteem?Want To Have A Better Self Esteem?Want Deeper Relationships With Others And Success In Life?If you are someone who wants to improve self esteem, you are not alone. People around the world are looking for ways to improve their self esteem because they understand the importance of having a healthy self esteem. There has been plenty of guides for building self esteem in children but not many about building self esteem for adult...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Zodiac by Sam Wilson, read by John Chancer.EVERY MURDER IS A SIGN.In a society divided along Zodiac lines, status is cast at birth - and binding for life. Who you are can be determined by a matter of days, hours, even minutes.Even for the most experienced detectives, every once in a while a murder can shake them to the core. Like when the Chief of Police is killed i...

This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass.And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it.It is a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew.A story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home.Th...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Taken by Alice Clark-Platts, read by Rachel Bavidge.There's the lost.There's the missing.And there's the taken.She asked me once if we had any secrets, and I shook my head.'No secrets between us,' she said.'No,' I answered. 'Never ever.'In a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan ...

Two lieges—King Lanius, who is of royal blood, and King Grus, the usurper—now share the throne of Avornis. The former wields no real power, kept impotent by the regents surrounding him. The latter mans the battle lines, determined to protect the kingdom from a fearsome, immortal god who was expelled from heaven. To the north, the city-state Chernagor is being torn asunder by a savage civil war that threatens to spill past the border at any moment. Catastrophe looms for Avornis and even two...

FINALIST Barnes and Nobel Discover Prize 2024WINNER of the HarperCollins Canada-UBC Prize for Best New FictionSteeped in rural folklore and superstition, and full of remarkable characters, Pearly Everlasting is an enchanting woodland Gothic about the triumph of good over evil, the beauty of the natural world, and a bond of love that cannot be broken.New Brunswick, 1934: A cook in a logging camp rescues an o...

When Avornis falls, the Banished One will reign supreme. Rival kings Lanius and Grus each covet solitary power, but realize that a kingdom divided cannot stand against the evil god who enslaves the minds of men through their nightmares. Once, Avornis was safe from his dark influence, protected by a powerful talisman supplied by the pantheon of deities who expunged the immortal called Milvago from their ranks. But that was centuries earlier, before the Scepter of Mercy was lost, and only th...

Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney… but then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce. As he steps in to save her from some unwanted attention, he doesn’t realise that this one action will change his life forever. Set against the brutal, unforgiving landscape of Orkney, Crash Land is a psychological thriller steeped in guilt, shame, lust, deception and murder.

More than four centuries ago, the Scepter of Mercy was lost to the king of Avornis, and each subsequent liege has promised—and failed—to return the powerful talisman to its rightful home. Now, young Lanius, the only surviving son of King Mergus, rules, though he is considered illegitimate and must abide by the decisions of regents. Still, the legacy of the missing scepter ultimately belongs to him. But it is also coveted by the Banished One, an immortal exiled by the other gods, who invade...

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the c...