Higher Worlds

Hammerfall is a quiet town where nothing ever seems to happen, until one day in the late summer of 1999. The adults begin showing signs of a strange infection, turning them into ravenous lunatics that will stop at nothing to infect those around them. A group of teenagers, who had once been friends, find themselves thrust into a new world of carnage. Struggling to put aside their differences, they must learn to rely on one another as the town that they once knew now crumbles around them. Their lives hang in the balance when unlikely allies emerge, but the onslaught of the infected is not the...

Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Rachel Nuwer, an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology, takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to 10 countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving the demand.

There are some features that are common to best-selling authors, irrespective of their locations, and the time of their writing careers. There are also some features that are common to best-selling books, irrespective of who their authors are, where they were written and when they were written. Anyone who understands those features and also applies them rightly in his writing career has a high probability of becoming a best-selling author because the same causes produce the same effects everywhere and every time, irrespective of who applies them. Most authors cannot become best-selling ...

I didn’t know we had a rival team until they moved in next door. “You’re invited to The Royal Games.” I only thought I knew how competitive the guys on my team were until we got the invitation. To make matters worse, our rival team has moved in next door to us. Confessions are made. Lines are drawn. As for me, I’m not sure I even have a place on my team anymore. The Royal Games are supposed to bring teams together, not tear them apart. But I’m stronger than they think. Nobody can run me off. At least… I hope not. The Cruel World is book 2 in the Spy Academy: The Royals Series....

In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayo, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey. In strict terms, the expedition failed.

During the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of diggers, prospectors, merchants, and dealers extracted and shipped over 50 million carats of diamonds from South Africa to London. The primary supplier to the world, South Africa's diamond fields became one of the formative sites of modern capitalist production. At each stage of the diamond's route through the British empire and beyond—from Cape Town to London, from Amsterdam to New York City—carbon gems were primarily mined, processed, appraised, and sold by Jews.

The first book ever to explore the relationship between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower, Partners in Command eloquently tackles a subject that has eluded historians for years. As Mark Perry charts the crucial impact of this duo on victory in World War II and later as they lay the foundation for triumph in the Cold War, he shows us an unlikely, complex collaboration at the heart of decades of successful American foreign policy - and shatters many of the myths that have evolved about these two great men and the issues that tested their alliance.

This warlord's more wolf than man. I'm not a submissive man, but one growl from the Wolf Lord, and I want to bare my throat to his teeth. And I've just become his valorian. Dealing with Vathmar's possessive nature is now my job, and after seeing his soul, I want the position—and every other position he cared to put me in. But the growling, grunting, and baring of teeth was going to get old, and we have more things to worry about than Vath's savage pride. The Farungal, our fearsome enemy, wouldn't stay beaten for long. I needed to find my footing with the Wolf Lord so we could fight this ...

Survival was only the beginning. Alec West and his team have finally found sanctuary within the arcane-protected city of Bastion. But peace never lasts. When a scout patrol vanishes near a mysterious Obelisk-born structure, Bastion’s council calls on Alec’s battle-hardened squad to investigate. What starts as a rescue turns into a desperate race against time. Buried in the ruins lies a Progenitor-class artifact—a Trial Key capable of rewriting fate itself. And when one of their own is mortally wounded, Alec must lead his team into an otherworldly dungeon known as the Tower of Teeth ...

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a mid-20s gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man. While Marion is far more open about his sexuality, neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies. Then one night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life the spirit of a dog from beneath the elementary school playground.

Forty light years from Earth, two Stone Age tribes wage territorial war. One planet away, two exonauts collect specimens from the surface of a new and exotic world. Centuries after a conspiracy aboard the ITS Santa Maria usurped the Admiralty in favor of Theresa Danbury and her cabal, mankind has formed a burgeoning enclave on tidally locked Trappist-1e. This is the world humanity chose for its new Eden, so welcoming to our species that from one colonial expedition, two societies emerged. One society is the futuristic dream of a jaded ideologue made manifest. The other is a primitive memory...

1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by 18th-century philosophers like Locke, Smith, Voltaire, and Wollstonecraft is good for everyone. In McCloskey's view, liberalism leads to equality, but equality does not necessarily lead to liberalism - and the fixation of the left on inequality is counterproductive.

On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure, but any salvage had to be secret, since the British government dared not alert the Germans to the presence of the gold. Lieutenant Commander Guybon Damant was the most qualified officer to head the risky mission.

In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. They came with in eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack, and the crew was stranded on the floes.

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.

For over 50 years scholars and philosophers alike have attempted to make some sense of the Third Reich and its "Final Solution" campaign. Historian Robert Wistrich takes listeners on a guided tour through the death camps and meticulously details the events that led to this horrific tragedy and the lasting repercussions it had on the world community.

Horses and humans share an ancient, complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the 20th century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they've been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels.

This second edition focus more on mental health: understanding and recovery. The general lessons on how empathy makes us high-value people are still present in the book fill with actions steps. The book is a unique psychological look at the power of empathy. It’s about relationships. emotional and mental health. As a survivor of intense child-abuse, including sexual abuse from a narcissist father, I fully understand and value what empathy can bring to a soul in need. In this book, I guide readers through a series of captivating stories, facts and perspectives that will empower you to ...

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free", yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people.