Middle Game

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan.

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.

With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored - until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Mazelike and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. And Lenora becomes its newly appointed Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian. She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces down a dark nothingness that wants to destroy all knowledge. To save the library, Lenora will have to test her limits and uncover secrets hidden among its shelves.

More than 20 years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk - a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013 - has experienced these political frustrations and disappointments firsthand.

The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund deserts, and through the caravan towns of the old Silk Road - both powers scrambling to control access to the riches of India and the East. When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart; by the end, this distance had shrunk to 20 miles at some points.

Kids who love video games, especially Minecraft, will love the hilarious ‘Game on Boys’ series, with its captivating stories and lots of awesome gaming content. Ryan James, the ultimate 10-year-old gamer, belongs to a PlayStation club at school. But the PS club isn’t your average after-school hangout. It's a secret gateway to other dimensions! Ryan and his PS gang are about to level up in ways they never imagined in the Game on Boys series. Forget ordinary adventures—this is an epic quest where reality and pixels collide! Hold onto your controllers because in the first four books, ...

Ages 8-12 ◆ For Kids Who Love Minecraft and Video Games Kids who love playing Minecraft will love this book! Jayden “Minecraft” Montgomery's arm and hand suddenly change into blocks. Now he’s got to navigate through the Minecraft world with the help of a fox. But first he’ll have to save a village by fighting pillagers, zombies, creepers, skeletons, facing an iron golem, and warding off an evil hacker. Most of all, he must earn the trust and friendship of the villagers as he navigates this world he’s only ever seen from a screen. Only then will he discover who he was always ...

The Jedi think the dreaded Nihil marauders have been all but defeated. Their leader is on the run and their numbers have dwindled. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh hopes this means she will finally have time to really train her Padawan, Imri Cantaros—but reports of a Nihil attack on Port Haileap soon dash those hopes.

The villainous Nihil control an area of space known as the Occlusion Zone, where no one is safe, least of all Jedi. One of the Jedi stuck behind enemy lines is Padawan Ram Jomaram, doing his best to help the people of his home planet, Valo, survive Nihil occupation while keeping his Jedi identity hidden. When Ram discovers a trio of young Jedi living in the ruins of the city zoo, he finds himself in a position he never could have imagined: leader.

Monsters Unleashed - where you catch virtual-reality monsters on your cellphone - is one of the hottest mobile games around, and Bex and Charlie just can't stop playing. They even check out an old map in Charlie's grandfather's attic in hopes of discovering some forgotten places in town where the rarest monsters might hide. But they find a strange machine up there, too, and after Charlie switches it on, the wifi goes down...and Bex's entire catalog of monsters vanishes!

As the title says, this book is a brief look at the history of gaming. And it was written by YouTuber, author, educator and gamer, Anthony "Gamer" Ventrello. These articles originally appeared on the Google Classroom for the Level Up Gaming and Computer Club, at the high school he was teaching. They discuss everything from Mario, the video game crash of 1983/84, lost media, Pokemon, and whatever else seemed like something to write about at the time. Anthony "Gamer" Ventrello is a published writer, YouTuber, and teacher. He has been gaming since he first got his Atari 2600 in 1982. He makes ...

Can a zombie really be trusted? Jeff, Zion, and Lila travel to Zara the witch to try to make Zion's wish come true--to become more human and to break his connection with the evil zombie leader, Billy. But the experiment doesn't work quite as planned. Meanwhile, Billy is stalking Lila. Peter, leader of the Warners, tells Jeff that trusting Zion could mean losing everything and everyone else. Disclaimer: This book is an unofficial Minecraft book, a work of fan fiction. It is not endorsed, authorized, licensed, sponsored, or supported by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other entity owning or...

Too many zombies! Jeff and friends are running out of time. The villagers in the bunker are running out of food. But the zombie horde surrounding the bunker is growing thicker every day. Can Jeff, Zion and Lila win the ultimate battle? Jump into this continuing tale of adventure Today! Disclaimer: This book is an unofficial Minecraft book, a work of fan fiction. It is not endorsed, authorized, licensed, sponsored, or supported by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other entity owning or controlling rights to the Minecraft name, trademarks or copyrights. Tags: Great Minecraft Books for Kids...

Kids who love video games will be obsessed by the 'Game on Boys' series. Game on Boys is about 10 year old Ryan James and his hectic adventures in the PlayStation club at school. Designed to appeal to the heart of any boy or girl, with its captivating story lines, whacky illustrations and side-splitting humor, they won’t want to put it down. And there’s plenty of life lessons and learning moments and other good stuff in store to keep the parents happy too. The PlayStation Playoffs is a hilarious action and adventure story that follows the adventures of ten year old cool gamer, Ryan ...

There is no charge for Game on Boys 1 and Game on Boys 4, so get them now too!! Game on Boys books can be read in any order. Kids who love video games, especially Minecraft, will love the hilarious ‘Game on Boys’ series. Designed to appeal to the heart of any boy or girl with its captivating story lines, whacky illustrations and side-splitting humor, as well as lots of awesome gaming content. They won’t want to put it down. Even reluctant readers and grown-ups love the series as well. Minecraft! Minecraft! Minecraft! That’s all Rino James ever thinks about. That, and his PlayStation...

Christian Fantasy & Children's Adventure Book! A thrilling, action-packed journey filled with faith, courage, and the ultimate battle against darkness! Enter the game, trust the truth, and armor up. Your greatest adventure begins now. When daring gamer Lila and her two best friends—master strategist Ben and creative genius Mateo—boot up an ancient computer game called The King’s Armor, they have no idea they’re about to be plunged into the electrifying realm of Elysium. A single glitch sparks an otherworldly chain reaction, and suddenly they’re trapped in a world where a vengeful ...

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. It is 1850 and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows.

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.

FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE - Celebrants of the Earth - a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country. While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and barely escape being killed by a secondary device.