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Reality TV's influence is seismic: twenty-five years ago, the concept didn't exist. Yet today, it is one of the most powerful cultural forces on earth; a multi-billion-dollar machine. Despite that, it is often derided as "trash"; a cultural McDonalds not worthy of examination. The truth is that reality TV offers a profound insight into who we are as human beings, questioning the very nature of what we deem to be entertaining. Writer, broadcaster and reality TV-obsessive Jacques Peretti goes behind the scenes of a world that has entranced and consumed him for two decades.

In July 1997, the first contestant voted off the first episode of the first ever reality TV elimination show took his own life. Expedition Robinson was the first show of its kind anywhere, and it was going to be remembered not for breaking the mold of television, but for a death, the first of at least 40 suicides linked globally to a reality TV show.

From the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the edge of what we consider the known and real in our physical environment. Perhaps UFOs signal the existence of a domain of nature as yet totally unexplored. These two eminent scientists studied the UFO phenomenon for decades and collaborated on this landmark report.

He is a cyber dweller. A gamer who's grown up in the web of virtual illusion woven from hundreds of phantom worlds. His biggest dream is to dump the real world for good. His desperate hunger for new experiences forces him to take a risk and become one of the first proud owners of a neuronet implant. The new gadget becomes part of him, but soon it's not enough. If only he could finally burn all his bridges and make a step beyond the real world....

Four strangers. Four awakenings. One hidden pattern woven through creation. After a head injury, Jesse Cartwright begins seeing luminous Threads in the orchards of East Texas. In Paris, physicist Charlotte Dumas discovers that the anomalies in her lab are not random. In northern Nigeria, preacher Bulus Okech encounters the Threads in the midst of danger and suffering. In eastern China, Liang Zhao’s awakening begins under the shadow of persecution.

We are established loners—each limited by the boundaries we set—but when a young boy’s life hangs in the balance, we discover we have more in common than we thought.

Tony Danials has lived with regret for most of his life. He never told Mark how he really felt. He watched him marry someone else. He stayed quiet. Now, years later, with nothing left but memories, Tony wakes up in a world that shouldn’t exist. In this reality, he’s younger. Stronger. And somehow, he’s married to Mark. The house, the photos, the life they share, it all feels real. But Tony remembers another version of things. One where Mark died. One where the love between them never had a chance. Now he’s caught between two truths, and the line between memory and reality keeps shifting.

In the Prime Kingdoms, the system dominates everything. It dictates one’s strength, skills, and power. It spawns dungeons and guides the actions of their monsters. But every system has its limits, and it’s about to push four oddball adventurers to theirs.

Contains three of the top selling books from the Edge of Reality Series by John Landrine. The Edge of Reality is the edge-of-your-seat, page-turning, mind-blowing sci-fi anthology series of books from the childhood mind of author John Landrine (author of "Message From Inner Space: When Earth Has Enough"). John recently breathed new life into these gems, but developed the stories and concepts while he was a child.

The old campfire story; that mysterious, dark tall-tale, told, or rather performed, in the midst of the wilderness by the dancing light and shadows of a small campfire, with the indubitable purpose of scaring young campers out of their proverbial wits. While good campfire story tellers could send quivers into the depths of childhood minds, the best performers could impose a freezing terror on their juvenile audiences leaving them with slightly unnerving, yet fond memories of a well-spent summer vacation.

The universe is vast, silent, and filled with mysteries that continue to challenge everything we think we know. Strange Mysteries Of The Universe takes you on a fascinating journey through the most intriguing and unexplained phenomena of the cosmos —from the invisible matter holding galaxies together to the powerful gravity of black holes that bend space and time itself. This audiobook explores deep cosmic questions: What lies beyond the observable universe? Are parallel universes real? How do neutron stars survive in extreme conditions? And what does the future of the universe look like?

You did not stumble upon this book by accident. A promise, take my word for it. Whatever algorithm surfaced it, whatever recommendation led you here, whatever impulse made you press play—that impulse did not come from nowhere. Something in you recognized the title before your mind could explain why. Something in you has been waiting for this. Possibly for a very long time. What you have found is an unpolished diamond buried in a catalogue of millions.

Steve Morton and his lovely wife, Cherie live a good life, as a thirty-something couple just starting to take off in their respective careers. That is until a speedbump intrudes on their tranquil road of existence. It is a hiccup in spacetime that begins to unravel reality as they know it. It is a horrible recurring event that appears to have but one escape–death.

Bloomsbury presents The Tomb of the Mili Mongga by Samuel Turvey, read by Clifford Samuel. ‘The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing’ DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest – and a...

What if reality wasn’t something you were stuck inside... but something you could play with? Reality Is Optional is a mind-opening, heart-expanding field guide to living as the author of your own experience. Rooted in the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and infused with the playful power of imagination, this audiobook helps you align your mood, master your energy, and wake up to the wild magic hiding in plain sight. This isn’t about escaping life. It’s about realizing it was never locked in the first place.

Call it a rut, a vicious cycle of monotony, or a never-ending Groundhog Day, in any case, he lived his life, nonetheless. While his day-to-day existence gave him satisfaction and fulfilment, his enemy received its gratification only from terrorizing and destroying the defenseless, the helpless and those confined to such mundane lives. His enemy lived to kill. But when that adversary turned his wrath toward the one who lived a simple routine life, he received the surprise of his life.

High school basketball phenom, self-proclaimed super-star, and misguided misogynist, Chad Walker has vividly envisioned his future. He has no doubt about who and what he will be and will let nothing and no one stand in his way. When Chad stumbles across a device that can literally make all his problems disappear, he embraces the power to make his every wish come true.

A cold-blooded killer, a sweet old couple, and an Amtrak train. When these three elements meet, strange things happen. Ruthless murderer and misanthrope Ed Hill, has been on a killing rampage across the United States for decades. The police and FBI have not been able to catch him, and fear that no one ever will. But when Ed meets a peculiar elderly Hindu couple on a train, his luck begins to change in ways he could not ever imagine.

“Edge of Reality Radio,” can be heard live each Thursday from 8pm-10pm Eastern. For nearly 50 years, the show’s host, Lee Speigel, has researched and reported on the overlapping worlds of Science and Unexplained Phenomena, covering such diverse topics as UFOs, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, ghosts, life after death, time travel, strange creatures, human consciousness, out-of-body-experiences, and the pursuit of other realities and universes. To hear Lee Speigel's entire archived shows, browse below for episodes. Dates listed below are the day the show was uploaded to ...

For readers of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Katie Mack, and anyone who wants to know what theoretical physicists actually do. This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest...