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Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. From Archimedes' bath to Newton's apple, vivid accounts of scientific discovery help us understand the principles behind each theory, and add to the larger narrative of how the universe works, and how we came to be here. This anthology draws out and distils science's love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories.

Betrayed by their allies, the last of the Picts have escaped to the innermost part of an endless, dark forest, content to remain hidden there forever. Made queen at just a child, Cyrene has given all of her life and heart to the task of making sure her people are never terrorized again. When a handsome stranger from the kingdom that betrayed them falls injured at the boundary of her village, she’s forced to choose between mercy and duty.

On Halloween night in Louisiana, a college student launches on what should be a routine training flight in a Cessna 172. But somewhere over the dark bayous, the radios fall silent and the airplane begins to fail. With nowhere safe to land, he's forced down near a cluster of distant campfires deep in the wilderness. Bruised and disoriented, he expects to find help waiting for him. Instead, the men who emerge from the darkness speak, dress, and behave as though they belong to another century.

17th Century Bavaria. At the end of the Adventurer’s Road, deep in the Hexental - the Valley of Witches - lies the town of Reimersberg. Beautiful but insulated, its residents are proud of their traditions and hostile to change and anyone who might bring it. Not for nothing do people say that you have to be strange to take the road to Reimersberg, but even stranger to live there.

What if the past wasn't behind you but waiting for you? When historian Avril Marie Langston boards a flight home, she never expects it to end in tragedy. After a devastating plane crash, she awakens in 1883 New Orleans, trapped in the life of a woman named Marie Bechet and engaged to a wealthy plantation owner she has never met.

Arthur hat endlich seine Seele geheilt. Jetzt muss er sich der Welt stellen. Mit dem Ort der Macht im Rücken hat Arthur Gegner bezwungen, wie sie nur wenige je erleben werden. Er glaubte, in eine Zeit des Friedens zurückzukehren, doch das Gesetz des Systems wurde gebrochen. Fremde Rassen wandeln über die Erde, lange bevor ihre Zeit gekommen ist–und sie flüstern seinen Namen. Seine Macht macht ihn gefürchtet. Sein Blut macht ihn zur Zielscheibe. Wurde die Menschheit verraten? Früher wäre er geflohen. Jetzt muss der perfekte Homunkulus jagen.

Manchester, 1348: Auf der Jagd nach den Kreaturen der Hölle kehrt Godric in seine alte Heimat Manchester zurück, doch die Stadt im Herzen Englands hält keinen herzlichen Empfang für ihn bereit. Begleitet von Gilchrist und Rufus gerät er mitten hinein in ein hochexplosives Pulverfass aus Pest, Verrat und dunkler Magie.

Jaycee didn’t ask to wake up in someone else’s body. Isabeau didn’t ask for a passenger. When a VR game designer’s consciousness slips through a portal stone and into the mind of a medieval herbalist, the two women have exactly nothing in common — except the desperate need to survive. This isn’t the immersive world-building Jaycee designs for a living. This is real, it smells terrible, and there’s no respawn. Isabeau has spent decades building a farm from nothing. She has no intention of handing it over to a man who wants the land and calls it a proposal.

A timeless Christian classic—renewed for today’s reader. For over three centuries, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress has shaped the faith of millions. This Reader’s Edition presents Parts I & II in a lightly modernized, accessible format that preserves Bunyan’s devotional depth while offering a smooth listening experience for the modern believer.

In den düsteren Gassen von Truehaven, beherrscht von Hunger und Hoffnungslosigkeit, kämpfen die Zwillinge Aster und Ira Tag für Tag ums Überleben. Doch als die Stadt in Flammen aufgeht und Verrat und Gewalt alles verschlingen, geraten die Geschwister mitten hinein in ein tödliches Spiel aus Macht und Intrigen. Über ihren Köpfen ziehen die gewaltigen Drachen der Krone ihre Kreise – majestätische Bestien, die gleichermaßen Symbole der Herrschaft und Waffen der Vernichtung sind.

The sharpest pen of the French Enlightenment, the author of Candide (1759)... and also a sci-fi writer two hundred years before the term existed. This volume brings together two forgotten gems from the 1750s, when Voltaire was at the height of his powers. Micromegas (1752): A...

Things aren't always what they seem to be. Sometimes the forger escapes. Sometimes love wins. Sometimes the perfect crime is to disappear completely and find peace in anonymity. This is the story of a man who wanted to be Rembrandt and became himself instead.

Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Times Book Review) to this exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, set in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An...

Six histoires hautes en couleur dans le monde du "Bâtard de Kosigan" ! Avec ce coffre empli de trésors littéraires, Fabien Cerutti propose six textes qui enluminent ou permettent de découvrir l'univers de sa série à succès "Le Bâtard de Kosigan".

"Peter Ganim was just the right choice to narrate this audiobook" — AudioFile Magazine A groundbreaking audiobook anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other.” This collection of short stories is masterfully edited by Hassan...

Thirteen-year-old twins Dominic and Mary have very different natures: Dominic, quiet and serious, is drawn to the natural world while Mary, a talented artist, is passionate and imaginative. The country town of Kyneton, still grappling with the legacy of World War II, cannot contain her ambitions for a life of creative endeavor. When their father dies unexpectedly, the reverberations send the two in different directions. Mary escapes to the bohemian haunts of Melbourne while Dominic stays behind, riven by responsibility and an unwavering loyalty to their mother.

Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1840s is becoming a cultural and scientific mecca—the city boasts the first art academy and the most lucrative cultural environment for artists in the Midwest. This fact fits perfectly with the dreams and aspirations of young Laura Logan who wants nothing more than to draw, sketch, paint, and to appreciate fine art.

A war. The girl she'd been. And the woman she was forced to become. A dazzling, heartbreaking story of friendship and redemption from bestselling author Jennie Jones. Townsville, 1942. Young women aged sixteen and over are obliged by law to join the war effort, and Emma Hatton's world is at last...

In a novel of breathtaking reach and inspired imagination, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark tells the stories of two men who have much in common. What separates them is 42,000 years. Shade lives with his second wife amid their clan on the shores of a bountiful lake. A peaceable...