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While running in Central Park, New York Times science writer Damon Ellis crashes—literally—into a story that just might resurrect his career…and change the course of human history. On the face of it, it seems absurd—a small biotech company in Boston called Calypso that claims to have cracked the secret of eternal youth. Surely a hoax. Or is it?

Bugger It is the unfiltered, deeply human memoir of Stephen J Scott — RAF Regiment veteran, widower, single father, and a man who has lived through conflict, loss, love, and the long road back to himself. From Cold War Germany to the Falklands, from the chaos of service life to the quiet devastation of grief, Stephen tells his story with honesty, humour, and a refusal to let anything — even the darkest moments — stay buried.

You've heard that behavior is dictated by your brain orientation. Either you're right-brained or left-brained. If you're right-brained, you're creative. If you're left-brained, you're technical. Or so it may seem. Until he entered extreme grief after the death of his wife—his true love—John Lodal believed that was true.

You were not built to run on empty. But for a lot of people, that is exactly where life has landed them exhausted, anxious, and bracing for the next thing to go wrong. The strength and peace you have been searching for were never meant to come from trying harder, achieving more, or simply pushing through. They were designed to be received. From the one who created you. Through the ancient, proven, Scripture-rooted practice of declaring what God has already said out loud, over your own life, until it becomes the ground you actually stand on.

On the morning of 30 June 1860, young Francis Saville Kent, not yet four years old, was found to be missing from the family home, Road Hill House, in the village of Road in Wiltshire. A search was mounted, and the child’s body was soon found, wrapped in a blanket from his cot and stuffed into a privy in the grounds of the house. His throat had been cut to the bone by some sharp instrument.

There is a reason golfers come back to the course again and again — not just to lower their scores, but because the game keeps teaching them something. The patience it demands. The acceptance it requires. The humility it enforces.

John Scott hiked the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail to celebrate his life. As a teenage boy in 1970s Scotland, he was fascinated by US politics and culture. John explores this fascination as he hikes through 14 states, from Georgia to Maine. Over miles and months, he realises it is the land and people which now captivate him. To the Woods is a walk through a man's life.

John Scott hiked the 2160 mile Appalachian Trail to celebrate his life. As a teenage boy in 1970's Scotland he was fascinated by US politics and culture. John explores this fascination as he hikes through 14 states from Georgia to Maine. Over miles and months, he realizes it is the land and people which now captivates him. To the Woods is a walk through a man's life. 

In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.

Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the...

In the decades leading up to the first Gulf War, modern weapons shake the air, land, and sea. Until finally, Saxüru, one of the old gods, slips through a fractured barrier and rises from the Red Sea, eager to take dominion. But war has changed over the centuries, and Saxüru is met with the dogged resistance of Joint Task Force 13 - an elite, covert unit sworn to hold fast against every evil, supernatural threat.

Life is full of big questions. In this audiobook, J. John answers thirty-eight questions that we ask about God, the Bible, the world, and everything in-between. Do babies go to heaven when they die? Why do we believe the Bible is true? Will we recognise family and friends in heaven? And life's ultimate question: Does God care about me?

Three gentlemen not wholly useless to their country—a lawyer, a banker, and a cabinet minister—have suddenly fallen into a state of profound ennui. Each seeks to rediscover the comfort of their lives through ‘the tonic of difficulty': adopting the nom de guerre of ‘John Macnab', they take to poaching in the Highlands of Scotland, issuing challenges to three landowners and declaring their intention to take a salmon or a stag on their lands between specific dates. But can they overcome the challenges they have set themselves, and escape with their reputations intact?

Brynn was the first to ever activate the world’s hidden Prestige Mode, granting powerful perks at the cost of his godhood and all memories of his past life. Now, he’s at rock bottom in a brutal world where leveling is so deadly most people never try, powerful classes evolve through corestones, and loot is awarded through system-granted achievements. Armed with nothing but a magical helmet and an empty Alchemist’s Kit left behind by his former self, the ex-paramedic must grind his way back to divinity, level-by-level. But regaining his power won’t be his greatest challenge…

On an isolated island, vampire Nobility run a mysterious laboratory, continuously pumping out a white mist which compels the inhabitants of a nearby fishing village to become the vampire's slaves! When the village tries to retaliate, their fighters never return. The vampire hunter known only as D has been sighted on the island, but how did he come to be there, whose side is he on, and will any mortals survive the brewing conflict?

Just in time for Valentine's Day, John Eaton's collection of love poems capture the pleasure, poignancy and pain of love and romance. The poems cover different people, occasions and places. So there is something for you, or your loved one. They range from thoughtful and serious to very witty. Love comes from within and can be sparked by a glance across a room, a friendly word, or a caring gesture. Some say by 'je ne sais quoi'. The source is for your to know and feel, so as you listen to this audiobook of love poems, remember that someone loves you.

Are you waiting on someone else to lead the charge? Wondering if the shift our world so desperately needs will come from a pulpit, a politician, or a platform? It won’t. It will come through you. In this prophetic wake-up call, Pastor John Nuzzo issues a bold challenge to every believer: the Church may be the starting line, but the finish line is only crossed when you step into your God-given assignment.

R. Austin Freeman presents eight cases for his ingenious Edwardian "scientific investigator", Dr. John Thorndyke, including: a classic locked-room murder mystery; a race to find a disappeared child; a dead woman discovered on a train; the story of the vengeful ghost of a murdered Chinese mandarin; and the enigmatic Moabite Cypher. As ever, Dr. Thorndyke meticulously collects the evidence of footprints, dust, hairs, and fibres, and even a single blue sequin, to unravel the mystery and see that justice is done.

Dead in Days. Emily Glass will be dead in days unless she can overcome destiny. An overlord of Hell has a price on Emily's head and every demon in the underworld wants to claim the prize. She might be the Great Banisher, but even she can't fight off an army of demons. The only way to survive might be to trust an enigmatic Seraphim, and to find the source of her powers. Where does her demon banishing power come from? How can she rip the powers from vampires?

During a routine Custodian investigation into illegal activities by vampires, Emily Glass discovers a massive demon-summoning pattern in a warehouse. Her demon-possessed boyfriend, Tyler Rock, identifies it as a demonicus - an ancient pattern used to summon demons from different levels of hell all at the same time, with the most powerful demon devouring the souls of humans to magnify his power.