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Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

A student of Native American lore investigates Yig - the shadowy snake god of an extinct tribe of the Great Plains. His investigation uncovers an account from 1889 of settlers homesteading in the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. A pervasive fear of snakes nudges a simple settler towards madness. Are his fears of the dreaded snake god's curse just the result of hearing old stories, or is a new story unfolding as Yig's curse takes hold?

The work of archaeologists has commanded worldwide attention and captivated the human imagination since the earliest days of exploration, with groundbreaking discoveries such as the treasures of ancient Egypt, the lost kingdoms of the Maya, and the fabled city of Troy. Archaeology brings us face-to-face with our distant ancestors, with treasures of the past, and with life as it was lived in long-ago civilizations.

A missing treasure. A cursed property. Will Ellie’s bed and breakfast turn into a dead and breakfast on opening weekend? Excited to restart her life after a bitter divorce, Ellie Byrne plans to re-open her aunt’s old bed and breakfast with a murder mystery weekend. But when she finds out the property possesses a cursed treasure that has robbed all previous owners of their lives, she worries her fresh start may lead to her death. Threats abound and when a body turns up, Ellie’s convinced the curse is real.

Cate Kensie’s life is thrown into chaos when she is plagued by a mysterious illness she never knew existed. With random roamings and unpredictable fainting spells, only her time-traveling buddy, Jack, can protect her from herself. But when he goes missing, both of their lives are plunged into danger. With the help of a mysterious group from across the pond, Cate must battle a powerful network of villains who want her dead and find Jack before it’s too late.

"The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ends in 1935 with his last original work "The Haunter of the Dark." The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature, with novels from Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Adam Sims, David Rintoul, and more, this is a chance to expand your listening with some of the greatest authors of all time.

This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through the resources of Old English. 

Book Summary — The Bronze of PoseidonarChronicle of the First Age — Birth and Fall of ThalassiaIn the dawn of the world, when gods still walked the tides and mortals were yet dreams of clay, Poseidonar, Lord of the Abyss, forged the first men of bronze — the Thalassarii, warriors born from...

Wladislaw Brenryk has built the life he wanted. He owns a successful shop in Ponkert, has a wife and young daughter, and has earned a reputation as a shrewd but honest merchant. Then one winter journey brings him face-to-face with creatures unlike any wolves he has ever seen. What follows leaves...

The rain fell without mercy. Cold sheets of water swept across the moors of Varnachor, turning the earth into black mud and the winding paths into rivers of filth. Thunder rolled across the distant hills while lightning flashed behind ancient standing stones that rose from the landscape like the...

Josefina Murrieta is done watching her city fall apart. In Perilous City, crime runs unchecked, corruption thrives, and those in power profit from the suffering or its people. After a chance encounter stops a violent robbery, Josefina awakens to a new purpose, taking justice into her own hands...

He came home to escape his demons, but will his next case be the one that breaks him? Smoke catches in Detective Vincent Swann’s throat as he examines the body bound to a chair under the scorched railway arches. Local mechanic Rob Mitchell was in witness protection. He should have been miles...

From H. B. Irving’s A Book of Remarkable Criminals comes the definitive account of the Eyraud–Bompard affair—one of Paris’s most sensational 1889 murders. When the genial bailiff Gouffe vanishes, a trail of an empty trunk, scorched matches, and a grim discovery near Lyons draws master...

Tattered Flesh, Resilient Spirit is a powerful and deeply personal medical memoir that chronicles the extraordinary survival of physician Craig H. Collison, M.D., who, at the height of his medical training, was suddenly struck by a devastating case of necrotizing fasciitis-commonly known as...

Londres, 1891. Lenore, de 19 años, es hija de médico y sueña con serlo ella también, aunque su posición social la obliga a casarse y tener una familia. Pero cuando su padre, en su lecho de muerte, la pone sobre aviso de la existencia de un ser inmortal a quien él mismo estaba investigando...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Five features 14 essential works that reach across Europe, America, and Russia - from Twain to Dostoyevsky to Austen - to bring together some of the most influential authors of the 18th and 19th century. Read by a cast of incredible narrators, this is a chance to expand your listening by going deeper into some of your favourite authors' works and find your new favourite piece of classic literature.

History will unravel. Death will rise. Blood will stain the foundation of Nimbria. Who will survive? Redelvtum has fallen. The realms stand at the edge of war. And something far darker lurks beneath the chaos, waiting to seize control. Hyacinth never asked for this power, never wanted to bear...

Britain triumphed in the Moon Race long before Neil Armstrong took his legendary giant leap for mankind. This thrilling tale follows two daring adventurers from Lympne, England, who ventured to the Moon using an extraordinary antigravity coating instead of a rocket. Narrated by Mr. Bedford, the story unfolds as he befriends the eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, becomes a believer in his groundbreaking research, and assists in building a remarkable sphere for space travel. Their expedition leads them to astonishing discoveries‚Aîair, water, and a labyrinth of caverns inhabited by an advanced ...

Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for the future of technology and technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists...