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This tale from 1869 is the very first vision of an artificial satellite, which accidentally also becomes the first space station. Sailors could fix their latitude easily enough by the height of the North Star above the horizon, but longitude, without a comparable fixed point in the sky, had cost...

She came to the church looking for a second chance. The last person she expected to find there was the man whose life she helped destroy. After years of running from her past, a woman rebuilding her life joins a small-town church and slowly becomes close to the pastor’s respected family. For...

Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure. People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. A cop, a cowboy...

Pair one grumpy vampire prince with a passionate lawyer, add in a magical hotel brimming with feral fairies and anxious pixies . . . you’ve got the perfect recipe for an enchanting romance. Slowly rebuilding her life after a devastating divorce, Sophie Cooper is one assignment away from...

Welcome to Healthy Kitchen Table, the intimate audio space where Robyn Everett transforms the chaos of daily meal planning into a sanctuary of clarity and nourishment. This narrative podcast invites you to sit beside the host as she explores the profound connection between what we eat and how we feel, turning ordinary kitchen moments into extraordinary journeys of self-care. Robyn’s warm, conversational tone makes complex nutritional science accessible, offering listeners a comforting companion for their wellness journey.Dive deep into practical nutrition tips that demystify healthy eating ...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ The New Yorker On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert...

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is...

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (adapted into an Oscar-nominated film). The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny...

In Assumption, the follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer...

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories...

'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' New York Times A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr...

From the Booker-prize shortlisted author of Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction 'This is the work of an American master at the peak of his powers' – Financial Times Enthralling and ferociously funny, James by Percival Everett is a profound meditation on identity...

Secure a highly profitable business exit strategy with a practical valuation and negotiation roadmap built for founders. Whether you are commuting to the office or planning for a stress-free retirement, this audio guide provides calm confidence during life-changing financial transitions. Step...

Shield your children from toxic manipulation and reclaim your sanity while co-parenting with a high-conflict narcissist. If traditional cooperative advice leaves you exhausted by chronic chaos, it is time for a radically different, boundary-driven approach. Navigating shared custody with a...

Hendrix James is the newest addition to the Denver Bandits baseball team. He was adjusting just fine after his trade. His teammates were great, he found a killer apartment, and he met a girl he really likes. The only problem? His loud neighbor is disrupting his life all day, every day, with her wild habits between the sheets.

Hätten Sie gedacht, dass Warren Buffet und Friedrich Nietzsche ähnliche Ansichten haben? Dass sich Albert Camus’ Erkenntnisse zum Umgang mit der Absurdität des Lebens passgenau auf unsere Investmententscheidungen übertragen lassen? Dass Baruch Spinozas Verständnis irrationaler Emotionen...

She had no opinion of marriage or of men, but is her cold heart proof against true love? The last thing Clara Mantell wishes for is a husband. The daughter of a rake, she has learned to despise men and marriage, and considers love with contempt. Instead, she seeks out men like her father, wielding her considerable charm as a weapon to take them down a peg or two. Lawrence Simpford has been in love with Clara for years but, not being a rake, is unable to gain her attention.