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Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny. When weathered old sailor Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents, it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. When Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest, where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold.

Life isn't always a big deal. When they say something, they don't make a lot of noise or drama. It's not clear when they will start or end. They could show up without making a sound. Of being aware that one has been careful. In a careful way, not wrongly or pointlessly. Thought about. Took care of. Held. Not okaying it. Life may look like it's going on around you for years. Each day has a set plan. People choose what to do because they have to, not because they want to. People talk about lies that are only partly true.

What if reality behaves less like random matter and more like a responsive operating system? G.O.D. — The Game Operating Device presents a symbolic framework for understanding how Source, consciousness, language, belief, emotion, action, time, and embodiment interact to shape lived experience. Blending spirituality, systems language, metaphysics, symbolic pattern recognition, and practical self-observation, this book explores the hidden architecture behind repetition, synchronicity, manifestation, suffering, awakening, and transformation. This is not a book about escaping life. It is a ...

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger! Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it’s a thirty-story building with one classroom on each...

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Sideways Stories from Wayside School, the first book in the series! Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was...

In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, after two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three-year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passion for travel and unburdened by a fixed itinerary, Grant set out to explore the world, his wanderlust sustained by modest means. Louis L. Picone’s Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire masterfully chronicles this unprecedented adventure, illuminating its historical significance and Grant’s enduring legacy.

In the first in this trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour - "Black Rock" - Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all he can do but fight for his life.

“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is...

What if reality is not made of matter at all—but of living points of view? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is often remembered as the brilliant philosopher-mathematician who co-invented calculus. But behind that achievement stood a far more radical vision of reality—one that feels startlingly modern even today. Leibniz proposed that the universe is not built from dead material particles, but from monads: simple, immaterial, perspective-bearing units that express the whole cosmos from their own point of view. In his metaphysics, reality is not fundamentally matter in motion. It is perception, ...

Wayside School is back in session in this brand-new, fourth installment in the perennially beloved and bestselling series by Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar. Your favorite students and teachers are all here. That includes Sharie, who loves her striped-and-spotted umbrella more than...

When Ingram is forced by overwhelming poverty and spiritual exhaustion to walk away from his home, he leaves behind a neglectful childhood on a dirt farm on a dead-end road. With no family, no resources, and no practical understanding of the world, Ingram’s only compass is the daily fight to survive and the narrow dream of one day owning a truck.

With buried treasure, treacherous buccaneers, a young hero, and Long John Silver, the one-legged villain, Treasure Island remains one of the most popular of pirate adventures.

He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America—and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone...

A collection of stories from the most famous Western author of all time! Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find. Whether he was writing under his early pen name, Jim Mayo, or his own, L’Amour’s stories are unforgettable, touching on rough and rugged American ideals, and set in the untamable frontier of the Western United States.

The quantum threat is not a distant academic problem — it is a strategic reality that demands immediate, disciplined action. Managing Post‑Quantum Cryptography gives enterprise leaders the practical roadmap they need to move from awareness to execution: inventory every cryptographic dependency, prioritize what to migrate first, deploy hybrid and crypto‑agile architectures, and sustain a governance posture that endures across budget cycles and leadership changes. This book is written for managers, CISOs, architects, and program leads who must translate technical standards into ...

He received her as payment for a debt. He never expected her soul. Claire’s world falls apart after Theo Moore abducts her. A man whose name resonates with power and danger throughout every crevice of the city. Inside his walls, every rule is his. Every breath she takes is because he allows it. But Theo’s control isn’t cold… it burns. In a game of submission and survival, the only thing more dangerous than hating him… is loving him. Own Me is a dark, addictive romance about obsession, defiance, and the fine line between captivity and devotion.

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible. Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs...

In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into...