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An ancient witch explores the thrills—and perils—of online dating with hilarity and heart in a charming rom-com perfect for fans of cozy fantasy and witchy romance. Meet Thorn Scarhart, a thirty-nine-year-old witch who’s having trouble finding love in the 17th century. Despite the local...

Bartimaeus, everyone's favorite (wise-cracking) djinni, is back in book four of this New York Times bestselling series that is perfect for fans of Artemis Fowl and Amari and the Night Brothers. Thousands of years before his fateful service to the magician Nathaniel in London, wily Bartimaeus...

Philosophy made fun & unforgettable!! 4+ BONUSES! Philosophy isn’t just something you read — it’s something you do. Debate Truth, Logic, Ethics, Politics, Science, God, Free Will, Happiness, Reality, the Soul & Meaning of Life From Socrates’ questions to Aristotle’s categories, from Epicurus’ garden to Stoic survival skills, you don’t just study philosophy here — you debate, laugh, question, & even quiz yourself along the way. 🏛 Inside You’ll Discover: The Big 3 Greeks—Socrates, Plato & Aristotle explained simply, clearly, & with stories that stick Epicurus, Zeno & ...

From an absolutely unmissable voice in cozy fantasy, this tale shares the story of fae, folklore, and found family, told by a charismatic lake-dwelling monster with a voice unlike any other. Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce...

The legendary Deep Thoughts and New Yorker humorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a hilarious, absurd, far-flung adventure tale. The Stench of Honolulu Are you a fan of books in which famous tourist destinations are repurposed as unlivable hellholes for no particular reason? Read...

Digging up Trouble...Hank the Cowdog is on the case in his 50th mystery, and it's an extra long, laugh-out-loud adventure! When Hank gets invited, that is, invites himself on an archaeological dig, all he can think about is impressing the head scientist's beautiful lady dog. But Hank's heart isn't the only thing that's about to get stolen!

Welcome to Night Vale meets Rachel Harrison in this campy, cozy supernatural horror series from Reddit sensation Bonnie Quinn, as a campground manager must do everything she can to keep her campers alive. Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your...

Crease survived the mines. He earned his pardon. All he wants now is a quiet life. No excitement and definitely no gambling. That will be difficult, given the recent string of disappearances in Coelwyk. Dead beggars, vanished river-girls. Whispers of corpses dragged away by the city guards before panic can spread. Crease never did know when to stop asking questions. The new Lord Koenig pretends to be better than his murdered predecessor, but his men have been watching Crease. If he were still a betting man, he'd put money on the unnatural hair that got him in trouble once before...

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a...

Dramatisations of selected novels and short stories by the acclaimed Robert Graves An acclaimed poet and novelist, Robert Graves is best remembered today for his immensely popular I, Claudius novels. He penned over 140 works in his lifetime, ranging from historical fiction to comic and...

An archaeological thriller of historical emperors, powerful opponents, and a race to unearth an ancient power. An entombed meteorite… An archaic inscription… A merciless mafia family… When Reed Hascombe is called to Rome to search for a missing professor, he's plunged into a perilous adventure that traverses catacombs, tunnels, and hidden chambers. The race centres on deciphering the professor's notes from an archaic inscription about a millennia-old meteorite. But Reed clashes with a ruthless mafia family from Venice who are intent on attaining the valuable meteorite for themselves, ...

Theodosia Throckmorton has her hands full at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. Her father may be head curator, but it is Theoand only Theowho is able to see all the black magic and ancient curses that still cling to the artifacts in the museum. Sneaking behind her fathers back, Theo uses old, nearly forgotten Egyptian magic to remove the curses and protect her father and the rest of the museum employees from the ancient, sinister forces that lurk in the museums dark hallways.

She’s got perfect posture, a nasty temper, and centuries of know-how. Will trying to fix the fourth dimension leave her trapped in a harsh new reality? Ireland, 1100’s. Wilda Firestone doesn’t put up with incompetence. Awaiting extraction back to her regularly scheduled life in modern Toronto, the feisty sixty-year-old spends the days hanging out with druids and learning local lore. But when she and her two companions finally make contact with her boss, she realizes that thwarting the terrorists who are corrupting history has left their portal home out of order. Tasked with sabotaging...

✨ One act of kindness. One ancient god watching. One life changed forever. Ben never expected rescuing a stranded baby mountain goat in the Olympic Mountains would alter the course of his destiny. But someone else was watching—an ancient god with a mischievous streak and a divine agenda. Pan, the old god of animals, lust, and wild desire, sees Ben’s selflessness and decides to reward him in the most unexpected way. Overnight, the quiet bachelor history teacher—and former Marine—finds himself blessed with supernatural gifts tied to passion, instinct, and the primal forces of nature...

They told him the story was fiction. The river told him otherwise. Eighteen months after the disaster at FOB Sentry, journalist Ivan Gomez is a broken man. His eyewitness account of bioengineered dinosaurs and a rogue military program was published, classified, and buried. The Pentagon called it fiction. His career was called over. Then the Mekong River starts going dark. Villages disappearing. Fishing boats vanishing. Indigenous communities reporting creatures in the water that match the things Ivan saw at Sentry—except the scale is wrong. Too many. Too spread. Too far. Ivan discovers ...

With just three months until the king razes her new home to build a coal mine, Alison Lennox and her friends travel to the isolated campus of Winwold College, a beautiful old castle nestled deep in the mountains of Loegria. There, they meet eccentric Professor Mircalla Marin and her bumbling graduate student Leo, the only people who can help them fix their solar generator in time to save the town. But when a massive storm cuts the campus off from the outside world, strange things begin to happen.

A neoclassical space opera of hopepunk destiny, unity, and unyielding hope In the wake of the explosive revelations at the heart of Araphon, the crew of the Rusty Bucket finds itself at a crossroads of history. Ancient technologies—and their hidden overseers—lie buried within Araphon’s crust as the galaxy teeters on the brink of collapse. Carson, once a humble file clerk on Earth, turned reluctant captain, must harness the inscrutable guidance of the Cube—a sentient AI artifact whose designs stretch back to the dawn of galactic civilization. Calista a Rigellian, his brilliant ...

A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume, a case of mistaken identity, an identity left in a case by mistake, and the mistake of revealing ones identity in the presence of a previous employer, which may result post-script in a case for Scotland Yard. Or to put much more simply, of Jack and his attempts to woo Gwendolyn, his would-be bride... even if she does seem to think his name is Earnest.

Reality is held together by stories. Someone just put them up for a vote. Agent Mara Quill expected paperwork, containment protocols, and maybe a mildly haunted bridge. Instead, she found a miniature golf course running a continent-spanning network of cryptids, myths, and living infrastructure—controlled by a windmill that requires her to vote on reality itself. Each decision expands the system. Each connection strengthens it. Each story becomes part of something larger. And it’s working. Forests answer. Rivers align. Mountains approve. Creatures once dismissed as folklore take their ...

Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity's funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him "the stand-up Consul". How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero's essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian.