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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...

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...

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 & ...

✨ 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...

Ancient Rome gave the world magnificent roads, powerful laws, soaring aqueducts—and emperors who argued with the sea, gladiators who became celebrities, sacred chickens employed as military advisers, and public toilets where privacy apparently went to die. In Strange But True: The Weird History of Ancient Rome, the polished marble is pushed aside to reveal the noisy, crowded, funny, brutal, and frequently ridiculous civilization underneath. Meet abandoned twins raised by a she-wolf, rulers who turned government into personal theater, chariot racers who earned fortunes, doctors who ...

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...

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!

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.

From Alexander the Great to Watergate, this unique, witty book based on the massively popular history podcast is full of wisdom and good old-fashioned banter. "These bespectacled, middle-aged bookworms have somehow made history alluring, borderline sexy.” —Times (UK) The Rest is History...

Dear Readers, Thank you for choosing this book! Before diving in, please note: this is NOT a children’s book. If you purchased this expecting a festive tale for little ones, please reconsider—this story was written with an adult audience in mind. Think of it as a glimpse into the real North Pole—without the sugarcoating. The characters here are as human as the rest of us, with all the complexities and imperfections that come with it. You’ll find adult language and themes that aren’t suitable for younger readers. You’ve been warned! Now, let’s dive into the story... The North ...

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...

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, ...

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.

Watch your step, dodge the chamber pots, and survive the ancient empire. Ancient Rome is famous for spectacular gladiatorial games, grand architecture, and epic history—but for the average person, walking down the street was a dangerous game of survival. In this witty and informative guide, you'll learn how to navigate the cutthroat daily life of the Roman Empire. From choosing the right baths without getting a skin infection to surviving a collapse in a cheap apartment block, this book is a humorous, factual survival guide for any history fan. Your guide to Roman survival: Roman Streets:...

When someone finally opened human bodies and published the differences, the medical establishment did not conclude that Galen had been wrong. It concluded that the human body must have changed since Galen's day. Galen of Pergamon never dissected a human being. Roman law and custom forbade it, so he opened pigs, sheep, oxen, and Barbary macaques — and described what he found with such completeness and such confidence that Europe spent fourteen hundred years mistaking it for a description of itself. When a straight human thigh bone on a dissection table contradicted the text, one of ...

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.  

Small warriors. Big problems. Good pay. The Low Company survived its first campaign—but survival came at a terrible price. Reduced to thirty-one battered halflings, Captain William Aldbourne and his mercenaries could finally collect their wages and march home. Unfortunately, a colossal Stone Mother is advancing through the Hill Marches, thousands of Stoneborn are gathering around her, and King Osric has offered thirty-five crowns a halfling for the Company to remain. Then six wagons of desperately needed salt vanish. The trail leads beneath the frontier, into a forgotten world of ancient ...

For fans of Welcome to Night Vale and The World of Lore, a horror-comedy series adapted from an r/nosleep subreddit thread with 16,000 passionate readers and originally self-published to cult fame. Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping...