Strange Life

Setting the stage for her appearance in Life Is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado. Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now she’s back at her dad’s place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. When running an RPG session for her local gamer café, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist.

Alex and Steph have left Haven Springs in the rear-view mirror to travel the country, chasing the horizon. Though they don’t have much money, they have their guitar and drums and each other. But when their vehicle breaks down, they are stranded, their only hope a repair shop in a struggling town in the middle of nowhere. The town is dealing with a severe drought after an extended heatwave wreaked havoc on local crops, plunging its inhabitants into poverty and water rationing. What remains of its essential resources are being diverted to indulge the local senator.

At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.

This book covers a large number of hard hitting topics relating to Anxiety and panic attacks we all have some sort of personal experience with. After the last book of the She knows series was published, a large number of people commented the last part of the last book was best, raw and very impactful and suggested I do another book in that style.

The Pacific Crest Trail stretches 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada, drawing hikers, adventurers, and those seeking the solitude of the wild. But among the breathtaking landscapes, a darker story unfolds—one of unexplained disappearances, grisly murders, and unsolved mysteries that haunt the trail. Inside True Crime: Pacific Crest Trail, you'll discover: 🔪 The Vanished Thru-Hikers – Multiple solo hikers disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only their abandoned gear. 🔪 The Murder at Callahan’s Lodge – A shocking killing near a well-known trail stop left authorities ...

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...

In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon.

A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating, but her brain is still active - for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby, she remembers her life - and the lives of others, outcasts like her.

A short, strange story for every week of the year—about the systems we live inside and rarely question. This book is a collection of 52 observational stories, each one capturing a small, familiar moment that quietly shapes how modern life works: the email thread that never ends, the approval that’s never stated, the shortcut that becomes mandatory, the default no one questions, the ending that never quite arrives. Nothing dramatic happens in these stories. And yet, something always shifts. Each piece stands alone, written in a calm, precise, almost documentary style—examining meetings...

The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.

Medical Mysteries – Deadly Fevers: 20 Devastating Cases of Outbreaks, Strange Plagues, and Race-to-Survive Scenarios When fever strikes without warning, survival can come down to a matter of hours. In Medical Mysteries – Deadly Fevers, bestselling author Dean Lawton unearths 20 real-life cases where invisible killers — from ancient plagues to newly emerged viruses — left devastation in their wake. Explore history’s deadliest outbreaks, the frantic races to contain them, and the lives forever changed by mysterious and terrifying fevers. How did a deadly mist kill thousands in ...

In This Strange Wilderness, award-winning author Nancy Plain brings attention to the amazing story of American icon John James Audubon's career. This Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the listener back to the frontiers of early 19th-century America.

An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was the twentieth century's...

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love. A Belletrist Book Club Pick A year after...

The action-packed third novel in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV show. Captain Christopher Pike and the USS Enterprise crew venture to the edge of the Klingon Empire, where they uncover mysterious subspace echoes near a volatile “flare star”...

Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him, and after getting out, he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969, and Parish was captivated by the music. A life seemingly headed nowhere had suddenly found its calling.

“Steve Hudgins is a Horror Meister to reckon with!” VICTOR MILLER – Writer of Friday the 13th If you like quick reads, this is the author for you! Steve Hudgins uses a screenplay/novel hybrid writing style that keeps the descriptive portions of the story brief, allowing the narrative to push forward at an extremely fast pace. IT LIVES IN THE ATTIC A true jigsaw puzzle of horror that comes together before your eyes! On the isolated outskirts of a quaint, charming town, there is a long, lonely gravel driveway. At the end of the driveway stands an ancient, mansard roofed Victorian...

The first novel based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped...

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...