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It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister. In a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making.

When Ray Olsen gets a call from long-lost Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, he knows it cant be real. No one has heard from Satoshi in over a decade. And if he did call someone, it wouldn't be Ray, a rookie journalist at the Valley Times. That is, until Satoshi sends Bitcoin from the Genesis Block, the first block of Bitcoin ever mined. No one has ever moved the Genesis Block before. Until now.

Brought to you by Penguin. Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all...

From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world’s most commonly used weedkiller is responsible for debilitating chronic diseases, including cancer, liver disease, and more....

The Grand Mage's plan has been thwarted, but he and his allies still search for power, but Laric still doesn't know what he intends—only that he must be stopped. As Laric searches for answers, and his friends struggle to understand the nature of the newly formed dragon bond, he finds the link to the dragon Sashaak has begun to change. The dragons share memories, but there are parts of their shared memories they have lost—and that might be the key to what the Grand Mage intends. Power builds, and the dragons feel the rising influence. Soon all will feel that influence.

Calling all young magicians of Egypt! If the blood of the pharaohs runs in your veins, you can't afford to be without this guide to Ancient Egyptian deities and creatures, and Carter and Sadie Kane's world of magic. Greetings, initiate! Carter Kane, here. Congratulations on reaching Brooklyn...

Updated throughout with recent developments and additional illustrations Reveals how solar outbursts caused the end of the last ice age, unleashed catastrophe upon ancient advanced civilizations, and led to six millennia of a Solar-Induced Dark Age Includes evidence from solar...

You'd think that life could be fun and exciting for a young witch living in the mortal world. But for Elizabeth, life is pretty ho-hum. Unclear if she wants to live her life as a witch or just a plain ol' human, she decides to build a future in the non-magical realm and keep her toes in the pool of magic, just in case. What happens when she meets Josh at a coffee shop is anything but typical or ho-hum. It's quickly evident they're destined, but can they follow their fated lives and live happily ever after? Or is there a force determined to keep them apart?

In a mythic world where breath becomes syntax and silence is never empty, the Loom has fallen quiet. But when grief braids into resonance, a forgotten glyph awakens, and Elias returns not as a child but as a convergence of wolf, dragon, and phoenix. Born of memory and myth, Elias’s rebirth stirs the Loomwake Children—Kaia, Riven, and Solin—triplets whose forms are chosen not by prophecy but by pulse. As Phoenix-Wolf, Dragon-Wolf, and Shadow-Wolf, they become the first of a new mythic category: Loomwake Shifters. But the Loom is not at peace.

“Be careful what you wish for or you just might get it…” For three and a half decades, the bear brothers have lived with unanswered questions about their mother, their father and each other. What really did happen to Fallon Rusholme after she left her four boys at that nunnery in Kentucky? The life she had hoped to escape only followed her endlessly as she battled with inner and outer demons, only to fall into the arms of the only kind man she had ever known, Kevin Davies. Yet Fallon knew that darkness loomed over her, whether or not she could see it and the idea of reuniting with her...

Short Essay. Iconography has played a central role in the development of writing systems. That all independently derived ancient scripts began as arrangements of pictograms before evolving into their elaborated forms evinces the fundamental importance of iconography in the evolution of writing. Symbols of the earliest logographic writing systems are characterized by a number of iconographic principles. Elucidation of these iconographic principles provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of structural similarities in unrelated, independently evolved writing systems. Two such writing...

THE FORBIDDEN GLYPHS OF THOTH (Anson Hunter Book 6): Egypt's Lost Scrolls of unthinkable power. Kindle Edition Egypt’s Lost Library of esoteric secrets and technology. Trigger for a dangerous new age. Imagine a cache of writings of unthinkable power. Renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter does. In fact he has a controversial theory that somewhere in Egypt lies the lost library of Thoth, guarded by his consort the goddess Seshat. In legend, this library contained all the forbidden knowledge of ancient Egypt, both human and divine, including secrets of lost technology that built the pyramids. ...

You, worthless progeny... A group of archaeologists hunting a bloodthirsty Maya monster gets more than they bargained for when they stumble upon an ancient city atop a Honduran mountain. Rangers sent to investigate the disappearance of Professor Rita Martínez and her team of primatologists on a remote Honduran mountain discover the ruins of a lost Maya city—and inadvertently capture a photograph of a large, three-toed footprint. Robert Garvin—believing the print belongs to Chac Xib Chaac, the creature that wiped out the Izamal expedition last year—launches a new archaeological ...

Maps That Lie (Sierra Madre Echoes, Book I) Written by Profe. Xavier Clemente There’s gold in those hills. At least, that’s what Esteevin Champurrado Esmyt keeps telling himself. A heavy equipment operator at one of the largest gold mines in the United States, Esteevin is used to noise, dust, and buried treasure. What he isn’t used to is obsession. But when a song—The Sierra Madre Dance by Net Of The Sky—hits his headphones during a ten-hour shift, something changes. The rhythm doesn’t just sound good. It feels like a signal. Soon, he’s spiraling into the mythology and lore of...

The Tavern has survived both Robert de Beaumont and the Sheffield Eight, but has it been fatally damaged? Rachels' Shunning still causes unrest, while many are shocked by the deaths of Taverners and allies, and the number of badly injured. Meanwhile Jenny steps into her role as the new Mistress of de Beaumont, an old, traditional demesne with scores of apprentices.　 Underneath the grief and confusion, Isabella's poison is spreading. The Taverneers are wrapped up in their own reactions to the deaths, their new bodyguards, and projects. Abel and Kelis are both trying to keep the secret, ...

Ronald Joseph Legarski, Jr. is a recursive systems architect and the originator of the Codoglyph Lexicon—a symbolic language framework engineered for semantic clarity, system interoperability, and recursive truth. With a background spanning electrical systems, symbolic logic, philosophy of language, and interdisciplinary design, Ronald developed the Word Calculator and the Living Library of Recursivity as tools to bring coherence and verification into language-driven systems. His work bridges human and machine intelligences, empowering both to speak in structures that hold under ...

Guide to the Cities, Science, and Secrets of the Ancient Maya — With Real Images, Maps, and Activities for Young Explorers Step into the jungles of Central America and discover one of history’s most fascinating civilizations. The ancient Maya built towering pyramids, created advanced calendars, studied the stars with remarkable accuracy, and developed a writing system long before modern technology existed. Their cities were once home to tens of thousands of people, and their achievements in math, astronomy, and engineering still amaze historians today. Written especially for young ...

Beautimus Potamus’ tongue-in-cheek story is a magical fable-stew made with the ingredients of satire, drama, social commentary, and comedy, with jests, puns and wordplay sprinkled throughout. For good measure, a generous pinch of romantic flavoring is thrown into the pot. Beautimus Potamus - a talking hippo on the mythical planet, Rendaz - is a university professor at Dr. Pimbly’s School of Goodly Educated Adults, a writer, and a maker of oracles. From Rendazian and Earthian archetypical symbols, Beautmus developed her own divination tool, The Anam Glyphs.

Brought to you by Penguin. The sweeping 'rivals-to-lovers' sports romantasy from Sunday Times bestselling author, Sophie Kim . For a chance at redemption, a disgraced player of carriwitchet - the brutal, rugby-esque sport played atop winged steeds - must team up with and fake-date the rival...

Beautimus Potamus - A talking hippo on the mythical planet, Rendaz - is a university professor at Dr. Pimbly’s School of Goodly Educated Adults, a writer, and a maker of oracles. From Rendazian and Earthian archetypical symbols, Beautmus developed her own divination tool, The Anam Glyphs. And, with the assistance of her “Hu Man” co-author on Earth, Peggy A. Wheeler, she has created a book about her oracle.