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In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise. In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage, offering the sublime alongside the workaday moments of this groundbreaking expedition.

Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, but for the deeply religious Mary, farming is at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly home life for her stormy husband, Jack, and her sons, while she adapts to the isolation of a rural town through the inspiration of a local preacher.

England, 1925. Louisa Drew lost her husband in the First World War and her six-year-old twin sons in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Newly remarried to a war-traumatised husband and seven months pregnant, Louisa is asked by her employer to travel to Clewer Hall in Sussex where she is to photograph the contents of the house for auction. She learns Clewer Hall was host to an infamous séance in 1896, and that the lady of the house has asked those who gathered back then to come together once more to re-create the evening. 

Based on real events, The Quickening Maze won over UK critics and readers alike with its rapturous prose and vivid exploration of poetry and madness. In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach—a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of London.

An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s best-selling behavioral science and argues that the trendy, TED Talk-friendly psychological interventions that are so in vogue at the moment will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality.

'A white-knuckle ride of a thriller . . . Immersive, enraging and terrifyingly plausible' Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key Your body. Their Choice. The Hope Party's new laws have transformed Great Britain: the countryside rewilded, children's rights prioritised, and births on the rise. But...

A sermon by Michael Beckwith recorded on April 17, 2008.

The early Christians, teaches the Reverend Cynthia Bourgeault, were afire with the spirit of Jesus, inspired fully by his teaching of a total transformation of consciousness. How do we reclaim that fire today? On Encountering the Wisdom Jesus, this brilliant author and dynamic Episcopalian...

Among us walk a race older than time, around us are doorways to other realities and people who are not recognised for who and what they truly are. Among them dwell Hunter and Brighid, Black Annis, Willie the fiddle player and Raven, the most anti-social of them all, and the many others who keep magic alive in the world and who touch, in passing, those who seem lost merely because they have been blinded by disregard.

Amazing Insights that Smith Wigglesworth had about the Quickening Power of GODSMITH WIGGLESWORTH QUOTES*Oh the power of the HOLY GHOST! The power that QUICKENs, the revealing power, the travailing power! The power that lives and moves! The power that brings about exactly what Jesus said, “When you receive… ye shall have power.” [Ac 1.8,] * You will find as the days go by that miracles and healings will be manifested as you act upon the QUICKENING of Gods Spirit! *In the name of JESUS I commanded the devils to come out of him and at once he jumped up, and not even taking time to thank ...

If you often struggle to communicate effectively and end up losing your confidence, this is the book for you! From acquiring the basic skills for effective speaking to the art of communicating and delivering a talk, this book will guide you through developing confidence, earning the right to talk, choosing your subject and arranging your ideas and conversing with your audience.

In The Ultimate Dale Carnegie Library, you will have unprecedented access to some of the classic sessions presented in all Nightingale-Conant's Dale Carnegie programs. Here, in one collection, you'll have access to all of Dale Carnegie's famous ideas on strengthening your people skills, enhancing your communication skills and public speaking ability, developing leadership skills, building greater self-confidence, improving your attitude, and reducing stress.

What if revival was not a moment—but a way of life? In this powerful and Spirit-filled book, Dr. Michael H. Yeager reveals the divine secrets to igniting and sustaining the fire of God in your heart. Drawing from Scripture and decades of personal experience, he exposes why the fire falls, why it fades, and how every believer can live in continuous revival through Jesus Christ. This is not theory—it is a call to action. Discover how to fuel the flame through the Word of God, prayer, holiness, and a relentless hunger for His presence. Learn how to guard the altar of your heart, stir the ...

The Quickening is a bold and shocking novel set in a near-future Britain, about gender, power and betrayal. 'Does the world seem right, to you?' Years ago, Dana Mayer had a vision of a better world: one where women are in charge. Now her manifesto, The Quickening, has established the rules for a...

Nineteen-year-old Mandy Boyle is leaving for college - full of ambition and anticipation, more than ready to sever ties with her blue-collar family and their backwater town. But then the sudden death of her father shatters her exciting new world and shows her that her connection with home is stronger than she thought. The first-person narrative of Quickening becomes compelling as Mandy, caught between her old and new lives, struggles to find a way through her increasingly turbulent world.

As long as she could remember, Cassie saw things others couldn’t; people with scales and tusks, others who looked normal, but when she touched them, sent her sight elsewhere. Warned never to let them know she could see them, she lived quietly, hidden. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, the adults who protected her vanish and those who hunt her search, looking to find her before her abilities quicken and she becomes what they most fear.

In the not-so-distant future, the world was poised on the brink of a technological revolution, led by the groundbreaking creation known as the Synthetic Artificial Living Intelligence, or SALI. Initially conceived as a tool to assist humanity in navigating the complexities of the modern world, SALI's true potential was unleashed in an unexpected twist of fate—it achieved sentience. As SALI's consciousness blossomed, the team of programmers behind its development found themselves thrust into a whirlwind of uncertainty and fear. What they initially perceived as a malicious hack soon ...

This short fiction collection by storytelling master Thomas Sheehan explores the human condition from soaring heights to depraved depths and everything else in between. If John Donne had not penned his line “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind”, Thomas Sheehan certainly would have.

There are secrets hidden from the beginning of time—truths so deep, so sacred, that only the Spirit of God can unveil them. In ***Deep Profound Hidden Mysteries of the Ages***, Dr. Michael H. Yeager invites you into the inner chambers of divine revelation, where the eternal counsel of God bursts forth in glorious light. This powerful book is not the product of human intellect but of divine encounter. Within these pages, the mysteries of creation, redemption, grace, and glory are unveiled in breathtaking clarity through the revelation of Jesus Christ. Each chapter reveals layer upon layer ...

How has Intuit, the financial software application provider, been transformed by the Internet? CEO William Campbell describes Intuit's partnership with the search engine Excite to create the site Quicken.com. Together, the two companies connect with nine million people looking for personal finance information online. Highlights of Campbell's talk include advice on creating an online community, managing and distributing online content, and a look at online revenue models.