Enlightenment Adventures

A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of...

The day of the Zak'de'ron's leaving is here at last....

Audiobook narrated by Sean Runnette. "A story that exists in that magical space where belief becomes truth, where metaphor becomes experience" — Pen with Paper A magical true story about forgiving our past and believing in our future — from Paulo Coelho, the internationally bestselling...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. “Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of...

From the author of the mega bestseller The Celestine Prophecy comes the much-awaited fourth book in the hugely popular Celestine series. On December 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will end. Many see it as an apocalyptic sign ... But is it? In The Twelfth Insight, we again follow our Hero and his...

In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...

In a romantic adventure that travels the globe, The Enlightenment of Bees beautifully explores what it means to find the sweet spot in life where our greatest passions meet the world’s greatest need. Sometimes a shattered heart leads to an amazing journey. At twenty-six, apprentice baker Mia...

A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, best known for Divergent, Me Before You and The Inbetweeners. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Wood. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man...

Zadig is a young Babylonian philosopher — wise, honest, virtuous, and entirely unprepared for the consequences of being all three. His first love abandons him for a man less decent than himself. His second proves faithless. His scientific observations land him in prison, where he learns that being right is not the same as being safe. He rises to become prime minister of Babylon and falls in love with the queen, which is exactly the kind of wisdom that forces a man to become a fugitive. In succession he is a slave, a wanderer through Egypt and Arabia, a traveler who reasons his way through...

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming...

Join Amelia and Bethany on an enchanting journey through time in The Magic Library: Edinburgh Enigma In the heart of the Pacific Northwest lies a secret only two sisters know - the Magic Library, a portal to worlds unknown. When Amelia, a nine-year-old girl with a love for mysteries, and her spirited younger sister Bethany discover a whispering book about the Scottish Enlightenment, their world transforms. Transported to 18th-century Edinburgh, they find themselves on cobblestone streets, amidst historic intrigue and cultural wonders. As they navigate this new world in period-appropriate ...

The Old Magic of Naming grants absolute mastery. Farris must Name herself truly to become an Enlightened One, or else she will be consumed by Yggdrasil the World Serpent. Farris never believed Grandmother's fantastic stories about the seven underground kingdoms. Not until her own brother Tom is kidnapped by the monsters she laughed at, sending her on an epic magical adventure into the depths of the world. Each fantastic kingdom represents an obstacle on the road to Enlightenment, and Farris must awaken her powers in order to survive the perilous descent. All things are possible to the ...

In the summer of 1989 Eric Bullard took a month off from his job as Vice-President in charge of sales and marketing for the family publishing company and returned to the Hindu ashram where he had lived and studied for three years. It was supposed to be a vacation, a sort of rest before the heavy Christmas season's workload. But what he found there and the resulting years of uncertainty, mystery and finally great magic will leave readers on the edge of their seats, questioning their own perceptions of reality. Sometimes shocking, sometimes humorous, always on the edge, "The Ashram" is a true...

They said no one had ever escaped their rainforest.
 They said no one went beyond the mist. 
Well, they were wrong. Claude Talador has made the leap and entered a world of shadows, forgotten bridges, mystical animals, and stories the State tried to erase. His sister, Tia, has been ordered to hunt him down. But chasing a traitor through an unknown jungle means leaving behind the comforts of control and opening her eyes to dystopian truths she was never meant to see. Will the siblings meet in the wild, and will Claude find the paradise he's dreamed of, a long way from home... In Search of...

Quantum Ascension In the year 2147, humanity stands at the threshold of a new reality. The old world of physical labor and economic struggle has given way to an era of boundless creativity and intellectual freedom. With the rise of Homo Quantum, a new species capable of perceiving and manipulating reality at the quantum level, humanity faces its greatest challenge yet—transcendence or extinction. Quantum Ascension is a visionary journey into a future where the mind itself becomes the ultimate frontier. In this bold and provocative novel, Alexious Fiero explores the collision of technology...

"Enlightenment and Beyond: The Journey" is the title of my book, which chronicles my path towards enlightenment and the subsequent journey that followed. For me, enlightenment represents the initial realization or the first step towards the state of no thought, but the inner journey continues beyond this point. Within the pages of this book, I share my experiences, inward and outward, along with the realizations and challenges I faced while pursuing the ultimate goal of attaining the state of Supreme Awareness but it is not the end of the journey here. The journey continues and it is a ...

One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These Chronicles are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago. Chronicles IV is the fourth and ...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These “Chronicles” are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago. THIS SERIES OF NOVELLAS WILL ...