Memory Lands

Eight years ago, Adrian Vale's brother vanished. Not died. Not ran away. Vanished. Then one day, Adrian receives a photograph that should not exist. In the image stands Elias—the brother everyone else has forgotten ever existed. Determined to uncover the truth, Adrian follows a trail of impossible clues to Meridian, a hidden city where lost people are remembered, forgotten names are preserved, and history itself refuses to stay unchanged. As he searches for Elias, Adrian discovers a terrifying mystery buried beneath the city’s streets. Entire districts have vanished. Records are being ...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 Transfer Orbit CrimeReads The Bookseller A Memory Called Empire meets Children of Time in this Arabfuturist debut set on a generation ship on the brink of revolution as its crew begin to ask why they should toil for a people, and an empire, none of them...

Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Henry Goodman is an excellent narrator, in particular due to his ability to give unique voices to figures ranging from Theodore Herzl to Basshe." — AudioFile This dazzling, innovative family...

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan—a deep invitation to remember and reconnect to our roots amid displacement and in diaspora. Herbalist and author Layla K. Feghali shares a nuanced and layered cultural history of the...

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the...

THE LAST EXIT The City of the Lost – Book Five Every cycle has an end. Every end has a choice. For years, Adrian believed the mysteries of the Returned City were buried in the past. He was wrong. Beyond the Door lies a reality built from forgotten histories, lost possibilities, and civilizations erased by forces older than memory itself. The future is shrinking. The wound at the heart of existence is growing. And the cycle that has governed countless worlds is approaching its final moment. At the edge of reality stands the Last Exit—the place where every civilization eventually arrives,...

The Forgotten District is the third book in The City of the Lost series, a mystery fantasy saga filled with forgotten histories, hidden truths, and dangerous secrets buried beyond the edge of memory. After following a trail left by his missing brother, Adrian Vale enters a place that should not exist—a district erased from maps, forgotten by history, and hidden from the world itself. Within the Forgotten District, memories can be bought and sold, entire lives are preserved in unwritten books, and ancient records guard secrets that reality has tried to erase. As Adrian, Mara, and their ...

The city was only the beginning. After uncovering the secrets hidden beneath Meridian, Adrian Vale follows a trail left by his missing brother into a world that should not exist. Beyond the boundaries of memory, he discovers forgotten maps, vanished histories, and whispers of an event known only as The Seventh Day. Joined by Mara, the Warden, and a mysterious Cartographer, Adrian searches for the Anchor—a legend believed to hold the key to the Correction, the force responsible for erasing people, places, and entire civilizations from existence. But the deeper they travel, the more ...

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life...

Elle Takra is a princess, the last heir to the Takra throne in a far-off place known as the Second Land. Having grown up in the First Land, Elle doesn’t know she’s a princess. All she does know is that she’s in love with a man named Simon and she intends to make Simon her husband, whether he agrees or not! Elle’s best friend, Sasha, does know the truth—a truth she’s been keeping from Elle for the entirety of their friendship. Sasha isn’t the twenty-two-year-old she pretends to be. Instead, she’s an eighty-four-year-old elf who acts as Elle’s protector and has from the ...

Callie Bates’s debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, mystery, and romance...

Thirteen women. Thirteen countries. One lifetime of love. From a rainy library in York to the colorful hills of Chile, Elias Mercer spends decades searching for love, only to discover that every person who enters our lives leaves behind a world of their own. Through memories, laughter, heartbreak, friendship, and second chances, Thirteen Worlds of Love is a deeply emotional romance novel about the people we love, the roads we do not take, and the peace we find when gratitude becomes stronger than regret. Perfect for readers who enjoy contemporary romance, literary fiction, emotional love ...

THE CITY OF THE LOST – BOOK FOUR THE WARDEN'S SECRET For years, Adrian believed the answers were hidden somewhere in the forgotten corners of history. He was wrong. Beyond the Hollow stands an ancient Door older than memory itself—a relic that may have survived countless Corrections and the collapse of entire realities. As the truth surrounding Aurelia, the legendary First Anchor, finally begins to emerge, Adrian, Mara, Elias, and the Warden uncover a secret buried deeper than any lost city or forgotten district. The Corrections were never the disease. They were the cure. The woman who ...

SOULMATE REGISTRY — CASE FILE #10 Three wolves. Three women who've forgotten they have them. Three mate bonds that can't ignite until the wolves remember. The Fairy Godmother Rosalind would like you to know: this is not her fault. Magrita crashed a heritage steam locomotive into a station platform while fleeing a centipede. She didn't expect the furious Alpha with golden eyes to be her fated mate—or for the wine fraud she's investigating to be the least buried secret in the valley. Sable was cleaning windows on the forty-fifth floor when her mother's pendant fell through an Alpha CEO's ...

The White Lady Road Book Two of The Namib Frontiers Series After exposing a criminal line hidden beneath the silence of Etosha, Simon Shield and Elbereth are drawn into an even older and more dangerous struggle in Namibia’s north-west. A younger retired lawyer, John Young, asks for help from his discreet luxury camp in the koppies beyond the ordinary tourist roads. A guide has disappeared. Men with ministry language and contractor boots are taking an interest in old tracks they once ignored. And the route beneath Brandberg — the road most people know only through the legend of the White...

A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia--India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait--were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known...

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings.

The child of South-Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, he finds himself thinking of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?

The Gentle Art of Stamp Collecting A Relaxing and Rewarding Hobby for Retirees, Seniors, and Thoughtful Beginners Step into a world of history, beauty, and quiet joy—one tiny piece of paper at a time. The Gentle Art of Stamp Collecting invites you to rediscover the timeless pleasure of a hobby that has captivated generations. Whether you’re dusting off an old album, starting fresh in retirement, or simply curious about the stories stamps can tell, this book is your friendly and inspiring guide. Inside, you’ll explore: The fascinating history behind the world’s most iconic stamps How...

Some places do not announce themselves. They wait. And they watch. When a man returns to the rural town he fled as a child, he expects memory, not reckoning. But the woods beyond the old boundary have not forgotten him—or the bargains quietly made to keep the town safe. As unsettling events ripple through the community, long-buried truths begin to surface: a bridge no one crosses anymore, warnings passed down without explanation, and a presence in the forest that does not hunt—but witnesses. When the land itself begins to stir, one family is forced to confront a legacy of silence, ...