Old East

The tournament is behind them, but it resulted in drawing more attention. The big news flash: Rob isn't the only human in Olimero. Now the organized forces of the East are gathering to crush the man they see as a threat to their way of life. Above, the game of the gods is still in play, but Rob is so close. Soon he will be ready to step onto a new playing field. Let them all beware.

A rare, unfiltered memoir of a seventeen-year-old German soldier on the Eastern Front during the final winter of the Second World War—presented in a faithful English translation by his grandson. In the winter of 1944/45, the author—then a teenage Flakhelfer turned infantryman—found himself in East Prussia as the Red Army advanced toward the heart of the collapsing Third Reich. Written decades later, from memory and from notes scribbled during his time as a prisoner of war, his account offers a stark and deeply personal perspective on the brutal final months of the Secon World War. ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time, Town & Country, Bustle, and Zibby Media A Best New Book by People, New York Post, Library Journal, and BookBub February Book Club Pick by Good Housekeeping “The writing is so good it left me breathless. (Please someone make...

For Christians, Flavius Josephus’ (37 to c. 100 A.D) works are one of the most essential extra-biblical chronicles written in the first century. His Jewish Antiquities are particularly valuable for Christians as a fountain of knowledge about the intertestamental period, from the destruction of Solomon’s temple by Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 B.C. to the Roman procurator Florus in 64 A.D. But Josephus’ writings also take us back in Jewish history to God’s creation of the world, providing interesting sidelights to the Hebrew Scripture narratives from oral testimonies and other ancient, ...

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.

Michael P. West, M.Ed. delivers a definitive theological framework specifically designed for the competitive landscape of the modern athlete. In a culture where less than one percent of participants reach professional status, Systematic Theology for Athletes addresses the "blue-collar" majority who must navigate the intersection of high-stakes performance and spiritual identity.

Bartimaeus, everyone's favorite (wise-cracking) djinni, is back in book four of this New York Times bestselling series that is perfect for fans of Artemis Fowl and Amari and the Night Brothers. Thousands of years before his fateful service to the magician Nathaniel in London, wily Bartimaeus...

Rose is the youngest of seven children, meant to replace her dead sister. Maybe because of that, she’s never really fit in. She’s always felt different, out of place, a restless wanderer in a family of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away...

Read by the author. Read the Bible with Fresh Eyes as You See Scripture's Promise-Shaped Patterns When you read the Bible, have you ever noticed parallels between certain people, events, and institutions? Should we understand Noah as a kind of new Adam, and if so, does that somehow point us to...

Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh—a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obayda’s...

Patrick McLaren: CEO of McLaren Hotels. Helicopter pilot. Part-time adrenaline junkie who treats frostbite like a mild inconvenience. The kind of man who can silence a boardroom with one raised brow. Which is deeply unfortunate, because I, Georgie Fitzgerald, have been sent to his remote Scottish hotel to overhaul their IT systems. That means weeks of working in close proximity to him and his lethal combination of jawline, arrogance, and disdain. And I know exactly what he thinks of me, because the man doesn't bother hiding it.

Take the weird haunted road through New England, where the streets are old, the inns creak after midnight, and even the prettiest coastal towns seem one fogbank away from a séance. Weird Haunted New England Road Trip is a funny, spooky, story-rich travel guide through the region’s strangest ghost stories, witch-trial towns, haunted hotels, eerie graveyards, mysterious mountains, foggy harbors, vampire legends, lake monsters, murder houses, and old roads that feel like they remember too much. This is not a dry history book or a normal travel guide. It is a weird and haunted road trip ...

Welcome to Madison Avenue, darling. Mind the Birkin. Here, a woman steps out of her chauffeured car onto the sidewalk in $400 yoga pants she'll never sweat in. She lunches at $10,000 a plate, summers in the Hamptons, throws her dog a birthday party that costs more than your house, and smiles a flawless Botox smile while her best friend sleeps with her husband. I know. Because I know all of them. I am the Guy Who Knows, and these women tell me everything. The wife who wouldn't give birth until she'd had her bikini wax. The childhood friends now sorting out their "differences" at the district...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusalem and the powerful evidence that proves the Jewish people’s historical and indigenous connection to the Holy Land. Since the founding of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people...

Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between...

Blaize, the Wicked Witch of the East, is jealous, competitive, and invested in evil. She controls and terrorizes the Munchkins that live under her reign, abducting children with abandon to use as her slaves. She kidnaps Jasper and Celeste--the most famous tumblers in OZ--to perform at a nightmarish birthday party she is hosting for her equally evil sister, the Wicked Witch of the West. But Jasper and Celeste are a formidable duo, and Blaize is humiliated by their brazen attempted escape. Enraged, Blaize pursues the tumblers. But, with the help of some familiar friends--the Cowardly Lion and...

A prince who lost everything. A shepherd who believed his purpose was finished. A God who was only beginning. Moses never expected to return. Forty years after fleeing the land where he was raised, he had accepted a quiet life in the wilderness. The palace was behind him. His failures remained with him. The man who once dreamed of saving his people believed his greatest days had already passed. Then a voice called from a burning bush. The impossible command came. Return. Stand before the most powerful ruler on earth. Lead My people out. What follows is a breathtaking journey of courage, ...

This program features multicast narration. From award-winning Korean author Sung-il Kim & translated by the world-renowned Anton Hur, Blood of the Old Kings begins an epic journey unlike any other. There is no escaping the Empire. Even in death, you will serve. In an Empire run on necromancy...

He was betrayed by his brothers. Sold into slavery. Forgotten in prison. But God had a plan greater than any man could imagine. From the quiet fields of Canaan to the power halls of Egypt, this sweeping biblical novel brings to life the unforgettable story of Joseph—a young dreamer whose visions would lead him through betrayal, suffering, and ultimately, redemption. Stripped of everything he once knew, Joseph is cast into a world of hardship and uncertainty. Sold into slavery and later imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, his life seems lost to injustice and silence. Yet even in the ...

The story of Joshua and the fall of Jericho as you have never experienced it before. Across the flooded banks of the Jordan River lies the apex of ancient, post-flood engineering: the massive, mathematically perfect walls of the Canaanite cartels. Protected by elite standing armies, heavy bronze armor, and a brutal economic system of debt-slavery, the city-states of Canaan believe they are invincible. They are about to face a nightmare that defies all military logic. Yehoshua (Joshua) leads a vast, decentralized brotherhood of unlearned shepherds and former slaves. They possess no siege ...