Real Age

For centuries, the most famous city in Western literature was dismissed as a poet’s invention. Then a millionaire with a copy of Homer dug a trench through a hill in Turkey — and found nine cities stacked beneath the wheat. Troy was real. That much Heinrich Schliemann proved in 1870, even as his shovels destroyed part of what he came to find. What a century and a half of better archaeology has revealed since is stranger and richer than the legend: not one Troy but at least nine, layered across three thousand years — a fortress older than the pyramids, a Late Bronze Age power with the ...

From the acclaimed author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL and HUSBAND MATERIAL comes a deeply emotional romance about finding love when (and where) you least expect it. Laurence Dalziel is worn down and washed up, and for him, the Scene is all played out. Six years from his last meaningful relationship...

Two broken hearts. One chance at something real. Seventeen-year-old Trinity Reed just wants peace — and maybe a real shot at love. After years of watching her mother chase chaos and call it romance, she swore she’d never follow that path. But then Katrell “Keys” Gibson walks into her life — smooth-talking, dangerous, and impossible to resist — and suddenly every promise she made to herself starts to crumble. Then comes Delany “Deuce” Bryant — ambitious, street-smart, and dangerous in all the right ways. He’s hustling for survival and trying to be better than the streets ...

What the world is craving isn’t more. What the world is craving is what’s real. The first thing you reach for each morning is your phone. From there, your days are spent in your head, in your inbox, in meetings. You’re successful. And underneath it all is a nagging sense that something...

🧠 Why do you forget things right after you learn them? Why does your stomach growl even when you're full? Why do octopuses have three hearts? Kids ask questions like this constantly — and most of the time, they get "just because" instead of a real answer. 100,000 Whys for Kids answers 130 of them. Real questions. Real science. Zero condescending tone. Your guide is Morgan — 12 years old, endlessly curious, and allergic to "because I said so" answers. Not a teacher. Not a scientist. Just a kid who got tired of not knowing why, and went and found out. ⚡ EVERY ANSWER FOLLOWS THE SAME ...

How much of the Viking Age is history—and how much was created by the storytellers who refused to let it die? The popular image of the Vikings is filled with horned helmets, fearless berserkers, burning monasteries, and warriors dreaming of Valhalla. The Icelandic sagas reveal something far more complicated: a world of ambitious kings, sharp-tongued poets, doomed outlaws, calculating lawmakers, fearless explorers, powerful women, and families trapped in devastating cycles of honor and revenge. Sagas of the North: The Real Lives and Legends of the Viking Age is an immersive narrative ...

What would you do if both engines of your plane stopped over the Atlantic Ocean? What if you were trapped 190 metres beneath the Pacific, unable to reach the surface? Or if you were alone in a tiny life raft, hundreds of miles from land, with no idea when rescue would come? These stories sound impossible. Every one of them really happened. True Stories. Real People. Incredible Survival. Real Survival Stories for Kids brings together ten gripping true stories about people who faced extraordinary danger and somehow found a way through it. Written for readers aged 6–12, each chapter places ...

🧠 Why does your brain go completely blank right when you need it most? Why does rejection feel like actual physical pain? Why is it impossible to stop scrolling — even when you know you should? These aren't small questions. They're the ones that actually keep teens up at night — and almost nobody explains them properly. 100,000 Whys for Teens answers 198 of them. Real questions. Real science. Zero textbook tone. Your guide is J — 18, just graduated, former track athlete, recovering from a torn ACL, and still figuring things out. Not a therapist. Not an expert. Just someone who got ...

I ESCAPED: The World's Favorite New Escapes. Survival Stories For Today's Generation.From multi-award-winning Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters comes a gripping Alaska adventure based on the true story of Tim Treadwell, America's famous Grizzly Man. 15-year-old Cody is thrilled to be in America's Katmai National Park with his cousins to research bears for his high school project. But they lose contact with the air taxi pilot when their satellite phone falls into the water. Suddenly the wilderness seems out of control. The cousins need help, fast. Cody sets out for Tim Treadwell's camp--the ...

As a pastor in Silicon Valley, Jay Kim has experienced the digital church in all its splendor. In Analog Church, he grapples with the ramifications of a digital church, from our worship and experience of Christian community to the way we engage Scripture and sacrament. Could it be that in our efforts to stay relevant in our digital age, we've begun to give away the very thing that our age most desperately needs: transcendence? Could it be that the best way to reach new generations is in fact found in a more timeless path?

In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a woman’s beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas A Real Animal follows Lucy through...

REAL DESIRES OF HORNY OLDER WOMEN: Amazingly sexy, horny older women just like the ones you probably know truly desire all the real, steamy pleasures and intense climaxes they can handle from hot younger men...and that's precisely what these ladies experience in this incredibly naughty collection of FIVE erotica stories from Catey Redd — all at one special low bundle price! Filled with wild, spicy, unforgettable action from beginning to end!

Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is a competitive advantage in the marketplace.? The myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits...

THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption...

The fan-favorite star of Netflix’s hit reality series Selling Sunset recalls her life in and out of the spotlight, an inspiring and surprising chronicle of adversity, tragedy, trauma, and success. In the streaming reality series Selling Sunset, Mary Fitzgerald Bonnet is the charismatic, calm...

Launching the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows teenager Ricky Cruz and his family as they migrate from their successful farm to be first wave settlers on the newly terraformed planet Murna. Ricky becomes part of the crew as a repair technician and shuttle pilot. Plagued with problems from the start, Ricky begins investigating the source of the problems and discovers their ship has been deliberately sabotaged in an attempt to prevent them from being the first settlers on their new home, therefore preventing ...

Christopher Nolan's film sent millions of viewers back to a three-thousand-year-old poem — and left them asking the oldest question in classical studies: how much of the Odyssey is real? The answer is stranger than either the skeptics or the believers expect. Behind the one-eyed giants and enchantresses sits a genuine lost world: the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean of 1600–1200 BC, an interconnected age of palaces, fleets, and empires that collapsed so completely the Greeks who later sang the poem had forgotten it ever existed. The Odyssey is not a report of real events. It is not pure ...

Weird but True Stories from Medieval Europe: Bizarre, Shocking, and Unbelievable Tales from the Middle Ages Step into the shadowy, surreal, and surprisingly real world of medieval Europe like never before. Weird but True Stories from Medieval Europe takes readers on a riveting journey through the strangest corners of the Middle Ages—where pigs stood trial, bishops exploded in their coffins, and entire cities danced themselves into exhaustion. Based entirely on documented historical events, this fascinating and entertaining book reveals ten unbelievable but true stories from across Europe ...

Based on a true story: In the heart of Haiti, a massive earthquake transforms young Darlene’s world into ruins within seconds. Trapped beneath the debris of her collapsed school, Darlene faces a test of courage that few can imagine. "How We Survived: Buried under the Rubble" is a poignant tale of resilience and hope. This inspiring story follows Darlene as she clings to life and hope in the darkest of times. With every passing moment under the rubble, she draws upon a strength she never knew she had. As she fights against all odds, Darlene teaches us what it truly means to be a survivor ...

Do you read bedtime stories for your child? Don't modern heroes seems too boring to you? Try to plunge into the fairy tale world filled with ancient, magical creatures: elves, fairies, mermaids, dragons... This fairy tale storybook is dedicated to ancient folktales from around the world. Many of them are lost, but some have still managed to reach our era. We travel, together, all around the world. We sink into the old tales that speak of magic we still don’t fully understand. We look for answers, but — perhaps more importantly — we look for questions: for that spirit that makes us ...