Science Crying

Jim Atteberry is a single parent college professor, laboring over an endless pile of essays while indulging in his radio astronomy hobby. But when he hears an apparent distress call from the Ross 128 star system, he is hurled into a deadly mystery. And what he discovers could either save the world... or destroy it.

People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same.

Transform exhausting midnight awakenings into restful nights with gentle, science-based infant sleep strategies. If you are pacing the nursery floor feeling sleep-deprived and overwhelmed, there is a reassuring path to predictable rest that doesn't involve harsh crying. Discover how to work with...

A strange Christmas letter appears, and Macy Kennedy is forced to go back home to the small town she has avoided for more than 30 years. Despite an oncoming blizzard and in spite of her feelings, Macy packs up to leave on the adventure of a lifetime. She bribes her loyal secretary and the firm’s maid to help drive her through a blizzard to accomplish the sordid ordeal. Little can they ever imagine that a rare, mystical blue moon hangs high in the sky on this Christmas Eve and that magic lives in this enchanted mountain town full of love and friendship.

A man, out for prayers, is found dead by a river bank and the listener is off to the races in this relentlessly paced twentieth century chronicle. Strong female characters like the coprotagonist, contrast the story to its provocative title, who is a strong, independent woman who would stop at nothing to achieve what she believes in. Human irrationality is front and center in this historical fiction theater.

An old witch is losing her power, her husband is in a living death and a criminal mastermind is dying: what if the immense life force in one very special girl could save them all? It’s the mid-1970s, and when young Lía Munro moves into a big country house in Australia after moving from Hong Kong with her father, Paul, things start to happen that make her question who she is and what she might really be. The old house has ghosts; her father, Paul, has a past that links him to both this rural hideaway and the ancient Italian witch named Adelina Russo who once held sway....

En este original y ameno audiolibro de Javier Gimeno, un naturalista atolondrado, en sus propias palabras, amante de la Naturaleza desde que «tengo uso de razón» y biólogo-conservador en el parque Faunia (Madrid), se narran historias que nos cuentan los animales sin decir ni mu: singularidades, curiosidades y anécdotas de un mundo apasionante.

¿Sabes por qué lloran los cocodrilos? ¿Y por qué sonríen los chimpancés? ¿Imaginas a los monos adolescentes corriéndose sus juergas o a un elefante africano fuera de sí por comer ciertos frutos? En este original y ameno audiolibro de Javier Gimeno, un naturalista atolondrado, en sus propias palabras, amante de la Naturaleza desde que «tengo uso de razón» y biólogo-conservador en el parque Faunia (Madrid), se narran historias que nos cuentan los animales sin decir ni mu: singularidades, curiosidades y anécdotas de un mundo apasionante.

King Arthur, the conceited battle chieftain of legend, and his trusty man-at-arms Biggs, who resents his king and friend, encounter a dwarf through a mistake. Together they meet an effeminate elf, a Chinese children's entertainer, a monk of the short order, and a fully armored war horse, then accept a mission to rescue two princesses from a D'ark Lord, defeat him, and slay a dragon. This would be quite straight forward if the pompous king and his band of chums took things seriously, which they don't!

Bloomsbury presents The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan, read by Stephen Rea. The first literary science fiction novel from Neil Jordan, visionary director of The Company of Wolves and Interview with the Vampire In a windswept corner of a forgotten peninsula, love and loss echo...

On the verge of abandoning his life-long project, an obsessive physicist hires the innovative service of an android muse to help him finish his work. But when things start to go missing from his life, he must learn that not all is worth sacrificing on the altar of science before he has nothing left to live for.