Strange Life

The official prequel to Life is Strange: Reunion, the thrilling finale to the Max and Chloe saga. “In my dreams, I’m always dying.” Chloe Price is not having a good time. Harrowed by recurring nightmares featuring her own violent death, missing Max and living in her truck, she could use a...

Setting the stage for her appearance in Life Is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado. Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now she’s back at her dad’s place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. When running an RPG session for her local gamer café, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist.

Alex and Steph have left Haven Springs in the rear-view mirror to travel the country, chasing the horizon. Though they don’t have much money, they have their guitar and drums and each other. But when their vehicle breaks down, they are stranded, their only hope a repair shop in a struggling town in the middle of nowhere. The town is dealing with a severe drought after an extended heatwave wreaked havoc on local crops, plunging its inhabitants into poverty and water rationing. What remains of its essential resources are being diverted to indulge the local senator.

At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...

The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.

This book covers a large number of hard hitting topics relating to Anxiety and panic attacks we all have some sort of personal experience with. After the last book of the She knows series was published, a large number of people commented the last part of the last book was best, raw and very impactful and suggested I do another book in that style.

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love. A Belletrist Book Club Pick A year after...

A short, strange story for every week of the year—about the systems we live inside and rarely question. This book is a collection of 52 observational stories, each one capturing a small, familiar moment that quietly shapes how modern life works: the email thread that never ends, the approval that’s never stated, the shortcut that becomes mandatory, the default no one questions, the ending that never quite arrives. Nothing dramatic happens in these stories. And yet, something always shifts. Each piece stands alone, written in a calm, precise, almost documentary style—examining meetings...

One of the nineteenth century's most consequential — and most contested — spiritual figures. Helena Blavatsky co-founded the Theosophical Society, wrote two of the most influential esoteric texts of the modern era, and was publicly branded "one of the most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history." Both things are true, and this biography holds them together rather than choosing a side. Tracing her life from a plague-era Russian childhood through a disastrous teenage marriage, years of unverifiable wandering across Egypt and possibly Tibet, a failed spiritualist ...

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...

The action-packed third novel in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV show. Captain Christopher Pike and the USS Enterprise crew venture to the edge of the Klingon Empire, where they uncover mysterious subspace echoes near a volatile “flare star”...

Ancient Rome gave the world magnificent roads, powerful laws, soaring aqueducts—and emperors who argued with the sea, gladiators who became celebrities, sacred chickens employed as military advisers, and public toilets where privacy apparently went to die. In Strange But True: The Weird History of Ancient Rome, the polished marble is pushed aside to reveal the noisy, crowded, funny, brutal, and frequently ridiculous civilization underneath. Meet abandoned twins raised by a she-wolf, rulers who turned government into personal theater, chariot racers who earned fortunes, doctors who ...

SAFE. Eleanor Teague has a new life: a grand house in the country, a husband who adores her, and a place to recover from everything that came before. London is far away now. So are the whispers about the terrible thing she did. PROTECTED. The rules are simple. Stay inside. Stay calm. Stay quiet. Her husband says it's for her own safety. The staff watch her closely. Because if she doesn't follow the rules... people start to talk. TRAPPED. But something isn't right at Haddon Hall. Eleanor starts seeing and hearing things she can't explain. She starts to question what's real.

Boston police officer Michael Wheeler finds his beloved wife Shawna dead on the morning of his second day on the force. Because he couldn't trust the authorities, Michael decided to investigate the murder on his own. With the aid of the proud owner of Johnston Industries, Kenan Johnston, Michael used the time machine known as The Cassius to travel back to various timelines to attain more information behind the tragedy.

Twenty cases. Vanished children, abandoned vehicles, mysterious journeys, and families still waiting for answers. In Strange Disappearances: Present Day, Volume 3, Scott Jones examines twenty-five modern missing-person cases that continue to defy explanation. A teenager walks away from her California home before sunrise and is never seen again. A young man’s burned truck is discovered in the Canadian wilderness hundreds of miles from his last known location. A pregnant postal worker disappears from Chicago. A mother and her two children leave Hawaii aboard a boat and never return. A seven...

In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon.

Ancient Egypt was magnificent, mysterious, highly organized, and occasionally completely ridiculous. For more than three thousand years, pharaohs ruled beside the Nile, priests served gods with animal heads, embalmers prepared the dead for eternity, workers built monuments that still leave engineers arguing, and scribes carefully recorded everything from royal victories to complaints about missing wages. Strange But True: The Weird History of Ancient Egypt explores the strange, funny, fascinating, and sometimes unbelievable stories hiding behind the pyramids. Discover how Hatshepsut became ...

“The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”—Los Angeles Times “A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all...