Travel Reader

Step into Ernest Hemingway’s unforgettable world with a version designed for today’s reader. This refreshed edition of The Sun Also Rises: Adapted for Modern Readers keeps Hemingway’s spare, powerful voice while offering lightly clarified language, clean, contemporary formatting, and readable typography. Obsolete usages are gently updated, dense passages subtly smoothed, and dialogue punctuation modernized, helping you move effortlessly through the story without footnotes—so the emotions, not the mechanics of the page, command your attention. Set among the cafés of 1920s Paris and ...

Step into the machine that launched modern science fiction—now clearer and more compelling than ever. This Adapted for Modern Readers edition of The Time Machine keeps H. G. Wells’s groundbreaking story intact while updating the reading experience for today. Clean formatting, contemporary typography, and gently clarified language remove Victorian clutter without touching the plot, tone, or ideas, so you can focus on the mystery, tension, and wonder at the heart of this classic journey. First published in the late nineteenth century, The Time Machine captures an era obsessed with ...

With added illustrations !! Do you love trivia and interesting facts? This is the be-all, end-all, mega fact book with over 3,000 fascinating and educational facts, including periodic illustrations to add even more to your enjoyment. It combines volumes 1 and 2 of Really Interesting Stuff You Don't Need to Know along with brand new facts and covers a wide range of subjects: animals, arts, history, literature, movies, science and nature, sports, television, U.S. geography, U.S. presidents, world geography, and more; for example: In 2009, physicist Stephen Hawking threw a champagne party for ...

With added illustrations !! Do you love trivia and interesting facts? This book has 1,200 fascinating and educational facts including periodic illustrations to add even more to your enjoyment. The facts cover a wide range of subjects: animals, arts, history, literature, miscellaneous, movies, science and nature, sports, television, U.S. geography, U.S. presidents, and world geography; for example: If you could fold an average thickness (0.004 inch) paper in half 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon; if you could fold it 103 times, it would be 109 billion light-years thick, ...

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the...

In this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding. "Arresting lyricism and beauty" —The New York Times Book Review Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding...

Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling, TikTok sensation Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher. Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the...

Embark on a thrilling adventure with Jules Verne’s "Around the World in Eighty Days: Adapted for Modern Readers." This refreshed edition breathes new life into the classic tale with clean formatting and contemporary typography, making it more accessible for today's audience. The adapted language ensures clarity while preserving Verne’s original tone, allowing modern readers to dive seamlessly into the whirlwind journey that has captivated imaginations for generations. Set against the backdrop of the 19th century, this timeless narrative follows Phileas Fogg in a daring race against the ...

With additional illustrations !! Do you love trivia and interesting facts? This book has 1,500 fascinating and educational facts with periodic illustrations to add even more to your enjoyment. The facts cover a wide range of subjects: animals, arts, history, literature, movies, science and nature, sports, television, U.S. geography, U.S. presidents, world geography, and more; for example: The classic film It’s a Wonderful Life originated from a Christmas card. Philip Van Doren Stern had written a short story, The Greatest Gift, and had unsuccessfully tried to get it published. He sent it ...

What If You Could Give Them A History Book So Weird, Hilarious & Unbelievable They’ll Forget They’re Actually LEARNING? History’s Biggest Fails For Kids Is Packed With 75+ Weird & Hilarious TRUE Stories Of Epic Mistakes, Terrible Decisions, Failed Inventions & Disasters That Prove History Is FAR Stranger Than Anything They Hear In The Classroom. ***The Perfect Gift Under $20 For Curious Boys & Girls Who Love Weird Facts, Unbelievable Stories & Discovering The Side Of History They Definitely DON’T Teach In School.*** Because History Isn’t Just Famous Victories & Brilliant Ideas... ...

3 Books. 1 Epic Destiny. Over 750 Pages of Time-Traveling Magic! "A fun, fast read for all ages... Hard to put down!" — Kindle Customer Jack Mac Paidin was five years old when his parents were killed — and grew up separated from his brother and sister, never knowing why. When he touches a golden telescope hidden beneath the streets of Portland, fire erupts in his hands, a lifetime of secrets come to light, and nothing will ever be the same. A shadowy organization called the Dark Cabal has been pulling strings for generations, and now they have their sights set on Jack and his siblings. ...

KID DETECTIVE ZET: The World's Favorite Way To Learn About Ancient Egypt 12-year-old Zet is on the trail of his latest mystery: priceless amulets are disappearing all over ancient Egypt. Worse, his best friend is being treated more like a prisoner than a student at a secretive jewelry apprentice school. Are the evil teachers and jewel thefts related? When Zet receives a desperate message hidden inside an amulet, he's determined to rescue his friend. Armed with a brainy sister who can read and write hieroglyphics, Zet searches for clues. Can he expose the wicked plot and take down the ...

Kids Trapped in a Video Game!?! This is a fun chapter book for boys and girls age 6 to 12 years old. This chapter book series is about Tim and his friend Regina. In the books, they find themselves trapped in a video game. Will they ever get out? And what exciting time travel adventures will they go on inside the video game? This collection is roughly 20,000 words. Find more at the Hoosier Chapter Books website: HoosierChapterBooks.com

Timing is everything in this deeply romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be found in unexpected places. Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley Sullivan's life. Having just...

Improve Your Intermediate French Reading Comprehension (B1-B2) Naturally With a Captivating Sci-Fi Time Travel Thriller! Are you an intermediate French learner (B1-B2) feeling stuck on the frustrating "intermediate plateau"? Are you tired of dry grammar textbooks, repetitive drills, and simplistic children's stories that lack depth and excitement? Do you want to expand your French vocabulary naturally, master complex sentence structures, and build real reading confidence without opening a dictionary on every page? Le Dernier Signal (The Last Signal) offers a high-stakes, gripping science-...

15-year-old Nick battles pirates, gators, and jungle storms when he’s separated from his parents on vacation. The Survival Series that celebrates the awesome history of us. From multi-award winning Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters comes a kid-powered, unputdownable adventure. Short attention spans | Chapter Book | Ages 8-12 When river pirates attack their ferry in the middle of the night, Nick and his family escape on a surfboard. But the Amazon River's wild currents separate Nick and his stepsister from their parents. One minute they're together, the next, Nick and Maddie are lost and alone ...

Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers. He sent the invitations the day after. Nobody came. Was the empty room proof that time travel is impossible? Or did Hawking miss something? Chronicles of Tomorrow is a readable, carefully researched journey through the science, history, and human side of time travel. It sorts every kind of time travel into four directions, so you finally understand what is real today, what Einstein's equations allow, and what only stories can do. The Four Directions of Time Travel Forward: the time travel that already works. Atomic clocks, astronauts, and ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New...

Eko is in trouble! The dark wizard Maldred has trapped her with a powerful spell. To free her, Drake and Rori must find the Time Dragon. But a sneaky imp sends Drake traveling back in time! Will Drake be able to save Eko...or will he be stuck in the past forever?