Unknown Mysteries

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again. Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an...

Imagine the following scene: Eric Schliemann having to get the permission of scientists, telling them that, based on Homer’s descriptions, he believes he can discover the mythical Troy. Besides laughing their hearts out, do you believe there would even be the slightest chance for Schliemann to have gotten their permission? And it is not just Troy nor just Knossos nor just the Mycenae, most major archaeological findings in the entire world, despite the references in the ancient texts, were a complete surprise for the scientific establishment. If that establishment had full control, all ...

A hundred years ago, five women disappeared. Now, it's happening again . . . Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major film about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. New Avalon isn't an ordinary island. A century...

A Russian Drama best seller now in its second edition! In February, 1959 nine young hikers on a cross country ski trip mysteriously died under horrific circumstances. It is one of the great mysteries of our times. They would be found with missing eyes, even a missing tongue, crushed bones, and stripped of their clothes (later found radioactive) in minus 50 degree temperatures. Theories range from their being murdered by the CIA to space aliens, to even "Abominable Snowmen". This book explores this famous incident using a technique known as "Higher criticism" to explain their terrifying ...

My husband has a son I never knew about. Now he’s in our home. And I don’t know if I’m safe. He's eighteen, claims to be my husband's son, and needs a place to stay. He’s family, and I have no choice but to let him in. The next day, a local girl is found dead in our community pool. And guess who’s the prime suspect?

From a bestselling author, a "hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring" thriller in which Scarpetta receives a message from beyond the grave…(Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark) Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead. And this victim is sending...

The most fascinating mysteries of history include monuments, manuscripts, artifacts, and legends that defy explanation. Some are etched in stone, others are whispered through time, but all remind of past wonders. These are not paranormal or speculative tales—they are genuine, historical wonders, open-ended and demanding to be explained and analyzed. Why are the hundreds of Chinese pyramids camouflaged and off limits? How is Göbekli Tepe rewriting civilization and pushing back recorded time? In Italy, the unreadable and only surviving ancient library is being pried open by technology. ...

BROUGHT TO LIFE BY AUDIO NARRATOR JULIET RYLANCE A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY "An unputdownable adventure that was both heartwarming and thrilling! Everything I've come to expect from Gillian McAllister!" —Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author How...

A snowy night. A train making its way through the mountains of Austria. Asleep in one of the private compartments is a very important passenger, a scientist who has created something others desperately want. Precautions have been taken to ensure the man’s safe passage, but even with a highly skilled bodyguard onboard, the trip does not go as planned. When the scientist vanishes, Jonathan Quinn and his team are sent in to locate him before the secrets in the man’s head can be extracted. Because if that happens, the world would change forever.

2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18–64) was 40 percent higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID.

Bombs explode around the world—and the United States may be next. The president needs an off-the-books covert asset to handle an impossible mission… quickly and quietly. Former Navy SEAL Thomas “Bone” Marks has the perfect cover.

🚨 Bigfoot is Real... But What is It? For decades, witnesses have encountered massive, hairy, and mysterious creatures lurking in the wild. This exclusive 3-book collection dives into the most chilling, mind-bending, and unexplained Bigfoot encounters ever recorded. 🔎 Inside, you'll explore: ✅ Terrifying firsthand encounters with Bigfoot across the U.S. ✅ Strange disappearances and government cover-ups ✅ Bigfoot and UFO connections—coincidence or something more? ✅ Haunting cave sightings and ancient legends ✅ Unbelievable yet true tales of Bigfoot in the 1980s 📖 More ...

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more… A darkly compelling debut crime novel. The start of a brilliant series, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, and James Oswald. DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former...

A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions—about the universe’s origins, destiny, and fundamental nature—and how it contends with the limits of our knowledge Humans have learned a lot about the world around us and the...

One day, on her way to a date, Isabella Huffington gets hit by a bike. What begins as a concussion with a diagnosed recovery time of seven-to-ten days becomes more than two years of debilitating pain with no apparent end and a string of unhelpful doctor and specialist visits. In the wreckage, jobs are canceled. Leases are broken. There is no second date. What’s left is Isabella, her body, and her pain. Because the source of her pain cannot be located within the body, she is told over and over that her pain is psychosomatic. And Isabella believes it, over and over.

A lonely place to die. At the center of the Pacific Ocean lies Point Nemo—the most remote location on Earth. A place so isolated that the closest humans are astronauts orbiting above it. For decades, it’s been used as a dumping ground for dead satellites. A graveyard in the deep. But something else has been waiting there. When a scientific expedition is sent to investigate a mysterious signal from the ocean floor, they discover something impossible— an intelligence that should not exist. Ancient. Powerful. And awake. Within hours, the world’s superpowers are mobilising. Fleets are ...

Read by Emilia Fox In Agatha Christie’s gripping international thriller Destination Unknown, a woman at the end of her rope chooses a more exciting way to die when she embarks upon an almost certain suicide mission to find a missing scientist. When a number of leading scientists disappear...

As an honored physician and teacher, Rachel Naomi Remen has spent a lifetime immersed in the world of science. Yet today, after four decades of face-to-face experience with cancer patients, medical academia, and her own chronic illness, she has come to see that life is best defined not by...

Seven days of total disconnection. No phones. No roads. No escape. Marcus Cole traveled to a remote mountain retreat to escape the noise of his demanding life. The property promised absolute quiet and complete isolation. But the dense woods are keeping a dark secret, and the quiet isn't peaceful—it's predatory. When the camp's caretaker is found violently broken among the pines, Marcus and the remaining guests realize they are trapped twenty-two miles from civilization. The supply boat isn't returning for days. Their emergency radio is destroyed. And the massive tracks circling their ...

The silence in the deep woods is not always empty. Sometimes, it’s listening. The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650-mile journey through the last great wildlands of the American West. Thousands walk it, seeking solitude and adventure. But they are not always alone. For decades, a steady drumbeat of testimony has emerged from these remote spaces—chilling, firsthand accounts of encounters with something that should not exist. This is not a book of folklore. It is a sober presentation of testimony from the people who know this wilderness best: seasoned thru-hikers, Forest Service employees, ...