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From a young, award-winning scientist, a “thoughtful and illuminating” (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time—the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy. The...

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS IS GWYNETH PALTROW WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING? Over the past few decades, celebrity culture's grip on our society has tightened. For Timothy Caulfield, a health science expert, this trend has had a measurable influence on individual life choices and health care decisions. In...

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The pharaoh's curse has claimed another life. Poirot doesn't believe in curses. When the excavator of a newly opened Egyptian tomb dies suddenly, followed by a second unexplained death among his team, the press calls it the vengeance of an ancient king...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Mr. Anderson checks into the Golden Lion, a venerable old inn in the Danish town of Viborg, he finds himself in Room Number 12 — comfortable enough, though strangely narrower by day than it seems at night. Odder still, the hotel has no Room...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A million dollars vanished mid-ocean. The thief never left his cabin. Bonds worth a fortune disappear aboard a transatlantic liner, stolen from a locked safe under constant watch — and the only suspect has an alibi that seems impossible to break...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man is dead. Poirot never left his bed. When wealthy Roger Havering's uncle is found shot dead at a remote hunting lodge, Poirot is called in for one of his strangest cases — solved almost entirely from an armchair, through his partner Hastings'...

Season of the Witch is the first audiobook to fully capture the dark magic of San Francisco in this breathtaking period, when the city radically changed itself—and then revolutionized the world. The cool gray city of love was the epicenter of the 1960s cultural revolution. But by the early...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Based on the original 1818 first edition. A ship trapped in Arctic ice takes aboard a man half dead from exhaustion, pursuing something across the frozen sea. He agrees to tell the captain how he came to be there. Victor Frankenstein was a student at...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A young governess takes her first position: two children, a remote country house in Essex, and an employer in London who insists on one condition above all others. He is never to be troubled about them. Whatever happens, she must handle it alone. At...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Captain Gerilleau is ordered to sail deep into the Amazon jungle to confront a mysterious ant plague, he considers it a ridiculous mission. What threat could mere insects pose? But as his ship ventures further, it becomes clear that this is no...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Hercule Poirot has come to Brighton for a rest, and the Grand Metropolitan is exactly the sort of hotel where nothing unpleasant is supposed to happen. Then he is introduced to Mrs Opalsen, wife of a wealthy stockbroker, and to the celebrated string of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mr Wraxall is an English travel writer of modest means and considerable curiosity, gathering material in a quiet corner of Sweden. His hosts at the manor house are hospitable, the family archives are extensive, and the more he reads of the estate's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Set in the gloom of Victorian London, a night-shift murder rattles the city's quiet streak. Charles Wit, an accountant, is found dead on a darkened street , three stab wounds to the chest, arranged in a precise triangle, with an ornate knife left...

How much would you sacrifice for true love? The second novel in Paullina Simons' stunning End of Forever trilogy continues the heartbreaking story of Julian and Josephine and a love that spans lifetimes. Julian has travelled from the heights of joy to the depths of despair and back again. Having found his love - twice - and lost her - twice, he is resolved to continue his search and find her in the past again. Perhaps this time he can save her.

How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being the biggest threats to our safety and wellbeing. We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles. For nine long years, the armies of Greece have besieged the walls of Troy. But when a bitter quarrel erupts between King Agamemnon and Achilles, the greatest of all warriors, rage threatens to destroy the Greeks...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Something has waited in that tree for two hundred years. When Sir Richard Fell inherits Castringham Hall, he gives little thought to the old ash tree growing just outside his bedroom window — or to the local legend of a witch hanged generations ago...

When Charles Marlow is sent to captain a steamboat deep into the African interior, he expects a routine mission. But what awaits him is a haunting descent into a world where civilization is only a thin veneer, and darkness—both literal and moral—looms ever closer. Heart of Darkness is a gripping exploration of empire, power, and the fragile boundaries between light and shadow—a timeless classic that continues to unsettle and captivate.

Young sailor Edmond Dantès has it all lined up: a job he loves, a woman he adores, and a future that seems pretty much guaranteed. One small problem—a few jealous "friends" and a whispered accusation are enough to turn his life into a nightmare. In a heartbeat, Edmond loses his freedom, his name, and any faith he ever had in justice.