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Learn about three powerful witches from mythology and literature—Circe, Baba Yaga, and the White Witch.

Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long history and enduring legacy of espionage and covert operations. While most of us associate this top-secret subject with popular fiction and film, its true story is more fascinating, surprising, and important than you could possibly imagine. These 24 thrilling lectures survey how world powers have attempted to work in the shadows to gain secret information or subvert enemies behind the scenes.

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its...

Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by "the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves", he decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money - and sailing classes - to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder.

Rudolph "Rudy" Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world's largest, multi-trillion-dollar corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist - an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what's best for the rest of humanity. How does Rudy's struggle to reconcile business and family impact the world's future? And who, if anyone, can break the Consortium's iron grip on the status quo?

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and war, from the million-copy-selling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes. If you adored The Nightingale, The Tuscan Contessa or My Name is Eva, this is the book for you. Some love stories can't be...

Nineteen gut-wrenching reports from the front lines of the War of the Worlds, as logged by Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, H.P. Lovecraft, Winston Churchill, Jules Verne, and many of the other most famous writers of the time. The most popular and acclaimed science fiction writers of today relive the Martian invasion through the eyes of their famous predecessors.

The Global Gratitude Show After graduating from American University in Washington, DC, with BA’s in Political Science and International Studies, Tania Anderson was hired as an international flight attendant by the iconic Pan American World Airways which set her on a course to explore the world’s continents. After Pan Am’s bankruptcy, Tania’s airline career expanded even more, to fly VIP charters, the White House press corps, convicts, film crews, refugees, military personnel, religious pilgrims, and medical transplant teams…..”everything” Tania admits, “Except rendition flights...

Dive into a captivating anthology of folktales, fables, and legends carefully curated from twenty remarkable books published in 1928. This collection spans a rich tapestry of stories from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, showcasing both ancient and modern narratives. While many tales are crafted for young readers, the anthology also features celebrated authors of childrens literature, including Erick Berry, Paul Fenimore Cooper, Georgene Faulkner, and Eva March Tappan. Discover enchanting tales from the Book Trails series, a 16-volume collection of stories and poems for...

It has been over a year since the war began. A year since China launched its surprise attack on America. EMP and cyber weapons plunging much of the nation into a dark chaos. Thousands of anti-ship missiles gutting the US Pacific fleet. A Chinese-allied North Korea launching an all-out attack on South Korea. Chinese information warfare campaigns triggering America to launch a nuclear strike on China's own nuclear stockpile. And the international political consequences that followed.

Read by Peter Kenny, award-winning narrator of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. In a ravaged near-future England, a private detective with psychic powers might be the last hope standing between mankind and total collapse. Mindstar Rising is the first cyberpunk thriller in Peter F. Hamilton's...

Four years after Chad Hunter and Frank Baldwin secured the most successful small arms weapon system in American history, the Hypershot, they are thrust back into a new adventure that propels them from Southeast Asia to Scandinavia and back to the wilderness.

The president orders Captain Deke Mallory to penetrate a mysterious brotherhood of Neo-Nazi billionaires. They've financed a coup d'etat in Central America to begin their takeover of the Global Monetary System.

Global Book Network is all about helping authors share their stories with readers around the world. We bring together writers, book lovers, and experts to talk about books, ideas, and exciting trends shaping the future of storytelling. Each episode features conversations with both new and well-known authors, giving them a chance to share their journeys, inspirations, and the stories behind their work. Our amazing hosts, who are passionate about books, also dive into insider tips about the publishing world and explore topics that matter to readers and writers alike.

The Global Narrative Podcast celebrates writers of the African diaspora through content and conversations that center their stories. Join Global Narrative founder Alison Isaac and guests, as they talk books and explore the business of stories — writing them, reading them, and publishing them. You can also find Global Narrative online at globalnarrative.ca and Instagram @theglobalnarrative. Suggestions to share? Drop us an email at hello@globalnarrative.ca.

The most dangerous place on Earth A devious and deadly plan to save humanity from itself A lone scientist battling the clock and ruthless enemies to avert global catastrophe The Deep Zone was hailed as “an absolutely phenomenal read by the new Michael Crichton” (Brad Thor), a book that...

In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future. "Eunice Wong narrates the band of survivors with tenderness while also conveying their gritty determination as they seek a new life in a world forever...

From Amartya Sen to Aamir Khan, Raghuram Rajan, Sachin Tendulkar, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Pranab Mukherjee, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala Sitharaman and Sania Mirza among others, in this book eminent journalist Sonia Singh opens a window to the myriad worlds of these stalwarts, who share...

Join us on "The Bookish Mind" as we dive deep into the world of books. Our podcast is structured into seasons, each dedicated to a single book that sparks interesting discussions and insights. Each season will feature multiple episodes*, where we'll explore the book's themes, characters, plot, and ideas. We'll analyze, debate, and reflect on the book's significance, relevance, and impact.

What if gender isn't something you are, but something you do? "The Trouble with Gender" unpacks Judith Butler's revolutionary book "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" - the philosophy that changed how we understand gender, identity, and power. Each episode explores Butler's groundbreaking theory that gender is performative - constructed through repeated acts rather than expressing some inner truth.