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Join Dr. Zephon and the McCallister family on a transformational journey. Using the specially designed Jet Skis, Dr. Zephon takes his quantum leap into a new metaphysical realm. It is here that they discover many hidden truths of physics, metaphysics, and the nature of existence.

Lukas is an underdog and a winner: intelligent, angry, humorous, and 14 years old. He is a guerrilla warfare fighter against the establishment and injustice. Lukas discovers his teachers to be people with faults and failings, and he is prepared to manipulate them to his advantage. To Lukas comes Donny: teacher, coach and mentor. What happens when Lukas finds something to admire in the enemy? Worse still, what happens when your mate is unjustly judged guilty of the sexual assault of the girl you have the hots for?

All Honest Pilgrims takes the listener on several journeys to Concord, Massachusetts, specifically Walden Pond, with several characters all interrelated but very different. Spanning the early 1980s through 9/11, to the present pandemic, it follows these “pilgrims”, united by their love of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau quotes guide and motivate each character throughout their journey.

The Last American Geek is a captivating, hilarious coming-of-age story about a young outcast who is tired of his miserable life. The geek is unattractive, friendless, bullied; is filled with frustration and social anxiety, and has no chance of finding quality romance. But rather than accept his predicament and settle for a lifetime of misery, he flips the switch in the most unusual ways, only the most ingenious, unique, cunning and determined geek could conjure up!

When Caroline, a gifted ornithologist who wants a life of travel and adventure, gets pregnant against her wishes, her husband, Charlie, assumes she will change her mind. She doesn't—and as their daughter, Grace, grows up, she falls through the devastating schism that has grown between them. Told by all three of the characters involved and set against the backdrop of Lake Superior, Finding Grace is a piercing chronicle and a poignant comic-of-age journey for a daughter and her parents.

Stephen’s comfortable but empty existence is transformed by an unexpected visitor from his past. Forced to face up to the consequences of a love he had long suppressed, he is drawn back to his time teaching in Beijing, China, during the spring of 1989. There he toyed with the people and events associated with the pro-democracy movement only in search of cheap adventure. Despite his naivety, he was drawn inexorably towards both. Though his travels took him from the Great Wall to the plains of Inner Mongolia, there was no escaping the pull of Tiananmen Square on the night of 4th June.

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The stories comprise a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by grotesque figures like talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children.

Genocide. Jellyfish smack. Unrequited love. This is a tale of thirteen mermaid sisters, the last of their kind.