Centuries after 18,000 Zoroastrians escape persecution to India, a Parsi scientist is taken to Tehran. He and his wife are pulled into a global chase to find the Athravan Star, a relic tied to their ancestors' journey.
After his son Eric's sudden death, a philosopher turns his grief into a personal and moving lament, giving voice to the pain of loss and the strength of love.
Sowell shows how seeking an ill-defined 'cosmic justice' undermines true equality and freedom, slowly eroding the foundations of the American Revolution through well-intentioned but flawed social ideas.
Learn how to build a close, lasting friendship with Jesus through thirteen chapters on His love, repentance, faith, and the happiness of living with Him.
In the shadow of the Frederick Douglass Project, a hungry DeShawn grapples with the allure of gang money and the weight of his principles, knowing every choice could be his last.
As his father descends into madness, fifteen-year-old Jason navigates the crumbling reality of his home with the help of an elaborate imaginary world, desperately trying to keep their secret while teetering on the brink of his own sanity.
In a world suffocated by nuclear winter, a resilient teen forges a harrowing path through a frozen, food-scarce city, clutching to the faint hope of finding her family amidst the ruins.
In 1957 Kenya, three blood sisters from different backgrounds find their childhood vow tested by the Mau Mau rebellion, the birth of independent Kenya, and the conflicting paths of love, ambition, and survival that pull them from London's swinging sixties to the fight for their ancestral farm.
In the seemingly idyllic town of Billington, Jason's ordinary bad day spirals into a terrifying mystery as he realizes his own identity, and everyone else's, is a meticulously constructed lie.
In a world of arranged marriages and looming war, a fiery young princess in 9th-century England must defy expectations and wield a sword to protect her people and forge her own legend.
In post-apartheid South Africa, a professional mourner in a tattered suit and top hat finds comfort for his own grief and the city's wounds when he reunites with a woman from his past amidst township funerals.
An immortal warrior, touched by ancient cosmic powers, relentlessly hunts his eternal nemesis across the vast expanse of human history, from primeval caves to a nuclear showdown, to save Earth from ultimate darkness.
A twenty-nine-year-old fashionista dies and finds herself in the seventh heaven, but to stay, she must write about her ten best days on Earth, or face a fashion-deprived afterlife.
Master ancient Taoist techniques to separate ejaculation from orgasm, transforming your sexual experience into a multi-orgasmic journey for increased vitality and pleasure.
Explore 'The Lotus Sutra,' an ancient Mahayana Buddhist scripture that shares spiritual wisdom and parables, influencing spiritual paths and literary works across Asia for centuries.
When her author mother vanishes, Tuesday McGillycuddy sails into the whimsical, perilous world where stories are born, befriending a brave girl and an enchanted boat, all while uncovering the magic of writing and her dog's true nature.
In "Dancing After Hours," Andre Dubus illuminates the tender parts of ordinary American lives, where characters struggle with loneliness, the fear of love, and unexpected moments of grace.
Haunted by a family legacy of dispossession and a spectral, encroaching illness, a young boy becomes the reluctant heir to his great-uncle's feverish obsession with reclaiming a decaying Australian outback station from both the desert and its original Aboriginal custodians.
When two boys discover a corpse by Indian Creek, their summer camping trip transforms into a chilling detective hunt as they spy on a suspicious new boyfriend and uncover dark secrets lurking within an antique store.
In fin-de-siècle Istanbul, an Ottoman family, led by an autocratic grandmother and a child-bride mother, copes with the collapse of their empire, fortune, and way of life, from opulent hamam rituals to the reality of a new Turkish republic.
In a feverish, free-associating whirlwind, Henry Miller revisits his past, from the gritty streets of Brooklyn to the intoxicating chaos of Paris, weaving a vibrant tapestry of life, lust, and literature.
