The Martian (1898) is a novel by George du Maurier. Published posthumously, du Maurier's final novel is a semi-autobiographical account of his struggle with vision loss incorporating elements of fantasy and fairy tale fiction. Originally serialized in Harper's Magazine, The Martian is a powerful story of romance, tragedy, and redemption. "When so great a man dies, it is generally found that a tangled growth of more or less contentious literature has...

Humankind depends upon one introvert's creation - Plagued by a mysterious condition that causes him to see double, the artist's early life is hellish-an endless web of optometry clinics that offer tests but no solutions. What no one suspects is that such a curse could prove the key to staggering visions of intergalactic peace. Delivered a seeming message from beyond, the artist's days of self-indulgence are suddenly left behind. It will no longer...

"A time-travel experiment that transported Julius Caesar from his last Ides of March to a covert lab in Pasadena in the year 1999. The plan is for him to stay in the lab for four days and then return to Rome to meet his fate."--

Prison Writings is a book of short fictional stories written by Leon "Cadillac" Bland while in prison. The stories in the book cover several genres including fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. Each story is filled with unique characters and plot twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. An interesting aspect about the book is that some of the characters are loosely based on the author, his family, and memories from his own...

MEMOIRS OF A MAD SCIENTIST ONE: SOLARPUNK OUTLAW 112,000 words Neurodiverse Robin Goodwin's 2076 memoir frames tales of the 113-year-old inventor's and allies' adventures fighting bureaucrats, profiteers, warlords and fanatics to beat climate change, pollution, pandemics, and famines for a solarpunk future. 2076 is a world we want to live in, a protopia that is not perfect but that gets a bit better every day. 113-year-old Robin Goodwin is an...

To Birgom's people, the Known World is bounded by treacherous ice to the North and South, by the endless ocean to the West, and by impenetrable jungles and merciless deserts in the East. Birgom leaves this world behind. Sometimes joyful, sometimes desperately sad, sometimes written in excruciating detail or forgotten for years, *Birgom's Diary* charts his long and eventful life in a world that's recognizably ours, yet very different. Maybe a few...

Adventures of a journey through Europe on foot. "A Tramp Abroad" is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of...

A passionate tale, woven from personal stories of heroic betrayal and love, The Naqib's Daughter is based on historical characters, and set during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt. Lady Nafisa, aristocrat, philanthropist and wife of Mamluke leader Murad Bey wakes one morning to find her worst fears confirmed. Cairo is under threat from the French, whose mission is to liberate the most ancient civilization in the world from what they see as superstition...

Et si vous pouviez refaire tous les choix que vous avez faits jusqu'ici ? Une vie rêvée, en quelque sorte. Mais qui peut tourner au cauchemar... Ce 22 mars 2010, Paul Tournier, la quarantaine, célibataire, est assis à son poste de comptable dans une entreprise internationale comme il y en a tant dans le quartier des affaires, au cœur de Paris. Une ombre parmi les ombres, Paul ne se démarque en rien du commun des mortels. Il a une existence...

In the third book in the Asha and Baz series, readers learn about secret codes and how to break them from World War II codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman! A secret code and a mysterious prize up for grabs at school prompts Asha and Baz to once more use their magic stick to travel to the past. This time they land in 1942, where they meet Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaker working with the US Navy. She's the perfect person to help the kids with their codebreaking...