English Forest

Jeffrey Harvey is realizing his dream - an ambitious project to use the icebergs of Antarctica to overcome drought in Africa. But his past is catching up with him. Love, deception, intrigue, and murder have followed him all his adult life, and now they come together to create a world where the difference between friends and foes is a matter of circumstance. To some, Harvey is a visionary; to others a liability. His passionate, but complex, girlfriend, Anna, strives to protect him from the dangers he brings on himself.

An instant New York Times bestseller! “For readers who have just finished Naomi Novik’s The Golden Enclaves and are ravenous for more dark academia” (Booklist), this “pulse-pounding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) fantasy thriller follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make...

Attorney sleuth Avery Andrews is back in her humdrum hometown of Dacus, South Carolina. The only problem is she's swapped illustrious city cases for a town where the biggest news is a pig on the loose. And while there's no end to the people queuing outside her door for help, paying clients are scarce. Or so she thinks. A woman enters Avery's office claiming her husband is accusing her of poisoning him. From beyond the grave.

Thirteen-year-old Joey Speight never expected the bone-chilling events that awaited him in this small river town. Uprooted from Chicago after his father's job loss, Joey’s resentment grows as he's forced to live with a Great-Grandma he barely knows. But the mysteries of Willow Falls soon engulf him, turning his anger into dread.

A wonderfully chilling collection of stories that includes a terrifying trip to Miskatonic University, a frightening forage into the jungles of Peru, an enlightening journey to end of the world, and other treks into the dark unknown.

The border town of Forest Mist resides in the Great Piney Woods and is famous throughout the Alliance for its lumber and rare hardwoods. In need of building materials for their new ranch home, Bishop and Terri travel east. It is the couple’s anniversary, and both feel the need for a change of scenery. As they cross Texas, they discover a dark confrontation simmering just under the surface of Alliance society.

The fae guard on a countdown. The witch fearing betrayal from his own kind. And the shifter yearning for love but too afraid to trust in fate.

The surprising history of Balif has finally come to light.... The Journeyman is charged to use the ancient Anvil of Time to travel back along the river of time and find the lost stories that fell between the pages of the history books. One of the most intriguing figures in Dragonlance is that of Balif, the elven general who was an intimate of Silvanos, the first Speaker of the Stars. Balif founded the city of Balifor, granted the kender a homeland, was an advocate for the wizard Vedvedsica, lived under a curse, was altered by the Graygem - but no one elf could do all those things. Or could he?

Traditional stories endure generation after generation because, although they are not literal, they resound in truths on a human scale. Folktales remind us of wisdom so elemental it is often lost in the rush of everyday life - sometimes common sense makes no sense at all.

King Malcom of the kingdom of Redhart is dead. The kingdom has been overrun by the forces of the Unreal. Statues live, corpses walk and nothing is as it seems. One of Malcom's three sons may assume the throne, but two will have to die. Jordan, the great actor, is hired to impersonate Prince Viktor, who is ill, but can't be seen in public as weak.

After winning his freedom in Rise of the Wolf, Robin - with his faithful lieutenant John Little at his side - now spends his days travelling around northern England dispensing King Edward II's justice. When a new band of outlaws appears in Barnsdale, Sheriff Henry de Faucumberg sends Robin and John to deal with them.

In the aftermath of a violent rebellion Robin Hood and his men must fight for survival with an enemy deadlier than any they've faced before... 1322. England is in disarray and Sir Guy of Gisbourne, the king's own bounty hunter, stalks the greenwood, bringing bloody justice to the outlaws and rebels who hide there. When things begin to go horribly wrong self-pity, grief and despair threaten to overwhelm the young wolf's head who will need the support of his friends and family now more than ever.

The greenwood has been quiet, and the outlaws have become complacent, but the harsh reality of life is about to hit the companions with brutal, deadly force, thanks to their old foe, Prior John de Monte Martini. From a meeting with King Edward II himself to the sheriff's tournament with its glittering prize, the final, fatal, showdown fast approaches for the legendary Wolf's Head.

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force; here is a cast of characters risking everything in an effort to bring that force under control.

Most of us live in a constant state of low-level stress… and we’ve started to feel like it’s normal. If you feel like you’re always tired and struggling to relax, or if you find yourself in constant need of a vacation, there’s something wrong – and the solution is surprisingly simple. We’ve become disconnected from the natural world. Even if you have a backyard and a pleasant enough walk to the office, you’re constantly being exposed to noise and pollution… and whether you’re aware of it or not, it affects both your mental and physical health.

As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. Today he is a botanist at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and has dedicated his life to studying the biology of such extraordinary plants, working alongside botanists and foresters in Southeast Asia to document these huge, mysterious blooms. Pathless Forest is the story of his journey to study and protect this remarkable plant - a biological enigma, still little understood, which invades vines as a leafless parasite and steals its food from them.

In this enchanted fairy tale, the little Prince and his beloved pet learn to comfort themselves when they are faced with the loss of a loved one and learn to first and foremost search their hearts as they discover gain over loss, comfort over fear, and joy over despair. As the listener journeys through this fairy-tale adventure into the imagination, the listener will explore a magical rain forest, where everything is possible.

Now that his sister knows of the dragons, Jason doesn't feel as isolated in their small village. The connection to the dragons lets him protect his people along with the existence of the dragons. An attack on his home village forces Jason to go to Lachen and stop Therin for good. To do so, he'll need the help of all the dragon misfits, but can the forest dragon help him master the art of illusion in time for him to save his people?

The black forest. A place of legend and folklore. A place where the souls of the dead never rest. A group of paranormal researchers head to the isolated forest with the hopes of capturing something that has evaded them their whole careers: proof of life after death. The forest soon promises to deliver an investigation beyond what they could have ever hoped for. But things take a turn for the sinister when one of the group disappears in the dead of the night...After listening to this terrifying story, you will never go down to the woods again....

CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures that fueled the catastrophe, and the high-stakes battle over how the city will rebuild ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. In Torched, Vigliotti brings readers inside the inferno...