New World Fiction

Toby has just learned he'll never see again. Now he's learning just how frustrating it can be doing even simple things when you're blind. And it doesn't help when his big brother Jake, and little sister Emma, laugh at him when things don't go right. But there's always a way to make things easier - isn't there? The Toby's Tales audiobooks are designed to show children - and adults, too - the struggles and challenges faced by people who are blind, or who are adjusting to sight loss, while also being useful tools to educate those close to someone who is blind.

In the year 2030, religion was banned, and Christians were executed. In 2035, our homes were raided, and any child under the age of six was taken, and any child the age of six through 15 was executed. The smallest children were taken to Castle Marks, and that is where they remained while the employees of the Antichrist experimented on them until they were perfected. They were then released back into civilization, where they would terrorize the world. These freaks were called Spooks.

A skilled mechanic, Fliss Makepeace chafes under the suffocating expectations of her family and society. Ordered to abandon her beloved engines for a 'woman's job' and pressured into a brutal marriage with the menacing Jake, Fliss feels trapped. But as the drums of war beat louder, she vows to serve King and Country rather than surrender to a life of quiet torment. Joining the ATS offers Fliss not just a uniform, but freedom. Yet, a chance encounter with the formidable Major Stapleton propels her into an even deeper secret...

All My Neanderthals: An Introduction to a Series of Neanderthal Books features excerpts from the first two books in a fiction series: The Neanderthals Are Back and The New World Neanderthals. The book also includes a brief introduction to who the Neanderthals are, how and where they lived, and why they suddenly went extinct about 35,000 years ago after living successfully for over 200,000 years.

Enjoy three creative stories about preparing toddlers for our new world, emphasizing culture, diversity, and empathy. We are building caring families, helping children learn about their feelings, emotions, culture, and identity.

A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes listeners into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdores, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist descended from a freed slave, and his white "uptown" wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic.

நகரமும் பெருநகரமும் ஆதவனின் கதைகளங்கள். மத்தியதர வர்க்க மனிதர்களே அவரது கதை மாந்தர்கள். இந்தக் களத்தில் அந்த மனிதர்கள் வாழ்வின் பொருட்டு மேற்கொள்ளும் செயல்களை சமரசமற்ற விமர்சனத்துடனும் அதேசமயம் பரிவுடனும் வெளிப்படுத்துபவை அவரது கதைகள்.

Es stimmt nicht, dass der Drache die Mädchen, die er sich holt, verspeist. Ganz gleich, was für Geschichten man sich außerhalb unseres Tales erzählen mag … Agnieszka liebt ihr Dorf und das Tal, in dem sie lebt. Doch jenseits des silbernen Flusses im Dunklen Wald lauert eine böse Macht. Nur der »Drache«, ein mächtiger Zauberer, kann sie unter Kontrolle halten. Dafür fordert er alle zehn Jahre ein Mädchen, das ihm dienen muss. Der Zeitpunkt der Wahl naht, und alle wissen, dass es Kasia treffen wird, Agnieszkas beste Freundin.

After battling the elements to cross the Great Plains to Colorado then fighting horse rustlers and a vengeful killer, the Jakes family hopes to finally settle down on their new ranch and breed horses. But a wedding celebration provides the cover for Frank Jakes' young daughter Franny to be kidnapped by a young man known only as Jack. Unless Frank and his family can do something fast, the terrified girl will be sold to the Comanches as a slave. Frank and his family must turn once again to the only man who can help: Frank's new brother-in-law, rugged mountain man Roy Scuggins.

In the aftermath of a devastating EMP blast, Lloyd and Al face a world plunged into chaos and darkness. Amidst this turmoil, a relentless blizzard adds to their ordeal as they navigate a lawless city, determined to reunite with their families. Battling ruthless gangs and braving the savage wilderness, their journey is a profound testament to resilience and courage. In a land where survival amidst the cold, merciless grip of winter is the ultimate victory, their relentless pursuit to find their loved ones becomes a beacon of hope.

Since Kevin had approached the dominant Femdom Jessica for a small loan, he has found her slowly taking control of his both his business and his body. The submissive businessman foolishly believed he still maintained control over both. But when he is summoned into a board meeting with Jessica and a room full of Dommes...he finds himself in a world he never once envisioned when he embarked on his business career.

Mike Gayle: emotions you'll never forget, stories you'll want to share. Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways. Twenty years later, mother-of-two-teenagers Helen is still in Manchester, a part-time primary teacher, stunned by the behaviour of her...

Pirates and kraken, boats and submarines, deadly sirens, mermaids, and the women who face them all. These are our heroes. High seas adventure, fantasy, and magic weave together in this sapphic anthology focusing on the joy of the unbounded oceans.

In this stylish provocative debut, a young artist struggles to find her way in New York City while navigating strained relationships, the reappearance of an ex, and her burgeoning sense of self. A mess, of course, ensues. Maggie is on the brink. Her MFA thesis—a vast canvas of twenty women...

Magnus dreams of going to sea with the Viking explorers. A big adventure awaits him. He carries a secret for one day far in the future.... The parallel stories in chapters of alternating languages will help you to follow Magnus to the "new world" in English - and Spanish!

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, again makes available the author's most masterful stories and novellas, including "The Light in the Piazza" and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time.

For the first of his nine lives, Hector time travelled to ancient Egypt. For his second life, Hector time travelled to Mars, renamed Catopia by the cat explorers who settled on the planet. For his third life, after sleeping on the dictionary in his home in England, Hector suddenly finds himself in an idyllic scene in the woods in New Hampshire, New England, USA, in the 19th century.

In this visionary novel framed as a hagiography, the ruminative, subjective memories of Gabriel’s witnesses - spiritual, familial, romantic, and political - converge to make sense of the man’s confounding works and message. As they do, a surprising portrait develops...not only of the deepening mystery of Gabriel Romero himself but also of a country in conflict and the faith it takes to fight the suspicion and fear that divide us.

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee - whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by secrets and transcendent delusions.

Lysander Spooner was one of slavery’s fiercest enemies. As a lawyer, he offered free legal services to escaped slaves, defending them in court. He advocated smuggling guns to slaves, with which to overthrow their masters, and take possession of their property. “Give the Slave-holders, then, a taste of their own whips.”