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They performed for millions while secretly serving their nations. The audience never suspected the deadliest act was happening offstage. What if the most celebrated entertainers of the 20th century were also its most effective spies?

In the 2030s, the era of Putin and Xi ended, not with a bang, but in a poisoned whisper. In their place, new leaders emerged—charismatic, technocratic, and unflinchingly bold. As Russia and China purged their past, crushing the oligarchy, an alliance for future control emerged. Rare earth minerals had become the currency of the 21st century—whoever controlled them would dominate the future. From energy to data centers, microchips to autonomous weapons, all the world powers raced to see who would come out on top.

Leonardo takes you inside the brain of a man who painted the most famous face on Earth, sketched helicopters in the 1400s, dissected corpses to understand beauty, and wrote in mirrored code while inventing robots no one would build for centuries. He didn’t separate art and science. He didn’t follow disciplines. He followed truth. And he left behind a world forever warped by the intensity of his attention.

Emma Carling may have graduated from escort school with distinction–but her journey has only just begun. Now she must prove her seductive skills in the real world: the five-star hotels and lavish mansions of London. She must make the city’s most connected, powerful and wealthy men sit up and take notice of her. She must become a pedigree sex machine.

Biology 101: A History of Life is the story of how humans discovered life from the outside in. Poking, slicing, sketching, sequencing, and arguing our way toward understanding what it means to be alive. From Aristotle’s animal lists to Darwin’s dangerous idea. From Mendel’s peas to the human genome. From hand-ground glass to CRISPR gene editing. This is not a textbook. It’s a history of discovery. The brilliant, chaotic, often accidental process that turned biology from folklore into code.

The Mirage: How Saudi Arabia Built a Gas Station Empire is a sharp, unsettling deep-dive into how one royal family turned a desert into a kingdom, an oil company into a superpower, and a religious movement into a global firewall. This is not ancient history — it all started in the 20th century. Through brutal conquest, British backing, American oil deals, and decades of carefully manufactured silence, the House of Saud built something that looks like a country… but behaves like a brand.

I honestly thought there was no harm last summer in naming Miles Asher as my boyfriend. I was convinced my friends from that part of my life would never meet him. I mean, come on, I'm a travel influencer constantly moving from one beach to the next, and Miles is a small-town mechanic. He loves his family and friends, and he's a nice guy. Or so they say. Miles has never cared for me. But now I'm staying in his town of Lovers for the summer, and—surprise!—my vacation friends are too.

Embracing Serenity: Navigating Life's Challenges with Peace, Love, & Happiness is an immersive Audible experience that empowers listeners to find inner peace, joy, & fulfillment in the midst of modern life’s complexities. With heartfelt narration & practical wisdom, this transformative audiobook offers tools & insights to help you navigate challenges with mindfulness, compassion, & gratitude. Through vivid storytelling & guided exercises, listeners are guided to discover the power of living in the present moment, letting go of past regrets & future worries.

An experienced geologist with years of study in sedimentology, Chris Severson shares his passion for the Delta at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Introduced to the Delta as a young adult, the author ventures into this wild and fascinating region for many, many years. The stories herein tell of adventure, mishaps and perils while giving a view into the beauty of the delta and a geologic picture of the building and destructive forces at work to have created this ever changing, amazing landscape.

Step into the mind of one of history’s greatest commanders. Saladin’s Art of War reveals the 20 timeless laws of strategy drawn from the life of Sultan Saladin—the legendary warrior, statesman, and liberator of Jerusalem.

1890. Peu avant Noël, Sherlock Holmes et John Watson reçoivent à Baker Street la visite d'une nouvelle cliente. Eve Allerthorpe, fille aînée d'une dynastie prestigieuse mais quelque peu excentrique du Yorkshire, se trouve dans une profonde détresse : elle se croit possédée par un démoniaque esprit de Noël. Eve doit hériter d'une fortune à condition d'être saine d'esprit, mais il semble que quelque chose - ou quelqu'un - menace son équilibre mental.

Roy Grace is back in this gripping new instalment from number one bestselling author Peter James. ***** 23 million books sold. Now a major ITV/BritBox show starring John Simm as Roy Grace. Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective. 'Peter James is one of the best...

What is color? Not just pigment. Not just light. Not even just perception. Color is a system. A language written in wavelengths, built by biology, shaped by culture, and weaponized by power. From ancient dyes to modern marketing, from the psychology of red to the physics of violet, COLOR is a vibrant walk through everything we think we see… and everything we’ve been trained to feel. Explore how the brain edits the spectrum, how flags and uniforms manipulate emotion, how art history is lined with poison, and why no one saw “blue” until they invented a word for it. This is not a book about art.

The Old Writer is losing the plot. Struggling to complete the long-overdue thirteenth and final volume of his cult ‘Leepus’ series of bizarre detective novels, he is exhaustingly distracted by the anarchic reality of his family life. Rude Jude, Jilted John, Vile Viola, ASBO Angie, Cracked Jack and Obscene Irene are the characters of his life story—relatives and children whose dysfunctional lives conspire to undermine his efforts to find them resolution and redemption.

Andrew Jackson: The Republic’s Iron Fist traces the full arc of one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history. From his muddy birth on the Carolina frontier to the battlefield at New Orleans, from the dueling grounds of Tennessee to the Oval Office, Jackson’s life was war—and he never stopped swinging. This audiobook doesn’t glorify. It doesn’t condemn.

He never stopped drawing. Not even when the world told him to grow up. Tim Burton didn’t try to fit in — he turned his alienation into art. From the suburban shadows of Burbank to the soundstages of Hollywood, he built an empire of monsters, misfits, and melancholy hearts.

Across centuries and continents, real love stories unfolded quietly behind palace doors, in secret letters, and across battlefields unseen by history textbooks but etched in time. Scandalous and Sacred dives deep into the lives of real couples who dared to love beyond society’s rigid lines of race, class, gender, and religion.

In a not-so-distant future the United States has fragmented, balkanizing into unstable provinces often at war with one another, and Americans, their great promise not so much lost as forfeited, are encountering the terrors and devastation so much of the world daily lives with. Throughout a land littered with refugees, ruins, orphaned children, soldiers, militia, and fugitives, people go on about their daily lives as best they can.

What do apples, atoms, black holes, and time machines all have in common? They all follow the same rules, the laws of physics. Physics 101 is is a fast-paced, story-driven walkthrough of how we figured out the rules that govern reality. From ancient thinkers dropping guesses to modern geniuses dropping equations, this book tracks the wild, mind-bending history of motion, matter, energy, and everything in between.

Jave Anderson had longed to leave the corporate state of Binvo and explore what lay beyond our planet. His wishes were granted when he boarded a shuttle that propelled him high above Earth, and he had a front row seat to breathtaking views that he had previously only imagined. However, his space-bound adventure takes a terrifying turn when an otherworldly acorn is discovered on Planet Nomar. What follows is a heart-pounding ride as shapeshifters emerge from their cocoons with a dangerous agenda: to colonize Earth and hunt humans for prey!