Seneca's Letters from a Stoic is considered one of the thought-leaders of philosophy in the history of classical literature. The compilation offers a comprehensive introduction to the stoic philosophy. Stoicism is Hellenistic philosophy that dominate...

Letters from a Stoic

Self-Reliance, an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841, is arguable Emerson's most influential piece. Self-Reliance does a masterful job expanding on one of Emerson's most frequently spoken themes of how individuals should follow their own id...

Self Reliance

Though this Word is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all. For, though, all things come to pass in accordance with this Word, men seem as if they had no experien...

Fragments

The little book by Epictetus called Enchiridion or Manual has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy.  As soon as it had been translated into the vernacular languages, it became a best seller amon...

Manual for Living

Triumphing over adversity and evil, Kian dav Leydon brings the fabled Rune Blade Kingmaker back to the Isle of Celi after it was stolen, so the Isle will be ready when and if invasion comes. 

Kingmaker's Sword

Seventeen-year old Wolfdon dreams of travelling to Aizai, a forgotten realm connected to our world by invisible sol-lines. He begins his search as a word-warrior in his hometown in France in the late 17th century, hunting for rare books that mention ...

Aizai the Forgotten

So what happens next?  Sir Rhys, Sir Sharp, and Sir Trusty - three of the world's greatest swordsmen - are released from the Royal Guard in their 20s with no pension, no job, and no money. Rhys' father is the great Blade hero, Sir Spender, who finds ...

One Velvet Glove: A Tale of the King's Blades

In the essay, Emerson puts forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be unders...

Nature

When the jealous high priest of Enki murders the king during a holy festival and stages a takeover of the palace, Crown Prince Ammon-shur must flee for his life with nothing more than the clothes on his back. His faithful bodyguard, Balashi, saves hi...

The Prince of Eridu

The wanderer Red Kian has ruled Skai as Regent, but now it is time for him to step down. War clouds are gathering. Maedun sorcerers have taken the continent, and Saesnesi raiders are pillaging the islands. But Kian has three sons. One is a prince of ...

Western King

Wolfdon Pellegrin and Toulouse Saloman, two 18-year-old boys living in 17th-century Spain, have recently discovered they are to become founders of a future paradise called Aizai. It will be created by the Magicians, who form a secret society scattere...

Shadows of Aizai

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a timeless and beloved classic. After an uncanny twist of fate, a young boy inherits a Captain's sea chest and its enchanted belongings. Among them, he finds a treasure map. An adventure ensues as the boy, ...

Treasure Island

In revered author Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, listeners are transported to a complex, winding adventure full of twists and turns.  Released in the late 1880s, this thriller is full of an expansive plot full o...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Listen in to this amazingly narrated novella in which the main character, Gregor, wakes up only to discover that he has turned into a giant insect.

The Metamorphosis

Ammon-shur thought that saving the girl and escaping deadly peril in Uruk meant that he would live a safe and happy life in his new home in Ur. With his business prospering, a new daughter just born and everything looking up he is deliriously happy, ...

The Prince and the Priestess

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. The author was an anonymous Anglo-...

Beowulf

First published anonymously, Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley in the early 1800s, when she was just 20 years old. Frankenstein is the compelling science-fiction drama-romance of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist. Frankenstein goes on to ...

Frankenstein

Book 3 in the Rune Blades of Celi series. A kidnapped princess and a clanless man share a terrible secret - the dark powers of Maedun are preparing a new assault on the shinning Isle of Celi. Using stolen Celae magic, the sorcerer Hakkar plans to rip...

Broken Blade

If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its willful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under ...

A Guide to Stoicism

For Ammon-Shur the struggle to end the slave trade in Sumeria is not going as planned. He has barely survived several attempts on his life and the few people he has been able to save are less than a drop in the bucket compared to the many thousands w...

The Prince and the Prophet

The empire of Akkad is coming apart at the seams and Ammon-shur and his family find themselves in the middle of all of the social and political turmoil. With the nomadic Gutian Confederation to the North sensing an opportunity to snatch up loot and s...

The Prince and the Kings: A Novel of Ancient Sumeria

Ammon-shur and his Gutian allies are determined to rid the land of Canaan of the invading Mesopotamian armies once and for all, but Ammon's aspirations don't end there. He senses an opportunity to eliminate the threat from the shadowy conspiracy that...

The King of Eridu

If Timothy Hayfield had known the mysterious secrets his grandmother had kept quiet all these years, and if he'd known the peril that would await him during a seemingly average summer's holiday in Mayfield, then he might have stayed behind. But who c...

A Prince of Earth

If only the dangers of light travel could be contained within one world. It was easier and safer that way, when our families and the ones that we love were not at risk.  But after nearly a year's time, back on Earth, these dangers are beginning again...

All the Worlds of Men

Robustness is the ability to deal with stress tests, to act with courage, and to accomplish the necessary while there is time. We live in a world of deficiencies and excesses, and the only miracle - life - exists thanks to balance. This equilibrium i...

Robustness

While Islamic theology differs from Christianity's, Muslims and Christians hold Jesus Christ in high esteem. He is a central figure in both religions, loved, admired, respected, and revered. Both Muslims and Christians believe in Jesus' virgin birth,...

Unveiling the True Identity of Jesus Christ

In this debut collection, a cast of queer youth search out connection, fulfillment, and redemption inside gay clubs and raves, covered in strobe lights and dancing to an endless supply of house and trance music into the early morning hours.  At the i...

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