The eight story. Nineteen years later. It’s been nineteen years since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger saved the wizarding world, and now they’re back on a most extraordinary adventure, joined by a brave new generation that’s only just arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his younge…
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Café another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funi…
If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else beside coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time…
Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, TikToking, Instragramming, YouTubing, tweeting … the increase numbers, variety, needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 …
What can your dreams tell you about your hidden desires? Certainly Sigmund Freud will have some answers for you. In this unconventional tete-a-tete, Freud expert D M Thomas sits down with the father of psychoanalysis to answer all your burning question. Freud is no stranger to controversy and in this frank dialogue you will discover the intricacies of Freud’s theory of human development. H…
A Fictional Dialogue Based On Biographical Facts Author of some of the most memorable characters in all of literature, Dickens is widely considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His work is timeless, transcending generations, while he continues to be one of the most adapted writers in all of history. During his lifetime, Dickens attracted international adulation on an unprecede…
Did falling apples really inspire Newton’s Law of Gravity? Why not ask him yourself? In this dialogue imagined by Newton aficionado Michael White, you’ll discover Newton’s immense influence on our understanding of the world today. Ask him about how he formulated the law of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light and created calculus. You’ll even have a chance to delve into N…
A Fictional Dialogue Based On Biographical Facts The presidency of John F. Kennedy was a magic interlude in American history. His admires saw him as a leader of intelligence and imagination, who wielded power with grace, courage and verve – although detractors have questioned the quality of his convictions and drawn attention to his serial philandering. Kennedy’s rise also marked the beg…
A Fictional Dialogue Based On Biographical Facts The “father of modern physics” Galileo Galilei was a scientific revolutionary. He was a renowned polymath whose knowledge spanned the realms of space, time and technology. His cosmic discoveries ushered in an age of scientific revolution: the Moon turned out to be covered with mountains and craters, stars popped out of nowhere, and four sa…
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by extraordinary man—its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi—who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity. In real life, the Totto-chan of…