Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,” but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories -- our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking -- expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar,...

"It begins with the dreams. Cassie has been having strange nightmares of a voice calling to her from deep beneath the ocean. They're unsettling, but it isn't until Cassie discovers Tobias has been having dreams too, the exact same dreams, of a voice pleading for help---that she decides it's time to start listening. When pieces of debris wash up on shore, marked with alien writing, the team realizes they may still have allies in the fight for Earth,...

Nancy Drew tackles a mystery professional detectives failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois.

After Luke uncovers discrepancies while preparing for an upcoming mission to Mars, his dream job is turned into a dystopian nightmare, plunging him, and those he loves, into a global conspiracy he never thought possible.
Luke thinks his life in the late 21st century is good: he has a wonderful job in astrophysics at the Houston Aerospace Engineering Center in Houston and has a blooming romance with Sarah, a physician where he works....

Once Luke and his friends steal a sixty-year-old banned artifact from the secret vault of the mysterious organization called The Six, the danger for their group seeking answers intensifies.
Luke almost regrets finding the artifact for it bothers him to now possess something forbidden for so many years. Yet, he reluctantly joins the others to try and find hidden meanings from its contents: answers to the why behind the deception...

An old owl says that people no longer listen to the message from the story of when a special child was born, so the birds fly far and wide, each singing the song of joy and peace.

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