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Out of Time is the untold story of calendars, clocks, and the human obsession with taming chaos. From ancient moon cycles to atomic vibrations, James Johnson traces how we invented time, tried to perfect it, and accidentally built a system that now runs our lives — whether we like it or not.

Before mindfulness apps. Before lo-fi beats to study to. Before every self-help book told you to “let go”… There was Alan Watts. This book isn’t a lecture. It’s a vibe. Everything Is Fine, Actually is a chilled-out journey through the life and mind of a man who didn’t care about enlightenment points — just clarity, laughter, and presence. From his British roots to his West Coast evolution, Watts preached the art of not trying, the illusion of the ego, and the sacred joke of existence.

What starts as a breakup story turns into a Florida trip, a cruise, some mushrooms, and a pizza delivery gig. Totally normal. Until it isn’t. This is the story of how one guy tried to get his life together after heartbreak… and accidentally unraveled everything. From overpriced cruise drinks and beach tanning to psilocybin ego deaths and metaphysical math, this book is equal parts journal, transmission, and existential comedy special. If you’ve ever been heartbroken, broke, awake at 3AM asking what the hell is going on — this one’s for you. It’s not a self-help book.

Before the statue, before the speeches, before the myth — there was just Abraham Lincoln: a tall, awkward kid from a log cabin who read too much and believed in something bigger than himself. This is the story of how he rose from dirt-floor beginnings to become the president who held the United States together in its darkest hour. From the courtroom in Springfield to the fields of Gettysburg, from quiet heartbreaks to bold proclamations, Lincoln faced a nation on fire and refused to let it burn to the ground.

From sealing ships to spy planes, secret bases to collapsing glaciers, White Silence tells the story of humanity’s strangest relationship with a place we still barely understand. This isn’t just a nature book. It’s a geopolitical thriller, a Cold War ghost story, and a climate countdown clock — all layered beneath a sheet of ice a mile thick. Because Antarctica isn’t empty. It’s just quiet.

He wasn’t fast. He wasn’t flashy. He wasn’t supposed to make it. But Tom Brady didn’t just beat the league — he rewrote it. From 199th pick to seven-time Super Bowl champion, GOAT is the sharp, unforgiving story of the man who turned quarterback into algorithm, the Patriots into a dynasty, and doubt into fuel. With chapters covering Spygate, Deflategate, 28–3, the Bledsoe moment, the breakup with Belichick, the reinvention, the retirement(s), and the afterlife — this book tracks the full evolution of Brady as myth, machine, and man. Tom Brady broke the league. And the league never recovered.

From best-selling author James W. Goll, a strategic prophetic leader in global intercessory prayer, comes an in-depth journey into the heart of what it means to be a "watchman on the wall". Designed for serious worshipers and intercessors, this unique 21-day journey will help you move to the front lines of prayer - becoming more alert to the presence of God and praying his will with confidence.

He didn’t rule an empire. He didn’t fight a war. He just had an idea — that the world could be better if everyone just played their part. This is the story of Confucius — not as a saint, not as a symbol, but as a man trying to fix a broken world with virtue, obedience, and a whole lot of ritual bowing. Through chaos, rejection, and endless lectures, he built a moral system that outlived dynasties and became the software of an entire civilization. But what did it cost? This isn’t worship. This isn’t a takedown. This is a biography told with open eyes.

She wore black for forty years. And ruled a world in mourning. Queen Victoria didn’t just wear the crown — she became it. Through grief, silence, and sheer symbolic power, she turned herself into the emotional architecture of an empire that never stopped expanding. While others fought, conquered, and colonized, she sat — cloaked in black — and let the myth do the work. Victoria: The Widow Who Ruled the World is not a sentimental biography.

He was sick, alone, and laughed at by every polite thinker of his day. Then he broke the world. This is the life and madness of Friedrich Nietzsche — the man who declared God dead, tore morality out by the roots, and invented the Übermensch before collapsing in a foreign street, hugging a horse and signing letters as Dionysus. Nietzsche: The Man Who Saw Too Much is a mind-melting biography of the firebrand who rewired philosophy from the ground up.

Before it was a cigarette. Before it was a vape. Before it was a pouch in your lip. Nicotine was a sacred tool, a spiritual key, and a global empire waiting to happen. This is the full story — of how one tiny molecule rewired the human brain, built fortunes, funded nations, and turned ritual into addiction. From jungle ceremonies to tobacco plantations, filtered lies to fruit-flavored vapes, nicotine has been at the center of culture, power, craving, and capitalism for centuries. This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a history of control — and what it takes to take it back.

He changed the world — but do you actually know what happened? Forget what you were told in school, on the news, or through secondhand rumor. This is the real story — no fluff, no fear-mongering, and no preaching. Who was Muhammad? What did he actually say? Why did his message spark the rise of one of the most powerful civilizations in history? From the lonely caves of Mecca to the conquest of empires, this book tells the story of one man who refused to back down — and built a movement that still shapes the world today.

Throughout fiction, there have always been heroes who have fallen from grace. Champions of honor, decency, and order who have become villains through some traumatic event or a deep personal flaw. Blackest Knights is a collection of 19 tales by some of independent fantasy's best authors that follow a collection of those heroes who fell to temptation. From tales of bloody-handed hypocrites to space pirates, you'll find some truly fascinating works within.

You’ve heard about it. Quoted. Misquoted. Feared. Revered. But have you ever actually seen what the Quran says? No filter. No theology. No translator’s footnotes. Just the story — as it unfolds, from the first prayer to the final warning. What the Quran Actually Says walks you through Islam’s most controversial and least understood book in twelve direct chapters. It doesn’t preach. It doesn’t apologize. It doesn’t pull punches. Fire. Mercy. Law. Warning. That’s what’s in here. You don’t need to believe it. But you should know what it says.

You’ve seen the movie. You laughed. You moved on. But what if Groundhog Day wasn’t just a comedy? What if it was a subconscious training manual? What if it was you? In Looped: The Groundhog Day Problem, JJ pulls back the curtain on the greatest Trojan Horse ever snuck into theaters — a romantic comedy that quietly teaches surrender, transformation, and what it really means to change. This isn’t a film analysis. It’s a map out of your own loop. Funny, unfiltered, and weirdly spiritual, Looped is the wake-up call you didn’t know was playing on repeat. Same day. New eyes. Break the loop.

The Valve That Never Closes is a deep-dive into the company that rewired PC gaming from the inside out. It’s the story of how Valve went from a scrappy dev studio to the de facto operating system of the entire gaming ecosystem—and how we let it happen.

Everything’s a Sign is the definitive deep-dive into the life, madness, and legacy of Freud—from his Jewish upbringing in imperial Vienna to the invention of psychoanalysis, the breakups with Jung and Adler, and his final escape from the Nazis with a rotting jaw and a typewriter still hot.

George Orwell wasn’t just the author of 1984 and Animal Farm — He was the man who saw it all coming. From the jungles of British Burma to the slums of Paris, from the trenches of the Spanish Civil War to the propaganda halls of the BBC, Orwell lived through the machinery of power — and spent every ounce of his voice trying to tear it apart. Orwell: The Man Who Warned Us is a literary biography that doesn’t just tell you who Orwell was — it shows you how he became one of the most dangerous writers in history.

He was Rome’s golden boy — beautiful, brilliant, beloved. A poet, a singer, a dreamer on the throne. But behind the lyre and the laurel, there was rot. This is not the story of an emperor. It’s the story of a boy raised to perform, handed absolute power, and slowly, irrevocably swallowed by his own illusion. Nero Caesar didn’t rule an empire. He directed one — turning politics into theater, cruelty into ritual, and Rome itself into a stage built to burn.

In Dreamwalker: The Life and Mind of Carl Jung, James Johnson takes listeners on a journey through the life of one of history’s most enigmatic thinkers — from his mystical childhood in Switzerland to his groundbreaking exploration of the unconscious. But this isn’t just a biography. It’s a map of the psyche. As Jung walks deeper into dreams, myth, and madness, the listener is pulled along — discovering archetypes, shadows, and the strange mirror world within every human being. By the end, you’re not just learning about Jung.