Creative Ark: 23 books

An assassination has rocked the city of Sanctum, bringing a tyrannical rule to an end. Sahri the Unswerving, living in squalor and heavy with child, discovers her husband is next in line to rule as Decision Maker of Sanctum. Catapulted from poverty to wealth, Sahri embraces her new...

On dreary autumn evenings Celeste Wang wanders the streets of London, always returning, as if magnetically drawn, to stare at the brightly lit cafe above Covent Garden. Celeste imagines great minds like H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and John Wyndham gather there to discuss deep and fascinating subjects...

Eleazar Hollis stands behind his makeshift pulpit every Sunday in the tiny mining town of Devil Springs. The constantly empty pews suit him just fine, since he is not the minister he claims to be. But when two Chinese men rush into his church asking for asylum, the secrets revealed will put his life and theirs in jeopardy.

Brandon loves pie. Especially apple and blueberry pie. The problem is, Brandon isn't allowed pie for a whole week when he gets detention at school. A bigger problem is that the kids at school are so annoying Brandon can't help getting detention. But for pie, he'll give anything a go.

When children run away to the circus, it is Seamus Harden who talks them down and gets them the help they need. Spoilt teenagers, abused kids, Seamus sees it all. Until one night Seamus meets a little a little girl with a perfect pink dress, perfect white socks, and a reason for running away to the circus that even Seamus has never heard before.

The surprise occurrence of February 30th. The loss of a favorite umbrella. The sudden arrival of a tiny circus runaway. Each of these unexpected events propel a different character into their own sweet, gentle tale, which finds its heartwarming conclusion in less than twenty-four hours. This...

Helen Summers spends every Sunday afternoon caring for small children, like little 5-year-old Peter who is intent on defying his mother's instructions. As Helen tries to inculcate a few life lessons in her little nephew, she's reminded of the reasons why she has become the self-appointed guardian of Sunday afternoons.

Annie is a grown woman now, past all that childish adventuring stuff, but when her cousin Henry claims to have overheard instructions to buried treasure she is forced to decide whether or not to invest her belief in one more childish adventure. This story is also available in Baverstock’s Allsorts Volume 1

A companion to the #1 New York Times Bestseller Mastery More than 20,000 hours of research and thought went into Robert Greene's stunning book, Mastery. In a departure from his previous works, Robert Greene interviewed nine contemporary masters, including tech guru Paul Graham,...