The best books about the city of Babylon

In From Side Hustle To Main Hustle To Millionaire, Ryan Scribner shares the tactics and strategies he used to leverage his simple internet-based side hustle into becoming a millionaire by the age of 26. Ryan breaks down the side hustle journey into specific stages, walking the reader through the entire process. 

Through 13 simple lessons, Ryan shares what it takes to leave the workforce behind, follow your passions, and earn passive income. Learn how to build a successful side business that you can grow to your main source of income over time, with specific guidance on each step of the side hustle journey.

Avery Shaw is the young captain of the Oakvale Rangers. Together with his squad of rangers, who are more than just elite fighters, they are good buddies who like to razz each other (especially their captain) They defend the Wilderlands from incursions of any creature that threatens the frontier towns. And he has developed a reputation that he’s not in favor of. 

Eva Micheroux is a promising sorceress in a lesser noble family in the kingdom of Aiveroquia, but she’s hiding a secret. She’s a half elf who was adopted by her aunt and uncle. When a prince asks her to assist on a mission in the wilderlands she will get to meet the infamous ranger she has read about in books.

When humanity is threatened by an explosion at a Russian research laboratory, co-workers and friends in a small southern town must band together for survival. They realize too late that this is no ordinary plague...and that the enemy they have to fight may not be the only thing they need to worry about.

Edwin Abbott Abbott’s 1884 Flatland, a classic of popularization, tells of a world of two dimensions inhabited by geometric figures. Really, it’s about the Fourth Dimension, much in vogue at the time. That’s mild compared to the inventions of today’s mathematicians and physicists.

Flatterland explores these mindboggling new ideas using Abbott’s scenario of imaginary worlds. Victoria Line, a thoroughly modern young woman in Flatland’s disintegrating male-dominated culture, explores these novel universes, guided by the Space Hopper. She encounters the doughmouse at the topologists’ tea party, puzzles over the five-sided squares of Platterland, argues with Superpaws the quantum cat, and grapples with relativity in the domain of the Hawk King. Like Flatland, the book is partly about imaginative and important math, and partly about social inequality.

Kalem’s brother was taken by the king, and he wants to expose him as a fraud with steles he has discovered which implies the current king is not legitimate. Yet, Kalem falls in love with Angela, the person who is supposedly key to the stele prophecy fulfillment, but her devotion is to the current king.

Kalem must deal with his biased views and with his feelings for Angela to decide which prophecy is true.

There have always been mail-order brides in America—but we haven’t always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called “Tobacco Wives” of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today’s modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It’s a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It’s also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities.

As she celebrates her 16th birthday in the post-Collapse world, Dar is ready to take her exams and prepare to enter a nearby school. What should be a special day takes an unexpected turn into the surreal when her family’s farm is attacked by marauders bent on taking their land. As the dust settles, she must decide what path she will take—face the attackers in an effort to keep what her family has worked so hard to build or try to find sanctuary and live to fight another day.

In her travels, Dar learns some of her family’s history and its surprising connection to the myth of Haven. Can she survive long enough to reach her destination and begin to make her future?

Based on a true story, Paris Savages takes us from beautiful Fraser Island, Australia, to belle-epoque Europe in 1882, where three young Aboriginal (Badtjala) people were taken to perform as mass entertainment. "This is a story that needed to be told." Rohan Wilson, The Australian.

When Louis Müller offers to sail eighteen-year-old Bonny, Jurano, and his niece, Dorondera, to Europe, Bonny agrees. He hopes to ask the English Queen to stop the massacres of his people. Accompanied by Müller’s daughter, Hilda, the group journey to perform in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, and eventually London, but the enthusiasm of the crowds and scientists is relentless. A story of love, bravery, and the fight against injustice, Paris Savages brings a little-known part of history to blazing life.

The common advice for authors is ‘write what you know.’ As a former musician, I took that advice, basing my latest book on the back stories of two dozen of the most famous songs ever written. And some of those stories are pretty juicy: Between 1988 and 2015, Warner/Chappell Music expected any public performance of that most innocent of tunes, “Happy Birthday”, to be liable for a royalty fee of $700. The man who wrote “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” had never been to one! The author of “Jingle Bells” left much to be desired as a family man.

I've always been inspired by classic styles. I hope to continue to tap into that vein in as long as I can, until I eventually become history.