Eight-year-old Terry has a big heart, a gentle voice, and a powerful dream. When kindness meets creativity, Terry invents the Trapillankey, a travel pillow and blanket designed to bring warmth, comfort, and hope to those who need it most. Little Terry Invents the Trapillankey is an inspiring children's story about empathy, resilience, and believing in your light, even when the world tries to dim it.

Then came modern man, about 20,000 years ago, and from that point on he destroyed his enemies without compassion, enslaved other races, and murdered for sport all manner of men and beasts.In this final installment of The 13th Power Trilogy, the peaceful Beltzans of the green planet, 100,000 light years from earth, experience a close encounter of their own third kind. They believe a spacecraft belonging to the Tarreeda, a race of warmongers who had been banished from their planet 10...

Texas Ranger JUSTIN GRAVES is a tenacious homicide detective and an outspoken advocate of victims' rights. Respected by his peers and feared by criminals, they simply call him "Justice." When he and his rebellious daughter are gunned down by her gangster boyfriend, Justin makes a deal with the devil to save her soul: one hundred bad guys for her pardon from hell. Now, in his rotting body, he rises from the grave to collect the souls of killers who got away with murder. If only a deal with ...

The story of the world's largest pearl is a mix of legend, history, and human tragedy that spans the Pacific from a pre-war paradise in the Philippines, through hell on the Bataan Death March during World War II, to prejudice and betrayal in America. Take the journey with Timoteo Matito and Wilbur Cobb as they battle greedy investors and a curse from ancient China. You'll discover the dark heart of mankind and witness a brilliant wonder of nature few people have ever seen.

In the second book of The 13th Power Trilogy, Ray Crawford, having failed to achieve fame, has formulated a new plan: reprogram the Supercomputers, build a bigger gravity chamber, and degenerate NASA's prototype Inter Space Station Transporter into the 13th Power. He will discover that fame carries a terrible price.Since the undercover operation in Simi Valley failed, The Ark is under more pressure from the President to fulfill Directive 119, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and de...

Corporate tycoon WILLIAM TULIVER is dying. He needs a bone marrow transplant, but no suitable donor is available. When doctors suggest cloning technology, he hires Blythe Biotech to clone him and recruits his girlfriend to give birth to the clone. He doesn't know Blythe scientists have developed a special restriction enzyme that not only clones cells, it duplicates humans. The scientists are going to test it on William and the soon-to-be-executed MORRIS BRENNON, a notorious mass murderer.

Jack Sabre has always been a good cop. He has every reason to be the nicest guy on the Denver police force. His wife is the love of his life, but when her charity work brings her into contact with dangerous men on the dark side of the city, she ends up murdered. Jack becomes a bitter man, no more mister nice guy, and with the department dragging its feet on the investigation, he goes after the killer himself. The line between justice and revenge is thin and brittle, and when crossing that ...

American and European scientists have been building bigger and faster particle accelerators to smash atoms into smaller pieces. They are looking for the Higgs boson, the particle that gives matter mass, The God Particle. What if they find it?Fermilabs and CERN are the biggest players in this race for the Higgs boson, named after Peter Higgs who first proposed its existence in1964 as a way to explain why atoms act the way they do. Since then, tens of billions of dollars have been sp...

Love is sorrow. Love is death.In 2235, Scott Dunn is immortal, thanks to a scientific breakthrough in 2010, Everlife, once all the rage but now banned. Everyone he's ever loved is dead: his wife, his children, his grandchildren; they all got old and died while he remains, immune to disease and old age. Fighting perpetual grief, he swears he'll never get close to anyone else ever again, but a call for help sends him to Boulder, Colorado, where he teams up with a mortal woman and her...

Published nearly a decade ago, Fluid Machinery: Performance, Analysis, and Design quickly became popular with students, professors, and professionals because of its comprehensive and comprehensible introduction to the fluid mechanics of turbomachinery. Renamed to reflect its wider scope and reorganized content, this second edition provides a more l

In the hallowed halls of early Christianity, Saint Ambrose penned a treatise that would forever shape the discourse on chastity and the sacredness of virginity. "On Virginity" is a profound exploration of the virtues of abstinence, offering a compelling argument for the superiority of a life dedicated to God over the allurements of the flesh. Through eloquent prose and unwavering conviction, Ambrose extols the beauty and power of virginity, urging his readers to embrace a life of purity an...

This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Genesis, especially those noted by rabbinic midrash, which serves as a model for such creative rewriting of the biblical text. All the novelists considered, from Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Thom...