"Einstein meets Captain Kirk in this improbable foray into the frontiers of theoretical physics . . . science illuminates humankind's most audacious dreams." — Booklist (starred review)Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it start...

IN THESE PAGES, the reader will meet one of America's foremost seafaring men and explorers. Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970) was born in Provincetown on Cape Cod and orphaned at an early age. After working his way through Bowdoin College and a brief stint at teaching, he became one of Robert E. Peary's chief assistants on the arctic expedition that finally fought its way across the bitter Polar Sea to reach the North Pole.There followed a series of arctic expeditions spanning nearly ...

For fans of video games, pop-culture, and humorous action and adventure stories. Digital Lizards of Doom is part graphic novel, part chapter book, and all fun. In this thrilling, fourth installment of the Digital Lizards of Doom series, the cyborg, cat-pirate, Fat Cat Rogers, races back to Kragladon alongside Dana Deathly and Shakey Spears in a daring rescue to save Dizzy Doom from Commander E.K.O. Guided by the wisdom of a kind and loving innkeeper, Rogers confronts his life choices as he...