Ami and her friends just want to do a little white-water rafting in the Smoky Mountains. When her jealous boyfriend decides to try and make their amateur guide look foolish, they end up stranded along the banks of the Pigeon River. While searching for help, they run across a group of men growing for the cartels—men who have no intention of letting them escape with their lives.

First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children’s Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to encourage positive attitudes and actions towards children with special needs, and for utilising the possibilities inherent in fiction for helping all children to explore their thoughts and feelings in this area. The central chapters of the book are concerned with a critical examination of specific texts, focu...

A quest for acceptance turns into a chilling fight for survival.Ryan's teenage quest for coolness catapults him into the heart of a small-town horror, unfolding in the eerie corridors of an abandoned asylum. Seeking to impress the school bullies and his dream girl, Ryan stumbles upon a chilling occult secret: a corpse with a stake through its heart, straight out of vampire legend.His accidental awakening of this ancient horror marks the beginning of a supernatural thriller ...

Tim's reluctant move to the sleepy town of Crimson Springs quickly spirals into a nightmare as he uncovers its terrifying cosmic secret, thrusting him into a fight against an unimaginable horror.In Crimson Springs, a seemingly idyllic small town hides a darkness that defies the laws of nature and reality. Tim, uprooted from city life, finds himself in a place where the normal rules don't apply. As bizarre events unfold, he, along with a group of fellow misfits, must unravel the tow...

Katherine's life has been on a downhill turn, filled with tragedy and heartbreak. When she bought Alston House in the small Tennessee town of Poplar Bend, she hoped it would be the chance to turn things around, center herself again, and get serious about her art. True, it was a risk buying a house virtually sight unseen through the internet, but she knew it needed some extensive renovations, so what could go wrong?What the real estate agent never told her was that Alston House had ...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 17 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 7 minutesThe Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil, consisting of twelve books. The first six books tell the story of Aeneas' journey from Troy to Italy, while the second half describes the Trojans' victorious war against the Latins...

Game development is one of the most rewarding crafts of modern times. Not only is making games a wonderful lifelong hobby, but employment opportunities exist at many levels. Learn to Implement Games with Code guides you through the development process as you put together a release-ready game. It is written in a friendly and conversational tone, which is suitable for a wide audience of aspiring game developers, such as yourself. You will gain practical, hands-on experience ...

A novel approach for the classroom or self-study, Learn to Code with Games makes coding accessible to a broad audience. Structured as a series of challenges that help you learn to code by creating a video game, each chapter expands and builds your knowledge while providing guidelines and hints to solving each challenge.The book employs a unique pro

Beginning in the autumn of 2015, the author began writing a series of novels loosely based upon his childhood while growing up in a small southern town during the early to mid 60s.Laughing and Losing during the Remarkable Summer of '62 is the original short novel in the Rascals of Stafford Street series.The story takes place during the summer of '62, involving humor wrapped around a thread of darkness, an ugly moment from the author's childhood when he was attacked by an older boy. ...

When men discovered that the Planet of the Apes was their own Earth, it was only the beginning of the most incredible adventure of all time...CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APESBy John JakesIn the future, the Earth thrives from the enslavement of its apes. Caesar, the son of Cornelius and Zira, has been in hiding for decades, but surfaces to launch a revolution to overthrow humanity and free his kind.BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APESBy David Gerrold...

Once again we have an eclectic mix of stories new and old. Leading off the pack is an original tale by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, “Digging In,” as a couple goes to great lengths to save their marriage. It was acquired for BCW by editor Michael Bracken. Barb Goffman found a real crime-story treat by John Lantigua. And we have a novel by Stephen Marlowe, a solve-it-yourself short by Hal Charles, and a classic historical story (yes, another Western—but it’s also a mystery) by W.C. Tuttle.O...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 9 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 15 minutes"Considerations on Representative Government" is a book written by John Stuart Mill and published in 1861. In the book, Mill argues in favor of representative government as the ideal form of government. He suggests that the role of...