Centuries ago, the aquatic alien Sa arrived to explore Earth's wonders. Initially, they disregarded the dominant land-dwelling humans, viewing them as dangerous and primitive. However, the Sa explorers became marooned on Earth when an aggressive interstellar species invaded and occupied their home worlds.Now, human-induced climate change and nuclear weapon proliferation threaten the Sa's existence. With their expertise in genetic manipulation, the Sa created a hybrid human species ...

Centuries ago, the aquatic alien Sa arrived to explore Earth's wonders. Initially, they disregarded the dominant land-dwelling humans, viewing them as dangerous and primitive. However, the Sa explorers became marooned on Earth when an aggressive interstellar species invaded and occupied their home worlds.Now, human-induced climate change and nuclear weapon proliferation threaten the Sa's existence. With their expertise in genetic manipulation, the Sa created a hybrid human species ...

"One of the best baseball books in years"—a journey with Negro League legend Buck O'Neil by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Baseball 100 ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).Winner of the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearWhen legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked award-winning sports columnist Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, that simple question eventually led the pair on a ...

Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: "A fun ride" ( The Boston Globe).Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will incl...

The Hollywood screen legend brings his wit, insight, entertaining stories and wisdom to answer questions about every aspect of his long life - inspiring us all to Be More Michael Caine.I'm always asked questions - by fans, by other actors and friends, by my grandchildren. They want to know how I've lasted so long, how I handle fame, why I chose to do some of my films, which films and actors I like best and so forth.They also want to know what makes me tick,...

The Hollywood screen legend brings his wit, insight, entertaining stories and wisdom to answer questions about every aspect of his long life - inspiring us all to Be More Michael Caine.I'm always asked questions - by fans, by other actors and friends, by my grandchildren. They want to know how I've lasted so long, how I handle fame, why I chose to do some of my films, which films and actors I like best and so forth.They also want to know what makes me tick,...

The Bus Bunch is a group of kids that live in Brite Star and attend Brite Star School. They have become friends as they all ride the same bus to school each day.The Bus Bunch stories are intended to teach and reinforce positive behavior to young children.In A Field Trip to Remember the Bus Bunch takes a field trip to the local Boys and Girls Club where they learn about being generous and the importance of giving back.

Get off the beaten path and explore the hidden-gem destinations within a few hours of the Mother Road! Includes numerous photos and illustrations.Known as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road, US Route 66 is the nation's best-known highway. This lavishly illustrated book steers you from Chicago to Los Angeles, traveling through the lowlands of the American Plains and the high plateaus of New Mexico and Arizona, from the Great Lakes to the mighty Pacific Oc...

A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear. Colton said he met his miscarri...

A compendium of Heather Ewart's favourite road trips around this great land with tips on where to go, when to go, what to pack and what to see.There's no better way to see this vast country of ours than by hitting roads along the coastline, or heading inland to the mountains, deserts and wide, open plains. As host of ABC TV's Back Roads, Heather Ewart has travelled thousands of kilometres over a multitude of routes - some bitumen, some little more than rou...

““No one can walk the streets at night without risking their life… whole families are fleeing the town. I have not moved without arms since May 14th.”— Magistrate George W. Baker, June 1836Lowertown, Ottawa, 1835–1837. Violence rules the streets as Irish and French-Canadian lumbermen battle for work during a brief but fierce period known as the Shiner War. Amid the chaos, the Brislin brothers, Richard and Hugh, are drawn into opposing sides. And in a town teetering...

On the mountain, children are not any more safe than adults. Sometimes, a fabled monster turns out to be real. Other times, something completely unexpected will happen. And when your parents do not believe in something, you can't change what might happen.Children learn young to be strong but they are still afraid, wondering if they'll be the next to disappear. The next child the mountain folks search for during the day, and cry for at night.In part 2 of The Camp Series, Jes...