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The future isn't what it used to be . . . In the Year 2191, something or someone is destroying the time corridor pathways into the past. If kidnapped present-day mathematician Luci Gaudiano can't solve the mystery before they disappear, millions in the future will perish.

The future isn't what it used to be . . . In the Year 2191, something or someone is destroying the time corridor pathways into the past. If kidnapped present-day mathematician Luci Gaudiano can't solve the mystery before they disappear, millions in the future will perish.

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is discovered in the attic.You'll meet Midge and Smitty Mallet, who end up in Toad Springs after being led astray by one of the Tennessee binder boys, Chuck Barber and his plans to get rich starting up a "game of chance, " and Ginger Perkins who, after being jealous for years of her best friend's successful...

Glyde, Gonzo, and Azul have one thing in common: they're all flying as flocks of one. Other than his father, Lupé, Glyde has never seen a pure Guadalupe petrel, so when he hears of a similar petrel in danger, he implores his father to join him in a daring rescue attempt. Along the way, Glyde is joined by Gonzo, an endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, Zomis, the last remaining passenger pigeon, and a barred owl who speaks only in Shakespearean E...

Glyde, Gonzo, and Azul have one thing in common: they're all flying as flocks of one. Other than his father, Lupé, Glyde has never seen a pure Guadalupe petrel, so when he hears of a similar petrel in danger, he implores his father to join him in a daring rescue attempt. Along the way, Glyde is joined by Gonzo, an endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, Zomis, the last remaining passenger pigeon, and a barred owl who speaks only in Shakespearean E...

From the author:Please don't try to learn Tai Chi by rote memorization. That's the usual way, and it's a Confucian teaching device for a Confucian age. This book devotes over two hundred pages to fresh, original explanations of what Tai Chi is and how it works.As an educator, I've found that a principle-driven approach really softens the learning curve. Once we've absorbed the global principles of Tai Chi, the details more or less fall into pl...

When Maputa is caught in a fishing net off the coast of the Comoros, neither she nor the fishermen believe she will survive. But rather than meeting the Spirit-fish, the ancient coelacanth finds herself on display as a living fossil at SeaTopia on the Florida coast. There she joins a motley crew of captive sea creatures and the man-tide who both confine and care for them-including Samantha, a neglected teen who finds purpose at the aquarium.At...

Tense, authentic, compelling - a tumultuous 24 hours in Beijing, as witnessed by those involved.Each year, howling winds from the Gobi send desert grit swirling into Beijing which then mixes with the existing pollution, causing fluorescent yellow skies and a toxic, throat-burning smog.On one such day in March, youthful activists decide to gather in Tiananmen Square right outside the Great Hall of the People where the National Congress is in se...

Tense, authentic, compelling - a tumultuous 24 hours in Beijing, as witnessed by those involved.Each year, howling winds from the Gobi send desert grit swirling into Beijing which then mixes with the existing pollution, causing fluorescent yellow skies and a toxic, throat-burning smog.On one such day in March, youthful activists decide to gather in Tiananmen Square right outside the Great Hall of the People where the National Congress is in se...

If humanity is to survive, the alien T'Kharr must be stopped... even if it means sacrificing tens of thousands.Grand Commander Brandon North and his fleet must liberate a research facility taken by mankind's most ruthless and deadly enemy, the T'Kharr. The new technology developed there cannot be allowed to swing the decades-long war in the enemy's favor, even if it means sacrificing tens of thousands of lives... including his own.Reminiscent ...

If humanity is to survive, the alien T'Kharr must be stopped... even if it means sacrificing tens of thousands.Grand Commander Brandon North and his fleet must liberate a research facility taken by mankind's most ruthless and deadly enemy, the T'Kharr. The new technology developed there cannot be allowed to swing the decades-long war in the enemy's favor, even if it means sacrificing tens of thousands of lives... including his own.Reminiscent ...

Every Friday for the last 25 years of her life, I had lunch with Charlotte and each week she told me more of her extraordinary story. To all appearances, she was a strong and dignified survivor, with old-world courtesies, a twinkling sense of humor, and a lilting Austrian syntax. Yet deep within, she'd been scarred by a profound personal trauma. Finally, just before she died at the age of 91, she chose to entrust me with this profound secret, ...

Every Friday for the last 25 years of her life, I had lunch with Charlotte and each week she told me more of her extraordinary story. To all appearances, she was a strong and dignified survivor, with old-world courtesies, a twinkling sense of humor, and a lilting Austrian syntax. Yet deep within, she'd been scarred by a profound personal trauma. Finally, just before she died at the age of 91, she chose to entrust me with this profound secret, ...

Welcome to the inspiring story of Binti, a female octopus who lives in the Makoona coral reef, and Kemar, a Cambodian boy who fishes the reef.As a mollusk without a shell, Binti believes she's missing something... but the reef is a dangerous place to search for anything, let alone the shell that will make her complete and let her communicate with the spirit-fish. But helped by her friends and a psychedelic octopus who speaks in Grateful Dead l...

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I didn't see Rebecca die the second time." The United States military hides a secret: the completely real existence of eat-your-brains, one-bite-and-you're-dead zombies. The Army has known they exist for over a hundred years, and has been quietly and expertly keeping the secret. Until now. His hometown destroyed, with everyone he has ever known dead and gone, the sole survivor of the massacre at Fall Creek joins a secret military group to comb...

The zombie apocalypse isn't coming, it's already here. Becoming a zombie was much more painful than he had expected. The world has ended, and the few who are left struggle to survive. They had hoped that the worst thing they would have to deal with in this new world would be the walkers, come to rip and devour. They were wrong. There are worse things than zombies. Those once thought safely sheltered in massive bunkers are under cea...

Vann Arnett may be the last man to survive the end of civilization, unchanged by the plague that brought about The Collapse. For him, life is a daily battle not only to stay alive, but also to keep from going crazy. So when his carefully structured world is turned upside down by a force of outsiders beyond his control, his fight for sanity takes a backseat to that of survival. In a world populated by the dead, the crazy, and the murder...

Vann Arnett may be the last man to survive the end of civilization, unchanged by the plague that brought about The Collapse. For him, life is a daily battle not only to stay alive, but also to keep from going crazy. So when his carefully structured world is turned upside down by a force of outsiders beyond his control, his fight for sanity takes a backseat to that of survival. In a world populated by the dead, the crazy, and the murder...