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Frank and Joe are covering the Formula One Championship in Indianapolis for the local newspaper. When one of the top racers lands in the hospital and another's garage is burned, the Hardy boys try find to the person behind these "accidents.

Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, the...

Fake news? Biased media sources?This hard-hitting critique of our media culture examines not only the ways in which the public is often deceived, but the media's role in propagating those deceptions. But Media Mythmakers goes beyond criticism to give concrete examples of the damage that manipulation of the news causes. From missing children to the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, from the efforts to end slavery to AIDS education, myths and decep...

At last--collected in one exciting volume--the earliest adventures of Captain MacKenzie Calhoun and the crew of the "U.S.S. Excalibur." Finally fans can satiate their thirst for Star Trek: New Frontier novels with books one through eight.

A clear introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy and key aspects of the tradition. Now contains new articles and additional readings on Orthodoxy and evangelicalism.

Catboat Summers chronicles a decade's worth of adventure through a series of short tales, each recounting one of the Conways' many extraordinary experiences aboard their hand-crafted vessel.

Susan Rubin Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. Her many books include Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (Nebraska 1996) and Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature. ¿a Forg¿, formerly a professor of art history at the Hungarian Academy of Crafts and Design, teaches at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, ...

Transformational leaders know how to build on their church's identity. They know how to make the story of change the next chapter in the book of the congregation's life, rather than throwing the book away and trying to start over. An astute student of management and leadership theory, Weems offers congregational leaders essential insights into how they can bring about authentic and faithful growth. Includes congregational case studies, visual ...

Journalist Richard Conniff probes the age-old question "Are the rich different from you and me?" and finds that they are indeed a completely different animal. He observes with great humor this socially unique species, revealing their strategies for ensuring dominance and submission, their flourishes of display behavior, the intricate dynamics of their pecking order, as well as their unorthodox mating practices. Through comparisons to other equ...

In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentles...

Sara lebt in einer Kleinstadt und hat einen großen Traum: Sie will eine weltberühmte Ballerina werden. Als ihre Mutter plötzlich stirbt, muss Sara ihre Pläne aufgeben und zu ihrem Vater an die raue South Side von Chicago ziehen. Ein weißes Mädchen in einer zumeist schwarzen Nachbarschaft. Sara fühlt sich fehl am Platz - bis sie sich mit ihrer schwarzen Klassenkameradin Chenille und deren hübschen Bruder Derek anfreundet. Zwischen Sara und Dere...