"Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of electricity in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series In 600 BCE, the Greek mathematician Thales observed a seemingly strange phenomenon: amber, when rubbed with a cloth, had the ability to attract l...
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"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the CO...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 b...
A story of senseless destruction, patriotism, and grit against all odds focuses on the people of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol who stayed to defend their home against Russian forces, which came with a devastating price.
Chucky continues his quest to possess the body of a human child. Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, Andy Barclay turns 16 and is placed in a military school. Meanwhile, the president of Play Pals Toy Company decides to resurrect the popular Good Guys doll lin...
Starting in 2011, refugees flood out of war-torn Syria in Exodus-like proportions. The surprising flood of victims overwhelms neighboring countries, and chaos follows. Resentment in host nations heightens as disruption and the cost of aid grows. By 2017, many want to turn their b...
Describes the record-breaking flight of a daring woman pilot, Ruth Law, from Chicago to New York in 1916.
Ocean's eleven: Hollywood's A list stars come together to pull off the most daring heist Las Vegas has ever known. It will take brilliant planning, shrewd scheming, cunning disguises, truckloads of technology and just a little bit of luck. But how do you fleece one of the most ru...
To prove that humans have changed since the "dark times", Marnie invites Halloweentown teenagers to her school. When an evil knight shows up to destroy all things magical, Marnie must save her friends and her own magic.
Tess and Logan are back solving mysteries as an old friend of Tess's is found dead just before he was going to propose to his girlfriend. Codes, cyphers, and crossword puzzles all lend a hand at finding the killer as Tess and Logan try to find a way to work together to decipher t...
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today.
"This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shaped the future"--OCLC.
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic ...
The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters -- the team that changed basketball forever. In this book, you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot! You will find skilled athletes, expert players, and electrifying perfor...
During the 1970s, an aging Muhammad Ali and a young, cocky George Foreman travel to Zaire for the Rumble in the jungle. Uses footage from the fight in the late 1970s as well as current commentary from Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and others.