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Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet too often this inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the questions fall away. This is a book designe...
In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves around the empty throne. As a terri...
When T.S. is dumped by his girlfriend, he retreats to the mall with his comic book-loving best friend Brodie, whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated suburban New Jersey teenagers decide to win their girlfriends back with...
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns...
Television series set in the sun-drenched sprawl of Los Angeles that tells the adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers, Jon Baker and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello.
In the late Autumn of 1380, Brother Athelstan and his parish council are preparing for the Christmas mystery play when a master thief arrives at St. Erconwald's. A series of grisly murders follows but the obvious suspect proves to be not guilty.
"It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend. Jack has been something of a tag-along to this point, but now he takes the rein...
England, 1562. In the village of Dunmow, eighteen-year-old Rebecca Lennox is feared by the other villagers, both for her hare lip and her gift of second sight. When a young Catholic priest, Michael St Clair, comes into the village in disguise, Rebecca is much taken by him; he is ...
London. January, 1382. The Crown's treasury has been robbed. Tens of thousands of silver and gold coin mysteriously lifted from the most secure chamber in the kingdom; the five Clerks of the Dark who guarded the king's treasure brutally garrotted. Sir John Cranston and Brother At...
"When five sentient digital beings -- condemned for over three hundred years to crew the small survey ship by the all-powerful Company -- encounter a mysterious black sphere, their course of action is clear: obtain the object, inform the Company, earn lots of praise. But the ship...
Repairman Jack goes to Florida to find out why his father was seriously injured in an automobile accident, and links up with a woman who has unusual powers not unlike his own.
Repairman Jack and his brother Tom go on a wild treasure hunt that sends them to a desolate wreck off the coast of Bermuda.
Television series set in the sun-drenched sprawl of Los Angeles that tells the adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers, Jon Baker and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello.