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Josh and The Sock Army is a fun and entertaining story about a boy who goes looking for his missing red sock. His imagination takes over and he ends up in a secret cave under his house. In the cave Josh finds a giant sock army, bent on revenge for all the stinky feet that people have put in them....

This eleventh edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Four sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories--each from a different featured master of speculative fiction and one intimate interstellar poem. Nathan M. Beauchamp opens with Flesh of my Flesh, a moving study...

The Galactic Defenders is a fictional story about a family of five kids who discover they have superhero power. As their school prepares for their first financial campaign, they learn that the speaker's dad has been kidnapped. Trying to ensure that their generation gets the opportunity to learn...

Farmer Samuel can hear a little kitten calling for help. He searches everywhere but he can t find him. Just when he has about given up hope of finding the kitten, here comes his dog Stinky Little Scroungy (yes, that is his real name!). Scroungy has something gray and furry in his mouth. Is it the kitten?

Gérard et Yann, deux agents immobiliers, vont vite regretter leur venue dans une étrange maison de retraite... Quand Gérard et Yann, deux agents immobiliers, sont envoyés en mission de repérage dans un hospice pour personnes âgées que leur patron désire voir redevenir le palace qu’il...

Samuel Arthur Derieux (1881–1922) was an American writer, known especially for short stories, set in the South, about dogs, hunting, or both.  He was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1881. His undergraduate education was in the South, at Wofford College from 1897 to '99, and at Richmond College...

Named one of Library Journal**'s Best Books of 2017 "Exceptional first novel."**--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Will grip suspense aficionados from the first page."--Library Journal, starred review "A skillfully written, gripping thriller."--Booklist "Action-packed...

Tous aux abris : la volcanique Marie est en colère ! Quand la volcanique Marie du Plessis est en colère, mieux vaut ne pas se retrouver sur son chemin ! Et quand on tue sauvagement l’un de ses meilleurs amis, elle est très, très en colère… Dans ce polar noir et sur-vitaminé, les rebondissements...

Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean...

This acclaimed study of the history of scientific exploration in the Southwest from renowned biologist Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser, first published in its present revised edition in 1948, would be of interest to many types of readers: For those who love stories, of adventure and struggle, it narrates...

Whether it's called Beantown, The Olde Towne, Titletown, The Cradle of Liberty, The Athens of America, The Puritan City, The City on a Hill, or any of its other obscure or oft-repeated nicknames, Boston has a long and varied history. Its universities and hospitals lead the nation, and its sports teams,...

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament,...

Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer and muckraker. The muckrakers (a term coined by President Theodore Roosevelt) were writers of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century who exposed the corruption of businesses or government to the public. Often accused of being socialists...

Until recently we thought the world was made of space, time, and matter. We assumed consciousness was “inside” of ourselves, while the hard, cold, material world was “outside,” existing independently of life. Now, due to the discoveries of relativity theory and quantum mechanics, we are not...