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Steve Greenberg has always been drawn to ingenuity and invention. It was that fascination that caused Steve to write this book about garage inventors. The book showcases more than 100 off-beat gadgets and the inventors behind them. The book, GADGET NATION: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ECCENTRIC WORLD OF INVENTION...

The fifth book in the bestselling Fifties Chix series by Angela Sage Larsen, Till the End of Time finds the Fifties Chix about to get everything they ever wanted?yet they still feel out of place. With a revelation that will make their world come crashing down around them, their social studies teacher...

WORLD ENOUGH, AND TIME is the first book of this spell-binding action adventure trilogy. In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years from now, humans are a dying species. When Joshua’s wife is kidnapped by a gryphon and a vampire, he and his comrades—a centaur and an android—set out to rescue her across...

As if their quest to return home isn't challenging enough for Fifties Chix friends Mary, Ann, Judy, Maxine, and Bev - they must also cope with a love triangle between Mary, Ann and James O'Grady; a controversial underground school newspaper; and the unexplained disappearance of their classroom teacher,...

Vic learns that his fiancée is being stalked, Guys dreams of a 19th-century murder, and the connection between their twisted tales leads to a shocking surprise involving reincarnation. Bestselling author James Kahn - doctor, writer, and musician - has worked with celebrated filmmaker Steven Spielberg,...

Series Description: This new BIG LITTLE CRITTER BOOK series provides a wonderful library for kids, parents, and even teachers to use, enjoy, discuss, laugh about, lean from, and be Entertained by for countless hours in all situations and circumstances. The five-book series will cover areas of behavior,...

Series Description: This new BIG LITTLE CRITTER BOOK series provides a wonderful library for kids, parents, and even teachers to use, enjoy, discuss, laugh about, lean from, and be Entertained by for countless hours in all situations and circumstances. The five-book series will cover areas of behavior,...

Time’s Dark Laughter—the second book of this spell-binding action adventure trilogy—finds Joshua and his friends alive, but not well, three years after the calamitous rescue in Book I. Beauty’s wife Rose disappears again, this time drawn compulsively to others of her kind—those with connecting...

When Bev is recruited in present day to pitch for the boys’ baseball team, she is in seventh heaven when her team could earn its way to the championship game. Standing between Bev and victory is her arch nemesis, Diane Dunkelman. She must come to terms once and for all with her rival, and learn how...

In 1945 May Boggs, the Fifties Chix’ social studies teacher, is 15 years old. World War II has taken its toll and May and her two best friends, Rowena and Emily, are happy to see the war coming to an end at long last. But their bright futures are disrupted by a trip back to another war torn era--the...

Overview TRAVEL TO TOMORROW is the first title in this five-book series: FIFTIES CHIX. Sock hops. Soda fountains. Slumber parties. Life in 1955 is simple for tomboy Beverly, moody Maxine, high-spirited Judy, studious Mary and artistic Ann. But after a class assignment to predict life in the future, they...

In The REAL TRUTH About Social Media, social strategist Eric Harr reveals the secrets to social media success. He shares invaluable lessons--and painful mistakes--forged from thousands of hours of "in-the-trenches" work with his clients. Filled with the latest research, practical insights, case studies,...

“Forgiveness is elusive, mysterious, primal…an idea and an ache, which is rooted in existential concerns. But too often forgiveness is presented as a simplistic valentine celebrating New Age pieties: exhorting us to forgive and criticizing those who cannot as spiritual underachievers,â€...

Author of the Petalwink character education series for children, Angela Sage Larsen has now written a tale of adventure and friendship, enriched by historical facts, for tween readers. Travel to Tomorrow is the first book in the Fifties Chix series about five time traveling friends from 1955.