Jack's Tales is a chapter book designed specifically for reluctant reader boys. Its three short vignettes immediately engage the reader and provide a quick sense of accomplishment upon completion. In these stories, Jack learns mainly to express his feelings, an important skill for all boys to master.

Jack's Tales

Jim, Westcott

Children's Books

DartFrog Books

The 52 Dinner Challenge is not your ordinary cookbook. A believer in the importance and power of shared family meals, author Diana Brinton Davis has created a book that invites the modern family - so pulled and tugged by competing schedules...always connected but often disconnected - to commit to one family dinner a week, for 52 weeks. From appetizers to entrees and desserts, Diana Brinton Davis gives you all the recipe information you need to create a fabulous dinner experience. But really, this book isn't about the recipes. It's about giving you an opportunity to reclaim this most sacred and enriching part of family life. Will you take the 52 Dinner Challenge? We predict the result will be much more than a great meal.
The 52 Dinner Challenge was named a Finalist by the USA Best Books Awards in 2015.

The 52 Dinner Challenge

Davis, Diana Brinton

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

The thing to know about this chapter book is that pretty much everything in it is true in a make believe kind of way. And even if you don't believe a word of this story, according to Justin, Bear and JoJo Indian, it's completely, absolutely 100% true.

Tackling Tires

Lawson, Joe

Action & Adventure

Hospital Trains and Vessels during the Civil War: The Evolution in the Handling and Transportation of the Wounded

History

Puzzilla, Anthony G.

Americas

The devastating F4 La Plata, Maryland tornado of April 28, 2002, was a significant event for several reasons. First, tornadoes along the Atlantic coast are not common. It tracked across the Chesapeake Bay almost to the Atlantic Ocean. Next, a tornado of this magnitude is extremely rare in the Northeast region. It is only the third to have occurred in the state of Maryland. La Plata has had two, in 1926 and 2002, and one occurred in Frostburg, Maryland in 1998. Also, The La Plata Tornado of April 28th was the strongest ever to strike Maryland, and the second strongest to ever hit the Northeast region. The strongest was the Worchester, Massachusetts F4 tornado that touched down on Tuesday, June 9, 1953.\nThe tornado originated along the Kentucky/West Virginia border, crossed the state of West Virginia over the Ridge and Valley, Blue Ridge and Piedmont Mountains, and then made it across Virginia. This is indeed a rare event as just like hurricanes, most storms weaken and dissipate when they cross over mountains. At that point in time, the tornado had traveled about four-hundred miles. Once across the Potomac River, it traveled across Charles, Calvert, Dorchester and Wicomico Counties in southern Maryland, a total distance of sixty additional miles, resulting in the total track for this tornado to be about four-hundred sixty miles, a truly remarkable meteorological feat.\nThe tornado caused in excess of $100 million dollars in property damage, destroying eight-hundred sixty residential homes and one-hundred ninety-four businesses in its wake.\nDespite the severity and strength of this tornado, it could not measure up to the sheer determination of the people of the Town of La Plata to pick themselves up and rebuild their beloved town to even greater glory and splendor. The sheer force of the human spirit to overcome this natural disaster would not be denied.

Hope Triumphs Over Chaos: The La Plata Tornado of April 28, 2002

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In 1891, diphtheria struck a farming area west of Silverton, Oregon. A family called Simmons was particularly stricken by the disease, and they turned to the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel—who had established a monastery in the town only three years earlier—for help in caring for their ill children.The sisters responded to the call. For the next two months, indifferent to personal risk, they attended to the family, converting the Simmons farmhouse into a hospital, ministering to all their needs, praying for their recovery and refusing any payment for their services.Author Thomas Ewing is a descendant of the Simmons family. Call &amp; Responseis his tribute to the Benedictine Sisters and a fascinating history of the order’s presence in Mt. Angel, Oregon. Sixty-four years after the diphtheria epidemic, the Sisters assumed supervision of a small nursing home. Over the next decades, through ceaseless energy and devotion, they made thehome one of the finest in the nation, renowned for its innovation and compassion in caring for the elderly.“Of the Sisters’ many achievements—Mt. Angel College, the Shalom Prayer Center, and Mission Benedict—none quite equal the Benedictine Nursing Center, now the Providence Benedictine Nursing Center, either in scope or number of lives touched.”

Call and Response: A History of the Benedictine Nursing Center

Ewing, Thomas Esson

World

Professor Percival Marlowe is a brilliant, elderly astrophysicist who's dying, his greatest achievement still unfinished and now beyond his diminished means.Doctor Carl Dorning, a neurosurgeon, finally discovers a secret method of transplanting memories from one person to another thanks to Marlowe's millions.Miguel Sanchez, a homeless boy, agrees to become the recipient of Marlowe's knowledge and personality in the unorthodox experiment, enticed by Dorning's promises of intelligence, wealth and respect but dangerously unaware that his own identity will be lost forever.What results is a seesaw battle for control of Miguel's body as Marlowe learns to his dismay what his lifetime of arrogance and conceit has earned him. And when Marlowe stumbles upon the shocking procedure Dorning used in desperation to succeed, the professor does what he must to defeat Dorning and redeem himself at last.

An Audience for Einstein

Wakely, Mark

Teen & Young Adult

Nuclear Technology Demystified: Everything You Need to Know About Everything Nuclear is a detailed introduction for laypersons to all aspects of nuclear technology. It begins with discussions of the science behind nuclear systems, including some basic physics, atomic and nuclear structure, radiation, nuclear reactions, the fission chain reaction, and conversion of the heat produced by a reactor into electricity. Next, it puts nuclear power in context by surveying other energy sources and their pros and cons, and it discusses global warming as a reason to advocate the application of nuclear power as a carbon-free energy source. Finally, it describes specific nuclear technologies, including nuclear medicine, conventional and advanced nuclear reactors, nuclear fusion, the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear waste disposal, and even nuclear weapons. It presents detailed summaries of the three major accidents that have been suffered by commercial nuclear power stations: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi.The reader needs no mathematical background. Some mathematical concepts are presented, but they are explained in simple terms that laypersons can understand. The book can be read cover-to-cover or used as a reference to search for specific topics. An extensive index helps the reader find specific items of interest.

Nuclear Technology Demystified: Everything You Need to Know About Everything Nuclear

Science & Math

Terry, William K.

Physics

"An original and highly immersive introduction to an intriguing fantasy world." --Kirkus ReviewsA short, fast-paced novella, BRIMSTONE is a work of literary fantasy, and the first in THE METALS TRILOGY.
Sariel, a fugitive slave, is running from the desert mines, and from an Empire that is hungry for a new and mysterious metal that the alchemists call brimstone.
In a moment of mercy and lust, Ava Sandrino, herself a knight fallen from grace, shelters Sariel from his pursuers, and in the light of the moon, he speaks to her of a door. It is a gate that opens into a world that lies beyond the Northern Dark, over the edge of their farthest horizon. There, paupers rub shoulders with princes, and there are riches to be had by those with the will to seize them.
Swayed by Sariel's tales of strange oceans and distant stars, and tired of a past that holds her down, Ava joins him on the trek to the kingdom where souls are remade. Together, they must cross a borderland that is the domain of magicians, the humans that serve them, and the One O'clock King: a faceless despot who guards the crossroads of worlds.

Brimstone (The Metals Trilogy)

Literature & Fiction

Rosenberg, Justine

Genre Fiction

Aubrey Cumming and her Mackintosh are planning their wedding in Scotland. Into the mix comes a new ghost story, an international conspiracy, and the personal tragedy of bridesmaid Kate Bianchi. When the groom disappears without a trace, Kate must rise above her own heartache to solve the mystery and amend a centuries old injustice.

The Piper's Warning (Highland Spirits)

MacKinnon, M.

British & Irish

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