A young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flyswatters and that heroes come in all shapes and sizes.
Fighting Saint Dain on the alternate reality-fueled planet Veelox, 15-year-old Traveler Bobby Pendragon finds himself in uncharted territory. With all the citizens locked into dream worlds, they are vulnerable to a nightmare attack from the shape-shifting Saint Dain. Bobby must put a stop to this be ...
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<B>Best-selling author Barbara Goldsmith on the myth and reality behind the extraordinary "Madame Curie."</B><BR>The myth of Marie Curie—the penniless Polish immigrant who, through genius and obsessive persistence, endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for ...
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Beginning at 6 p.m. and ending at 6 a.m., this poetic odyssey through the nocturnal world explores the hours of darkness in chapters that deal with such themes as sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, fireworks, nightclubs, astronomy, sleep and dreams, and endless nights, among others.
In 1840, a precocious 16-year-old by the name of William Thomson spent his summer vacation studying an extraordinarily sophisticated mathematical controversy. His brilliant analysis inspired lavish praise and made the boy an instant intellectual celebrity.<BR> As a young scholar William dazzled a V ...
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