A teen without a home. A dangerous residence. Can she survive one terrifying night to secure her future? Charlene Griffin never thought she’d be without a home. But when she’s kicked out on her eighteenth birthday, she has no choice but to sleep inside an ominous Victorian mansion. And with the owner offering the estate to anyone who can spend a full night in the haunted property, Charlene decides to risk life and limb to get off the streets. Refusing to heed the warnings of those sent running in fear for their lives, Charlene is confident she can last from sunset to sunrise. But she’ll need all her wits about her to withstand the hours of terror, because these ghosts are determined to get rid of her. Will Charlene outsmart her supernatural foes and make it to dawn? Defying the Ghosts is an eerie YA haunted house story. If you like heart-racing action, fearless heroes, and survival adventures, then you’ll love Joan Marie Verba’s thrilling tale. Buy Defying the Ghosts to explore forbidden shadowy corners today!
In 1977, NASA launched the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This book tells of what was known about those planets and their moons before the Voyager missions, as well as what Voyager discovered about those planets and their moons. This book is written for the middle-grade reader, and can be enjoyed by readers age 12 and up.
Having fun while saving the world! "Modern Surprises [is] a delightful adventure story.... This book is tremendous fun, and has a lot of really strong, fascinating characters, most of whom happen to be female. Really groovy stuff, and you should check it out." -Keith R.A. DeCandido, author of Dragon Precinct "Joan's prose is always cool, it's a majority female team and that's such a good title." -Paul Cornell, author of London Falling, The Severed Streets, and Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? The women at Modern Surprises LLC, needed someone to answer the phones. Jay Ecklund was hired. From the very first day, he found this was no ordinary company: the science division there had secretly developed a portal that would allow them to go to anywhere on Earth. Madeline Chang, a military veteran and owner of Modern Surprises, had a plan: to use the portal as a device to help those in need. However, billionaire industrialist Charles Vance found out about the portal, and was willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get it for himself. But Madeline, Jay, and the rest of the team were not about to let him have it. A note from the author: if you enjoy television shows that show how science works, Modern Surprises is for you. I definitely had fun with the novel, and intended for the characters to have fun, as well--because I believe science is fun (I have a physics degree). Through the novel, readers experience how technology needs to be tested, how there are are unexpected effects, and how technology doesn't always work in the way the original design indicated it might (and that can be delightful). When the characters find that the portal, Arachne, responds to music, it adds yet another dimension to the technology. I hope you'll have fun with the story, too.
If you need a larger address book, this paperback book is the size of a trade paperback (6 x 9 inches), and there are spaces for over 180 entries. Each entry has places for name, address, phone, email, birthday, and/or anniversary. The lines for the address entries are 3/8 inches wide, leaving plenty of room to write. You can track cards sent and received for each address for 10 years. There's also a page in the front to list your most frequent or most important contacts. Useful for the holidays, or any time of year!
A teen without a home. A dangerous residence. Can she survive one terrifying night to secure her future? Charlene Griffin never thought she’d be without a home. But when she’s kicked out on her eighteenth birthday, she has no choice but to sleep inside an ominous Victorian mansion. And with the owner offering the estate to anyone who can spend a full night in the haunted property, Charlene decides to risk life and limb to get off the streets. Refusing to heed the warnings of those sent running in fear for their lives, Charlene is confident she can last from sunset to sunrise. But she’ll need all her wits about her to withstand the hours of terror, because these ghosts are determined to get rid of her. Will Charlene outsmart her supernatural foes and make it to dawn? Defying the Ghosts is an eerie YA haunted house story. If you like heart-racing action, fearless heroes, and survival adventures, then you’ll love Joan Marie Verba’s thrilling tale. Buy Defying the Ghosts to explore forbidden shadowy corners today!
After his wife dies in a tragic accident, astronaut Jeff Tracy is left with five young sons to raise. But he turns his grief into a dream: to create an organization which will rescue people that no one else can reach. He builds a business which creates the new technology that the organization will require and earns the billions he needs to finance it. At last, he is ready to put it all together. He enlists the services of a genius to design aircraft and supporting machinery far beyond the standards of his time. Together, they find a Pacific island to use as the base for their operations. Jeff asks his five sons, now grown, to give up promising careers to build the base, operate the machines, and serve in his organization. But he finds that in order to make his dream a reality, it will require sacrifice, courage, and determination...far beyond what he, or his sons, ever expected. Can they make International Rescue a reality, and what will it take to make the fantastic Thunderbird machines go?
In 1977, NASA launched the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This book tells of what was known about those planets and their moons before the Voyager missions, as well as what Voyager discovered about those planets and their moons. This book is written for the middle-grade reader, and can be enjoyed by readers age 12 and up.
In this book, Joan Marie Verba shares the struggles, challenges, and insights she has experienced in her successful weight loss journey. She reached her weight goals in 1979 and kept the weight off ever since.
Are your recipes scattered all over your kitchen or in drawers on scraps of paper? With this blank cookbook, you can write down your recipes-or paste them in-and organize them in one place. Each recipe is numbered so that you can find any recipe easily, and there's a place in the front of the book to list them, as well. (There are spaces for 100 recipes.) With this cookbook, you'll know where to find your recipes at any time!
Need to organize your recipes? This blank cookbook is for you! Write down your recipes, instructions, and notes in one place. There are spaces and lines for 2 recipes on each page, all numbered so you can find them by number. There's a section in the front of the cookbook for you to fill in so that you can find your favorites again at any time. If you clip recipes from newspapers or magazines, or have recipes written on pieces of paper, just paste them in!
Keep your passwords safe and secure with this password journal and logbook. Hackers can get into your computer and steal your passwords if you use "save password" features or if you put your passwords in a special file. Here, the hackers can't get at them! Also, if your passwords are stored on your computer and your computer crashes and you can't remember your passwords, they're gone! In addition, your passwords will be available to your loved ones if anything should happen to you and they need to get into your accounts. Use this journal to keep track of your passwords and manage them well!
What are you thankful for today? This personal gratitude journal is perfect for writing down your daily insights, goals, and accomplishments. You can use this journal to record your everyday blessings and inspirational moments. Start any day of the year, and if you need to skip a day, or a week, you can pick it up again at any time. Then you can use it to preserve all the wonderful moments of your life!
Are you tired of buying daily and weekly planners where you have to leave large blank spaces because you didn't start at the beginning of the year? With this planner, you can start any time you want, and fill in only the days that you want. With this planner, you control the planning!
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