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Did you ever wonder what it was like to live in England during the time of Queen Elizabeth I? Travel back to the 16th century and come face-to-face with the queen herself, and discover, among all the men who loved her, whose ring she wore to her deathbed.The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

Middle Terra Firma was home to an idyllic countryside and a wondrous variety of fantastical beings and magical inhabitants. It existed in peace and contentment, until the arrival of the creature known as The Dark Rider, and the havoc he wreaked as he traveled the Black Highway in his sixteen-wheeled dragon. To quote from The Book of Roadtrippin'' by Bivouac, son of Carouac: "It was he, The Dark Rider, who was in the driver''s seat, and his wicked hands were clasped firmly on the wheel. Where he came from and where he was going nobody knew, but one thing was sure...there was no mistaking where he had been." Who is this terror bringing death and destruction to the magical land? Who are his victims and who has survived? What is his dire purpose...and where will it all end? Come, gentle readers -- be not afraid. The tale within these pages will explain all...except how to best prepare...

This is the dramatic, fully-researched and definitive account of the war that almost destroyed Israel: the Yom Kippur War. Launched by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and his primary ally, Syria's President Hafiz al-Asad, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the sudden attack took the Israeli Defense Force totally by surprise. Here you will discover how such a colossal intelligence blunder -- one that almost caused the destruction of Israel -- happened. It is a story of incredible courage and bravery of the soldiers on both sides, of the high-stakes diplomatic battles waged by the UN, the United States, and the Soviet Union, even as troops and pilots from Israel and the nine Arab states attacking it shed their blood on the desert sands.

Set in the American Century from 1814 to 2003, An American Family Sampler is a chronicle of five generations who built and ultimately destroyed a great company. From its mercantile roots through country banking then morphing into a manufacturing and shipping giant and eventually becoming a financial powerhouse, the company, Prescotts, waxed and waned with America. Although based on a real life events, a story about a company is boring. What will keep reader interest are the stories of the family, its members, workers, spouses, friends and enemies. The thread binding these diverse characters is the company. But the book is about the characters recorded in its pages. They include: ¿Henry Prescott-founding son who drives it to early success with the help of his wife, Rebecca. Their marriage is one of partnership and passion. ¿William Prescott-their only child to live to maturity he builds on his Civil War experiences to create a community banking empire. ¿Samuel Gilbert-born the son of a manumitted slave and he rises within the company to be its de facto operations leader and the founder of his own family wealth. At one point he is the highest ranking Negro in America. The author infused this novel with characters taken from real life. Some of the events and actions described are true, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. In some cases, they have been never reported. Donald P. Mazzella has been a journalist his working entire life. As a reporter, correspondent, editor or member of such companies as McGraw-Hill, Essence, Thomson Publications, and NBC News, he was involved with some of the 20th Century's major events. Currently, Mazzella is editorial director of Information Strategies, Inc. a multi-media company in the small business, healthcare, and HR sectors having more than 11 million opt-in readers. Don taught journalism and communications at such colleges as Columbia, NYU, CCNY, Rice, Vanderbilt and FDU. He holds BA, MA and MBA degrees from NYU and is certified as an expert witness in publishing and printing in the Federal Southern District of New York. He is a nationally known speaker who has appeared on or in numerous television, radio, and periodical publications. This is his first novel.

Clara, a thirteen-year-old child, was plucked out of a French Catholic orphanage and sent to her mother's family in Switzerland. The Second World War had recently ended, and her French step-family was in great difficulty. Clara was very eager to go, as the thought of eventually living with her real family had sustained the child throughout her war childhood. However, it was soon obvious that the family could not accept Clara. They did not know what to make of a girl who seemed to be only interested in intellectual pursuits. She did not share their religion, spoke a strange French, and what is more, showed no interest in domestic work. Their rejection of Clara was mirrored in the child who showed a net preference for warm-hearted and cultured neighbours for whom she developed a deep affection. Soon the family rejected Clara and sent her back to France. The step-parents exploited and physically abused her. When her health broke down, and she could no longer bring wages home, the beatings increased. Eventually she agreed to go back to Switzerland hoping to be able to restart her education. After a rather cool reception by the family, she was told that college was not a possibility as she had to learn to run a house. Being without a dowry it would be hard enough to find a husband. She was not yet sixteen years old. This ordeal lasted nearly five years. Due to the rigid Swiss system, as a foreigner she could not get bursaries or grants to sustain her studies, even if the family had agreed to sign their approval. Unqualified for any skilled work, she was unable to get out of the infernal downward spiral. She realised that she was in serious danger the day this thought came to her: This will end up in me going mad or killing myself. She had to get out of the Helvetic nightmare. A traumatic incident precipitated Clara's departure. She arrived in England with a small luggage of clothes and books and a very large baggage of anxiety. She set about with obsessional dedication to the learning of the English language which soon became totally part of her. So much so, that having started to write about her war-time childhood in her mother tongue, she moved almost without noticing it to writing in English. Life was hard at first, as she had to work as an au pair to keep within the law. But London offered many educational and cultural activities. After three years she was allowed to take any employment she chose. Later she was able to undertake studies and obtain respected professional qualifications. Her personal life remained prey to tragedies and grief. But she never gave up picking herself up.

On December 31, 1991, across the enormous expanse of Russia, all flags of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were officially taken down. The daring experiment of ruling many millions of people in widely different societies under a communist central government, begun by the Bolshevik revolution in November, 1917, had come to an end. One thing that was quite constant during those seventy-four years, as most Americans have been aware, was mutual suspicion and hostility between the USSR and the USA. It did fluctuate to some extent, reaching a lull during World War II as the two nations joined forces to defeat Nazi Germany, but at times rising to a terrifying pitch, with both sides threatening to use nuclear ballistic missiles capable of destroying not only each other, but in effect the entire fabric of world civilization. The world waited in awful suspense in October, 1962, when Soviet ships carrying long-range missiles for installation in Cuba were ordered by Nikita Khrushchev to turn back only after President Kennedy announced that if one missile were launched against America from Cuba, American missiles would retaliate immediately and massively against the USSR. Many citizens of both superpowers have wondered about the basic cause of American-Russian hostility, usually concluding that it derived from the inevitable conflict between the capitalistic and Marxist economic systems, and their consequent political differences. There was truth in this; but historically there was a particular root cause that few had ever heard of. What was Nikita Khrushchev talking about, puzzled Americans asked, when during a visit to the USA in 1959 he said: "We remember the grim days when American soldiers went to our soil, headed by their generals, to help the White Guard ... strangle the new revolution... . Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil. These are the facts." This book is an attempt to give a clear account and explanation of those facts. E. M. Halliday was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Columbia University and the University of Michigan (where he got a Ph.D. in literature with a dissertation on the novels of Ernest Hemingway). During World War II he was an enlisted reporter for Army newspapers and a field correspondent for Yank, the Army magazine. From 1946 to 1962 he taught literature and history at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and North Carolina State. In 1951-1952 he was a Fulbright scholar in France. From 1963 to 1979 he was a senior editor with the history magazine, American Heritage. The author of many magazine and journal articles, he has also written the young adult history Russia in Revolution, John Berryman and the Thirties (a memoir of his long friendship with the poet) and has a book on Thomas Jefferson, Understanding Thomas Jefferson, forthcoming from HarperCollins in the fall of 2000. He lives in New York City with a word processor and a cat.

In this volume, a new universe, with its infinite shadow reflections, is brought into being by Dworkin via the Pattern he has created with his own blood. But his creation has caused a great upheaval in the faraway Courts of Chaos. While Oberon uses Trumps to bring over family members to the relative safety of his new world, Dworkin-who has become unhinged from the extraordinary strains of creating the universe-mysteriously disappears. Assassins, shapeshifters, Pattern ghosts and double-crosses work against both Uthor and the house of Dworkin. Oberon must use all of his skills and new-found power to control the course of events, win the day, and stake his claim as the first king of Amber."Betancourt creates a thrill-a-minute series…" -Library Journal "John Gregory Betancourt's The Dawn of Amber is cause to celebrate. He is the ideal choice to assume Roger Zelazny's mantle, and The Dawn of Amber is the perfect introduction to a new series of Amber books that glow equally with the magic of Roger Zelazny's creation and John Betancourt's own burgeoning talent." -Richard A. Lupoff "John Betancourt channels Zelazny? However he got it, he has the gift, and now there is a new Amber trilogy that will delight a legion of fans eager to learn how Amber came to be." -Tom Easton, Book Reviewer for ANALOG Magazine "The spirit of Zelazny lives on in Betancourt's prequel. Roger Zelazny's works in the years he wrote the first Amber books were perhaps the best in SF and Fantasy of the 20th century. If you've read the Amber books, this book is a must. If you haven't, this book is the best place to start." -David Bischoff, author of Aliens vs. Predator

"Gilden proves that you can write first-rate humorous science fiction." -The Science Fiction ChronicleHe called himself Zoot Marlowe, said he''d just blown in from Cay City, but even the wacked out surfer dudes could tell that the four-fout detective with the giant schnoz was from somewhere out of their world. Still, he could throw a mean frisbee and he said he was a private eye, and when someone decided to smash and trash all the surfing robots in Malibu just days before the biggest surfing contest of the year, Zoot was the only being around willing to track the bot beaters down. But Zoot didn''t know just how widespread a conspiracy he was about to run up against. For this first case of his Earthly career would see him taking on everything from the Malibu cops to Samurai robots; motorcycle madmen to talking gorillas; and a misplaced mistress of genetic manipulation!Mel Gilden is the author of many children''s books, some of which received rave reviews in such places as School Library Journal and Booklist. His multi-part stories for children appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times. His popular novels and short stories for grown-ups have also received good reviews in the Washington Post and other publications. Licensed properties include adaptations of feature films, and of TV shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210; and NASCAR Racers. He has also written books based on video games and has written original stories based in the Star Trek universe. His short stories have appeared in many original and reprint anthologies.He has written cartoons for TV, has developed new shows, and was assistant story editor for the DIC television production of The Real Ghostbusters. He consulted at Disney and Universal, helping develop theme park attractions. Gilden spent five years as co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour-25, on KPFK radio in Los Angeles.Gilden lectures to school and library groups, and has been known to teach fiction writing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where the debris meets the sea, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.

In the middle of the city, between two tall, new buildings, stands a house that''s not so tall and not so new. A lot has changed since the house was built. Once the block was filled with houses just like it, built of brick and stone. But one by one the others have all been replaced by office and apartment buildings of concrete and steel. The streetcar no longer runs past. The horses and carriages that used to carry people up and down the street are gone, too. But the house is still there, lying in shadow, almost hidden.The house belongs to Jacabee-an artist, adventurer, and explorer. He has traveled all over the world and brought many things back to his home. Every room is filled with treasures and artifacts from every corner of the earth. Paintings, drawings, and sketches done by Jacabee himself hang on the walls and fill dozens of sketchbooks.Jacabee isn''t home now, but he''s left three friends to look after his house. Dooley, Abby, and Baldy love this house as much as Jacabee does. They want to take care of it. The house is a magical place, where it seems as if anything can happen.About JacabeeJacabee is an online, educational, social media, adventure gaming series for elementary school aged children. The element of history stems from the catalyst for the entire Jacabee project, the work of one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, F. Luis Mora (1874-1940). Mora serves as the artistic visionary for the Jacabee concept. He was born in Uruguay and immigrated to the United States as a child and created the Jacabee characters to share Adventure, History, and Values with his grandson.Please join Jacabee to Read about Sacagawea, Play the online game to collect trophies and glyphs, and Create your own personalized journal. The personalized journal incorporates the players name and avatar into a custom story based on his game play.www.jacabeecode.com.