Part of the bestselling series Boyz Rule! - books for young independent readers, relating to the antics of boys being boys! The results are hilarious and all kids will want to read them! The books are written as two boys interacting making them ideal for shared reading.In Basketball Buddies Sam and Billy meet at the local basketball courts and decide to have a seriously friendly game of one-on-one. While they are bickering, the basketball disappears and the fight is on to get it back. Views: 15
Twelve years ago, equestrian Olympic hopeful Olivia Canaday and her best
friend, Jake Lassen, made a pinky-swear promise to reunite at the Big
Marietta Fair on her thirtieth birthday and marry each other if they
were both still single. But that was before they grew up and went their
separate ways.
Now, after a disastrous divorce and a career-changing accident,
Olivia limps home, minus her mojo, her courage and her faith in love.
She retreats to her parents’ ranch, determined to play it safe, but when
ex-Army helicopter pilot Jake Lassen arrives to make good on their
promise, he reignites passion and hope, two things Olivia had forgotten
existed.
Olivia resolves to keep Jake at arm’s length, even though the memory
of his kisses keeps her up at night. She knows better than to let her
heart get involved, but Jake is planning for the future. Their future.
Can Jake convince her to risk it all one more time and really make this a
fair to remember? Views: 15
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.Shlain asserts that Leonardo's genius came from a unique creative ability that allowed him to understand and excel in a wide range of fields. From here Shlain jumps off and discusses the history of and current research on human creativity that involves different modes of thinking and neuroscience .The author also boldly speculates on whether or not the qualities of Leonardo's brain and his creativity presage the future evolution of the human species.Leonardo's Brain uses da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity. With his lucid style, and his remarkable ability to discern connections in a wide range of fields, Shlain brings the reader into the world of history's greatest mind. Views: 15
"The seventh book in the exciting AMP series! The Duke has been captured. As he is questioned and probed, the origins of the Human species begin to be revealed. The Grid has been taken. Can Man's home for the last thousand years be saved? Don Grange and the rest of the Humans must try!" Views: 15
From the Arizona Territory to the mountains of Mexico, Clay Taggart and his wild Apaches rode roughshod over the land. Settlers, soldiers and Indians alike had tried to kill the White Apache, but it would take more than brute strength to defeat the wily desperado—it would take cold cunning and a ruthless deception. And when a rival chieftain set out to betray Taggart and his fierce band, they learned that the face of a friend could sometimes hide the heart of an enemy. Views: 15
NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A novel that makes your heart race . . . a thriller that weaves diplomacy and national security together with espionage, terrorism and Washington infighting.”—Washington PostAn extraordinary thriller debut of twenty-first-century espionage, by a former deputy assistant secretary of state who “knows where all the bodies are buried—literally” (W. E. B. Griffin). The Golden Hour: In international politics, the hundred hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that diplomacy, a secret back channel, military action—something—might reverse the chain of events.As the top American diplomat for West Africa, Todd Moss saw a great deal about how diplomacy and politics actually work. But as he shows us, the results aren’t always pretty.When Judd Ryker is appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, he figures he has a mandate to help the United States respond more quickly to foreign crises, but he hasn’t reckoned with the intense State, Defense, Pentagon, White House, and CIA infighting and turf battles he would face. Then comes the coup in Mali. It is his chance to prove that his theory of the Golden Hour actually works—but in the real world, those hours move very, very quickly indeed, and include things he’d never even imagined.As Ryker races from Washington across Europe to the Sahara Desert, he finds that personalities, loyalties, everything he thought he knew, begin to shift and change beneath his feet—and that friends and enemies come in many forms. Views: 15
Living in the small town of Cloverleaf, watching her friends settle down one by one, all Lizzy wants is her own happily ever after. But with each failed date she starts to believe that finding the one man who will look at her like she’s his reason for living is practically impossible.
Trevor has had feelings for Lizzy since stepping foot into Cloverleaf, but despite their intense chemistry when they first met, the feisty little redhead friend-zoned him before he ever had a chance to make his move. After watching her date every loser in town he’s finally decided enough is enough. Thanks to a drunken weekend in Vegas, he finally has the one thing he’s always wanted…Lizzy as his wife.
But just because he caught her doesn’t mean he’ll get to keep her. Can Trevor and Lizzy push the boundaries of friendship and build a relationship that can truly last, or will they crash and burn before they ever get off the ground? Views: 15
