For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood.Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly sti...

World War II certainly had its share of deserving heroes and heroines, many of whom have received their due recognition. But how many civilian women can say they saved the lives of at least 250 downed airmen in just over two years?Cold Name Lily takes you on an unforgettable journey from Belgium, into France, and over the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain. An extremely clever and persuasive young Belgian nurse outsmarts the Nazis time and again, risking her life if she is caug...

Everything You Could Ever Want to Know about Mushrooms!Mushrooms are an incredibly vast range of species, including all shapes and sizes and colors. This exciting collection includes a wealth of information on two hundred essential mushroom varieties, including their:Scientific namesHabitatsModes of developmentBotanical specificitiesUses in culinary cuisineAnd more!Spread throughout this...

13 September 1999…A massive nuclear explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, sending Moonbase Alpha’s 311 inhabitants on an uncontrollable odyssey through deep space. Now, Destination: Moonbase Alpha takes you back to a future billed as “the most spectacular space science fiction series ever produced for television.”Destination: Moonbase Alpha is the most comprehensive book ever published on Space: 1999, including extensive cast lists and detailed reviews of all 48 epi...

Winner of the 2005 British Fantasy Award for Best NovellaAn original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre.All is not well at SymaxCorp.The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.It’s down to new boy Ben, tog...

Explore the rich family life of the people from the Lost Continent of Lemuria, who have been living in Telos, a Subterranean City beneath Mt. Shasta in California, USA, for the past 12,000 years; and who, due to their isolation from the surface population have experienced great leaps in consciousness resulting in the creation of a civilization of peace and abundance with no sickness, aging, or death. They can live hundreds of years in the same body. This book contains telepathically receiv...

Volume 2 of the Telos series offers channeled, spiritual messages from the Earth's Interior. Timely and fascinating messages from the people of the ancient civilization of Lemuria, living in the fifth dimensional city of Telos beneath Mount Shasta, CA.The teachings of this book will inspire readers to raise their consciousness to new levels of attainment and explain how to reconnect with the divine aspect of Self, in order to live and experience once again our divinity and manifest ...

The Duke of Burgundy loves her and showers her with honours … His Treasurer, Garin de Brazey, has entered into a strange marriage with her … Only the brave knight Arnaud de Montsalvy seems to distain her; and he is the one man she truly desires … Driven by love, the beautiful Catherine pursues her destiny through war-ravaged 15th Century France, encountering adventure, brutality and the lust of powerful men.The second book in Juliette Benzoni’s classic series of historical romances...

Beautiful Monsters is the story of the Alien and Predator film franchises. Each film is chronicled through analysis and extensive background information, and the themes and influences examined through articles. In addition all the spin-off books, comics and computer games are detailed.This is your one-stop guide for everything relating to two of cinema’s most popular and enduring creations who finally met in the 2004 film Alien vs Predator.

With her great love Arnaud torn from her arms by a terrible illness, Catherine embarks on a journey to seek vengeance against the vile La Trémoille, enemy of her family and her country. Even clothed in mourning attire or disguised in boys’ garb or gypsy rags, she finds her exquisite beauty both her keenest weapon and her greatest danger, as a succession of men fall for her charms, in the latest of her adventures in war-torn 15th Century France.The fourth book in Juliette Benzoni’s ...

King Julien is celebrating his own holiday. The zoo animals want nothing to do with it! But then Maurice promises them candy. Will sweets be enough to make the animals put up with Julien's crazy ways?We hope you and your child enjoy iStoryTime books. We'd love to hear your feedback. Please email us at [email protected]. © 2012 DreamWorks Animation, L.L.C

Today, the Transformers franchise is a global phenomenon, thanks in large part to a record-breaking run of live-action blockbuster movies. But its roots lie in the 1980s, when it began as a range of toys before spinning off into a Marvel comic and a classic animated TV series. This book is the most comprehensive, authoritative guide ever to be published on that original incarnation of the Transformers (known officially as the ‘Generation One’ era).The toys, the comics and the anima...