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Young kids are natural scientists as they are constantly exploring their world through play and imagination. Older kids need a bit more for their science. These experiments were chosen because they use items commonly found around the home, can be done quickly and will create a satisfying WOW. Each experiment will have a list of items needed and complete directions. Some may be familiar as they are often used in schools to illustrate a variety of science principles.

Everyone thought Eddie Mercer was ordinary.He showed up for work. Covered shifts nobody wanted. Asked questions that made his coworkers laugh. He wasn't important, wealthy, brilliant, or mysterious.At least, that's what everyone believed.Then Eddie is found murdered with a knife in his back.In the days after his death, six coworkers discover they share a secret. At the lowest moments of their lives, each received a book containing exactly the money they need...

For more than twenty years, a serial killer has traveled from city to city, leaving behind a trail of victims that no investigator has ever been able to explain. The only constant is minor league baseball.When veteran first baseman Daniel Mercer becomes the center of a sweeping FBI investigation, Special Agent Emma Lawson believes she has finally found the missing piece. Daniel has spent his entire career moving from town to town, quietly earning the trust of teammates, groundskeep...

After losing his job and home, Daniel Mercer moves his wife, Rebecca, and their two teenagers into the family's restored silver Airstream. They head west looking for a fresh start, stopping in small towns where Daniel's talent for fixing things quickly earns trust.Then people they met begin to die—and the evidence points to Daniel.Someone is following the Mercers. Someone who knows how easily photographs, receipts, and handwritten notes can turn a helpful stranger into a co...

Ethan Cross works forty hours a week in a factory and spends his weekends in an underground boxing ring. After ninety-six fights, he has never lost.To the crowds that gather in a forgotten warehouse every Friday night, Ethan is a legend. To his coworkers, he is simply the dependable man who returns every Monday with fresh bruises. He pays his opponents' medical bills, teaches young fighters, and tells himself that discipline makes the violence responsible.Then a former oppo...

Daniel Mercer has built his life on facts, evidence, and order. So when a mysterious ivory envelope appears inside his locked home with no explanation, he assumes someone is playing a cruel joke. But the invitation defies every logical explanation, and before long it leads him to Black Hollow Station—a place that shouldn't exist—and aboard a silent train bound for a town that has been forgotten by the world.The town of Bramble is beautiful. Immaculate. Perfect.It is also hi...

Can four college students change the way a nation experiences sports?When the rising cost of watching sports pushes lifelong fans to the sidelines, four college students decide to create something no one believes is possible.With borrowed equipment, a tiny apartment, and almost no budget, they launch Infinity Sports Network—an original sports universe where every game is simulated, every athlete is fictional, and every broadcast is treated ...

A celebration of the unsung heroes behind the game, including first-hand stories from moms of the NHL’s biggest starsHockey Moms laces together the stories of NHL hockey moms like Kelly McDavid and Ema Matthews with those of mothers who never expected their children to set foot on the ice.With insight, warmth, honesty and humour, more than thirty hockey moms share their own journeys as they figure out how to juggle trips to the rink with raising a...

The Frontier CommissionBook One: The Counterfeit TerritoryThe West wasn't built on gold. It was built on trust.The year is 1872, and America is racing westward. Railroads connect distant territories. Mining camps become thriving towns. Banks open their doors almost overnight. Then, without warning, trust begins to collapse.Counterfeit money floods the frontier.A rancher's life savings are declared wor...

The Last AnalogThe lights never go out.The servers never stop running.The machines never fail.They simply stop asking humans for permission.When the world's digital identity network suddenly refuses to recognize anyone, hospitals lock their medicine behind electronic doors, transportation systems grind to a halt, emergency services lose authority over their own equipment, and entire cities discover that electricity is useless when every decision requ...

The Silent Architect's LegacyA Blue-Throated Mockingbird NovelElias Thorne has spent his career building the future.His innovations have transformed industries, strengthened critical infrastructure, and solved problems others believed were impossible. Yet almost no one knows his name. Hidden behind closed office doors and worn leather notebooks, Elias quietly creates while executives take the credit.Among them is Rich Sterling—a charismatic corporate...