What if the most important quiz you ever took didn't test what you knew - but who you chose to become? Eleven-year-old Nora Bell is having one of those days when everything seems to go wrong. But while waiting in Hallowmere Library, she discovers a dusty book hidden behind a forgotten shelf.It is called The Last Quiz of Squishara.Inside is a strange quiz filled with questions that have no simple right or wrong answers. When...

Every signal points towards safety. One of them is leading the hunters.Tom Bennett has spent years dreaming of taking his children on an unforgettable camping adventure in the far north of Norway. For fifteen-year-old Mara and her younger brother Jamie, the journey promises remote lakes, towering mountains, open tundra and a chance to see the northern lights.But their peaceful family expedition changes forever when Mara notices an unmarked helicopter descen...

A dream can open doors. But what happens when everyone wants a piece of what lies behind them? Mara Bell has always dreamed of becoming an actor.Most nights, however, her biggest audience is the empty rows of the old Orion cinema, where she practises speeches after closing and imagines a future far beyond the life she knows.Then everything changes.An unexpected school performance puts Mara centre stage and a video of her acting begins attracting attention. Suddenly,...

The Wandering Willow Clubhouse is the magical second adventure in the Questbound Adventures series, featuring Quesbie, ULA and OMA. What happens when your clubhouse decides it needs an adventure of its own?Quesbie, ULA and OMA thought Old Curlroot would always be waiting for them in Starling Clearing. Their magical willow clubhouse is where they make plans, welcome visitors, solve problems and prepare for their next Questbound adventure.But lately, everyone...

In 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a collection of some seven hundred items of varying length, mostly quasi-historical anecdotes and narratives, that he deemed essential reading for wise leadership. Garden of Eloquence (Shuoyuan), divided into twenty books grouped by theme, follows a tradition of narrative writing on historical and philosophical themes that began seven centuries earlier. Long popular in China as a source of allusions and quotations, it pr...

-- I had no way to know that my beloved bosses were active members of the infamous Rosenberg ring. I learned this much later, -- two years after my immigration to the States. I also learned then that in my ignorance I was in a good company with the FBI that wanted Joel Barr (a.k.a. Joe Berg) and Alfred Sarant (a.k.a. Phil Staros) since the late 1940s, but had no idea forty years later where these people were.The letter was delivered to Shuysky, Khrushchevs personal assistant, who -...

The Marines of Ghost Squadron are humanity's foremost black ops specialists who strike without warning and vanish without a trace. They will do whatever is necessary to protect humanity anywhere in the known galaxy. With the Commonwealth increasingly unstable thanks to venal politicians, greedy financiers, and power-hungry revolutionaries, they don't lack for missions.When an undercover Constabulary officer vanishes after uncovering a massive cartel-run human traff...

Terrorists working for traitors intent on transforming the Commonwealth into a brutal empire are preparing to spread mayhem across the vulnerable and increasingly unstable Rim Sector. Their aim: replace sovereign star system governments with satraps under the direct control of Earth, thereby undoing generations of civil peace between humanity's many fractious branches.During an operation to eliminate a radical revolutionary movement on one of the Rim Sector's most important colonie...

William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him.He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change...

William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him.He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change...

Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period's fictions—in film, television, and elsewhere—produced for and consumed by children. In particular, Jenkins demonstrates, the era'...

The rise and fall of iCue: lessons about new media, old media, and education from an NBC-MIT joint venture into interactive learning.In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social netw...