Do you need a science fair project that won't drive you and your parents crazy?Is it due tomorrow?Then this is the book for you!It has twenty different science fair projects, all of which can be done using the stuff you've already got in your house! The experiments cover everything from making a better bike helmet to finding out which type of popcorn tastes best and are done as examples that show how a science fair project can be done! (But don't cop...

Storming the Gate picks up the story forty years after the publication of Stranger at the Gate (1993). Mel and his husband, Gary Nixon, have founded Soulforce and recruited an army of volunteers to help end the lie. Their nonviolent protests made headlines across the nation. These are the heroic and sometimes hilarious stories of Mel, Gary, and their volunteers being harassed, arrested, tried, and jailed for doing battle with the lie and with the Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical liars...

Twelve-year-old Margaret Kaupuni had just danced before Honolulu's 1934 May Queen. As she left the steps a health inspector grabbed her wrist. "You are a leper, child, and you will come with me." At the leper receiving station she was positively diagnosed and sent to Kalaupapa, the leprosy settlement on Molokai.On that lonely prison island for thirty-four years, Margaret watched her dreams die and her own body scar and shrink from the disease. There her twenty-two-year-old sister, ...

November 18, 2018: the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. On that dark day in 1978, nine hundred and nine Americans died of cyanide poison in a jungle village named after the pastor who deceived and then murdered them. Understanding how and why they were deceived could save your life or the life of someone you love.Mel White, ordained minister, seminary professor, and professional filmmaker, relocated to Berkeley for six months following the Jonestown Massacre to interview...

Tiny Tina Rex is a hungry little dinosaur. Join her as she wanders through the Cretaceous jungle, looking for her next meal. Will it be a stegosaurus? Will it be a hominin? Or will it be YOU?Illustrated by the mad mind behind Duncan and Mallory and written by the nuts who brought you Factismals, "Are You My Dinner?" is a fun-filled story that just happens to be completely factual. And if you really like dinosaurs, be sure to read the postscripts for information on what we know about dinosa...

In 2006 Religion Gone Bad was released by the Penguin Company. In light of Donald Trump's election and the rapid turn to the right of millions of American voters, the author is convinced that it is urgent that we release a new edition of Religion Gone Bad as Six Angry Evangelicals.The best-selling author of Stranger at the Gate returns with an insider's exposé of the origins of the Christian fundamentalist movement and how its virulent anti-gay agenda has led to the rise of the Tea...

Nearly 200 tales of cryptid animals and other unusual beasts are contained in this well-researched book by Michael D. Winkle. Readers will encounter familiar monsters like Bigfoot and Nessie, dinosaurs and ancient fish that have survived into the present day, and less well-known beings such as flying cats and rabbits, brain-eating horrors, and interdimensional hamsters!

Duncan was the naive son of a minor nobleman, more interested in romance than war. Mallory was a dragon, more interested in con jobs and quick money than being a fearsome monster. When they team up, their adventures - or rather mis-adventures - make for a hilarious fantasy romp!Based on the graphic novel by Robert Asprin (creator of the rollicking Myth Adventure series of novels), and artist Mel. White, talented newcomer Selena Rosen brings the fantasy adventure series to life in t...

A teenager with a magical gift is sent to an unusual boarding school in this urban fantasy novel by the acclaimed co-authors of the Shadow Grail series.Fifteen-year-old Tomas Torres has a most unusual gift: he can start fires with his fingertips and conjure fireballs with his hands. When he's arrested for a mysterious arson, the court decides to convict him—despite the lack of evidence—and send him off to school. As far as Tomas is concerned, St. Rhiannon's School ...

When a man is caught stealing from a walled garden owned by a strange woman, he bargains away his youngest daughter in return for food for his family. The woman, rumored to be a witch, takes the golden-haired child and locks her away in a high tower. Sixteen years later, Giselle has lived an isolated life, but her adoptive mother has trained her in Air magic, and Giselle must use her new skills on a quest to avenge her broken heart...

The New York Times–bestselling novel about a military legion of misfits assigned to defend a space station from a mob boss.THE FEW. THE PROUD. THE STUPID. THE INEPT. It was the perfect solution, put highly connected Captain Willard Phule in charge of the worst dregs of the Space Force. Sure, Phule's Company may be a band of rejects and misfits, but they did manage to save the day with their unorthodox methods. Embarrassed, the Space Force may have found th...

From a New York Times bestseller, a commander leads a legion of misfits as they create an amusement park on another planet in this sci-fi comedy.Captain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape, turning Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into . . . a crack team of casino security guards. Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. And what better way to utilize their major area of expertise—goofing off—than to tur...