This is the third book in Penelope Dyan's "Surfer Girl" Book Series, and the story of Summer continues. Find out what it means to be a girl like Summer. It isn't easy, but it is fun! In this story, the gang joins Summer once again, and they enact another one of Jill's fantastic plans. They are off to save the ocean and its creatures once again! In the meantime, Summer has a very tight competition schedule she has to meet with lots of travel; and she also finds out they will be offering the open water 10k at the next Olympics. Summer doesn't like to ...

'Surfing After Nationals' by Penelope Dyan is the seventh book in the Surfer Girl Book Series, the story of a girl named Summer who leads an ordinary, yet extraordinary life as she travels the world swimming and surfing and fulfilling her legacy. The Open Water Nationals are over until next year, but Summer's excitement is is just beginning. Summer travels to London and swims in the London 10K World Cup, her first international open water race; and soon after that she goes to the island ofSaint Croix and has a frightening adventure with a girl named ...

Summer is off again, traveling and competing in open water swim competitions and surfing whenever she can. A great white has been sited at the pier, and this affects Summer's ability to swim and surf in the ocean at home. Carrie is starting to act very strangely, and Phillip says something is wrong with Carrie and maybe Summer should move on because sometimes that's just what people have to do. Summer doesn't understand this because she thought best friends were forever because that's just the kind of girl Summer is. Every day Summer is growing stronger ...

Dr. Stanley Friedman writes an exciting sequel to his book "Quantum Outlaws," but this time our protagonists face a much bigger challenge. This time they must save the entire universe! Find out what happens and ask yourself why Albert Einstein's words when he said, "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker," should give scientists everywhere as well as anyone who reads this book some real thought. Based ...

'Parthian Karma' by Jack Adler is the third book in the trilogy of the story of Kyra and Larius, a brother and sister born in First Century AD who are taken from their Parthian home when their parents are killed in battle by a roman soldier and are then made wards of Rome. Because they are of noble birth, they are not made slaves of Rome and they live a comfortable life until a series of events that thrust them into turmoil causing them to flee the Roman Empire. The saga of Kyra and Larius continues as the brother and sister seek home and sanctuary, experiencing ...

College life can be intimidating, and it can also be the best time of your life! It isn't so much about the big things that makes life interesting; it's more about the little things that lead a person towards real independence and toward adulthood that makes life interesting. It's about a thousand small choices and a thousand big choices, no-it's about much more than that. This is Tyler's story, about the very best of times and the very worst of times. It's about how one boy grew into manhood and made his way in the world, and it's about much more than ...

The excitement is on again in Room 17! Travel with our group of time travel explorers through the learning pod and back into time where they meet none other than Sir Francis Drake! Meet a parrot named Billy Be Hanged and find out what it really was like to be a pirate and an explorer in the days of old! Learn about the struggles and the real realities of those who braved the waves of yesteryear to discover new worlds and new cultures they could never have imagined, and find out why Vic is a true hero and what he did for one of his classmates. Most importantly ...

This is the story of one Mom and one very special family that had born into it one very special little girl who at this writing is waiting for a multi-organ transplant so that she can visit London and Paris, and so that she can see the world beyond the four corners of a hospital room. Delight in the joys and cry for the sorrows of this mother and family for an infant born with a very serious problem that for the most part is not given the recognition it deserves. Kourtney Najjar has neurogenic pseudo obstruction and osteopenia, and every single day since ...

If your child -- or the child of a close friend or relative -- has just received a diagnosis of autism, you are probably feeling baffled and overwhelmed. It is never easy to learn that someone you love has a serious health or developmental condition. Nothing is quite the same after the diagnosis comes in from the doctor. Many families report mixed feelings of sadness and relief when their child is diagnosed. You may feel completely overwhelmed. You may also feel relieved to know that the concerns you have had for your child are valid. An entire world changes ...

This is a story about times past and about how our yesterday becomes our today, and about how our today becomes our tomorrow where all of mankind seems doomed to repeat history. This is a story about Jack and Marcia, who discover and see how the world was then and how the world is now for them.  This is a story that causes our protagonists to question and to ask, “what if?” This is a story about life and about death.  This is a story about preludes to war with a look at the past and the results of profiteering and greed.  This ...