The Confederacy of Human Worlds sends the Marines of the 34th FIST to defend a base against overwhelming rebel odds while many of its other troops are protecting distant planets from the Skinks, aliens whose goal is to exterminate humankind.
This is a book every environmentally conscious school science program should make required reading." —Gerd Leipold, Executive Director, Greenpeace International "Firestorm combines heart-pounding action, dark fantasy, and a timely ...
"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller.
A raging forest fire in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst.
Firefighter paramedic Mallory "Ice" James commands a crew of smokejumpers—twenty women and men who eat together, sleep together, and parachute into the face of raging forest fires together—and she has thirty days to whip the rookies ...
When Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise journey to Rakata to mediate a dispute between the head of a Federation geological survey team and the leader of a commercial colony, an erupting volcano endangers their lives. Original.
From acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson comes a suspenseful and carefully researched novel of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire and of one boy’s heroic fight to survive it.
Twelve-year-old Poppy is an orphan living in a bad neighborhood in Chicago, pick pocketing so that she has a place to sleep at night.
If they kept up at this rate, the ninety thousand acres that had already been burned would seem like childs play. Larry hung up. “Tell me you have good news for me," she said. “I do." Larry was jubilant. “We were right on our readings.
Practical suggestions on how to avoid and overcome the destructive interpersonal conflicts many churches have experienced with leaders, members, and pastors.