"This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--

Stories of amazing accomplishments of such adventurers as Peary, Cousteau and Lindbergh among many others.

A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.

"The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure tells the story of the largest prison breakout in U.S. history. It took place during the Civil War, when more than 1200 Yankee officers were jammed into Libby, a special prison considered escape-proof, in the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. A small group of men, obsessed with escape, mapped out an elaborate plan and one cold and clear night, 109 men dug their way to freedom. Freezing,...

"The American West exists in the imagination as a place both mythical and familiar, where adventurous men and women built sturdy lives in a dramatic setting of sprawling, rugged lands. Drawing from an incredible trove of photographs that span more than a century, Greatest Photographs of the American West captures the beauty, majesty, and allure of the Wild West and its stunning terrain, while exploring the emotional and cultural impact of this captivating...

"Mickey Mouse was never so thrilling... as when he was drawn by Disney legend Floyd Gottfredson. And this special commemorative full-color edition collects the best of those irrepressible Mickey adventures, including Gottfredson's first--written by Walt Disney himself! Mickey's intrepid escapades include a frantic race against Pegleg Pete for a hidden gold mine, an epic struggle against the sinister Rhyming Man for control of an atomic disintegrator,...

A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the dawn of modern America. This landmark biography brings into focus a fascinating brilliant entrepreneur--like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary--who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood empire. Although a major Hollywood studio still bears William Fox's name, the man himself has mostly been forgotten by history, even written off as a failure. Now,...

"A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.

"For more than a millennium, Polynesians occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Sailing in large, double-hulled canoes, without the benefit of maps, writing, or metal tools, these ancient mariners were the first and, until the era of European discovery, the only people ever to have reached this part of the globe. Today, they are widely acknowledged as the world's...