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How did the boy she couldn't stand become the man she couldn't live without?Mackenzie Reed waits anxiously for her husband to come home on the evening of their wedding anniversary. His flight is hours overdue, and she's worn out from a day spent wrangling a toddler. While gazing at her decorated...

I am visiting the Pony Express museum. I see a poster and wish that I could go back to 1860 and be a Pony Express rider. Suddenly, I’m spinning around and around. What will happen next?...

How was our moon formed? Why is the moon so important?

When newlyweds Iris and Harrison are separated by the draft less than a month into their marriage, both are forced into battles they never expected. A dentist by trade, Harrison is thrust into the unforgiving realities of combat medicine, carrying his limited skills from the beaches of Normandy through the brutal winter of the Ardennes and into the haunting aftermath of Dachau liberation. Each step farther south into Europe pulls him away from the man Iris once knew.

The flood map for Dunmore, Maine hasn't been updated since 1991. Floodplain engineer Sylvie Cord is here to fix that. It's a technical job — LiDAR data, hydraulic models, regulatory paperwork. Sylvie is good at technical jobs. She arrives in early October with her field equipment and six weeks to produce a map accurate enough to withstand federal review, and she expects the usual resistance: a selectman who doesn't want bad news, residents who don't want their insurance rates to change, a town that has been operating on a fiction for thirty years. What she doesn't expect is the berm.

A six-year-old boy vanished in the Great Smoky Mountains without a single footprint. Heavy stones slide across a Death Valley lakebed on their own — and no one has ever seen them move. A log has floated upright in Crater Lake for more than a hundred years. Two newlyweds rowed into the Grand Canyon in 1928 and were never seen again. This book pulls back the curtain on ten true, spine-tingling mysteries from America's wildest places — Yellowstone, Death Valley, the Everglades, the Petrified Forest, and more.

Autism means a brain works in its own special way and sees, hears, feels, and understands the world differently. Autistic children may experience the world with intensity, honesty, and noticing things others overlook.

My name is Violet. Can you guess what my favorite color is? I find a penny on our living room floor and make a wish. I wish I were a unicorn! Suddenly, I’m spinning around and around. What’s happening to me? Where am I going? Unicorns say in unison: Welcome to Unicorn Land. We can read your mind. Your name is Violet, and you came here on a wish! We’re happy to see you.

Rhymes can have so many lessons. Three boys named Jack will each learn a lesson from their rhymes.

Why does a dog wag its tails? Why does a dog sniff things? Why does a dog tilt its head when it hears a strange sound? These questions and more are answered.

Claire Tate came to Heron Cove to assess a building. The abandoned cannery on the waterfront was supposed to be another straightforward preservation report — decades of neglect, structural decline, inevitable demolition. But the building tells a different story. Undocumented repairs. Careful restoration work. Evidence that someone has been quietly keeping the structure alive for years outside the official record.

Buddha spent his life helping people learn how to be kind, stay calm, understand their feelings, avoid hurting others, and live peacefully. He was not a god. He was a wise teacher who wanted everyone to find happiness.

Princess Aviana thinks, “In the distance, I see a castle. I’ll knock on the castle door to ask for shelter and a warm, comfortable bed for the night.”

A coastal survey wasn't supposed to change anything. Dr. Nora Finch returns to a small harbor town to document a near-shore recovery system no one fully understands. The work is precise. Measurable. Contained. Until it isn't.