A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The full-color jacket features art by three time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner, and interior black-and-white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator of Narnia. Four adventurous siblings?Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie?step through a wardrobe door and into the...

H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...

"Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales get the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers - and bullets. All of which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence...

Contains the original story by H.G. Wells, and describes how Orson Welles was inspired by the tale of Martian invasion to create the radio broadcast in 1938 which frightenend over one million people.

"The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local legends. It's a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a ghastly secret lurks in the woods. The adults in town are oblivious to these strange occurrences. Others prefer not to talk or even think about them. But over the course of several terrifying nights, a group of kids will come face-to-face with the horrors hiding...

In this second Chronicle of Narnia, Peter, Edmund, Susan, and Lucy help Prince Caspian organize his army of Talking Beasts to fight against an evil king who has taken control of Narnia.

Blackgaard's Castle has opened and the kids in the town of Odyssey are enticed by free food, free games, and no rules..But why is Dr. Blackgaard spending so much time in the basement of the building? What secrets does it hold? Meanwhile, Richard Maxwell hacks into the computer at Whit's End with devastating results. He also deviously pressures Lucy to spy on Mr. Whittaker. Will Lucy betray Whit and her friends Connie and Eugene? How can Whit prevail...

"The Christmas Holiday was a special time for the Farmer Family on the Donkey Dan Show. The whole family, friends and pets were excited from Thanksgiving until the day after Christmas. This book has a mix of several different Christmas shows that were broadcasted on the K.L.K.Y. station of Prescott Valley. Daphne the momma skunk of the family, Erasmus the teenage porcupine, Ewald the roadrunner, Tremor the tiny mouse, Bonkers my cat and myself the...