Books with author Ballard

Just like your favorite TV shows, Diary of a Nerd King has changed to a SERIES format, and just like your favorite TV shows, there will now be a new episode of Diary of a Nerd King every week! Instead of having to wait months for a whole new book to come out, now you can get your Diary of a Nerd King fix EVERY WEEK when each new episode is released right here on Amazon!!!The 8th episode, and Season Finale of Diary of a Nerd King Season 2, begins with Max feeling like he's gonna blow chunks in the cafeteria after drinking some bad milk from his school lunch. To make matters worse, he suddenly can't get rat milk out of his head, which isn't helping the situation!Later on, Boogie and Max discuss the news about the Burmese Python menace in the Florida Everglades, and Max gets the awesome idea to create "The Snake Dudes."And if you don't know what the planet Uranus and the city of Bangkok have in common, then you better start reading to find out!What's that... you haven't met Max yet? Well then, here's Max on Max...My name is Max Ridgemont. My sister says I'm the Nerd King. I resent that. She says I resemble that. She thinks she's so smart. Wait til I'm famous from inventing a burping machine.This is my diary, except it's not a diary. It's a journal, or a blog, or a log... just not a diary 'cause diaries are for girls and wimpy kids. There's also a lot of wicked awesome pictures I drew in here too. Don't feel bad if you can't draw as well as I can. Most people can't. Oh yeah, my best friend Boogie and I are going to make millions with our new YouTube channel, and our plan is in here too. DON'T try and copy us. You'll just get upset when you don't make a million dollars and find out you're not as awesome as us.

When Sara’s mother is kidnapped and sentenced to death by her evil aunts, the girl is told she must find the courage and bravery to rescue her. To succeed in her quest and find her mom, Sara must go back to her home planet alone. No matter what she does, it seems her malicious aunts are always one step ahead of her. With the help of a crusty pirate, a nearsighted, love sick sea serpent, and a five-hundred-year-old victim of a science experiment, Sara finds the courage to fulfill her destiny. She discovers she is stronger than she knows, but will she get there in time to save her mother.

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp.One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged.

Ava was a very special Roowho could do all the things that Roos can do.She could jump really high, up in the airand land on her feet, just about anywhere.And as you know, Roos don’t run... they hop,Really, really fast until they stop.Why Ava can hop, faster than EVEN YOU can run!You should try it sometime, it’s so much fun!But wait! There’s another thing Ava can do!Something special you won’t see from just any Roo!Lean in close, perk up your ear.Get ready for a surprise at will you will hear... (cont'd)

Until a prince knows he is to be king the servant is his master.Sybernought is an orphaned 13-year-old cyberchild who just wants to fit in. But he doesn't know his digital conception, and messiah-like birth (including those vying over him behind the scenes) makes this impossible. And when it's revealed he's the Digital Messiah, the one fated to save humanity from an oncoming Cybergeddon, things get…complicated.Once Sybernought learns a perilous secret about the only home he's ever known, a corporate owned city-wide orphanage, he and his friends flee. But they know little about life on the outside...where vaccinations are needed to combat a digital pandemic, paranoia over technology has given way to persecutions...and an aging military man on a personal crusade to kill the boy. Meanwhile others choose sides in a cyber conflict which will affect the material, virtual, and digital realms. Sybernought will be pushed, by both allies and enemies, to discover more about his parents, his abilities, his destiny, and ultimately himself.

Twelve year-old Alex Noble is locked in the library. Finding a dusty, old book that appears to be written just for him, Alex escapes to a time of sword and sorcery. In the world of the story, a peasant boy named Lucas falls in love with a princess named Stefanie. To win her heart, he receives magical help from a talking oak tree, and it's tree faeries. They disguise the young serf as a knight named Sir Luke the Noble, and it's off to the royal palace to ask the king for Stefanie's hand in marriage. Once there, the peasant-boy-turned-knight finds he's in way over his head. Can Lucas navigate royal politics, an arrogant prince, magic lessons, and a dangerous quest; all while finding true love? A reverse-Cinderella meets traditional fantasy-adventure story, Noble, will answer what happened "once upon a time" in a way quite unlike your childhood faerie tales.

What happens when ice melts? Can we make clouds? Did you know that “solid” glass can flow like a liquid? Investigate the amazing world of physical science. Find out for yourself about Solids, Liquids, and Gases through experiments that you can do at home. Learn how life on Earth depends on the simple physical changes that can happen with water. Solids, Liquids, and Gases shows the importance of investigating and understanding the physical science world around you.

Have you ever seen a dog on the roof of a house,sitting having tea with a little grey mouse?Or how about a giraffe flying a plane,with a reindeer as co-pilot holding a cane?Look! There's a lion driving a car. I wonder if he will get very far?He's got 22 chickens in the backseat,clucking and pecking a musical beat.And there goes a rhinoceros riding a bike,followed by a beaver taking a hike.Over your shoulder, look, look, quick, quick!Why there's a hippopotamus sitting on a brick... (cont'd)

Out on the pond, swam a little brown duck,next to a fish who’s name was Buck.The little brown Duck’s name was NedThey were the best of friends, everyone saidBuck loved worms, as all fish doSo Ned would catch him one or twoAnd drop them in the water, for Buck to eatDown below, beneath Ned’s feetThen Buck would dig up some leafy greensFrom the bottom of the pond, came Ned’s cuisineBuck would jump from the water and drop them for Nedand Ned would catch them with a twist of his headThen round the pond the two would swim,Their tummies stuffed up full to the brimThe best of friends you ever did seeSmiling and happy as can be

When Scott Ballard started school, his teachers told him he would never amount to anything. However, Scott overcame the struggles of his youth, learning to live a life of gratitude, to follow his God-given ability, and to embrace his dyslexia as a gift rather than a disability. By sharing his own journey to confidence and fulfillment, Scott will show you how to start on a path toward achieving your dreams, creating your legacy, and living in your God-given ability. You can change the world, and you can start your journey today.

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor.A classic work of cutting-edge fiction, Crash explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.

Book One begins when the shadow of a dead man is summoned to the world of the living. On the moonlit banks of the Nile he watches as a boy is pursued. He knows the boy, his name is Ahmose, and he knows the fiend who is trying to kill him…Only a few months earlier, Ahmose left his family’s farm to attend school in the magnificent temple of Amun in Thebes. Under the watchful eyes of the priests, he visits the House of Life where the injured are cured by magic and he learns from the sacred texts stored in the House of Books. In ancient Egypt the heart is the seat of all thought and emotion, and listening to the texts Ahmose learns that the gods as well as mortals suffer from love, envy and revenge.Step back in time with 'The Lost Spells of Egypt'. Discover what an archivist was willing to die for and why some still seek it today.