Books with author Jonathan Nathan

In a little village deep in the aspen woods of the kingdom of Sephronia, there lives a girl named Alissa who raises fireflies for the village's lanterns. She is also kept very busy helping her father with his cows and her mother with the inn. It's a simple life that Alissa is quite content with, and her home is such a bright and peaceful place that it seems impossible it will ever be touched by the Curse that has fallen over Sephronia.Sadly when that day arrives, as it must, Alissa finds that the Curse could not have picked a more terrible way to come to the village. Now, facing a very grim future indeed, she must go on a perilous journey through the wilds to reach the palace in Sephron, to bring back the Court Wizard to help put things to rights.Luckily she won't go alone, for she's made some very good friends in a pair of traveling rats, and of course she has her firefly lantern. And as you can guess for a girl who can talk to rats and is brave enough to leave her village and travel through some very dangerous places, Alissa is more than just a simple firefly girl.

"Raban is searching and compassionate. . . . And he is at all times eloquent." -- Richard FordFollowing the overland triumph of Bad Land--whose prizes included the National Book Critics Circle Award--Jonathan Raban goes to sea.The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep--an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. Here flourished the canoe culture of the Northwest Indians, with their fantastic painted masks and complex iconography and their stories of malign submarine gods and monsters. The unhappy British ship Discovery, captained by George Vancouver, came through these open reaches and narrow chasms in 1792. The early explorers were quickly followed by fur traders, settlers, missionaries, anthropologists, fishermen, and tourists, each with their own designs on this intricate and haunted sea.When Jonathan Raban set out alone in his own boat to sail from his Seattle home to the Alaskan Panhandle, he wanted to decode the many riddles and meanings of the sea: in Indian art and mythology, in the journals of Vancouver and his officers and midshipmen, in poetry and painting, in the physics of waves and turbulence. His voyage began as an intellectual adventure, but he soon found himself in deeper, more ominously personal waters than he had planned.In this seaborne epic, Raban brings the past spectacularly alive and renders the present in a prose of sustained brilliance and humor. Exhilarating, panoramic, full of ideas, natural history, and mordant social observation, his journey into the wild heart of North America turns into a profound exploration of the wilderness of the human heart.

This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front—and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. In Opening Day, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime’s most sacred myth. He offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinson’s closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field? Opening Day is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration’s promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseball’s ultimate story.

This manual has been updated to reflect the most recent AP Physics B exams. It offers a diagnostic test and two full-length model exams with all questions answered and explained. An extensive review of all AP Physics B test topics covers vectors; motion; Newton's laws of motion, work, and energy; oscillatory motion; fluids; gravitation; temperature and heat; thermodynamics; magnetism; electromagnetic induction; waves and sound; light; geometrical optics; quantum theory; the atom; the nucleus; and much more. Also provided are study and test-taking advice, a math review, and a glossary of physics terms.

This is a great book for kids' thinking about riding dirt bikes to kids' who are already riding and interested in racing motocross. This is a fun children's book that goes over proper riding techniques and includes some drills. Kids' Guide to Motocross (Just Starting) starts with the basics like how to use the throttle and brakes all the way to proper body position, turning and starts. Get your aspiring motocross racer off on the right foot with your copy of "Kids' Guide to Motocross (Just Starting)" today!

What happened when the human cannonball was late for work? He got fired! Enjoy this and hundreds of other jokes and one-liners so crap they may make you cringe – but at least they’ll keep you entertained on the toilet. What do you call a stolen yam? A hot potato!What’s the funniest fruit? A pun-net of strawberries! Why did the genie go to a psychiatrists? His emotions were all bottled up. You’re stuck on the loo, you may as well have a laugh.

In Jonathan Park Series 14: After the elusive Dr. X flees to Europe, Unit 7 commissions Jonathan and the team to find him! The charges against X are grand larceny of treasured American artifacts and an attempt to bomb the Statue of Liberty! With the help of new, cutting-edge technology, they discover a mysterious travel pattern across Europe - one that leads them to what's really behind X's sinister plot! Does your family have a deep appreciation for the enormous sacrifices that made it possible to have our own personal Bibles today? Journey back in time and experience miraculous events that changed the course of the world! Discover amazing stories about the extraordinary history of the Bible! Immerse yourselves in divine turning points of the past and drop into famous sites where God used Luther, Tyndale, Gutenberg and others to translate and mass produce the Scriptures into different languages. This action-packed Series is an exciting way to learn about God s supernatural plan to preserve His Word! Includes All 4 Thrilling Albums of the 14th Series of Jonathan Park! Includes the following albums - Crash Course Treacherous Trail Power Lines The Ultimate Weapon

Maxwell Sim can’t seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his best friend since childhood is refusing to return his calls. He has seventy-four friends on Facebook, but nobody to talk to.In an attempt to stir himself out of this horrible rut, Max quits his job as a customer liaison at the local department store and accepts a strange business proposition that falls in his lap by chance: he’s hired to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the remote Shetland Islands, part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental-hygiene company intent on illustrating the slogan “We Reach Furthest.”But Max’s trip doesn’t go as planned, as he’s unable to resist making a series of impromptu visits to important figures from his past who live en route. After a string of cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward misadventures, he finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of his GPS system (“Emma”) and obsessively identifying with a sailor who perpetrated a notorious hoax and subsequently lost his mind. Eventually Max begins to wonder if perhaps it’s a severe lack of self-knowledge that’s hampering his ability to form actual relationships.A humane satire and modern-day picaresque, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is a gently comic and rollickingly entertaining novel about the paradoxical difficulties of making genuine attachments in a world of advanced communications technology and rampant social networking.