Books with author Pat Stephenson

The New Dog - A Story About Friendship is the tale of Sandy the dog. Sandy's world is absolutely perfect. She likes her home, she likes her owners, she likes her life. But, when a new face shows up in her world - things get very different, very quickly. In this book, children will learn about friendship, acceptance, and how simply being yourself is the best thing you can be. Watch your child learn with Sandy how friendships can't be forced, and how simply taking the time to learn about others can open up a world of possibilities!

The New Dog - A Story About Friendship is the tale of Sandy the dog. Sandy's world is absolutely perfect. She likes her home, she likes her owners, she likes her life. But, when a new face shows up in her world - things get very different, very quickly. In this book, children will learn about friendship, acceptance, and how simply being yourself is the best thing you can be. Watch your child learn with Sandy how friendships can't be forced, and how simply taking the time to learn about others can open up a world of possibilities!

Indigo Lerk and his assistant Hapley are two failed adventurers, now living on the streets of Fenwick City. Always on the look for schemes and opportunities, they find themselves on an epic journey to find the greatest adventurer that the world has ever known after his mysterious disappearance. Accompanied by a newcomer named Evelyn Dagger, they set out to find the legendary Baron of Barone and his famed fortune. Along the way they'll escape flaming zeppelins, flee treacherous villains, uncover shocking conspiracies, and other exciting adjective/noun combinations. So join our heroes in The Great Search for the Baron.

An apocalyptic tale of murder and stale sandwiches.The first book in the bestselling British horror trilogy.Tom is an ex-student waiting for his life to start or the power to get cut off, whichever comes first. Jen works two jobs, hates both, and most days is too hungover to deal with either. Detective Burnett is trying to work out who the hell has turned his sleepy English village into a murder town.Then the skies fill with a mysterious storm, and each of them wakes to find streets filled with bodies. The world they knew has gone, and their old lives with it. Now Tom finds himself at the hands of a deranged mercenary, Jen finds herself trying to keep two lovestruck teenagers alive, and Burnett must track down a killer who sees the apocalypse as an opportunity for more mayhem.Who will survive this gripping and blackly comic saga of murder and stale sandwiches at the world’s end?

Ali has two lives. In our world she is a typical ten year old, but when she goes to sleep each night she wakes in another world. Here she is part of a tribe who travel with horses and speak with them mind to mind. Ali's life becomes more dangerous and exciting when she finds herself, with fellow travellers Mark and Will, racing between a chain of worlds to rescue an imprisoned child. Horses and wolves risk their lives to help, but will they be able to defeat the High Ones who hold power?

A charming children's book written in 1880, The Butterfly's Ball is a short and sweet story of a Ball hosted by Lady Butterfly and her cousin, Mrs. Grasshopper for all of their insect friends and neighbors.The color engraving illustrations are a sweet example of Edmund Evans work. Edmund Evans produced children's books,many under the label of Aunt Mavor's Toy Books, in England in the mid to later 1800s, making the artwork a feature of the stories.

Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil -- all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylor's house is bombed, his every move followed, he's adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI's most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roomate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party. As he navigates this ecological thriller with hardboiled wit and the biggest outboard motor he can get his hands on, Taylor reveals himself as one of the last of the white-hatted good guys in a very toxic world.

An old gold mine, missing shares and a 13-year-old super sleuth...Spending the summer months in Colville with his little brother trailing behind him is not exactly Charlie Bradford's idea of a good time...but when someone steals his late grandfather's shares in The Treasure Creek Gold Mine and then tries to trick the other owners into selling theirs, Charlie is hopping mad....His grandfather believed in that mine.Joining forces with new friend Lisa Kirby, Charlie tracks down his grandfather's old partners only to find a thief who will stop at nothing to get his hands on The Treasure Creek Gold Mine!

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon