Books with author R. Thornton

Earth is ruined and there’s no returning. The sickness lies in every continent. The only way for the human race to survive is to escape the planet. Now the surviving population revolves around Earth in the new world, the Station. There is no more violence or poverty.Sam aspires to travel the cosmos, just like any other teen at her school. Orphaned as a baby, she finds herself alone in the small home, the Station. Busy with her studies, she finds herself an outcast among friends. George is new at the school and mysterious, but nobody seems to notice except Sam. She sees him everywhere she goes, every step she takes. Then she learns the truth, the whole truth, forcing her to choose between her future and her family.

Wade Hawkesworth receives a visit from an old friend. Pete, his young friend, had ridden over on his bicycle. He was 10 years old, just as Wade remembered him! The only problem was that Wade himself was 35 years old. That, and the fact that he also knew that his old friend Pete was dead... Wade set off in his old Ford F100 pickup truck to travel down to Pete's old house in Illinois to see what was going on. He loaded up the truck with his golden retriever dog Charlie by his side, and they set off on the backroads of southwest Wisconsin, heading to Illinois in search of answers, and to check up on his relatives.Then a wheel-less Big Rig showed up behind them, driven by a demon Hell Trucker holding an emerald that blasted beams of sorcerous doom- intent on blasting the old truck into pieces. Luckily, Wade had brought a big bore pistol along- but, would it work against the supernatural? Perhaps it would- in the Afterlife...

Rebekah's Secret Grandpa is a heart-warming tale of a dearly loved Grandma who starts acting strangely. Her family become very worried, explaining to Rebekah that "Grandma's getting old." However, Rebekah discovers there may be a different reason.. Filled with charming hand-made illustrations, and an interactive page giving children the opportunity to make the story personal to them, Rebekah's Secret Grandpa is a classic tale of how a little love and understanding goes a long way.

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>Harvard Law School Library<collection ID>ocm31634710<Notes>Includes index.<imprintFull>Indianapolis : Bowen-Merrill, 1892. <collation>xlvii, 590 p. ; 24 cm.