Books with author Robert A.

It's late August, 1952. Fifteen-year old Pete Jenkins joins his resort friends for an end-of -summer party. Dressed in pirate outfits, they board a small, but sturdy craft and head off to an uninhabited island where they will have a picnic, party and prizes. All these will be provided by long-time friend and cottage owner, Mr. Heuck, who will be dressed as Captain Hook like every other year. In the distance Pete, Kate and Dan spy an antique, three-masted schooner and rush out to greet it to get a better look. Instead of a simple wave hello from what appears to be a group of history buffs, the kids are invited to board the ship. The friends soon find themselves captive and part of an enormous feet of British, Canadian and Indian attackers headed for Fort Mackinac. The trio quickly discover they are among real invaders determined to return quickly discover they are among real invaders determined to return the newly established United States of America back to English hands. Their make-believe social gathering in 1952 has become a real-life battle for survival. War of 1812

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today.In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.

A new generation comes forth to take up the quest for interspecies harmony... For young E'draMinr, starry-eyed 'Dark Grays' recruit, life isn't nearly as simple as it seemed as a hatchling. His worst nightmare —a self-centered, foul-tempered human youngling—is making his first training cruise miserable.Thanks to her they're stranded on an alien world among primitive natives with who-knows-what ideas about these mysterious visitors. Can they avoid killing each other or being eaten by the natives? Both are injured and they're running out of food. Also, the planet is about to be destroyed. It doesn't look good.The fact that the Ic'nichi and humans are on the brink of interstellar war — well, there's no sense worrying over trivia at moments like this.

Along the same line as a young Indiana Jones, a new star is brought to life, Max Harris. This is a fictional account of the early years of a boy whose life is turned upside down when it is revealed he carries the family secret except the effects are magnified. Come follow the adventures of Max Harris as he progress from discovery to training to application of unknown powers and to the ultimate pinancle.

The Soddit, The McAtrix Derided, and the aptly titled The Sellamillion: The parodies are hilarious, but the numbers are serious, with millions of copies sold. And now, in our very own time and galaxy, Star Wars finally gets its comeuppance-just in time to coincide with the release of the 6th and final film. The force is with us!This is a satire well and truly earned: with the last chapters in the Star Wars' saga reaching new lows, the movies that have dominated popular culture for more than three decades deserve a little tweaking. Oh, sure, a long time ago, in what seems like a galaxy far, far away, there was a very good and thoroughly entertaining SF film. But that's long gone. So here it comes, a six-part mock-epic that begins in the middle of the action, pits good against evil, and features hairy co-pilots, green gurus, bizarre hairdos, steel bras, and campy robots. In addition to his bestselling parodies, Adam Roberts has written a SF novel, Salt, which was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as a number of academic works.

With rhyme, humor, and a creative storyline, this picture book illustrates the value of simple joys over materialism. Rahoola is a happy raccoon until an unexpected visitor informs him of a life-changing inheritance. Becoming enamored with his new possessions, Rahoola is driven to collect more and more, until a surprising turn of events reveals the truth about his pile of shiny things.

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done.It was during these years that all Johnson’s experience—from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine—came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term—the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate’s hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the “unchangeable” Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control.Caro demonstrates how Johnson’s political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust—or at least the cooperation—of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson’s ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson’s amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.Master of the Senate is told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro’s peerless research—years immersed in the worlds of Johnson and the United States Senate, examining thousands of documents and talking to hundreds of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides. The result is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself—the titan of Capitol Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing—and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of personal and legislative power. It is a work that displays all the acuteness of understanding and narrative brilliance that led the New York Times to call Caro’s The Path to Power “a monumental political saga . . . powerful and stirring.”

How to Keep Your Kids Drug Free is a valuable resource for parents, pastors and teachers who want to go beyond the rhetoric of today's anti-drug program. Discover what the Bible says about the effects of drugs and learn to apply Scriptural solutions for protecting your family from one of society's greatest problems. Written by Dr. Robert Morey. "A brief but convincing argument from Scripture against the use of drugs. Also contains practical counsel advice for teachers, pastors and parents of drug abusers." - Christianity Today

With rhyme, humor, and a creative storyline, this picture book illustrates the value of simple joys over materialism. Rahoola is a happy raccoon until an unexpected visitor informs him of a life-changing inheritance. Becoming enamored with his new possessions, Rahoola is driven to collect more and more, until a surprising turn of events reveals the truth about his pile of shiny things.