Books in Want to Know series

They’re at that active age when they love to learn by seeing, doing, and exploring the world for themselves. And what better way to help kids ages 7-10 learn about God, the Bible, and Christian living than these fun, informative books? The I Want to Know Series is full of fascinating facts, activities, and puzzles, and packed with full-color photos, cartoons and graphics—all designed to engage quick and curious young minds with different aspects of the Christian faith. Created along the lines of the popular DK Eyewitness series for children, these books are like a do-it-yourself catechism—only a whole lot more fun! I Want to Know books do four great things for kids. They help them experience a relationship with God develop a curiosity about and hunger for the Bible practice basic principles of Christian living What’s number four? How about, have an absolutely great time doing the first three—with all kinds of fun, creative ways for kids to interact with God’s will for their lives!

The quirky sleuth Sherlock Holmes has been a popular character on the page and stage, as well as on television and in movies. Made famous by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes became a model for many future detectives. Readers will learn whether this character came from the brilliant mind of his writer or if Sherlock's sometimes outrageous means of solving cases were actually those of a real-life detective. Fast facts add entertaining and informative clues to help readers solve this mystery for themselves.

Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront thier own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and haunted -- as their own lives. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable audiobook's denouement. Booby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new audiobook will take some listeners to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.