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These nine stories follow a collection of unforgettable characters trying to get by while living in the South Texas border town of Brownsville.

After moving to Mars with his family, Davey complains of being bored until he begins exploring the planet with his dog Polaris and uncovers a most unusual "treasure."

After her wings are shorn in battle, the angel Perceval is held captive in an aging spaceship, served by her lost sister and servant girl Rien, and the two must escape together if they are to stop

Michelangelo Kisanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen, former abassador-spies, have been ordered to New Amazonia to bring back information about the planet's cheap, renewable energy source.

Andre�e Desch�enes wants to escape his life as a hired assassin. He hopes to learn the art of conjuring, manipulating the odds of people's lives.

Drawn from the latest neuroscience, cognitive behavioral psychology, and peak performance research, the author will show listeners how to better manage their time, efficiently achieve goals, comple

When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects.

The authors offer a highly accessible explanation of Einstein's equation, using everyday life to explore the principles of physics.

In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in flux and striving to exert its influence and power.

Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden explores the reformations that swept across Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden delivers lectures on the history of the early Church and the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire.

In this course, Thomas F.

Lizzie struggles to overcome the closed, internal world of autism when a new girl moves into her neighborhood, befriends her, then insists that Lizzie join her in seeking revenge on the boys who te

Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.

Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandso