The Elevator Family On Mars

NASA asks the Wilson family to stay six months at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Mojave Desert. The Wilsons will simulate living on the red planet to see how well a family can work together in a small confined environment. No sweat for this tight-knit family. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes to hear the songs.

Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime-they're going to Mars. But Carmen's rebellious streak leads her to venture out into the bleak Mars landscape alone, where she is saved by an angel. An angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad-and a message for the humans on Mars: We were here first...

Sixty years in the future, the planet Mars is, for the most part, ruled by a powerful supercomputer network called the Instrumentality. The Instrumentality knows no fear. However, it will know fear because the Quakers are coming! The Quakers are coming! The future is elusive. Nevertheless, this book is based on the real numbers whose pattern has been set over the last hundred and twenty in science and technology. So the future depicted here is a very real possibility. The Religious Society of Friends (aka Quakers) was founded in the seventeenth century; however, its ideas are very easily applied to the twenty-first century.

Since he was a boy, Julius Stetson dreamt of what life would be like on another planet. After a tragic work accident, he gets an unprecedented chance to make his dream a reality. However, fate plays a cruel trick. As his Martian dream descends into nightmare, the man from Pontiac must make an impossible choice. No matter what he does, his decision will change both worlds.

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world’' first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.

★ Publishers Weekly starred review "A must-read for anyone invested in the fate of evangelicalism."--Publishers Weekly Many Christian leaders use their fame and influence to great effect. Whether that popularity resides at the local church level or represents national or international influence, many leaders have effectively said to their followers, "Follow me as I follow Christ." But fame that is cultivated for its own sake, without attendant spiritual maturity and accountability, has a shadow side that runs counter to the heart of the gospel. Celebrity--defined as social power without proximity--has led to abuses of power, the cultivation of persona, and a fixation on profits. In light of the fall of famous Christian leaders in recent years, the time has come for the church to reexamine its relationship to celebrity. Award-winning journalist Katelyn Beaty explores the ways fame has reshaped the American church, explains how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical movement, and identifies many ways fame has gone awry in recent years. She shows us how evangelical culture is uniquely attracted to celebrity gurus over and against institutions, and she offers a renewed vision of ordinary faithfulness, helping us all keep fame in its proper place.

Sixteen years after being abducted by her father, Meredith Simon boards a flight from Paris to New York. She is 24 and the daughter of Patrick Simon, a fugitive wanted in connection with crimes across two continents, and a conspiracy icon hailed by some as the architect of a new method for producing hydrogen fuel. In just two decades, hydrogen has fast replaced conventional fossil fuels to become the main source of electric power in the United States and other countries around the world. Waiting at the airport in New York is Agent Hanna Corsica of the FBI Missing Persons unit. She has been assigned to interview Meredith about the circumstances of her alleged kidnapping. After retiring to a nearby safehouse, Agent Corsica must speedily sift through doubt and evidence to discern if Meredith can be trusted. With pressure mounting from beyond the safehouse walls, Agent Corsica is compelled to test the strength of the Simon’s implausible tale, the implications of which reach to the highest echelons of power.