Tim And Pete

Baker's groundbreaking novel of simmering rage and justifiable violence follows combative ex-lovers Tim and Pete, thrown together on a bizarre trek from Laguna Beach, Calif., to Los Angeles. Sarcastic, satiric, violent, and exhilarating, "Tim & Pete" is a fiercely imagined, boldly realized vision of the cultural war raging in the hearts of the disenfranchised and in the streets of America.

The author of the cult favorites Adrenaline and Boy Wonder presents a subversively satiric novel of gay love and bad behavior. In an energetis account of 24 hours in the lives of ex-boyfriends Tim and Pete, readers are taken across the hyperrealist landscape of contemporary L.A. and introduced to a bizarre circus of players.

“The Current is a rare creature: a gripping thriller and page-turner but also a masterwork of mood and language—a meditation on memory and time. You’ll want to go fast at the same time you’ll be compelled to savor each and every word.” —Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people. In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene—half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community’s memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined to find answers, the surviving young woman soon realizes that she’s connected to the earlier unsolved case by more than just a river, and the deeper she plunges into her own investigation, the closer she comes to dangerous truths, and to the violence that simmers just below the surface of her hometown. Grief, suspicion, the innocent and the guilty—all stir to life in this cold northern town where a young woman can come home, but still not be safe. Brilliantly plotted and unrelentingly propulsive, The Current is a beautifully realized story about the fragility of life, the power of the past, and the need, always, to fight back.

Upon returning from his travels, Penguin Pete is captivated by a girl penguin with a blue beak, cultivates her friendship, and wins her flipper in marriage.

While taking a walk with his father, a little penguin throws snowballs, rides a dogsled, slides down a slippery slope, gets lost in the snow, swims with seals, gets carried home, and asks to do it all again tomorrow.

Three kids are taken aboard a flying saucer, the saucer morphs around them and gives them suits that make them look like the classic aliens, like little green men but the saucer is actually a time machine and takes them back in time where they crash land in Roswell NM in 1947, THEY'RE THE ROSWELL ALIENS!

One night Tim notices that the light from the lighthouse is out. This means danger for ships at sea, who rely on the light to steer clear of the rocks. Foul play is suspected and it's up to Tim and friends to save the day in one of their most exciting, and most dangerous, adventures ever!

Children will delight in Marcus Pfister’s adorable ‘Penguin Pete’ as he playfully passes the time until he’s big enough to swim in the sea. He practices trying to walk gracefully and tries to imitate a bird in flight. He soon discovers that penguins can’t fly, but they sure can swim—and Pete turns out to be a natural!