Considered one of the great classics in the genre, Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATON trilogy describes the events spanning more than a thousand years and resulting in the creation of an ideal universal ruling corporation. In this initial volume, the Galactic Empire is beginning to die and the ends of the Galaxy are reverting to barbarism. Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists create a colony - the Foundation - to incubate art, science, and technology that...

On February 13, 1972, a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed with a rugby team and twenty-five of the friends and relatives aboard.

While exploring a ravine, Kip and Larry are convinced that they've found the body of the old woman living at the top of the cliff, but when they return with help they find that the body has disappeared.

Photographs and brief text highlight the life of the New York Yankees' star outfielder who was chosen Most Valuable Player in the 1977 World Series.

Three survivors of an automobile crash in which the driver was killed are threatened by an executioner who believes they too should die.

Describes more than sixty tricks based on scientific experiments described in the text.

As an eight-year-old genius in the sixth grade, Angeline is not too popular, but she tries to adjust to being different. Nobody understands why Angeline is so smart. She could read the first time she picked up a book, she can play the piano without ever having had a lesson, and she even knows what the weather is going to be. But being smart is causing Angeline nothing but trouble. The mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome,...

Kitten Sam's nightmare of a pink, hairy monster alarms him and his sister Violet, until their parents allay their fears.

The world's most famous house can be a terrible place to live. Meg thought living in the White House would get easier--not harder.

Seven teenagers are plagued by chain letters demanding impossible deeds and threatening violence as well as exposure of their joint "unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert."