Running off with a woman half your age, or trading in your truck for a cherry red sports car, could be signs of a midlife crisis. Not so with Jack Hall; he's never really grown up anyway. Maybe it's changing careers midstream. Again, you can't place an age on Jack. But one thing is certain. Since he's changed jobs, strange things have begun happening. Bizarre events, adventures, whatever you want to call them...and they are coming fast. Some are comical, others are risky, and a few are downright deadly. Will an everyday guy like Jack become a hero, save lives, or save his own? He has unique friends helping him along the way. Can our everyday lives have adventure waiting? Who can say? There could be a story of unusual circumstance out there for us. Enjoy. 1

Author Jacqueline Vater Warner taught many years at a Christian school. Adventures of the Orchard Street Gang is based on a composite of some of her former students. In this fun children's story, we follow twelve-year-old Dave from his first day of school and on various school activities, including visiting the space museum and holding fund raisers. Dave and his friends go to a small school, where he and his eleven classmates are like a big happy family. They have a lot of fun times during the year, some amusing, some sad, some exciting. The tale ends with the end-of-the-year awards night. This is the first in a series of books about the Orchard Street Kids.

In a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.

The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.

On March, 1991 Anna Martin lands in London, Burdishland. It's her first time in the city and the experience becomes an amazing adventure. Passionate and determined, Anna gets on really well with the natives and fights national stereotypes while seeking for a charming Burdish gentleman. The adventurous southern lady will meet a number of suitors on her way before finding her unicorn in the West Country with whom she hopes to enjoy a torrid romance. How far will she go to seduce him? Fresh, laced with good humour and wit, this book will make you think about changes in life and loss of innocence.

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.

Seagulls And Camels, And Other Tales That Touch The Heart is a delightful montage of a lifetime of stories, reflections, and observations by the author on his way to becoming an octogenarian (a person who is in his eighties). It is a feel-good book for replaced, unhurried, recreational reading, and readers will appreciate the author's intentional avoidance of politics, gloom and doom, confrontational or divisive issues of any kind, or the advocating of any sort of "causes". This book is for sheer time-out enjoyment.