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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
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Willie Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, the late Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen. The collection includes: Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie Town, and Big Medicine.
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Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter "D†? are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or that drinking a full pot of coffee every morning will add years to your life, but one cup a day increases the risk of pancreatic cancer? All of these "facts†? have been argued with a straight face by credentialed researchers and backed up with reams...
6) Up, up, up!
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A child experiences an exhilarating ride in a hot air balloon, looking down at the world from above.
8) Petunia
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Petunia, a goose, learns that possessing knowledge doesn't mean carrying a book around constantly.
9) War horse
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Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
10) MICHAEL
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Marking the celebrated MC's first solo project since 2012's R.A.P. Music, the album introduces the world to the totality of Michael Render, a lifelong rap fiend whose consciousness is steeped in the sounds of the community that raised him - multiple eras of southern rap flows, Sunday church service, and barbershop discourse.
14) Silvertongue
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As the battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages, twelve-year-old George Chapman is stalked by The Dark Knight, while George's friend Edie seeks revenge on the Walker.
15) Peter Pan
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The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. Illustrations compiled from late nineteenth and early twentieth century editions of the book.
16) Unhinged
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It began with the mysterious disappearance of Harriet Hollingsworth-Eastport, Maine's snoopiest resident. Everyone is convinced the old busybody bolted out of town to escape her creditor-everyone except Jake and her best friend, Ellie, who suspect otherwise. But they'll need to come up with proof more sinister than a pair of abandoned binoculars. Just as Jake starts poking around for clues, things take a troubling turn for the worse. A suspicious...
20) Paint the wind
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Maya is held captive in her grandmothers house in California but her imagination runs wild in Wyoming with a horse called Artemisia and the memory of her mother.
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