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The New York Times best-selling author of Bats at the Beach, Brian Lies crafts heartwarming tales that allow young listeners’ imaginations to soar. With infectious rhymes, Lies also packs lots of laughs into his stories about a group of young bats who are always looking for fun. Here, the crew takes to the diamond for an exciting game of baseball. It’s time for the bat all-star game, and our loveable heroes are ready to cheer on their favorite players. The grass is mowed and the scoreboard is lit up, so grab a mothdog, your best mitt, and a bat - the wooden kind - and join the gang at the ballpark for an unforgettable night of strikeouts and home runs.

When Sam, the library mouse, and his friend Sarah wake to find the library being packed up to prepare for a major renovation, they realize that they won't have a home during the construction. So off they go in search of a new place to live. Sam knows that research is key, so he finds books about architectural styles to get ideas for building a temporary home from the many objects found around the library. They build and live in a variety of houses: a castle, an igloo, a yurt, a modern house, and even a geodesic dome.

In this sequel to Daniel Kirk’s Library Mouse—a Parenting magazine Book of the Year—Sam falls asleep in the library and awakens just in time to scamper out of sight. In his haste, he leaves behind his mouse-sized notebook. As a boy named Tom puzzles over the mystery of such a small book, he discovers Sam’s mouse hole. Soon Sam and Tom form an unusual partnership that would surprise others—if they only knew.

Hawk is trying to shake the Aussie police hot on his tail. Holed up in the Sydney Savoy with the flame-haired actress he loves, Hawk comes across the perfect out: an island kingdom comes up for sale. But is it a legitimate deal? And is it really the Eden Hawk needs to get away from it all? The CIA has an answer. So do the Cubans, the Russians, and the Islanders themselves. But not the one Hawk wants to hear, especially in the middle of a raging hurricane.

When Hawk’s latest lady is taken to the Virgin Islands for a ride she didn’t expect, he ends up discovering an international white slave trade. As soon as he gets hot on their tracks, the CIA tries to derail his search. But in the face of kidnappers, murderers, and blackmailers, soon even the CIA must admit they need Hawk’s help, and he is immediately on the case to discover the identity of the “Mr. Big” behind all the kidnapping and murdering.

After a terrorist group declares war on New York City, bombing the subway, machine-gunning a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium, and stating even more horrible plans, Hawk decides to leave his Polynesian paradise to join in the hunt to stop them. Hawk closes in on the wealthy and fanatical leader of the terrorists, Dr. Segura, and his imported pro, Uchi Saito, but his own life is put in danger as he becomes their target. Even with the beautiful Madelaina by his side, New York is a long way from paradise - unless they can stop Segura.

Hawk is faced with the most calamitous case of his danger-ridden career. His friend, President Warren Stone, is losing his sanity - and control of the country. The streets are in turmoil. The Russians are advancing on the Mid-East oil fields. And Hawk’s being shot at from all sides: the FBI, the CIA, the KGB, and a golden-haired beauty. It’s Hawk’s job to discover if the President’s loss of sanity is for real, or it it’s been brought on by a deadly enemy within - before the world is engulfed by the fireball of a nuclear holocaust.

Hawk goes down under when an Australian bookie is flung head-first from an exclusive tower restaurant by syndicate hitmen. Hawk aims to take on the Godfather himself, and the gun wielding hoods train their sights on him. But who’s behind the bold scheme to muscle in on the Sydney underworld? The gutless Tony Santoni, the ill-suited heir to a gangland empire in the States? Or someone with a flair for the dramatic - like the elusive actress who has made Hawk her captive audience?

The Deadly Crusader finds himself in the thick of an electrifying plot to bring to bring an energy-starved America to its knees. Nuclear plants and oil tankers are sabotaged, refineries are set afire - and he is being blamed!

Hawk sets out to tackle the power-crazed power barons and short-circuit the monstrous scheme - and meets a gorgeous environmentalist with unnaturally “natural” charms.

Michael Hawk is a cool-handed crusading journalist with a knack for poking into the crevices of the world and coming out with a sensation. The smell of mystery excites him as much as the scent of a beautiful woman.

This time it leads him to a smoldering Greek island, a mysterious villa with a multi-million dollar secret and a ravishing heiress who bequeaths him its key - and the curse of a fugitive life. Michael Hawk is an investigative journalist with a knack for getting the scoop.

The deadly crusader has just lucked into an ex-dictator’s fortune. All he wants for the moment is to enjoy squandering his riches on women and yachts and women and private jets - and more women. But a horde of chanting cultists almost brainwashes him in Minnesota and he barely escapes a time-bomb explosion in San Diego. After getting word of the strange events, Hawk is on his way to Hong Kong to break open the most sensational case of his career - if he can live long enough to find the she-devil behind the mind twisters.

Calling themselves The Way - and led by the ruthless modern-day mandarin, Lee Chong - they are an assassination away from total control of the islands. But Hawk puts himself in their way, and takes a first-class trip through Hawaii’s explosive underworld - with a hot-as-lava lady cop to guide him.

Based on a series of interviews with self-perfection guru Jim Hoenfhmfjn (pronounced "Hinfmfn"), Awaken Your Perfect Self introduces the listener to Jim's philosophies in 15 easy-to-digest life lessons. Learn how to put yourself before others, take instead of give, and stop being a follower and become a leader. Propel your life forward and achieve ultimate success - start perfecting yourself today!

Best-selling author Daniel Kirk's Library Mouse was praised by Booklist as a "showstopper." In A Museum Adventure, Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah visit a museum so that Sam can sketch in his explorer's journal. Sarah doesn't understand how explorers can possibly have the time - or the desire - to keep a journal. So Sam shows her how a journal can contain so much more than just writing. As the friends search the museum, they see many new things - and make an unexpected friend.

Barack Obama arrived in Washington in 2008 symbolizing the political change he promised on the campaign trail during his historic presidential victory. But in many ways, Washington changed Obama more than Obama changed Washington. This is the story of how the idealist of the 2008 campaign evolved into a hard-nosed pragmatist, shelving his promise of a new kind of politics to fight increasingly partisan budget battles and run a bare-knuckles re-election campaign.

Prey: A young, homeless man arrested for a gruesome crime; a respected politician bound for higher office; detective Shane Calvin finds himself caught in the middle as two seemingly disparate lives collide, the weight of their secrets threatening to destroy them all.

Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner is at home enjoying a quiet day off when a stranger appears at his door and completely overturns his understanding of his own past. The following day, what looks like a mundane killing in a Brooklyn deli takes a bizarre turn when a crew of Homeland Security agents suddenly show up wearing anti-radiation gear.

Looking for yummy human tenders, Admiral Nact-bauk invades the local school. Zack and Zoey lead the counterattack armed with rulers, protractors, and dodge balls. They might have a chance, if Nact-bauk didn't gulp down the only teacher brave enough to stand up to him. Even worse, he forces Zoey on board the alien vessel for dinner - along with a bucket of honey-mustard sauce. Zack will do just about anything to save her. If Principal Blathers won't help, Zack sees no choice but to "borrow" the principal's car.

Page, my younger brother by four years, has been brain damaged from birth. He does not speak, cannot hear, and sees poorly through his remaining eye. A wall of autism shuts him away from the outside world, and he spends most of his time lost in his own musings, nodding, laughing, clucking, and crying at a pageant only he can see. But for all the grief it brings, Page's condition is also a remarkable and precious gift.

America's history is rich with tales of legendary entrepreneurs who disregarded the "experts" and risked everything to chase their dreams. But for every well-known Tom Edison or Bill Gates, there are unsung thousands whose vision and perseverance have won them success. Here are some of their stories.