Kiernan traces the astonishing story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee--one of the Manhattan Project's secret cities.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Celia was always up for a change of scenery, and this trip was not her first. Her hair was a deep brown, not quite as black as the coal ash that coated life in the Pennsylvania town she had left behind: Shenandoah. It was a town about 100 miles and roughly the equivalent in light-years from Philadelphia. #2 Celia had a secret job working for the Project in New York...

Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialised in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation - to be careful of men, and desire - are not just Grace's to learn. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of...

"Lillian Kaufman hasn't heard from her twin sister since Eleanor left for a mysterious job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. Then she learns that Eleanor is missing. Lillian leaves New York to sneak into the mysterious town of Oak Ridge, only to learn that Eleanor has vanished without a trace-and she's not the only one. But how do you find someone in a town so dangerous it doesn't officially exist? Forced to pretend to be Eleanor, Lillian finds...

In Issue three our friend Outlawra teaches the school bully, Grizzly Gareth, a colourful lesson in French - while Ricky Rhino swindles an unsuspecting chimpanzee with a ludicrous business pitch related to the Romans and the Celts. Cob the Impossible Blob simplifies arithmetic with the help of Inventor Boys Arithmetic machine. Piwi the Posh Kiwi helps us find out when to use that little punctuation tadpole the apostrophe. Cogmires Capital city is...

President Truman drops two atomic bombs on Japan, and Dottie cuts ties with Milton and begins posing for lowlife cheesecake photographer, Irving Klaw. In the meantime, a shadowy figure with a vendetta against ex-Yoyo Club girls persists in evading police. While Colonel Eigrutel shows a marked interest in Talullah, Milton tries to track the increasingly bitter Dottie down, and a war-injured Joe wastes away in a squat for the homeless. Everything comes...

When three suburban moms get tired of trying to make ends meet, they decide it's time to stick up for themselves by robbing the local grocery store. This comedy-infused drama that mixes a little "Thelma & Louise" with a bit of "Breaking Bad". Beth, Ruby, and Annie are knee-deep in a life of crime and there's no going back! This series is packed with twists and surprises, the ladies are taking control of their illegal business operations as they struggle...

In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time--how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two...

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that's programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch, and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her eight-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl a M3GAN prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences....

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...