Joanne Mattern 
Pirates [PDF ebook] 

Join Maria, the sea turtle, as she faces her fears on her journey through the ocean. She was born during a food shortage and narrowly escapes. When she returns later to lay her eggs, she doesn’t reco …

Xue’er is a little foal that Po Wa saved from a pack of wolves, living a tranquil pastoral life with Po Wa’s family in the Wild Fox Valley. When war erupts, Xue’er is conscripted by the Japanese forc …

This book takes readers on a journey to China’s World Heritage sites, which are the Great Wall known to all, the recently successfully inscribed Quanzhou in Fujian, the beautiful Gulangyu in Xiamen, …

Power Point sits on an estimated 73% of all desktop computers worldwide, and according to one study, corporate America wastes $370 million each day on bad Power Points. Slide decks are the lingua fra …

This is a detective novel starring Hannah, a disgraced cop down on her luck. But don’t mistake her for just the short-order cook she appears to be. For one thing, she may be the worst burger-flipper …

Lucy Miles is thirteen. She has lost her confidence, she doesn’t have any friends, she hates school and as if that wasn’t bad enough she is also the main target of Beth Mackenzie, the school bully. S …

From modest beginnings in eighteenth-century Italy, the symphony soon developed into the highest form of western instrumental music at the hands of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The symphony became a …

Maurice de Bona, Jr.’s ‘Atheism: Genetics to Geology and Much More Science’ provides a thorough summary of Atheistic thought and its relation to scientific knowledge. De Bona’s extensive scientific r …

Nita Welch Owenby’s ‘The House of Rose’ is deeply woven with the histories of North Carolina, portraying life in the Appalachian Mountains in the early twentieth century. The story follows young Vale …

Two female teachers are camping in the wilderness at the junction of Wayah Mountain and the Appalachian Trail. One is murdered and the other disappears without a trace. Through a series of discoverie …