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WINNER of the 2008 DIY NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD for Fan Fiction - this book rolls with entertainment and takes you where you least expect to go. In 1933, following the release of the movie KING KONG, the survivor of an encounter with the real great ape imparts his secret to two young men. With the old sailor's map, an arsenal of weapons, a desire to prove themselves, and a three-masted barkentine, fifteen members of a Princeton Rugby Club embark in search of adventure and riches, collecting along the way a Chinese Rhodes Scholar, an Australian girl Rambo, a jungle boy prone to profanity, and a tribe of alcoholic natives. Not to mention a 30 foot gorilla with an identity problem. A journey of discovery far exceeding anything they would have expected with an unimaginable outcome. Full of old fashion appeal with contemporary twists and endearing characters, this award winning book is a must read for classic adventure and KONG fans everywhere. Includes the original screenplay.

Winner of the 2008 DIY National Book Festival Award for Fan Fiction, this book rolls with entertainment and takes you where you least expect to go. In 1933, following the release of the movie KING KONG, the soul survivor of an encounter with the real great ape imparts his secret to two young men. Armed with the old sailor's map, an arsenal of weapons, a desire to prove themselves, and a three-masted barkentine, fifteen members of the Princeton University Rugby Club eagerly embark on a search for adventure and riches, collecting along the way a Chinese Rhodes Scholar, an Australian girl Rambo, a jungle boy prone to profanity, and a tribe of alcoholic natives. Not to mention a 30 foot gorilla with an identity problem. A journey of discovery far exceeding anything they would have expected with an unimaginable outcome. Full of old fashion appeal with contemporary twists and endearing characters, this award winning book is a must read for classic adventure and KONG fans everywhere.

A chilling story of terrorism on a scale never before imagined! A tale of intrigue and suspense, which draws you into a world of wondering - could this really happen? This fictional suspense thriller introduces Commander Ramsey Lightner, Pentagon Navy Intelligence Officer, who facing the threat of world war, uncovers a multi-layered conspiracy of power and destruction that reaches from the Caribbean to the balmy tourists town of St. Augustine, Florida, and beyond to the highest levels of government in Washington, DC. This novel of intrigue contains all that a reader expects of a suspense novel in the tradition of Ian Fleming. Written in 1982 and originally published in 1986, THE WHITEMOON CRISIS has proven to be an intense preview of events of our new century, raising the question and challenge of how to defend against the exceptional resourcefulness of hate driven terrorism. A must read for those who enjoy this genre of literature.

A TEXT BOOK FOR HOME OR SCHOOL. IDEAL FOR UPPER GRADE SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL COMPUTER CLASSES. (This updated version now includes a section on Social Networking!) To the unfamiliar newcomer the Internet can be vast, confusing, unpredictably dangerous and can cost the cyber surfer dearly in terms of time, money, and even physical safety. "CYBERSAFE" is a guide for safe, knowledgable traveling through the vast and often intimidating World Wide Web. Clear and uncomplicated, it offers the newly introduced Internet user basic critical information on; - Getting on line safely - Learning the language of the PC/Internet world - Traveling & exploring the Internet safely - Privacy & Security on the Internet - Avoiding Fraud & Scams - Safely using the Internet for Investing - Dealing with Spam & other E-Mail threats - and more. Be you 6 or 60, CYBERSAFE is the must-have book to sit next to your computer! Material for this book was contributed and/or reviewed by the Federal Trade Commission, National Consumers League, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Federal Citizen Information Center, National Cyber Security Alliance, and Microsoft Corporation.

This 19th century Robert Louis Stevenson swashbuckling classic is for young and old. A story that follows the adventures of young Jim Hawkins from England to the South Seas. Jim finds a treasure map while going through the things of a former pirate, Billy Bones, who dies in his mother's inn and is soon off on a treacherous quest for gold. Echoing a favorite theme, Stevenson spins a startling tale of the good and evil in men as seen in the complex characters surrounding Jim on his journey. One of the most fascinating hero-villains of all time is Long John Silver, a merry rogue we can't help liking, we who have dreamed of adventure and longed for finding buried treasure.

Jack London's The Sea Wolf tells the story of a domesticated intellectual lad named Humphrey van Weyden, who after surviving a ship wreck, he is picked up by Wolf Larsen, the captain of the seal-hunting schooner Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew. Van Weyden adequately describes him as an individualist, a hedonist, and a materialist. As Larsen does not believe in the immortality of the soul he finds no meaning in his life and has come to despise all human life and deny its value. Being interested in someone capable of intellectual disputes he takes care of "Hump" while forcing him to become a cabin boy, do menial work, and learn to fight to protect himself from a brutal crew. Later, another castaway is picked up, Maud Brewster, a famous woman poet, with whom Hump soon falls in love. After an attempt to escape from the Ghost, Maud and Hump are cast away on a lonely island.

Moby Dick is the 1851 novel by Herman Melville describing the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale, Moby-Dick. The narrator's reflections, along with complex descriptions of the grueling work of whaling and the personalities of his shipmates, are woven into a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Moby Dick is often considered the epitome of American Romanticism. The novel frequently employs Shakespearean devices, including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies and asides. The first line of Chapter One -"Call me Ishmael."- is one of the most famous in American literature. Moby-Dick is considered to be one of the greatest novels in the English language.

Captain Blood is the exciting 1922 classic adventure novel written by Rafael Sabatini in which the amiable and sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, is wrongfully convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion of 1685. He is then enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados where he escapes to become the feared Admiral of his own fleet of pirate ships. Peter Blood, a fictional character, is based heavily on the true adventurous and famous career of Sir Henry Morgan. This Quillquest Classic Books eddition features a forward by author Frank Mosco as well as the biography and literary history of the book's author Rafael Sabatini.

The Sea Hawk is the great classic adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini originally published in 1915. The story is set over the years 1588-1593, and concerns a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a Spanish galley, Sir Oliver is liberated by Barbary pirates. He joins the pirates under the name "Sakr-el-Bahr", the hawk of the sea, and swears vengeance against his brother. This Quillquest Classic Books eddition features a forward by author Frank Mosco as well as the biography and literary history of the book's author Rafael Sabatini.

Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an imagined one night stand with Jimmy Buffett. Years later on her deathbed her final words inadvertently send her son, 14 year old James "Bean" Buffett Jr., on a quest to find his namesake famous father. And so the naive home schooled socially lacking young Bean and his scraggly little one eared telepathic dog Fruitcake, embark on an incredible adventure in his mother's car the Celestial Rocket, an oddly painted 1955 Nash Metropolitan convertable. From old St. Augustine, Florida, they head south to all points weird, leaving behind an estranged despicable uncle conspiring to steal a fortune the young boy doesn't even know he has. During their travels Bean and Fruitcake collect three colorful companions in the person of; Chi Chi, an illegal alien Cuban girl and resourceful fast thinking wannabe movie star who is pursued by agents of Fidel Castro, a homeless vagrant genious called Roachie who thinks he's stupid because he lost a billion dollar high tech enterprise, and an ever strange but talented Boner Jones, a mysterious multi-talented impersonator and paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorist with a deep secret. Their quest and travels take them to a number of places where Bean and company encounter and have to deal with bizarre characters and situations that include; dangerous surf Nazis, killer Haitian drug runners, members of a Cuban underground, a Parrothead extremist cult, incompetent Mexican pirates, mysterious Bayou gypsies, extreme California crackpots, and more; all the while being pursued by a hit man Catholic priest. Searching for Jimmy Buffett is a hilarious politically incorrect book full of non-stop humor that increases your interest with each page. One book you surely don't want to pass up.

A hilarious yet tragic book of war. THE LAST GHOSTRIDER follows the haphazard life and times of Army enlisted man Vincent Fusco during the years 1968 to '71 as he somehow manages to wade through the often incoherent reasoning and random events of military life and war. From his humorouis stateside antics to the strange reality and unforgetable heroic characters of the chopper war in the central highlands of Vietnam. An American G.I.'s saga that is of interest not only because of its revealing story but in the frank, humorous, and candid style in which it's told.