Arch® Books have brought Bible stories to life for millions of children worldwide since 1965. Perfect bedtime reading for children ages 5 to 9, Arch Books have long been trusted to teach important Bible stories with language and artwork that speak to preschoolers and beginner readers.

Price: $373.75 Arch Book Set (Set of 125)
by various authors
Item #: 591448
This well-loved series for children tells Bible stories in an enjoyable, memorable way.

‘You’ve Got Mail’ wasn’t quite a blockbuster when released, but it’s stood the test of time for those of us hopeless romantics, book lovers, and fans of New York, dogs, and coffee. //

Nora Ephron was an essayist, novelist, and director. She directed “You’ve Got Mail,” but was perhaps better known for directing “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle” (you see a theme here) and the adorable foodie love story “Julie and Julia.” Nominated for several Academy Awards for Best Writing, Ephron was the epitome of talent, wit, grace, and humor.

'Everything is copy,’ her mother once said, and she and her husband proved it by turning the college-age Nora into a character in a play, later a movie, ‘Take Her, She’s Mine.’ The lesson was not lost on Ms. Ephron, who seldom wrote about her own children but could make sparkling copy out of almost anything else: the wrinkles on her neck, her apartment, cabbage strudel, Teflon pans and the tastelessness of egg-white omelets.

The obituary observed that Ephron had a gift for writing and directing about “romantic comedy and for delayed but happy endings that reconcile couples who are clearly meant for each other but don’t know it.” She is credited with saying, “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim,” a theme that resonates in her films, whether it’s about love or cooking. //

Joe Fox says in one scene, “The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing, or who on earth they are can – for only $2.95 – get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino!”

Announcing FEE President Lawrence W. Reed's new book: "Real Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courage, Character, and Conviction," featuring over 40 stories of heroic individuals who have changed the world.

What makes someone a hero?

Is it fame, power, money, creative talent, athletic ability, good looks?

Despite what our culture typically celebrates, none of those things makes a hero.

No, heroism springs from character, the critical element that defines a person. The good news is that character is something every one of us can mold; it is simply the sum of the choices we make as we face new challenges and opportunities.

And here’s even better news: this lively, accessible book gives you real, flesh-and-blood models of character, courage, and conviction—men and women you won’t just admire but also can emulate.

Author Lawrence W. Reed ranges far and wide in Real Heroes—from major historical figures to remarkable people you’ve never heard of; from the distant past to the present; from the United States, to Europe, to Asia; from statesmen to scientists, athletes to inventors, entrepreneurs to theologians, writers to teachers.

Chris Derose's 'Star Spangled Scandal' vividly recounts how the murder of Francis Scott Key's son left a lasting legal legacy. //

Chris Derose's new book, 'Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America,' vividly recounts how the murder of Francis Scott Key's son was one of the 19th century's most sensational murder trials and left a lasting legal legacy. This was hardly the first major violent confrontation between two major public figures. Most notably, just three years earlier, pro-slavery Rep. Preston Brooks beat abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner over the head with his cane on the Senate floor in retribution for the latter’s “Crimes Against Kansas” speech in which he supposedly libeled Brooks’ uncle.Brooks probably would have killed Sumner had his cane not broken. Sectional disputes over slavery routinely ended in violence, and it became commonplace for members of Congress to carry firearms and knives into the capitol.But even in this age of political firestorm, what transpired between Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key was distinctly personal. As Chris DeRose chronicles in his new and exciting book, Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America, the conflict between the two men was a tale as old as time. Weaving together the threads of their stimulating (and tragically intersecting) lives, DeRose inventively treats this narrative of adultery and murder as a kind of real-life play.

We can convert almost anything:

• Text
• Word
• PDFs
• Open Office Writer
• Libre Office
• Pages (Mac)
• WordPerfect
• InDesign Files
• Print

--into:

• MOBI (For Amazon Kindle)
• ePUB (for iPad, iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony eReader) and KoboBooks, and,
• ePUB, Smashwords-specific
• PDF for print on demand

If You Gave Us a PDF
We Scan your PDF

So, how do we convert your PDF? 95% of the time, after we try a few things, we end up running OCR software (Optical Character Recognition) on it. Yes, just as if it were a print book. Believe it or not, this is faster and less expensive for you than if we use Adobe’s tools to “export to Word” or “export to HTML.” (If you've seen these tools, or those online "convert your file" websites, before you invest your time or money, please see our article here in the FAQ on that topic: There Is No Magic Way to Convert a PDF to eBook Form. We try this, of course, on every book, to see if we can save the client money. But usually, OCR is the best way, and produces the cleanest Word output.

Then we run comparison software which checks every single character in the output against every single character in your original PDF. Our accuracy is 99.95%, guaranteed. No conversion is ever 100%. This is one of the reasons that every client gets a review copy, to check. If we make errors in the conversion, we fix them at no charge to you. //

Yes, we know that you’ve probably seen Internet websites and ads on Google saying “Convert your PDF to Word Now!” or other such promises. Mostly, this is snake-oil. We have been doing this for four years, and we have never found an “easy" way to convert PDF's to HTML to make an eBook. We’ve never even found a good way to make a clean Word file from PDF, at least, not with "push-button magic."

PDF, as a format, is inimical to eBooks/HTML. They are 180º different. PDF cares about what something looks like--not what it is. HTML/eBooks care about what something is, first, and what it looks like, second. I have an article about (some of) the problems, using PDF, here: http://www.booknook.biz/ebook-conversion-basics/ebooks-made-from-pdf/#378 . It doesn't remotely cover everything, but it tries to explain some of the problems.

Um...I guess, if you cannot afford a professional, your only route is to use a program like Calibre, to convert it to Word, and then, from there, clean the entire file. It's a lengthy and detailed process, but it's doable. Do you know how to use Styles and Headings, Tammy? If you don't, then, to be honest, you're kind of fighting an uphill battle. You should go here: https://shaunakelly.com/topic/word/concepts.html and start at the very beginning. Work your way through that page. All the way to the bottom. When you're done with those (I know it looks intimidating, but it won't take you more than an hour), go here: https://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/tipsonstyles.html and then, work your way through 1 and 2, on that page. Then go here: https://shaunakelly.com/topic/word/numbering.html , and do this one, at the bottom: https://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/usebuiltinheadingstyles.html .

Those will give you the fundamental basics that you need, to successfully clean up a Word file, and restyle it, using STYLES and HEADINGS, so that you can in turn make a successfully-formatted eBook. There aren't any shortcuts to this. People will tell you that there are--and they know not of what they speak. Doing this is realistically the only way to get your file from PDF to a competently-done ebook, if you have to DIY.

Hope that helps!

About eBook Formats

One of the questions that we are often asked is, "what is the best eBook format for Kindle? I'm not always sure what question I'm being asked. Is the person asking to find out what file format they should upload to Amazon? Are they asking what's the best way to make a book for the Amazon-Kindle ecosystem? Really, there are only two eBook formats that are still remaining in the USA, and, when you look around, in the world. Those formats are:

• ePUB: which stands for ePUBlication (clever, eh?), which is used by B&N, iBooks, Sony, KoboBooks, and Google, and,
• MOBI format, which is the preferred Kindle file format.

If you've Googled, you've likely seen all sorts of claims, ranging from some folks telling you that you can put an ePUB on Kindle, to the idea that using Word is the best "Kindle eBook format." The bottom line is, the files that Amazon sells to its readers are, by and large, a single file format, called "MOBI."

Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century is an authoritative resource for educators, students, policy-makers and interested lay-people alike. With balanced and accessible text, it provides:

An introduction to nuclear science

A valuable account of many aspects of nuclear technology, including industry applications

Answers to public concerns about nuclear power including safety, proliferation, radiation and waste

Up-to-date data and references

Now in its fourth edition, the text of Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century builds on seven editions of Nuclear Electricity(1978-2003). Since the first edition of Nuclear Electricity, the intention has been to get behind the controversies and selective arguments, and present facts about energy demand and how it is met, in part, by nuclear power.

While the idea of finding a missing submarine in the Pacific Ocean, even when they had a general idea of where to search, proved so daunting to the Soviets that they’d ultimately given up looking, Bradley was fairly optimistic. He had a better way of locating it. //

Four boats were lost in 1968, including the USS Scorpion and the Soviet Union’s ballistic missile boomer K-129, which the Soviets never did locate — until the United States handed them the wreck’s location six years later.

How did the United States find it? Credit Project Azorian, a massive top-secret CIA mission to salvage the wreck. The six-year effort cost a half-billion dollars, and involved some of the U.S. Navy’s most impressive tools, many of them still classified. It was arguably the single most impressive feat of naval engineering in history.​

The hunt for the Soviet sub is the subject of journalist Josh Dean’s gripping new book, The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History.

To help me write the words in my Up Goer Five picture, I taught my computer to watch my writing and tell me when one of the words I used wasn’t in the top ten hundred. After I put up my Up Goer picture, other people made things to check writing, too (like this one).

When I decided to write Thing Explainer, I went back to the writing checker I had used and made it better. Now, I’m happy to be able to share it with everyone!

Project Gutenberg offers over 59,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

A space race reading list

Below are some books & resources that we recommend as tools for developing a habit of daily prayer and time in the Scriptures. We intentionally keep this list very short.

Physics for Entertainment was written by Yakov Perelman in the 1920’s (in Russian) and updated periodically through the 1930’s. There are actually two parts to it, but Volume 1 is long out-of-print (though findable online — more on that later). The book I have is a 1975 translation of Volume 2. The book is a series of a few hundred examples, no more than one or two pages each, asking a question that illustrates some idea in basic physics.

It’s neat to see what has and hasn’t changed in the last century or so. Many of the examples he uses seem to be straight out of a modern high school physics textbook, while others were totally new to me.

Physics for Entertainment was written by Yakov Perelman in the 1920’s (in Russian) and updated periodically through the 1930’s. There are actually two parts to it, but Volume 1 is long out-of-print (though findable online — more on that later). The book I have is a 1975 translation of Volume 2. The book is a series of a few hundred examples, no more than one or two pages each, asking a question that illustrates some idea in basic physics.

It’s neat to see what has and hasn’t changed in the last century or so. Many of the examples he uses seem to be straight out of a modern high school physics textbook, while others were totally new to me. And some of the answers to the questions he poses seem obvious, but others made me stop and think. The diagram to the right shows a design for a fountain with no pump — it took me a while to get why it works. (For an easier-to-build variant, click here.) Later in the book, he explains the physics of that drinking bird toy.

-- https://blog.xkcd.com/2009/10/02/physics-for-entertainment/

Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

By Daniel Barrett

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Release Date: March 2012

Pages: 230
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The second edition has expanded from Fedora-only coverage to distro-neutral, with practical information on a wider range of commands requested by readers.

Linux Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition
Essential Commands

By Daniel Barrett

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Release Date: June 2016

Pages: 272
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The third edition features new commands for processing image files and audio files, running and killing programs, reading and modifying the system clipboard, and manipulating PDF files, as well as other commands requested by readers. You’ll also find powerful command-line idioms you might not be familiar with, such as process substitution and piping into bash.

Essential System Administration Pocket Reference
Commands and File Formats

By Æleen Frisch

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Release Date: June 2009

Pages: 144
The Essential System Administration Pocket Reference is a quick reference to all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as Solaris, Linux, AIX, BSD, SuSe, Red Hat, and more. Beginners and experienced administrators alike will quickly be able to apply its principles and advice to solve everyday problems. The book is divided into three parts: Commands, Syntax and Their Applications, Configuration Files and Formats, and Operating System Specific Information.