Grant Michaels

When new meteorite strikes introduce an alien virus, humans develop unique superpowers that trigger a battle between teen hero defenders and supermonsters.

Women soldiers Frangie, Rainy and Rio accompany the American army to World War II Sicily, where they endure harrowing conditions on the front lines during the summer of 1943.

Mack MacAvoy, an average-seeming twelve-year-old boy who happens to have special powers, travels to China in an effort to assemble an elite team of his peers to help him thwart the evil Pale Queen.

"Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy and a team of other twelve-year-olds travel to Europe to find a special Key that will help them defeat the Pale Queen and save the world from destruction"--

From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the center of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians exert their influence over Western thought and civilization. Michael Grant, the renowned classical historian, recreates the evolution of this astonishing city and community. He describes the individuals...

A comprehensive anthology of the classical historians--from the early Greeks through the late Romans, right up to the beginnings of the Christian era.