William Broyles

In this gripping memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam to try to make sense of the war. Previously published as Brothers in Arms, this edition includes a new preface by the author. When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service. During his physical exam, however, he realized that he couldn't let social class or education give him special privileges....

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

A magical train loaded with children travels north over mountains and bridges and through a desert of ice and snow to reach the North Pole, where Santa Claus is waiting to give the first gift of Christmas. Designed to be used with a flashlight to project silhouettes on a wall.

Follows the daily lives of doctors, nurses, soldiers, and others stationed at an American base during the Vietnam War.

Planet of the apes: An astronaut crash lands on a distant planet where intelligent apes rule, is befriended by a sympathetic chimpanzee, and leads a band of apes and humans towards a sacred temple within the Forbidden Zone that holds the key to the past. Quest for fire: Adventure set at the beginning of history for modern man, as a peaceful tribe searches for fire and the knowledge to create it.

For one doubting boy, an astonishing event is about to occur. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. Instead of bells and to his surprise, a steam engine's roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift that only those...

Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor, along with the...

The true story of the Apollo 13 space mission where astronauts are stranded in their crippled spacecraft while the ground crew race against time to bring them home.