L.J Ganser

One hungry Tuesday afternoon Jimmy Zangwow's stomach rumbles. He just has to have some milk and a chocolaty Moon Pie. But his mother says, "Of course not", and sends him outside to play. In the backyard, Jimmy climbs aboard the secret project he has been building - a junk jumbilee jalopy. It shakes and rattles, then rockets straight up. Suddenly Jimmy is high above the earth, flying toward the great Moon Pie maker. Maybe the slumbering moon will wake...

Stephen Bly is a talented author of inspirational novels that combine elements of the classic western with spirited Christian teachings. Hidden Treasure is the second book of his The Skinners of Goldfield saga, which began with Fool's Gold (K0074). It's 1905, and the Skinner family wants to leave Goldfield, Nevada as soon as possible to continue their trek to California. Unfortunately, they keep finding it difficult to leave the greed-crazed, gold-hungry...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other organizations facing complex challenges in the knowledge economy? It can. And The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a...

In their dark cave deep in the forest, three little dragons feel awful. Their foreheads are hot with fever, their noses are drip-drip-dripping, and their teeth are chat-chat-chattering. Riding clippety-clop, clippety-clop through the forest, their friend the Good Knight asks the old wizard for help. But when the dragons won't eat the wizard's scaly, snaily soup or his slimy, grimy soup, the Good Knight does not know what to do. Who can the Good Knight...

With the help of a long lost relative, and a little magic, Sabrina Grimm and her sister Daphne try to find out who has kidnapped their parents and rescue them.

Fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm face their first case without Granny Relda's help when the future gets mixed up with the past in Ferryport Landing, and because some of the future does not look bright, Puck helps them try to make some changes.

Western writer Gary Svee has won two Spur Awards, including one for this tale of a righteous man who brings his own brand of justice to 1880s Montana. The town of Sanctuary is controlled by a fanatical preacher and a vicious rancher. But then a hard-drinking, gun-toting preacher named Mordecai arrives-and everything changes.

A Good Knight helps three little dragons who are having trouble getting to sleep.

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world's population. Japan's onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies....

WHAT MAKES A LEADER? CAN YOU REALLY LEARN TO LEAD? You might believe that leaders are born, not made. Perhaps you think that you need to hold an important job to be a leader-that you need permission to lead. Leadership is one of the most important aspects of our society. Yet there is enormous disagreement and confusion about what leadership means and whether it can really be learned. As Harvard Business School professor Robert Steven Kaplan explains...