Running off with a woman half your age, or trading in your truck for a cherry red sports car, could be signs of a midlife crisis. Not so with Jack Hall; he's never really grown up anyway. Maybe it's changing careers midstream. Again, you can't place an age on Jack. But one thing is certain. Since he's changed jobs, strange things have begun happening. Bizarre events, adventures, whatever you want to call them...and they are coming fast. Some are comical, others are risky, and a few are downright deadly. Will an everyday guy like Jack become a hero, save lives, or save his own? He has unique friends helping him along the way. Can our everyday lives have adventure waiting? Who can say? There could be a story of unusual circumstance out there for us. Enjoy. 1

In a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.

Author Jacqueline Vater Warner taught many years at a Christian school. Adventures of the Orchard Street Gang is based on a composite of some of her former students. In this fun children's story, we follow twelve-year-old Dave from his first day of school and on various school activities, including visiting the space museum and holding fund raisers. Dave and his friends go to a small school, where he and his eleven classmates are like a big happy family. They have a lot of fun times during the year, some amusing, some sad, some exciting. The tale ends with the end-of-the-year awards night. This is the first in a series of books about the Orchard Street Kids.

Everest: forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. But in 1953 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition which found a new route up Everest. This is his account of the treacherous journey.