ZAP! TAP! ROAR! Children's hardcover, colorful book for ages 4-11 about twelve important musical composers! This is book #3 of the Zap! Superheroes of Music series. Fun facts and a poem about each composer, and - if each famous musician were a superhero, what would his or her super power be? Fabulous superhero illustrations! Includes Glossary, Musical instruments page, Composer Map, Timeline, Composer Quotes, Q&A page. Written by Lucy A. Warner. Illustrations by Patrick Ackerman.Publisher: Spring Promise Productions LLC

Words about sound and noise illustrate the letters of the alphabet.

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Children's Book with facts about 12 famous classical composers, plus illustrations and an imagined situation of what each might have looked like as a superhero. What would his special power be? What if a fantastic musician like Bach could catch a bolt of lightning? "Zap!" What if Beethoven suddenly zoomed down from the heavens to play the drums while suspended in mid-air? "Boom!" What if Tchaikovsky transformed himself into a magical Nutcracker Prince to defeat the evil Mouse King? "Pow!" This book also contains a Glossary, time chart of composers' lives, map illustrating where each was born, and one quotation from each famous musician.

Muzic Inc had become a music industry giant by staying one step ahead of the game, but for some reason APs (totally cybernetic rock stars) had failed to ship gold. That was where Glorianna O'Toole came in. The Crazy Old Lady of Rock and Roll was well into her sixties, but with her producer they hoped to synthesize an AP that would really take off. Glorianna hated everything Muzic Inc had done to the rebel music of her youth, but for the sake of a steady supply of designer dust she was prepared to try and rekindle the revolutionary music spirit of the 1960s. Meanwhile, at street level, the wire wizards had come up with a new piece of technology: a portable trip machine that made Owsley acid look like a vitamin supplement...