Burgess: 511 books

A caring family finds themselves in the middle of a major flooding event over parts of their community from a far-reaching storm system. Creativity, episodes of curiosity, and a unique surprise from nature follow in series, as the children's patience is challenged and parents are tasked to remain hopeful in making a long-planned trip to grandma's house

This symposium was a joint effort, co-sponsored by Northwestern University and Borg-Warner Corporation and included representatives of the latter-day estates of univerSity, industry, and government. All of these groups were deeply interested in participating, since the problems of man and his environment,...

Old Mother West Wind came down from the Purple Hills in the golden light of the early morning. Over her shoulders was slung a bag— a great big bag— and in the bag were all of Old Mother West Wind's children, the Merry Little Breezes.

This here is a novel laced with diabolical deeds, heroic intentions and unbelievable events. Festooned with dastardly characters, the plot reeks of misadventures and daring exploits and contains so many twists and turns that you will be left gasping for breath as you try to keep up. Egged on by his...

Zany radio hoses Rick & Bubba rocketed onto the New York Times best seller list with their first book, Rick & Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We can Think Of. Now Rick & Bubba are back, and this time the world truly isn't safe. In The Rick & Bubba...

A young Bay Area woman, Sonia Mattingly, goes missing while taking a summer jaunt in an old mining town in California's scenic Sierra Mountains. Gail Brevard and her partners are called in to investigate the case and she decides she must go undercover in order to retrace Sonia’s steps and get to the...

The Contessa Lines cruise ship, the Nerissa, is the nexus for a disparate cast of nefarious factions. Two cunning and cold-blooded killers have smuggled themselves aboard, disguised as their murder victims, their motives unknown. And members of the Foundation, a mysterious cult, have infiltrated the...

Gail Brevard is faced with one of the most difficult decisions of her career when a key witness, Clinton Bolt, goes on the lam to Mexico. A seemingly unrelated arson death and an unexpected kidnapping are just a few of the issues Gail and her partner, Conrad Osterlitz, must unravel while preparing...

Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen...

NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was...