Peter Brown

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the...

El mar y sus habitantes dependen de Roz... La robot y los animales de la isla parecen tener una vida perfecta. Sin embargo, un día aparece una foca herida y da la voz de alarma: se acercan aguas contaminadas. A partir de este momento, todos están en peligro. Roz calma y organiza a los animales, pero las aguas tóxicas dificultan cada día más conseguir comida y hallar refugio. La robot descubre entonces que su cuerpo es impermeable a la marea venenosa...

Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.

A young just-graduated student decides to escape his background by experimenting with sex, psychotropic drugs and playing violin for a rock band. Influenced by the band leader and guitarist, he becomes part of this post-grad hippyish community of musicians and their girlfriends, roadies and supporters. But his parents particularly his mother - want him to have a proper career and what will become of his high-minded, virtuous yet confused and contradictory...

"Winner of the 2013 Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History" "Winner of the 2013 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society" "Winner of the 2012 R. R. Hawkins Award, PROSE Awards, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Humanities, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal Book of the Year Award, History category, ForeWord Reviews" "Winner...

At the outbreak of the second World War, Air Chief Marshall Dowding was Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command, which had been set up three years earlier to protect Britain against attacks from the air and the threat of invasion. London was subjected to extensive night bombing for several months. However, our fighter squadrons and defence systems enabled us to maintain master of the air. The Battle of Britain ended in 1940 and our island was never...

"Cuando Roz abre los ojos por primera vez, descubre que está sola en una isla remota y salvaje. No tiene idea de cómo llegó ahí pero sabe que necesita sobrevivir. Después de enfrentarse a una feroz tormenta y escapar del ataque de un oso, se da cuenta de que su única oportunidad para sobrevivir es adaptándose a sus alrededores y aprendiendo de los demás habitantes. Cuando Roz se gana la confianza de los animales, la isla empieza a sentirse...

Follow vigilante conservationist and Whale Wars veteran Peter Jay Brown as he battles to save the planet and our oceans from the enemy: Humankind.

Bored with city life and the proper behavior it requires, Mr. Tiger has a wild idea that leads him to discover his true nature.

The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.