At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2-the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst...

When a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to stay alive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

"...[E]xploring an alternate history of science fiction, this ingenious anthology showcases eighteen brilliant authors leading the way to a new literature of the future. Two strangely-detached astronauts orbit Earth while a third world war rages on. A primatologist's lover suspects her of obsession with one of her simian charges. The horrors of trench warfare dovetail with the theoretical workings of black holes. A dissolving marriage and bitter custody...

"A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen before. When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne - tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace - in the middle of a London riot, she sets in motion a series of events which will span decades, continents and a series of events which will change the...

Professor von Volt plans to send Geronimo and his time traveling friends back to King Solomon's court to borrow a ring that supposedly will restore harmony to Mouse Island and balance the environment--but they soon find themselves taking an unplanned detour through Napoleon's court, a Viking village, and the Minotaur's labyrinth, before finally arriving before the wise King.

Presente a sus pequeños lectores a San Salvador, la magnífica capital de El Salvador. Los niños aprenderán sobre las características únicas y vibrantes de esta incomparable ciudad centroamericana. Podrán caminar hasta el gigante de la naturaleza, El Boquerón, alimentar a las palomas un domingo y ver el vapor de las sabrosas pupusas. "Introduce your little readers to San Salvador, the magnificent capital of El Salvador. Children will learn...

Chronicles the odyssey of a group of European explorers who arrived in Florida in 1528, only four of whom survived the eight-year, five-thousand-mile journey through the North American wilderness to finally reach an outpost of the Spanish empire.

A portrait of the city of Rio de Janeiro describes how the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games have prompted resolutions for long-standing regional challenges--including drug wars, corruption, and urban decline.