Brown, Don

Describes the life and travels of Alexandra David-Neel, who became a scholar of Buddhism and Tibet in the early twentieth century and trekked thousands of miles to reach Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.

Presents an illustrated account of the Titanic's deadly voyage on April 12, 1912, when two thousand passengers, rich and poor alike, fought to survive the tragedy while partially filled lifeboats launched into the night with seven hundred people as some family members stayed behind.

Introduces young readers to the history of the California gold rush, describing the journey to California, the process of panning for gold, and the fortunes that this gold brought many different people.

Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacking of a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Introduces young children to the life and inventions of Thomas Edison.

Narrates the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, from the plane hijackings to the collapse of the World Trade Center.

A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.

A biography of Jim Thorpe, an American Indian athlete, who became the star of the 1912 Olympics.

After a gruesome discovery escalates America's involvement in a naval war in the South China Sea, U.S. President Douglas Surber must choose to take a stand against evil or save the life of his daughter, who is stationed aboard a U.S. submarine tender.

Describes the record-breaking flight of a daring woman pilot, Ruth Law, from Chicago to New York in 1916.