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Building A Better MouseBuilding A Better Mouse (book)

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We were there to build castles – castles in a new empire upon which the sun would never set... mice, ducks and talking animals... a man with a mustache and a mouse with a bow tie... and Epcot, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow – Walt’s greatest dream. It was a dream for a lot of us. We had been hired to create Epcot – hundreds of mostly young, mostly bright and all embarrassingly idealistic people. We believed in the dream, the company and most of all, the ideal – that a Disney employee had one goal: to make as many other people happy as humanly possible. From pixie dusting – when new employees are indoctrinated into all things Disney – through the craziness of the engineering design process, right up until the last frantic dash to opening day, Building a Better Mouse will show you the behind the scenes madness – and fun – that went into designing Epcot.

Travel KidTravel Kid (book)

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Join Dani and her parents on a trip that spans the globe, from Sydney to London, Death Valley to Pompeii, with stops in between. Whether climbing a waterfall, petting a kangaroo, snorkeling for sunken treasure, or dining high above Paris, Dani brings a kid's perspective to every destination. And travel with Dani brings out the adventurer in the adults, too. Travel Kid is a fun and witty romp, as one youngster finds out just how wide a world it is.

Everything In Its PathEverything In Its Path (book)

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Just after midnight on March 13, 1928 the recently constructed St. Francis Dam gave way, releasing a 160-foot-high wall of water. The torrent swept huge pieces of the dam more than a half mile downstream. Four hours later the water thundered into the Pacific Ocean after erasing nearly everything in its 50-mile path. By morning, more than five hundred people were dead or missing. It was the worst American civil engineering disaster of the twentieth century. Everything In Its Path tells the story of Santa Paula archaeologist Randall Thompson and his daughter Kate, who are excavating a Chumash Indian site in San Francisquito Canyon. Intertwined with Kate and Randall’s story is that of the prehistoric Chumash settlement. Tribe member Singing Bird is tormented by dreams of water, and her village being swept away. Across the centuries the two girls’ fates are drawn together, as they struggle to save their loved ones from a force that will sweep away Everything In Its Path.