Save the Day
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong—including one man's mission to rescue two kids who were kidnapped by alleged murderers and taken to Mexico, and another about a professor's mission to keep the educators of a liberal arts college from extinction.
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How I Got Into College
How a stolen library book got one man into his dream school and changed his life forever. Or at least that's the story he tells himself.
The Not-So-Great Unknown
What happens when an astronaut who's not really into outer space goes to the moon.
Superpowers
Which is better: flight or invisibility?
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