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Books serve as a portal that will take children's imagination to a world of their own and helps them be aware of some realities in life. Reading will also benefit them academically. It develops cognitive skills by improving concentration and comprehension. If you are someone who pictures children to appreciate books, you need to prepare extra effort to exhibit the love of reading. This blog will give you reasons for why you should take specific measures to motivate them. The list of information below is more of the benefits your children get to have by reading books.

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.   The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.   Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.   John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger. John Scalzi is a prolific journalist, columnist, and non-fiction writer whose books include The Rough Guide to the Universe and The Book of the Dumb. His web journal The Whatever is one of the longest-established and most widely-read weblogs on the net. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial

Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of Riverworld, this fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they travel through Farmer's strange and wonderful Riverworld, a place where everyone who ever lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Famous characters from history abound. Now Burton and Clemens, who have traveled for more than thirty years on two great ships, are about to reach the end of the River. But there is a religion, The Church of the Second Chance, that has grown up along the River and its adherents, possibly inspired by aliens, are determined to destroy the riverboats. A coming battle may destroy Burton and Clemens, but even if they survive, how can they penetrate the alien tower of the Ethicals, who created this astonishing world? What can humans do against a race capable of creating a world and resurrecting the entire human race on it?

An anthology of 16 previously unpublished works includes selections from the iconic writer's early literary career and is complemented by more than one dozen of his original works of art and a foreword by the National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist author of What Is the What.

Jean Archambault-White is a seasoned writer who had worked various writing jobs such as a columnist, technical writer, and freelance writer throughout her more than thirty years of experience. She has been writing since she was fourteen and was first published at the age of fifteen. Currently, Jean Archambault-White is an author who has written around four books including her riveting novel series Eloise of Westhaven. As a novelist, Jean Archambault-White is sophisticated and well-read - a manifestation of her extensive experience in the literary world.

One of the life goals of most people is to live life with good morals. Knowing your purpose in life will help you in attaining this.

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