Böcker av Thomas Hudson

After Tom's latest adventure on and inside the Moon, he decides to take on a new project, one for a paying customer of Swift Enterprises. unlike many of his adventures having to do with one ocean or another, this time he will be entirely on the top of it. Or, more correctly, above it.Although not one of its primary markets, the Swifts have built at least one super yacht, so when a very rich man living in Ireland contacts Tom with a request for a very unique new sort of yacht, the inventor considers passing, but comes to the decision that his family needs him to remain grounded for awhile. So, with a budget that is, to his thinking, almost obscenely inflated, and a request that the yacht be so individualized it might never be repeated in the form designed by the inventor, he sets forth to build the nearly impossible.Tom Swift likes building the nearly impossible.The "fly" int he ointment comes in the form of a group who are out to pirate anything on the high seas they see as advantageous to their continued operations, and they have one heck of a way to get around that the inventor must either avoid or find a way to defeat.

Something Deeper calls us to remember the deep, the mysterious, and the miraculous in everyday moments. These 31 poems will change your life if you let them.

Abey Staughton is apprenticed to the 'guvnor', a wheelwright and carpenter in Nether Oldston, a small village in rural Oxfordshire in the years before the First World War. He depicts the incidents of his daily life in a rural community: falling asleep after haymaking and cider, with Eva who adored him and Sally who was serious about him, which led to trouble; his turn as chariot driver, to rescue Sally from a bull; and his varied work with farm stock, timber and the tools of the trade, as gradually he absorbs the skills of a carpenter and wheelwright.A vivid depiction of how life was in rural England in the years leading up to and during the first world war.First published in 1988 by Tabb House, 7 Church Street, Padstow, Cornwall, PL28 8BG, UK, this edition is reproduced with their kind permission (Original ISBN 0 90701863 7)

Years after Damon Swift saved NASA's reputation as an exploratory service to The United States, Enterprises is approached for a repeat. Only, this time it is to be much more than the old Jupiter Skimmer's flight into the atmosphere of the gas giant. Now, they want to do flybys of all the major moons of both Jupiter and Saturn with appropriate photography and even some remote spectrography."They still don't understand all we can do! we can give them landings, and even better science." Tom complains as he plans to answer their request with a much broader program of exploration. One that does not rely on their, "Must have a crew of no fewer than five and no greater than nine." Their friend and political guardian, Peter Quintana., comes to the rescue with information this exploration comes in response to Tom's own horrible experiences with a u.N. subcommittee's roughshod handling of a probe project Tom completed just weeks earlier.He knows that such a voyage is far too long for a human crew to stand, and there will be little or no way to get replacements out to them given the space agency's limited budget.So, what can he do? Well, how about a small squad of non-humans?

In this hardbound edition, Tom Swift faces two parts of an old comet that have started heading toward Earth. The news media attempts to stir up a really big panic about it all, not very many astronomers are certain that it isn't just a tempest in a teacup.Until the day it turns out to be much more than that.While governments dither and scientists endlessly debate, and while religious zealots want people to just give up and pacifists fight with those who say that a nuclear deterrent is what's called for, Tom and his team at Swift Enterprises leap into action.But, if blasting the problem apart isn't a viable solution, what can possibly be?Given the relatively brief amount of time available to take action, is there really something that Tom can do?To make matters worse for Tom, his head of Security has been kidnapped and is nowhere on Earth to be found. But Harlan Ames isn't just sitting as a prisoner--although that is exactly what he is--and their paths are destined to cross again.

Dr. Hudson, an expert in the field of breast cancer diagnosis, explains what every woman needs to know in a warm, conversational style--a rare find in a medical book. Readers will gain inside understanding on topics such as mammography, breast cancer prevention, and facing illness courageously.

The 3rd book in the Saga: The Emperor Shangri-La died trying to attack the Earth in book 1; the Empress-his twin sister-died trying to attack Tom Swift in book 2. Now, it seems the very Moon on which they built their Shangri-La colony of slaves is on the brink of being attacked by the ground under their feet. Harlan Ames, former Swift Enterprises Chief of Security has been the Administrator of the now free colony but is getting anxious to take his twin children back to Earth. Their safety may depend on it; their mother was the much hated Empress! But, something bad is happening inside the Moon. He hopes his old boss can figure things out before it is too late. In the meantime, he leaves his children in the care of Lola "Grandma" Reyes at the lunar colony while he heads out to see if there is anything to discover at the former "Master's" ruined fortress in the Philippines. It is a race against time to see if clues can be found to help avoid a catastrophe.

In this hardbound second installment of the Lunar Trilogy (Tom Swift and the Space Battering Ram was part 1) an environmental disaster hits California at the same time the lunar colony-now free of the tyranny of the Masters-is facing a crisis of their own, and it seems a single solution needs to be found for both. At the same time, Harlan Ames ventures to Tibet in search of answers about the Empress and where she might have crashed her evacuation spacecraft. What he finds will turn his world on end and nearly ruin the now-free colony on the Moon. With his own troubles, Tom must find a way to mine water from a passing comet and bring it to the Moon and down to the Earth safely and quickly before people start to die. As it is, people are leaving the state as if it is becoming a new dustbowl. The inhabitants of the lunar colony don't have that luxury. Will Harlan's search and Tom's projects succeed? Or, with they intersect with disastrous consequences?