The Lost Day

In Greek mythology, the gods made human sacrifices. In this confronting, fictitious crime story, drink-spiking and sacrificial spousal gang rape, not to mention loss of trust, have been raised to Olympian heights of criminality.

A special one-shot set in the Ronin-verse! After the Last Ronin defeated Oroku Hiroto, Master of the Foot Clan, New York City was free for the first time in more than a decade. But along with the newfound freedom comes a dangerous power vacuum waiting to be filled, and without a common enemy in the Foot Clan, various factions are vying to take control. Longtime resistance leader April O’Neil finds herself and her loved ones—including four small mutant turtles she and her daughter, Casey Marie Jones, are raising and training together—once again caught up in the battle for the soul of the city. When April takes the young mutant turtles with her on a supply run into the city, they become lost and must find their way back to the sewer lair or risk becoming collateral damage in the newest power struggle overtaking the streets. Old memories mix with new realities as April and her four small charges race to get back home before it’s too late. This 40-page special comes from the New York Times best-selling TMNT: The Last Ronin creative team of writers Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz, illustrator Ben Bishop, and colorist Luis Antonio Delgado, and is an official tie-in to TMNT: The Last Ronin—Lost Years.

Emily and Sophie age 9, and Jack age 8, are at Blackthorn Stables, getting ready for the St. Patrick’s Day parade. As they are riding their ponies back to the stables, they stumble upon an ancient silver brooch, rumoured to be from the legendary Silver Serpent Schooner. This Spanish ship, laden with gold and treasure, is said to have met its watery grave centuries ago in the mysterious depths of Blackthorn Bay, Galway. But disaster strikes when under the cloak of darkness, a cunning thief steals the silver brooch. Can the Blackthorn Stables gang, along with their ponies and dog Benji, outsmart the sneaky thief? And is the brooch really a key to the Silver Serpent Schooner’s long lost treasure? Join Emily, Sophie, Jack and friends in this heart-pounding March adventure as they navigate clues and discover the true meaning of teamwork, courage and friendship. This wholesome and beautifully told adventure story chapter book is perfect for children aged 6 upwards. This is the perfect children’s story book and gift for young readers, girls, boys and all who love great St. Patrick Day stories to curl up with and enjoy.

In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber’s payload–four unarmed thermonuclear bombs–across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history. Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America’s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations. As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks. The Day We Lost the H-Bomb is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons–and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.