Hi, my name is Jack. I know you have all heard of me before, I'm the guy who climbs an enormous beanstalk to retrieve the princess' amulet. But today I would like to tell you the real story of HOW I was actually able to accomplish such a feat. My adventure all starts with a simple math question. I know what you're thinking - how does math have anything to do with my epic adventure? Let me confess to you my secret to confronting and out-smarting a giant; the secret is MATH. I used math to initially buy the beans, I used math to help sort through the giant's treasure of all sorts of geometric...

In his follow up to his award-winning novel, STEALING MONA LISA, Carson Morton takes us on a thrilling race through war-torn France as French patriots attempt to keep Leonardo d Vinci's masterpiece out of the hands of the rapacious Nazis. In the opening days of World War II, 15-year-old Delphine Fournier is abandoned by her museum curator father when he spirits the Mona Lisa out of Paris ahead of the advancing German army. Four years later, news of her father's arrest for murder in a village in the South of France forces 19-year-old Delphine to escape occupied Paris in an attempt to save him...