Donald Duck - The Victory Garden - Disney - Carl barks

The Victory Garden is the first ten page comic book story starring Donald Duck that was done by Carl Barks. In this story Donald tries to grow a victory garden but three crows keep eating his seeds. This story was first printed in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #31.
This story was reprinted in The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #1, Donald Duck #286 and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #643.
Carl Barks originally received the idea from someone else but he changed the script and made it his own.

The PlanetsTHE PLANETS is Dava Sobel’s sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds.

After the huge national and international success of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. THE PLANETS tells the story of each member of our solar family,

My Antonia by Willa Cather

This great American novel tells the story of several immigrant families who move to rural Nebraska.The story has many elements but clearly documents the struggles of the hard-working immigrants in the prairies, and does a particularly fine job covering the hardships that women faced in that difficult environment. My Antonia also provides Cather with a platform to make some comments on women's rights while weaving a story where romantic interests are ultimately bandied about by the uncontrolled changes that occur in people's lives.

Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Clear some space on your bookshelf for Mitch Albom's, Have a Little Faith, the story of a faith journey that could become a classic. Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of "finding faith" in relationships with others and with something greater than ourselves. Never satisfied with easy answers or soft platitudes, Mitch explores some of life's greatest mysteries and unanswered questions with great honesty, depth and self reflection.

Time, Space, Stars and Man: The Story of the Big Bang

Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term ‘Big Bang’ as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recognize that DNA identifies individuals and will know that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved scientific mysteries.