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The world is a new place for the Slider mouselets. They discover that every place is not as good as it looks at first. Often when it looks good to a beginner, there are problems to be worked out. Together they can solve their problems.

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From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological & genetic material. Written in an academic style based on research and primary source documents, Laws That Shape Our Lives presents a comprehensive a...

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Precision and mystery mingle and ripple through this beautiful collection of poems. As Julia Leverone paints landscapes, waterscapes and cityscapes in which human figures move darkly amid effects of light and space and time, to a meditative music, she brings you with her: "you are the one seeing, " and you can say, with the poet, "I am changed." -Alicia Ostriker, author of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog *** "Shouldering, " meaning "what...

Limited Engagement is Joanne Greenway's first published chapbook of free verse poetry. The subject matter of these poems is wide-ranging and her style is direct and accessible. The choice of a theatrical title was deliberate: we are hardly ever in control of our life script. An unexpected deal of the cards can happen to anyone. We "actors" grace the stage but once, for a limited engagement.

I want to build / layers of language - / bind the thought threads / that otherwise fray and tear. / The words on this page / long to last, " writes the narrator in the poem "Mistakes, " in Merna Skinner's skillful and thrilling poetry debut.  Palimpsest-like meanings build steadily through this book which travels to a range of settings and through pivotal moments in personal history. Skinner looks through a prismatic lens to explore both liter...

In Once Familiar, Colorado poet Barbara Ford surveys the human landscape with her small binoculars. She looks in closets for the impossibly lost and the second smile. She pricks her finger with the eye of a needle, dares to seek transcendence while smoking a cigarette, fails to wash away the stain of sacrificial blood. In this collection of poetry she holds a series of conversations standing in the quicksand of the past and the ever so slipper...

Here is a different take on the Amish and it's a good tale that is well told. Mark writes with honesty, compassion, elegance and strength. Any lover of the Amish and of Amish fiction will be blessed by this book. Five stars, Mark!" Murray Pura, Bestselling author of The Face of Heaven Luke Umble believed he was a man of God. One fateful decision could test all of his beliefs. With the support of his wife Annie, they uproot their family in an a...

At a young age, Skie lost the most important people in her life during a tragic car accident. Skie was depressed for days, months, even years before the finding of one beautiful and mysterious flower gave her hope. Follow Skie as she dives into a new world and discover how the simplest things in life can give meaning and purpose.

In this second book of the Wellspring Farm series Great Aunt Nettie decides to raise hens. She enlists the help of her Great Niece, Amber and Caleb, a new boy that has moved in across the creek. While making preparations for the hens, she helps a neighbor with a rescue horse, defends the house from a mouse invasion, and tries to mollify the gnomes that have gone on a rampage.

The closing years of the Cold War and the Reagan administration form the backdrop of Lee Anderson's The Prince of Peace City, a historical novel about self-discovery and peace activism. Nuclear weapons strategist Corey Watson decides to join the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament as a break from his demanding job. When harsh weather, financial woes, and the collapse of the sponsoring organization, Los Angeles-based PRO-Peace, thr...

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Killing women is mad, even if he is family.' Spencer Calbeck returns to Choke Bay, the Yorkshire coastal village where his father killed two women and committed suicide. He arrives for the engagement party of Lauren to Ron. Lauren is a nurse, and Ron works at the Coast Guard Station. Lauren is the girl that Spencer loves. Choke Bay is an almost deserted village, dominated by empty cottages rented by tourists in the summer. Unable to decide his...

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