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Solomon Foxly isn't a cuddly kind of fox. He's a feral carnivore, intent on taking down anything he can catch and kill. There is, however, a nobility to the little fox. He doesn't just hunt for himself but for his family. His mate, the missus, and his pups, Noah and Eli, depend on him for their survival. For them, Solomon is willing to risk the ire of Barkley, the old hound who guards the chicken coop on the Harrison property. The dog chases S...

China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist DestinationsCHINA RISING, the latest book by the author of 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass, one of the most engaging political travelogues in recent memory, is a comprehensive, absorbing, eye-opening guide to China in the 21st century, a volume which in 700 pp packs it all: history, perso...

Hannah and Ethan are together, a real couple. If only they didn't have to keep their feelings for each other a secret from everyone in their lives, for fear that the news of their forbidden relationship will get back to The Three. At the same time, they face another challenge - the quest to understand Hannah's visions and what part they play in her status as a protected. Hannah is torn. She wants to solve the mystery, but struggles with the kn...

This is a collection of stories from my long career as a mailman. From the big city streets of Chicago, I transferred to the small, river town city of Kachuda, Wisconsin. It was there I wanted to make my life, raise my family, and put down roots and become part of a real community!I comment on the changing Postal Service as well, and how it has devolved, but the main thrust is the characters in this wonderful community in the Driftless Area of...

Written by a professional dog whisperer and dog owner, the Pharaoh Hound Complete Owner's Manual has the answers you may need when researching this elegant and fast moving hunter. Learn about this ancient breed that was originally bred to hunt rabbits and find out whether the national hound of Malta will be the best choice for you and your family. Learn everything there is to know, including little known facts and secrets and how to care for e...

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Exhalation Halves Lambda is a collection of love affairs between water and a bathtub, poetry and biology, person and place. The poems vary in form and content from sevenlings to sonnets to prose.

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An island that emerges, disappears, reemerges, green trees in flames, sheep that change color--death is considered here in the mythical realm of change and possibility. Rooms are never entirely empty of those who once inhabited them, and even window smudges take on the visage of a lost loved one. McCoy's poems are a richly hued consideration of "mysterium tremendum / through a shadow of glass." -- Marilyn McCabe, author of Glass Factory and Pe...

FBI data analyst, Lacy Merrick, returns along with her closest allies in this latest thriller...The ground work has been laid. Justice for Lacy's husband and the other victims of the attack six months ago would soon arrive. Expert hacker and close friend, Aaron Hunter, is working with her side by side to help ensure that happens. But when FBI Agent Will Caison returns to Washington, vowing to help Lacy once again, a disruption to their plan ch...

The Kerrisdale Garden Club is teetering on the brink of disaster. Its aging group of gardeners have allowed their apathy to grow like weeds in an unkempt garden and the club is about to take its final horticultural gasp before plunging into obscurity. That is until a not-so-mysterious stranger suddenly appears at their weekly meeting and things quickly descend into a cacophony of star-struck chaos. Little do the unsuspecting octogenarians know...

- Foreword and Acknowledgements   - Executive summary   - Analysing and comparing country practices   - Australia   - Austria   - Belgium   - Canada   - Chile   - Czech Republic   - Denmark   - Estonia   - Finland   - France   - Germany   - Greece   - Hungary   - Iceland   - Ireland   - Israel   - Italy   - Japan   - Korea   - Luxembourg   - Mexico   - Netherlands   - New Zealand   - Norway   - Poland   - Portugal   - Slovak Republic   - Slove...

From one mom to another . . . recovery is possible! What happened to my beautiful girls? To our family? Where did I go wrong? What does this mean for our future? Those are the tormenting questions that invaded every moment of Caroline Blaire's journey through not one daughter's, but both daughters', anorexia and intensive treatment and recovery. Just as the adage says, "there are no two siblings alike, " Blaire's experience navigating her two ...

Air-Breathing Life is a not only a field guide to the house sparrow, blue morpho butterfly, and salmon, but also to grief, Catholicism, redemption, and a search for meaning. As Ellen Bass says, the poems are "rich with the natural world-salmon, locusts, summer corn, periwinkles-and humans with their suffering and their absurdity, like the mother who, as she's dying, sends the daughter to the store for 50 cents off the tissue paper. Often Warre...

Inspired by fado, Marina Carreira's debut chapbook, I Sing to That Bird Knowing He Won't Sing Back, conjures up and tangles with the mighty Fate as muse. From ruminations on such historical characters as Lizzie Borden, Sylvia Plath, and Inês de Castro, to its odes to mothers and sardines, rustic villages and gritty cities, I Sing to That Bird… is a poetry collection that blends myth with memory, highlighting and exploring geographical and spir...

In this collection of poems, Holly Norton navigates the terrain of grief and excavates the treasures that may be found there, exploring memories of loss in childhood, womanhood, and middle age to arrive at the destination of acceptance and culminate in a life fully lived. Norton describes experiences that defined her relationships with those most influential in her life, parents, a sibling, lovers, and the profound self-discovery that resulted...

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