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Bird Count
The National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count stars in this charming picture book, just right for young community scientists, bird watchers, and nature aficionados. A young girl and her mother participate as community scientists in the Christmas Bird Count. The girl is excited when Big Al, the leader of their team, asks her to record the tally this year. Using her most important tools―her eyes and ears―she eagerly identifies and counts the birds they observe on their assigned route around town. She and her team follow the rules, noting the time of day, the habitat, the birding ID techniques used for each sighting. Finally, they meet up with the other teams in the area to com...
White Dusk
Chosen to be his tribe's next chieftain, half-breed Sioux warrior Swift Foot returns from a vision quest determined to lead his people through the troubles ahead. To do so, he would marry for all the right reasons. Small Bird is the perfect choice--their future was decided years before when Swift Foot saved her life. But for their people to survive the coming darkness, the two will have to win each other's hearts. Original.
White Wind
When her beloved stepfather died, Sarah knew it was time to set out on her own--to escape her evil guardian's clutches and discover the father she'd never known. But Sarah doesn't make it far before she crosses paths with Golden Eagle, the warrior who had rescued her years before. This time around, he vows no obstacle will stop him from having Sarah.
Man Overboard
Plenty of paper millionaires jumped off half-finished buildings in 1926 when the Florida land boom went bust. One such tycoon disappeared from a luxury ocean liner in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Was EQ Edmunds just another victim of his own greed-or was his disappearance the final and most stunning hoax of his stunt-filled career? Edmunds' widow, Nesta, left penniless and humiliated by his disappearance, doesn't believe he's dead. She has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a private eye willing to take on the case.PI Billy Heart has a chip on his shoulder and a skeleton that keeps banging on his closet door. He knows he should walk away from this case. But he's a sucker for Nesta's tears-and her red high heels.From the exotic mansions of Tampa's fabulous Bayshore Boulevard to the steamy underground tunnels and smoke-filled speakeasies of Ybor City, Billy Heart follows a trail of greed, lust, intrigue and danger to the surprising solution of this fascinating mystery based on a real-life disappearance that has never been solved.
What A Trip
In this fast-paced coming-of-age novel we meet Fiona, an art student at a New Jersey college who is brilliant, beautiful, and struggling to find herself. Through her eyes we relive the turbulent culture of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll, the first draft lottery since World War II, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, the Kent State University shootings, and the harsh realities of war for Americans in their early twenties. Fiona’s best friend, Melissa, is in a dead-end relationship, pregnant, and going nowhere fast. After Melissa’s abortion, Fiona and Melissa spend a week in Florida, where they are introduced to tarot cards and the anti-war movement. Following this experience, Meliss...
Copy Me, Copycub
Through spring, summer, and autumn, through streams, swamps, and up and down trees, a mother bear and her cub play an important game of follow the leader. "You're my own little Copycub!" mother bear exclaims. Little does the cub know that each time he imitates his mom, he's learning precious life lessons. When winter suddenly arrives, the bears must make their way to the cozy cave to sleep until springtime. It's a long, hard journey, and as the snow blows into Copycub's eyes and ice fringes his fur, all he wants to do is lie down and sleep. How will his mother convince him to take just a few more steps? Richard Edwards's simple, gentle text is heartwarming and inspiring. All the rich details of nature and the tender interactions between mother bear and cub are made real in Susan Winter's soft watercolor illustrations.
Lookin' for Love
Based on a compelling and sometimes tragic true story, this novel follows young mother Ava from the go-go bars of the 1970s to the heart of Florida’s drug trade to a Kenyan prison to, ultimately, a place of forgiveness, faith, and love through recovery. Inspired by a gripping true story, Lookin’ for Love begins in 1963, when Ava, nineteen and pregnant, marries a violent alcoholic and is disowned by her abusive mother. She bears two sons, leaves her husband, and turns to go-go dancing to provide for her children, using alcohol and drugs to numb herself to the degrading work. Then she meets Mike, a charismatic drug dealer who promises to give her “a beautiful life.” They move to Florid...
SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood
′This Handbook offers diverse perspectives from scholars across the globe who help us see play in new ways. At the same time the basic nature of play gives a context for us to learn new theoretical frameworks and methods. A real gem!′ - Beth Graue, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, USA Play and learning scholarship has developed considerably over the last decade, as has the recognition of its importance to children’s learning and development. Containing chapters from highly respected researchers, whose work has been critical to building knowledge and expertise in the field, this Handbook focuses on examining historical, current and futur...
Old King William Homes and Families
Old King William Homes and Families: An Account of Some of the Old Homesteads and Families of King William County, Virginia, From Its Earliest Settlement by Peyton Neale Clarke, first published in 1897, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
