Mark is an eight-year-old boy, and yesterday was the last day of school. Mark is very excited about this summer vacation. This summer vacation is a special one for Mark because his older brother who has been off fighting in the Vietnam War is scheduled to come home this summer, sometime around July. Mark is very anxious to see his big brother, and it being during the summer vacation time makes it even better. Summer vacation for an eight-year-old seems like it will last forever when in fact it only lasts two months. But to an eight-year-old boy, these are days of playing football and basketball and swimming all day long—and not having any homework. This is the first day of summer vacation, and it starts out just like any other sunny day.

An anthology that questions the roles gender plays in creating and marketing a great American musical form

Open to the reflections of an old man sharing the wonderful dreams he dreamt when he was young. Building a time machine, digging to China, building the ultimate treehouse and so many more that will truly ignite one's imagination. And when he's done we learn the exciting reality that he is still dreaming. The illustrations alone will capture and enthrall all ages as they are whimsical and full of humor and detail (especially when one learns about the little mouse, Squeakers, hidden on each page!). This book is for all ages. For anyone you long to encourage to dream big and be all they were intended to be. Be sure to check out the companion, "When I Was A Girl... I Dreamed" (even MORE impossible to find that little grey mouse!)

With fatherhood looming, I kept seeing that six-year-old version of myself drawing comics in his bedroom, and I thought how crushed he would be to find out that I had given up on our dream. . . . So, three months after my daughter was born, I submitted Cow and Boy." -Mark Leiknes, creator of Cow and Boy Evocative of a boy and his pet beagle, or a precocious six-year-old and his imaginary pet tiger, Cow and Boy isn't afraid to tackle the complex relationship that exists between a boy and his cow. More Cow and Boy To balance yin, there is yang. To complement day, we have night. There are just some things in life that harmonize with one another and Mark Leiknes's Cow and Boy creation definitely benefits from the paradox of its two central characters, namely one towheaded boy named Billy and his trusty bell-ringing sidekick Cow, who move through life's adventures with a refined balance of curiosity, meaning, pathos, and humor. From inspired games of chess to grassy afternoon talks of reincarnation to lakeside swimming-hole ponderings that make room for a game of charades, Cow and Boy thoughtfully explores a different species of friendship in the funny pages.

Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.

MARK, A Love Story, is the life story of a young man who was a coworker of the Apostle Paul, and who was the author of the Gospel of Mark. His writing was the first account of the life and ministry of Jesus. As a resident of Jerusalem, he and his mother, Mary, were acquaintances of Jesus Disciples. Simon Peter called him my son. His travels took him from Jerusalem to Rome on the Great Sea under the care of the Master of the Sea. Marks story is an exciting one, a story worth telling.

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford "wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war." Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman-"the last English Tory"-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia. A work of truly amazing subtlety and profundity, Parade's End affirms Graham Greene's prediction: "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."