Summer and Cole are staying with their grandma for the summer. They are two inquisitive kids full of imagination. With their dog Corky; they have had many imaginary adventures on their grandmas farm. This time when they enter the forest they realize there is more to the land than just trees. They become aware of terrible magical events happening in Chigger Hollow, creatures and places they have only seen in their imaginations. Princess Aily, the leader of the Faye Fairy kingdom has lost the Emerald Key in a battle with the Wood Trolls. The Emerald Key locks the gate to Fairy Circle and protects the Emerald Tree, the source of power for the Faye Fairies. With the help of their new friend Nickterpopper, who found the Emerald Key while scavenging for magical ingredients, they embark on a quest to bring the Emerald Key back and lock the magical gate at Fairy Circle to keep the Wood Trolls from destroying the Emerald Tree.

Though stressed by her irrational boss at a women’s shelter, Sonya Radisson befriends battered wife Renée Mowry. The day after Sonya is unjustly fired, Renée is kidnapped by hooligans who may be linked to Renée’s estranged husband. Since authorities would misread Renée’s fishy past, Sonya launches her own search-and-rescue attempt. Gunfights and motorbike chases ensue across a labyrinth of backwoods trails. One leads to an ominous valley not meant to be found—an enigma that will lower the odds of anyone leaving the Rockies alive. But Sonya is armed to the teeth and ready to face the darkest—and perhaps final—weekend of her life. Suspense and humor run as high as the body count in this offbeat, third installment of Ben Schneider’s expertly crafted Chrome Mountain Saga.

Larry Barton Ph.D.

The exciting climax of the Dragonback Young Adult Science Fiction adventure series!

Offering a visual portrait of a beautiful country, this Eyewitness Travel guide shows what others only tell. Annually revised and updated, it offers full-color photos, maps, and illustrations, and information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation.

In 1929, a band of gypsies invaded the North Dakota farm where five-year-old Ione Nettum lived with her family. Though shocking and scary, the encounter left behind something more precious than anything they stole: wanderlust, the desire to move, to travel, and to taste all that life has to offer. Tales from an Inkslinger: The Memoir of a Maverick, is the story of that life--a life lived both simply and on the road, and a life of romance filled with both grand adventure and simple pleasures. Looking back on the nine decades of her life, Ione picks and chooses her stories, giving us--her lucky readers--glimpses not only into her life, but into the changes the past century has held. Even now, with the Internet making the world a smaller and smaller place, her joys and experiences in life as a Wander Vogel (bird of passage), are some most readers can all only dream of matching.

"Lyman Gibson Bennett (1832-1904) was a Federal soldier who saw extensive service in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. A writer of considerable energy, wit, and intelligence, Bennett's wartime diaries recount his diverse and wide-ranging military record, stretching geographically from the prairies of Illinois to the Rocky Mountains, while a postwar account details, among other things, his labors to recruit "Mountain Feds" in the Ozarks. This volume provides the perspective of an individual who was both a topographical engineer and a common soldier. As a member of the Thirty-Sixth Illinois Infantry, Bennett provided one of the most detailed contemporary accounts of the pivotal Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7-8, 1862. By December 1863, Bennett was promoted to first lieutenant in the newly formed Fourth Arkansas Cavalry (US) and wrote an invaluable first-person account of guerrilla fighting in the Ozark mountains. M. Jane Johansson's critical presentation of his writings will prove useful to scholars of the Ozarks, landscape studies, and the Civil War in the West"--