The tale of a young groundhog's journey into finding himself.

Charlie is a ground hog who is greedy about his home and food source. Unfortunately, Charlie's world changes when he is relocated to a new home in a corn field. He soon realizes he has been missing out on friendships and is very welcomed by the other ground hogs.

Courageous GIlbert the Groundhog has stage fright, no friends and a bully out to get him. But, when he learns how to relax his body, feel his emotions and how to express them, he confidently presents at an after-school club, makes a new friend, and stands up to the bully.

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.

In Should We Live Forever? Christian ethicist Gilbert Meilaender puzzles over the implications of the medical advances that have lengthened the human life span, wrestling with what this quest for living longer means for our conception of living well and completely. As he points out in his introduction, "That we often desire, even greedily desire, longer life is clear; whether what we desire is truly desirable is harder to say." The six chapters of this book take multiple perspectives on issues surrounding aging and invite readers to consider whether "indefinitely more life" is something worth pursuing and, if humans are created for life with God, whether longer life will truly satisfy our underlying hunger.

Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres – including rom coms, crime films and horror – and noting key similarities and differences between the source narratives and their offspring.