Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, is back for the third book in Kate Messner's new chapter book series. This time, he helps two kids navigate the Underground Railroad! Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation in the Deep South, it means they could be separated forever. Sarah takes their future into her own hands and decides there's only one way to run -- north.

TELL ME THE NAMES OF YOUR FRIENDS... is the story of Lee Sturgeon Day's year without a voice told through letters she exchanged with friends. Her previous book, A SLICE OF LIFE describes healing cancer through anthroposophic medicine and therapies 20 years ago. Praise for A SLICE OF LIFE. "As with all works of true imagination, we are taken into something universal...through this telling, we are invited to see a new vision - spiritual life is no longer to be found in the secluded monastic life, nor the temple, nor the church, but through the way in which we take up our deepest afflictions." Dr. Robert Sardello, author and director of the School of Spiritual Psychology. "An inspiration to cancer patients and enjoyable reading for anyone with or without cancer. Lee Sturgeon Day engages the big questions and life's trivial absurdities with equal vigor, captivating the reader with rare courage, wisdom and rollicking good humor." Lois Robbins, author of Waking Up in the Age of Creativity. In TELL ME THE NAMES OF YOUR FRIENDS, readers are treated to the courage, wisdom and compassion of Lee's many friends.

Knowledge commons facilitate voluntary private interactions in markets and societies. These shared pools of knowledge consist of intellectual and legal infrastructures that both enable and constrain private initiatives. This volume brings together theoretical and empirical approaches that develop and apply the Governing Knowledge Commons framework to the evolution of various kinds of shared knowledge structures that underpin exchanges of goods, services, and ideas. Chapters offer vivid and illuminating case studies that illustrate this conceptual framework. How did pooling scientific knowledge enable the Industrial Revolution? How do social networks underpin the credit system enabling the Agra footwear market? How did the market category Scotch whisky emerge and who has access to it? What is the potential of blockchain-ledgers as shared knowledge repositories? This volume demonstrates the importance of shared knowledge in modern society.