A collection of exciting Bouncey the Elf short stories. Why does he have to go to the mystical Mirror Lake? Will the Wizard change him into a toad? What happens when he follows two Goblins? Would you swim into an underwater cave? Bouncey the Elf did. Why does a Pixie need his help? Suitable for the younger child at bedtime.

A study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning.

Darkly comic and clearly tragic, these seventeen short stories of strange fiction will take you to the twisted landscapes of shadowed imagination. Dead animals purposely thrown in a neighbor's yard; a shiftless hitchhiker stalked by the "Ice Cube Killer;" two scientists who discover a new color and an even greater mystery; a writer doomed to tell stories that no one will ever read. Sometimes haunting, sometimes hopeful, these unique tales run the human soul through the ever-changing faces of death and futility. And who knows what else?

Follow this family with the next adventure "The Adventures of Churney Stars & Stripes". Read along while Churney and the kids learn all about this great country and its celebration of Independence Day!

The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker.

The engaging, witty, fascinating memoir of one of New Zealand's most eminent neurologists and winemakers. It all began when Ivan Donaldson's girlfriend, Chris, gave him Hugo Johnson's book Wine in 1966. A light bulb went off in the mind of the talented, ambitious young doctor. A fascination with wine started when he and that girfriend, now his wife of 46 years, started making fruit wines, then wine made with table grapes from her parents' garden. Things got more serious when he was working in London in the early 1970s and they were able to head off to France in their rackety old car to tour vineyards. Things got more serious still when, in the late 1970s, he and a group of Christchurch doctors planted out Mountainview vineyard in Halswell. And things became very serious indeed when, in 1984, Ivan and Chris Donaldson bought a parcel of land in the Waipara Valley on which to start Pegasus Bay Wines. It's now one of New Zealand's best-known and most awarded small wineries, still owned and run by the family and making magnificent wine using sustainable methods. It's highly sought after in overseas markets. Somehow, in between all this Ivan Donaldson has managed to carve out an impressive medical career. This engaging memoir tells how he has integrated the two great loves of his life. It's the story of one of this country's wine pioneers but also the fascinating account of a life in medicine, spent plumbing the deep mysteries of the human brain.