For focus, exercise, and pleasant distraction, scientist Declan McCabe takes frequent walks along Vermont's Winooski River. The brief trips provide solitude, grounding, and an opportunity to explore. Slowing down, and observing carefully, reveals diverse life in unexpected places. Each patch of soil, each fallen tree, and every puddle of standing water is a microcosm of life to be appreciated.Turning Stones is a careful look at the mysteries and life that can be found in a river if you just the take the time to look. The more than 50 short essays gathered in this volume provide an astounding look at the rich diversity of life that depends on water. McCabe looks at the unique chemistry of water that makes it essential for all life. He examines a range of life form and looks to the future at ways to preserve clean water for the next generation and beyond.

“An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse—and what it does to a person’s soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing.”—The Los Angeles Times Featuring a new Afterword by the author Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother’s throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets—and his heart—for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.

She has a memory like a steel trap! Okay, a sieve. Dotty is a 63-year-old weredodo who loves cozy mysteries. So naturally, when her house gets robbed, she has to solve the mystery of who did it. But the criminal was far more than a simple sneak thief. The most important thing her clan owns has been stolen, and if she doesn't get it back soon, it might be destroyed. What's more, her slippery memory keeps getting in the way of her following the clues. But Dotty is determined! She will solve the mystery, and NOT die trying!

Adam thought that when he and Lilly were adopted by Rachel they would never have to worry about being separated again. Now Rachel is missing and Adam finds he must go to the ends of another world to rescue her and keep whats left of his family.

Bad guys beware. The werevulture's in town. Kegan's family is going on vacation to New Yeti City, and Lisette's invited! She figures this'll be great fun. She'll get to shop, sightsee, and meet up with the only werevulture clan in the country. But unfortunately, the werevulture clan isn't interested in Lisette, her opinions, or the "trifles" she raises as concerns. Which is a shame, because a hundred baobhan siths are about to converge on the city.