U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack is a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Native American forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who...

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year...

Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?

Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society--where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction...

Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.

"Profiles 100 of the best-loved cat breeds"--Page 4 of cover.

Yakima Henry is running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, when his violent past is about to come calling. Bill Thornton still has the wound from where Faith shot him just before being carried away by Yakima. The roadhouse proprietor hates them both, and has hired a gang of sadistic bounty hunters to kill Yakima and bring Faith back to him.

"Early readers will learn how to care for a beagle, including breed-specific traits and needs"--

"Simple text and full color photography introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of the dog breed Chihuahuas. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade."

As the Congo erupts in violent rebellion in 1964, old faces and new find themselves in a maelstrom of danger as the United States becomes more and more involved.