This work, a collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge valley of Virginia, reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. The author takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she...

The contemporary version of the classic true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan.

Annie Darling, bookstore owner, works with her husband, Max, to unmask an interfering prankster who caused her clever book promotion to backfire, but her search is complicated by her unpredictable mother-in-law, a troubled friend, and a killer.

A picture book biography about activism, this is the story of Velma Johnston, a trailblazing woman who mobilized children in her crusade to save wild mustangs. Full color.

"Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion"--

A biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.

"There's no time to play on this adventure. They must save an endangered mother rhino and her baby before it's too late. As the rhinos' enemies close in, Jack and Annie search for a miracle to help them. What follows may be the wildest moment in all their adventures."--