A seeminly random drive-by shooting in Long Beach, CA goes unsolved. Ballistic evidence sets off alarms in Washington, DC nearly a year after the killing. Detective Sam Devereaux is assigned a visiting investigator from the CIA to work the case. He i...
The Cruise of the Jest tells a story of coming of age at sea.The boy’s father, a well-known anthropologist, doesn’t think high school provides an adequate initiation process for an American adolescent, so he tells his sixteen-year-old son to sail...
The six stories and twelve illustrations of Bird Tales are intended for five to nine year olds. The book attempts to present the world as children see it, and at the same time, to make them more aware of birds and the natural world they live in.
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Welcome to the Enchanted Tiki Room, a place of legend...of fantasy...and mystery. Here---on an isolated island populated by talking (and singing) birds and plants and ancient Tiki gods--almost anything can happen and does. As the next boat arrives wi...
Alfie Dalfie is a book of stories about the travels of Alfie the monkey and his two friends, Rattie the water rat, and Raccie the raccoon. Alfie and his friends sail on the boat Good Name from island to island where they have adventures, such as i...
Chris the Crab is bored with eating everyone's leftover food, join him as he meets his friends and tries what they eat. Will Chris find something new and tasty to eat, or will he be stuck with his leftovers?
...Otis starts from Manila on a short cruise that turns into a voyage of weeks and months as he sails farther and farther into the Pacific Ocean. He is somewhere east of Fiji when he passes through the barrier reef of an island he doesn't know the name ...