Product Description: A creative thinker on topics related to library collections and scholarly publishing, Rick Anderson does not back away from controversy. "Whenever we, as members of an organization like a library, are forced to choose between good things, we may start by trying to figure out some way to have both things," he writes in the preface...read more

Product Description: From explorer Peter Puget to bachelor Johnson Brothers, whose farm became a regional museum, Legendary Locals of Anderson Island chronicles the emergence of a way of life that unfailingly awakens echoes of days long past. Anderson Island, the southernmost of all islands in Washington States Puget Sound, was settled in the late 1800s by immigrants predominantly from the Scandinavian countries...read more

Product Description: A memorable collection - expanded, revised and updated - from investigative journalist and columnist Rick Anderson. He solves the mystery of the Floating Feet, where suspected crime is measured by the nautical foot (the 15 extremities that washed up on Seattle and Vancouver beaches in recent years)...read more

Product Description: A young man is growing up, and as he enters adulthood he is full of shame for what he has caused and what he has become. He's constantly thinking of what his mother may have been told when he was born. "Congratulations, it's a baby boy"...read more

Product Description: God's Feet are in My Sandbox is one of the most powerful and captivating first-hand accounts of God's movement in our world to affirm life, love, forgiveness and hope. Rick's story will rock your world! --Sister Helen Prejean , author of Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents Having spent 16 years as chaplain for a unit of 2200 men, and ministering to 95 men on their last day in the Death House, I am totally committed to the fact that this is an important ministry and that these are people...read more

Product Description: Reca Jones discovered the oldest earthworks in the Western Hemisphere near her home near Monroe, Louisiana. In these eleven mounds at Watson Brake, she found round beads and fire-cracked rocks. This fictional picture book follows two children as they learn about this real-life discovery from Reca herself...read more

Product Description: After organizing a special Christmas Eve race in Daytona, drivers Junior and Michael are in for a holiday treat when a strange car pulls up on the track. It's covered in blinking lights and tinsel and smells of green pine, and the driver is Santy Claus, who is ready to race...read more

Product Description: In Natural Numbers: An Arkansas Number Book readers can step back in time and see ancient cave paintings from the last Ice Age, count the thrills as they ride the rapids of White River, or add up the many ways that milk (the state drink) does a body good...read more

Presents short rhymes about numbers of objects from one through one hundred and provides information about Mississippi's natural history and social studies topics that the objects represent.

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Each letter of the alphabet is represented by some historical, geographical, or cultural fact about Arkansas, accompanied by objects to find in the illustrations.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by some historical, geographical, or cultural fact about Mississippi, accompanied by objects to find in the illustrations.

Product Description: The Cascade Mountains run from northern California to southern Canada and include some of the most striking landscapes in North America, as well as two of its fastest-growing cities: Seattle and Vancouver. Seeking to capture the beauty, scope and intimacy of his spectacular region, informally named Cascadia, this book is a photographic celebration of landmarks such as the snow-covered peak of Mt Rainier, the Victorian houses of Vancouver, the Mercer Island Floating Bridge, North Cascades National Park, and Seattle's famous Boat Parade...read more