Book Lists
Embarking on a homeschooling field trip to Central America is stressful enough, but add in perilous bridge crossings, trips to the hospital, and a lack of women's underwear, and you have the makings of an Adventure by Chicken Bus…a tale of one family, buckling under a mountain of debt, who sells all worldly possessions and hits the road.
Adventure by Chicken Bus demonstrates how to travel sustainably, but more importantly, how to nurture the next generation of environmentalists and social justice activists by exposing them to the conditions faced by those in the developing world.
From a remote monkey sanctuary tucked into an enclave on the Panama-Costa Rica frontier to the overdeveloped beaches of the Mayan Riviera, we endure chaotic border crossings, infections and injuries, learn about the history of the civil war in Nicaragua, visit UNESCO heritage sites, and hike the ancient Mayan temples of Tikal in Guatemala.
For the sake of safety, we plan our route down to the kilometer, navigating the region by chicken bus, an eye-opening mode of public transportation ubiquitous in the developing world. Along the way we re-connect with each other, re-kindle our commitment to the environment, recognize the privilege into which we were born, and become compassionate global citizens.
...09/01/2021
When Michelle Met the Queen is a charming story of how Michelle Obama's and Queen Elizabeth II's families linked with one another across time. After the first Queen Elizabeth of England's death, Britain became involved in the slave trade from Africa to the colonies. First Lady Michelle Obama's great, great grandfather was a slave, and it was after many years of struggle and hardship that her family finally saw blacks gain freedom in the U.S.
Shelley and Pauline believe it is the responsibility of whites to expose the injustices perpetrated against people of color over the centuries, and to stand up for the resulting injustice and inequity we see today. They know you will want copies of this interesting and timely story.
08/01/2021
Sassy southerner and single mom,
Kelly Jo Raymond, is stuck in a rut until one fall day when she enters a radio
contest and wins a dream day with her favorite country singer. However, there's
one catch: she must run the Jingle Bell 5k. The only running Kelly Jo has ever
done is to snatch the last pair of marked-down designer boots at a
black Friday sale. Can Kelly Jo get into shape in time for the Jingle
Bell Run? Maybe…with just a little help from her friends!
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20/12/2020
14/12/2020
Look up at the
stars, my friends. Have you ever wondered what if?
What if there is life out there?
What if all of those conspiracy theories were real?
What if a place existed where everything you wanted to believe was real?
Come my friends and enter such a world.
Meet a young warrior gifted with an inner sight who can speak to spirits and
animals.
Walk beside the Sabretooth, who is oath-bound to protect him.
Rescue an orphaned Polar Bear cub with undying loyalty.
Save a soldier from an Earth on the brink of mass destruction.
Befriend a giant from a distant past no one remembers.
Commune with a Raven who spies upon the ways of men.
Interact with beings who wield cosmic technology by thought.
Become the agent of a mysterious artificial lifeform who experiments with whole
worlds.
Enter a Utopia destined to succeed or fail based on the choices which drive the
hands of Fate.
Come with me, Travelers, and become part of a game. One played by entities of
unimaginable power
07/12/2020
Edward Klein has an obsession. Before he dies of cancer in the mid-1960s, he wants to tell his grandson about his life and something more. But before he can do that he has to take a trip through his past. His combat stress syndrome, stimulated by sights, sound, and smells, causes his to relive his life from boyhood in the Ukraine living in the German colonies to fighting on the ramparts of Verdun and participating in the revolutions of 1918-1921. Tempering this trip are the trials and tribulations of two marriages.
...03/12/2020
This book is the story of one day in the lives of a half squad of men engaged in one of the bloodiest battles of World War One.The Old Folks is a unique group who got their name not because of age but rather for their uncanny ability to survive together for over a year in deadly circumstances. While they weathered artillery bombardments and attacks without wounds or deaths, the four who filled the rst of the squad came and went as easily as rain as did company commanders and nearly the entire company roster. Other squads avoid them and made up stories about them sucking up all the luck of those assigned to their ranks. The book looks into their dreams and their reasons for being where they are.
...03/12/2020
If the Great War had not occurred during those fateful years of 1914-1918, four people from very different walks of life probably would have never crossed paths. An impoverished Silesian Junker, a biergarten server from Essen, and two laborers from Pomerania were thrown together amid the fields of slaughter in northern France in March 1918. From then on their lives seemed to be intertwined, meshed to cross in Silesia amid the German Civil War, in Latvia with the Freikorps and then in Northern Russia with the doomed White general Iudenich.
...03/12/2020
This is an adventure/history tale about five characters bound up in the turbulent times following World War 1 and during the Russian Civil War. One character is a disenfranchised German soldier who stayed behind in Russia as his fellow soldiers went home. Raisa was a member of the Women's Battalion of Death who fell out of favor because of her association with Fanny Kaplan. Albert Chamberlain is a British Army sergeant who volunteered to train White Russians in tank tactics. And Bart Buchanan is an American spy charged with uncovering Bolshevik intentions toward his country. All five manage to execution by the Red Army and make a mad dash across Eastern Russia for the safety of China.
...03/12/2020
