After her mother's death, Willie must protect her younger siblings from the flesh-eating creatures that surround her town and is forced to enter the dangerous desert to find her father when he steals from the most powerful man in town.

After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

"Ranching is hard work, and it gets harder for Honey as he becomes foreman. There are cows and horses to feed and calves to be taken care of -- especially during the hard winter. And with Bud's illness everyone has to take on more work. From horse thieves to bears to poachers -- Honey has his hands full. But he keeps in mind the old saying ... things always work out the way they're supposed to. Not to mention the big day -- he and Sally get married!"--Back...

In 1890s West Africa, when a brutal raid leaves their home in ruins, twin sisters Hassana and Husseina are kidnapped, sold into slavery, and separated, remaining connected through shared dreams of water, but will their fates ever draw them back together?

Narrative profiles of five notable women authors who wrote about the American West.

Follow our young cowboy friend while he works his summer job at a dude ranch where he picks up the nickname "Honey"--A moniker he doesn't much like. He also finds himself with a girlfriend -- a situation he does like. "Honey" follows our young friend on his journey into manhood, which includes nightly kissing practice with his girlfriend Sally.

"Join Honey on his continuing adventures of becoming a cowboy. He finally graduates from high school ... 'I didn't graduate with honors, but it was an honor to graduate' ... and takes on more responsibility at his summer ranch job, continues his relationship with his girlfriend Sally, and has many surprises in store for him---some good and some not so good, "--Back cover.

From its ancient kingdoms to the independent post-colonial states that make up the region today, western Africa has transformed dramatically over the centuries. Economically lucrative for European slave traders and later for their colonial successors, the territories along Africa's Atlantic coast were forced to overcome great adversity before achieving autonomy. This volume surveys the history of the many nations of western Africa where vestiges of...

"Meet Jimmy McIntyre, a young black kid that went from being a juvenile delinquent to starting a ranch for juvenile delinquents. You may remember Jimmy from the Continuing adventures of a young cowboy series. He was the original troubled teenager that started working on the Wilson Ranch who, with the help of Bud Wilson and Honey, got himself turned around and graduated from high school and ended up with a degree in animal science and criminology from...