A Dragon Lives Forever

The adventures of a boy and his dragon friend are recounted in this classic song from the 1960s.

Just when all companions and saurians are leaving Earth, a ballistic missile attack on America suddenly starts! Brian Miller must stop it, but is everything all a dream? Incredible events occur, with Brian’s life tilting in the balance. Included is a hard-core-comedy dragon-star roast, the 47 Ronin story by Nausicaa Lee, Joan of Arc’s time-travel endeavors, plus an ancient (and deceased) Alligatorian reborn, adventures in a Crocodilian rescue and Earth-like planets discovered in the Butterfly Zone. In addition, the military wants a ‘re-do’ on killing a reptilian, and Kerok, the wisest Alligatorian (and the weakest) is in the crosshairs! Of a sudden, the author appears and has a tete-a-tete with Brian Miller over the series of all of the dragon derring-do! Love is pronounced last (but certainly not least) between the teenagers and dragons. Join us again for these continuous saurian adventures! See www.stardragon.org for a (whole lot) more!

Journalist investigates two crimes. Two decades separate the still unresolved disappearance of a teenage boy and the recent death of a washed-up stock car racer.

Drifting, and yet full awake, I began to feel a warning breeze, chilling; enveloping: and so I looked up and when I did, I saw an ominous lone dark cloud, shadowing, floating East: I thought Nature; stirring, rustling leaves and winds to blast and swish across these sidewalk cobblestones with cloudbursts of raindrops; huge like crystals; to splash and splatter my face, soak, shape and to cling my body to my clothes. Benumbed, I lay there sensing; no savoring in the rain; drenched, and with the raindrops splattering, spreading their translucent colors to have me rhyme, 'Debbie Debbie weighing sounds round and round her womb, womb.

"Originally published by Ivy Books, a division of Ballantine Books, in 1994"--Pub.

Wildlife management around the world has changed drastically in the last fifty years, and veteran biologist James G. Teer was a trailblazer for much of that time. In this memoir, he looks back on his life and on the transformation of his profession. A pioneer in managing land for deer, Teer became truly global in his conservation efforts. From studying waterfowl in Manitoba and monitoring deer herds in the Texas Hill Country, Teer was propelled into the world of big ranches and African safaris, working for and traveling with Texas landowners while helping to build the reputation of the wildlife ecology program at Texas A&M University. As he reminisces, Teer gives homage to the men who mentored and taught him and to those whose friendships lasted a lifetime. He salutes his colleagues and his students, and he confirms his lifelong commitment to the care and stewardship of animals everywhere.

Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or retén, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at the delay, but told himself that guerrillas and kidnappers didn’t operate on a main highway in broad daylight. But Hargrove had been dreadfully mistaken. Despite his assertions that he worked for a non-profit agricultural agency, he was forced at gunpoint into a vehicle and driven into the mountains by communist narco-terrorists who believed he was a valuable hostage. For almost a year, Hargrove was held by the guerillas and moved from one remote location to another. To maintain his grip on sanity, he recorded his daily experiences in makeshift journals: in a checkbook; on children’s notebooks; and on scraps of paper scrounged during his ordeal. Hargrove’s story, originally published in 1995, was the basis for the major motion picture Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Now available again in paperback, Long March to Freedom chronicles one man’s spirited determination to hang onto life and faith amid nearly impossible circumstances.