Oaf In Bear River

The second Oaf adventure begins with Emory and Faye returning to Babas house days before school starts. Sorely missing their magical time with the Oaf, Baba takes them on a camping trip along the Bear River in hopes of lifting their spirits. The Oaf appears and another thrilling adventure of discovery ensues for them all. Faye meets a dragonfly named Lokni on a log in the middle of the river, and they instantly become friends. With the Oafs help, Faye assists Loknis dragonfly cluster to escape the swarms of yellow jackets encroaching on their river home. Emory befriends a bear cub named Takoda, who wandered off and became separated from his mother and sister. Instead of searching for his family, Emory and Takoda delight in eating and playing until the Oaf provides a little nudge. The Oaf juggles both Emorys and Fayes quest to experience challenges from another creatures eyes. Avoiding the reporter Mr. Zolo and his journalistic pursuit to reveal the Oafs identity and magic, Baba is forced to lend a hand. Will Mr. Zolo outsmart the Oaf before Baba, Emory, and Faye can come to his aid? Linsteadt brings you into a magical world of nature and imagination, helping us to appreciate and reconnect with animals and family. A refreshing and delightful read! Mary S. Gonzales, Teacher-Librarian, Dolores Gonzales Elementary

A widower and widow, both of mixed Shoshone blood, agree to marry for the sake of the widower's son. Their love deepens and they are witnesses to the bloody Bear River Massacre.

Nila-Air, the second in the series, has Seth discovering the perilous motives behind his father's heartless actions that caused his debilitated health, isolation, and suffering. Now reborn on a new pristine world, Nila are determined to rebuild their community and face any new challenges.Finally living as a true Nila, Seth must learn how to deal with the withdrawals of his former human life. Boredom and heartache force Seth to search within himself for his meaning and purpose while his relationship with Kate deteriorates with the presence of Raymond, who becomes the Red Crystal Bearer that Seth and his father previously held.Seth's connection with the mysterious Her-Nila's spiritual leader-intensifies as he attempts to decipher new visions from Her. Straying from Nila protocol, Seth discovers a new threat-the current winged inhabitants. Boredom quickly turns into adventure and self-discovery that are fraught with danger and gut-wrenching decisions. Can Seth bring peace between his Nila family and the inhabitants, and does he have time?

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Consuming an embryo star, an elder demoness stirs to break her earth-bound prison -- the terrible Hel of legend, to threaten the lands of light. Two infants born simultaneously are infused with otherworldly energies as this eldest evil stirs. The knight, Apieron Farsinger, and Adestes Malgrim exist in opposition; their savage conflict will change the world. In K.A.Keiths Enter, Knight, the long-suffering nation of Ilycrium has been overrun by the enemy and its king assassinated, while the fighting prince, Gault Candor, must earn his knighthood as well as the Crown. Apierons heroic company has returned after bitterdefeat to find his lands reaved, and his wife and children missing. The epic fantasy novel, Hels Storm, is the conclusion of the Knight Storm duology in which Ilycriums surface war amongst nations and Apieron Farsingers heroic quest to the pits of Helheim to confront the very goddess of evil, converge into a wild, rushing climax

In the pre-Civil War South, an escaped slave and two young abolitionists make an uneasy pact with a former slave tracker in this gritty historical novel. Maysville, Kentucky, 1833. Thirty years before the War Between the States, schoolteacher Dana Curbstone and preacher Cal Fenton have already begun their private war on the institution of slavery. When they conspire to smuggle escaped slave Jacob Pingram across the Maysville River, Pingram’s masters dispatch retired slave tracker Dan Baskin to retrieve their human cargo and bring the abolitionists to justice. But Baskin has his own war to wage. Pingram knows the whereabouts of another former slave, Abejide. And Baskin is determined to learn the fate of the woman he loved and lost. Now everyone, slave and freeman alike, are hurtling toward an electric showdown on the mud-slick banks of the Maysville River from which nobody will escape unscathed.