Billy and Blaze

Billy and Blaze
Author: C.W. Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144246819X

The first book in the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson. Billy was a little boy who “loved horses more than anything else in the world.” Imagine how happy he was when he got his very own pony for his birthday! From that day on, Billy was seldom seen without his new friend, Blaze. Riding through fields and woods, Billy and Blaze learned to trust and understand one another—and to jump over fences and fallen trees with ease. They were a great team, but were they good enough to win the gleaming silver cup at the Mason Horse Show? This is the first book in the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and gentle understanding between a boy and his horse.

Blaze and the Indian Cave

Blaze and the Indian Cave
Author: C.W. Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442468319

Billy and Blaze head west—but when Blaze is kidnapped, Bill must track down Rattlesnake Joe in order to recover his beloved horse. Blaze and the Indian Cave is part of the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and special understanding between a boy and his horse.

Blaze and the Indian Cave

Blaze and the Indian Cave
Author: C. W. Anderson
Publisher: Atheneum
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1971
Genre: Caves
ISBN: 9780027024708

An old Indian helps Billy catch the outlaw who has stolen his horse.

Evening is the Whole Day

Evening is the Whole Day
Author: Preeta Samarasan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618874477

Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel by an acclaimed young writer introduces the prosperous Rajasekharan family as they slowly peel away their closely guarded secrets.

The Old Leather Man

The Old Leather Man
Author: Dan W. DeLuca
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0819574457

In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and speaking only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man, and includes maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters, the houses he was known to stop at along his way, and of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut’s caves his home. Ebook Edition Note: Six of the 111 illustrations have been redacted.

Blaze

Blaze
Author: Susan Johnson
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2010-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307574415

For the first time in her life she was facing a man she couldn't handle. He knew the white man's ways—and every woman's secrets. . . . Boston heiress Blaze Braddock, known more for her daring than her discretion, had insisted on trying to persuade the mysterious Absarokee Indian to sell his land claim to her father. But the moment she felt the impact of his tall, rangy body, the heat of his seductive dark eyes, and the drugging warmth that stole through her sense at his skilled touch, she knew she'd been more than reckless to put herself in his hands. Jon Hazard Black was no savage barbarian but the Harvard-educated son of an Absarokee chief. He knew the value of his land; the gold that ran beneath it would be the salvation of his people. And not even this dangerously tempting beauty could convince him to sell. Held captive by a man who was her sworn enemy, Blaze was swept up in a storm of passions she had never imagined—possessed by a man who vowed he would keep forever what was his. . . . “Susan Johnson's love scenes sparkle, sizzle and burn!”—Affaire de Coeur

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1960
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0395069629

Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

Stephen of Philadelphia

Stephen of Philadelphia
Author: James Otis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1910
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

A story about the founding and early growth of Philadelphia, told from the point of view of an average colonist named Stephen.

Zero Hour

Zero Hour
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425267776

It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.