Xuanxuan is a lazy child and doesn't like to go to school. He is also a bit of a timid child who is often bullied by the other students. This is the story of Xuanxuan. One day, while Xuanxuan was playing outside his home, he saw an old man spill the things he was holding, so he helped the old man. After then, the old man gave Xuanxuan a notebook. At first, Xuanxuan didn't think anything of it, but he inadvertently realized that when he wrote his own...

The Copeland family history is rich and ambiguous. Beginning with patriarch Walker and his wife Caroline, who once threatened a troop of Yankee soldiers with a pan of boiling water, the Copeland legacy continues with Walker's great-grandson, Albert, who builds floatplanes that never fly. Albert's floatplane logbook becomes a family album, with each member of the family penning in his revelations, from Meredith, a maverick Vietnam veteran, to Noralee,...

This notebook for fantastical observations is a must-have for any young adventurer wishing to follow in the footsteps of Arthur Spiderwick and the Grace children. In addition to tips for tracking and observing faerie phenomena (under headings like; How to Get the Sight, Faerie Protections, Suggested Equipment, and Ways to Tell There Might Be Faeries Nearby), readers will read about boggarts, brownies, goblins, griffins, hobgoblins, sprites, trolls,...

It's not gambling in Las Vegas when you know which horse will win the Kentucky Derby or which team will take the World Series. An unforeseen chain of events involving a secret time portal located behind a large resort on the Vegas strip leaves Michael alone and trapped in 1986. Recognizing the incredible possibilities of knowing the future, he buys a red spiral notebook to record his memories of events to come. Michael happily shares his growing wealth...

Larry Brown covers the pursuit of pheasants from A to Z, discussing appropriate shotguns, chokes and loads; ground tactics for hunters with and without dogs; trends in public land use and crop land management; recent shifts in bird populations and habits; and effective gun handling, just to mention a few. Particularly valuable are his strategies for hunting different kinds of cover in varying types of weather.

Malkah is a child when her father tries teaching her to read Torah. But they don't get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, hidden story of creation within the Hebrew Aleph-Bet letters in the first line of Genesis. And a door opens. Malkah's discovery takes her on a lifelong journey in search of her beginnings-into Jewish mystical texts, far-off places, archaeological digs, ancient gods, and ultimately into...

After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...

"Riveting . . . rollicking . . . elegantly captures a changing France reckoning with the cultural revolutions of the mid-20th century."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Enthralling essays on the expatriate experience in Paris and shrewd literary criticism by one of the twentieth century's finest writers. Mavis Gallant is revered as one of the great short story writers of her generation, but she was also an astute observer and formidable reporter....