The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.

A novel about the end of days full of surprising beginnings The world is living in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the earth in just one week's time; catastrophe is unavoidable. The question isn't how to save the world-the question is, what to do with the time that's left? Against this stark backdrop, three island teens wrestle with intertwining stories of love, friendship and family-all with the ultimate stakes at hand. Alexandra...

Albany Mathews is focused on winning a newspaper scholarship and getting accepted to Webster University. When she's given a journalism assignment likely to help her accomplish her goals but finds out Keegan will be her photographer for the project, will she runaway from his sexy smile and blue eyes, allowing history to repeat.Keegan O'Shae can't understand why Albany hates him. But he's determined to not let her dash away tactics to ruin what he loves...

Fiona's luck: The greedy Leprechaun King has locked away all the luck in Ireland and the whole country has fallen in to despair. Through clever charades, Fiona outwits the Leprechaun King and restores luck to the land. Jack and the beanstalk: The TumbleBook version of the classic tale of Jack, his magic beans, the Ogre, the bags of gold, and the hen that laid the golden eggs. Rumpelstiltskin: Tumblebook series introduces children to the universally...

A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to. When Adele Delaney and her daughter, Violet, go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the impending death of his ill ex-wife, he sends Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund instead. Stonechild has been trying to adapt to life as her young cousin Dawn's guardian, and even though Gundersund has offered support,...

On a warm August evening, Brenda Missen, a 37-year-old single, unattached writer, pitches her tent beside a lake in Canada's 7,600 square-kilometre [3,000 square-mile] Algonquin Provincial Park. She is on a four-night "reconnaissance mission," an hour's paddle from the parking lot, to find out if she has the capability, and nerve, to one day take a real canoe trip in the park interior by herself. Paddling and portaging from her campsite by day and...

Tumblehome: a term to describe the way the side of a canoe arcs inward toward the center, toward home. James Raffan has always followed his own arc in life. Like his mentor and friend Bill Mason, Raffan has taken his love of the wilderness and integrated it into his life and his work, becoming not just a master canoeist and outdoorsman, but an accomplished and thoughtful writer. In Tumblehome, Raffan explores the notion that canoeing has the power...

The vast oil fields of Texas between Abilene and Fort Stockton are referred to by many as "The Big Country." The towns, big and small, as different as they may be, they all share two things in common......oil and cattle. The wind-blown hills of the Big Country can be desert-hot in the summer or bitter-cold in the winter. The harsh, unforgiving landscape there creates tough people who are tied closely to the land. People who work hard, play hard,...