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Philly's Bridge: In the blazing heat of an Indian summer, five members of a ragtag woodsworking cooperative from the small town of Glacier, Washington set out to prove that old fashioned methods of treating roadside vegetation are a better alternative to the Forest Service's preference for spraying deadly poisons. Kicked back around campfires under a canopy of stars, their efforts hardly feel sacrificial, taking communion with potato chips and beer in the storied deeps of the forest. At the end of the contract they reward themselves with a backpacking trip to the high country, where the true meaning of sacrifice, or a reckoning with fate, is the last lesson one of them will learn. Whose Woods These Are: A young man with a backpack and a mind filled with myths ventures to the valley of his family's past which he'd only heard spoken in whispers. What he finds there is nothing like the history he'd hoped for, and in fact is a dark revelation, a landscape of violence, self-destruction, and perhaps, some said, even murder. A grizzled old logger tries to ease the boy's pain in learning the truth of his heritage, softening the portrait of a brutal grandfather by offering the balm of forgiveness. Overcome by the images of beatings and bears and rituals beyond understanding, young Will returns to the solace of mountains, where he finds his own truth by the side of a river in the benevolent heart of the wild.

The kids at the zoo love to see Ella the funny baby gorilla. She dances and climbs and plays pranks on the kids.She's always getting into trouble with her mom and dad. This is a sweet story that follows Ella's adventures at the zoo.

Like the traditional Tinikling dancers of the Philippines, whose feet flash between poles drumming against the ground, the poems and essays of Dancing Between Bamboo Poles evoke the agility needed to move between history and personal experience, to negotiate conflicting cultural expectations, and to trace the fluid nature of identity as it shifts from role to role.

Observing a mysterious white culture while living on the ragged edge of poverty in an unaccepted Mexican subculture of America was acutely troubling to a child simply looking for safety, acceptance and a place to belong.These poems are of the brutal struggles of hard work in dangerous times. These poems are about a papá who never wavered under the difficult challenges of working and raising a family in a foreign country as a migrant laborer and a mamá who dedicated herself to loving and protecting her children at all costs, in a man's world, twice over.In a time when we were innocent and vulnerable and the world was a scary, foreign place, all we had were our parent's gifts. Papá's strong work ethic helped us forge ahead and not give up through difficult times and Mamá's passion and the pictures she painted in our minds filled us with hope... and hope was the road we traveled into our future.Migrant Sun is a poignant tale of love in hard times, racism, forgiveness in the face of brutality, but most of all, how the bonds of family are ultimately more important than any differences we may have had within our family or that existed outside of it.

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"Carol McMillan's Grand Canyon poems take us on a journey of gentle reflection and precipitous adventure, filling each moment with wonder." - Jim Milstead, the Bard of Bellingham"Carol McMillan may ... invite levity into the lives of friends and acquaintances, but it is the grit of her words; deep, warm, hard, strong, riveting words; that will take you inward. Hold her book in your palms and breathe the Grand Canyon as experienced by a poet adventuress. If you don't have the courage (like me) to take such a journey, know that McMillan has done it for you. Her book is full of the raw experience of raging white water, towering red walls and rarely seen sunsets. McMillan includes her photographs and paintings. I am in awe of the writer as well as the scenery." - CJ Prince, author of Mother, May I?

A book of poetry written to express the poet's great love and devotion of God. Many of these poems move readers to tears and others overwhelm with Joy. The slender volume is the type of book you will keep by your bedstand and read again and ageing with great delight.