A creative and experimental biography in which Julia Blackburn tells the fascinating story of Daisy Bates, an Irishwoman who lived among the Aborigines in the Australian outback. Told in Bates's voice, this 'biography' challenges the conventional form.

In this third volume in the series that began with "The Rowan", Darian's children travel throughout the galaxy studying other civilizations. Thian, on an expedition to collect pieces of an alien space craft, discovers larvae from an insectoid race known as the Hiver--and then captures a Hiver queen to raise the larvae.

Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife's death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens's most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age.

A lawyer decries the proliferation of laws in our society.

A lawyer decries the proliferation of laws in our society.

In making her treacherous circumnavigation of Lake Superior by kayak, 43-year-old Ann Linnea finds she is sustained, educated, and empowered by nature.