Before he was The Ol Rancher he was a young rancher raising and training horses. Long before that he was a boy that grew up around animals of all kinds, horses, cattle, chickens, dogs, cats, even a goat or two. Later in life The Ol Rancher was blessed with grandchildren and a successful business doing petting zoos for children's birthday parties. From those blessings the story teller in him came to life. At birthday parties he would tell the kids stories about their favorite farm animal. Back at the ranch the grandkids loved to gather around him as they roasted marshmallows over a small campfire and listen to stories about the ranch and it's animals. As children ate yummy birthday cake or gooey roasted marshmallows The Ol Rancher would spin his yarns and Critter Tales® were born. This Critter Tale, like all his books, is tailor-fit for young minds to digest. A simple story filled with familiar themes and things of childhood. It also has several life lessons that kids will latch on to intuitively.

A warm sty to lie in and cool mud for a wallow are not enough to satisfy two bored pigs named Bertha and Briggs. Their minds are bent on money and riches. So when they find a treasure chest, they head straight for town. They buy dresses and suits, an expensive new car, and a house filled with gadgets. Now they'll live the good life. But the gadgets cause a lot of trouble. The car breaks down; the washer overflows; the TV goes on the blink. Bertha and Briggs are working so hard, they have no time to play! Soon their new clothes are thrown to the wind, and two happy pigs head back to the country for a carefree roll in the mud. Helen Oxenbury gleefully illustrates Bertha and Briggs bumbling their way through a life of luxury. And kids will agree that romping and playing beat mowing the lawn any day!

When Lance Corporal Archie Fletcher's plane plummets into the Persian Gulf during the Second Gulf War, even his wild imagination could never have primed him for the adventure he must now undertake. With guardian angels, a cursed centaur and mythical saints, Archie battles his way through a feral land called 'Transit'. But 'Dead Game is no easy feat. The fantasy will sweep you away to a parallel world where you will follow Archie's fateful story full of courageous imagination - confirming that knowing deep within us all that the adventure of life must go on.

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Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition Bin Laden referred to in his address.

In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.