Ray and her friend Becky are devastated by what they see. Tens of thousands of Monarchs are clinging to the sand along the shores of Lake Erie with their wings shredded and broken by the harsh storm. They work throughout the night collecting and bringing thousands of monarchs into Ray’s cottage, so they can continue their epic migration after the storm has passed. The death of her friend Becky to a rare form of cancer spirals Ray into depression. Finally, Ray leaves her room and heads into nature where life is flourishing all around her. Her curiosity returns as she opens a milkweed pod. Remembering the Monarchs that she and Becky saved last summer gives Ray an idea for her next big adventure. Using a little deception, Ray convinces Jordi, to fly her in his two-seater ultralight, in the midst of the Monarchs all the way down the spine of North America to their overwintering place in Mexico. Every place the Monarchs touch down along their migration path, Ray and Jordi are introduced to a compelling lesson along the Butterfly Way. It’s almost as though the Monarchs are teaching them a new way of seeing, experiencing and moving in the world around them. On route over Texas, Ray & Jordi discover that a nuclear missile test launch will occur in the exact spot where every Monarch flyway on the planet is converging. They are the only ones to know that an ecocide is about to take place. Then can’t redirect this many Monarchs and so it’s up to them to stop the test launch. From the cockpit of the Qbee they go online to Monarch Watch, the Sierra Club and radio the Dyess Airforce Base Commander. Flying straight into the missile’s path, with just seven seconds left before blast off, their fate is now intertwined with the Monarchs. They discover the power of advocacy and social networks and how rigid the hierarchy of command is. In adventure after adventure, flying alongside and landing with the Monarchs, Ray and her co-pilot face real-world perils, like narcotic trafficking, and yet all along the Butterfly Way they find good people risking themselves to redeem a broken world. Travel with Ray and Jordi as they gain the skills and awareness needed to take care of this fiercely beautiful planet.

Ray, an adventurous and mischievous 15-year-old girl initiates a Monarch rescue at a cottage on Lake Erie igniting a desire to follow the Monarch Butterfly migration all the way down to Mexico. Ray claims there's a new lead that points to Fa's (Father's) last whereabouts being in Mexico. After a near-disastrous attempt at deception, Ray briefly renounces her mischievous ways and Jordi agrees to pilot the Leashman's new Magnetic Nuclear Resonance (MNR)-equipped ultralight, called the Q-Bee, down the spine of North America with Ray as co-pilot. In one adventure, during their flight over Abilene Texas, all four of the major Monarch flyways converge over Dyess Air Force Based right in the middle of the test of a new START-mandated single-warhead ICBM launch. Monarch Watch is not monitoring the U.S. military or flight communications channels and the military is not following the progress of the monarch migration. After forty million years of migration an unparalleled extinction event is about to take place and only Ray and Jordi, following the Monarchs in their Q-Bee, can change the course of history. Ray and Jordi encounter both beauty and danger; they crash land in the crater of a volcano in the midst of a drug plantation and are taken hostage by a drug cartel. They are rescued by a rogue priest and end up at an eco-village where they meet allies and adversaries on adventure after adventure following the 'Butterfly Way.'

The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces"), whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of the most amazing publishingstories in American literature.

Merridy has always loved music, but can't sing. The only job in the music business he can get is as a security guard for The Bard and Sons, a premier record label. He keeps their secrets and patrols their hallways, always secretly wishing for a big break he knows will never come.Changeling's Court is a brand new band struggling to cut their first single and record. Merridy chances upon a scrap of their lyrics without accompanying music notes and can't help composing a simple ballad for them. If he's found out he'll probably get fired. Instead, he finds himself in a strange new world of magic and faeries-and danger.

Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.

While on a quest for revenge, Isaac meets his companions who agree to help him. While on his quest, they are being hunted by an evil force. While fleeing, they receive help from unexpected allies. All the while, an even bigger threat unravels. Isaac and his companions soon find out the entire continent is in danger.