homes and haunts

Includes eleven stories about the relatives and friends that were part of the author's childhood in Cuba.

A Welsh poet recalls the celebration of Christmas in Wales and the feelings it evoked in him as a child.

The author recalls his fears as a first-grader during the initial days of World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor, air raid drills, and blackouts, and the reassurance he received from his parents.

Vanessa Farquharson chronicles her year-long foray into green living, describing how she tried to reduce her carbon footprint and lead a more eco-friendly life, and sharing her experiment's surprising result.

A graphic novel interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, " featuring the actual words from the text in which Thoreau describes his experiment in simple living.

Catalog of an exhibition held in 1995 at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.