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Lia Saves the Sea is a piece that helps to educate younger children on environmental stewardship, the importance of animals and the natural world, the importance of standing up for what you believe in, and friendship. Through historically accurate writing, children will also learn a bit about the past and the decade in which the environmental movement got its first big push.A portion of the proceeds to go to saving/helping sea turtles and other sea-life.

50 Best Short Hikes San Diego highlights enough diverse routes in Southern California's showpiece city for a year of weekly hikes. From sidewalk strolls and historic neighborhoods, to wildflowers and waterfalls, pleasant pastimes and panoramic vistas unfold in this handy guidebook. As the title says, these routes are "short." They range from less than 1 mile to nearly 8 miles, with an average of 5 miles, each, over all 50 of the hikes. And all lie within 30 miles of San Diego's ce...

In 1999, Karyn Schad became the two hundreth woman in the world to be diagnosed with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a rare disease that mainly affects women of childbearing age. Muscle-like cells grew out of control in her lungs, stealing her breath away. She lived with the disease until finally receiving the gift of life, her new lungs on May 17, 2009, delivering her from the foggy line where life rubs shoulders with death.On their wedding day forty years before, neither Karyn no...

Since 1986, Jerry Schad's Afoot and Afield: San Diego County has been the premier trail guide for hikers, backpackers, and mountain bikers. It describes routes ranging from brief, family-friendly hikes to multiple-day overnight trips in remote regions of the backcountry, providing equal weight to the scenic and recreational value of each trip. Each route features at least one or more significant botanical, cultural, or geological highlight with detailed information about what make...

'Hold on to this letter, so that it will be evidence of how accurately I have kept you informed. I'm serious; don't throw this letter away.'Born the illegitimate daughter of Jewish parents, Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe would rise to dizzying heights in international politics, hobnobbing with European royalty, British aristocracy – and high-ranking Nazis. She was the unofficial go-between for some of the most important people of the era, conveyi...

Explore 259 Memorable Hikes Near Los Angeles, CaliforniaFrom short nature trails to challenging peak climbs and breathtaking canyon treks, Los Angeles County is a hiker’s paradise. Experience the best of it with this updated edition of the classic hiking guidebook. Local author and hiking expert David Harris and Southland hiking guru Jerry Schad lead you along 259 trips in 33 regions, from the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains to Malibu and on out to Catalina ...

Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or BenjaminCue Derrida| Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways – above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is disp...

For many, the United States is a land of opportunity and new beginnings – unless you happen to be 'different' from everyone else. Hadi Shahir is one of those people, different in more ways than one. Hadi can manipulate fire; he is 'Evolved'.All he wants is a new life and new adventures in this land of opportunity. His dreams become endless nightmares, however, that begin with an inexplicable hate crime that leaves the young man traumatized and untrusting of the world around him. A c...

They went looking for a meteorite. They found a war.Five friends hear about a farmer who dug a million-dollar meteorite out of a Kansas wheat field and decide to find one of their own. Cinch cracks codes. Keith crunches numbers. Ronaldo duels imaginary foes. Frank pranks the principal's PA system. Joel says almost nothing and flies like an ace. Together they are the Meteor Men.Armed with library microfilm, a borrowed magnetic probe, and a retired c...

In a quiet corner right on the edge of rural Virginia, there are things that go 'bump' in the night; there is a curse, whispered across campfires or in obscure online chat rooms of the black-eyed-children that seek out vengeance for wrongs done in life. The American Supernatural Research Society has come to unearth the gritty details of these restless spirits, and bring closure to several mysterious and gruesome deaths at a local theme park - - unless, of course, they become victims themse...