Dusty is a puppy who feels he has a job to do. His family is important to him, and he must protect them in any way he can. But being just a puppy, Dusty also likes adventure. Join Dusty as he shares a day in his life.
This tale of Dusty and Albert follow the two beavers in their efforts to overcome the economic recession, and find acceptance in the world. Through it all, persistence and friendship guide them in the adventure called life.
Many great tales are told, and have been told for as long as man has walked the world. Some seem unreal and magical, yet still claim some truth. Folklore and myth last down the generations, but they change and are perverted until all that remain are fantastic tales hardly to be believed. But where do these tales have there beginnings? They do not sprout from the earth for man to harvest. But then do men make them up? Perhaps all answers are lost. Yet a lost thing may be found. Mayhap the answers lie hidden somewhere within the world, waiting to be discovered. Where then shall we find such knowledge? Most wisdom is often set down in word, and in the end collected into one place; such as books of lore. Will then all answers be found within such books? Perchance all the histories of these tales lie within the confines of but a single book. And what then shall that book look like? Should it be a grand book encrusted with jewels and edged of gold? Or mayhap it will be nothing more than a dusty brown book.
Twelve-year-old Arthur Dale Dustin did not look the least bit like a Prince, sitting perched on the topmost rail of the zig-zag fence that bright September afternoon. As he dangled his bare brown legs idly, he wistfully watched his cousins at the play in which they would not allow him to join. He loved to play as dearly as any other boy; but somehow or other he was always left out of their games by the boisterous crew of little Dustins whom he called cousins. He tried his best to like what they liked, and to be one with them; but something always seemed to happen to prevent.
In this sequel to Ride the Ranger Winds, the Rangers face death as they try to keep order in an increasingly lawless Texas. Three of the RangersBoots, Jerry Jack and JoJoarrive in Laredo to settle a range war. A rancher with precious water is fencing off his land, fueling a war that is about to get bloody. But there are also other problems to face some more welcome than others. Three Fingers and his Indian followers are burning barns, killing babies, and stealing horses; there are settlers with grudges seeking revenge; and Boots is falling in love with Jane Wyatt, a newspaper writer. The Rangers also face constant temptations to give up their way of life. It will be up to Captain Laughlin, a legendary gunslinger, to figure out whether one of his men may be contributing to the violent disorder. Step into nineteenth-century Texas and join the Rangers as they contend with marauding Indians, traitorous men, and beautiful women in Ranger Winds: Ride On.
The innocent girl with a delinquent heart has to live with her bad choices. Secret hope and hurt feel like falling while she learns how to breathe again, but there's still freedom in trouble. The runaway with blacked-out eyes is losing his grip. Crushing two hearts in one fist, his addiction bends rules and breaks deals, but the boy born for bliss isn't going anywhere without a fight. Love is knowing they should stay away, but love is illogical at best. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. This is how silliness and foolishness grow up. Here, forever is a lie.