The roadrunner, an icon of the Southwest and one of the most beloved birds of the United States, is also one of the least understood. In The Real Roadrunner, Martha Anne Maxon offers the most thorough
For everyone who loves the bird we call roadrunner, camino corres, paisano, chaparral. . . . Southwesterners are well accustomed to this sleek, mostly brown and white, long-tailed nemesis of coyote as
Southwesterners are well accustomed to this sleek, mostly brown and white, long-tailed nemesis of coyote as it darts across roads or perches on a post or branch never too far from the ground. Equally
Dell Fletcher is the Roadrunner, a black major-league baseball star who seems to have it all. He’s married to his college sweetheart, Leah, and they have two children and a dream home in Los Angeles.
One year after his father's suicide, Carson Long feels cheated. He hates his father for leaving him and his sister, Georgie, alone. He hates him for turning his mother into a young widow who hasn't le
By day, the lions Patience and Fortitude guard the New York Public Library. But when night falls, they have been known to go on adventures inspired by the books their favorite librarian reads to them.
As Book 2 in Tim Tingle's award-winning How I Became A Ghost Series begins, his family continues the long walk to Indian Territory, and ten-year-old Isaac, our narrator and now a ghost, meets the fame
When an unscrupulous stockbroker took Peggy Doviak’s mother to the cleaners, Peggy did not just get mad—she changed careers. She became a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM profes-sional—vowing to ensure t
On the Great Plains, the buffalo has always been known as the Prince of the Prairie, and in 2016, the bison was also named the first National Mammal of the United States. This is a story about a littl
They say a railroad is little more than a community that stretches hundreds of miles in either direction along a thin iron rail -- and gossip travels up and down it like on a telephone party line. So
An Ardmore millionaire killed by his jealous mistress, an iconic western gunslinger shot down in the street, and a prominent doctor whose Valentine’s Day present to his wife was said to be death—those
A family plants an American elm on the Great Plains of Oklahoma just as the capital city is taking root—the little tree grows as Oklahoma City grows until 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, the day America
Born with the gift of painting with the clouds, a little Choctaw girl uses the Oklahoma sky as her canvas to the delight of her people. When a traveling hawker hears about her talent, the Cloud Artist
Long before the trend of canine YouTube stars, Missouri had Jim the Wonder Dog, a Depression Era hunting dog that many believed was either a genius or possessed of clairvoyant skills. Evidence existed
While still a little boy, Alton Carter walked away from his violent, drug- and alcohol-riddled childhood home believing the worst life had to offer was behind him. He was sorely mistaken. After surviv
While still a little boy, Alton Carter walked away from his violent, drug- and alcohol-riddled childhood home believing the worst life had to offer was behind him. He was sorely mistaken. After surviv
The matriarch of the Oklahoma Indian Art Movement, Doris Littrell bought her first piece of Oklahoma Indian art for a dollar while still a teen, not realizing it was her first acquisition in what woul
Kannon is a little boy with a form of epilepsy that sometimes gives him the wiggles, and when that happens, just like jello, his whole body jiggles. Kannon would very much like to go to school with ev
Avery Broussard has the curse of seeing lost things (and make no mistake about it, it is a curse). Missing belongings and beloved pets, lost love and loved ones—she sees it all. Long ago, that curse d
Avery Broussard has the curse of seeing lost things (and make no mistake about it, it is a curse). Missing belongings and beloved pets, lost love and loved ones—she sees it all. Long ago, that curse d
Abandoned by his father, neglected by his mother, shuttled between foster homes and a boys ranch for most of his formative years, a young man refuses to succumb to the fate that the world says should
