Barbecue Lovers'' Texas celebrates the best this state has to offer. Perfect for both the local BBQ enthusiast and the traveling visitor alike, this book features: the history of the BBQ culinary style where to find––and most importantly consume––the best of the best local offerings; regional recipes from restaurants, chefs, and pit masters; information on the best barbecue-related festivals and culinary events; plus, regional maps and full-color photography.

Erosions is John A. Griffin’s first full-length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into one’s powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the book, as these combine to displace a burgeoning identity rather than overtly defining one. Erosions seeks to lyricize those forces that shape emerging consciousness and sensibility, so that the aural semantics of the poems are as essential to their decoding as the verbal, linguistic semantics, and it is this stress on the music and rhythms of language the poet hopes will evoke their core and abiding meaning.

This is the story of a rescue duck from the day it hatches to when it reaches full maturity as a male wood duck. Our story takes place in a small town in southwest Michigan where there are plenty of woods, fields, and wetlands. A small duck is rescued from certain death by a family. As the duckling grows stronger, so does the family''s bond and commitment to take care and nurture the duckling.

When Woody begins to display his true colors as a male wood duck, he also shows off his personality by swimming, diving, and practicing his flying skills in the family''s pool while providing readers with a fascinating glimpse into a duck''s habitat. This adventure story has its high and low points, but through the strength and high spirit of the family''s bond, all is well in the end. Part fiction and nonfiction, this story tugs on the heartstrings of all readers, regardless of their age.

Barbecue Lovers'' Texas celebrates the best this state has to offer. Perfect for both the local BBQ enthusiast and the traveling visitor alike, this book features: the history of the BBQ culinary style where to find––and most importantly consume––the best of the best local offerings; regional recipes from restaurants, chefs, and pit masters; information on the best barbecue-related festivals and culinary events; plus, regional maps and full-color photography.

Erosions is John A. Griffin’s first full-length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into one’s powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the book, as these combine to displace a burgeoning identity rather than overtly defining one. Erosions seeks to lyricize those forces that shape emerging consciousness and sensibility, so that the aural semantics of the poems are as essential to their decoding as the verbal, linguistic semantics, and it is this stress on the music and rhythms of language the poet hopes will evoke their core and abiding meaning.

This is the story of a rescue duck from the day it hatches to when it reaches full maturity as a male wood duck. Our story takes place in a small town in southwest Michigan where there are plenty of woods, fields, and wetlands. A small duck is rescued from certain death by a family. As the duckling grows stronger, so does the family''s bond and commitment to take care and nurture the duckling.

When Woody begins to display his true colors as a male wood duck, he also shows off his personality by swimming, diving, and practicing his flying skills in the family''s pool while providing readers with a fascinating glimpse into a duck''s habitat. This adventure story has its high and low points, but through the strength and high spirit of the family''s bond, all is well in the end. Part fiction and nonfiction, this story tugs on the heartstrings of all readers, regardless of their age.