Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"During the Great Depression, wretched labor camps crop up in remote areas of the expansive pine forests throughout the American South. Destitute workers live and toil under terrible conditions to harvest pine gum, hacking into tree trunks, drawing out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling it to stills to be refined into turpentine. Subsistence living means racking up huge debts they are forced to work off, creating...

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.

"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"--

While Miss Nelson is recuperating from her tonsillectomy, her class dreads the arrival of Miss Swamp, the substitute teacher.

When he discovers that the young lad he has rescued from bandits is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise, Highlander Campbell Sinclair agrees to help her deliver an important document to the clan MacKay.

Fleeing a dishonorable man, Margaret abandons her pampered upper-class world for an anonymous life as a maid in the household of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his brother.

This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...

Relates how a disguise can be used to evade the school bully, Mom's lima beans, and other unpleasant things.

Buddy Burger escapes his home planet, lands in Hollywood, and is cast in a new television series, but must pretend his six eyes and suction-cup feet are the costume and his human skin, real.

Anna Zarides arrives in Constantinople in 1273 to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian. He has been exiled for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves about freely, using her skills as a physician to maneuver close to the key players involved in her brother's fate. Anna crosses paths with Zoe Chrysaphes, a devious noblewoman with her own hidden agenda, and Giuliano Dandolo,...