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Learn about the wildlife of the Bay Area from one of their lifelong protectors, and enjoy the wild ride.Jeff Miller's quirky guide to the coolest animal neighbors in the Bay Area will have you gawping at elk, whooping with cranes, and crowning yourself a crossing guard for newts before you know it. Join Jeff on a local safari to meet more than sixty species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects, and discover the fascinatin...

Disaster preparedness doesn't have to be scary. Use this valuable resource and start preparing today! Do you know the warning signs for a tsunami? Where to shelter during an earthquake? Or where your nearest designated evacuation spot is? With the increase in extreme weather, it's more important than ever to be ready for earthquakes, tsunamis, winter storms, flooding, landslides, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires.The Pacific Northwest Disaste...

Jeff Miller's heartbreaking, coming-of-age middle-grade novel--inspired by his personal experience living through his own parent's heart transplant--invites readers into the world of a twelve-year-old birdwatcher looking for a place to call home and a way to save his mother, even if it means venturing deep into Florida swampland. Twelve-year-old Graham Dodds is no stranger to hospital waiting rooms. Sometimes, he feels like his entire life is ...

Anyone who cheers for the underdog will be enthralled by the story of Auburn's 1972 football team. The Tigers were predicted to drop into the bottom half of the Southeastern Conference standings after losing quarterback Pat Sullivan, who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy, and All-American receiver Terry Beasley. Going into their opening game, they had only five offensive plays. Auburn proved its critics wrong all year long, capping an unbeliev...

Anyone who cheers for the underdog will be enthralled by the story of Auburn's 1972 football team. The Tigers were predicted to drop into the bottom half of the Southeastern Conference standings after losing quarterback Pat Sullivan, who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy, and All-American receiver Terry Beasley. Going into their opening game, they had only five offensive plays. Auburn proved its critics wrong all year long, capping an unbeliev...

A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph. 1978--a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on fiv...

Jeff Miller's heartbreaking, coming-of-age middle-grade novel--inspired by his personal experience living through his own parent's heart transplant--invites readers into the world of a twelve-year-old birdwatcher looking for a place to call home and a way to save his mother, even if it means venturing deep into Florida swampland. Twelve-year-old Graham Dodds is no stranger to hospital waiting rooms. Sometimes, he feels like his entire life is ...

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This comprehensively revised and updated book is devoted to overall chair-making strategy and design. Through seven elegant chair projects, Jeff Miller explores and demystifies the art of making chairs.

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The avocado is arguably the most iconic food of the twenty-first century. In less than one-hundred years, it has gone from a little-known regional delicacy to global embrace and social media fame. This may seem like an astounding trajectory for a fruit that isn't sweet, that gets bitter when it is cooked, and has perhaps the oddest texture of any fruit or vegetable. But it is precisely the avocado's contradictions that have contributed to its ...

Detroit in den 1980er Jahren: Auf dem Höhepunkt der Crack-Epidemie und des Kampfes gegen Drogen, wirbt die Polizei den Teenager Rick Wershe als Informant an. Im Laufe der Zeit gerät er immer tiefer in den Drogenhandel. Als der Polizei die Sache zu heiß wird und sie Wershe schließlich fallen lässt, wird dieser zu einer lebenslangen Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt. Yann Demange gelingt mit WHITE BOY RICK packende Milieustudie, bewegendes Drama und sp...

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Out of this world!Neil Andertol never thought playing video games would make him a real-life hero. But then his favorite game, Chameleon, turned out to be the training simulator for an actual fighter jet, and Neil and the eleven other high scorers of the game were recruited to fly a top-secret rescue mission for the United States Air Force.Now it's been four months since Neil and his friends saved the planet, and the thirteen-year-old superner...