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The British government had few imperial administrators in the American colonies and perhaps fewer ways to exert its authority by force, yet Americans rarely questioned that authority until the eve of the American Revolution. The empire worked and Americans accepted British rule not because they feared the government, but rather because they had effective methods for influencing it to their own benefit.

Alison Olson reveals a source of that influence in networks of interest groups working cooperatively in England and America. Between 1640 and 1790 voluntary interest groups emerged in...

Imagine seeing a bear on a bike. You might not be surprised if you're at a circus or even at the zoo. But what if you're in a plain old park?

That's what happens in author Ken Olson's The Bear on the Bike. Visitors to the park are surprised to see a talented and entertaining bike-riding bear. But as the crowd grows, the bear's trainer worries about what could happen. So he decides to take surprising action.

The Bear on the Bike is a fun story that will keep you entertained.

Bill Nelson is a disengaged principal of a suburban high school and a bored husband stuck in a stale marriage. He is jolted out of his complacent life when a young teacher, Penny Spindrift, dies in a fire in her portable classroom. Unable to fathom how such a horrific event could happen at his school, Bill begins a life changing search to discover a resolution to his treadmill career and his stale marriage.

Bill's search begins with his attempt to understand how the fire started and why Penny Spindrift did not escape. A few days after the fire, Bill reluctantly meets with Penny's...

It was almost Christmas and when Bobby mentioned he couldn't wait until Santa came, the other children at school started teasing him. When he asked his mom, she didn't help at all. He just knew it couldn't all be a lie. But he was begining to doubt that Santa was real. Then late one night a sleigh landed in his front yard and took him on a ride he would never forget.

Forty-five-year-old Gus Henderson has climbed to the top of the ladder in the corporate world, makes good money, and is considered successful according to the outside world. But there is just one problem: Gus is not happy. While searching for something that will leave him less lonely and more fulfilled, Gus stumbles across a newspaper ad for a remote shack for rent in the hills. Gus has just found his answer.

A short time later, Gus leaves everything he knows and settles into the dilapidated shack where he soon becomes one with nature on his quest to find purpose in his life. Comforted...