Life is miserable for motherless, nineteen-year-old Never, her only joy found in the small pockets of time she spends with her hawk Avec, trying to learn how to use her mysterious wings. The same wings that only get her far enough from the ground to make it hurt when she crashes. Alone in the village of her birth that's never felt like home, Nev suffers her father's abuses in silence, save for Avec's support and comfort in all-too-fleeting tea times with the quirky but grandmotherly Nina, her only human friend. But when forced to take a stand against her father's greed, Nev is joined by Avec...

The science of dendrochronology has grown significantly in the past 20 years. In the 1950s and 1960s, interest in the subject was limited to only a handful of scientists who perceived in dendrochronology a "l'art pour l'art." Today, however, specialists from many different fields recognize and are pursuing the problems of dendrochronology. Tree-ring research has acquired a permanent role in the various sciences of archeology, history, geology, ecology, and climatology. The founders of dendrochronology themselves were of varied scientific backgrounds and interests. For example, A. E. Douglass...

With a drug addicted mother, April cries out for help through her journal writing. Buried secrets explode through her pen as she leads us into her deepest and darkest thoughts and emotions. With hidden dreams of living a "normal" life; husband and children someday, Bruce, a perfect stranger, interrupts everything. April's abandoned heart gets captured as he puts her old high school flame to rest; sweeping April right off her feet. Experience April's transition into adulthood as she and Bruce travel the world in luxury. Bruce will feed her addictive genetic trait with sex and every material...