Raptor Ravine is an adventure novel with the heart of E.T. and the tension of Jurassic Park set in the Oregon Coast Mountains. A boy fleeing a cougar attack falls into an ancient ravine and returns home with a mysterious new pet. The creature causes conflict in his family and entanglements with his friends as they struggle to care for it and find out what it is. Native American friends stir emotions with legends of a spirit beast that haunts the ravine. But when a paleontologist identifies it as something related to the dinosaur age, family and friends join together in the fight to protect...

Review by Monica Huber of the E-book version: Ever since Nicolaus Copernicus has presented his heliocentric worldview in the 16th Century, which as we know didn't win him glory and friends, the research of gravity is a key part of physics. The same forces that keep the planets in their orbits around the sun are active all throughout the cosmos and on Earth make sure that objects are falling to the ground like the famous apple that as legend has it inspired Isaac Newton to "invent" the law of gravity. = In the science fiction world we are used to interstellar space ships and space stations...