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U. S. Marine Corps Special Forces: Recon Marines

Edward Voeller

Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 1999)

Introduces the Marine Corps special forces known as the Recon Marines, describing their mission, history, and the equipment they use.

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Extreme Surfing

Edward Voeller

Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2000)

Describes the history of surfing and the equipment, skills, techniques, and safety concerns of this sport.

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The Red-Crowned Crane

Edward Voeller

Library Binding (Dillon Pr, April 1, 1990)

Discusses the appearance, behavior, habitat, and current status of the red-crowned crane

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Sport Climbing

Edward Voeller

Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2000)

Describes the history, equipment, competitions, and practice of sport climbing, both in climbing gyms and outdoors on rocks.

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Athletic Trainer

Edward Voeller

Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 1999)

Explains the educational requirements, duties, workplace, salary, and employment opportunities of the job of athletic trainer.

Ezo Rush: The Small Family in Ghostly Japan

Mr. Edward A Voeller

(LanguagePower Publications, Feb. 18, 2019)

A mother sadly fractures her bonds with her children in this entertaining, educational, and spooky story set in Japan. Robert Small is in Japan with his children Naomi, 14, and Flavio, 13, to produce a video on ghostly Japan for his TV travel program, Small World.Dad and the two siblings came to Japan for fresh, exotic, and new experiences—and they got them. Everything starts when thirteen year-old Flavio Small is left behind without his sister and dad in Japan’s Suicide Forest. Flavio does not respond to efforts to communicate with him, and desperation sets in. Is this for real,or is Flavio just bullying his family? The challenge for Robert and Naomi is to find Flavio so that he can join his sister for a ten day cross-cultural experience at a middle school in Hokkaido on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. That might be enough for a spellbinding story, but there’s more: Okiku, the doll whose hair is growing; a visit to the cemetery of the 47 Ronin known for their mass seppuku; the round school house with its haunted reputation, and Tokyo’s Sendagaya Tunnel, the apparent abode of the ghost of a murdered woman.Naomi: “I got another chill. I looked behind and above me. No lady ghost. I folded my arms in front of me and moved my legs in place to keep warm. I noticed a dead, dried-up and dusty bouquet of flowers on the floor of the tunnel. In fact, I was stepping on the flowers. I stepped off them. I moved them aside with my foot. The flowers were for the murder victim. I wondered what her name was.”—Naomi Small in Sendagaya TunnelDesperation dominates the story, culminating when the two siblings take a “parasitic” kayak on a hazardous ride to avoid their dysfunctional mother. A good read for curious middleschoolers and up—way up: HS siblings, parents, teachers. In addition to an authentic introduction to the land and culture of Japan, Ezo Rush offers many topics for engaging classroom discussion.Ezo Rush is the second book in The Small World series after O, Man! Sweet Desert, which is set in Oman in the Middle east. Subsequent adventures in the series will take the Small family and readers to Southeast Asia and to Mexico. (O, Man! Sweet Desert from ASIN: B076H978N5)