Books with author Russell Baker

For a pair of cattle egrets named Bubulcus and Ibis, life in Africa is happy. During the day, they hunt insects at the watering hole and cruise the skies with their friends. At night, they settle down for rest in their favorite balboa tree. Then one day the rains cease to fall. The watering hole dries up, the earth becomes parched, and the animals begin to die. Bubulcus and Ibis know that if they are to have any hope for survival, they must leave their barren home for a new, unknown land. Together, they bravely lead their flock across Africa and through the strong winds and storms swirling over the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, they forage for food on the edges of an angry wildfire and find rest and fresh water on the decks of a cruise ship! Finally, they arrive in a new world (Florida) that offers the promise of a happy new home. Thanks to Bo Russell’s colorful illustrations, children and teachers alike will enjoy this uplifting tale of courage, discovery, and teamwork.

[Read by Robert Fass]With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, which he selected and revised especially for this volume, including nine previously uncollected stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Banks' works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from workingclass New England to the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms Russell Banks' place as one of the masters of American storytelling.

Includes Djinn, Defenseman, The Caul, The Fisherman, Firewood, Quality Time, The Lie, Indisposed, The Child Screams and Looks Back at You, Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story, Assisted Living, The Neighbor, The Rise of the Middle Class, The Burden, Mistake, Plains of Abraham, Theory of Flight, Comfort, Success Story, Cow-Cow, With Che in New Hampshire, Dis Bwoy, Him Gwan, The Fish, The Moor, Searching for Survivors, Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat, Xmas, The Guinea Pig Lady, Queen for a Day, The Visit, Lobster Night

There's magic and mystery at Port Milford. Everyone should have a secret place they can call home, where there's solace and safety, when the rest of the world turns its back on you. Walking along an old familiar dusty path, where you can see the horizon in the distance and imagine a new world around every corner can change everything in the twinkling of an eye. Enjoy these three life-enhancing walks and they may change your life too!

In this genuine endeavor to conjecture the progressions ahead in the twentieth century from the year 1906, the creator manages the quickening pace of logical advancement, lodging, travel, populace, business, delight, papers, usage of the ocean, science, instruction, religion, financial aspects, and law. He portrays his aims in the accompanying way in his Preface: "Coming up next was from the outset proposed to be close to an endeavor to anticipate the likely pattern of mechanical creation and logical disclosure during the current century. Be that as it may, as the work came to fruition it apparently involved a specific measure of what might be called moral guess, since the material advancement of the new age couldn't possibly be envisioned without considering its psychological qualities. In these desires for a hopeful person, an incredible moral improvement of the cultivated human race has been envisioned, and a pace of progress predicted which maybe no past essayists have searched for. Both with respect to moral turn of events and material advancement, it has been the point of the creator to foresee nothing that the inclinations of existing development don't legitimize us in anticipating. "An endeavor of this sort is presented to easy analysis. It will be simple for dissenters to signalize either expected creation as past logical chance, that or the other good change as fit distinctly for Utopia. Be that as it may, the individuals who will agree to perpend the gigantic and completely unexpected development of the nineteenth century will perceive the risk of restricting their expectations concerning the potential outcomes of the twenty-first. A whimsical depiction in (I believe) Addison's Spectator of an innovation by which the developments of a pointer on a lettered dial were envisioned to be imitated on a comparable dial a ways off, and utilized as a methods for correspondence, more likely than not appeared to be completely illusory to its perusers; and even as of late as fifty years back, any individual who anticipated the phone would have been snickered at. At the point when the guideline of the gatherer was found an extremely able down to earth circuit repairman told the author that he need not stress himself a lot over the thought : there was not the least probability that power would ever be "restrained in reservoirs"! All in all there is more probability of mistake in meekness than in strength when we endeavor to predict what will be achieved after the undeniably quick development of logical advancement during this twentieth century will have assembled full power. "For the rest, analysis of this sort is incapacitated, in light of the fact that the peruser has been regardless welcomed to enter a domain of pretty much unadulterated creative mind. Nobody can precisely know with what births, immense or lovely, the future may abound. Conceding a specific perspective — that of practically over the top confidence — the forecasts here offered will, it is accepted, be seen as along the line of existing advancement."