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Readers discover Cree history and culture in this richly designed, and well-researched volume. Its in-depth exploration of Cree history begins with prehistoric times and continues to the present.

The vivid photographs and well-written text bring the history and culture of the Comanches to life for readers. The Comanche history is traced from the early period of their life in the northern Rocky Mountains through their strength and prosperity in the 21st century.

Former Secret Service agent Joseph Petro chronicles the experiences he had while working as a special agent for the Service, focusing on the years he spent protecting President Ronald Reagan and his family.

A fifth grader on Chesapeake Bay's western shore mobilizes the community to protect the habitat of bald eagles.

Presidents, vice-presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media as though they were in a play. What the nation's leaders are really like behind the scenes remains hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. And that's what this book is all about: an eye-opening, uncensored story of the out-of-the-limelight life of our highest elected, or soon-to-be elected, officials.

Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent--one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the President, if necessary. This book is a revealing and compelling inside look at the Presidential Protective Division (PPD) with stories from some of the author's more high-profile assignments in his twenty-one years of service, where he provided arm's length protection worldwide for Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush, both as a member of the PPD and the Counter Assault Team.

When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.

Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.