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Portugal was once a great power that linked the Old and New Worlds, and this history is reflected in the country's landscapes and wildlife. Wild horses small enough to fit on cramped ships were tamed in the northern mountains and exported to Conquistadores. Now Portugal's sea horses are threatened by modern global trade.

Briggs and his companion Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, haul ass down the Pacific Coast in time to catch their best friend's and handler's funeral. One of them has a week to live; the other lives like every day is his last.

Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.

Helen Thayer's life has been guided by the spirit of adventure and discovery: She was the first woman to trek solo to the magnetic North Pole, the story of which became the best-selling book Polar Dream. Her latest accomplishment, to live for a year with wild wolves in the far reaches of the Yukon and the Arctic, unfolds in vivid detail in Three Among the Wolves. While others have followed once-captive wolves into natural settings, Helen -- accompanied...

The last time Rachel and her friends entered the giant Yeerk pool beneath their town things went very bad. This time they plan to be careful and sneak in as roaches, just to spy. Once they're inside, though, the team gets caught. But right as things are looking their most dire, everything stops. Everything.