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  Recent UFO Sightings: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  When people think about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), they tend to think of flying discs piloted by gray beings with large heads and enormous eyes. They tend to think that these sightings only started relatively recently and that belief in UFOs is some sort of modern religion brought on, perhaps, by the very justifiable fears of a nuclear age. But a study of the phenomenon quickly reveals that humanity has been seeing UFOs since the beginning of recorded history and perhaps a lot longer than that. 
  Modern Ufology focuses on mysterious lights on Ceres or tales of alien abduction, but this wasn’t always the case, and looking at how the beliefs in the UFO phenomenon have changed or stayed the same can shed light on how culture and belief changes over time. One does not have to believe humans are actually being visited by aliens from another planet to recognize the importance of UFOs in human society. Any widespread belief that endures for centuries is worthy of study, and as always, cases exist that can’t be explained away simple superstition. 
  Most everyone in America is familiar with theories about UFOs, or “flying saucers” as they were often called then, but even this name dates back only to 1947. Before that time, they were called “ghost rockets” or “ghost airplanes” or “ghost airships.” Before the age of flight, the flying objects were called various things such as “flying chariots.” No matter what terminology is used, every generation has clearly had its own belief that mankind is not alone. 
  Even after the term flying saucer was replaced by the more scientific-sounding “unidentified flying object” (UFO), this feeling remained. It became so prevalent that almost anyone who claimed to have seen an unidentified object in the sky was reported as having observed an alien crafts.

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  Honeyed Hints of the Beekeeper's...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  Within the golden comb vault of Honeybrook, where beekeepers tend honeyed hints from hive secrets and honey traders bargain with nectar of the wild, tender Mira sleuths sweetly with trader Garrick, whose bargains buzz with a plot of vanished apiaries. Their hive, dripped in nectar vows and comb-kissed sweetness, uncovers truth—or sticks in amber traps of deception. As they buzz through vault-laced combs and clue-bound jars, honeyed by hive wardens and nectar rivals, Mira's tending care fuses with Garrick's trading guile, revealing a honeyed legend of dripped revelation. When a robbed comb summons bee swarms, they must drip the sleuthing to sweeten the resolution. In the hint of honeyed hives, where every nectar trails the mystery and every bargain stings with twist, their sticky mystery becomes the honey that sweetens the vault's secrets.

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  James The Silly Dog

  Bob Sales

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  James the dog is very silly. He likes to chase squirrels and eat food off the table.  
  He and his fellow dogs would get in trouble quite a bit.  
  One day a Great Dane named Shepherd came to visit.  
  Would James want to change his ways? Would James stop eating food from the table? 
  The story is based on the book of Mark, Chapter 4, versus 3 to 8. Follow the story of James to see if he can resist causing trouble.  

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  The Last Apple Tree

  Claudia Mills

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  Twelve-year-old Sonnet's family has just moved across the country to live with her grandfather after her nana dies. Gramps's once-impressive apple orchard has been razed for a housing development, with only one heirloom tree left. Sonnet doesn't want to think about how Gramps and his tree are both growing old—she just wants everything to be okay. 
   
   
   
  Sonnet is not okay with her neighbor, Zeke, a boy her age who gets on her bad side when he tries to choose her grandpa to interview for an oral history assignment. Zeke irks Sonnet with his prying questions. Meanwhile, Sonnet joins the Green Club at school and without talking to Zeke about it, she asks his activist father to speak at the Arbor Day assembly—a collision of worlds that Zeke wanted more than anything to avoid. 
   
   
   
  But when the interviews uncover a buried tragedy that concerns Sonnet's mother, and an emergency forces Sonnet and Zeke to cooperate again, Sonnet learns not just to accept Zeke as he is, but also that sometimes forgetting isn't the solution—even when remembering seems harder. 
   
   
   
  Award-winning author Claudia Mills brings enormous compassion and depth to this novel of unlikely friendship and generational memory.

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  Arabel's Raven

  Joan Aiken

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  Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street. This wacky raven eats everything in sight, answers the telephone by squawking "Nevermore!" and causes chaos whenever he goes - but Arabel loves her feathered friend, whom she names Mortimer. 
  Children (and adults) will find great pleasure in these high-spirited engaging stories because the text is rich with wonderfully descriptive phrases as well as uniquely hilarious and witty situations. Fans of the classic story will picture a hairy-beaked raven sqawking 'nevermore" every time they hear a phone ring, and the thought of this crazy bird will be a delightful reminder of this fabulous story! 
  ©2009 Joan Delano Aiken; (P)2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

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  Black Bird Blue Road

  Sofiya Pasternack

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  In this historical fantasy novel, praised as a “rich, omen-filled journey that powerfully shows love and its limits*” and “propulsive, wise, and heartbreaking,”** Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness—even facing the Angel of Death himself. From Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award finalist Sofiya Pasternack. 
  Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. 
  So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies—the one place Pesah will be safe. 
  They just need to run faster than The Angel of Death can fly... 
  (*Publishers Weekly, starred review; **Kirkus Reviews, starred review) 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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