Hunting Seas

Tired of having ducks ignore your spread or skitter past yours to work a spread further down the lake or river? Here's a quick, easy, inexpensive and effective solution -- the freshwater sea duck decoy. You can't buy these but you can make your own for just pennies apiece and start pulling in the birds. We hunted with these every day for an entire season and found them to be extremely durable and effective. This is a great off-season family project that will put more birds over your spread next fall.

Ximena has spent her life training to become one of the black-cloaked Cazadores, seafaring hunters who capture the pirates pillaging the Luzan Empire. But although Ximena is the top candidate at La Academia, that will not be enough for a daughter of the notorious Reales - pirate captains who were executed for their crimes against the empire. So when Gasparilla, the most infamous pirate in Luza's history, attacks the capital, Ximena offers to catch him in exchange for being named Cazadoro. The Empire accepts, with one catch: she must compete for her cloak against Dante de León.

Surfing the Unknown is the story of a young Vanuatan named Kainalu, who travels far from home to study in Loonland. At the height of his disappointments and on the verge of abandoning his journey, he finds refuge in the home of an Indigenous man.