Hunter Books

Wonderfully written for young readers ages 5 to 9 by Nelda LaTeef, The Hunter And The Ebony Tree is an authentic African folk tale brought to life in picturebook form with LaTeef's remarkable, shape-centered full-color illustrations. The Hunter And The Ebony Tree is the story of a hunter who must demonstrate intelligence, skill, and loyal friends to overcome challenges and win the hand of a wise young woman makes for enjoyable reading aloud to young folks. The Hunter And The Ebony Tree is enthusiastically recommended for family, school, and community library folk tale and picturebook collections.

A huge ebony tree stands in the center of the village of Tombakonda. Its hard trunk seems impenetrable. A beautiful young girl lives in the village and many men come to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father wishes his daughter to marry a man of strength. The girl wishes for a man with more gifts than just strength. With her father's permission, she sets a challenge. She will marry the man whose arrow penetrates the ebony tree. Many men try, but none succeed until one day a young hunter comes to the village who enlists the helps of friends to win his heart's desire.

Author/illustrator Nelda LaTeef uniquely captures the essence of an African folk tale, bringing it vividly to life for children of all audiences. The classic tale of wisdom and cunning to achieve one's goal serves a delightful lesson of encouragement to young readers. The combination of acrylic and collage for the illustrations lends the page a marvelous texture and depth. My young American audience, ages five and eight, found this to be a wonderfully entertaining tale that they ask for again and again. THE HUNTER AND THE EBONY TREE comes very highly recommended.

Superbly written by Alexis Rae Weaver, Hunter Bunny Saves Easter is a charming picturebook colorfully illustrated by Jennifer M. Kohnke and is about a bunny and a duckling who are different from the rest of their siblings and neighbors. Hunter Bunny needs a motorized wheelchair to move about, and Clark the duckling needs glasses to see. They become friends and embark upon an adventure to help the Easter Bunny, in this remarkable story about the triumph of inner strength over external disabilities. Hunter Bunny Saves Easter is highly recommended for young readers and offers an entertaining and instructive message which will resonates with children the year-round.

Thank you for such a good book which teaches such good lessons.
My kids fell in love with Hunter and Clark and were instantly mesmerized by the story and the beautiful pictures. My children are five and seven years old and surprised me with their questions and comments about the obstacles each character overcame, such as being made fun of for being different. The happy ending had all of us tearing up and some of us cheering for the two "misfits" who became heroes.

My daughter says "if Hunter Bunny can do it so can I". She has some special needs but like Hunter is not Handicapped by them.
A very appropriate gift for any child or special person.

Happy Holidays and God bless.

I feel this book was very well written. It has just enough suspense and mystery to keep you turning the pages to find out what is going to happen next. I couldn't put it down until the end. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery!

I could not put down this book down. I found it wonderfully refreshing in that it did not get too graphic in some details. The plot was well formed and not at all predictable. I would recommend it for anyone who loves a great mystery.

Hunter One grabbed me immediately and didn't let go. The plot is frighteningly believable, the charaters are irresistible, and the visual descriptions are mesmerizing. I'll have another, please.

This is one of those books you just can't put down - a real page turner. The characters are believable. The plot is complex yet plausible. I'm always enthralled when someone can come up with such an intricate plot that does not follow a predictable course, but is drawn together by a well thought out ending. I read a lot and love of find a new author to add to my favorites. His first book "Quileute Rising" was excellent as well and makes it hard to wait for the next one to come.

We have two other "Hunter and Stripe" books, and love them all. This was a great addition to the collection.

L.M. Elliott is the most entertaining, morally informative writer
for youngsters and teenagers alike. Her work gets better with each new
literary adventure, and HUNTER'S BIG SISTER is no exception:
it's the best yet; and so is L.M. Elliott the best children's - and "younger reader" -
writer out there. She is, simply put and to quote my son, "amazing!"

_The Hunter's Breath_ by Terrie M. Williams is an engaging account of six field seasons the author and seven colleague spent studying the Weddell seal of the Antarctic, where they spent 10 weeks at a time in a camp on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, off the western coast of Ross Island, situated near openings in the ice where seals could haul out and sun themselves (and in particular pregnant seals could give birth, and raise their pups).

For years scientists had been frustrated in studying the Weddell seal, in particular observing how they feed and behave beneath the ice. The seals operated under many meters of ice, in very deep and very cold waters that were inaccessible to human divers and even submersible robotic probes. In 1997 miniaturized video technology finally caught up with the dreams of Dr. Williams and other researchers. Williams and her colleagues invented a device called a VDAP or Video Data Acquisition Platform, a waterproof device able to withstand tremendous pressure that could house a Sony 8mm video camera connected to a microcomputer. Also connected to the computer were an array of sensors, including devices to measure dive depth, swimming speed, compass bearings, heart rate, water temperature, a hydrophone to record sounds heard and emitted by the seal (seals are very vocal underwater), and a tiny acceleratometer mounted near the seal's tail to record the swing of every flipper stroke. Attached to the seal on a neoprene pad, the devices performed brilliantly.

The device invented, the team selected with great care a suitable study area and camp site. They wanted to find an area containing cracks large enough to allow the seals to breathe and haul out but not so thin or fractured as to be unable to support the weight of the camp.

The team went to great efforts to counter the various dangers posed by Antarctic research, notably frostbite, hypothermia, dehydration, and the sometimes fierce weather. They contended with temperatures as low as -70 degrees Fahrenheit and hurricane-force blizzards called herbies, monstrous storms with driving grit-like ice blown in from the continent in winds between 60 and 75 miles per hour. After three back-to-back herbies and then an actual snowfall the camp site had so much snow that the ice started to bend and the camp started to sink; quick work was required to save the facility.

Their efforts were well worth it, as they accumulated many dozens of hours of footage of seals beneath the ice, mountains of data, and enough results for a slew of scientific papers. You can see some video stills (along with many of the test subject seals, such Ally McSeal, their first test subject seal, Godzilla, the only male they used, and Ms. Zodiac, a lazy seal that spent so much time on the ice sunning herself that they eventually removed her equipment) in beautiful photographs in the book.

Although the trials and tribulations of the researchers were interesting the seals were the stars of the book. A mild-mannered species of phocid seal, Weddell seals are the only year-around mammalian resident on the permanent ice shelf in Antarctica. They survive colder temperatures, dive deeper, and live further south than Antarctica's three other seal species (Ross, Leopard, and crabeater). They are usually nine feet or more in length and average about three and a half feet in width in the middle. Colors range from bluish-black to soft gray and they have whitish spots that are particularly prominent on their upturned bellies when they sun themselves (originally they were called sea leopards). They were first mentioned by Captain James Weddell in a book recounting his Antarctic explorations from 1822-1824 and formally scientifically described a few years later. Though apparently not seriously hunted by sealers, some were killed by Antarctic explorers to provide blubber to burn for heat and to melt snow and ice for drinking water (explorers as a result often appeared dirty in photographs thanks to the oily soot of Weddell blubber) and to feed sled dogs.

Weddell seals are champion divers; only sperm whales and elephant seals can perform as well or better. She compared the dives of these seals to a person running a 10K race on a single breath of air. They can travel up to four miles under solid ice on one breath, can stay submerged up to 82 minutes (a typical dive is 20 minutes), and dive to depths of 1,312 feet.

The seals have huge eyes to enable them to see in the depths, eyes two and a half times the size of a human's, almost the size of a tennis ball. This, along with their keen hearing and whiskers enable to them be excellent hunters of giant Antarctic cod, schools of flittering Antarctic silverfish, and fish dubbed "borks" (_Pagothenia borchgrevinki_), which live just beneath the ice in 27 degree Fahrenheit water.

Every year the seals make an annual trek under miles of solid sea ice to ice cracks in McMurdo Sound to find mates and raise pups, as cracks always open in the ice in certain areas thanks to tidal stresses and ocean currents. Simply getting there is a tremendous feat, requiring unerring navigation and careful calculations of how far they can get on a breath of air; to make a mistake would mean drowning. They make use of every single hole, weak spot, or air pocket they can find to get a breath along the way, covering a distance of 80 miles from the open sea to their final destination (30 miles more than normal thanks to the giant iceberg B-15, 170 mile long and 1000 feet thick iceberg that completely disrupted the annual cycle of sea ice formation, breakup, and dispersal). In addition, their anatomy is adapted to enlarging even the smallest hole in the ice; their large, reinforced canine teeth stick out from their skulls, giving them a bucktooth-appearance but enabling the seals to scrape ice from the sides of holes in a behavior termed reaming.

Dr. Terrie Williams has written an enchanting book about her research and her enthusiasm for the natural world---a world few of us have the chance to experience. The book blends the rigor of her scientific approach with a fine-tuned talent for story telling. If this book were an eye into the harsh world of the Antarctic it would have a twinkle in it.

Mark Herring's Hunter's Realm is an tautly written and exciting science fiction novel about five individuals bound to a common cause, as they are thrust into a quest in a galaxy controlled by the Galactic Mafia and its hidden, unstoppable leader. Fast-paced, action-packed, and thrilling intrigue mark this exotic foray set in the far-flung future. Hunter's Realm is a highly enjoyable scifi, action/adventure read.

Even though I'm not a sci-fiction person, this was one of the best one I have read. I would recommend this book to all the sci-fiction people out there. People Who like Star war, and Star trek, and the other sci-fiction movie's and book's.

Tons of beautiful tracings of prehistoric art and some beautiful photographs. The tracings are just as exciting as the photographs. I've barely glanced at the text, but it's an art book - who reads em?

With 185 black-and-white figures and 36 color photographs, this book is a treasure trove of ancient art. Since I bought this book mostly for the graphics, I was well pleased. 176 pages total

Second book in the 4th Morgan's Mercenaries series from Lindsay McKenna which is called "Morgan's Mercenaries: The Hunters". The books in this fourth series are 1) Heart of the Hunter, 2) Hunter's Woman, 3) Hunter's Pride, and 4) The Untamed Hunter. Each can be read as a stand-alone story, but your reading pleasure will be greatly enhanced by reading them in order. Strong characters, excellent story - I rate this one five stars.

Description of this book from the back cover:

Whatever Hunter wanted ... Hunter got. And the long, lean military man wanted his woman back from the moment he set his piercing gaze on her again. Ty Hunter might have let Dr. Catt Alborak walk away once, but not even a passionate hellion like her could escape him a second time. For despite the protest on her soft lips when he pulled her into his strong arms, Ty was on a mission to give the stubborn beauty everything he'd foolishly denied her once: his heart, his soul - and most of all, his child ...

I had spent a few weeks with Michael Crichton's "The Lost World", leisurely reading it when I had time to sit in the front yard. I had gotten to the point where there were dinosausrs around every bend, and things were getting exciting. Then a package came, from Blue Turtle publishing. Well, "The Lost World" went the way of the dinosaurs as I picked up my new copy of "Hunter's Woman." I tore into the book, devouring the pages. I had to keep it away from my girlfriend, she wanted to read it first. The yard work, what yard work? Do we have to go to the party already, I'm reading my book?! I finished all but the closing dozen pages in one weekend! Lindsay McKenna has such a way of generating emotions within from her writing. I could feel the dread in the characters who realized there were really men that evil in the world. I could feel the strain when Ty and Catt met, and the desire to right the past as they mingled together on their adventure. I know the fear of logs, and the feel of water spraying over the bow of a stolen boat on the Amazon. And I feel the power of a father's love for his unborn son, and the woman who carries his child. There was joy, regret, love, hate, desperation, and almost any other feeling involved. Would it be wrong to declare that a book that can make you see the images, almost as if watching a movie, is well written? Well, Lindsay deserves an Oscar for this book. The imagery of the characters' movements, the expressions on their faces, the real humanity all shines through the words. There's action (of many types), intrigue, human suffering, and triumph. But don't forget, there's some lessons in there as well. Lessons about ourselves as a race. Lessons about caring and sharing. And lessons about how well homeopathy can work, even if all else has failed. Even if you've never read anything about Morgan's Mercenaries, don't know the Hunters or Inca, you will enjoy this book. Just be careful if you lend it out, you'll have a hard time tracking how many other people get a hold of it. And you'll want to read it again!

You don't have to be a deer hunter to enjoy the storyline of this book. Joe Tanner, a family man and a Christian, enjoys deer hunting,but one day alone in the woods turns deadly. Robbers from a nearby town find Joe alone in the woods. Joe's trust in God and his hunting instincts kick in as he fights for survival. With a praying wife and friends on his side,he can't lose.

I first recieved this book on 12-4-01 I sat down started reading it and have been unable to put it down it reads great no trouble getting into the story and the way He relates it to Christian Values makes this a book worth having if you hunt or if you are a Christian I recomend that you atleast read it the story fully engolves you and your heart will pound for Joe as you read this story that could very easily be reallity for any hunter thats in the woods I give it 10 stars you will Love it.