New Releases by Jim Nelson

If you''re looking for an informed, scholarly discussion of poetry, don''t buy this book. Jim Nelson is literally an amateur. He loves poetry and he shares his opinions, oblivious of their validity. Jim is what you might call an eclectic writer, or more accurately, one unable to focus his attention. He has written two novels followed by a book on insects and now here comes a book on poetry. No telling what his next masterpiece might be. (He insisted on us using the adjective "masterpiece." Since he paid to have this book printed, who are we to argue?) Jim has the temerity to suggest that the great Walt Whitman is not a poet. Ditto, Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams and the majority of contemporary poets. At the same time, he admits to greatly admiring these and other "non-poets." As an excuse for "having his cake and eating it too," he takes refuge in Emerson''s reassuring safety net: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." There''s a "freebie" in this book: a second book! Jim shamelessly slipped in quite a few of his own poems at the back, just when you thought the book was finished. If you''d rather not read poems about cockroaches or a python, at least you might enjoy a few pretty pictures.

Did you know that the mosquito played an important role in the Louisiana Purchase? Or that dung beetles saved the cattle industry in Australia? That honeybees pollinate about one third of the food we eat? Or that the deadliest animal on earth is an insect? There’s an ant colony some 3,700 miles long! Morgan’s sphinx moth has a tongue more than 13 inches long. A locust plague stopped trains as the tracks became slippery with their crushed bodies. There’s a grasshopper in Africa that eats mice. Jim Nelson’s latest book is a treasure house of fascinating facts, stunning photographs and shocking historical events. One moment you might cringe reading about billions of locusts descending on farmland. The next you may laugh out loud at anecdotes and original poetry. Read about the wasp that turns a cockroach into a zombie or the historic 2024 hatch of a trillion cicadas. Trivia buffs will love the “Insect Book of Records” and chefs can add several insect recipes to their repertoire.

Libby, the “City of Eagles.” A town in extreme northwest Montana surrounded by more than two million acres of wilderness. It lies along the turquoise waters of the Kootenai River surrounded by pristine streams and lakes. When Doc Conrad Lindstrom brings his family to Libby, the lumber mill and the vermiculite mine are thriving industries. His wife Anna plays the small pump organ at church. His older son, Nicholas, builds model ships and makes his own exquisite fishing flies. Younger son, Trygve, debates his future: he’s struggling to decide: poet laureate, or maybe an entomologist. At age six, Tryg races into the family cabin, pursued by a horde of angry wasps. His mother screams. Sherlock, the family basset howls and hides under the bed. Conrad starts swinging a broom. Chaos reigns. Or as Conrad says, “Just a typical Saturday night.” Tryg age 10, catches (and loses) a monster brown trout on the Madison River. He goes on his first (and last) elk hunt at age 12 and officially becomes a man after completing Libby’s unique rite of passage. At 18 he and best friend Otto challenge Jennings Rapids in the family’s tiny 12-foot boat. Meet a few of Libby’s “dear hearts and gentle people” in Trygve Lindstrom: Tales from Libby, Montana.

Tribesmen murdered in Papua New Guinea. A shaman brutally killed in the Amazon. Mercenary commandos infiltrating biolabs across the globe. Billionaire Umberto Morton will stop at nothing to assure he is the first to patent the Fountain of Youth. He has transformed his worldwide pharmaceutical empire to a single effort; he calls it the Methuselah Project. Welcome to Madagascar: land of exotic spiders, land leeches, jumping rats, crocodiles, hissing cockroaches, and the mysterious predator called the fossa. And maybe, land that is hiding a secret elixir, the Fountain of Youth. Harvard entomologist, Trygve Lindstrom, has accepted Morton’s generous six-month sabbatical to a remote village in Madagascar. For centuries, mariner’s reports and missionary accounts claim that these reclusive villagers, the Rock People, may have found the secret to youth and longevity. Lindstrom scoffs at the tales, but leaps at a chance to collect and study rare bugs. In time, he is accepted by the villagers, especially the children who joyfully accompany him on his collecting journeys. Then the unthinkable happens. Morton sends two armed commandoes to Madagascar. Lindstrom is determined to protect his beloved villagers and their sacred secret. But what can he do against armed intruders?

He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, thereby laying to rest the curse of the Baskervilles once and for all. The perpetrator escaped into the night and was presumed drowned, consumed by the murky bog... In truth, the criminal mastermind survived the night to nurse his wounds and plot his revenge against Sherlock Holmes. A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE recounts the life and times of Rodger Baskerville, heir to the esteemed family''s fortune. His journal records his adventures from the Amazon rainforests to the beaches of Costa Rica to Victorian England, where he attempts to rejoin his family and take his rightful place at Baskerville Hall. Along the way, he peels back the layers of family secrets and scandals untold in Watson''s account of the demonic hound haunting the Baskervilles. Most of all, he describes a Sherlock Holmes unlike the legendary detective you think you know. A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE retells the infamous Arthur Conan Doyle mystery in a way you''ve never read before. It''s a sizzling new take on a classic hailed as a masterpiece of the English language, named one of the most influential books ever by the BBC and Le Monde, and beloved by Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide for over a century.

Classic Cascade Climbs features more than 100 climbing routes across 70-plus peaks--from renowned alpine routes to challenging trad climbs, as well as a handful of sport, ice, and crag options. To determine if it was a “classic” each route was judged on the following criteria: overall quality, popularity, accessibility, style, and historical importance. Climbing beta includes: Peak and prominence elevations and type of rock Grade, approach, route, descent descriptions Detailed photo-based route overlays and topo maps Pitch-by-pitch details, estimated time, recommended equipment Required permits and other special considerations Selected history including first ascents Authoritative and inspirational, this seminal guide also features stunning mountain photography by famed photographer John Scurlock and others.

During the first week of the pandemic lockdown, a security guard starts seeing things he''s not supposed to see. Men working underground on Internet data lines in the dead of night-neighborhood patrols enforcing the shelter-in-place order-the upcoming presidential election looking bought and paid for-and a conspiracy to steal millions of dollars in BitCoin. All the while, he shows worrying symptoms he''s infected with COVID-19. It''s only a matter of days-even hours-before he''s taken into emergency care and quarantined in an isolation unit. All signs point to something amiss in his affluent suburban town...and the further he digs into it, the more he discovers nothing is as it seems. "No one tells a hard-boiled tale like Jim Nelson." - Instant City "Nelson is a tried and tested author." - The Drifting Paige

They hired a cybernetic detective to recover the Internet''s stolen digital history. They didn''t know his twisted past is the key to the crime. Security expert C.F. Naroy is hired to stop hackers from destroying the only remaining preserved copy of the Old Internet-"Old" because the Internet has been replaced by the Nexternet, a technology that allows anyone anywhere to transmit instantly love, hate, outrage, joy...their very thoughts. Emotions are sent like text messages. Others'' memories are streamed like movies. Naroy''s investigation uncovers blackmail, political intrigue, dark family secrets, and more than a few dead bodies. He also learns-the hard way-that the stolen data is so explosive, people are willing to kill for it. Then Naroy discovers his own painful past is the key to the entire affair. He must choose between solving the crime...or burying it for good. "No one tells a hard-boiled tale like Jim Nelson." - Instant City

Its in the book. Jim Nelson Did you know? Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. "When possums are playingpossium, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror. "In the 1940s, the FCC assigned televisions channel 1 to mobile services, two-way radios in taxicabs, etc. They never did assign any other channels. Thats why our TVs today start with channel 2. "Hersheys Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt. "The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when horses pulled the fire engines. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight stairways. "The only two days of the year that do not have any professional sports games, MLB, NBA, NHL, or the NFL are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. I have not failed. Ive just found ten thousand ways that wont work. Thomas Edison

Half a Century of Architectural Dreaming - a Vision a Year - That''s a lot of Work. That''s why its called VisionWorks.Taken from the books of history and recent events touching all mankind.A Visioneer lives to tell about it!

"It was a year ago today we discovered the Everywhere Man." So begins the story of those who seek out a man obscured and faceless in millions of tourist photos of San Francisco''s historic cable cars. Never identified, his anonymity remains unchallenged until the time comes when he can no longer be ignored.Everywhere Man invites the reader into the center of a mystery as old as San Francisco itself. Only amid the machinery of the cable car''s engine house is the identity of the Everywhere Man revealed -- along with the fate of those who seek him out.

Harvard entomologist Dr. Trygve Lindstrom can''t refuse a mysterious invitation to attend a conference in London, for "the greatest scientific expedition in history." The powerful pharmaceutical company, The Chapter, is funding dozens of prominent scientists for a year''s sabattical to biological hotspots across the globe to collect specimens that may become tomorrow''s miracle drugs. Lindstrom''s assignment is a dream come true: collecting rare insects in a remote corner of Madagascar, the Red Island. Lindstrom soon befriends a reclusive Malagasy tribe of Rock People and begins sending hundreds of new and rare insect specimens to The Chapter. Sketchy documents and folklore attribute to the tribal shaman of this tribe an exceptionally long, youthful, disease-free life. Have the Rock People found the Fountain of Youth? Is there any truth to rumors of an insect, a bibeleky, whose bite confers youth and health? Lindstrom ridicules the native stories . . . until he discovers the frightening truth. The Chapter will stop at nothing to exploit such a priceless discovery.

Black''s groundbreaking new book reveals how a growing number of scientists see faith and science as complementary, affirming that divine inspiration is the answer to some of science''s most vexing questions, and providing a reaffirmation of faith for Christians the world over.

three high school students are united at the end of high school at an all school picnic. Together they make the most of misadventures during their summer.

When the pharoahs of Egypt died, they were mummified and buried in pyramids and tombs with all their riches. But as centuries passed, the tombs were looted and the pharoahs'' gold stolen. Then Howard Carter found the greatest Egyptian treasure trove of all—the tomb of King Tut''s mummy! But did the amazing treasure come with a deadly curse?

An autobiography of the senator and presidential candidate describes his spiritual awakening and the effect that this has had on his political views, outlining those views and his plans for America in the event of his election.

"An insider exposes plans to destroy Israel, hide WMDs, and control the Arab world"--Cover.

Details everything important for maintaining good health. Vitamins, supplements and homeopathic medicine are included in this complete guide. This is written for both sexes that contains information of medical breakthroughs in the area of preventative medicine. It also informs readers of medical tests that they must have.

Jim and Jose have been friends forever. In this flashback book, they meet in kindergarten, evict a group of hobos from their treehouse, enter a relative into a video game competition and appear on television twice.

This popular climbing guidebook for the Cascades includes 100 routes, displayed in overlays on photographs.