Imaginative and funny rhyming picture book about a magical old lady and her broomstick-flying grizzly bear. When Doug and Stan are faced with their house being turned into a hotel, mysterious next-door neighbour, Dotty, casts a mesmerizing spell over the fence. Already embarrassed by his dodgy, new hairstyle, Stan helplessly watches on as poor little Doug (the humble slug) deals with Dotty's devious magic all by himself. Sneeze spells, a forever-growing...

Major Clay Steerforth, USMC, and Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Mujeed, Iraqi Defense Forces, are two men willing to gamble their lives in pursuit of an ideal. Separated by culture but united by war, they cross paths in war-torn Iraq and unwittingly aid each other in their divergent pursuits of victory-both in combat and in personal fulfillment. Destiny makes them friends. Their bond is cemented after pondering the meaning of war, grasping at the promise...