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"After a young roadrunner is bitten by a rattlesnake, his feet swell to an enormous size. At first this seems to be a handicap as he stumbles around the desert and nearly ends up as a meal for a coyote. After taking the advice of a wise old tortoise, though, the roadrunner, now called Thunderfoot, undergoes an exercise program, making his legs and wings much stronger than the average roadrunner's. The newly pumped-up Thunderfoot hammers the local...

Describes the activities of one day, from dawn to dusk, in the life of a road runner living in the desert.

Lizard likes to stretch out on a warm rock to sleep, but her nap is ruined when a hungry roadrunner spots her.

A retired major-league baseball player slips into prescription drug abuse and violence in Roadrunner, an engaging second novel by Trisha R. Thomas (Nappily Ever After). When Dell "Roadrunner" Fletcher attacks his scriptwriter wife, Leah, Officer Angel Lopez answers her call for help. Angel falls for the lovely Leah, but he is also an old Roadrunner fan. Then Dell disappears, and Angel inserts himself into the lives of Leah and her young son with suspicious...

Accomplishments of the government-founded National Laboratories, including development of biofuels, solar power, fusion energy, the power grid, and nuclear deterrents.

Gila monster, Roadrunner and Fox provoke Jack Rabbit into taking a very entertaining risk. Everyone gets a little more than they bargained for as Jack Rabbit races around the desert, avoiding rattlesnakes, longhorn cattle, and skunks all by the hair of his hot little heels.

"The Monkeewrench crew returns in a twisty, heart-stopping new thriller. The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find...

The series had a simple premise: The coyote, who was very hungry, tried to catch the Road Runner, who was very fast. Wile E. would try anything to catch his prey, utilizing a wide variety of products from the Acme Company, including rocket skates, giant magnets and foot springs. Regardless of the scheme, it would always backfire, and Wile E. would end up trapping, flattening, or blowing himself up.

A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.