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A year-by-year guide of what to expect and how to find the best team for your son, plus a player's perspective on many aspects of travel baseball.

The year is 1964, and Carl Gordon is an ill-prepared New York assistant US attorney who has lied his way into a transfer to Stockville, Alabama, where he is supposed to monitor and enforce the Civil Rights Act. In a matter of days, the Ku Klux Klan takes aim at him, the outside agitator. Carl has agreed to represent Oleatha Geary, a black family matriarch who has inherited a mansion in an all-white, race-restricted neighborhood. Carl and Oleatha are engulfed in litigation that turns deadly. Meanwhile, Carl and Oleatha's daughter, Lenore, find themselves in a blossoming romance opposed by everyone.

You've heard of colleagues licensing their material, but you're not sure exactly how to do that? Hear from someone who has done it dozens of times and made more than a million dollars licensing intellectual assets. Find out how to do it, what's included, and what to watch out for. Mitch will explain how to leverage your intellect, license your materials, and boost your income.

On the night of July 30 last year, Amiram Ben-Oliel, the 21-year-old son of a rabbi, waited for a friend in a cave in the heart of the West Bank. They had planned to rendezvous there, between Ramallah and Nablus, before heading to the Palestinian villages of Duma and Majdal Beni Fadal, where they would commit murder. When Ben-Oliel’s friend didn’t show up, he continued alone, setting out on foot for Duma.

Is work interfering with your life? In this edition of Adventures in Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe explores how technology has broadened communication for better or worse. From cell phones to pagers, e-mail to web services, technology has made it possible for you to communicate in remote places. But has it become an inconvenience, tying you to your work wherever you go, even at home?

In this edition of Adventures in Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe takes you on tour of the P2P, which, according to whom you speak to, is an acronym for path-to-profits or peer-to-peer marketplace, the latest of the hot investment categories. Also, a look at the maturing U.S. computer market and Mitch explores why they are stuck in the doldrums waiting for transformative technology.

"Cette histoire est racontée pour que les gens qui ont pu croire leur passage sur terre sans importance se rendent au contraire compte qu'ils en ont eu beaucoup, et aussi combien ils ont été aimés."

Did you ever look carefully at a spider's webs? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder and lighting? Why do dogs chase cats? Why does it look like there's a man in the moon? In this delightful recording of tales from around the world, each story explains why an animal, plant, or natural object looks or acts the way it does.

In this chain story from Cuba, Rooster learns that he needs a lot of help to get cleaned up for Heron's party. Illustrated by Baird Hoffmire.

In this story from Russia, two frog sisters learn the truth of that old saying, "It ain't over 'til it's over" - or, "The opera isn't over until the fat frog sinks." Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, the team that brought us The Hidden Feast and Noodlehead Stories, put their noodles together to bring us this delightful tale of exploration and perseverance.

During a long drought in Australia, Tree Kangaroo and Koala grow thirsty for water. When Tree Kangaroo remembers how he and his mother survived a similar drought by digging a hole for water, their problems seem to be solved. Koala creates excuses to rest and be lazy while Tree Kangaroo works hard to dig the well. When water begins to fill the hole, Koala forgets to share and loses his tail and a friend! Illustrated by Tom Wrenn.

In this story from Peru, we meet a baker who is so stingy that he wants to charge people just for smelling his baked goods. When the baker takes his case to court, the wise judge decides to teach the greedy man a well-deserved lesson. Illustrated by Tom Wrenn.

When the barnyard animals are invited to a party by their neighbors, they dress in their Sunday best and set off for a day of merriment. But when dinnertime arrives, the famished animals are perplexed to find a simple meal of cornbread. Most of them are polite, but Rooster turns his beak up in disgust and rudely leaves the party, missing the treasures hidden for the guests.

From one of the most important contemporary voices to emerge from the Middle East comes a gripping tale of love and betrayal, honesty and artifice, which asks whether it is possible to truly reinvent ourselves, to shed our old skin and start anew.

The Tracking of a Russian Spy exhibits the harrowing consequences that can emerge when love, or something like it, intersects with modern-day espionage. Swenson details the perplexing set of events that follow his encounter with a beautiful stranger in a dusky New York City nightclub. The woman in question is Katya and as the two grow closer Swenson wonders whether there might be more to this woman than she lets on.

The dirt-encrusted key didn’t look like much, but when bullied teen Geoff inadvertently activates it, he is suddenly thrust into a strange and beautiful world. It doesn’t help that he’s accompanied by Sawyer, his chief tormentor at school, but there is a silver lining in that intelligent, compassionate Jane is also with them. Soon, the three teenagers encounter evil orcs, majestic unicorns, dangerous trolls, and a mysterious elven druid who doesn’t care for humans. Together, they must make their way back home before the new world they find themselves in erupts in war.

Just Give Up on projecting fantasies about yourself and pretending to live up to them. Reject setting goals and making judgments about how good you are, and instead just do what you want. The only ones even taking notice are those less successful than you, are they really who you are looking to impress? Daring to fail is the new winning - doing what you want without fear of how you think people will judge you - even if that means getting a stripper in Brazil pregnant.

RV living is growing in popularity as more people hit the road to travel in a different kind of way - by bringing their mobile homes with them everywhere that they go. Sure, you could buy a ticket and hop on a plane to your next destination, but what's the fun in that? Touring on the road, making little stops along the way that are off the beaten track sometimes, and exploring places you ordinarily would have missed, that's the real adventure that brings so much allure to life on the road living in an RV.

Serve 2 Win, the first in a series of business guidebooks by entrepreneur coach and serial business owner, Mitch Durfee, offers an unusual approach to launching a small business. The single most successful basis for any entrepreneurial endeavor is that of being of service. Not only does a service-to-others approach attract customers and clients, it rewards business practitioners with an unshakeable sense of purpose, undergirded by the inherent happiness of using their expertise to assist others in need of help.

Acclaimed business leaders Mitch Little and Hendre Coetzee share their decades of expertise in this innovative guidebook focused on helping you succeed in the sales force. The sales world will continue to undergo dramatic changes. New strategies and methods are essential, but they require the right mindset. Shiftability lays the necessary mental groundwork sales professionals need in order to implement these changes in methodology and thrive in a new environment.