Rick Hughes: 11 books

It seems everyday we encounter a "crisis" or difficult issue of some sort that affects our work. Such difficulties can come from within work (eg, a difficult client or boss, missing a target or deadline, rejection of a proposal or plan, feeling undervalued) or outside of it (eg, personal...

School is bad enough for Quinn Compton. Lockers are broken into, robbed, and vandalized. Its a place where false rumors are spread, even on washroom walls. Bullies seem to be everywhere, even on YouTube, and some of them are girls! Its definitely a place where snitches get stitches. Some of the teachers,...

The Camp Crowfeather Mystery features Quinn, a young boy who gets talked into going to summer camp for the first time. His best friend Keenan has been bugging him about it all year. Since I was a little kid, I look forward to it all year! Its great! Dont even worry about the bears! But Quinn was worried...

Ten-year-old Virginia has never really paid any attention to her dreams. Until now, a month after her mother was believed drowned in Wales, she has dreams like none shes ever had before. A recurrent nightmare of a ferocious red dragon makes her afraid ever to sleep again. Then the dragon beckons her,...

Quinn brings home the worst grade six report card ever, so bad that it makes his mother cry and hire two tutors. The first one, Vicky, takes one look through Quinns schoolbag and decides that her mission is to improve his organization skills, starting with backpacks. The second tutor doubles as a...

Suzanne Peterson, the new kid yet again, hopes to fit in by joining the baseball team, but is shocked to find that, at her new junior high, only the boys have a team. There is no team for girls because there is no coach and that just the way it is. Suzanne appeals to her mother, who has no real love...

Conor grabbed the heavy boxing bag between his hands, squeezing it to keep it from moving. He set his feet and rammed his head into the bag so hard that you could hear it right across the weight room. He leaned back and rammed his head back into the bag, even harder than the first time. Then he did...

JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the lead author of this book and creator of the Johnny-Five platform, is at the forefront of this movement. Johnny-Five is an open source JavaScript Arduino programming framework for robotics. This book brings together fifteen innovative programmers,...

Three well-known fly fishers (and friends) come together to share the solid technical know-how they've learned from years of fishing the ever-elusive trout.

The fly-fishing trio offers winning practical advice and years of wisdom for catching trout all year long, no matter the season.

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. The authors have scoured documents and legal decisions to trace the rise of the mysterious Pueblo...