![]() ![]() ![]() Alarmed by rising tensions over the use of these lands, hunter, angler, and outdoor enthusiast Mark Kenyon set out to explore the spaces involved in this heated debate, and learn firsthand how they came to be and what their future might hold. Since its inception, however, Americas public land system has been embroiled in controversy-caught in the push and pull between the desire to develop the valuable resources the land holds or conserve them. These vast expanses provide a home to wildlife populations, a vital source of clean air and water, and a haven for recreation. Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land trust in the world. ![]() About the Book From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes-Americas public lands. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Almost a Bride by Jody Hedlund![]() Yes, the ladies in this series took a big chance because as we all know no guarantees are there in life for well being and happiness. Mail order brides, sure we've all heard of those but these are Bride Ships bringing the brides, some who this will be their last chance at happiness and a better life for themselves. Before this series I had never heard of Bride Ships. ![]() It makes for a better quality read and it's so fascinating to learn things from the historical books I read. I really appreciate all the research the author puts into her books. In the midst of peril, Zeke's past rises up to haunt him, and he realizes the fight for Kate’s affection may be his biggest challenge yet. When Zeke begins receiving anonymous threats, he unwittingly puts them both in grave danger. But as much as Kate admires Zeke, she’s resolved not to marry someone who doesn’t share her faith. The more he renews her friendship, the more he wants to win her for himself. ![]() ![]() At Kate’s arrival, he takes it upon himself to protect his childhood friend from the men clamoring to court her. After traveling to the remote mining town of Williamsville to marry her newest fiancé, she finds herself single again.Īs the prosperous owner of a gold mine, Zeke Hart has everything he’s ever wanted except for a wife. With countless men waiting to snag a bride, Kate has no trouble getting engaged. After experiencing one failed relationship after another, Kate Millington arrives in British Columbia on a bride ship longing to find true love. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The southern reach trilogy![]() For Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, for example, I gathered images of different sea creatures and abstracted them into patterns. Pablo Delcán: The style I used for these covers was originally used for a Jules Verne series I did a few years ago, each one of these covers was created by abstracting naturalist illustrations. Can you tell me a little bit about how you came to do these covers, and why in this style? Jeff VanderMeer: The style you used for the Southern Reach novels is different than your other work for book covers. ![]() Spanish readers can also check out the Destino Southern Reach webpage. You can experience more of his amazing work at his website. I caught up with Delcán via email to ask him about how he created these striking images, and to share with readers some early versions. Destino commissioned artist and designer Pablo Delcán to create these covers, which capture the surreal vibe of the novels as well as the theme of transformation running through the narrative. ![]() Among the absolute best of the many versions are Destino’s covers for the Spanish editions. One of the great pleasures of seeing The Southern Reach Trilogy in print has been the ingenuity and sophistication of the foreign language editions. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Book eloquent rage![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elsewhere in the collection, the author explores her own identity as a black, Southern, Christian feminist and the ways in which personal politics can become incongruous, and she openly admits her own privilege. In the essay “The Smartest Man I Never Knew,” Cooper uses the story of the attempted murder of Cooper’s mother (while she was pregnant with Cooper) by her mother’s jealous boyfriend as an example of American culture’s toxic masculinity. Many of the essays are deeply personal, with Cooper using her own experiences as springboards to larger concerns. Cooper, Cosmopolitan contributor and cofounder of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog, provides incisive commentary in this collection of essays about the issues facing black feminists in what she sees as an increasingly retrograde society. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Help Wanted by Earl Emerson![]() ![]() Gardiner, of whom it was told that, when a parishioner of his, the Hon. I was the eldest, Ralph the youngest.įor our A B C we went to a Dame’s school in Summer Street, opposite to Trinity Church, a homely wooden building then, with neither steeple nor tower. ![]() I recollect playing with him and the late Samuel Bradford ( Treasurer, years after, of the Reading Railroad), under my mother’s eye, on the floor in the old house where I was born, in Federal Street, Boston, when our ages ranged between six and eight. ![]() Our earliest acquaintance must have neighbored to our babyhood. I CANNOT remember the time when Ralph Emerson and myself were not acquainted. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The decagon house murder![]() It’s close to a place where a murder-suicide event happened, and before long there’s proof that a killer’s on their trail. The story is simple: seven university students – members of a mystery society, each bearing the name of a famous mystery writer – journey to stay in a ten-sided house on an island. It’s a format which, though popular through the works of Edogawa Rampo, fell out of style until the writing of this book, which relaunched an interest in the orthodox mystery, or honkaku. It’s very much in the classic, locked-room mould: the book was written initially as an offshoot of a university mystery club, where enthusiasts of that style of fiction would write tales in that mode, explaining their logic. ![]() At heart, the book pays tribute to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None: it aims to eliminate all its characters by the end, either by murder or by guilt. Add a sprinkling of weird fiction ghostliness and gothic murder. Add to it murder mystery enthusiasts, each bearing a famous crime writer’s nickhame. ![]() ![]() The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji ![]() ![]() ![]() Léonora Miano, Twilight of Torment: I.Translated from the Italian by Allison Grimaldi Donahue Carla Lonzi’s Self-Portrait: Experiments in Feminist Criticism.Translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira Rocío Agreda Piérola, Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk.Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter Translated from the English and Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky Yevgenia Belorusets, “The Complaint Against Language” in Wartime Ukraine.Translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller Translated from the Lithuanian by Delija Valiukenas Translated from the Norwegian by Francesca M. Gunnhild Øyehaug, But Out There-Out There–.Translated from the Russian by Kotryna Garanasvili Marius Ivaškevičius, from Russian Romance.Translated from the Spanish by Paul Filev Translated from the German by Aaron Sayne Leif Randt, from The Haze over Coby County.Translated from the Spanish by James Terry Translated from the Catalan by Laia Sales Merino Antònia Vicens i Picornell, from Lovely.Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari ![]() Fernando Pessoa, from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos.Translated from the Spanish by Elena Barcia Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander Mariana Berenice Bredow Vargas, Let it Go.Translated from the Armenian by Antranik Cassem ![]() ![]() ![]() Imprisoned and subjected to brutal genetic experiments, space marine Adam has been changed into a perfect predator. Star Justice: Eye of the Tiger - Book 1 | by Michael-Scott Earle. The novel is not meant for people under the age of 18. ![]() Success means they get to live another day, failure means a horrible death in the jaws of Earth’s most deadly predators.Įbook & audiobook fulfillment provided by BookFunnel.Īudiobook Narration by: Christopher Boucher and Jessica Threetĭisclaimer: This book has ravaging dinosaurs, a lot of cursing, extreme violence, and a harem of exotic alien women. Victor will have to use his taming powers to provide food, water, and shelter for the three women that he has sworn to protect. Most men would have been lizard kibble in a few moments, but Victor’s natural ability to empathize with animals has grown stronger, and he finds himself able to control the most docile of the terrible lizards. He doesn’t know why he is here or what his purpose is, but he finds himself fighting for survival. Then Victor is abducted by aliens and deposited on a prehistoric world filled with hungry dinosaurs and beautiful alien women. His dream of helping animals seems destined to end in a mop bucket. His parents are dead, he struggles to pay rent, and his boss at the animal control shelter has him cleaning cages instead of working in the field. ![]() Victor Shelby ends each day wondering when his life is going to get better. Tamer: King of Dinosaurs - Book 1 | by Michael-Scott Earle. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Mason by Leila James![]() ![]() “We were studying the connection to other water quality parameters, and it really only connected to one- how much oxygen is present, and we discovered the correlation between microbes and oxygen, and it’s a negative correlation.” “We were figuring out how many microbes there are, what they are doing, and how much oxygen they are actually breathing,” says Leila. As a graduate student at George Mason University, Leila studied water-column microbes in the Chesapeake Bay and was looking into the development of hypoxia and anoxia in the Chesapeake Bay. Leila is now the Associate Director of the School of Ocean Science of Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi, and her area of expertise is in Marine microbe ecology. Leila Hamdan was a graduate student at the time at George Mason University studying water column microbes and their Impact on oceans and coastal processes. The conference brought together the luminaries in coastal and estuary ecology and graduate students studying and researching in the same field. In 1998, The Alliance hosted an “Across the Generations Dialogue” conference at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle![]() ![]() After Claudio helps the unicorn deliver her colt, his heart, frozen by an earlier tragedy, warms to Giovanna, the intrepid 20-ish sister of the postman. He protects her as best he can from hordes of reporters, television crews and helicopters, animal rights activists, yearning yokels, and even the Calabrian 'Ndr ngheta mob. The unicorn becomes the one miracle of Claudio's life and the ultimate tourist attraction. Claudio writes poetry, too, and one day a golden-white unicorn appears to him as a gentle reminder of the freedom animals and humans have lost. Acclaimed fantasist Beagle (Summerlong) sets this charming, lyrical tale of unicorns and love on a poor little hillside farm in the toe of boot-shaped Italy, where 47-year-old Claudio Bianchi scratches out a meager existence for himself, old dog Garibaldi, goat Cherubino, three cows, a pig, and three cats. ![]() |