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What does one do when ingrained bigotries and institutionalized biases seem insurmountable? And opportunity is scarce or non-existent? What would one imbued with boundless hope and unbridled dreams do? For Jubal and Evie Prescott, there was but one answer: to find a new land and create their own opportunities. Indeed, to confront their own destiny.In war people die, and they kill. The Second Seminole War would be the longest and most costly of...

Best Fiction, Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award, 2015. [Rating: R] The Fourth novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Cow Hunters is the sequel to The Good Dog.The Florida Prairie, 1860, cattle country. War looms, but to the settlers living along a jungled, tropical creek, it all seems very far away. For Becky Hackensaw, there are much more pressing matters, such as providing an education for her six children, but where t...

Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe. In Experiments on Reality, he shines the light of his intelligence on his own life, and on some of the most fascinating questions in science and culture. Robinson brings us to his boyhood in ...

It is a thousand, thousand years into the future and our world has changed.This is a world of super science, high technology, and a world of magical wonders. It is a world made of many genetically-altered human beings and a few creatures rumored to be not of this world. A small fraction of the population has an ability to use their minds with telekinetic abilities, some far beyond the ability of the average human. Many men use their super mind...

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Here is Connemara, experienced at a walker's pace. From cartographer Robinson comes the second title in the Seedbank series, a breathtakingly intimate exploration of one beloved place's geography, ecology, and history. "Exceptional...A book about one place which is also about the whole world."--Robert MacFarlane.lane.

As recently as the 1920s, the lack of great female writers was often considered evidence of women's inferiority. Virginia Woolf disagreed. Her 1929 essay argues that creativity is impossible without privacy and freedom from financial worries, and throughout history, women have had neither therefore, no tradition of great female writing existed.

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Journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) schlägt sich mit Jobs, die nie länger als ein paar Monate dauern, durch die Welt. Im Jahr 1959 kommt Paul nach San Juan, Puerto Rico, wo er ein gutbezahltes Angebot annimmt, die mäßige Gazette 'The San Juan Star' aufzuwerten. Doch schnell wird deutlich, dass die Arbeit nur der Teil seines Lebens "von Mittag bis acht" ist, denn der Lebemann verfällt schnell dem Müßiggang und verliebt sich außerdem in die bezau...

Journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) schlägt sich mit Jobs, die nie länger als ein paar Monate dauern, durch die Welt. Im Jahr 1959 kommt Paul nach San Juan, Puerto Rico, wo er ein gutbezahltes Angebot annimmt, die mäßige Gazette 'The San Juan Star' aufzuwerten. Doch schnell wird deutlich, dass die Arbeit nur der Teil seines Lebens "von Mittag bis acht" ist, denn der Lebemann verfällt schnell dem Müßiggang und verliebt sich außerdem in die bezau...

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A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and ofcollections of essays, and maps of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara. Connemara: Listening to the Wind, published in 2006, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction. Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness followed in 2008. Since 1984 Tim Robinson has lived in Roundstone, Connemara.