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Starting with the unity of humanity from across the world, Recovery journeys through bountiful nature as well as Dark Gray Days, healing mantras, kite surfing, internet disfunction. Sacred islands turn into painful injury, women's rights violated, sexual searches frustrated. This odyssey addresses the Sputnik space race, old age, and the need for action on climate change.

A highly regarded study of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic nineteenth-century novel which helped educate the American public about the evils of slavery. Written by a leading scholar, this introduction links Stowe's ideas with modern philosophical and political resistance movements, including Marxism, liberation theology, existentialism, and cultural feminism. The author finds Stowe's treatment of the problem of evil still timel...

A city where magic can lead to murder. A company of adrenaline-addicted motorcycle couriers. A dark occult conspiracy. These threads converge in Blessed and Cursed Alike, an occult murder mystery set in a mythic urban landscape.

Reprint of a classic study by a leading Jewett scholar, this widely cited book provides a lucid overview of all of Sarah Orne Jewett's work, with an emphasis on her progressive treatment of gender issues and ecological concerns. An invaluable introduction for the general reader. "Provides refreshing insights" --American Literary Realism

Ditty and her dog, Mac, go on a nature adventure!! My love of nature and the outdoors was instilled in me by my parents at an early age and has been a positive force throughout my life. My hope is to awaken curiosity and creativity in young children by introducing them to nature through a variety of interactive programs designed to stimulate their senses. Children are encouraged to participate and explore. What starts as a walk becomes a jou...

A humorous, heartfelt novel about a man trying to find himself in a world that keeps shifting under his feet. Pete Wendell doesn't feel well. He's traded his past as a hardcharging reporter for the safer, more lucrative world of corporate PR. His wife disapproves, his co-workers don't respect him, and there seems to be something wrong with his balance. Moving back to his old hometown to begin his family, Pete is surrounded by his past: his...

Gather 'round as storyteller Emilie Spaulding tells you about eleven fascinating strangers she has encountered here and there. Each one has lessons to share, if we are willing to listen. "Hello, I'm a writer. I can't figure out who you are. Would you please tell me, and put me out of my misery?!" Everyone has said, YES! Maya Angelou, a Chinese architect, and the guy who runs the dump. Everyone has stories for us to learn from!

Robbie is a lucky kid. He spends summers living on a boat! He loves to fish and motor around the harbor in his little boat, Dolittle. But sometimes Robbie feels a little lonely. Sometimes he feels like he doesn't fit in. Then, one day, he meets a very special seagull named George. For the rest of the summer, Robbie and George are inseparable. They go on adventures together, and as Robbie gets more confident, they push the boundaries and th...

Julie is a certified instructor with both TWHBEA and CHA and specializes in adult learners. She is passionate about teaching and has traveled around the country as a clinician and lecturer giving lessons and furthering her own education. Trail riding is the reason most of us saddle up and the basics of maintaining your gaited horse's smooth way of going are the focus of her Trail Clinics. She has spent many years in the saddle and loves to sha...

Unredeemed: Hateful and Others explores the taboo topic of mental illness from various points of view in a variety of ways. From Tracy, the self-destructive twentysomething with bipolar disorder to Suzanne, the prejudiced pharmacist bent on doling out her own kind of justice on psychiatric patients, the characters in this collection come alive and express new ways of viewing what it means to be "healthy." E. C. Hanlon was born in the Boston a...

You Can Do It! Stop staring at that blank page. Dust off that half-finished manuscript. This book will help you get from first page to a finished first draft. You can do it! You're not going to write a brilliant book. Not yet. But you are going to write a first draft. What is often elegantly referred to as your "Vomit Draft." This book cuts through the mountain of advice about writing and boils it down to just what you need to write a novel...

A moving novel of a con¿icted everyman in 1950s America. The story describes the personal and professional con¿ icts of quirky members of a large second and third generation Irish clan of primarily educators. Caring relatives are supportive in dif¿cult times while contributing to the small plot twists of daily life. Written by a talented writer with a rich ear for dialogue who magically relates the experiences and perspectives of a variety of ...

George Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds - musical, industrial, mechanical - of the early 20th century. This minimalist, beautifully designed picture book tells of the premier of one of Antheil's most famous works. Robert Lockwood lives and works in Maine. He studied painting and design at the Philadelphia College of Art, and painting, dra...

Mike and I make our way through the carpet section of the bazaar. In some places the buildings are three or four stories high and one or two levels below ground. All carpets. Gorgeous...any size and shape, silk, cotton, mixed...traditional, nomadic, contemporary designs. Custom made to order. Anything you want. I saw one of JFK for sale. Give them a photo and they will turn it into a carpet. Handmade. At age 29, Barry Fitzpatrick arrived in T...

After returning victorious from war, Colonel Cornelius Mitterhal isolates himself from the society he liberated. Disheartened by guilt and sorrow, he slips into delusion and spends his days talking to the chimney on the rooftop of his manor house that overlooks a vast lake. But a new danger creeps up on the peaceful communities of Three Havens, as a deceitful chancellor plots to break the alliance Mitterhal forged with native tribes during the...

A daughter remembers both her father and her grandfather, two doctors who served their rural community for almost a century. In the days when there were no hospital facilities here or when it was impossible and unadvisable to move a patient, sincere trust was placed in the capable hands of Dr. Charles Young as he successfully performed the operation in the home. His calmness and self-control were most noticeable and helped to ease the mind...

When Bailey stumbles across an opossum behind his grandfather's barn, he sees an opportunity to learn more about one of Earth's oldest living fossils, a mammal which dates back millions of years. Learn about this amazing animal in this delightful and informative picture book!

There have been three wars in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the last thirty years, but everyone pretends nothing weird has ever happened here. No wars, no "Materialist Magicians" doing evil, and certainly no "elves" working to stop them. Divorced and finally working again after losing his last job, Jerry August just wants to live an ordinary life. He's met a girl named Leda. She's a friend of the elves, but Jerry's willing to overlook that. Why...

Do you know what it's like to love to dance? More than anything? It's 1959 and in a small town in New Hampshire, 12-year-old Jo is a diligent ballerina in Mrs. Evans's Saturday morning dance class. She dreams of becoming a professional ballerina, but isn't sure it's possible, due to a birth defect that resulted in a drooping eyelid. Things only become worse when Jo's best friend, Laura, abandons her for another dancer, explaining that Jo isn't...

Oatmeal is a girl, Big Blue is a bicycle, and Frog is, well, Frog is a very special Frog. When Oatmeal's father takes the training wheels off her bike, she is overjoyed. Maybe a bit too overjoyed, because she forgets some of his very important warnings. Luckily, a new friend is there to lend a hand, or a flipper, or whatever it is frogs have. Adventure, ice cream, and friendship abound in this hopping good story. The author wi...