![]() ![]() Even more surprising, Reed Benton denies having ever placed the ad, written the letters or married Kate. When she arrives at Benton's sprawling Lone Star ranch, she is surprised to discover that her new husband is a Texas ranger who defends the frontier against Native Americans, has recently been wounded during a raid on a Comanche village and has captured an eight-year-old Comanche boy he believes may be his long-lost son, Daniel. After months of correspondence, she agrees to a marriage by proxy, packs her bags and heads off to the Texas frontier. Approaching spinsterhood at the age of 30, Kate answers the newspaper ad of Reed Benton, a widowed Texas rancher seeking a mail-order bride. Born in 1842, Kate Whittington, abandoned daughter of the Applesby, Maine, town tramp, is raised in a cloistered orphanage. ![]() Following a slew of well-received romance paperbacks ( Come Spring Blue Moon etc.), Landis serves up a tender, satisfying historical romance as her hardcover debut. ![]()
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![]() This is a resolutely materialist "spirituality" based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us."-Amazon. Emergent Strategy is an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. ![]() The world is in a continual state of flux. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Paperback Illustrated, Apby adrienne maree brown (Author) 1,480 ratings Part of: Emergent Strategy (8 books) See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 16.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() "Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. ![]() It's just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built. It is every kind of badass' - Laini Taylor, NYT bestselling author of STRANGE THE DREAMER and the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy A thrilling new series from Jay Kristoff, internationally best-selling author of The Nevernight Chronicle and The Illuminae Files. Put this grimy, beautiful, devastating, hilarious, screaming, writhing, all-out post-apocalyptic girl-buddy-road-warrior-lost princess-techno-thriller in your face and read it right now. ![]() ![]() This edition contains an adventure game.)" -Barnes and Noble Detailed plot description A full throttle finale to a reader acclaimed series. ![]() The sixth and final episode of Erin Hunter's Omen of the Stars Warriors series draws the looming confrontation between the Clans and the Tigerstar's Dark Forest warriors to a feverish conclusion. Praise "To battle the darkness that has no end, three must become four. Hopes will be shattered and heroes will rise as the warriors fight for their very survival. The darkest hour the Clans have ever faced has dawned. As Jayfeather, Dovewing, and Lionblaze prepare to lead their Clanmates into battle, they await the arrival of the mysterious fourth warrior who is prophesied to help lead the Clans to glory. After countless moons of treachery, Tigerstar's Dark Forest apprentices are ready to lay siege upon the warrior Clans. ![]() Three must become four to battle the darkness that lasts forever. Dedication For Anna, in hope Blurb The end of the stars draws near. ![]() ![]() Soon, level-headed Meg's to-do list extends from flower arrangements and bridal registries to catching a killer-before the next catered event is her own funeral. But it seems this lady has offended one too many when she's found dead in suspicious circumstances, followed by a string of accidents-some fatal. Book List in Order: 48 titles Murder With Peacocks Jan-1999 / Cozy Mystery A Meg Langslow Mystery - 1 THREE WEDDINGS.AND A MURDER So far Meg Langslows summer is not going swimmingly. ![]() Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumored to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors.Īnd, in whirl of summer parties and picnics, Southern hospitality is strained to the limit by an offensive newcomer who hints at skeletons in the guests' closets. One bride is set on including a Native American herbal purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks on the lawn. ![]() ![]() And when Zoe arrives, he is immediately protective and utterly devoted.Įnzo loves to watch car racing, on television at home with Denny, who also reviews his own "in-car" recordings to help improve his performance. And Eve comes to love Enzo, who is at first wary and a bit jealous of "the attention he lavished on her with her opposable thumbs and plump bottom," but who comes to love Eve, too. "He's more person than dog," Denny tells her. "I'm not much of a dog person," Eve says warily when she first sees Enzo. Aspiring Seattle-based race car driver Denny ( Milo Ventimiglia) adopts Enzo as a puppy and he remains Denny's most loyal companion as the household expands to include Denny's girlfriend and then wife Eve, played by Amanda Seyfried and their daughter Zoe (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). The dog in this story is Enzo, named for Enzo Ferrari, a race car driver and founder of the automobile company, voiced with the husky gravel of Kevin Costner. ![]() ![]() Historic figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks play important roles, but center stage belongs to the brave, bookish girl whose two acts of courage were to affect the course of American history. Gayle.īased on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of a major, yet little-known, civil rights figure whose story provides a fresh perspective on the Montgomery bus protest of 1955 - 56. Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009 - African American civil rights. ![]() ![]() Undaunted, she put her life in danger a year later when she dared to challenge segregation yet again - as one of four plaintiffs in the landmark busing case Browder v. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child.īut instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later, Claudette found herself shunned by many of her classmates and dismissed as an unfit role model by the black leaders of Montgomery. ![]() On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. ![]() National Book Award, Young People's Literature, 2009 ![]() ![]() A cozy mystery garlanded with plasma cannons and spaceships. Martha Wells' newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, Fugitive Telemetry, is a lot of things that you probably don't expect. Imagine that Agatha Christie or Nancy Atherton woke up one morning and decided to set their newest ticking-clock, cozy mystery not in some quaint English seaside village but in a quaint, progressive orbital station that Angela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher was hurled forward a thousand years to find herself tutting over the body of a dead spaceman dumped in a hallway - no fingerprints, no DNA, no record of how he got there or who did him in. ![]() Armed and armored against all the evils that men do. ![]() ![]() Imagine for a moment that Hercule Poirot was a robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mitch calls his weekly visits to his teacher his last class, and the present book a paper about the meaning of life. Soon Mitch started visiting Morrie every Tuesday again, just as they used to back in college. ![]() However, nearly 20 years later, now an award-winning sportswriter, Mitch finds out that his old professor and friend was dying after seeing a Nightline episode that featured his old mentor. ![]() He took every class Morrie taught, and soon the two became great friends.Įvery Tuesday they met and talked about life and everything in between until Morrie graduates and becomes fully immersed in a world full of vanity. In the late 70s when Mitch attended Brandeis University, he took a liking to his energetic sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. “Tuesday’s with Morrie” is a creative firsthand biography that tells the tale of a friendship between an old professor, Morrie, and his former student, Mitch. ![]() Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip. One of the greatest things Professor Morrie Schwartz told former student Mitch Albom about life was: “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” In “Tuesdays with Morrie,” you’ll learn about life, death and everything in between. ![]() ![]() He is revered not only in his homeland, but everywhere. In the late 1960s he was one of the most despised men in America for taking on the most powerful nation in the world when refusing to show support for the war in Vietnam and against communism.īut Ali, then only in his twenties, didn’t buckle under the mighty wave of hostility – calls of being a traitor, the risk to the safety of his family – and the threat of jail and having his world heavyweight title taken away.Īnd now he is probably the most recognisable and acclaimed sportsman ever. ![]() He fought against the odds, stood firm when most would have run and didn’t compromise his beliefs for what would have been a cosier, less complicated existence. Muhammad Ali confronted boundaries almost like no other man. LIFE is a journey of self-discovery, achieved through our experiences and relationships, but most searchingly by displaying courage and being fearless. ![]() |