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When Lara was four years old, her father moved from Rochester, New York, to Anchorage, Alaska, a distance of over 4,000 miles.  She spent her childhood chasing after him, flying a quarter of the way around the world to tug at the hem of his jacket...

...Because Ideas Have Consequences. Since its founding 20 years ago, The Texas Pilgrim simply has been a monthly personal letter of commentary with an objective to engage readers in a dialogue on the critical issues of our time and the ideas that drive...

Surviving Judgement Day is an inspiring memoir about Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen and her upbringing in Somalia. It is a story of growing up in the turmoil of civil war.Qaali and her family flee in all directions as the war breaks out, and she quickly learns...

The Columbus Affair engages in the intellectual, crisscrossing zigzag of a quagmire that is the Columbus Affair and hence demonstrates the major complexities of such argumentation. The goal, modest it may seem, is to examine aspects of each side, with...

Saints and heroes of the LGBTQ community come alive through bold artwork in "Heavenly Homos, Etc" by Dutch priest Jan Haen. He paints diverse people of faith, courage, and love who can inspire readers with new models of queer holiness. The clear, concise...

What masterpieces dwell within you? Despite what your 3rd-grade teacher may have said, YOU are a "creative type," and your unique creations are desperately needed in the world. But what should be the easiest thing in the world -- being our authentic...

Si está buscando una fascinante colección de mitos mayas, siga leyendo...Desde las fantásticas hazañas de los héroes gemelos, a las historias de cómo surgió el mundo, a los cuentos populares sobre personas, animales y seres sobrenaturales, la mitología...

Cuarta manuscritos en un libroMitología Maya: Fascinantes mitos mayas sobre los dioses, diosas y criaturas legendariasMitología azteca: Mitos fascinantes aztecas de los dioses, diosas y criaturas legendariasMitología Inca: Mitos fascinantes incas sobre...

A breeze from deep in the White Mountains reveals my intended female's sweet scent after years of giving up hope another dragonblood walks the earth. I soar through the skies in dragon form, intent on claiming my destiny. I find her camping in the...

Whether you win or lose in life, staying humble is the way to be!  Humble Me is a rhyming story which teaches children to remain humble during all activities, while still celebrating small victories. Emphasizing the idea that people come in all...

Trientrepreneur Magazine is a magazine for the modern entrepreneur. It features articles on growing your business, as well as editorials and other things tossed in. Our first edition includes classic recipes and those from our travels that are sure to...

Loss is always difficult to bear, but compound loss has a crippling effect that is hard to explain. Following the passing of her maternal grandmother, Cashe experiences a series of events that test her faith, patience and wellbeing. In a posthumous...

We're trapped with a starving, insane monster.An emergency measure ensures that no one can enter or leave the pocket dimension that holds Cerris City. Everyone I love and care about is stuck in the city with me.The time has come to fulfill my friend's...

It's time I wise up, before I'm buried in an early grave. Avenging my friend has never seemed more difficult.Things aren't as they seem on campus. The killer picking off students wears a familiar face, but more sinister forces are at work while he...

I didn't know I was a witch until a pair of cats started talking to me and I received an official summons to report to a training school for my supernatural abilities.That's when I'm shipped off to a highly esteemed university for the supernatural,...

No mid-life adult wants to be an Octogenarian. But-if they think of the alternative-they all want one day to become one. As people approach their senior years, that hope strengthens as they realize only 5% to 15% of their life remains-if they're lucky...

Just when things aboard the Dreadnaught have settled down to relative harmony among the crew, and the goal of finding a place to call home in Alaska seems within reach-the unthinkable happens. Now, Stella Madison and friends must discover if they have...

According to Yankee historians Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a vicious redneck who detested blacks, beat his slaves, refused to fight alongside African-Americans, killed black Union soldiers on sight, committed a racist massacre at the...

Woman of Many Names is a deeper look into a woman who helped shaped the history of our Nation. Nancy Ward had ties to Daniel Boone and George Washington, including having saved the latter’s life (and, it’s believed, vice versa). (A letter...

At twenty-one, Nicole joins the Navy and excels through basic training and the rigors of firefighting school. She even proves herself a real-life G.I. Jane by passing every arduous physical and mental text for qualification into the...

An intimate portrait of the life of a black man who lived from just after emancipation to the boycotts and sit-ins of the 1950s and 1960s — this book not only tells of his journey from the farm to a leadership position in the black middle class, it...

Family literacy initiatives are ubiquitous in the U.S., Canada and many countries in Europe, and in many economically advantaged countries family literacy programs are available for refugees and economic migrants, especially mothers and children learning...

Former Alaska newspaper reporter Betsy Longenbaugh brings to life 10 stories of murder that occurred between 1902 and 1959. Learn about Alaska's first serial killer, a Polish Jewish prostitute who met her end in the town of Douglas, and a World War I vet...

In the fall of 1944, Constance and Harmon "Bud" Helmericks built a cabin and overwintered in Alaska's remote Brooks Range. With spring melt, they resumed their odyssey north, intent on crossing the Continental Divide to explore the arctic barrens beyond...

Asperger's on the Inside is an acutely honest and often highly entertaining memoir by Michelle Vines about life with Asperger's Syndrome. The book follows Michelle in exploring her past and takes the reader with her on her journey to receiving and...

The Injustice of Justice is a purposeful book designed to introduce the public as well as the profession to an alternate method of policing with a whole-community and responsibility-based approach. Don has written the book from the perspective of a...

The mood and scope of the whole are sounded in Part I, The New Odysseus, a series of twenty linked poems,where a somewhat weary new Odysseus invokes his legendary adventures and various gods as he wandersboth in the Tacoma present and yet in other lands...

Beyond Breathing is a story of a mother's loss of her 13 year old daughter, Jena, to Cystic Fibrosis, a fatal genetic disease. Her journey takes you from unfathomable heartache to love and understanding of life's realities. Through her journey she learns...

At an early age, award-winning travel writer, Mark Chesnut, learned to dodge discomfort by jumping on the nearest plane, bus or car. That tactic proved especially useful when his single mother made it clear that there was no room for discussion about his...

Keeping children's bodies, minds and emotions on task just got easier with this new book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies features more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies and...

Starting out in life as the only African-American in an Irish community, the Marvelous Misadventures of Mystic Mel began.  Circumstances such as being in a diving plane with an unconscious pilot, to finding himself in an anxious situation at a...

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies have been a central pillar of attempts to overcome the economic legacy of apartheid. Yet, more than two decades into democracy, economic exclusion in South Africa still largely reflects the fault-lines of the...

1860 - In a small town on Lake Ontario, at a time when an affluent young girl is forbidden to have any ambition of her own, Sarah defies her social-climbing mother to marry Joe, the Scottish farmer she loves, convinced he is the only man willing to help...

Francisco, No El Santo es una historia verdadera del triunfo de una familia sobre la adversidad durante la Gran Depresión y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Es una parte importante de la Historia. También es una historia hipnotizante de una madre maravillosa...

Noriaki Osada, teacher and philosopher, wrote the Theory of International Physical Education and Sports Studies for the Achievement of Peace with "three bold intentions" in mind: to awaken the physical education and sports scholars of the world to their...

The title says it all. A collection of close to two hundred exposes and analyses of everyday sexist shit (and gender shit, since gender is aligned with sex) that pisses me off. Includes pieces previously published in The Philosophers' Magazine,...

Are you frustrated with the standard of care that people with disability often endure? Are you concerned about the way your family member is being supported, and you want to make their lives better?In The Power of Interactive Care, Julienne outlines 8...

Are you feeling totally overwhelmed by motherhood?Do you feel like you are on an emotional rollercoaster?Would you like to find ways to bring the joy back into motherhood?After years of counselling mothers and a recent research project, Cindy...

Dream of Flying Flowers is a beautifully written coming-of-age novel. It tells the story ot 15-year-old Lin Sen (Lin being the surname), a high school student from rural China. Bitterly disappointed about his life, family and the whole society, Lin...

Disaster: Recovery is a down-to-earth book that explains how you and your family can cope during and particularly after disasters such as floods, bushfires and typhoons that can and do happen (not just may happen) around the world at any time. It is one...

"From Wheels to Code: How AI is Shaping the Future of Mobility" takes readers on a compelling journey through the history and future of transportation. From the invention of the wheel to the rise of artificial intelligence, this book explores how...

Paperback 188 pagesPublished in 2010In 2009 Australia's leading Italian-language newspaper II Globo marks 50 years of publication. II Globo began in Melbourne as a weekly broadsheet on 4 November 1959 under the leadership of...

He hands me a note across the table.Please don't be disappointed. This doesn't change who I am.I look at him confused and he says, "I'm transgender.'This is a story about survival that is raw and uninhibited. It is a true story of heartbreak and grief,...

The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. As Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry. When teenagers they'd been jailed for being black...