Author: Gary Snyder [Snyder, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2009-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

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This collection of essays by Gary Snyder, now in paperback, blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, Snyder employs fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences, and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics, from our sense of place and a need to review forestry practices, to the writing life and Eastern thought. Surveying the current wisdom that fires are in some cases necessary for ecosystems of the wild, he contemplates the evolution of his view on the practice, while exploring its larger repercussions on our perceptions of nature and the great landscapes of the West. These pieces include recollections of his boyhood, his involvement with the literary community of the Bay Area, his travels to Japan, as well as his thoughts on American culture today. All maintain Snyder's reputation as an intellect to be reckoned with, while often revealing him at his most emotionally vulnerable. The final impression is holistic: We perceive not a collection of essays, but a cohesive presentation of Snyder's life and work expressed in his characteristically straightforward prose.

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Author: Alexa Riley
Format: pdf
Tags: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Erotica
Publisher: Alexa Riley
Published: 2024-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

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It’s Mia Kennedy’s first day working at Bellevue Asylum and she couldn’t be more excited to begin her nursing career. If only she knew that the man she should be most afraid of would turn out to be the one she couldn’t let go.

Jamison Coy has been shut away for ten years in the asylum with no hope of escape. He never cared about leaving until he saw her. Now all his thoughts are consumed with Mia and how he can have her all to himself.

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Author: Eden Royce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2024-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

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The Walter Award Honor–winning author of Root Magic returns with a terrifying story in the Southern Gothic tradition, inspired by the hoodoo practice of hair burning.

At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother’s feet while she braids his Afro down. But that’s a memory from before. Before his mom died in a tragic accident. Before he was taken in by an aunt he barely knows. Before his aunt brought him to Dogwood House, the creepiest place Roddie has ever seen. It was his family’s home for over a hundred years. Now the house—abandoned and rotting, draped in Spanish moss that reminds him too much of hair—is his home too.

Aunt Angie has returned to South Carolina to take care of Roddie and reconnect with their family’s hoodoo roots. Roddie, however, can’t help but feel lost. His mom had never told him anything about hoodoo, Dogwood House, or their family. And as they set about fixing the house up, Roddie discovers that there is even more his mother never said. Like why she left home when she was seventeen, never to return. Or why she insisted Aunt Angie always wear her hair in locs. Or what she knew of the strange secrets hidden deep within Dogwood House—secrets that have awoken again, and are reaching out to Roddie…

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Author: Lola Gregory [Gregory, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lola Gregory
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Welcome to Bradley University.

King Spencer was content to play the rest of his college soccer days in peace without distractions from anything or anyone. Until he set his eyes on Lila Alexander. The one person he can’t seem to get out of his head, no matter how hard he tries. No matter how many times he pushes her away.

Lila was thoroughly content with her life as a student and part-time waitress until a chance interaction with Bradley University’s star forward upended all of her expectations. Being with King unlocks a part of herself she wasn’t aware of, which is why she keeps letting him back in—even when it starts taking a toll on her heart.

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Author: Kalani Shimizu [Kalani Shimizu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kalani Shimizu
Published: 2024-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

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With great power comes your past incarnations and future self playing chess with your existence.

Kylie Rae thought she was an average honors high school student but discovered during a life-threatening incident that she's the reincarnation of an ancient magic kingdom's crown princess. Now people she's never met want her dead, and she must learn how to survive in this new world while maintaining the façade that nothing's changed. Forget making A's, how will Kylie survive to the end of the year when she's constantly looking over her shoulder?

Riyati Rebirth is the first book of a contemporary new adult dark fantasy series that seeks to explore themes of identity, legacy, the greater good, and finding your own path in life; it includes multiple first person perspectives and queer representation, which will expand even further as the series continues! Please note that there are potentially triggering subjects discussed during this novel.

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Author: Charlee James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Shot during a mission and falling to what he thinks is his death, Branch has one regret….

Navy SEAL Hunter “Branch” Green has one goal when he leaves the military hospital—finally tell the pretty flight medic how he feels about her and her autistic teenage son. He’s played it safe for too long, but the mission to win her trust and her heart might be his most challenging yet.

After lifetime of being criticized and disappointed by her family who should have loved her, single mom Hannah Day is fiercely independent. Her walls have walls, and if her son needs anything or something needs doing, she relies only on herself. But the protective, handsome SEAL with a dimpled smile, who has a soft streak for her son a mile wide and a need to help others, is difficult to resist.

Hannah wants to stay strong, but when she’s summoned home to Texas for her youngest sister’s speedy, high society wedding, something feels off, even dangerous. Can she rely on Hunter’s help or will this be one more disappointment for Hannah and her son?

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Author: Mario Silva
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480840324
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2017-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

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In a collection of four stories, author Mario Silva offers an exploration of the furthest reaches of what it means to be human. These tales consider the things we do--and the things we are sometimes forced to do.

In "Galahad," Sir Galahad suddenly finds himself in a place that he finds difficult to understand. There he meets a young girl who teaches him not only the ways of the place but pushes his code of chivalry to the limit. In "The Letter," Jennifer Ashton is on her morning run when she finds a letter from her deceased husband; as she reads it, it gradually turns into regular garbage. She then begins receiving messages that seem to come from nowhere, pushing her to the edge of sanity. "Cigarette" tells the story of a man trapped in the zombie apocalypse who only wants to find his next smoke--no matter what. In "First Thought," a man traveling the world after humanity's end meets a young boy, and together they encounter unearthly creatures and spirits--one of whom challenges them to an unexpected game.

These four short stories examine the factors and habits that lead humanity both away from and toward redemption and forgiveness.

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Author: Juliana Stone [Stone, Juliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988474724
Publisher: Juliana Stone Publishing Inc

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Vivienne Bridgestone, the black sheep of the family, ran away from Montana at seventeen and didn’t stop until she landed in Alaska. A family torn apart and a broken heart kept her away, but now the past has come back to haunt her and only one man can fix what’s broken.

Will she finally surrender and let him?

Dallas Henhawk, foreman of the Triple B, runs the ranch with the same steeliness that’s in his veins. The kind that allowed his forefathers to survive in the wilderness when others didn’t. He’s never needed much and when the only woman who managed to poke a hole in his heart reappears, he’s not prepared. Suddenly he wants more. He wants her to stay.

Will their past allow it to happen?

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Author: C J Maust [Maust, C J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: selfpublishing.com
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

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How many lives can be lived in just one lifetime?

Edie has never had it easy. Neglected by her parents as a child, being widowed with two young girls at twenty-six, she’s had countless setbacks in forging stable relationships.

Despite her struggle and heartache, Edie loves like a girl who has never been hurt. From becoming a fisherman in the Everglades to an interior designer in Chicago and New York, Edie spends decades searching for ‘the one.’ Determined to find true love and raise strong, happy daughters, Edie’s unpredictable journey takes her through twenty romantic escapades.

Told through the eyes of her lifelong best friend, Jenny, this charming, tongue-in-cheek narrative spans a lifetime of love, loss, and sisterhood. Perfect for fans of humorous women’s fiction and family sagas, Twenty Lovers in my Hope Chest is a tragically fun read that will stick with you long after the last page is turned.

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Author: Frank Dravis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Six Factors Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

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The Matriarch, the second book in the Dianis, A World In Turmoil chronicles, centers on the protected planet of Dianis. In a sudden shift in federation policy, the planet is stripped of its cultural observers and control agents. A single team circumvents the withdrawal and stays behind. Dedication, friendship, and love motivate the members of the last Interspecies Development Branch team.

The disappearance of the IDB team has compelled the Matrincy, a council of sixthsense adepts, to intervene. In the absence of the IDB, Nordarken Mining secretly raids the planet in its quest for a critical resource needed in the Turboii War. Before his disappearance, Chief Inspector Achelous predicted Nordarken Mining, in the guise of independent extrasolars, would invade the planet.

The efforts to defend Dianis from mining corsairs have attracted the attention of the powerful Paleowrights, a major religious sect on the planet. The Paleowrights covet the technologies that Achelous illegally introduced to Dianis and have begun ransacking towns where he and his team are suspected to be. The people of Dianis are thus faced with two enemies, a galactic conglomerate intent on ravishing their resources, and the provincial Paleowrights intent on suppressing all forms of enlightenment.

Becoming aware of the cosmic turmoil that surrounds her lover Achelous, Marisa, a merchant princess, learns more of his secrets. He is not the simple Dianis trader he pretended to be but an undercover agent for a secret monitoring organization advanced hundreds of years ahead of her own. Marisa loves Achelous, their son, and her planet, but can she unravel the mystery of Achelous' disappearance in time to save him from Paleowright retribution? When Nordarken Mining comes who will stop them?

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