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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Here are three of Thoreau’s most famous talks brought together in one volume. “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” and “Wild Apples” are all autumn essays—contemplative, deliberate, and insightful. They are profound reflections on nature, beauty, and our place in the world. In 1862, during Thoreau’s last weeks, he received a request from The Atlantic Monthly’s new editor, James Fields, to submit some of his work. These three were all published that year, after his death

Searching for a better life for her family, Emma leaves Utah Territory for southern California. But her arrival in San Bernardino sparks its own brand of intrigue, the kind that could cost the young widow her children and her freedom. A handsome young Southerner, Jeff Townes, quickly sweeps Emma into a world of deceit and espionage. His plans to lead southern California out the Union at the cusp of the American Civil War leads to sedition and murder. Facing charges of treason, Emma must make an impossible choice—lose her family or secretly betray the man she loves.

Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions.

In Connecting to Source: A Path to Self-Discovery Through Verse, Linda invites listeners on a journey into their unconscious, a path to self-discovery that could uncover the truth of how they perceive love: What is it? Where is it? Is there a love frequency we can tune into? Can we move towards self love of our own being and the truth of whom we think we are by sitting on a meditation stool or attending yoga classes?

Il fut un temps très lointain, où les déités dites celtiques sélectionnèrent treize de leurs enfants nés de liaisons avec les humains ; les enfants des dieux. Treize femmes et hommes, puissants guerriers et mages de sang, qui consentirent tous à devenir les gardiens et protecteurs des trois mondes : celui de la Terre, les Sidhes, et le Royaume de la Mort.

Always apprehensive about working fire scenes, Tempe is called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a deadly blaze and sees her misgivings justified. The devastated building is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and Tempe becomes suspicious about the property’s ownership when she delves into its history. The pieces start falling into place strangely and quickly, and, sensing a good story, Tempe teams with a new ally, telejournalist Ivy Doyle.

Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.

The Spellers Guidebook is the first of its kind—a comprehensive guidebook that every family should take along for their Spelling journey. From the moment you first learn about spelled communication through working with a practitioner, developing fluency, and everything in between, this book serves as a blueprint to follow while you build the skills to spell openly with your child.

She will not be silenced! Brilliant, corseted, and haunted by spirits from the Borderlands, a young girl turns her back on the constrictions of Victorian society and strikes out on her own, becoming a mystic marriage counselor. Sharing what she views as essential sexual knowledge puts her in the crosshairs of Anthony Comstock, the nation’s Anti-Obscenity Postal Inspector. She vows to bring him down. He promises to silence her forever. With prison looming, Ida and her angel lover must prepare for a battle they may not be able to win.

CDC researcher Nadine Parker and her team are baffled. Lukas Behn’s daughter Kyndra has contracted a bizarre new virus that leaves her screaming in pain. But they can't identify any physical, biological source for that pain, not in Kyndra, nor in the dozens, then hundreds, and finally millions of children worldwide succumbing to the same virus. And no one seems to have made a connection between what's happening with the infected children and the events on a small coral reef in the South Pacific.

When Jackie is twenty-one, she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a dinner party in Georgetown. She is dreaming of France, of a life of freedom and adventure. She has won an internship at Vogue, and she thinks Kennedy is not her kind of adventure: “Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.” And yet there is his intelligence, his humor and drive, and the chemistry between them. He pursues her, then disappears, then pursues her again in a pattern of intimacy and distance.

Congresswoman Emma St. Claire of New Jersey ventures into deep water, when she attends a campaign fundraiser beyond the Florida Keys, where some of the country's most influential business leaders are in attendance. Things quickly go overboard, when one of those attendees is found dead in the turbulent waters of the Straits of Florida, the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Everybody aboard the mega yacht becomes a suspect, and Emma must fight upstream to navigate a public relations nightmare.

Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives, three friends decide that now they’re in their sixties, it’s time they finally did something for themselves! Swapping Christmas turkeys and BBC reruns for crystal waters, white sandy beaches and smooth golden rum, Anne, Jane and Kath throw caution (and tradition) to the wind as they set sail on a luxury two-week Christmas cruise around the Caribbean. Will the three friends find the comfort and joy they seek aboard the Diamond Star?

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees.

Dès ses premiers pas, Lili accumule boulettes, gaffes et situations rocambolesques. Ses mésaventures vous plongeront dans un mémorable bêtisier et feront ressurgir vos propres souvenirs.

Grace, a recovering sex addict, wakes one morning to find that she's become a viral sensation. Her life has been hacked, turned into a full-immersion virtual reality experience that perverts can inhabit for a few dollars. Powerless to keep strangers from getting their thrills reliving her life, fearing that her teenage son, Dylan, might stumble upon her explicit lifestream, Grace finds a shredder, an expert in the ways of the infinitely detailed Worldstream.

This is a collection of stories of murder, ghosts, and magical mysteries mixed with various kinds of love and obsession, dreams, and other realities...and a bit of erotica.

Femina: A Collection of Dark Fiction explores the horror of womanhood. Or, more accurately, the horror of gender norms and societal expectations placed on women. This collection features work that delves into themes of identity, motherhood, sexuality, and isolation. A mix of Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person and Other Stories and Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, this collection is a blend of psychological, supernatural, and body horror. Femina looks at the horror of being a woman in a man’s world.

This is the story of Morning Glory’s turn of the century kenbutsu—her travels—to America. Guided by her uncle, a Harvard graduate, Morning Glory travels at a time when most Americans know little or nothing about Japan, aside from the popular tunes of The Mikado (1885) and The Geisha (1896).

As the manager of Vino y Vida Wine Bar in Colinas, Cecelia "Cece" Barton's first Alexander Valley harvest is a whirlwind of activity. Her twin sister, Allie Halstead, who owns a nearby Victorian bed & breakfast, is accustomed to the hustle and bustle of peak tourist season. Just when it seems things can't grow any more intense, Colinas is rocked by a murder within the wine community . . . and Cece is identified as a possible suspect! With her reputation and her livelihood on the line—and the deputy sheriff breathing down her neck—Cece has no choice but to open up her own murder investigation.