![]() Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex relationship that “dog lovers will savor and absorb” ( Shelf Awareness).Īs Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. ![]() ![]() We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, “entertaining, and enlightening” ( BookPage) celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around. Try as he might, he can't forget what they once did to him. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. ![]() But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Īna da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. ![]() Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Isabelle gets involved with the one man who could destroy Spares, Fallon must decide between protecting his life's work-or risking everything to save the woman whose warm smile leaves him breathless. As head of the secretive Spare Heirs Society, he must stick to the shadows.even as Isabelle's friendship pulls him reluctantly into the light. ![]() James is the farthest thing from perfectly anything. He must be a talented dancer, have a keen fashion sense, and be perfectly dashing in every way. James: The Mastermind When the love of Lady Isabelle Fairlyn's life is betrothed to her twin sister, Isabelle vows to find a suitable replacement before the end of the season. "Historical romance devotees will enjoy Michels's adoring use of some of the classic tropes of the genre - the spare heir, the wrong brother as hero, the heroine in men's clothing - but what makes the book so enjoyable is the way Michels makes the familiar fresh." - SARAH MACLEAN, The Washington Post for The Infamous Heir The Spare Heirs Society Cordially Invites You to Meet Fallon St. ![]() ![]() What is the primary danger of the Colorado no longer being a river that reaches the sea? What effects are we seeing? Also, since I started raising children in Colorado several years ago, I have grown increasingly concerned what kind of future the west and future generations will face with diminishing water resources. My enchantment with that body of water, and news that the river that fed the sea stopped running in 1998, compelled me to put together another trip that would allow me to link the 800-mile Baja coastline with the 1,450-mile river. I took a sea kayaking journey down the length of the Sea of Cortez in 1993 and began paddling a bit south of the Colorado River Delta. ![]() What was the impetus behind a trip that started in your backyard? Both illustrate the sad state of the river, which no longer reaches the sea, as well as illuminate the looming water crisis facing a rapidly urbanizing West. His latest projects, the narrative book Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River and The Colorado River Flowing through Conflict, a collaboration with photographer Pete McBride, hit close to home. ![]() The Carbondale resident has become the foremost advocate for expedition as a means of activism, combining history, ecology, adventure and politics in his lifework to craft stories that make real-world impact. Jonathan Waterman has summited Denali in –70˚ winter temperatures and paddled the Northwest Passage solo, yet he is more than an adventurer. ![]() “Trespassing” under barbed wire on the Colorado headwaters. ![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel was The Lasko Tangent and in 1979 won an Edgar Allen Poe Award. He has studied with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama Birmingham to learn more about fiction writing. He left the firm in 1993 so that he could devote his focus to writing. Richard North Patterson was a practicing member of the San Francisco office of the firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, and Enerson. He was an assistant Attorney General for Ohio State and worked for the Securities & Exchange Commission in San Francisco and Washington D.C. ![]() The Case Western Reserve University awarded him the University President’s Award For Distinguished Alumni and the President’s Award For Excellence as well. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1971. He was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Citation by that university and also received the Alumni Achievement Award from his fraternity. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1968. Richard North Patterson is an American #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of many serious novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() James Bond, freshly sunburned from a recent vacation down south somewhere near the equator, is completing target practice before he takes a lift to the eighth floor of MI6 where he is greeted by his motherly secretary Loelia “Li” Ponsonby (she hates to be called “Lil” by Bond). One of my favorite parts of this book occurs at the beginning, as Ian Fleming paints a colorful portrait of daily life inside the Secret Service. ![]() In it, we return to the thrill of high-stakes card games a la Casino Royale, and from there an investigation leads to the cliffs of Dover, a high-speed chase in London, and finally an experimental rocket launch. This wonderful tale is a drastic step up from the previous outing Live and Let Die. Whereas other 007 adventures take us across the world to various exotic locales, Moonraker remains grounded entirely in England. The third novel in Ian Fleming’s original James Bond series, Moonraker, offers a unique story –one that shares very little in common with the silly 1979 Eon film of the same name. ![]() ![]() In fact, never in my life have I come across a book this boring in all the realms of fiction. ![]() If you somehow liked the sound of any of the above, Sufficiently Advanced Magic is still not the book for you. Or maybe imagine that Harry was an obsessive journaler who recorded his every last thought, no matter how irrelevant or unimportant. Imagine the entirety of Advanced Potion Making typed out into the middle of Half Blood Prince. Imagine Harry Potter, except with every professor’s every lecture transcribed word for word. Corin is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goals, but once inside the tower, things do not go as planned at all. And third, he needs to find out what happened to his brother, Tristan, after he disappeared in the Tower years ago. ![]() ![]() Second, he needs to obtain a Combat Attunement so he can uphold his family’s proud duelling tradition. Synopsis: Corin Cadence has a lot riding on his judgement trial in the Tower. Cover Art for Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |a The Odyssey / |c Homer translated by Emily Wilson. Modern and pleasing to the ear while accurately reflecting the meaning of the original, this Odyssey is a superlative translation for twenty-first-century readers. This volume also includes illustrations from classical artwork, detailed maps, explanatory notes, a timeline, and a glossary. Due to his thorough familiarity with the world of Homer and Homeric language, Powell's introduction provides rich historical and literary perspectives on the poem. Powell's translation deftly captures the most essential truths of this vital text. By avoiding the technical formality of earlier translations, and the colloquial and sometimes exaggerated effects of recent attempts, Barry B. This lively free verse translation, from one of today's leading Homeric scholars, preserves the clarity and simplicity of the original while conveying Odysseus' adventures in a modern style. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across many different cultures. Odysseus-soldier, sailor, trickster, and everyman-is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruiz writes in easy-to-grasp language (I think the biggest word I came across was “transcendence”, so no, you won’t need a dictionary close by for this one), but challenges you with simple yet profound truths.Ī Toltec healer with a discerning grasp of the spiritual and deep, peaceful insight into life and humanity, Ruiz gracefully and compassionately takes his readers through their wounds and guides them as they learn how to cleanse and heal them. In all honesty, the only reason I bought it was because I was drawn by the title.īut just as in Ruiz’s other popular book, I was led into a wise understanding of life and love and how to walk peacefully and contentedly in both.Īlso, as a former codependent, this was just one more book that taught me how not to be. I read this amazing book after reading The Four Agreements. The Mastery of Love ReviewĪnyone ever tell you that love is like a magical kitchen? Note: This The Mastery of Love summary is part of an ongoing project to summarise the Best Relationship Books and Best Self Help Books of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s been able to pen a remarkable amount of novels in her time writing. ![]() Susan Page Davis is an American author of fiction. The Thousand Stories Quilt (By:Jo Ann Brown) The House on Lookout Mountain (By:Jo Ann Brown) Basham)Ī Quilt of Memories (By:Kristin Eckhardt) My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge: Laurel's Dream (By:Pepper D. 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