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Author: Danika Stone
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250221668
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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An epic YA adventure story about two friends lost in the Canadian wilderness from Danika Stone, the author of All the Feels. Vale loves to hike, but kind of hates her classmates. Ash is okay with his classmates, but kind of hates the outdoors. So, needless to say they are both fairly certain that the overnight nature hike with their PE class is going to be a hellish experience. But when they get separated from the group during a storm, they have worse things to worry about than bullies and blisters. Lost in the Canadian wilderness with limited supplies, caught in dangerous weather conditions, and surrounded by deadly wildlife, it's going to take every bit of strength, skill, and luck they can muster to survive. Chosen as one of the best young adult books of 2019 by the Canadian Children's Book Centre (Fall 2019 edition) Praise for Danika Stone: "An enjoyable, fast-paced read." — School Library Journal on Internet Famous "The book is a dream. I loved absolutely everything about it. ... From the chapter headers to every mention of nerd culture, All the Feels is a blast!" —Seeking Book Boyfriends on All the Feels

Author: Jenn Marie Nunes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986187605
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. Jenn Marie Nunes writes the body, but does not right it. Hers are not corrective gestures, but gestures that seek to trouble the very notion of 'correct.' In the performative AND/OR, the text, like a body, breaks. The text, like a noncommittal lover, breaks off. An abject poetry of footnotes: that which is expelled, though still bound to the body--the textual body disrupted and repositioned. As AND/OR suggests, we are both chef and meal. Here, partial, we are becoming-whole in our rejection of wholeness--repeating, 'There are things I take into my body to whole me.' Being held by a word versus being held up by a word. A comfort or (and) a violence. Here, language changes us, plumps us up, makes us ready for our own devouring: As a reader, one can say with Nunes, 'words make me meat, ' and we, like her poetry, are sinewy and delicious.--Kristi Maxwell Jenn Marie Nunes's AND/OR flings us headlong into the forward slash. We tip and teeter, clipped mid-parenthetical, balanced on the edge of an incomplete definition. When we look down we see multiple referents in the footnotes, or a replacement, or a 'rephrasing synonym.' Gender languages itself on this precarious divide--'When I thought no difference between men & women'--while language genders the body/text at this jagged rift--'My problem then its twoness.' Whether held as two opposing ideas, or taken into the body simultaneously [fe/male, or sex/gender, or love/sex, or s/he, or w/hole, or t/here, or human/animal], Nunes consumes duality with patterns of interchange. What is interchangeable? What can be interchanged? In its decomposition the gap becomes unexpectedly whole.--Jai Arun Ravine Nunes's archive subverts and queers popular affectations of spoken gender, and haunts. Like encountering a gallery of arteries framed by the body, and wearing John Berger's vagina as glasses, these poems--tandem voices--are a mesmerizing lens for a new way of seeing. AND/OR is like looking in the mirror and not feeling ashamed. One of those pocket-sized mirrors perfect for squatting over with your pants off.--Kim Gek Lin Short With humor and a sharp critical eye, Jenn Marie Nunes's AND/OR interrogates the line between the erotic and the perverse, as any sex literature worth anything should. Nunes's sex, however, is not so simple as a lingering orifice or a searching phallus, nor is it stably situated in the partitioned body's anatomy. Instead, AND/OR offers a beautiful anxiety that calls to mind the long moment before the revelation in Barthes's paradox of the striptease, before all is settled, when the erotic lingers in its inexhaustible space of indecision. This is simply a stunning, necessarily complex debut collection of poems by Jenn Marie Nunes that will pull you like a hand you court to stroke your neck.--Dawn Lundy Martin

Author: Marisa Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986187643
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. "Rarely am I so submerged in the details of a poet's mind and world as I am with Marisa Crawford's work. It's bright and glitter roll-on scented, with a pitch-perfect 90s soundtrack. It's nostalgic, dark, surprising yet warmly familiar. I mourn for the girlhood of this book. In REVERSIBLE, Crawford has created an incredibly moving and vivid archive of growing up--part monologue, part lyric, part ethnography--distinct, striking, tender, and enchanting."--Morgan Parker "Marisa Crawford's poems give me a kind of ecstatic pleasure, as all the sensory and social strangeness of 90s youth come flooding back. I will never understand how she can remember all these details and evoke them with such feeling--she must have an off-the-charts EQ, and also an off-the- charts whatever the 'Q' is that measures the ability to remember every outfit you ever wore. 'E' is also for empathy: in Crawford's poems, everything that happens to her friends happens to her. And then I'm in their glow, and everything that happened to Crawford and her friends happens to me. Her poems also know, better than any I've ever read, that fashion is imagery; ditto for friendships and stickers and backyard pools and the things girls do to their bodies in their bedrooms late at night. It doesn't matter that the box of old cassette tapes that you hope will be in your parents' basement might not be findable: all we want to do is go searching alongside her, following her flashlight beam as it lights up the feelings inside the objects we put away or gave away or forgot we ever had."--Becca Klaver "Dear M,

Author: Melissa F. Olson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0765398273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The gritty urban fantasy series continues as Chicago agents investigate the disappearance of a suspected vampire in a bloody jailbreak. Three weeks after the events of Nightshades, things are finally beginning to settle for Chicago’s Bureau of Preternatural Investigations. But the brief respite from the horror of the previous few weeks was never destined to last. The team gets a call from Switch Creek, IL, where a young man has been arrested on suspicion of being a shade. The suspect is held overnight, pending DNA testing—only to disappear in a terrifying massacre. But is there more to the jailbreak than a simple quest for freedom?

Author: Sid Marty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0771056702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued between rounds of beer in a Banff tavern; the man who catered to hungry grizzlies; an opinionated packrat with a gift for larceny; and a horse named Candy whose heart was as big as a stove. Along the way, Marty tries to answer the kind of questions that all of us must face some day. Do we really have to “grow up” and abandon adventure as well as youthful ideals? Can the mountains draw old friends back together, when politics and life styles have set them apart? Sid Marty writes gracefully of the land he loves and lampoons a few bureaucrats whose policies sometimes threaten its integrity. His portraits of the people – and creatures – that make their lives in the mountains are affectionate and respectful. But, above all, this is a collection of engaging, surprising, funny, and superbly told true stories by a gifted writer.

Author: S. W. Andersen
Publisher: S.W. Andersen Books
ISBN: 9780999061619
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Sierra Cody is on fire. A rising star in women's professional downhill mountain bike racing, she has all the tools to become a world champion. All she needs to do is fully commit herself. Something far easier said than done. As stubborn as she is independent, Sierra has always carved her own path, refusing to fall in line with the controlling, commercialized aspects of the sport. Her trademark no-holds-barred, reckless style of riding has earned her as many cheers as it has jeers. Dr. Kara Davies, a highly regarded and accomplished physician, is well on her way to achieving her dreams in chiropractic research. Commitment to her goals has never been an issue, but her personal life is a different story. Preferring the comfort and safety of her lab over personal relationships, Kara's one-track mind allows no deviation. But life is full of twists and turns. After an accident on the track lands Sierra in Kara's on-site medical center, the doctor suddenly finds she has more on her mind that work. Blindsided by mutual attraction, Sierra and Kara struggle to accept their feelings for each other and to deal with the change it brings. Will love be enough? Or will life's little switchbacks send them both careening off course?

Author: Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Publisher: Skipjack Publishing
ISBN: 9781950637362
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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TAKEN meets LONGMIRE. A doctor with a taste for adventure. A doomed mountain vacation with his family. In the midst of a million acres of wilderness, Patrick Flint is about to discover that not everybody loves the new town doc. All Patrick Flint wants is a peaceful getaway in the Wyoming mountains for his rare days off. He's grown weary of the bicentennial celebrations, the angry families of patients, the rash of campers coming down from the mountains high on speed, and the midnight call-outs to cover for the town veterinarian. When his wife Susanne balks at the trip just as they're walking out the door-leaving him to go it alone with his lovestruck teenage daughter Trish and eager-but-adolescent son Perry-Patrick is wounded but determined, despite the news of a murderer escaping custody on the other side of the mountains. After two days of rain-soaked horseback riding to hunt and fish, Patrick's gotten nothing but weird encounters, wet socks, and a whiny daughter. So, on the third day, when Trish begs to stay behind at their campsite to read, Patrick is secretly relieved. Meanwhile back in town, Susanne's had a rough time of it herself. A break-in, a wreck, and a premonition that something is terribly wrong with her family. Unable to ignore her growing fears, she enlists the help of a Wyoming-tough neighbor, and the two women make for the mountains. When Patrick and Perry return to camp, Trish has vanished, along with the horses, the truck, and the trailer. Clues point in opposite directions. Did she run off with the boy whose note Patrick found at the camp? Or was she taken-as the tire marks over their destroyed tent suggest? Whichever it was, the tracks lead into the mountains, not out of them. With help too far away to make it before Trish's trail is washed away, Patrick and Perry embark on a desperate trek into the wilderness to find her, with Susanne not far behind them.

Author: Kristen Case
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986187650
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Poetry. Women's Studies. PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS is a series of interconnected elegies for the poet's former partner and her father, who died within 6 months of each other. The elegies engage other texts, including The Iliad, Chopin's Ballades, Shakespeare's sonnet 15, Milton's Paradise Lost and an economics textbook, as they seek to sound out routes between the present and the past. The book's central interest in music is derived from the sense that musical structure is above all else a way of manipulating our experience of time. In the inchoation central to grief, these poems find possibilities for living in a changed time, a present overlaid with or in counterpoint to the past: a thicker time, in which the dead also are.

Author: Brock Cannon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519396914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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What if there was a simple and practical approach to reaching all your life's goals and dreams? What if the approach to tackling your life's most challenging goals was more painless than you actually thought? What if you could rapidly reach the top of your mountain of success in business, health and relationships? After being hit by a car and severely injured, jobless, and hopeless, River is inspired by a wise yogi to abandon his old life in the big city and seek a new one. He heads across the country with the intention of seeing the great Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone, and the beauties of the Western U.S. What he finds, are three powerful teachers and a surprising way of life to painlessly achieve everything he's ever wanted. This unconventional approach is called, The Switchback Approach. As you come on this amazing journey, you'll learn the extraordinary step by step processes to achieve all of your own life aspirations painlessly. The Switchback Approach: A Story About How To Painlessly Achieve your Goals. SCROLL UP AND ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.

Author: Andrew S. Crouch
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654698
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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With wit, enthusiasm, and a deep respect for the craft of brewing, Crouch profiles nearly 100 establishments in New England, offering insights into each brewmaster's philosophy and brewing style. 156 halftones.