The Curse of Moose Lake
The Curse of Moose Lake

Author: Bethany Helwig

Publisher: Brightway Books

Published: 2019-03-31

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781946639219

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Phoenix and her brother Hawk are professional monster hunters--well, nearly. Still in training with the International Monster Slayers, a secret government agency that both defends and hunts mythical creatures, they are sent on their first real mission to prove their worth. When things go awry and the IMS is nearly exposed, their future as agents looks grim. Given one last chance for redemption, the duo are sent to Moose Lake, Minnesota where there's a docile population of werewolves to keep in check. Their assignment is supposed to be dull, but Moose Lake ends up being anything but boring. When a mysterious black wolf appears and the werewolves under their charge start to become aggressive, they must uncover the city's dark secret if they are to save not only the citizens but themselves.

The Curse of the Tribe
The Curse of the Tribe

Author: Jerry L. Maurer

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1665704306

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A twenty-first century adventurer passes through a portal in the time/space continuum and is thrust into the sixteenth century before the coming of the Europeans. He finds himself in the Southwest amongst a tribe of hunter-gatherers on the brink of extinction. They call him “Chee.” A young girl, born with a deformity, was declared to be a curse. The superstitions of the tribe required that she be cast out to die of exposure, starvation, or under the fangs of some beast, but she somehow survived. This little forest waif’s indomitable spirit and determined courage compel her to seek love, acceptance, and a family. Chee gathers a group of young people who were willing to fight for survival. There are sisters, whose family was captured or killed. There is also a trio of young men, still in their teens, gradually emerging as skilled hunters and valiant warriors. With Chee’s help, can they bring hope to the tribe and stop the downward spiral to destruction? Can they bring love to the “curse of the tribe” who had despaired of ever finding a family?

Extracting Home in the Oil Sands
Extracting Home in the Oil Sands

Author: Clinton Westman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1351127446

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The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution. This volume engages ethnographically with key issues concerning the oil sands by working from anthropological literature and beyond to explore how people struggle to make and hold on to diverse senses of home in the region. The contributors draw on diverse fieldwork experiences with communities in Alberta that are affected by the oil sands industry. Through a series of case studies, they illuminate the complexities inherent in the entanglements of race, class, Indigeneity, gender, and ontological concerns in a regional context characterized by extreme extraction. The chapters are unified in a common concern for ethnographically theorizing settler colonialism, sentient landscapes, and multispecies relations within a critical political ecology framework and by the prominent role that extractive industries play in shaping new relations between Indigenous Peoples, the state, newcomers, corporations, plants, animals, and the land.