Protecting Macy
Protecting Macy

Author: C M Steele

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781076401403

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She was running from her past. He was unsure of his future. Richer than sin, Sean Cavanaugh had it all, and yet, he chased the dream of being a homicide detective like his father had been. When merit and effort failed, he decided to change his path. He had one last day on the job... Macy Garcia lived in a trailer park with dreams of getting out. All her life she's wanted a bit of security and peace-doing everything she can to find it-until a little bit of speeding gets her into a world of trouble. Like many high-speed chases, this one ended with a crash. Their worlds collide and it's an explosion neither was prepared for. Could Macy get away or would Sean catch her? Would she even want to run? Would he let her try? This novel filled with romance, passion, and danger. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

Active Hope (revised)
Active Hope (revised)

Author: Joanna Macy

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2022-06-22

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1608687112

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The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

Factory Man
Factory Man

Author: Beth Macy

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0316231568

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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

Truevine
Truevine

Author: Beth Macy

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0316337560

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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

His Unexpected Return
His Unexpected Return

Author: Jessica Keller

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1488043124

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In this inspirational romance, a prodigal son returns to his Texas hometown to find forgiveness from the woman he left behind and discovers he’s a father. He knew he’d have to make amends . . . but never expected he had a daughter at Red Dog Ranch. Five years after being declared dead, Wade Jarrett steps onto his family’s Texas ranch looking for forgiveness. Instead he finds the woman he can’t forget—and the daughter he never knew. But with a secret of his own looming, can the former bad boy convince Cassidy Danvers he’s ready for the new roles of daddy and husband?

Bob Macy
Bob Macy

Author: Pat McGuigan

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1613463723

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There are not many people in Oklahoma County who do not know who Bob Macy is. A lot of people know of Bob Macy as the white-haired gentleman who wore a western-style string bow tie who sent a lot of people to prison. Others may have thought of Bob Macy as their hero, the man who protected them and their families from the murderers, the rapists, and the robbers. During the 1980s, people knew there were a large number of vicious crimes happening in Oklahoma City and that Bob Macy was their guy to clean house. On the other hand, not many people know that Bob Macy was a football player, a police officer, a cattle raiser, and a Washington, D.C., bureaucrat. Bob Macy: The Man behind the String Tie is a journey into the life of Bob Macy, encompassing his life before his career in the law, his time spent with the federal government, the saga of his term as Oklahoma County District Attorney, and his relations with the community outside of the courthouse. This is an engaging illustration of The Man behind the String Tie.

Northern Rebel
Northern Rebel

Author: Jennifer Labrecque

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0373797524

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Midnight special: Somewhere on the train is a key witness to a high-profile crime...and reporter Marni Clare will do whatever it takes to get the story. Crashing in a sleeper car - she wakes to find herself curled up with the man she's seeking...and he's hot enough to derail all her plans! FBI special agent Hunter won't complain about the beautiful blonde in his arms. And maybe it's the medication he's on, but he's even agreed to share his room for the entire journey with her.

Executing Freedom
Executing Freedom

Author: Daniel LaChance

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-02-09

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 022658318X

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In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States.

Lawman Lover
Lawman Lover

Author: Lisa Childs

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0373696051

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DEA agent Rowe Cusack must fake his own death, in doing so he meets mortician Macy Kleyn and has to take her on the run with him and try to keep from falling in love.