"He has spent nearly three decades studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers, who survive at the margins of the vast, fertile lands occupied by farming peoples and their descendants, now the great majority of the world's population. In material terms, the hunters have been all but vanquished, yet in this profound and passionate book, Brody utterly dispels the notion that theirs is a lesser way of life."--Jacket.
“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante, obsession, and muse over the years as he writes to her of his friendship with the aspiring politician Abraham Lincoln, his encounter with the young newspaperman Samuel Clemens, and his crisis of conscience concerning the radical abolitionist John Brown. Bearing the standard of God and country through the Mexican War and the Mormon Rebellion, Robert seeks to lessen his loneliness while his faith is eroded by the violence he observes and ultimately commits. Emily, however, remains as elusive as her verse on his rare visits to Amherst and denies him solace, a rejection that will culminate in a startling epiphany at the very heart of his despair. Powerfully evocative of Emily Dickinson’s life, times, and artistry, this fifth stand-alone book in The American Novels series captures a nation riven by conflicts that continue to this day. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.
Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant scientist Aaron Al-Baz saved a pocket of civilization by designing the EcoPanopticon, a massive computer program that hijacked all global technology and put it to use preserving the last vestiges of mankind. Humans will wait for thousands of years in Eden until the EcoPan heals the world. As an illegal second child, Rowan has been hidden away in her family's compound for sixteen years. Now, desperate to see the world, she recklessly escapes for what she swears will be only one night of adventure. Though she finds an exotic world, and even a friend, the night leads to tragedy. Soon Rowan becomes a renegade on the run. The first novel from YouTube superstar Joey Graceffa, Children of Eden is a thrilling and completely absorbing new book from one of social media’s brightest young storytellers.
Miranda approaches her twenty-seventh birthday determined to reinvent her life and settle down, but Joseph North, the chief of police in Abingdon, Virginia, becomes suspicious of her after finding a baby picture of his niece in her possession.
In A Second Chance Series, you’ll meet Marissa, Julia, Sydney, and Eden, four college friends who, twenty-five years later, renew their friendships as they find themselves empty nesters and single again. You’ll love getting to know these women as a group and individually, as you follow each one in her own book. You’ll join each woman in her challenges, triumphs, love stories, and even secrets. Marissa Rewritten (A Novella: Book 1) Author Marissa Thompson has had writer’s block since her husband died almost two years earlier. Both her career and her historic Raleigh home hang by a thread. Prodded by desperation, she heads to Wilmington, North Carolina for a Civil War research trip, hoping for inspiration for a new historical series. Everything begins as planned until she encounters a man with common ground and a quest of his own. Julia Redesigned (Second Chance Series Book 2) Following the death of her mother, Julia De Luca discovers decades-old letters from distant relatives in Italy—the only family she has left on earth. Could the letters hold clues to why those relationships ended abruptly when she was ten years old? She longs to reconnect with her family, but how can she after nearly four decades? Her compelling desire to locate them leads Julia on an impulsive trip to Florence, Italy. There she discovers love and the challenges of a renewed Italian family. Sydney Rewound (Second Chance Series Book 3) Sydney Bennett is a frazzled high-school teacher and a single parent of a teenager. Her life is anything but calm, but one ordinary day, an unexpected incident triggers the memory of a past secret even her closest girlfriends don’t know. Her quest for closure leads her back to her hometown for the summer. She never expects to run into the man who broke her teenage heart decades earlier, nor the power of grace and new beginnings. Eden Redefined (Second Chance Series Book 4) Eden Godfrey has been a widow too long. Or so her friends tell her. Her brief stint with online dating didn’t end so well. Eden turns her attention to a more pressing objective. Having sold the family business, she wants to find a bigger story where she can help people in need. To accomplish this, she returns to college to complete her degree. Along with stumbling across the man she regretted pushing away, she discovers a suspicious scheme that threatens to derail her dreams once again. Get all 4 books in one eBook, the whole series!
