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The Train Ride Begins the Adventure to the Candy Mountain Will and Quinn meet on the train. The adventure begins Are they really going to the Candy Mountain? Is it really made out of candy? Together there are decisions to make. Each one proves more mysterious than the next. What will they do when they have to choose? Come along and share the journey. Find your candy basket and decide what you would do "Follows a young boy as he embarks on a magical journey to Candy Ville. During his travels, he discovers how being a good and respectful person can really pay off."- Foreword Reviews"The message is clear: life is full of sweet offerings, but friendship and kindness are more important than sweet treats. One has to always be courteous. Beautifully told and presented." - Emily-Jane Hills Orford, Readers' Favorite"Gerry Haller's gentle tale is inspired by stories she told to her grandson.... Adults will appreciate that the book celebrates and rewards good behavior. This relaxing journey through a land of treats is a pleasant low-key bedtime story for young children." - BookLife Review
The Train Ride Begins the Adventure to the Candy MountainWill and Quinn meet on the train. The adventure begins Are they really going to the Candy Mountain? Is it really made out of candy? Together there are decisions to make. Each one proves more mysterious than the next. What will they do when they have to choose? Come along and share the journey. Find your candy basket and decide what you would do "Follows a young boy as he embarks on a magical journey to Candy Ville. During his travels, he discovers how being a good and respectful person can really pay off."- Foreword Reviews"The message is clear: life is full of sweet offerings, but friendship and kindness are more important than sweet treats. One has to always be courteous. Beautifully told and presented." - Emily-Jane Hills Orford, Readers' Favorite"Gerry Haller's gentle tale is inspired by stories she told to her grandson.... Adults will appreciate that the book celebrates and rewards good behavior. This relaxing journey through a land of treats is a pleasant low-key bedtime story for young children." - BookLife Review
Standard, alternate, and technical routes for all 58 Colorado Fourteener peaks A classic guidebook known for its accuracy and comprehensiveness, Colorado’s Fourteeners has been updated for this thirtieth anniversary edition to include GPS coordinates, revised topographic maps, expanded route details, and new descriptions reflecting alterations to trail access. Besides the often-climbed standard routes, the guide describes many alternative and technical routes.The trusted source for over 30 years, this is the guide to bring with you to peaks websites can't reach.
"Port City Crossfire, is both gripping, nonstop action and a deep dive into what happens to a cop when he's involved in a deadly force event. …couldn't put it down."~Kate Flora, award-winning author of the Joe Burgess police procedural series--Present Day, Portland, Maine--Decried as a murderer and trigger-happy cop, rookie Officer Brandon Blake is beset by doubt and guilt over shooting and killing a sixteen-year-old armed with a pellet gun and a GoPro camera. Suspended, he distracts himself with a side-investigation of a troubled young couple.Danni kept a diary in high-school, detailing her crushes, love affairs, pregnancy, and a single event that has haunted her to this day. With the diary lost, she's resigned to her secret. But her world is up-ended when Blake finds the diary and attempts to return it only to be stopped short by Dani's jealousy-prone boyfriend, Clutch. Dani pursues Blake to retrieve her diary containing a secret that could demand her life.Dogged by a woman with a jealous boyfriend and a strange secret, hunted by the press and angry, grieving parents with a secret of their own, Brandon Blake must solve both mysteries before he loses more than just his job.Publisher Note: Gerry Boyle's journalistic background brings a gritty authenticity to his writing that transports readers into a realm they won't want to leave. Fans of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Lee Child, as well as Ed McBain, will enjoy the Brandon Blake Series."Gritty and unrelenting, Gerry Boyle's Port City Crossfire will have you turning pages well into the night." ~Bruce Robert Coffin, Agatha Award-nominated author of Beyond the TruthThe Brandon Blake Mystery SeriesPort City CrossfirePort City Rat Trap
A comprehensive and accessible guide to the Five Ranks, the pinnacle teaching of Zen Buddhism pointing to the path to true freedom. The great Japanese Zen master Hakuin exclaimed, "How priceless is the merit gained through the step-by-step practice of the Five Ranks of Master Tozan " Hakuin here refers to a teaching created by the Chinese Buddhist master Dongshan, known in Japanese as Zen Master Tozan, which is honored and studied in both Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen and is a gem of the classical Zen tradition. The ranks--pithy, provocative titles followed by Tozan's brief poetic commentaries--serve as guides to a radical exploration of the experience of relative and absolute reality, the interpenetrating "Two Truths" of Mahayana Buddhism. In The Five Ranks of Zen, American Zen teacher Shishin Wick offers an accessible entry point to each of the ranks, which Tozan created in two formulations: the first and better-known is the Five Ranks of the Relative and the Absolute; while the second set, called the Sequence of Merit, is an abbreviated form of the Ten Oxherding Pictures, a traditional formulation of the Zen spiritual journey. Wick presents multiple translations and offers commentary on the ranks' titles and on Tozan's renowned verses, as well as offering guidance on these teachings' application in contemporary life and Zen practice. He emphasizes that, to truly plumb the depths of Tozan's teachings, you must treat these teachings as Zen koans and make a thorough investigation using your entire body.
In a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she is convinced, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous brother, and a dwarf aunt. When, instead, her lover returns with a wife in tow, her dreams are shattered. As her brother’s violence escalates and her aunt flees, Leona must rely on the help of Luther Biggs, the son of Leona’s grandfather and one of his former slaves, to protect her child. Told against the backdrop of the deprivation of World War I, the tragedies of the influenza epidemic, and the burden of generations of betrayal, That Pinson Girl unfolds in lyrical, unflinching prose, engaging the timeless issues of racism, sexism, and poverty.
Crazy Climate and Rigged Economies: We Can Do Much Better
Gerry Greaves
Dorrance Publishing Co.
2020
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The climate crisis, economic inequality, and ineffective government policies wreak havoc on our world and nation, but all hope is not lost. Designed to provide a clear and accessible explanation of global and national challenges, Crazy Climate and Rigged Economies encourages humanity's effective response and solution to the climate crisis. Through charted data, this resource shows global economic growth has been slowing since the 1960s and is expected to stop by the end of this century. What this means for the climate crisis and inequality is explained with hopeful assertiveness and the objective to help readers understand these problems and support effective policy change.About the AuthorGerry Greaves is a retired engineer with an emphasis in structural analysis. He is the director of the Upstate South Carolina Chapter of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, has written for the Post Growth Institute, and has completed the Climate Reality Project's leadership training, for which he is an active member. He has been married to his wife, Lisa, for forty years and has two daughters, Amber and Beth, and five grandchildren.
The Last Mountain begins in January of 2010, with the advent of three separate expeditions created to produce the first female summiteer of all fourteen of the 8,000ers. Two of the climbers, Logan Healy, an American ex-ski racer and former model, and Chun Suek Yen, a national superstar in mountaineering-obsessed South Korea, need only the summit of K2 -- the second highest and most lethal mountain in the world, to complete the heroic feat. The expeditions of both Logan and "Sukey" are supported with near limitless resources by global sportswear/equipment companies.The quest is joined by a third participant also reaching for the acclaim and riches that would come with the Holy Grail of mountaineering, but for more personal reasons. French climber Sophie Janot, a single mother of two, is coming out of a self-imposed maternity hiatus from climbing, to attempt to summit her final three mountains - a winter climb of Cho Oyu, followed by Gasherbrum II in June, and then, to beat Logan and Sukey to the top of K2 in July. Sophie though, has none of the resources of her two competitors. The divorce from her philandering, high-living husband who turned out to be a poor excuse for a professional gambler, has left her destitute, living with her girls back in the house she grew up in with her parents in Argentiere. Sophie has begged, borrowed, and cajoled old sponsors to fund her last opportunity for financial security for her and her daughters. Sophie Janot would be the decided underdog in the race to the top of K2, if not for the fact that she is, by universal acclaim, the finest woman mountain climber of her generation. Her friends, Logan and Sukey know what they're up against.The three expeditions are tied together by the presence of the legendary climber, Jack Finley, the second American to have summited all fourteen. Invited to join the Zermatt Expedition by Logan Healy, his childhood pal and ski-racing competitor at Vermont's Green Mountain School, Finley is also an old friend and climbing companion of Suek Yen. Now retired from climbing, married with two small children and working as a car salesman in Burlington, Jack's real motivation to reluctantly participate in the "circus at K2", is to once again see his long lost lover, Sophie Janot. Ten years after being forbidden to marry by Sophie's autocratic, protective father, the renowned mountaineer, Marcel Janot, Jack Finley has never been able to extinguish the flame in his heart for Sophie.The Last Mountain is an adventure story about three strong women taking control of their destinies to accomplish a near impossible feat of courage, endurance and heroism. Like the history of mountaineering, woven throughout the story, The Last Mountain contrasts the exalted purity of scaling the world's highest peaks that once defined mountaineering, with the crass commercialism that has replaced it. And like the sport itself, The Last Mountain is a story of personal triumph, sacrifice, and heartbreaking tragedy.
The Most Famous Lawyer in AmericaGain wisdom and insight from the lion of the courtroomLARGE PRINT EDITIONThe collected sayings of Gerry Spence prods readers into thinking about their own vision of the world. As a lawyer with decades of experience in defending the defenseless, he's fought against giants.What might an old lawyer who still defends cases have to say? Don't all lawyers just live only for the money? This book allows you to look inside. Read what the best attorney is all about. Open your heart and expand your mind with this book."That enigmatic trap called life: You don't know where you came from, and you don't know where you're going, and you can't get out alive.""Once slavery in America was not seen as radical."This book is filled with thought-provoking words. Learn something new and become a stronger, wiser person. Spence's insights provide a grander vision of the nearly invisible world of the justice system.Venture into the mind of Gerry Spence. Yours will be broadened, enlightened, and entertained at the same time.Get your copy today
The Most Famous Lawyer in AmericaGain wisdom and insight from the lion of the courtroomLARGE PRINT EDITIONThe collected sayings of Gerry Spence prods readers into thinking about their own vision of the world. As a lawyer with decades of experience in defending the defenseless, he's fought against giants.What might an old lawyer who still defends cases have to say? Don't all lawyers just live only for the money? This book allows you to look inside. Read what the best attorney is all about. Open your heart and expand your mind with this book."That enigmatic trap called life: You don't know where you came from, and you don't know where you're going, and you can't get out alive.""Once slavery in America was not seen as radical."This book is filled with thought-provoking words. Learn something new and become a stronger, wiser person. Spence's insights provide a grander vision of the nearly invisible world of the justice system.Venture into the mind of Gerry Spence. Yours will be broadened, enlightened, and entertained at the same time.Get your copy today
SHORT STORIES Stories from Down Under and all over Humility is not a common virtue among the rich and famous. The protagonists in these narratives come from all parts of the globe, and have experienced the dizzy heights of fame and fortune. These are people who have let vanity overcome wisdom. Tall poppies need to be cut down to size, and plotting their downfall has been my pleasure. "The Bonfire of the Vanities was hot. These yarns are hotter." Lucifer Beelzebub
SHORT STORIES Stories from Down Under and all over Humility is not a common virtue among the rich and famous. The protagonists in these narratives come from all parts of the globe, and have experienced the dizzy heights of fame and fortune. These are people who have let vanity overcome wisdom. Tall poppies need to be cut down to size, and plotting their downfall has been my pleasure. "The Bonfire of the Vanities was hot. These yarns are hotter." Lucifer Beelzebub
Join John Cramer who at the moment is at the top of his game. Filthy rich and on his way to the good life. Watch as one moment of daydreaming starts his life on a fast pace downward spiral that carries him to the very gates of hell. And watch as a single emotion causes the journey to become a rollercoaster thrill-ride like no other.
A touching memoir about Marthin Werven, a Norwegian emigrant who settles in North Dakota at the beginning of the 20th century. As Marthin struggles to support his family during the thirties and forties he becomes dependent on his three sons. Lawrence would eventually leave the farm to serve in the Army during the Korean War. Later, a failing U.S. economy forces Lawrence to relocate his own family to Muscat, Oman where he becomes the first American to lead a convoy across the Arabian Peninsula. The lives of Marthin and Lawrence are told by Gerry Werven, who shares his memories of his grandfather and father as well as his own experiences growing up in Walhalla, North Dakota.