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'Isaac's choices are stark, and the moral dilemmas he faces as he matures form the basis of this richly detailed, emotionally engaging slice of Texas frontier life. Chappell's novel reads the way a John Ford western unfolds on the screen: good folks, hard choices, humour, tragedy, and heartbreaking humanity played out against the backdrop of the great American West. A wonderful book for readers who like westerns that leave formula in the dust' - ""Booklist starred review"". '[This book] does what art demands: It makes us both think and feel' - ""Texas Parks & Wildlife"". 'A Texas writer to watch. The author has created strong characters and a vivid sense of place in a tale that is punctuated with bloody fighting and awkward courtships on a tough, unforgiving frontier' - ""Dallas Morning News"". In ""Blood Kin"", Isaac Webb, a young Texas ranger, struggles for decency amid the violence of the Texas Revolution and the early days of the Republic. Still in his teens when he joins the legendary ranger captain Noah Smithwick, Isaac discovers in himself extraordinary mettle in battle and a fierce yearning for young war widow Catherine Druin. But victory over Mexico does not bring the new Republic nor Isaac the peace and stability he fought for. Escalating Indian depredations forestall Isaacs hopes to work the farmland he's cleared near Bastrop and to marry Catherine. Pressed into accompanying Smithwick as Sam Houstons peace emissary to the Comanches, Isaac befriends Looks Far, a young warrior at whose side he fends off Waco attacks and with whom he learns to grieve. As the Texans hunger for land and the Comanches penchant for raiding imperil Isaacs friendship and thwart peace negotiations, Isaac returns to Bastrop prepared for the worst. When his future with Catherine is confounded by her fathers blind hatred of the Comanches and his own commitment to the indomitable Inez, a Lipan captive, Isaac must confront a brutal dilemma and a painful secret. So achingly honest and culturally sensitive is Chappell in his telling of this epic story that every image, every characterization rings true. It is hard to believe that he did not live it himself.
When a business tycoon hires Mel Morgan to find his missing daughter, the SoulTracker is thrown headlong into twists and turns of unexpected deaths and unusual killers. But to find the girl in time to save her, she has to first understand the killer. Demonic or human killers? Mel can't decide which will be worse. Things get a little complicated when she has to help find both a Panther Alpha's mother, and a reluctant Djinn Queen. Add to the mix an evil spirit plus her mentor Samuel sending her terrifying messages in the Ether. Save him, or else. It's just all in a days work for a SoulTracker.
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. A serial poem written at the beginning of each day for one year by the prolific poet and long-time editor Jocelyn Saidenberg, KITH & KIN imbricates dreams, waking, friendship, and grief. In reproducing everyday banalities of mourning, Saidenberg finds herself "in proximity to others who are also with me, ones who mumble, who yell in rage, who are recently or long dead, who dream of me at night."
Making Kin not Population – Reconceiving Generations
Adele Clarke; Donna J. Haraway; Donna Haraway
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
2018
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As the planet’s human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs designed to fight declining birth rates in Europe and East Asia, to controversial policies seeking to curb population growth in countries where birth rates remain high, to increasing income inequality transnationally, issues of reproduction introduce new and complicated moral and political quandaries.Making Kin Not Population ends the silence on these issues with essays from leading anti-racist, ecologically-concerned, feminist scholars. Though not always in accord, these contributors provide bold analyses of complex issues of intimacy and kinship, from reproductive justice to environmental justice, and from human and nonhuman genocides to new practices for making families and kin. This timely work offers vital proposals for forging innovative personal and public connections in the contemporary world.
Theodore Abijah Cutting's memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of a pioneering American family. From his ancestors' travels across the Atlantic to their lives in New England and beyond, Cutting's family history is full of adventure, hardship, and resilience. With his keen eye for detail and gift for storytelling, Cutting brings his ancestors to life in vivid detail.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A lost colony world is reunited with Earth after four centuries apart. Their coming together should be a joyous occasion - but nothing about this reunion is as it seems. Captain Charles Jonson, head of the mission from Earth, takes on the acting role of his life. Simply surviving on the planet is difficult enough but manipulating and deceiving the beautiful woman who leads the colony, Councilor Nydra, is by far the greatest challenge he has ever faced. As Charles and Nydra spar with misleading words and hidden weapons, Daniela, a young woman in a distant settlement defies the iron-clad rules laid down for the colony's survival and leaves the safety of her home to join the boys in their rite-of-passage, the First Journey. They are all players in a game where the rules are secret and the rewards hidden... but the risks are very real.
This collection of three original screenplays lives and breathes New York City and is decidedly big on family, hence NYC3 KIN. These spec scripts have been invaluable to me. They got me topnotch literary agents; they were nearly bought several times, they led to script-doctoring talks with high-powered Hollywood producers, garnered semifinals and finals places in screenwriting competitions and served as the perfect calling cards that landed me commissioned gigs.*Specs are 'speculative scripts', screenplays written not on commission. Specs are labors of love, passion projects, screenplays writers craft to make an impression, get through a door, attract an agent, generate interest. Specs, most often, don't sell. They serve their purpose, as they have for me, and then end up on a shelf collecting dust. Traditionally, spec scripts never see the light of day. The three screenplays contained in NYC3 KIN have been on my shelf for twenty-five years. I'm now publishing them, because these characters deserve the opportunity to come alive - if not on screen, then in readers' minds. *BREAKFAST IN ATLANTIS: When a mysterious stranger returns to his home in Coney Island after many years, he unintentionally erodes the friendship of two orphaned street kids. The two boys are swept into a magical tale of good and evil, their friendship fading fast, as the stranger tries to fulfill an ancient promise.*OUT THERE: In this Christmas thriller, set in the world of New York City's fifty thousand homeless, a man named Nomad witnesses the brutal murder of an undercover cop. He disappears into the city's underworld and finds refuge with a mysteriously mystical bunch of misfits. With no trace of the witness, NYPD cop Scott Shaw goes undercover into the world of the homeless and, in a race against time and a ruthless killer, discovers the one thing he's never had ... family.*BOXMAN JAKE: 1958, New York City - Jake Rose, the finest safe cracker in the "industry", decides to call it quits for the sake of his family. Then his father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, his hothead young brother-in-law turns to crime, and two aging master thieves do everything in their power to get Jake to join in on the greatest heist ever ... one last job.
![More Kin Than Kind. [A Novel.]](/covers/9781240885756.jpg)
More Kin Than Kind. [A Novel.]
Blanche Tottenham
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
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![More Kin Than Kind. [A Novel.]](/covers/9781240893966.jpg)
More Kin Than Kind. [A Novel.]
Blanche Tottenham
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
pokkari
![More Kin Than Kind. [A Novel.]](/covers/9781240893997.jpg)
More Kin Than Kind. [A Novel.]
Blanche Tottenham
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
pokkari
Written time-capsule and life observations, by and other-kin soul.
