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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Laura Anne Bird
Twelve-year-old Clare Burch has just lost the person she loves most in the world. She wonders if her feelings of sorrow and self-blame over her grandfather's death will ever go away.Out of the blue, a special request sends Clare on a journey from her home in Chicago to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She knows that she must honor Grandpa Anthony's last wishes, even though they completely upend her summertime plans. Clare heads to rural Alwyn with her little blind dog and a duffel bag full of worries. What will she do without her best friends and swim team? Who will take her fishing and spoil her with candy now that her grandfather is gone? And most important, is she strong enough to let him go, forever?During her summer up north, Clare stumbles upon the answers to her many questions. Even more, as she makes peace with why she couldn't save Grandpa Anthony, she ends up rescuing someone else from danger.Above all, Clare learns to listen to the courageous voice inside-and discovers just how tough she really is.
After losing his mom, a struggling thirteen-year-old boy in northern Wisconsin rediscovers the love of baking he once shared with her and decides to audition for the world-famous Marvelous Midwest Kids Baking Championship television show in Chicago. Jack is sure that his new sense of purpose will help him stay out of trouble, so he throws himself into learning the finer points of sprinkles and scones -- and hopefully even mending his broken relationship with his dad.
An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming.Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries-including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor-most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States.Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system.Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are-despite a range of challenges-actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.
"He has been taken. And you are his only chance."When Jan's boyfriend Tyler disappears for several days, she's worried. And then she's angry. Then two strangers rescue her from a violent attack by creatures out of legend, and tell her that Tyler didn't abandon her -- he was stolen away to the fairy court. And Jan's his only chance to come home. But her rescuers aren't human either, and they have their own secrets...."You can always count on (the) gifted Gilman to deliver richly layered fantasy filled with winning characters and well-defined worlds, and she doesn't disappoint with HEART OF BRIAR. (A) terrific series starter." ♦♦♦♦ (4 stars) - RT Reviews" Readers] will be seduced and enthralled by Gilman's metaphysical thriller about wicked elves, shape-shifting supernaturals and portals to another dimension....melds magic with mayhem for a tale of bravery, friendship and devotion." - Publishers Weekly"Calling this story a retelling of Tam Lin doesn't do it justice. Gilman has taken the bones of that fairy tale and reassembled it entirely, restrung with strength and ferocity and drive outside that pale relationship between a woman and her lost lover. Jan's journey starts to find Tyler, but ultimately she finds so much more. Another world, a war, and a strength and bravery she never realized existed." - All Things Urban Fantasy
The Alley is no place for the innocent, the unwary, or the just plain foolish. But if they didn't exist, Duchess would be out of work. For a fee, she can solve your problem - or make it go away. When trouble's on your tail, and you can't go to the cops, Duchess is the cat you want in your corner.However, not even the best PI can solve every case, and her connections - from an up-and-coming police dog to a would-be thief-in-training - get her into trouble as often as they get her out...Including: The Case of the Tom in Trouble Spark to Tinder The Case of the Feckless Ferrets Scales of Justice The Case of the Seaside Swindle
Three months ago, Jan had a crash course in the supernatural. Werewolves, kelpies, elves, trolls --all real. But reclaiming her boyfriend from predatory, abusive elves was only the start of her story.... Now, Jan and her supernatural companions have a new deadline: ten weeks, ten days and ten hours until the elves are able to use the portals again. Until they overrun the unsuspecting world, and destroy it. Our realm has one hope: find the missing elven queen, and use her as a bargaining chip. But that isn't going to be easy...and time's up.
Isadora Stone is a 15 year old American School Girl who has an incredible gift. She can communicate telepathically. In her normal everyday life, she gets no opportunity to use this skill. However chance (or some would say destiny ) throws her in the path of a 9 foot Sasquatch who is also telepathic, and the two become firm friends. Due to her friendship with Chinga the Sasquatch, Isadora gets swept up into an adventure which takes her around the Cosmos Can Isadora help Chinga save his planet and his family before it is too late? Will the evil Valdazar destroy the whole Universe with his greed and war mongering ways? Will Adama the Agarthan win Isadora's fair heart? Will Orion the gorgeous cowboy alien ever stop changing his outfits Join Isadora and friends on their adventure through the Universe and find out Isadora Stone is the debut Novel of Laura Anne Whitworth and the first in a series of 4 books. 'Isadora Stone and the Fight for Inner Earth' is the second book in the Isadora Stone series and will be available to buy on Amazon in Print and Kindle in December 2019.
THE POWER OF STORY III is intended help writers and storytellers think strategically about story topics in a way that can give them direction on where to start. One of the questions asked often of writers is, "How do you begin a story?" This is, of course, much like asking an artist how he paints what he paints or how she sculpts what she sculpts. Where do songwriters begin-with the music or the lyric? Creativity comes from many sources, and for most writers I know, a story can come from any number of places, with most writers citing more than one, depending upon the story...But have you ever picked up a book or a magazine article that looked interesting then started to read it only to find the author was more interested in preaching than storytelling? This can happen all too easily, if we're not careful. Most writers have something important to say, whether writing fiction or nonfiction, but it is just as important to think strategically about our subject matter lest we become so immersed in whatever issue we're tackling that our story gets lost in the argument. Writing can change minds and hearts, just as performance drama can, but beware of biting off more than you can comfortably chew and letting the topic eclipse the story rather than letting the story illuminate the topic...
The Stars of Home: Book 2 of the Commonwealth Chronicles
Laura Anne Ewald
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, which Kirkus Reviews calls a "slam-bang Weird Western," Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life, but the whole Territory.Isobel is the left hand of the old man of the Territory, the Boss--better known as the Devil. Along with her mentor, Gabriel, she is traveling circuit through Flood to represent the power of the Devil and uphold the agreement he made with the people to protect them. Here in the Territory, magic exists--sometimes wild and perilous. But there is a growing danger in the bones of the land that is killing livestock, threatening souls, and weakening the power of magic. In this second installment of the Devil's West series, Isobel and Gabriel are in over their heads as they find what's happening and try to stop the people behind it before it unravels the Territory.
In the last novel of The Devil's West trilogy, Isobel, the Devil's Left Hand, and Gabriel ride through the magical land of the Territory to root out evil by the way of mad magicians, ghosts, and twisted animal spirits.As Isobel and Gabriel travel to the southern edge of the Territory, they arrive in the free city of Red Stick. Tensions are running high as the homesteading population grows, crowding the native lands, and suspicions rise across the river from an American fort. But there is a sickness running through Red Stick and Isobel begins to find her authority challenged. She'll be abandoned, betrayed, and forced to stand her ground as the Devil's left hand in this thrilling conclusion to The Devil's West Trilogy.
