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Hardback. Condizione: Good. As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf leads a pack of feral dogs, Alice feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. From the author of "The Lost Garden, Wild Dogs" strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Short of near disaster or the sublime, what are our most memorable outdoor moments made of? The totally surprising, sometimes bizarre oddball moments that catch our psyches off guard and strike our funny bones to the core. Call it the wild side factor. The editors of Outside proudly present outstanding images gleaned from 300 issues of their back-page Parting Shots photo feature. It's their way of celebrating the pratfalls and singular coincidences of an outdoor life the comic circumstances of relatively tame mammals (us) spending more and more time closer and closer to large, wild animals. These images are a rare chance to look into the wide world outside and laugh at both ourselves and that infinitely wondrous, entertaining three-ring circus we call the universe.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Prize-winning author Susan J. Douglas calls on women of all ages to join together now to fight against gendered ageism, to secure our countrys financial safety net, and to make a brighter, more welcome future for older women.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik's own goes into free fall.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A guide to more than 40 walks and hikes along the New England coast.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This propulsive adventure takes readers on a first hunt in the American wilderness-and face to face with the choice to kill or not to kill.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Michael Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fiction but it's not.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice, this brilliant novel is a shattering study of disaffection and belonging (Bidisha, Guardian).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to Puerto Rico; a prison inmate provoking brawls so he could write poetry in solitary confinement; a janitor and his solitary strike; Espada's own father, who was jailed in Mississippi for refusing to go to the back of the bus. The poet bears witness to death and rebirth at the ruins of a famine village in Ireland, a town plaza in México welcoming a march of Zapatista rebels, and the courtroom where he worked as a tenant lawyer. The title poem pays homage to the immigrant food-service workers who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center. From the earliest out-of-print work to the seventeen new poems included here, Espada celebrates the American political imagination and the resilience of human dignity. Alabanza is the epic vision of a writer who, in the words of Russell Banks, "is one of the handful of American poets who are forging a new American language, one that tells the unwritten history of the continent, speaks truth to power, and sings songs of selves we can no longer silence." An American Library Association Notable Book of 2003 and a 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "To read this work is to be struck breathless, and surely, to come away changed."?Barbara Kingsolver "Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors. If it was up to me, I'd select him as the Poet Laureate of the United States."?Sandra Cisneros "With these new and selected poems, you can grasp how powerful a poet Espada is?his range, his compassion, his astonishing images, his sense of history, his knowledge of the lives on the underbelly of cities, his bright anger, his tenderness, his humor. "?Marge Piercy "Espada's poems are not just clarion calls to the heart and conscience, but also wonderfully crafted gems."?Julia Alvarez "A passionate, readable poetry that makes [Espada] arguably the most important 'minority' U.S. poet since Langston Hughes."?Booklist"Neruda is dead, but if Alabanza is any clue, his ghost lives through a poet named Martín Espada."?San Francisco Chronicle.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet--if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The 25 carefully created tours range from 2 to 28 miles in lengthfrom family outings to slamming, dirt-eating single tracks. Included with each are up-to-date maps and regulation information, surface conditions, trail highlights, nearby bike repair shops, and detailed, mile-by-mile directions along the best trails around. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. With humor and compassion, Dr. Nicholas H. Dodman explores the complex emotional problems of troubled animals and their (often) equally distressed owners. If Only They Could Speak has become a classic of animal literature, with stories as wise, and almost as human, as the lives of the animals they portray.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The text introduces students to the core areas of interest in rational-choice scholarship, including rule making, collective-action problems, decision making, strategic behavior, and the role of institutions. Written in clear prose and filled with concrete examples, American Politics: Strategy and Choice provides readers with a thorough understanding of the basic principles of the rational-choice approach and its many applications to American politics. …

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk supplier: Barney and his two women have been savagely murdered?and the murderers, three drug rivals from London, are still in the house. Beau dies quickly at their hands; they let Ralph go?for the moment?but he's a marked man because of what he's seen. When Melanie, Beau's alluring, ruthless girlfriend, learns what has happened, she is bent on revenge and wants Ralph as her partner?all the way. Bill James's latest Harpur & Iles police procedural ratchets up the tension as the cops (the brilliant Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his ungovernable, half-cracked superior, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles) fight the drug barons for control of the city. As a body washes up, and one of the London creeps meets a violent end, the wily Ralph finds himself starting a new, very risky career?and Harpur sorts out what's going on just in time.…

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Hardback. Condizione: Good. The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer?s girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenaged girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humor, these subtle, complex stories?about the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter?show how love ties us to each other and to the world. The Dark and Other Love Stories announces the emergence of a wonderfully gifted storyteller whose stories enlarge our perceptions about the human capacity to love.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Unlike the many works that attempt to deal with PTSD in youth by extrapolating from therapeutic work with adults, Dr. Silva has called upon leading practitioners in the area of childhood and adolescent trauma to write about their clinical practice and to consider research findings drawn from studies focusing on these younger populations. The 15 chapters gathered here address different aspects of childhood and adolescent trauma-some consider a distinct therapeutic situation (abuse and neglect), others pertain to standard clinical procedure (assessment), and still others focus on complex research issues (neurobiology and genetics of PTSD). This broad range of clinical experience as well as theoretical research makes this book Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Handbook an extremely useful resource for clinicians of varying backgrounds and with different therapeutic disciplines.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in the history of knowledge. During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation?from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an ?ether of space? housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin?s new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans?among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919?from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war. In these brilliant fictions rich with fact, Barrett explores the thrill and sense of loss that come with scientific progress and the personal passions and impersonal politics that shape all human knowledge.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. Steinfeld, Allison (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Levelheaded septuagenarian Tish McWhinny, seen before in The Cashmere Kid, has her hands full in this delightful caper set in Vermont. --Publishers Weekly.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A 2022 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction Finalist for the 2022 Reading the West Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A taut, dark, psychological page-turner from the best-selling author of Girls.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. From the best-selling author behind My Weird School: a quirky new biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Steinfeld, Allison (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Filled with love and food, this story of the Hawaiian Wong family is an exuberant banquet of characters and stories. (A Little Too Much Is Enough) vividly recreates Honolulu after World War I. . . . When the author gets around to describing the brutal fields and cannaries where Mahi and her brother labor in the service of Hawaii's most famous fruit, it's a revelation. You'll never look at a can of pineapple in the same way again.--Deborah Stead, New York Times Book Review. A PNBA Best Book of the Year.…

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Hardback. Condizione: Good. A literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life.