This Land

This Land
Author: Christopher Ketcham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0735220980

"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--

A Real Cowboy Never Says No (Wyoming Rebels)

A Real Cowboy Never Says No (Wyoming Rebels)
Author: Stephanie Rowe
Publisher: Authenticity Playground, LLC
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1940968100

He never intended to marry...but when he meets a single mom-to-be in danger, all his plans change.​​​​​​​ She'll do whatever it takes to protect her baby, including marry a cowboy she's just met. Sexy, emotional, and heartwarming. ★★★★★ "I want to climb into this book." ~Amanda C (Five-star Amazon Review) Confirmed bachelor Chase is too busy with his ranch for love. When a friend calls in a favor, the solitary rancher must open his home to a sassy, sexy mom-to-be who needs his protection. But he's not prepared for the sizzling attraction that threatens the shield around his heart. Mira is single, pregnant, and on-the-run. When a distractingly handsome cowboy offers her a marriage of convenience, she knows it's a lifeline she has to take to protect her baby. But when she starts to fall for the mysterious cowboy with the traumatic past, she realizes that her heart might also be in danger. Haunted by his past, Chase isn't prepared for his careful plans to be upended by love, but he soon finds himself having to make the impossible choice. If you like sexy cowboys, sassy humor, and heart-melting, emotional romance, you'll adore this contemporary western romance with all the feels! Click to grab this "must-read" series starter today! Contains: Secret baby. Fake fiancée. Marriage-of-convenience. Lots of feels. Slow-burn romance. Humor. A hot cowboy who is an intensely loyal protector. ★ What do readers think? ★ ★★★★★ "Wow! I can't believe how much I loved this book. Who doesn't love a strong sexy cowboy, right? I know I do…A little love goes a long way when it comes to healing one's heart." ~Cindy F (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★"There is nothing sexier than a man in a cowboy hat. Especially if that man is a cowboy through and through. Chase is the kind of man everyone needs in their life. Sexy, strong, kind, generous." ~Charity S. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Tender, loving, and exquisite." ~Cherry L. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "WOW, WOW, WOW...AWESOME READ." ~T.P. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "OH. MY. GOSH! This was the best book I've read in a really, really long time." ~jenny7 (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★"A beautiful, moving love story!"~PLP45 (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Wonderful." ~Cherry L. (Five-Star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "So much yes!!!!! Just so beautiful!" ~Amanda C (Five-star Amazon Review) AUTHOR BIO: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is a Vivian® Award nominee, and a winner and a five-time nominee for the RITA® award, the highest award in romance fiction. She has more than fifty published novels. ★★★★★ "Stephanie Rowe infuses her characters with a passion that I have rarely seen matched in any romance novelist I have ever come across." ~ Five-star Amazon Review on Darkness Awakened ★★★★★ "What I love about Stephanie's writing is her ability to immerse you in her characters and their world. It is a connection that sticks with you long after the last page." ~Five-star Amazon Review on Burn ★★★★★ "It's a gift to tell a story and convey emotion to the reader that really drives their reading experience. Rowe has that gift in spades." ~Kwolff (Five-star Amazon Review on Burn)

The Lower River

The Lower River
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547746504

A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly benign village.

From Scratch

From Scratch
Author: Tembi Locke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501187678

Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is “a captivating story of love lost and found” (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours. It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro’s traditional Sicilian family did not approve of his marrying a black American woman. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forged on. They built a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships, and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopted at birth. Eventually, they reconciled with Saro’s family just as he faced a formidable cancer that would consume all their dreams. From Scratch chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her daughter, Zoela, as she begins to piece together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro’s family, now she finds solace and nourishment—literally and spiritually—at her mother-in-law’s table. In the Sicilian countryside, she discovers the healing gifts of simple fresh food, the embrace of a close knit community, and timeless traditions and wisdom that light a path forward. All along the way she reflects on her and Saro’s romance—an incredible love story that leaps off the pages. In Sicily, it is said that every story begins with a marriage or a death—in Tembi Locke’s case, it is both. “Locke’s raw and heartfelt memoir will uplift readers suffering from the loss of their own loved ones” (Publishers Weekly), but her story is also about love, finding a home, and chasing flavor as an act of remembrance. From Scratch is for anyone who has dared to reach for big love, fought for what mattered most, and those who needed a powerful reminder that life is...delicious.

Desert Cabal

Desert Cabal
Author: Amy Irvine
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1937226964

"Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.

Saving Kyla

Saving Kyla
Author: Elle James
Publisher: Twisted Page Inc
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 162695383X

Former Navy SEAL, Stone Jacobs, with help from Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors launches a mission to rescue his team of mercenaries stranded in Afghanistan after US withdrawal. Undercover as a journalist, international assassin, Kyla Russell is performing her last assignment in Afghanistan. She baulks when she discovers her mission is to kill a man who doesn't deserve it. Kyla wants out of the business, but her handler would rather see her dead than let her go. Trapped by the Taliban with a team of mercenaries, her only way out is to allow herself to be swept into a daring rescue by a sexy former Navy SEAL. The mercenaries and Kyla are transported back to the States and rehomed in Yellowstone. With his team of former SEALs turned mercenaries, Stone sets up a Yellowstone division of Brotherhood Protectors at his father’s lodge in West Yellowstone. Struggling with his attraction to the ballsy journalist, Stone hires Kyla as the team communications expert not realizing the full extent of her military skills or his growing feelings for her. When her past comes to call, the team rallies around her. Together, Stone and Kyla fight the enemy determined to silence an assassin and surrender to their attraction for each other.

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2003-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 110121323X

"Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up." Vincent Bugliosi, author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership. This exciting collection, now revised and updated, brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184002181

Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural Multan, a powerful collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan. An impoverished young woman becomes a wealthy relative’s mistress; an electrician on the make confronts his desperate assailant to protect his most prized possession; a farm manager rises far in the world—but his family discovers after his death the transience of power; a maid, who advances herself through sexual favours, unexpectedly falls in love. In these linked stories about the family and household staff of the ageing KK Harouni, we meet masters and servants, landlords and supplicants, politicians and electricians, village women, and Karachi housewives. Part Chekhov, part RK Narayan, these stories are dark and light, complex and humane; at heart about the relationship between the powerful and powerless, bound together in life—and in death. Together they make up a vivid portrait of a feudal world rarely brought alive in the English language. Sensuous, graceful, melancholy, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders gives you Pakistan as you have never seen it. It marks the debut of an amazing new talent.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2004-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1576755126

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

The Pope

The Pope
Author: Lp Lovell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781944975302

I'm a priest, a messenger of God, a good man. At least that's what I would have them all believe. She's a lost lamb, cast adrift from her flock and seeking shelter from the wolves snapping at her heels. She's looking for salvation, protection, forgiveness for her sins. I'm not the man to give it to her. But for the first time in my life, I want to be. Little does she know... For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.