One Last Campfire

One Last Campfire
Author: Lindsay Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-08-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781688450356

"Girl, I cannot thank you enough for bringing me along on this vacation." Sicily said. "It was amazing, and I truly had the time of my life!""Same here!" Spencer replied. "I just wish that we did not have to leave tomorrow.""Me too." Sicily sighed. "Leaving means having to say goodbye to the guys tomorrow, and you on Sunday.""I'm going to miss everyone so much." Spencer said, a single tear making it's way down her cheek. Wiping it away, she smiled and said, "Hey, at least the guys and us have a campfire to look forward to tonight.""That we do." Sicily smiled, wrapping her arm around her best friend. "That we do."

A Shadow in the Ember

A Shadow in the Ember
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Blue Box Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952457483

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire series—set in the beloved Blood and Ash world. Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania—she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission—one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. Sera has always known what she is. Chosen. Consort. Assassin. Weapon. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. A monster. Until him. Until the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. And his seductive touch ignites a passion she’s never allowed herself to feel and cannot feel for him. But Sera has never had a choice. Either way, her life is forfeit—it always has been, as she has been forever touched by Life and Death.

The Last Fire Season

The Last Fire Season
Author: Manjula Martin
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593317157

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Saturday Evening Post, Poets & Writers, The Millions, Alta, Heat Map News Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. She was also seeking refuge from a health crisis that left her with chronic pain, and found a sense of healing through tending her garden beneath the redwoods of Sonoma County. But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent: each autumn, her garden filled with smoke and ash, and the local firehouse siren wailed deep into the night. In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, The Last Fire Season, follows her from the oaky hills of Sonoma County to the redwood forests of coastal Santa Cruz, to the pines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire’s role in the ecology of the West. As Martin seeks a way to navigate the daily experience of living in a damaged body on a damaged planet, she comes to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live.

The Mommy Plan

The Mommy Plan
Author: Susan Gable
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459221893

Even though her dad calls her Unsinkable Molly McClain, eight-year-old Molly knows he worries about her all the time. In her opinion, he needs someone else to think about. And Molly's found the perfect candidate—Miss Rachel, the arts and crafts instructor at Camp Firefly Wishes. Now all Molly has to do is get them together. Rachel Thompson isn't sure she's ready for this camp or these kids. For one thing, the campers and their parents talk openly about their experiences, something Rachel's not prepared to do. Her secret is too painful. But little Molly—and her father—are hard to resist. Slowly they're teaching Rachel to value the past, deal with the present…and believe in the future.

The Last Fire-Eater

The Last Fire-Eater
Author: William Link
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2022-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807178942

In The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South William A. Link examines the life of Roger A. Pryor, a Virginia secessionist, Confederate general, and earnest proponent of postwar sectional reconciliation whose life involved a series of remarkable transformations. Pryor’s journey, Link reveals, mirrored that of the South. At times, both proved puzzling and contradictory. Pryor recast himself during a crucial period in southern history between the 1850s and the close of the nineteenth century. An archetypical southern-rights advocate, Pryor became a skilled practitioner in the politics of honor. As a politician and newspaper editor, he engaged in duels and viewed the world through the cultural prism of southern honor, assuming a more militant and aggressive stance on slavery than most of his regional peers. Later, he served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general and seeing action across the Eastern Theater. Captured late in the conflict, Pryor soon after abandoned his fiery persona and renounced extremism. He then moved to New York City, where he emerged as a prominent lawyer and supporter of the sort of intersectional detente that stood as a central facet of what southern boosters labeled the “New South.” Dramatic change characterized Pryor’s long life. Born in 1828, he died four months after the end of World War I. He witnessed fundamental shifts in the South that included the destruction of slavery, the defeat of the Confederacy, and the redefinition of manhood and honor among elite white men who relied less on violence to resolve personal grievances. With Pryor’s lifetime of remakings as its focus, The Last Fire-Eater serves as a masterful history of transformation in the South.

Dog Team to Dawson

Dog Team to Dawson
Author: Bruce T. Batchelor
Publisher: Agio Publishing House
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1927755026

Dog Team to Dawson is a nostalgic collection of true Yukon stories written by bestselling author Bruce Batchelor. A Quest for the Cosmic Bannock is the account of two young people travelling by dog team, tackling a long-abandoned Gold Rush era route while wrestling with thoughts about their own destinies. Their route is now used for the Yukon Quest dog race.Cost-Plus illustrates how greed and modern equipment cannot trump Nature - unless one is very lucky. In Trapping the Mad Trapper, Batchelor mines a 1932 account by Old Crow nurse Helen Thornthwaite to reveal how Yukoners played the major roles in stopping Albert Johnson's escape attempt. Love Story for Lucy is a tender tribute to the bond between man and dog. Dog Team to Dawson is the prequel to Bruce Batchelor's Nine Dog Winter, providing readers of that classic account with earlier adventures into the heart and soul of the Yukon Territory. Bruce Batchelor lived in Canada's Yukon during the 1970s and early 1980s, travelling extensively throughout the territory, fascinated by the wilderness and the people who chose to live in the bush. His Northern stories have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and in the books Yukon Channel Charts, The Lost Whole Moose Catalogue and Nine Dog Winter. He is also author of Book Marketing DeMystified. Reviewer comments on Bruce Batchelor's books "A real page turner and delightful read. An instant classic about Canada's North." "I LOVED reading it. Bruce has a rare gift among writers: he writes like he speaks. His 'voice' comes through as if you are sharing a hot cocoa by the fireside." "The book is bursting with love. People with each other. People with dogs. Dogs with people. Everybody with the outdoors." "A fascinating story and a great read. We recommend it highly."

Until Next Summer

Until Next Summer
Author: Ali Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2024-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593640829

Two former best friends each find love at an adults-only summer camp in this romantic and nostalgic novel that proves “once a camp person, always a camp person.” Growing up, Jessie and Hillary lived for summer, when they’d be reunited at Camp Chickawah. The best friends vowed to become counselors together someday, but they drifted apart after Hillary broke her promise and only Jessie stuck to their plan, working her way up to become the camp director. When Jessie learns that the camp will be sold, she decides to plan one last hurrah, inviting past campers—including Hillary—to a nostalgic “adult summer camp” before closing for good. Jessie and Hillary rebuild their friendship as they relive the best time of their lives—only now there are adult beverages, skinny dipping, and romantic entanglements. Straitlaced Hillary agrees to a “no strings attached” summer fling with the camp chef, while outgoing Jessie is drawn to a moody, reclusive writer who’s rented a cabin to work on his novel. The friends soon realize this doesn’t have to be the last summer. They’ll team up and work together, just like the old days. But if they can’t save their beloved camp, will they be able to take the happiness of this summer away with them?

DĀGAHVOR: The fear of strange things

DĀGAHVOR: The fear of strange things
Author: Cole Perry Te Kanawa
Publisher: CONDOR PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Born into a world divided by Humans and Sorcerers, Raiñ finds himself in conflict with four mysterious voices vying to control his destiny-which he calls The Dammed. After two High Masters confirmed his sorcery powers, he embarks on a journey to the Academy of Dāgahvor where his magical abilities over the five elements are tested and honed, but as Raiñ begins to push his powers to their limits, dark forces emerge from the shadows and difficulty follows suit. Soon enough, Raiñ uncovers the enigmatic truth behind his parents' death and how it is connected to the Dark Army's ambitions. Finally, in order to comprehend the purpose of The Dammed, Raiñ has no choice but to delve deep within himself and conquer his own fears. But true understanding only reveals itself through great fear, one even greater than that of death itself.

God Above All

God Above All
Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310455693

We all yearn for greater contentment. We try new planners, new apps, new jobs, new diets, and new relationships hoping that one more change will finally make our lives feel right. But no matter what we do, the peace we seek feels out of reach. How can we find the meaning and purpose we long for? Fourth-century philosopher and theologian St. Augustine asked the same question. God Above All, compiled from St. Augustine’s most-influential works, includes: 90 devotions to learn the life-altering love of God How to change your heart and desire God above all Ancient writings made accessible and applicable for modern readers Short excerpts from St. Augustine’s works, such as Confessions and The City of God Practical prompts to apply Augustine’s insights This 90-day devotional is a heartfelt gift for: Men and women who want to experience life with fresh eyes Readers across all denominations and faith backgrounds Anyone who longs to grow in faith but doesn’t know where to start Father’s Day, birthdays, Christmas, and for anyone interested in learning more about St. Augustine’s teachings about making God the center of all Whether you are seeking guidance in making God a priority in your relationships, your work, or your daily decisions, God Above All is the perfect book to inspire you to discover the delight of glorifying your Creator in every moment of your life.