Speak to the Earth

Speak to the Earth
Author: Rachel Peden
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253223425

A farmwife for 45 years, Rachel Peden believed that the family farm's best crop is a "harvest of the spirit." In Speak to the Earth, she looks at life—domestic and wild, human and critter—through the eyes of someone who witnesses nine seasons of the year rather than the typical four. Peden views the farm as "a place of opportunity simultaneous with obligation, an immaculate fitting-together of plant and animal life." Each year yields an abundance of small, priceless observations. Through her writings, Peden encourages readers to appreciate both the simple pleasures in life as well as the more profound qualities embodied in family and neighbors, mallards and ladybugs, possums and pigs, and the irresistible characteristics of old houses, local history, and changing times.

The Millionaire's Unexpected Proposal

The Millionaire's Unexpected Proposal
Author: Jane Peden
Publisher: Entangled: Indulgence
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633752399

His marriage of inconvenience... Camilla Winthrop is about to do something she's never done in her life-she's about to ask a man to marry her. Not just any man. She hasn't seen Sam Flanagan in almost five years, after he coldly walked away from a passionate and intense two-week affair. Now Camilla is widowed and desperate...and marrying Sam is the only way she can protect their son. The son he never knew about. A hugely successful attorney in Miami, Sam certainly never expected to see the stunning Camilla come through his door again. Nor can he ignore the desire heating his blood. But after she tells him her situation, Sam is furious. He'll marry her, but under his terms. And he'll take everything, including Camilla in his bed...unless she can find a way to thaw the millionaire's icy heart once more.

The Land, the People

The Land, the People
Author: Rachel Peden
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253222299

"Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf; c1966 by Rachel Peden."--T.p. verso.

Spinoza Contra Phenomenology

Spinoza Contra Phenomenology
Author: Knox Peden
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-06-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0804791368

Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This book recounts how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza to erect a bulwark against the nominally irrationalist tendencies of phenomenology. From its beginnings in the interwar years, this rationalism would prove foundational for Althusser's rethinking of Marxism and Deleuze's ambitious metaphysics. There has been a renewed enthusiasm for Spinozism of late by those who see his work as a kind of neo-vitalism or philosophy of life and affect. Peden counters this trend by tracking a decisive and neglected aspect of Spinoza's philosophy—his rationalism—in a body of thought too often presumed to have rejected reason. In the process, he demonstrates that the virtues of Spinoza's rationalism have yet to be exhausted.

Rural Free

Rural Free
Author: Rachel Peden
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-08-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253221612

Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of country life and her lessons on sustainability, frugality, and wastefulness gain a special resonance. Rural Free will be a source of inspiration for all who rejoice in rural virtues and the spiritual freedom of country life.

The Good Mourning: A Kid's Support Guide for Grief and Mourning Death

The Good Mourning: A Kid's Support Guide for Grief and Mourning Death
Author: Seldon Peden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2021-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780578855738

The Good Mourning is a kid's support guide for grief and mourning death. The book helps other boys and girls deal with the loss of a parent, grandparent, other close relative, or friend. The Good Mourning is an easily read book that helps children process, from a peer's perspective, the broad range of emotions, thoughts, and pain experienced after the loss of a loved one. In a warm and conversational manner, the young author, whose mother died just before his 5th birthday, is supportive, uplifting, informative and transparent. This book was written by a kid who experienced loss and grief; for kid's who are experiencing loss and grief. The Good Mourning is a conversation among peers that adults are welcomed into, as it is also for invaluable to any adult who raises, cares for, or loves a child in grief and mourning. It is age-appropriate, understandable, relatable, and applicable. More importantly, it equips its readers with tools to help them take control of how they mourn. This book helps children grieving the death of a parent, grandparent, or other loved one, understand more, process better, become stronger, and Get to Their Good Mourning!

A Thousand Shall Fall

A Thousand Shall Fall
Author: Murray Peden
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781550024548

In what has been hailed as one of the finest war memoirs ever written, Murray Peden recounts his experiences as a bomber with 214 Squadron during World War II.

Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo
Author: Juan Rulfo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780292771215

Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows--a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. 49 photos.

Your Killin' Heart

Your Killin' Heart
Author: Peggy O'Neal Peden
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250122694

With Your Killin’ Heart, award-winning author Peggy O’Neal Peden has given us a witty debut full of Nashville charm and generous heart. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in Nashville is an aspiring country music star. Campbell Hall, for one, just wants to get her travel agency off the ground and move on from a break-up. But when she gets the opportunity to visit the mansion of mysterious country icon Jake Miller, she jumps at the chance. After all, who knows what clues are lurking around the long-dead star’s last home? But as Campbell pokes around, she discovers more than a few sequined suits and priceless memorabilia. She finds Hazel Miller, Jake’s widow, quietly resting in a bedroom on the main floor. But Hazel might just be dead quiet. And Campbell might just be the last person to have seen her alive. Juggling the twisty plots of high-profile country stars with her blossoming business—not to mention the tattered remains of her love life—Campbell thinks she’s got everything figured out. But when the danger becomes personal, she must uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to get what they want—or face the music. Winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition