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Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At the heart of this string of interconnected stories are tensions among ideas, feelings, and action. Miner deftly interweaves Susan's story with the tales of women whom Susan will never meet. The result is a textured and enveloping book that creates a sense of universality.

The Miner family has hunted deer in the Grayback area of Southern Washington State for over 55 years. They have experienced dedication and despair... confusion and kindness... excitement and exhaustion. To the Miners, the hunting was more fun than the finding! Join Todd and his family and friends as they get lost in the woods, spooked in the night, and chased by the police. Oh... and they see some deer, too!

The year is 1873 when on a late October night, Grace Wickham is called to an accident at the local tannery. Recently returned from a year of medical school, Miss Wickham is the person people turn to as they once did her late father, the local doctor. The body floating in a steaming tannery vat is the owner, Truman Reed, and the men who rush to answer the emergency bell each have reason to wish him dead.

Der zweite Teil der großen Familiensaga über das Schicksal der Geschwister Breitenbach und ihrer traditionsreichen Schuhfabrikation. Das Unternehmen der Breitenbachs steht auf stabilen Füßen. Die Geschwister Georg und Rosa haben in Colorado eine zweite Heimat gefunden, nur die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den Siedlern und dem ansässigen Indianerstamm bereiten ihnen Sorge. Die Familie wähnt sich im Glück, da zwingt sie ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag, ihr Leben erneut auf den Kopf zu stellen.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, a "mesmerizing" novel about the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants striving to join Manhattan's inner circle (USA Today). Casey Han is a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous...

Twenty-five years ago, a group of five high schoolers trekked through the High Sierra. Now, two of them - lesbian Kath and straight Adele - come back to repeat their journey and renew their friendship. In chapters that alternate between the women's voices, they reveal their pasts, their thoughts, and their reactions both to the scenery and to each other. For Kath, the sublime topography of the Sierra is inspiring and invigorating. Adele is more trepidatious.

Rev. Kenneth Davis works in the Hispanic Ministry. These four conferences address those Catholic Communities that work with Latinos. They communicate knowledge, experiences, and ways to understand the phenomenon of the Latin enculturation in the United States. Latinos give us their culture in the ways they live their faith. To accept their values of faith will make them feel at home. To invest in them, and negotiate their education means to pay off their gift.

Sallie Latkovich, CSF, relevant Church documents and teachings from Divino afflante spiritu, through the documents of Vatican II and subsequent documents on from the Office for Liturgy the Interpretation of the Bible in Church, the Catechism, and the Office of Doctrine Tools for Biblical Criticism. She also relies on the insights from Jan Lambrecht's work on the parables.

Lu wird so lange die Luft anhalten, bis Mama es sich anders überlegt und nicht wegen ihres neuen Freundes mit ihr aufs Land zieht. Sie fährt ihre Stacheln aus - muss aber bald schon feststellen, dass Mamas Bauer gar nicht so schlimm ist. Und dann ist da auch noch Julian aus ihrer neuen Klasse.

Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent.

Berlin, 1881. Die Schuhfabrikation der Familie Breitenbach ist unter Bedrängnis geraten. Georg Breitenbach soll in Colorado eine Tochterfabrik eröffnen, die ihr Überleben garantiert. Seine abenteuerlustige Schwester Rosa begleitet ihn nach Übersee. Dort möchte die rebellische junge Frau ihren Traum von einem selbstbestimmten Leben und einer eigenen Schule verwirklichen. Mit Mut und dem unbedingten Willen, ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, wagen die Geschwister den Aufbruch in das Ungewisse der Neuen Welt und stehen bald weit größeren Herausforderungen gegenüber, als sie sich je vorstellen können.

A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past in this "blazingly intense" Reese Witherspoon book club pick and New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J. Finn). The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like...

Unit 78, formerly Corporal Richard Hardgraves, is a Cyborg with a mission: to rescue the Admiral's daughter from the dreaded Tr'Low Cult on Beacon 5. The Tr'Lows have a prophesy that a half-metal man will come from the sky and father the perfect child on a chosen bride - Rich tells himself he will play the part just long enough to grab the girl and run.

Throughout the world, oppressive regimes are being uprooted and replaced by budding democracies, but one exception remains: The People's Republic of North Korea. The Kim family has clung to power for three generations by silencing dissidents, ruling with an iron fist, and holding its neighbors hostage with threats of war. Under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, North Korea has come closer than ever to creating a viable nuclear arsenal, but widespread famine and growing resistance are weakening his regime's stability.

Tollpatschig, verträumt, chaotisch - so wird Mina als Kind von ihrer Umwelt wahrgenommen. Doch je älter sie wird, desto mehr überfordert sie ihr Alltag durch die allgegenwärtige Reizüberflutung. Schließlich bekommt sie die Diagnose, die ihre Zukunft verändert: Mina hat ADS - und mit einem Mal kann ihr geholfen werden. Feinfühlig, authentisch und mit bewundernswertem Witz berichtet Mina Teichert von kleinen Krisen, Missgeschicken und Einschränkungen, mit denen sie leben muss.

"Für Paul, in Liebe", so lautet die Widmung, die der jüdische Silberschmied Johann Blumenthal aus Hamburg 1914 für seinen Sohn auf eine Spieldose graviert. Es ist sein Abschiedsgeschenk, denn Johann meldet sich freiwillig in den Kriegsdienst, um für seine geliebte Heimat zu kämpfen. Das kostbare Andenken seines Vaters wird für Paul und seine Kinder zu einem Symbol für Hoffnung und Zusammenhalt, während der Hass auf sein Volk wächst und sich die Schlinge um die renommierte Juwelierfamilie enger zieht. Das Erbstück wird den Blumenthals Trost schenken, sie in Gefahr bringen und eines Tages trennen.

Unit 77 is a cyborg...but he used to be so much more. Tortured by glimpses of his past, former Captain Andrew Fischer goes through his days in a metallic nightmare, feeling broken inside though he doesn't know why. Doctor Claudia Chambers is distraught. After a land mine blew up Drew Fischer and his unit of elite Space Corps Marines, she was forced to implant the CyBRG device in all of them which turned the men into machines. But she keeps catching glimpses of humanity from the supposedly inhuman Captain...could it be that part of Drew is still in there, longing to get out?

Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United States.

Ein verträumter Schnäppchenhof auf dem Land mit wildem Obstgarten, Bienenstock und einem eigenen Hofladen - davon träumt Leni schon ihr ganzes Leben, und so wagt sie kurzerhand den Neuanfang. Doch es gestaltet sich schwerer als gedacht, den alten Hof zu renovieren und in der eingeschworenen Dorfgemeinschaft als Imkerin und Hofladenbesitzerin Fuß zu fassen.

A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline, and how they will save or destroy us all. Memes are the street art of the social web. Using social media–driven movements as her guide, technologist and digital media scholar An...