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  • Twice a Texan - A Journey of Undoing

    Series Book 1 - In the Borders of Paradise
    A journey of undoing.Texas, 1928. Abandoned by her husband, Mary Gaines is left with three young children, no home and no money. With her health failing, she's forced to rely on her reluctant brothers who humiliate her at every turn.As Mary's children grow up beneath the shadow of scandal, they learn resilience in an unforgiving world.When the chance for a new beginning leads them west to Los ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gilgamesh to Gierach

    Four Thousand Years of Fishing, Fish, and Water Stories

    Fish have figured profoundly in both human history and imagination for millennia. They are both gifts of the sea, drawing civilizations to the water, and terrors of the deep, holding revelations of the unconscious and the unknown. Today, fly fishing attracts millions looking to escape modern life and reconnect with some primal, meditative instinct to partake in nature's offerings. Gilgamesh to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brief Christian Histories

    Getting a Sense of Our Long Story

    How do we undergird Christian enthusiasm with Christian substance? Brief Christian Histories combines biblical and ecclesial history in a single volume, taking readers through 4000 years of our religion's history using four themes of interest: WHO has led us? HOW have we been guided ethically? WHAT have been our faith practices and pieties? WHERE have we interacted with culture, and to what effect ... Read more

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  • Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania

    A Preacher’s Adventures and Reflections

    Marooned on a river island above the Arctic Circle, caught by a flash flood in New Zealand, boated with an NFL cheerleader in the Caribbean, robbed in a British Columbia motel, and bunked with an almost-terrorist in Manitoba, this author-preacher from Colorado has had some interesting experiences when going "further out" to fish. Twelve ebullient stories of adventure, travel, and international fly ... Read more

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  • Ikki

    Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan

    The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of ikki: peasant rebellion. James W. White reconstructs the pattern of social conflict in early modern Japan, both among common people and between the populace and the government. Ikki is the first book to cover popular protest in all regions of Japan and to encompass nearly three ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

    by Diana Wells ...
    How did cranes come to symbolize matrimonial happiness? Why were magpies the only creatures that would not go inside Noah's Ark?Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up curious and captivating facts, Diana Wells hatches a treat for active birders and armchair enthusiasts alike. Meet the intrepid adventurers and naturalists who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nature Attacks! (I Survived True Stories #2)

    Series Book 2 - I Survived True Stories
    From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come four harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters.REAL KIDS. REAL DISASTERS.The author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series brings us more harrowing true stories of real kids up against terrible forces of nature. From fourteen-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Volcanoes!

    Mountains of Fire

    by Eric Arnold ...
    Series series Step into Reading, Step 4
    A volcano could be called a sleeping mountain--that is, until it wakes up! What is it like to witness the eruption of one of nature's majestic time bombs? Young readers can learn what makes volcanoes "tick," and read about some of the most famous eruptions in history. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Swim

    Why We Love the Water

    by Lynn Sherr ...
    Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It's an inquiry into why we swim -- the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It's a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It's about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Among the Mermaids

    Facts, Myths, and Enchantments from the Sirens of the Sea

    by Varla Ventura ...
    The author of The Book of the Bizarre presents an enchanting collection of classic mermaid stories and historical anecdotes from around the world.From Homer's Odyssey to Pirates of the Caribbean, mermaids have fascinated popular culture for centuries. Varla Ventura explores the wealth of literature about these mythical creatures in this charming anthology. This volume includes turn of the century ... Read more

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  • The Bathysphere Book

    Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

    by Brad Fox ...
    **Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation's Science + Literature AwardA Washington Post top 10 best book of 2023A Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of 2023"Hypnotic . . . Beautifully written and beautifully made."—W. M. Akers, *The New York Times Book Review"one of the most beautiful books-as-objects of the year"—The Globe and Mail*"...one of the most fascinating and unusual new books I ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Twitcher

    A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year

    by Richard Pope ...
    The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, had successfully avoided this latter pursuit for many years but capitulated in 2007 when he embarked on his "Big Year," the object being to record at least three hundred birds in Ontario within that calendar ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus