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“You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what
is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think
about some little kid being like, ‘What’d you do with your
life?’ And me being like, ‘Well, I sold a bunch of
floors.’†These are the words of Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, the
young man who manufactures the widest, purest, most metaphorical
pine floorboards on the planet. At least, that’s what Matthew
Clark believes. Set mostly in rural Maine, Bjarki, Not Bjarki is an
expansive book. It is a standard work of journalism, describing
with nuance and humanity the people and processes that transform
the forest into your floor. It is also a meditation on what it
means to know another person and to connect with them, especially
in an increasingly polarized America. And it is a ghost story about
marriage. It is an inquiry into the limits of language and
certainty, a rumination on North American colonization,
masculinity, gift cards, crab rangoon, bald eagles, and wood, all
of it told in an exciting, energized, and original prose. Bjarki
turns out to be someone quite different from whom the author had
hoped. A new pine floor buckles. A coyote is shot. A diamond is
lost. How do we make sense of the world and of ourselves,
especially when the floor beneath us is so unstable; when nothing
is quite what we had hoped it would be?
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Seal Mother Retold (Paperback)
Rose English; Cover design or artwork by J.C. Clarke; Illustrated by Abigail L Ryder
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R150
Discovery Miles 1 500
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Distracted by the everyday routine of raising children, being a
wife, and keeping a home, Lorraine Morrissey let life pass her by.
Her wake up call comes when she realizes that with their children
gone, her husband Richard is rarely home, and she's filling her
solitary days with trivial tasks. A crazy idea to save her marriage
leads to a summer beach vacation unlike any she's ever taken; one
that involves unknowingly buying a haunted house.
Lacey Harrison has been dealt an unexpected hand in life: being a
single mom. With her father's help and that of the residents at
Royal Hills Nursing Home, she thrives and goes on to become a
successful baker. She is content with her life but knows that she
and her daughter Candy are missing something. Will things change
for the better when Trent Childress moves into town and adds some
spice to her sugar?
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific
organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government.
Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to
determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over
10,000 employees that collect, monitor, and analyze data so that
they have a better understanding of our problems. The USGS is
dedicated to provide reliable, investigated information to enhance
and protect our quality of life. This is one of their reports.
This diary is the record of one man's thoughts and feelings as he
undertakes the journey of a lifetime. He is the first astronaut in
history to be sent to a distant world. Once there he encounters
Sharanrala, a human teacher whose people were brought to her planet
thousands of years ago. Together they explore her amazing world and
discover a new perspective on human science and spirituality--one
that might hold the key to solving some of the Earth's most
pressing problems. Together they travel back through both time and
space to arrive at the dawn of the twenty-first century, just in
time to share their message with a world on the brink of a new
awareness that may have the potential to solve some of the Earth's
most pressing problems.
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