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This guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergency first-aid care, or to maintain wellness. More than fifty plant species are described with information on habitat and distribution as well as general information on how each one can be used as medicine. This natural history of some of Alaska’s medicinal plants is not intended to serve the purpose of a self-care manual of medicine. Dr. Eleanor G. Viereck presents useful and fascinating information about trees, flowers, and shrubs accompanied by accurately rendered line drawing of the vegetation.
A Tender Distance
This is a mother's story about raising her two boys in Alaska were wilderness is just out the back door of their home. Written with wit, wisdom, and a grateful heart, A Tender Distance presents fifteen finely-crafted vignettes that explore the perils and joys of raising two fearless boys from toddlerhood to young men. Mothers everywhere will relate to the hard, familiar choice between holding close and letting go.
Beyond Road's End
The book chronicles the adventures of Ed and Janice Schofield including building their own home, learning about the wild plants, the people and the wildlife of the area. Short episodic chapters keep readers turning the pages full of «can-do spirit» and live in the last frontier. Part love story, part adventure, and part natural history, this is a chaming memoir.
Thunder on the Tundra
This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team. Against long odds the Whalers had to practice and play in extreme conditions and travel hundreds of miles from home when they went on the «road,» flying for each game.They ended their first season victorious, while maintaining their subsistence hunter-gather culture.
The Winter Walk
A chilling true story about a pregnant mother with two children who must battle cold, starvation and exhaustion. Ultimately it's a story of survival and trimph amid unspeakable sorrow.
Divinity’s Twilight
A world consumed by war . . .An ancient evil resurrected . . .A millennia old bargain comes due . . . When two blades clash, the third will fall, and the fate of all will be jeopardized. To save Lozaria, the failures of the past must be atoned for by a new generation of heroes. The time has come for mortals to cast off sight and, in doing so, truly come to see . . . Victory is never absolute Seven centuries ago, the forces of order won the Illyriite War on the plains of Har'muth. Darmatus and Rabban Aurelian slew their elder brother, Sarcon, the despotic architect of the conflict, then sacrificed themselves to banish the cataclysmic vortex opened with his dying breath. The first advent of the Oblivion Well was thwarted. Even without their vanished gods, the seven races of Lozaria proved themselves capable of safeguarding their world. Or so the story goes. The year is now 697 A.B.H. (After the Battle of Har'muth). Though war itself remains much the same, the weapons with which it is waged have evolved. Airships bearing powerful cannons ply the skies, reducing the influence of mages and their spells. Long range communication has brought far flung regions of Lozaria closer than ever before. At the center of this technological revolution are the three Terran states of Darmatia, Rabban, and Sarconia, who have fought a near ceaseless campaign of 700 years in an attempt to best each other. The roots of their enmity lie buried beneath the wasteland of Har'muth, a place all three nations consider best forgotten. However, an ancient power sealed within Har'muth has not forgotten them, and the descendants of those who fought on that field must now take a stand to rectify the mistakes of the past. Christopher Russell presents the first book in his gripping fantasy series: Divinity's Twilight .
The Bliss Balance - Create Success, Peace, and Happiness in Your Life
Are your efforts to perform and over-achieve hindering you from reaching your full potential and experiencing the inner peace and happiness that you long for? Are you mentally fatigued, hopeless, or pessimistic about your ability to create the life you want to live? The Bliss Balance offers a blueprint to create success, peace, and happiness in your life. Regardless of where you are along the journey, this book will assist you in bringing your dreams into reality and provide you the tools to create the necessary balance of observation, contemplation, and taking action. The Bliss Balance explores the relationship between being a spectator and being a performer in life. In society, we tend to focus more on hastily taking action when we haven't taken the time to contemplate, observe, and visualize what result we would like to create. This book gives you the opportunity to address this imbalance and develop an equilibrium between observation and action. Ultimately, this balance will create bliss and peace while allowing you to produce the life results you want.
Paperback L.A. Book 3
The third in the Paperback L.A. series focusing on culture, people, humor, and zeitgeist of L.A.Editor is respected as a former magazine editor and communications chief for a prominent social-justice nonprofitFocus will be on smart, entertaining short pieces, not esoteric or archly «literary» (i.e., no poetry)A mix of famous names and quirky unknownsNetwork of contributors will help promote the bookEngaging photo essays will add color and visual interest, and the beautiful and cohesive design of full book series makes for a beautiful display and a wonderful gift
Paperback L.A. Book 2
The second of a planned series of four books focusing on culture, people, humor, and zeitgeist of L.A.Editor is respected as a former magazine editor and communications chief for a prominent social-justice nonprofitFocus will be on smart, entertaining short pieces, not esoteric or archly «literary» (i.e., no poetry)A mix of famous names and quirky unknownsNetwork of contributors will help promote the bookEngaging photo essays will add color and visual interest
Paperback L.A. Book 1
Paperback LA is a surprising and witty collection of some of the best writing ever about Los Angeles. More than a dozen major selections include new work and fresh discoveries: a radio broadcast, a ballad, a magazine article, excerpts from prizewinning novels and memoirs. These pieces are punctuated by perceptive photo essays, a quotable lineup of one-liners, and other quick hits. In the company of a virtuosic band of storytellers, Paperback LA roams across the decades, from just after the Mission era to just after Hollywood’s golden age, from the post-hardcore punk scene to a reimagined today. With Susan Sontag, we visit Thomas Mann. With Paul Beatty, we turn a Metro ride into a PCH party. With Héctor Tobar, we search for people who lived somewhere around here. With Victoria Dailey, we look in on the boys in the backroom. Photographers share vivid moments of street sights, skaters at play, and activists on the march. Paperback LA’s contributors have attitude, and they have information. Each inspired work illuminates some aspect of the city’s rich, spread-out reality. Some shine a quick klieg light on a moment or person, others gradually reveal a dawning sense of place—in settings that range from a 1920s rural dance pavilion to 1960s Dodger Stadium, with subject matter that sprawls from bookselling to bodysurfing. Contributions from Eve Babitz • Paul Beatty • Dan Bern • Arna Bontemps • Carlos Bulosan • Cecil Castelucci • Victoria Dailey • William Heath Davis • Robert Landau • Justin Andrew Marks • Steve Martin • Hugo Reid • Vin Scully • Susan Sontag • Clancy Sigel • Hector Tobar • Victor and Mary Lau Valle • Elysa Voshell/Venice Arts