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Henry David Thoreau

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Megalodon Entertainment LLC.
Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks customer 's reviewArguably America's most famous nonconformist, Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 1845 to September 1847, chronicling his experiences there. It was an experiment in living a life unhindered by social trappings and tradition. His work was not widely renowned for years after his death, but later became a staple in modern culture, defining not only what it means to be an American, but what it means to be human. Come see where the idea of marching to the beat of a different drummer originated. Walden is a classic and essential reading. Rerations < Walden >
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Henry W. Hewet

price:$0.00
Public Domain Books(2004-01-01)
customer 's reviewThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Rerations < Cinderella >
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< On the Origin of Species >
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Charles Darwin

price:$12.99
Empire Books
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewIn 1831, naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin joined the Beagle expedition to Tierra del Fuego. What he observed when he got to the new world would eventually lead him to formulate his theory of natural selection. Published in 1859, On the Origin of the Species is the controversial classic that revolutionized natural science and altered our understanding of the world. Rerations < On the Origin of Species >
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Viktor E. Frankl

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Washington Square Press
customer 's reviewPsychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Rerations < Man's Search for Meaning >
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Nikola Tesla

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CreateSpace
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewTesla's fascinating autobiography was first published as a six-part 1919 series in the Electrical Experimenter magazine, in the February - June, and October issues. Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. His writings have fascinated readers for more than a century. No one has had a greater impact on the world as we know it than Tesla. Without his ground-breaking work we'd all be sitting in the dark without even a radio to listen to. Rerations < My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla >
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Mark Twain

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San Val
customer 's reviewMark Twain's own story of his youthful years as a cub-pilot on a steamboat plowing up and down the Mississippi River.
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Mara Purl

price:$13.90
Haven Books(2005-09-29)
customer 's reviewWinner - Silver Benjamin Franklin Award. Finalist - USA Book News Award. In a half-built house high on a bluff overhanging the ocean, reporter Chris Christian persues a treacherous lead and fails to appear for her clandestine dinner date. While in an endangered forest overlooking the Cove, artist Miranda Jones is sharing a secret location with a stranger who might be the man of her dreams. Meanwhile on Main Street, Sally is dishing up home cooking and perfecting her eavesdropping on everything from Jack Sawyer's nefarious building practices, to Zack Calvin's unexplained attraction to Milford-Haven, and she'd give a free basket of fresh, hot biscuits to know the secrets locked away in Samantha Hugo's journal.
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Geoff Bluske

price:$1.99
(2011-06-30)
customer 's review"On the fringe of extinction, it will take bravery to persevere. "Year 50" is a science fiction novel set in a future where humanity is nearly extinct, and the last human colony is struggling to survive against the combined cruelty of nature and an alien species. Calypso has been raised from her young life to fight them, and it's now on her to save her colony by finding the medicine they need. "Year 50" is a riveting novel that should prove hard to put down."
Michael Dunford Midwest Book Review
It has been almost 50 years since the planet was nearly rid of humans. Wildlife grows without restraint, erasing the metal and concrete structures left behind. Even where industrialization was most prominent, trees and grassland are aggressively reclaiming their land; Earth is pulling away the scab of human civilization.
A young woman named Calypso leads a team of Scavengers beyond the walls of Brighton, the last human colony. Her goal is to find medical supplies, necessary to preserve humanity’s future. It is a dangerous journey few have the training, ability, or psychological threshold to carry out.
The team’s journey involves days of travel through infested city ruins, something even the most battle-hardened survivors are unwilling to do. Entering The Wild means facing Puppets, creatures which nearly exterminated humans and are now the predominant species. They are human bodies being controlled by an alien parasite, turning them to feral, ravenous creatures driven only to consume and replicate.
Everyone on Calypso’s team has been trained to kill these monsters from the moment they could hold a weapon. They have learned to never underestimate the alien monsters, as any mistake can bring death. But a short ways into the scavenge, the team discovers that Puppets are mutating, making them more apt predators now than ever before. Though the journey now borders on impossibility, Calypso pushes ahead, as failure by her team could mean the end of humanity.
[Note from the author] Year 50 was originally written as a zombie-adventure, out of love for the genre. However, there were some issues that have always been problematic for me. Most notably, the implausibility of zombies. Granted, they are fictional creatures that cannot be taken in complete seriousness; but between rigor mortis, decomposition, consumption by scavenging animals/insects, and the general ineffectiveness of the monsters, it seems impossible that a zombie outbreak would last more than 24 hours. As such, I modified the concept to create Puppets (human bodies being controlled by an alien parasite), which nullify these problems. This concept is fantastic and supernatural as well, but can operate with science and logic remaining intact.
Zombie stories often deal with the initial outbreak, typically involving people focused on what the world used to be like and their ability to adapt and change. This issue is not as problematic for me as it is overdone. I am more interested in what would happen later, to people who would be born into this new world. Year 50 takes place 49 years after the outbreak itself, providing characters adapted to a world where zombie-like creatures are commonplace. There is no old world to remember, as they know nothing of it. As such, Year 50 is not a horror story, as monsters are a part of everyday life.
Though Year 50 was written initially as a zombie story, it became more about the post-apocalyptic culture that humans would form. My studies in biology and cultural psychology have proven as useful as any English class I have taken. So while the story deals with fantastic, fictional creatures, everything in the world follows a realistic path of scientific and cultural progression. The primary characters in Year 50 are intelligent to the level of present-day geniuses, athletic to the level of Olympic athletes, and resilient to the level of battle-hardened soldiers; in all cases, because they have to be. Rerations < Year 50 >
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John Yunker

price:$2.99
Ashland Creek Press(2010-06-14)
customer 's reviewSome people stop at the water's edge. Some keep going...
Biologist Angela Haynes is accustomed to dark, lonely nights as one of the few humans at a penguin research station in Patagonia. She has grown used to the cries of penguins before dawn, to meager supplies and housing, to spending most of her days in one of the most remote regions on earth. What she isn’t used to is strange men washing ashore, which happens one day on her watch.
The man won’t tell her his name or where he came from, but Angela, who has a soft spot for strays, tends to him, if for no other reason than to protect her birds and her work. When she later learns why he goes by an alias, why he is a refugee from the law, and why he is a man without a port, she begins to fall in love—and embarks on a journey that takes her deep into Antarctic waters, and even deeper into the emotional territory she thought she’d left behind.
Against the backdrop of the Southern Ocean, The Tourist Trail weaves together the stories of Angela as well as FBI agent Robert Porter, dispatched on a mission that unearths a past he would rather keep buried; and Ethan Downes, a computer tech whose love for a passionate activist draws him into a dangerous mission.
294 pages
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"What’s impressive about this novel [is that] it occupies so much literary territory. It is at once a romance, an adventure story, an environmental polemic, and a keen study of just how animalistic humans are...It is a reader’s pleasure, due in large part to the meticulous control with which Yunker commands his language." -- Phoebe Literary Journal
"This immensely readable and exciting novel brings together the seemingly disjointed lives of characters who share a common thread: whether they know it or not, their purpose is to be devoted to the cause of helping animals...The Tourist Trail is epic, sprawling and strikingly cinematic." -- Our Hen House
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Aldous Huxley







price:$90.00
Harpercollins
customer 's reviewA fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece."Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers." --Saturday Review of Literature"A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay." --Forum "It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley's best book." --Martin Green "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. Rerations < Brave New World >
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