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61) Forever our home
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 90
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Living in the Resurrection, winner of the 1994 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, is about the tensions between allegiance to the history and tradition of the author's birthplace in western Kentucky and a longing for a more expansive life beyond the confines of that dying culture. Crunk seeks to articulate and honor that which is sacred in the local, the particular, the mundane - in relations with the land, with family, and with one's forebears....
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with three generations of witches her entire life. Rhia draws her magic from the earth and likes to spend her time amongst plants and nature. Her practice is gentle, sacred, and-per her family's tradition-secret. New-to-town witch Valerie Morgan is looking for answers about her mother's disappearance from Oakriver seventeen years ago. Without her mother's guidance,...
65) Omen of ice
Author
Series
Omen of ice volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Keltania Tunne has spent her whole life training to become a bodyguard for a Winter Fae. It's the highest of honors for a druid... only when Tania arrives at the Winter Court for the first time, nothing is what she expected. Her assignment is the heir to the throne, Valen, and he doesn't want her protection. In fact, he wants her gone. Yesterday. But Tania will not compromise, even if he is the most arrogant jackass she's ever met--because something...
Author
Publisher
Skinner House Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1987, when Karen Van Fossan's teenage identity was stolen in a botched bank robbery, she maintained an unquestioning allegiance to the colonial legal system. In 2021, when she found herself in a jail cell on a Water Protector charge, she had long since been a resister of her own colonial culture. But what does it mean, as a descendent of colonialism, to seek to be un-colonial?"--
67) The night hunt
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Atia, a monster hunted by the Gods, and mortal Silas join forces to avenge her family and break his curse and restore his humanity, they discover that only together can they finally rewrite their destinies.
Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can't...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this memoir, Sister Marya Grathwohl recounts her spiritual journey, how she-a Catholic nun from Ohio-came to be embraced by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne, and how their traditions prompted in her an expanding devotion to the land, its resources, and its connections to faith and God"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of the enchanted realism of Alice Hoffman's bestselling novels, Madame Metier and Her Friends weaves together magic, romance, and a powerful bond of friendship in celebration of the female spirit. Facing destitution after the untimely death of her husband, Madame Metier revisits a long-forgotten talent-the creation of healing botanical creams and lotions. Her rediscovery of this sacred practice marks the beginning of her spiritual odyssey...
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Embark on over 50 of the world's most life-affirming journeys and nurture your path to self-discovery. Packed with beautiful photography and inspiring first-person insights for each trip, from hiking Japan's sacred Shikoku pilgrimage to following the Underground Railroad in the US. This is the perfect book for anyone seeking to travel with purpose. Each journey features first-hand accounts from travellers with insightful tips on how to begin planning...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity--not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change. Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask:...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground, its monopoly on history" --
"The tectonic plates that form China have left it a checkerboard of mountains and rivers and memories. From the south, the Indian plate pushes up into the Eurasian, creating the Himalayas and the vast Tibetan plateau that almost...
Author
Publisher
Twirl
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the most unusual and impressive plants on Earth! Towering sequoias, giant Saguaro cacti, prehistoric plants, incredible palms and many more fill the pages of this large format book. The detailed illustrations are accompanied by fascinating facts about each plant." -- Chronicle Books website
Author
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The key to America's future begins with exploring our past. In Freedom Is Costly, But Priceless, Dave Meyer shares the importance of our nation's true history?learning about our rich, godly heritage and discovering Who and what has made this nation so great. God's Word was an integral part of our nation?s founding, and His Word is still the key today to restoring our families, schools, churches and communities. When it comes to the future of this...
76) Survival guide for the soul: how to flourish spiritually in a world that pressures us to achieve
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What keeps us from flourishing in our spiritual lives is a neglect of the inner life of the soul. And more and more today, this neglect is driven by our ambition to accomplish something big outside ourselves. We live in a society that pressures us to achieve professionally, socially, and through the constant acquisition of material possessions. Drawing on a wide range of sources including scripture, church history, psychology, and neuroscience, as...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Many Christians live a faith that is "nowhen." They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow "above" the flux of history, as if every generation starts with a clean state. They lack an awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues, prone to nostalgia, or fixated on the end times and other doomsday versions of the future. Popular speaker and award-winning author...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Each of us walks with deep, sacred wisdom. Our bodies contain an innate intelligence that knows how to heal, and with guidance, we can learn modalities that allow us to live and thrive in ways we dream about. The Vibration of Grace ushers us to our limitless power by sourcing the inexhaustible presence of sound. Here, we are taken on an unparalleled guided immersion with vocalist and sound healer gina Breedlove, who has practiced, shared, and lived...
79) Cashdown's folly
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of Reconstruction, pioneering homesteader, livestock breeder, and would-be innkeeper Hamish "Cashdown" Musgrave brings his sprawling family into the Palouse Prairie. Before they succeed, they face claim-jumpers and bandits; floods, fires, and blizzards; and diseases, locusts, and crop losses. But soon Hamish's brother Callum goes missing and remains mysteriously elusive. The railroad refuses to build a line past the Musgrave stagecoach...
Author
Publisher
Sentinal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"There is a war on masculinity, and everywhere we look - on every front we hold sacred - we can see the painful reminders of this collapsing order. The chaos and crisis we are experiencing today should be a signal for men everywhere to rise up; to fight to preserve our way of life by once again walking the ancient paths. But this isn't a journey that need be taken alone. In The Warrior Poet Way, public speaker, former Army Ranger, and all-around...
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