Living, working, and growing up on a farm in North Dakota in the 1940s and 1950s was hard, especially for the family I was born into. My mother's death when I was a teenager changed my view of the world, God, and eternity. I questioned my church's teaching and found few answers to my questions.To further complicate my life, as a baby, I developed a physical deformity that made me terribly self-conscious. Psychic experiences began to happen when I was young that, as I got older, eve...

Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Choice Debut Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.The “haunting . . . impressive” (NYTBR) National Bestseller-imagining the untold human history of the making of the atomic bomb.They arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, ...

“Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle TimesWelcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like:to be stuck in a tornado?“[It] is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.”to participate in an orgy?“And all the while, the thought that keeps going through your mind (and through the cab ride home, and into breakfast the next day): ‘I’m at an orgy! I’m at an orgy!’”to have a severe stutter?

Readers of previous four books in the Millennial Hospitality series, will be surprised, as one advance reader was, to see Millennial Hospitality V, The Grays, is about a totally different group of Extraterrestrials. In this latest book, Charles will walk you through his two separate TDYs (temporary duty) in the valley of the Grays. Charles also lays out what he believes actually happened during the events surrounding the 1947 Roswell Crash. There is also a short section of credible updates...

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Thank you, Cy . . . for opening up the world of tinkering and creativity to a whole new generation . . . looking to get their hands dirty with new and exciting projects." --NPR's Ira Flatow, host of Science FridayLike a real MacGyver, Tymony is hoping to save the world one gizmo at a time." --Los Angeles TimesCy Tymony's The Sneaky Book for Girls picks up where The Daring Book for Girls left off. While The Daring Book for Girls i...

In the fall of 1978 Ray Ordorica packed everything he thought he would need into his Toyota LandCruiser and drove north to Alaska. He came to a land he had never seen, to find something he wasn't even sure existed: a wilderness cabin he could use for a year or more to live, think, relax, read, and write. Ordorica found his cabin, fixed it up, and, although it was just an un-insulated 12- by 16-foot one-room log structure, he spent three winters in it in relative comfort.Ordorica’s ...

First published in book form 1985, Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life. The essays in this collection, which The New York Times...

Burnt is a captivating and “evocative” (Erin Brockovich) memoir of trailblazing and firefighting from California’s first—and only—female chief of fire protection, a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field.Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it’s an unexpected one. It’s about finding your home, even if you aren’t immediately welcomed. And it’s about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don’t look like you fit in....

For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder, and one of the only women, in the Boilermakers Union. Distilled from a vast cache of journals, notes, and keen observations, Thick Skin follows Peach from the West Coast shipyards and pulp mills of British Columbia, through the Alberta tar sands and the Ontario rust belt, to the colossal power generating stations of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. At times edging up to the surreal, Thick Skin...

Was a high school drop out during the Vietnam Conflict. Wanted to hitch hike across the USA and discover the unexpected. Just me and a friend. Actually he was a sniper in Vietnam and drank anything that contained alcohol. Pass out anywhere, wet pants and all. That war sure got to him. He couldn't even go hunting. All he could see was squirrels wearing those straw pointed hats. At age 7 me and my brother who was a year older than me, got into my dads shotgun shells. We got some hot wood and...