![]() So they backpack over Alaska's northernmost mountains, the Brooks Range, to the headwaters of the mighty Hulahula River, and paddle their folding canoe 110 miles to the Arctic Ocean. This will be Jim's parting gift to Aidan, their last journey together before she leaves home for college. They believe that girls deserve a rite of passage and they often take their daughters on hunting trips before they leave their villages. In Eskimo culture, men do not distinguish between sons and daughters. Jim decides to make one last trip to Alaska with his daughter Aidan. ![]() ![]() Fans of nature writers like John McPhee, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Edward Hoagland, and Barry Lopez, as well as readers of adventure narratives and memoirs such as Into the Wild, The Last American Man, Wild H is for Hawk and Still Points North will be drawn to Campbell's beautiful descriptions of Alaska's glacier-fed rivers and rugged mountains. Press release: A Room of One's Own welcomes James Campbell, author of the new book Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild, and his daughter Aidan for a reading and book-signing!īraving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild is an ode to America's disappearing wilderness and a profound meditation on the role of nature in a child's development. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Captain Alexis Truffant explains that Garrett has stumbled on something bigger and scarier than he could have ever imagined: the first attack in a covert war of unthinkable proportions. But then the US military arrives at his office and Garrett's life is thrown into free fall. It's a discovery that Garrett knows will make him stinking rich. ![]() ![]() As he watches buy and sell numbers float across his computer monitor, Garrett notices what nobody else can: that US Treasury bonds are being sold off at an alarming rate. But he doesn't just memorize numbers: he sorts them, ranks them, senses patterns. Garrett's memory for numbers is photographic. Numbers don't lie.Not according to Garrett Reilly who, just two weeks past his twenty-sixth birthday, thinks he's probably the best bond analyst at his brokerage, maybe the best in all of lower Manhattan. Produktbeschreibung Warfare goes digital in movie and TV writer Drew Chapman's fast-moving debut, a high-stakes thriller that pits the online might of China against that of the United States ( Publishers Weekly) as reluctant patriot Garrett Reilly races around the globe to avert total war. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you haven't, do yourself a favor and find out where your closest league is, grab some friends and go. Perhaps you've witnessed a bout for yourself. These days, chances are you even know a roller girl or two. You know what roller derby is, right? The full-contact, super-fast, bump-and-bruise-filled passion that is currently the fastest-growing female sport in America? Maybe you've seen Ellen Page fly around the track in Drew Barrymore's Whip-It. Looking back, I don't know how I ever thought one had nothing to do with the other. I didn't join a roller derby league in order to survive my divorce. ![]() The author of Going in Circles (which she affectionately refers to as Eat, Cry, Shove) extols the virtues of roller derby, why it worked better than therapy when her marriage ended and what she learned along the way. When times get tough, tough girls get rolling. ![]() |