In Calamity's Wake


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To fufill her adoptive father's dying wish, Miette sets out to meet her mother, the notorious Calamity Jane, and crosses the badlands of the North American West in her quest to find the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.




Disaster Culture


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Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.




Neverworld Wake


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A compulsive, read-in-one-sitting suspense novel: page-turning, perfectly paced with a trust-no-one cast of characters and a high stakes death-cheating dilemma. Five friends. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. Who would you choose?




A Paradise Built in Hell


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The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.




Silencing the Wickedness of the Wicked with Dangerous Decree


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The battle of life is painstaking. You fight until you possess the gate of the enemy, occupy and claim the spoils. No battle is easy to conquer and dominate. You must be fierce in battle and never have second thought to surrender. It is no retreat, no surrender. Before you can achieve this you must know ways to go about it. You don’t go to battle field empty handed, without warfare technique or with fear. You must be bold as a solider. This book do it all. It is written to ensure you win and maintain it. This book will provide you with right language to use as a prayer warrior to defeat the enemy. The cup of enemy is full and so must be taught a lesson never to stage a comeback anymore. This book is loaded with prophecies and decrees that will write you with God, break every yoke that hunt’s you, scatter and destroy ancient idols that boast against you, silence every evil arrow, break every form of captivity that holds you back from breakthroughs; ensure you long life and stay permanent under the refuge of God. The ball is in your court. Pick this book, exercise your right in prayer and experience explosive breakthrough.




English Couplets


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Chumpy Walnut


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A nostalgic fable about a guy only a foot tall - lost, alone and looking for love and friendship in a wacky, wondrous world of hoboes, gangsters, gamblers, gun molls, showgirls, and other colorful characters.










The Spectator


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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.




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