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"In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, whip-smart software engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, and of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's deathless office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother. Overcome by "the pall," Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in his company's fortunes. Dodging an Iago-like rival, he finds love with...
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Remember that time at the mall, when you looked down the service hallway and someone was there and you fell in love with them, and when you looked again they were gone? When you found a tunnel under an old building and couldn't resist going in?
There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of their way. The rules are always clear but never fully known in Richard Butner's stories. Sometimes a door will open into...
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This adventure novel begins in an old underground mine in the North Cascades of Washington, next to the Canadian border. Danger, romance and intrigue follow Sara and Brad through the Idaho Primitive Area and the treacherous canyon of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. They sometimes stray from their work plans to search for a lost gold mine or prospect for gemstones in the rugged Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. It's the summer of 1967, a time before...
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Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she's become the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There's the historic house, where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel under your old high school, and couldn't resist going to see where it led. Sometimes a door will open into a new...
7) Elevation
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Verona Rupes, on the ice moon Miranda, is the tallest cliff in the solar system. If you jump off the top, it takes 700 seconds to reach the bottom. What can you do in the most important 700 seconds of your life? Jonathan and Gaby arrive at the ice moon Miranda to work with a local researcher and find that adventurists have snuck into an area infected with alien bacteria and have gotten themselves in trouble. Do these people have to be stopped because...
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A heartfelt & hilarious tale about a workaholic whose blind sushi date turns into a whitewater rafting disaster that puts love at the top of her to-do list.
City girl Jennifer Page works sixteen-hour days and has little time for love. But when her best friend proposes they go on a blind double date, Jennifer doesn't hesitate to say yes. What's better for her overworked soul than time with her best friend, a new sushi restaurant, and a cute guy?
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Peggy is a young girl, who was an only child, until now. Dad decided to catch up with his brother on his farm and decided to spend some special time with his daughter. Peggy had an adventurist day and saw both farm animals and wild life on her day's journey. Peggy showed all types of emotions as she experienced life on a farm. After a busy day interacting with animals and learning about the farm, Peggy fell asleep eating dinner that night, as she...
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Are you feeling adventurist? The author's intended audiences are young adult readers and those of all ages interested in how mountain men and explorers who adventured into the western wilderness survived in the early 1800s.
Actual historical events and methods are used throughout the story to accomplish tasks specific to the period.
Messages of right versus wrong and family values are woven throughout the novel's fabric and show how life can be...
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The stories in this book are for fun, laughs, and just maybe a little bit of wonder. Sometimes there are questions that need answers. Why do dogs bark at the moon? Can a canoe really sink? Just who is the bravest bird in the forest?
Writing is supposed to be fun and a little adventuristic. Some of these stories may have a message to them if you listen close enough. Some may even be true, but that author does go fishing, so just maybe he would tell...
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Last-Minute Survival Secrets contains more than a hundred ingenious survival tips that may sound quirky at first, but really do work. Readers will discover a wide range of handy and unusual secrets to outsmart the unexpected and escape perilous situations using common, household products. Green shows how to start a campfire with potato chips, open a locked suitcase with a ballpoint pen, and prevent heatstroke with a disposable diaper. Readers will...
13) Motorcycle Adventurer: Carl Stearns Clancy: First Motorcyclist to Ride Around the World 1912-1913
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This travelogue originally authored by Clancy is for the avid motorcycle adventurist, the travel dreamer thirsting for motorcycle touring. Clancy circled the globe during 1912-1913 on a 1912 motorcycle. There were no GPSs, ATMs, Internet, and often no gas, roads or motorcycle repair shops. It describes the first motorcycle global adventure ride by the man who survived a dream quest with his gun, determination, grit, and guts.
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Ruby Wei's Cacophony is the first novel in a series that explores empathy through the lens of minorities in the US and in China.
Meet Dolkar: victim combating her vulnerability. "... abandoned, I first met him when I got here, his white fur tainted a dirty brown. I couldn't say I liked the human race too much... With eyes purer than my own, he watched out for me, but even his barks wouldn't prevent the inevitable from happening."
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In the spirit of Schott's Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee?-a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children-queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults-and she's gathered together a notable crew of scientists,...
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Looking for offroad adventure? Start here!
From recreation to emergency, when you need a vehicle capable of traversing every road condition in every season or weather imaginable, the question is where to start. In OVERLAND: Project Guide to Offroad, Bug Out and Overlanding Vehicles, the editors of RECOIL and OFFGRID magazines have compiled some of the most remarkable offroad-ready rigs you've ever seen. See modifications you'd never thought of,...
17) Ultralight Winter Travel: The Ultimate Guide to Lightweight Winter Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking
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The key to winter travel is knowing how to travel as light as possible. The Ultralight series is perfect for both beginner and experts alike as Justin Lichter and Shawn Forry, the first ever winter thru-hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, use their knowledge to form the most comprehensive companion for traveling farther with less weight. Ultralight Winter Travel focuses on all of the skills and techniques that winter adventurists would want at their...
18) A Man Returns
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Gain wisdom and learn how to make good choices from someone who has made good and bad choices alike. The author' s experience will save readers a lot of trouble, all while being thoroughly entertained by the breadth and unique qualities of the author' s adventures. This adventurer's journey to manhood is one that will inspire, challenge, and reassure everyone on the same path of life. This book will take you on an adventurist'...
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Many fishermen will acknowledge that the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are the world's most intriguing, beautiful and noble fish. Having evolved nearly fifty million years ago in the Eocene epoch, these two species are close genetic cousins and descendants that can be found in oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams across the entire world. The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus is a complete historical, scientific, artistic,...
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This book bundle includes five sweet romance books from the DO-OVER DATE series that are fresh, flirty & fabulous!
(MILLION DOLLAR DATE, Book 1) Leads-with-her heart Abigail Apple is determined to save her favorite dog rescue from closing while follow-the-rules cop Cooper Hill might be the key to saving the shelter and winning her heart.
(THE DOUBLE DATE DISASTER, Book 2) When workaholic Jennifer Page's blind sushi date turns into a whitewater rafting...