Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics (Lende Heather)(Paperback)

Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics (Lende Heather)(Paperback)

'This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways!' --Bill McKibben, author of Falter Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take an active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears) (Hongoltz-Hetling Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

How the tiny town of Grafton, NH, became a radical experiment in small government--until the bear attacks startedOnce upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set

Little Bears Hide and Seek: Little Bears go on a Picnic (Maisner Heather)(Paperback / softback)

An interactive book that challenges children to help a family of bears tidy up, then flip the half-page flap and find out if they are

Town (Prescott Shaun)(Paperback / softback)

In an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback, a young writer arrives to research small settlements that have vanished into

Legacy of Lies: A Legal Thriller (Bailey Robert)(Paperback)

A small-town attorney takes on prejudice and corruption in this powerful legal thriller.Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis waiting for him. Her ex-husband has just been killed. She's about to be arrested for his murder. And she

My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir (Cetin Fethiye)(Paperback)

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher. Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men in her

Stealing Roses (Cooper Heather)(Pevná vazba)

1862. Growing up in the small seaside town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight, free-spirited Eveline Stanhope feels trapped by the weight of expectation from her well-to-do family. Her mother and two elder sisters would rather she focus her attention on marrying well, preferably to the wealthy Charles

Big Lies in a Small Town (Chamberlain Diane)(Paperback / softback)

Big Lies in a Small Town, by the internationally bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, is a sweeping novel about two women connected by a painting that holds many dark secrets.North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she

Ghost in the Headlights (Duga Lindsey)(Paperback)

In this modern-day retelling of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' an angry ghost haunts a small-town road in search of revenge...When Brianna Jenson agreed to move in with her cruel uncle Shane in rural Pennsylvania, she didn't expect to find herself in the middle of a terrifying town legend. Every

On Rue Tatin - The Simple Pleasures of Life in a Small French Town (Loomis Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan

Small Town Skateparks (Carrick Clint)(Paperback)

For many Americans who grew up in a small town, childhood and adolescence revolved around the skatepark. As time passes, however, these people drift away from skateboarding and the spaces where they learned to do it. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, Small Town Skateparks is the story of an

Politics: Ideas in Profile (Runciman David)(Paperback)

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and

I'm Not Stiller (Frisch Max)(Paperback)

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: 'I'm not Stiller!' He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved

Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Love Heather)(Paperback)

Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since

Creation (Vidal Gore)(Paperback)

A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure-in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript-Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world.Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of

Thinking in an Emergency (Scarry Elaine)(Paperback)

In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of 'emergency' politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: 'equality of survival.' She reveals how regular citizens can reclaim the power to protect one another and our democratic principles. Government

Rumours Of War - (The Matthew Hervey Adventures: 6): An action-packed and captivating military adventure from bestselling author Allan Mallinson (Mallinson Allan)(Paperback / softback)

Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to Portugese regent. But Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. The French had forced British army into retreat until, under leadership of Sir John Moore, they made a defiant stand at Corunna. As he prepares for battle, Hervey

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury Ray)(Paperback / softback)

Ray Bradbury's extraordinary tale of childhood dreams and supernatural agency in small-town America

On Burnley Road - Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town (Makin-Waite Mike)(Paperback / softback)

Want to Play? (Tracy P. J.)(Paperback / softback)

The slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a sickeningly inventive serial killer striking again in a city paralysed by

The Heartland: An American History (Hoganson Kristin L.)(Paperback)

A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with

Into the Deep (Young Samantha)(Paperback)

Charley Redford was just an ordinary girl until Jake Caplin moved to her small town in Indiana and convinced her she was extraordinary. Almost from day one Jake pulled Charley into the deep and promised he was right there with her. But when a tragic incident darkened Jake's life he waded out into

Escape Artist: An utterly gripping suspense novel from the bestselling author (Chamberlain Diane)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping, moving page-turner of secrets and lies in a small town from the Sunday Times bestselling

Stranraer and District Lives - Voices in Trust(Paperback / softback)

Recorded oral interviews give an account of life in and around the town of Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland - part of a wider research programme, The Regional Ethnology of Scotland Project. Co-published with the European Ethnological Research