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Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly Wendell Berry just as easily steps into Kentucky’s Red River Gorge and makes the observations of a poet as he does step away to view his subject with the keen, unflinching eye of an essayist. The inimitable voice of Wendell Berry—at once frank and lovely—is our guide as we explore this unique wilderness.

Located in eastern Kentucky and home to 26,000 acres of untamed river, rock formations, historical sites, unusual vegetation and wildlife, the Gorge very nearly fell victim to a man-made lake thirty years ago. "No place is to be learned like a textbook," Berry tells us, and so through revealing the Gorge’s corners and crevices, its ridges and rapids, his words not only implore us to know more but to venture there ourselves. Infused with his very personal perspective and enhanced by the startling photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Unforeseen Wilderness draws the reader in to celebrate an extraordinary natural beauty and to better understand what threatens it..
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Written with his typical witty and delicate touch, Christian Oster's new novel pokes fun at the postmodern male's overrated sensitivity.

Oster's stories are simple—at least if we mean stories that can be summarized in a few words. In the case of The Unforeseen, such a summary would begin like this: the narrator, who has a perpetual cold, lives with a woman who never catches a cold and so has the immediate intuition that the cold she has now, as the two of them drive together toward the sea at the opening of the novel, is a very bad omen indeed.

From the author of A Cleaning Woman, made into a film by Claude Berri, comes Oster's new novel of perfect, erudite, and sometimes laughable sadness. Oster's perceptive gaze, and the changing rhythm of his sentences, guide his reader through the psychological realism of obsession and desire. The honesty of emotion in The Unforeseen is matched only by its subversive intent..
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CONEY ISLAND UNFORESEEN TIMES tells the story of what it was like to grow up during the 1960s and 1970s decades in a deteriorating neighborhood adjoined to the legendary amusement grounds; a place said to have begun suffering its own deterioration when the City of New York's urban renewal project resulted in development of numerous hi-rise buildings (referred to as the projects), and relocation of the city's poor and disadvantaged minority residents having settled within it's walls. Among them, the author of this work. This book is devoted far more to life in the residential community of Coney Island, as opposed to the much-written-about beachside amusement parks and attractions, taking place during an era that followed Coney Island's glorified past. This mostly comical memoir encompasses a two-decade timeline of funny--often hilarious--accounts. The true-life tales are also intertwined with moments of sadness, joy, horror, romance, and a range of other emotions...lots of stories of teenage adventures and dilemmas that nearly anyone can relate to, taking place in a world full of spinning and twirling lights attached to many incredible machines..
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Racism in America has been called the elephant in the room that no one wants to recognize Even though some have recently called for a national conversation on race, as if it were a subject never discussed or even acknowledged, in 2003 alone 776 books and almost 8,000 newspaper articles were printed on the subject.
During the civil rights era, racial discrimination was easy to spot in laws that made it difficult for minorities to vote or get decent jobs, enforced segregated schools, and denied minority students admission to many universities. Today, however, the racial climate is much different. Now we talk about "subtle" or "subconscious" racism, the sort of which the racist is unaware, that cannot be detected by the unassisted eye.
In this context, law professor Patrick Garry believes today's racial problem is not silence, but rather confusion. Accusations of racism are vague but pervasive that they have become an indictment against the very legitimacy of society as a whole. With this has come a suffocating social guilt, and that sense of guilt has resulted in a steady retreat from moral and value judgments on all cultural matters, not just those of race. The fear of being branded as a racist has become so intense among whites that—even in the wake of the 9/11 attacks—the nation is immobilized from doing anything to slow the tide of illegal aliens flooding through its borders for fear of being excoriated as racist. The situation is not helped by those groups and ideologies that employ charges of racism as a weapon in a larger political crusade that transcends race.
Garry addresses racism in America from the perspective of the cultural majority, unlike most books on the subject that focus on issues that are important to the victims of racism. Garry instead examines how whites have allowed themselves to be marginalized in the conversation on race, how the fear of being labeled as racist has resulted in whites withdrawing from any dialogue or moral judgment involving almost all cultural matters, and how racial fear and guilt are influencing the moral health of America..
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As twisted and rugged as Maine s Atlantic coast, UNFORESEEN is a chilling, laugh-out-loud thriller, weaving its way to a shocking conclusion and thus announcing the arrival of Nick Pirog, a new breed of thriller writer, sure to enthrall readers for decades to come. Retired homicide detective Thomas Prescott is reluctant to read the best selling book Eight in October, a true-crime thriller based on a string of murders occurring throughout October of the past year. After all, it was his case, and he doesn t need to be reminded of the gruesome details. The book dubbed the serial killer, Tristen Grayer, The MAINEiac. Grayer is allegedly dead, but only Prescott knows the truth, Grayer is alive and lurking in the shadows. On October 1st, the anniversary of the first murder, Tristen resurfaces, killing someone special from Prescott's past. Suddenly, it s déjà vu for Prescott except this time the women closest to him begin to fall victim at the hands of Grayer. With the help of former flame, medical examiner Dr. Caitlin Dodds, and Eight in October author, Alex Tooms, Prescott must race against the clock to stop Tristen from completing his encore..
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Dr. Nicholas Steiner is a Park Avenue internist in his mid-forties He has a successful medical practice, a stable marriage with a home in the suburbs and enjoys good health. But when he develops melanoma, a potentially fatal type of cancer, everything changes. With a worsening prognosis his marriage dissolves and he is unable to work. As time runs out, the combined efforts of two unlikely individuals ~ an expert in Chinese herbs and a highly unusual younger woman ~ play critical roles in his survival. Many of the narrative's turbulent and surprising developments are unforeseen consequences of decisions and events from earlier in life. The author concludes that the cancer that almost killed him "was the best thing that could have happened to me.".
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