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This is a biography of six of us-that is, six members of our family, the People of Earth. We meet our characters on a poor farm and a great estate, in a locked institution and an astronomical observatory, at the height of power and the depth of despair. Their search and their struggles are rooted in the coarsest ground of our world but reach out to the Universe. They find for us, in the grit and the stars, the least likely thing in the universe, the Great Improbability. Their story is ours. Two young women and four men, alone and peculiar, become entangled in deep mystery. Darwin's evolution has run its course, and a new survival of the fittest falls into their hands. Throughout their tangled stories, the rough hand of entropy wrestles with the gentle hand of God for the people's survival. They are we. Each carries a personal mystery, all gradually flowing into one. Meaghan Leary, an abused young woman, pulls herself out of poverty and discrimination to control all around her, but her

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During the last quarter of the nineteenth century Celia Thaxter was the most popular of America's woman poets, surpassing in importance many others whose names are better known today. Yet Celia's fame began to wane even before her death in 1894. Perhaps, as Jane Vallier suggests in this study of Thaxter's life, adverse financial circumstances forced the poet to try her hand as a folklorist, juvenile author, freelance journalist, dramatic actress, naturalist, and illustrator, as well.In this, the first extensive literary biography of Celia Thaxter, author Vallier explains the meaning and symbolism of Thaxter's poetry and describes how Celia's unhappy marriage and her life on the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire, colored her poetry and prose. Included in this reprint of the original 1982 edition is a new introduction with additional photographs, fifty-three of Thaxter's poems plus a reprint ofA Memorable Murder, the story of the killing of two women on Smuttynose Island i

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Cheeky, a fun-loving river otter, and Charlemagne, a persnickety pine marten, are entrusted with a dangerous mission to transport an herbal antidote to the furry animals of the North Country -- without it they will not survive! Join Cheeky and Charlemagne, and their scout, Bandit -- a humorous woodpecker -- on their many adventures: navigating raging rivers, hiking mountains, crossing paths with a mountain lion, surviving a blinding blizzard, discovering the perilous danger of hidden traps, and dodging poisonous whizzer darts. Will they arrive in time to save the Great Protector of the North Country?

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A companion work to Flatland (Sayre/Emberley, 2014), the Dialogues offer meaning, comfort, and direction to a world at risk of losing its faith. From the latest science and our places of greatest striving, an expert on the reduction of entropy offers a reality that is rational, faithful, and hopeful. The inventor of chirp FM radio and a standard energy-saving contract, Sayre has formed a dozen companies around the sciences of communication, rehabilitation, and energy. These have made him expert in reducing entropy, the measure of both decay and ignoranceand that is how scientists would detect intelligent life, anywhere in the universe.

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This autobiographical odyssey seeks in places of great striving a rational faith-one true to both our highest religious ideas and our advancing sciences. As founder of both charitable and technical businesses, the author leads us to places of the greatest despair and the greatest power on earth. There we meet amazing examples of good and evil, interwoven with contemporary scientists' own searches for meaning, explaining faith and love, truth and life, time and order and beauty. The things we hold sacred are real, after all.For readers unfulfilled by either conventional religions or scientific materialism; parents, teachers, and leaders struggling to reconcile peace with power and beauty with truth.

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Charley is based on the true story of a twelve-year-old boy living in Boston in 1910. Suffering from abandonment he winds up on the steps of an orphanage. Charley, blessed with a beautiful voice, joins the traveling choir. When his hopes are all but dashed, he sings his way into a family in rural Maine.

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