Hunting Life

The third book in Arthur Ransome's wonderful series for children, Peter Duck takes intrepid explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, and fearsome Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy Blackett, onto the high seas. Under the command of the infamous Captain Flint (Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim), the children brave a real-life pirate and his cutthroat crew, fog, sharks, and the ravenous crabs of Crab Island in the search for buried treasure.

She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she’d been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. Her first novel—The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter—was published in 1940 when she was twenty-three and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked-about writer of the time. Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of one of America’s greatest writers, a complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood—and captured, the heart and longing of the outcast.

"Asylum-seeker"; "refugee". All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticize our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the refugees themselves what it means to leave your home, your family, your past? Author Rose George has travelled to Liberia and Ivory Coast and also met refugees in Britain to discover what really happens when you are uprooted by war, greed, and guns.

Peace, the hardest bounty to find. Marlene Masters lived a life of oppression and debauchery. After thirteen years she finds the courage to flee the narcissistic hands of Lowells Elke, a Texas land prospector and prominent businessman, endeavoring to reunite with her lost son and estranged family before death claims her remaining time. Arriving in Chivalry, Texas, alone, sickly, and penniless, she finds a less than hearty welcome and struggles to hold on to reality when the life left behind wasn’t represented as it seems, dashing her dreams, leaving her hopelessly incurable and alone. ...

What they hunt shoots back. The Bayou Banditos from the swamps of Louisiana have for years tracked and captured murderers, bank robbers and drug smugglers in places where no law enforcement officials would dare go. From the swamps of the South to mountainous terrains of the Rockies, these unorthodox trackers will go anywhere to track down their targets. The news organizations call them lawless bounty hunters. Law enforcement agencies despise them, but they are needed for their unusual tracking talents. The Bayou Banditos Buck, Bubba, JRod and Portagee are a father and son’s team of ...

When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new friends, and soon she's caught in a maelstrom of lies, misunderstandings, accusations and counter-accusations, all happening very publicly in the relentless, hyper-connected social media world from which there is no escape.

Embark on an awe-inspiring journey across the universe with "Worlds Beyond," an enlightening exploration into the fascinating field of exoplanetary science. This eBook invites you to delve into the mysteries of worlds far beyond our solar system, unraveling the secrets of planets that orbit stars hundreds of light-years away. Begin your expedition with the origins of exoplanetary science, uncovering the early theories that first hinted at the existence of other worlds. Discover the groundbreaking methods used to detect these distant planets, from the transit method to gravitational ...

Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that’s exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie’s grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents, thinking a change of scenery will do her good. Susan and Frank, Maddie’s grandparents, are heartbroken over the loss of their son, but they welcome Maddie as an addition to their long-empty nest.

Are you grinding away in a high-pressure career, feeling unfulfilled and trapped? Do you want to reclaim control of your time and make a strategic career move without sacrificing your family, lifestyle, or sanity? Off The Dreadmill is the ultimate toolkit for achieving fulfillment and balance in your career and life. Discover the secrets of high-achievers who have found a way to break free from the grind and land their dream job. This book is not just another motivational read but a practical toolkit designed for ambitious professionals who refuse to settle for an okay job. Inside this book...

Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy Kidd have uncovered and rescued some of the world’s greatest treasure, without ever seeking out fame and glory. So they aren’t happy when the Collier Kids (as in Nathan Collier, the Kidds’s nemesis) start treasure hunting for the camera, more focused on looking good and selling ads for their streaming show than actually recovering treasure. When the Kidds are invited to compete with the Colliers for the title of “The World’s Greatest Treasure Hunting Kids,” they jump at the chance to show the world what real treasure hunting looks like.

For 10 summers, the Seton family - all three generations - met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the 11th summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family - and the convictions that just may pull it apart.

For many boys and girls, the opening day of the hunting season is very exciting! Tavey is finally old enough to hunt, along with an adult. Tavey's dad, a multi-generational sportsman, lovingly guides his son through much than just hunting. Through the larger canvas of the natural world, Tavey truly discovers a lifetime passion, but in an unexpected way.

For as long as he can remember, Ethan has envied his dad's hunting trips. His dad has always promised to bring Ethan along when he's old enough, and finally, this year is the year! But on their hunt, Ethan discovers some dead deer left in the woods. A poacher is killing the animals for fun. Ethan knows that's against the Hunter's Code. After all, he broke that rule himself.

Writing with the same mastery that has won him praise for his fiction, Richards takes us - even those unfamiliar with days spent in chilly waters - on an unforgettable journey to the famed Miramichi River. Casting new light on the mysterious and elegant world of fly fishing, it teems with lore and wisdom, humor, and most of all, passion.

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from - there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "railroad", this audiobook chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, their exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom.

1. The hot fae guy I'm in love with thinks of me like a sister…doesn't he? I've been trying to make him see that we're more than just friends for months, to no avail. But then we find an entire society of fae women, who threaten to take me from him.

From the political storytelling of the Bayeux tapestry's anonymous embroiderers and Mary, Queen of Scots' treasonous stitching, to the sewing of First World War soldiers suffering from PTSD and the banner makers at Greenham Common, Threads of Life stretches from medieval France to 1980s America, from a Second World War POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland. It is as much about identity, protest, memory and politics as craft and artistry.

In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house, and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him - but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an overactive imagination. It would be six years before her former boarder would be brought in for questioning, but the night Brown took action to solve the murder was the beginning of her life's work.

After saving her father and the world, Lola Benko and her new best friends, Jin and Hannah, are feeling invincible. But after botching a huge job (trying to get an ancient Pegasus necklace is a lot harder than they bargained for), the friends need to revive their skills—and their friendship. They land at Camp Timber Wolf, a treasure-hunting school where teams will compete to join the legendary Task Force. Once on the Force, the world of elite treasure hunting will be theirs, with first dibs on the most exclusive assignments.

The disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning, forever changing the way we think about life and work. We reprioritized our lives, reordered how we envisioned the future. The pandemic changed society in many ways, but among the most powerful was a collective rethinking of our relationship to our jobs. Millions quit the workforce in 2021 and 2022, and stunningly almost a third had no new job lined up to go to.