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No adults, no permit, no river map. Just some "borrowed" gear from Discovery Unlimited, the outdoor education program Jessie and her new companions have just ditched Jessie and the others are having the time of their lives floating beneath sheer red walls, exploring unknown caves and dangerous waterfalls, and plunging through the Grand Canyon's roaring rapids. No one, including Troy, who emerges as the group's magnetic and ultimately frightening leader, can forsee the challenges and conflicts.

What will be the consequences of their reckless adventure? .
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This revised edition of Canoe Racing is packed with the latest information on technique, equipment and tactics, and is illustrated with action shots from across North America Peter Heed, the Attorney General of New Hampshire, is a competitive marathon canoe racer and is a seven-time National Marathon and Whitewater Canoe Champion. Dick Mansfield is a writer/publisher based in Vermont. .
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Winner of the 2006 Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. Contest judge Quinn Dalton wrote: 'These eleven stories are fueled by a robust mix of voices children, young women, mothers, fathers all of whom are driven to survive past losses or the overwhelming challenges of their present circumstances. Take for example Nike Site, told from the perspective of ten-year-old Petie, which starkly depicts the landscape of children, where a nuclear plant defines the edge of their world. The story buzzes with the tension between what children are exposed to and what they are told; what they know and what the adults try futilely to hide from them. Within this collection, I had my favorites, but every story delivered on its promise to let us into a world of fully realized, breathing human beings whose lives might be different from ours in the details, but whose hopes and fears we recognize, and whose fates matter to us as much as our own. Another pleasure of this book was the precision of the language, the tight and natural dialogue, simple on the surface yet rich with subtext. I didn't want to stop reading, and when I had to, I went back as soon as I could as we do with any place we love to visit.'.
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In our busy and complex world, we often forget how to enjoy simple pleasures of life. Second Age takes us to a time when eating oatmeal and raisins, having a warm house, hearing red-wing blackbirds calling, meeting new people and seeing new places are enough to deeply touch the heart, mind and soul. There is a place in each of us that needs to know the importance of appreciating what you have in your life.

Second Age is simply written, and you live the author's adventures mostly along the upper Mississippi and other places just as he re-lived them while he was writing about them. You experience a joy and a depth in what life has to offer and in what it has to teach..
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Ian Sinclair's award winning Downriver has been self-abridged to eight sections totaling 64 minutes of trademark bulletproof prose, read by the author. Each section is interspersed with brief 'audio atmospheres' recorded at suitable London locations and processed by reknowned non-musician Bruce Gilbert (Wire / Dome). This CD documents Sinclair's readings, which have established their own cult audience and have always accompanied the publication of a new book as 'closure' for the writer.
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The story details an incident when Charlie Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company on the Congo River in Africa. Though his job is transporting ivory downriver, Marlow quickly develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent in the employ of the government. Kurtz has a strange reputation throughout the region. Rumor has it that he has made himself king of tribe of natives who worship him as a god. The book is partly the basis for the movies “Apocalypse Now” and “The Third Man”.
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In this outing, Walker goes "Downriver," which is a Detroiter's term for any part of Michigan that does not include the city. Actually, he goes to the Upper Peninsula to give a released con a ride back to Detroit. When he and the con get run off the road and the con hires him to help find 200,000 dollars from a heist for which he was convicted but which he did not commit, Walker has his hands full..
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Drawing on lessons from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Downriver is the story of a transformational journey in response to a life-changing event. Author Erik Hare represents coming-of-age lessons through metaphors and characters that both children and adults can understand, taking us through the magical realms of the River Flats, Piketown and Fountain Cave.Downriver explores themes of identity, power, ownership, and "finding one's place" in a rapidlychanging world. We travel with Popey, the main character, to learn more about the magic of the world through experience and observation, rather than through academic knowledge or just reading the written word. Popey's defiance and determination calls forth our own reflections on the need for self-actualization through our unique choices in life paths.The characters in Downriver at once familiar and memorable, illustrating the ways in which relationships influence our choices and help us see ourselves more clearly. Landscapes and locales provide the anchoring framework for the story, each describing beauty as it is found throughout even the most difficult personal struggles. In the end, we arrive at a sense of peace for the journeys ahead..
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