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Homespun humor about the way we live, from the pleasant futility of salmon fishing and the joys of Halloween, to quiet afternoons with soap opera families and endless nights in pursuit of triviaTom Bodett, humorist, radio star, and pitchman for Motel 6, lives and writes in Homer, Alaska, the little town in the blue Northwest where America stops, carwise. "If you got into your car in New York," he says, "and wanted to take a nice long drive, I mean the longest drive you could without turning around or running into a foreign language, this is where you'd wind up." It's a place of moose and salmon and spectacular sunsets, but, Bodett insists, it's also small-town America, a place not all that different from the Michigan town of his youth. That's why he's made it his home: it perfectly suits his contrary appetites for the extreme and the everyday, for the rigors of the outdoor life and the mundane joys of the family circle. As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, Bodett's first collection of casual essays, contains pieces on everything from trapping, tree cutting, and halibut fishing, to soap operas, lost socks, and sleeping in. It's guaranteed to please both the renegade and the homebody in every reader.

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Stories carry the seeds of our humanness. They help us, teach us, heal us, and connect us to what matters. As Far As the Heart Can See is an invitation to be in relationship with deep and life-giving material. Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo reaches people through their hearts, bringing something fresh and new to the field by stimulating change through reflection of thoughts and feelings. The stories he shares in As Far As the Heart Can See come from many places--from Nepo's personal history to dreams to the myths of our ancestors. Each one is an invitation to awaken an aspect of living in relationship with the sacred. Following each of the forty-five stories are three forms of an invitation to further the conversation: journal questions, table questions, and meditations. The questions, whether reflected upon in a journal or discussed in deeper conversation with friends or family, are meant to lead the seeker down unimagined paths and back into life; the meditations are meant to ground the learning. These stories and parables about universal concepts and themes offer a poet's sensuality and a philosopher's sensibility to personalizing the journey of the human experience in the world.

Legendary folk-rocker Peter Case is documenting his trailblazing life in a full-length memoir. Case's bands The Nerves and The Plimsouls helped define the LA punk and alternative rock scenes, and his solo work helped usher in the Americana music phenomenon. The beginning of Case's story is As Far As You Can Get Without a Passport, which will be published in December 2006 by Everthemore Books' new imprint For Now. The Grammy-nominated musician has written and recorded with such artists as John Prine, John Hiatt, T-Bone Burnett and members of Los Lobos. Whether he's addressing the political or the personal, Case's searing and intensely visual songs deliver a punch that is rare in today's coffee bar-crowded world of singer-songwriters. Now he's taken his talents for words and translated them into a powerful piece of prose. "These are stories I've been carrying in my head for a long time," said Case. "When the time was right to set them down, they just poured out. Some people think it's my version of Bob Dylan's Chronicles, but it's really the anti-Chronicles--a tale of the streets." As Far As You Can Get Without a Passport covers Case's very early days playing music from the time he left his native upstate New York and wound up singing and playing on the streets of North Beach in San Francisco. Case fans know about this period of his life through such well-loved songs as "Entella Hotel" and "Travellin' Light", among others. John Doe, co-leader of the legendary LA punk band X, who wrote the introduction, sums up the book well here: "Perhaps the most appealing aspect of this story is that it isn't some glorified nostalgia trip starring the bohemian hero striking out to find his version of On the Road. There is simplicity of style and purposeful avoidance of artifice in his writing, so that the reader can just sit back and listen as Case and his confreres roll across the country."

Legendary folk-rocker Peter Case is documenting his trailblazing life in a full-length memoir. Case's bands The Nerves and The Plimsouls helped define the LA punk and alternative rock scenes, and his solo work helped usher in the Americana music phenomenon. The beginning of Case's story is As Far As You Can Get Without a Passport, which will be published in December 2006 by Everthemore Books' new imprint For Now. The Grammy-nominated musician has written and recorded with such artists as John Prine, John Hiatt, T-Bone Burnett and members of Los Lobos. Whether he's addressing the political or the personal, Case's searing and intensely visual songs deliver a punch that is rare in today's coffee bar-crowded world of singer-songwriters. Now he's taken his talents for words and translated them into a powerful piece of prose. "These are stories I've been carrying in my head for a long time," said Case. "When the time was right to set them down, they just poured out. Some people think it's my version of Bob Dylan's Chronicles, but it's really the anti-Chronicles--a tale of the streets." As Far As You Can Get Without a Passport covers Case's very early days playing music from the time he left his native upstate New York and wound up singing and playing on the streets of North Beach in San Francisco. Case fans know about this period of his life through such well-loved songs as "Entella Hotel" and "Travellin' Light", among others. John Doe, co-leader of the legendary LA punk band X, who wrote the introduction, sums up the book well here: "Perhaps the most appealing aspect of this story is that it isn't some glorified nostalgia trip starring the bohemian hero striking out to find his version of On the Road. There is simplicity of style and purposeful avoidance of artifice in his writing, so that the reader can just sit back and listen as Case and his confreres roll across the country."

Like Unbroken and The Long Walk, an intense and remarkable tale of survival against the odds that reveals the strength of the human spirit. Translated into 15 languages! 12 million copies sold!In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags, this was virtually a death sentence. Driven to desperation by the brutality of the prison camp, he staged a daring escape.For the next three years, Forell traveled 8,000 miles in barren, frozen wilderness, haunted by blizzards, wolves, criminals, the KGB, and the fear of recapture and retribution. Only a remarkable will to survive, and a bit of luck, allowed him to reach the safety of the Persian border.The resulting story is a rare document of the horrors faced by POWs in the Soviet Union, and a testament to the human spirit.

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When Emily's husband dies suddenly, all she can do is focus on is surviving and protecting her young son, Sam. She moves from her New York suburb out to rural Ohio with her Aunt Margaret to start over. She takes a job as a cook for a hay farmer who is a widower, and is struggling with his life after his loss. The two become unlikely friends, helping each other through their grief and tragedy, and finding a way to start a new chapter of love and friendship--together.

Originally published in 1955, As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me has seen international success ever since. It has been translated into fifteen languages, sold more than 12 million copies, and is the basis for an award-winning German entry at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Recounting an incredible real-life adventure, it tracks the destiny of German soldier Clemens Forrell who, in the aftermath of WWII, was sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a lead mine in the barren eastern reaches of Siberia. Subjected to the brutality of the camp and the climate, Forrell dreamed continuously of escape—and then daringly effected it. From East Cape across the vast trackless wastes of Siberia, for thousands of miles and three years, with fear as his most intimate companion, Forrell fled treachery and endured some of the most inhospitable conditions on earth. In a long series of taped interviews with esteemed German author Josef M. Bauer, Forrell unfolded his remarkable story of survival. Bauer not only reconstructs Forrell’s arduous journey to the Iranian frontier and freedom; he also poignantly evokes the emotional content of Forrell’s brave quest—emerging as an affecting portrait of a man who strove and triumphed against all odds.

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From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, early art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, the smart phone. These tools shaped Western culture and made us who we are. As Far As the Eye Can See traces the history of seeing from the first evolutionary stirrings of sight to the present. It reveals that each time we invented technologies that changed how or what we see, we changed ourselves, and the world around us. Visual technologies propelled the human journey from walking apes to masters of nature to self-obsessed screen junkies. Having come this far, the author asks, are we now at peak seeing? Can our eyes—and the rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who we have become—and how we might change in the future.

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In 1803, at President Jefferson’s request, Captains Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery set out to explore beyond the newly purchased land of the Louisiana Territory to the western end of the continent. By the time the Corps returned years later, everyone believed they were dead–killed by bears, attacked by Indians, or fallen victims to a rough country. But the men had survived and with their long journey, they staked a claim to the West for the new country, America.

David Brill's classic account of his 1979 hike of the Appalachian Trail, first published in 1990, has become a classic, not only because he represented a new generation of thru-hikers at the time, but also because it is less a memoir than a series of essays exploring the emotional and spiritual dimensions of a long journey on foot through the nature of the eastern mountains. This edition includes the original preface and an afterword developed 20 years later as Brill looked back during a reunion hike at a season of fellowship and discovery that changed his life.More and more is written about Appalachian Trail hiking, but this account has long been one of the most treasured (and best written) by those who love great writing about nature and the outdoors and humans' interaction with that and each other there. Brill in 1979 was among the first of a new generation to take up thru-hiking; thousands today seek what he found.