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In 1955 Arthur Moffatt led an expedition consisting of young college students and recent graduates to the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada, to follow the path of the 1893 Tyrrell expedition and to film and photograph the group’s progress. The expedition, a 900-mile epic journey across the Barren Lands of Arctic Canada, has stirred controversy and criticism for over fifty years. The trip has been variously described as “the pioneering venture in modern recreational canoe travel” and as “an excellent example of how not to conduct a canoe trip.” Delays took their toll on the adventurers, exhausted by the seemingly endless paddling through unknown rivers and lakes, the trek across the windswept tundra, and torment by voracious insects. Threatened with diminishing food reserves and increasingly harsh weather, the members of the expedition were forced to travel with greater speed and less caution, and ultimately a fatal mistake was made. Two of the canoes capsized, dumping four men into the frigid waters. Moffatt, the leader, died of exposure. It took the survivors ten days of arduous travel with minimum food and equipment to reach the safety of the Hudson’s Bay Company post. Barren Grounds features passages from the journals of two young Moffatt party members and excerpts about the 1893 expedition of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, along with entries from the journal of Art Moffatt himself. Part cautionary tale, part nail-biting adventure, the book will appeal to outdoorsmen and armchair adventurers alike.

Barren Skirt epitomizes elegance and modern style, originating from the exclusive collection of the brand THE Mannei. Made from high-quality gray wool fabric blended with polyester, viscose, and elastane, it guarantees not only a sophisticated look but also comfort in wear. The characteristic asymmetrical mini cut, tailored to the silhouette, accentuates feminine curves, while the black faux leather trim running diagonally adds a contemporary touch. The skirt features a single flap pocket on the left side, making it not only stylish but also functional. The concealed closure, likely a side zipper or buttons, ensures an aesthetic appearance without visible fastening elements. The Barren Skirt is an ideal choice for both formal and semi-formal occasions. Its minimalist design pairs perfectly with a fitted blazer, creating an elegant suit set. WHY Should YOU BUY This Product? * High-quality material made of wool, polyester, viscose, and elastane * Unique asymmetrical design with black trim * Functional flap pocket * Elegant and modern style * Perfect choice for formal and semi-formal occasions Model`s Measurements Height: 177cm Bust: 83cm Waist: 61cm Hips: 89cm Model is wearing size: 36

Barren Skirt epitomizes elegance and modern style, originating from the exclusive collection of the brand THE Mannei. Made from high-quality gray wool fabric blended with polyester, viscose, and elastane, it guarantees not only a sophisticated look but also comfort in wear. The characteristic asymmetrical mini cut, tailored to the silhouette, accentuates feminine curves, while the black faux leather trim running diagonally adds a contemporary touch. The skirt features a single flap pocket on the left side, making it not only stylish but also functional. The concealed closure, likely a side zipper or buttons, ensures an aesthetic appearance without visible fastening elements. The Barren Skirt is an ideal choice for both formal and semi-formal occasions. Its minimalist design pairs perfectly with a fitted blazer, creating an elegant suit set. WHY Should YOU BUY This Product? * High-quality material made of wool, polyester, viscose, and elastane * Unique asymmetrical design with black trim * Functional flap pocket * Elegant and modern style * Perfect choice for formal and semi-formal occasions Model`s Measurements Height: 177cm Bust: 83cm Waist: 61cm Hips: 89cm Model is wearing size: 36

Barren Skirt epitomizes elegance and modern style, originating from the exclusive collection of the brand THE Mannei. Made from high-quality gray wool fabric blended with polyester, viscose, and elastane, it guarantees not only a sophisticated look but also comfort in wear. The characteristic asymmetrical mini cut, tailored to the silhouette, accentuates feminine curves, while the black faux leather trim running diagonally adds a contemporary touch. The skirt features a single flap pocket on the left side, making it not only stylish but also functional. The concealed closure, likely a side zipper or buttons, ensures an aesthetic appearance without visible fastening elements. The Barren Skirt is an ideal choice for both formal and semi-formal occasions. Its minimalist design pairs perfectly with a fitted blazer, creating an elegant suit set. WHY Should YOU BUY This Product? * High-quality material made of wool, polyester, viscose, and elastane * Unique asymmetrical design with black trim * Functional flap pocket * Elegant and modern style * Perfect choice for formal and semi-formal occasions Model`s Measurements Height: 177cm Bust: 83cm Waist: 61cm Hips: 89cm Model is wearing size: 36

Barren Skirt epitomizes elegance and modern style, originating from the exclusive collection of the brand THE Mannei. Made from high-quality gray wool fabric blended with polyester, viscose, and elastane, it guarantees not only a sophisticated look but also comfort in wear. The characteristic asymmetrical mini cut, tailored to the silhouette, accentuates feminine curves, while the black faux leather trim running diagonally adds a contemporary touch. The skirt features a single flap pocket on the left side, making it not only stylish but also functional. The concealed closure, likely a side zipper or buttons, ensures an aesthetic appearance without visible fastening elements. The Barren Skirt is an ideal choice for both formal and semi-formal occasions. Its minimalist design pairs perfectly with a fitted blazer, creating an elegant suit set. WHY Should YOU BUY This Product? * High-quality material made of wool, polyester, viscose, and elastane * Unique asymmetrical design with black trim * Functional flap pocket * Elegant and modern style * Perfect choice for formal and semi-formal occasions Model`s Measurements Height: 177cm Bust: 83cm Waist: 61cm Hips: 89cm Model is wearing size: 36

In 1955 Arthur Moffatt led an expedition consisting of young college students and recent graduates to the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada, to follow the path of the 1893 Tyrrell expedition and to film and photograph the group’s progress. The expedition, a 900-mile epic journey across the Barren Lands of Arctic Canada, has stirred controversy and criticism for over fifty years. The trip has been variously described as “the pioneering venture in modern recreational canoe travel” and as “an excellent example of how not to conduct a canoe trip.” Delays took their toll on the adventurers, exhausted by the seemingly endless paddling through unknown rivers and lakes, the trek across the windswept tundra, and torment by voracious insects. Threatened with diminishing food reserves and increasingly harsh weather, the members of the expedition were forced to travel with greater speed and less caution, and ultimately a fatal mistake was made. Two of the canoes capsized, dumping four men into the frigid waters. Moffatt, the leader, died of exposure. It took the survivors ten days of arduous travel with minimum food and equipment to reach the safety of the Hudson’s Bay Company post. Barren Grounds features passages from the journals of two young Moffatt party members and excerpts about the 1893 expedition of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, along with entries from the journal of Art Moffatt himself. Part cautionary tale, part nail-biting adventure, the book will appeal to outdoorsmen and armchair adventurers alike.

In this gripping psychological thriller, Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most versatile and original voices in contemporary American fiction, delivers a startling, complex tale of a serial killer and the people that his ghastly crimes touch—and transform. People like Matt McBride. Matt was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the first victim—a popular, pretty teenager—was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens. Although he had hardly known the girl, Matt has long felt guilty at not having been able somehow to prevent the atrocity. Now another attractive young woman has disappeared, and Matt knew this victim, too. Just possibly he knew her more intimately than he is prepared to admit. By degrees Matt becomes obsessed with a guilt he can neither comprehend nor assuage. His seemingly happy marriage begins to deteriorate, while his increasingly erratic behavior heightens police suspicions. It also draws official attention away from an artist—a man of limited talent but of fierce, demented vision—who signs his work Name Unknown. Under the spell of the missing woman, Matt follows a path that leads him out of the maze of tortured memory to a confrontation with not only the baleful Name Unknown but also his own long-unacknowledged self. The outcome is shattering. With "murder as an art and the serial killer as an artist," National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates shows "how a murderer's savage creations ... transform a man's life."—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "Oates fans may judge [The Barrens] the best Smith novel yet."—Boston Herald

“This book will grab you from the first chapter and keep you riveted throughout.” – Amazon Reviewer"I just recently made the jump into post apocalyptic novels, and this will be one of my favorites." - Amazon Reviewer"It gets under your skin, it makes you think, it challenges your comfort zone and triggers some buried fear." - Amazon Reviewer"Fiction. Yet possibly a prophecy of things to come if we don't change our ways. Good story, well thought out characters and as a diabetic it scared the bejesus out of me." - Amazon ReviewerIt happened once before...It was called the Permian Extinction...All life in the oceans died...And now it's happening again...Sometimes life ends with a bang. Other times it ends with a slow strangulation. The oceans are extinct. Empty. Stagnant. Only the slow passage of millennia can reverse the effects. But what does that mean for the rest of the planet? What does that mean for those who remain? Enter the world as it exists in the twenty-second century. Follow Jeremy Colt and his family as they race across the continent to survive. What waits for them in San Diego and why do they need to get there? The clock is ticking. Can they get there fast enough? And if they do, will it even save her?

A scholarly edition of The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan: Barren Fig-Tree; Strait Gate; Heavenly Footman by Graham Midgley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The problem of infertility has reached epidemic levels in our society. It is projected that 40 percent of women currently 25 and younger will have difficulty conceiving a child or reaching a live birth. Amanda Hope Haley had married David, the man of her dreams, and earned a master’s degree from Harvard. She and David purchased their first home and settled down to start a family. All her hopes and dreams were coming true according to plan—until the family didn’t happen. After spending seven years begging God for a child, Amanda discovered that God gives only one hope: Jesus. Amanda having a baby wasn’t to be her happy ending. Finding wholeness by hoping only in God was her happy ending!Using Amanda’s personal stories, and the stories of other women who have struggled to have children, Barren Among the Fruitful surrounds those women struggling with infertility or miscarriage with a sense of community while providing honest facts. It leads women from confusion to understanding. Each chapter is titled with a well-meaning, but sometimes thoughtless comment Amanda was offered during her seven-year struggle with infertility. Features include: Personal stories from women who have struggled with infertility or miscarriageAn honest look at the problem of infertilityQuestions for individual thought or group discussion 

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A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted with the region of which he writes and keenly appreciative of the character of its inhabitants, into whose minds he has penetrated as few before him, Graciliano Ramos depicts them in a style whose austerity well becomes the spareness of the subject, creating a gallery of figures that rank as classic in contemporary Brazilian literature.

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons—bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace. The hamlet of Tibbet's Brook is far from everywhere, and the folk like it that way. People from the Brook keep their secrets close, and don't care for neighbors looking over their fences. Its seven boroughs rely on one another for resources and support in the night, but they are scattered and fiercely proud, answering only to their Speakers and nursing grudges that go back generations. For nearly fifty years, through good times and bad, Town Speaker Selia Barren has been the force holding the Brook together. But there are grudges against her as well, fed in bitter hearts for half a century. If Tibbet's Brook is to survive, Selia must lead her people against the demons in the night even as she confronts those of her past. Fifty years ago, Selia nearly tore the town in half to love a woman.

According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens—both from each other and from external enemies. Yet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own citizens. In this book Paul Dumouchel argues that this paradoxical reversal of the state’s primary function into violence against its own members is not a mere accident but an ever-present possibility that is inscribed in the structure of the modern state. Modern states need enemies to exist and to persist, not because they are essentially evil but because modern politics constitutes a violent means of protecting us against our own violence. If they cannot—if we cannot—find enemies outside the state, they will find them inside. However, this institution is today coming to an end, not in the sense that states are disappearing, but in the sense that they are increasingly failing to protect us from our own violence. That is why the violent sacrifices that they ask from us, in wars and even in times of peace, have now become barren.

This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett’s eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.The lives of indigenous people in remote areas of northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the 1960s and 1970s are examined in detail. Flett’s successful career with both the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company provides an insight into the dying days of the fur trade and the rise of a new retail business tailored to First Nations.

From the author who gave readers the character Repairman Jack, the hero of The Tomb and Legacies, comes this chilling collection of short stories of crime, mystery, and the supernatural. 10,000 first printing.

These seven elegant personal essays explore the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. With eloquence, passion, and insight, the author describes and reflects on the relationship between the land, history, and people of this little-known, underappreciated desert region.

In Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee Ariel S. Winter’s Barren Cove, humans are nearly extinct and robots are now the dominant life-form on Earth.The aged robot Sapien is the recent victim of a debilitating accident. The socially acceptable thing to do in robot culture is deactivate, but Sapien is not ready to end his life. Instead he orders spare parts for himself and rents a remote beach house in order to repair and ponder why he wants to go on. While there, he becomes obsessed with his landlords, the peculiar robot family living on the rambling estate perched at the top of the cliff. He is convinced that the elusive and enigmatic Beachstone, the head of the family, holds the answers to his existential quandary. Invoking the works of the great supernatural and science fiction writers Mary Shelley, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick, Barren Cove is a gothic tale in an unusual future.

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