John Yancey (Taking the High Road series Book 1)

John Yancey (Taking the High Road series Book 1)

Need to track down an outlaw? Bring a desperado to justice? Catch a pickpocket or a rustler or a crook? Then John Yancey is your man. John Yancey, Pinkerton agent.Noah Harper has just hired John to locate his thieving half-sister. According to Noah, Cecelia Powell made off with part of his inheritance after their father’s sudden death in a carriage accident, and Noah wants it back.John follows Cecilia’s trail to a Boston madam’s bawdy house and the 1860 gold fields of California. San Francisco, to be exact.But all is not as it seems.For one thing, pretty Miss Powell doesn’t fit anyone’s image of a criminal. For another, she is apparently living far too respectable a life, as owner and headmistress of an Academy for Girls.Just how much of what Noah has claimed is actually true?Still, delving into the young woman’s background reveals that she was, indeed, born in a bordello, and she has become the owner, whether legally or not, of controlling interest in a gold mining conglomerate.Further investigation finds that she is sharing a residence with an older man, Gabriel Finnegan, while at the same time becoming betrothed to one of the city’s pillars of society, insipid and ineffectual Josiah Kingsley. Josiah is neither too insipid nor ineffectual, however, to demand complete financial and emotional control over his vacillating bride-to-be upon their marriage. The lady herself is proving to be an enigma.John sends his final report to Noah Harper via Pony Express. San Francisco’s attractions beckon, and he is able to explore the area. Nice enough, he decides. Maybe he’ll relocate here, settle down, start his own agency.Until Noah Harper shows up, armed with all of John’s information and spoiling for a fight.That’s when the complications really begin.***More about the Yancey Brothers SeriesTaking the High Road is a series of 10 books detailing the adventures and exploits of the Yancey Brothers. Ten boys were born to a plantation owner in Charleston SC. ... [Read More]

  • ASIN: B00QH2FD98
  • Manufacturer: Changing Culture Publications

Life Off Grid

Life Off Grid

  • ASIN: B071G6MC4W

Our Generation Home Accessory - Well Travelled Luggage Set

Our Generation Home Accessory - Well Travelled Luggage Set

With all the hassle of travel, it's necessary to have an amazing trip planned out. The Our Generation Well Traveled Luggage Set comes with everything you'd need for a cross country or world trip. Want to take a trip to Paris or Spain or Australia... All you need is your sense of adventure, and the Our Generation Well Traveled Luggage Set. Even if you're not going on an epic globe-trotting trip, the Our Generation Well Traveled Luggage Set has plenty of uses. You can use the luggage carry-all for bringing everything needed for a sleep over, and suntan lotion is perfect for a relaxing day at the beach. Our Our Generation Well Traveled Luggage Set fits all 18 inch dolls, including American Girl, making it the quintessential traveling pack for any companion. Please note: Product contains small parts. Not for children under 3 years old.

  • UPC: 743181717137
  • ASIN: B00OKRXSFS
  • Brand: Our Generation
  • Size: 18"
  • Manufacturer: Lite Hawk

High Ankle Cotton Casual Crew Socks For Women Men,Cows With Flowers On Polka Dots Agriculture Farm Animal Country Life Inspired

High Ankle Cotton Casual Crew Socks For Women Men,Cows With Flowers On Polka Dots Agriculture Farm Animal Country Life Inspired

Ideal socks provide you endless comfort and fit just right.Made from luxury combed cotton, these socks are super soft and lightweight, allowing your feet to breathe and stay cool during strenuous activity. The thin elastic edging around the opening ensures the sock lays flat against your feet, and prevents them from sliding down.Digital printing technology is not easy to fade and keep the color bright, design the pattern you like, to meet the dual effects of fashion and comfort.

  • ASIN: B07W7484LP
  • Brand: GULTMEE
  • Size: 8.5*30 cm
  • Manufacturer: GULTMEE

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

#1 National BestsellerFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.

  • ASIN: 0307387097
  • ISBN: 0307387097
  • Brand: Vintage Books USA
  • Manufacturer: Vintage

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time   Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years--and the presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush--in a whole new light. As the most influential economic statesman of his age, Greenspan spent a lifetime grappling with a momentous shift: the transformation of finance from the fixed and regulated system of the post-war era to the free-for-all of the past quarter century. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.    Greenspan's life is a quintessential American success story: raised by a single mother in the Jewish émigré community of Washington Heights, he was a math prodigy who found a niche as a stats-crunching consultant. A master at explaining the economic weather to captains of industry, he translated that skill into advising Richard Nixon in his 1968 campaign. This led to a perch on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and then to a dazzling array of business and government roles, from which the path to the Fed was relatively clear. A fire-breathing libertarian and disciple of Ayn Rand in his youth who once called the Fed's creation a historic mistake, Mallaby shows how Greenspan reinvented himself as a pragmatist once in power. In his analysis, and in his core mission of keeping inflation in check, he was a maestro indeed, and hailed as such. At his retirement in 2006, he was lauded as the age's necessary man, the veritable God in the machine, the global economy's avatar. His memoirs sold for record sums to publishers around the world.   But then came 2008. Mallaby's story lands wi... [Read More]

  • ASIN: 1594204845
  • ISBN: 1594204845
  • Brand: Penguin Press
  • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Round Travel Luggage Tags,Wooden Country House By The Lake With Horizon Background Village Rural Life View,Leather Baggage Tag 2 PCS

Round Travel Luggage Tags,Wooden Country House By The Lake With Horizon Background Village Rural Life View,Leather Baggage Tag 2 PCS

This brightly colored luggage tags, gives your luggage some personality, and make you no longer have the trouble of losing luggage. Specifications: 1. Material: Microfiber PU leather2. Size: 9.8cm in diameter. Each pack comes with a black sling, and you can choose one, two or four packs depending on your needs.The tag can be attached to the suitcase handle or strap, to the zip and tucked into a side pocket, or under a luggage strap. It has been designed to be thin enough to be slid into a small pocket.

  • ASIN: B07VDW4CRW
  • Brand: GULTMEE
  • Size: 2 PCS
  • Manufacturer: GULTMEE

3dRose Florene - Country Life - Image of Country Mason Jar Of Flowers With Straw Hat On Chair - Tassel Key Chain (tkc_233614_1)

3dRose Florene - Country Life - Image of Country Mason Jar Of Flowers With Straw Hat On Chair - Tassel Key Chain (tkc_233614_1)

Image of Country Mason Jar Of Flowers With Straw Hat On Chair Tassel Key Chain is made of heavy duty durable metal. Image is printed on one side of the pendant which has a high gloss finish. Entire key chain measures 2 3/8" x 2 3/8" x 3/8". Recommended for anyone who is looking for stylish, expensive looking keychain.

  • ASIN: B07VZ2QS6R
  • Brand: 3dRose
  • Size: Tassel Key Chain
  • Manufacturer: 3dRose

A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)

A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)

The environmental classic that redefined the way we think about the natural world—an urgent call for preservation that’s more timely than ever.   “We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir.”—San Francisco Chronicle   These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape—the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. Conjuring up one extraordinary vision after another, Aldo Leopold takes readers with him on the road and through the seasons on a fantastic tour of our priceless natural resources, explaining the destructive effects humankind has had on the land and issuing a bold challenge to protect the world we love.

  • ASIN: 0345345053
  • ISBN: 0345345053
  • Brand: Random House
  • Size: One Size
  • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Invention of Wings

The Invention of Wings

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a #1 New York Times bestselling novel about two unforgettable American women.Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

  • ASIN: 0143121707
  • ISBN: 0143121707
  • Brand: Penguin Books
  • Manufacturer: Penguin Books