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<p>Spanning from the early 1900s through the 1960''s, this nostalgic ride through Northern California and Oregon is one of the most highly visual histories ever written on U. S. Highway 99.<p/><p>Vintage postcard images depict how the crudely constructed Pacific Highway transitioned into the modern and paved U. S. Highway 99, only to be mostly abandoned when the new interstate opened.<p/><p>Traversing a myriad of landscapes, Highway 99 meanders through quaint towns and big cities, past towering pines and snow-capped mountains as mighty rivers gush through steep rugged canyons toward the fertile valleys of Oregon.<p/><p>Adding to the grandeur of this scenic route are iconic landmarks such as Mt. Shasta, Mt. McLoughlin, and Mt. Hood.<p/><p>Mostly abandoned stretches of the old highway reveal the hauntingly sad remains of deserted motels, gas stations, and tourist spots, their images lovingly preserved.<p/><p>Learn why the Pacific Highway gets confused with the Pacific Coast Highway.<p/><p>Learn how Interstate 5 evolved from a crude one-lane dirt road.<p/><p>Learn how U. S. Highway 99 became historically designated.<p/><p>Learn how travelers transitioned from tent camping to cozy motels.<p/><p>Learn the perils and predicaments of early highway travel.<p/><p>Learn why Mom & Pop became a big part of roadside businesses.<p/><p>Contains more than 600 rare roadside images<p/>

<p>Kincaid planned an idyllic holiday from his life of violence, but that was before he met Jillian.<p/><p> After ten years and two dozen countries as a "security consultant", Chance Kincaid craved solitude. The province of Palawan, with its pristine beaches, was the perfect place to relax as a "tourista". But even in this remote part of the world, kidnapping, murder, and a missing pilot combine to make Kincaid''s trip anything but a holiday. And he soon finds himself involved with terrorists, the local authorities, and a mysterious young woman.<p/>

<p>In the early medieval kingdom of Venezia, gateway to the Silk Road, an undercurrent of intrigue affects the lives of the island dwellers as relentlessly as the sea tides.<p/><p>Against this backdrop, the daughter of a Lombard knight and an orphaned servant girl find friendship. Ademara, a novice of a convent, is unsatisfied with the life chosen for her. With the help of the spirited Lucilla, a foundling fostered to Lia and Toso, servants to the wealthy foreigner, Ximeno, the girls undertake what they think will be innocent escapades.<p/><p>One winter''s eve, Ademara encounters Bartolo, who remembers nothing before he was brought to Venezia. On impulse, he gives her an ancient sea creature, a talisman. Then, unsavory characters, caring only to accumulate wealth and prestige, kidnap the girls and take them over the Adriatic Sea to the ancient kingdoms on the Illyrian coast to be sold as slaves. Can the girls evade their captors and avoid lives of servitude?<p/>

The inherently divisive and exploitative nature of capitalism, is readily apparent when one draws back the curtain of the global banking system. One peak reveals their inner workings, where it becomes clear that it looks less like a legitimate business enterprise and more like a criminal syndicate running a lucrative extortion racket. In the Wall Street economy, money is both means and end, and the primary product is phantom wealth-money disconnected from the production or possession of anything of real value. In our era of deregulation on Wall Street banks have moved away from their traditional role of providing loans to consumers and businesses. Instead, they have created a new business model that specializes in charging excessive fees and usurious interest rates, provides excessive leverage for risky bets for hedge funds, extracts subsidies and bailouts from governments, launders money from drug and arms traders, and use offshore accounts to hide their profits. While the middle class melts away, banks have profited at every step. The forty-year experiment of "trickle-down" economics has favored the interest of Wall Street speculators, but has been a dismal failure for the average working man and woman. Thus, this book of poetry is subtitled, The Voices of the Bankers and the Thieves.

Have you ever wondered what a dialogue would be like between Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, Jesus, William Blake, Charles Darwin, and the mysterious unknown author known as the "J" writer?In Ivan Kireevskii's most ambitious work to date, through an epic poem he journeys deep into the thoughts, words, and teachings of history's most celebrated teachers, prophets, poets, storytellers, and mystics. In a series of poetic exchanges, Kireevskii lets them take us into the mysteries of life as they express their views of the contents of the "J" writer's lost scrolls.

Don and Marlies search near Santa Fe, looking for clues to help them find Gus but as they soon learn, the information they seek isn't bound by space or time. They hire a dowser who lives hundreds of miles away and she shares accurate details about their lost dog during their first conversation. Remarkable, overlapping perceptions of seven gifted intuitives lead them into a second mystery-uncovering evidence of a universal field of knowing that interacts with our thoughts, prayers and intentions to help create the reality we experience. Family and friends focus on their faith that he will be found, building a bridge to the outcome they choose. ¿In Search of Gus is a true story about the power of love and how consciousness alters the way we experience the world.

Cassidy and her three big brothers always wanted a puppy. But their parents said "No." So the brothers chose all kinds of different pets. Not Cassidy! She stuck to her puppy dream! One day she finally got her wish: a brand new fluffy puppy. The two were inseparable and created a private fort. But over time she realized that playing alone wasn't as much fun as including everyone. Even if they were silly older brothers.

Ernst Tonsing''s grandmother was Amelia Earhart''s cousin. In Cousin Amelia, he relates stories about her youth that he learned from his grandmother, from Amelia''s other relatives, and from visits with her mother and a conversation with her sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey. Learn about Amelia''s life in her grandmother''s house in the early 1900s, her remarkable mother, her brave great-grandmother, her adventurous great-grandfather, her brilliant aunt, and her cousin who got women the vote in Kansas. Many of these stories about her youth and remarkable family have never been told outside the family. Finally, you will learn about Amelia''s most important flight-it was not her last!

This is a story of an owl who honored herself and took care of herself first by speaking up and expecting her needs to be met. The cooperation, care, honor, and respect from the other forest animals was reciprocated in harmonious ways.