These fifty-eight stories make up the most thorough collection of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date, spanning the breadth of the author's career, from the uninhibited young writer who penned "The Train and the City" to his mature, sobering account of a terrible lynching in "The Child by Tiger". Thirty-five of these stories have never before been collected. Lightning Print On Demand Title
Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country’s, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powers’s magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.
A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf. The greatest event in Yellowstone history. Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth—until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The howl of the “evil” wolf was heard no more. The “good” animals—elk, deer, bison—proliferated, until they too had to be “managed.” Two decades later, recognizing that ecosystems lacking their keystone predators tend to unravel, the visionary naturalist Aldo Leopold called for the return of the wolf to Yellowstone. It would take another fifty years for his vision to come true. In the early 1990s, as the movement for Yellowstone wolf restoration gained momentum, rage against it grew apace. When at last, in February 1995, fifteen wolves were trapped in Alberta and brought to acclimation pens in Yellowstone, even then legal and political challenges continued. There was also a lot of talk in the bars about “shoot, shovel, and shut up.” While the wolves’ enemies worked to return them to Canada, the biologists in charge of the project feared that the wolves might well return on their own. Once they were released, two packs remained in the national park, but one bore only one pup and the other none. The other, comprising Wolves Nine and Ten and Nine’s yearling daughter, disappeared. They were in fact heading home. As they emerged from protected federal land, an unemployed ne’er-do-well from Red Lodge, Montana, trained a high-powered rifle on Wolf Number Ten and shot him through the chest. Number Nine dug a den next to the body of her mate, and gave birth to eight pups. The story of their rescue and the manhunt for the killer is the heart of The Killing of Wolf Number Ten. + Read this book, and if you are ever fortunate enough to hear the howling of Yellowstone wolves, you will always think of Wolves Nine and Ten. If you ever see a Yellowstone wolf, chance are it will be carrying their DNA. The restoration of the wolf to Yellowstone is now recognized as one of conservation’s greatest achievements, and Wolves Nine and Ten will always be known as its emblematic heroes.
*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.
This last segment of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts includes three first-hand accounts of the Tlkwa:na, or Wolf Ritual, a principal ceremony of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations of the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The ritual, which takes several days to enact, is described in detail, from the howling of the “Wolves” in human form, to the abduction of children to their forest lair and the return of these initiates to perform newly learned dances. Also included are Sapir’s field record of a Tlkwa:na of 1910; his correspondence with his chief interpreters Alex Thomas and Frank Williams; and autobiographical stories by Alex Thomas.
He’s a werewolf… …She’s so much more Raised in seclusion, Cara Kirk-Killion knows that she will never find the man who haunts her dreams until she ventures out into the world. But it’s Were cop Rafe Laundau’s job to protect this shape-shifter from her own na•veté. Yet he needs her as much as she needs him—to help his pack rid Miami of a vampire horde, and to satisfy a desire he’s never felt before.
His Secret...or Her Salvation? When he stumbled upon a beautiful woman who'd been the victim of a vampire attack, Alpha wolf Michael Hunter faced an impossible choice. His honour dictated that he save her life. But the only way he knew to accomplish that was to make her one of his own. Now Kaitlin Davies was half Lycan and his responsibility as she underwent a dangerous transformation to full wolf. Something within Kaitlin called to Michael's inner wolf with an intensity he'd never felt. He wanted her. But as he witnessed the changes occurring in her body, he wasn't sure what she was becoming. Had Michael created something that could destroy them both...or was her transformation as preordained as their passion?
A Were’s forbidden desire tests the limits of loyalty... When Seattle detective and alpha werewolf Derek Miller meets Riley Price, the bond is instant. Feral. Their connection entails enormous risk, for he must keep the existence of his kind secret at all costs. But the forces of darkness have Riley in their sights. Now Derek must choose between the Were code of silence and saving the woman who’s set him on fire.
Drake and his friends finds themselves in a race with the Gods and Goddesses. They must go to other worlds to save Races from being consumed by the Gods and Goddesses. How will they do this? What's going to happen once they get on the worlds? And what are they going to do when the Gods decides to cheat against them? Will they lose or will they find a way to break through the cheating ways of the Gods?
Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color- shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library. Transformers have been used to write realistic news stories, improve Google Search queries, and even create chatbots that tell corny jokes. In this guide, authors Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra, and Thomas Wolf, among the creators of Hugging Face Transformers, use a hands-on approach to teach you how transformers work and how to integrate them in your applications. You'll quickly learn a variety of tasks they can help you solve. Build, debug, and optimize transformer models for core NLP tasks, such as text classification, named entity recognition, and question answering Learn how transformers can be used for cross-lingual transfer learning Apply transformers in real-world scenarios where labeled data is scarce Make transformer models efficient for deployment using techniques such as distillation, pruning, and quantization Train transformers from scratch and learn how to scale to multiple GPUs and distributed environments
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On the night of December 1,1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked and killed while he slept at home beside his wife, Margaret. On April 11, 1901, after five days of testimony before an all-male jury, Margaret Hossack was found guilty of his murder and sentenced to life in prison. One year later, she was released on bail to await a retrial; jurors at this second trial could not reach a decision, and she was freed. She died August 25, 1916, leaving the mystery of her husband's death unsolved. The Hossack tragedy is a compelling one and the issues surrounding their domestic problems are still relevant today, Margaret's composure and stoicism, developed during years of spousal abuse, were seen as evidence of unfeminine behavior, while John Hossack--known to be a cruel and dangerous man--was hailed as a respectable husband and father. Midnight Assassin also introduces us to Susan Glaspell, a journalist who reported on the Hossack murder for the Des Moines Daily, who used these events as the basis for her classic short story, " A Jury of Her Peers", and the famous play Trifles. Based on almost a decade of research, Midnight Assassin is a riveting story of loneliness, fear, and suffering in the rural Midwest.
Disappearance of family members, reports of dark events, and the discovery of super-normal beings in a small town involve 12-year old Albert Canady and his younger sister, Pepper, in a mystery that threatens their lives. Albert and Pepper follow a trail of clues through a series of dangerous adventures and confrontations with sinister characters to find their missing aunt and cousin. Whom can they trust? What secret is concealed within the town? How do they save their own lives? When the danger becomes imminent, Albert and Pepper are thrust into a life and death struggle against a pack of powerful foes led by one man who is the most terrible and cunning of all. With the aid of another hunter, the youngsters engage in a climatic battle to break the terror-threat gripping the town. Fast-paced action, laced with humor, propel Albert’s conflict, plus his thirst for adventure matched with daring and imagination.
Based on the Siberian wolf attack of 1927 and told from the point of view of both wolves and humans. It was a Wolf Winter, so deeply cold that forest trails were empty and only humans had enough food to survive. Over 100 wolves, the largest pack ever seen, surround the Siberian village of Pilovo, desperate in their search for game. Pets and farm animals stand alert, villagers sense trouble, the frozen stage is set. This account details each event of the attack, the unrelenting terror, the vicious combat. Neither wolf nor man is safe; neither can imagine the outcome. Arctic cold and savage fighting inflict endless damage on predator and prey. In this isolated wilderness, tucked inside a bleak country, only animal cunning and ruthless perseverance will prevail.
Disappearance of family members, reports of dark events, and the discovery of super-normal beings in a small town involve 12-year old Albert Canady and his younger sister, Pepper, in a mystery that threatens their lives. Albert and Pepper follow a trail of clues through a series of dangerous adventures and confrontations with sinister characters to find their missing aunt and cousin. Whom can they trust? What secret is concealed within the town? How do they save their own lives? When the danger becomes imminent, Albert and Pepper are thrust into a life and death struggle against a pack of powerful foes led by one man who is the most terrible and cunning of all. With the aid of another hunter, the youngsters engage in a climatic battle to break the terror-threat gripping the town. Fast-paced action, laced with humor, propel Albert’s conflict, plus his thirst for adventure matched with daring and imagination.
ONE BOOK NORTHLAND selection, 2023. Zhi-shay, elder wolf and human, shares universal life lessons with a litter of wolf pups, in this engaging story rooted in Ojibwe history and culture.
In 1876, in the snowy wilderness of San Juan County, Colorado, a miner, Eli, was viciously murdered, causing his daughter, Luster, and adopted Ute son, John, to descend on Howardsville and Silverton to unravel the mystery of their father’s death and to bring the murderers to justice. Their arrival causes unexpected incidents that spark John’s memory of his past, and hurl the beautiful Luster into a cauldron of unparalleled savagery. Luster and John are caught in a perfect storm of ferocious Civil War Veterans turned miners and gunmen, and natural threats in the form of avalanches, bears, wolves, and frigid temperatures. John’s untamed nature and Luster’s innocent grit initially are no match for the sporting mobs. In their search the unsuspecting duo stumbles onto the secret of Dead Man’s Mountain that only Eli knew and that others wanted. This revelation further makes the pair a target. The ensuing events hurl John and Luster into an interchange of pursuer and pursued, and throw them into a ferocious cycle of deception. In their quest for redemption and revenge, their search reveals the greedy hearts of evil men as well as the truth of John’s past. This adventure novel is based within actual locations in Southwestern Colorado, and has been carefully researched and authenticated. If you like reading writers Jack London and Louis L’Amour, or just enjoy studying the mining history in Colorado, you will love this book.
2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - History, Regional, winner On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome details of the homicides and the knowledge of the accused perpetrator—a small, quiet boy weighing just 75 pounds. Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, complex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
After speaking with Seraph, the Mother of the Gods, Drake finds himself pulled from his deep sleep and onto the second level of the Sealed Gates to meet a living Titan, the one that all calls Cronus, the Father to the Gods. Drake barely escapes with his life with the help of this mysterious woman that follows him. After Cronus faces his judgment before Seraph, they learn that Drake's soul is thrown back into the Sealed Gates by Cronus and on the fifth level, a place that even the Gods and Goddesses can not venture. Drake will now have to fight his way alone through a place of horror that can even consume the Gods to escape the Sealed Gates. Drake's friends learn that he is trapped in a very bad place that is controlled by someone that even has Seraph worried for who has control over this place. Will Drake survive this place of will the overwhelming fear that rules here claim his soul for good? And what will Drake do when he finally meets those that follows their worst adversaries, the Dark Ones?
Drawing on recent examples of corruption in the Baltics and former Soviet Union, this pamphlet analyzes the links between governance and corruption, and emphasizes the high economic cost that corruption exacts. The pamphlet outlines how the IMF is working with the countries of the former Soviet Union to curb corruption, and put in place the regulatory and legal changes needed to support good government.
Drake is soon visited by the Gods with their well awaited answer and Drake is soon back to saving those on other worlds. But the Gods have asked him a strange request, save the Races that they have placed upon a few worlds as well. But that is not all that hits Drake and his friends. When Drake return to celebrate their triumphant victory, they find that Dune has fallen ill and the only way to save him is to obtain a rare flower that grows only in one place, Marlor's world, Hell. To save the life of Melissa's large friend, they must venture through Hell or watch as her heart breaks when Dune passes on. Will they find the flower in time? And what will happen when Drake learns a deep dark secret about Marlor and Rasket? And what will they do when someone else decides to joins the party?
Drake and his friends decides to relax as they wait for the Gods to answer Drake. But their relaxing is hard to enjoy when a few women from Drake's past decides to make an appearance. Ho are these women? Where did they come from and why are they approaching Drake? Not to mention that one has it out for him and is tied to him closer than anyone there. How is Drake going to handle what is going to hit him when she finally makes her presence known to him and everyone else?
Drake decides to go and save a few more Races from their dying planets. Mostly when it is said that one has two individuals there that can help them if a Dark One should ever appear upon Earth. It is on his last run to collect two very deadly Races when everyone quickly learn that Drake is not playing around anymore from his run with those that follows the Dark Ones. It is after they have saved the new Races that Rogue, the Fallen Dark One suggest that the Gods and Goddesses calls for all of the Angels, Gods and Goddesses to Earth when news of an approaching Dark One is known. It becomes an interesting meet when a few Angels arrives and are on the opposite sides of each other and it shocked many when someone that the Gods and Goddesses thought for sure was dead arrives.
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