Jeff Campbell
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IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the worldâs biggest and baddest creaturesâincluding the black rhino, the dodo, giant...
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So many of us have this sense that this is not what Christmas was meant to be. We juggle sacred and secular expectations, struggle with family and disappointments, with full schedules that can't quite overcome our doubts and loneliness.Contemplating Advent offers a road map toward aligning our lived experience with the things our hearts promise us about this season. Comitting a few minutes each day to meditation, contemplation, and prayer can transform...
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Half the world disappeared. Over a year later, half the remaining population disappeared. These things happen. The world is shrinking. The narrator tries to find meaning in all of it. That happens too. The Hangover Hour Report is a new journal where each issue allows an author to write whatever they want. The one rule is that it must be completed in 72 hours.
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Ready for peace, connection and union? It's as close as your breath.
Breathing is both wonder and paradox: it is something so simple that we are born knowing how to do it yet a person can train for their entire life in an effort to learn how to do it well. It is something that appears to be a solitary act and yet coordinating our breath with another is a deep act of intimacy. On one level it is a physical act, and yet the spiritual implications of...
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Texas has a long, romantic history when it comes to railroads. But even though steam engines and streetcars offer nonstop service to Nostalgia City, there's a dark side to Texas rail. The Black Widow of Fort Worth engineered a fatal double-cross at a railroad crossing. The Mountaineer Madman brought death to the Texas Electric Railway, while the Trolley Bandit terrorized the citizens of El Paso. From a freak accident involving a banana peel to a tragic...
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Enjoy a breakdown of the Lone Star State's generational bluegrass harmonies. From the moment they picked up the radio signal of Bill Monroe's mandolin, Texans have been enamored with this uniquely American style of music. But the high lonesome sound couldn't have put down roots without a tradition of mentorship that runs through families and spans generations. Meet the Van Cliburn piano prodigy that became a multi-instrumentalist for Taylor Swift....
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Texas has nurtured a thriving bluegrass scene since the early 1950s. The Lone Star State boasts the country's first bluegrass college degree and even hosts a Beatles bluegrass cover band. Meet the Pickin' Singin' Professor, the Fiddle Engineer and Blanco's Bluegrass Boy. Hit the trail with cowboys like the Mayfield brothers and go backstage with Grammy-nominated acts like Wood & Wire. Jeff Campbell and Braeden Paul celebrate the musicians who contributed...
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New Mexico State Police Agent Jake MacGregor and Border Patrolman Dan Contreras search for a killer of four men and take a new view in their last run at solving the thirty-yer-old crime. MacGregor and Albuquerque Detective Juan Ortiz are assigned to investigate a complex web of international smugglers whose will is enforced by executions. A New Mexico Prison inmate could be the investigator's key to success. Deception, revelation, mystery and person...
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2007
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John Milton Chivington's name will forever be inseparable from the events surrounding the Sand Creek Massacre of November 29, 30 & December 1, 1864. Regardless of popular opinions, for or against him, his name is the one that is most often said, written and repeated concerning this tragic event. His character has been used as a model for some of the most heinous villains of western fiction. This is a compilation (not a narrative) of historical and...
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2014.
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Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's New York & the Mid-Atlantic's Best Trips, your passport to the most up-to-date advice on unique experiences that await you along America's highways. This guide features 27 amazing road trips, from two-day escapes to two-week adventures. Brush up your history at Civil War sites, feel the spray off Niagara Falls, or experience the wilderness of the Adirondacks; all with your trusted travel companion....
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Did you know that Plano once had a winning semipro baseball team? And its own university, boasting a pagoda imported from Malaysia? Or that the city once proudly proclaimed itself the "Mule Capital of the World"? Meet the Native American Planoite who walked in space, the African American entrepreneur who prospered in Jim Crow Texas and the man behind the "mystery stone" uncovered in the Collinwood House. Visit a military tank, a five-hundred-year-old...