No dysfunctional families here ? no families. No gender wars here ? no gender. In a galactic civilization so scared of emotion it has abolished gender and families, a young person decides to give birth. And so does the person's lover. But only one of them can do it. Only one of them is female. The Collectivity was an Eden without knowledge of man and woman; she reached for that knowledge and destroyed its peace forever. He tells the story of how she challenged their world, and left him behind. The Birthing Circle would have remained a cozy elite fad but for Martin. Born on a green world and transferred to a metalbound city planet, Martin is catapulted from her home farm into a space opera of holie ghosts, pirates, buttoned-down followers of the Space Code, anarchists, sexless wraiths whose telekinetic powers zap spaceships across the galaxy, spherical aliens and MAN, the virtual guru who keeps everyone under control. She sets out to remake the whole galaxy, to bring back love and freedom. Jomo, the humble soy processor who loves her, sees her astonishing transformation into a revolutionary. Gendering is a trilogy of big ideas about gender and God, revolution and religion. Formerly published in 1987, Children of Arable is fully revised for this new edition as the first of the Gendering series.

Children of Arable

Belden, David

Literature & Fiction

The rule of men led to atomic war. Nuclear winter ice wiped Earth clean of cities. For centuries now, the rule of women has labored to restore balance. But warriors and kings are on the rise again. The priestesses in the snow-covered caves of Northern India consider the Snow Tiger to be the sacred symbol of all earth’s goddesses. A girl who longs to be a priestess kills a snow tiger while defending her family against its attack, and is banished for breaking the taboo. Osen, the old African priestess with extraordinary powers, knows that male civilization survived in space. She creates a son, Govind, up above on the space station. His mission: to heal the spacemen and lead them back to warm and protect the Earth. All she needs is a bold, brave young woman to go into orbit to be his mentor. She has her eye on Mana, the tiger-slayer. But will Govind be able to bring the healing Goddess religion of Earth to space? Can Mana hold his genius in check? If she goes, will she ever see her beloved earth, or the woman she loves, again? To Warm The Earth is a cunning fable of men and women, told in the richly imagined future of the Gendering series, and a perfect companion to Children of Arable. The two books are linked but can be enjoyed separately.

To Warm the Earth (Children of Arable)

United States

<p>In 1831, the settlement of Princeton, Illinois, began as families from New England, and later the Mid-Atlantic states, traveled West seeking good land. These early settlers built the Hampshire Colony Congregational Church. Rev. Owen Lovejoy, one of its earliest pastors, became a well-known abolitionist and used his Princeton home to harbor runaway slaves. Before the Civil War, Princeton citizens convinced Burlington Railroad to lay rails within a mile of their town. The community expanded its main street to meet the railroad and insure the town's growth. Today Princeton remains a richly endowed and vital community, set in the peaceful countryside of North Central Illinois.</p>

Princeton (Postcard History Series)

Arts & Photography

Bureau County Historical Society

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

To Warm the Earth (Gendering, 2)

Contemporary

Vivisphere Pub

Children of Arable (Gendering Series)

<p>In a beautifully drawn story, we see a woman hurt in a scuffle with a young male intruder in her home. The story splits into parallel tracks. In one, we see their progress through the criminal justice system, ending with his incarceration and her constantly afraid, with bars on the windows of her home. In an alternative restorative justice track, we see the woman tell the intruder exactly how devastating the experience was for her, and he is helped to devise a plan to make amends to her, the community and himself. In the end, both are restored and become engaged in their community.</p>

Making Sense of a Senseless Act: A Comic about Restorative Justice (PM Pamphlet)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Breeden, James

Graphic Novels

PM Press

VERDON (ESCALADES CHOISIES)

Genre Fiction

DENOEL

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