Meet Ruth Caster Hubble. Feisty, cantankerous, and irreverent, she is an old woman struggling to maintain order in a harebrained modern world, and today is the last day of her life. 
White Rabbitfollows Ruth's progress minute by minute on this fateful day as she copes with the breakdown of her household appliances, her own vital organs, and her faith in romantic love. While Ruth meanders her way through the day's routine, heartbreaking memories surface that open windows into her past. She thinks of Hale, her beloved first husband, who died in 1944; and hopeless Henry, her steadfast husband of 36 years, whom she calls, with a mixture of affection and contempt, a "boob." As the hours tick by, Ruth starts seeing things. A furry white bunny keeps hiphopping across her field of vision, announcing "Time," and Ruth has to wonder if hers is up. 
 Written with an understated elegance, warmth, and surprising depth,White Rabbitheralds the arrival of a writer of formidable talent.

White Rabbit

Phillips, Kate

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) was one of the most successful authors and most passionate intellects of her day. Ralph Waldo Emerson also regarded her as one of America’s greatest poets. Today Jackson is best remembered for Ramona, a romantic novel set in the rural Southern Californian Indian and Californio communities of her day. Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson’s prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson’s remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history. Discussing much new material, Kate Phillips makes extensive use of Jackson's unpublished private correspondence. She takes us from Jackson's early years in rural New England to her later pioneer days in Colorado and to her adventerous travels in Europe and Southern California. The book also gives the first in-depth discussions of Jackson's writing in every genre, her beliefs about race and religion, and the significance of her chronic illnesses. Phillips also discusses Jackson's intimate relationships―with her two husbands, her mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the famed actress Charlotte Cushman, and the poet Emily Dickinson. Phillips concludes with a re-evaluation of Ramona, discussing the novel as the earliest example of the California dystopian tradition in its portrayal of a state on the road to self-destruction, a tradition carried further by writers like Nathanael West and Joan Didion. In this gripping biography, Phillips offers fascinating glimpses of how social context both shaped and inspired Jackson's thinking, highlighting the inextricable presence of gender, race, and class in American literary history and culture and opening a new window onto the nineteenth century.

Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of California Press

Perpetual Wealth: How to Use "Family Financing" to Build Prosperity and Leave a Legacy for Generations

How to Build-and Keep-Generational Wealth! How can a family build "safe and sure" wealth... that lasts for generations? That's the question answered by Perpetual Wealth. You'll discover how families can create wealth together to serve the good of all. The authors call it "Family Financing," and it's about much more than money! Among the many fascinating and insightful points, you'll learn: <ul> <li>Why "typical" financial advice sabotages long-term wealth</li> <li>The "4 Cornerstones of Generational Wealth" that ensure an inheritance will be wisely used, not wasted</li> <li>Why life insurance is "better than a bank" for growing wealth</li> <li>13 "rules" for raising financially responsible children</li> <li>Plus, how to invest in the future of your family... and leave a lasting legacy</li> </ul> Perpetual Wealth also includes an engaging story of a fictional family that will show you examples and ideas for: <ul> <li>Family retreats to learn and grow together</li> <li>Writing a family mission statement</li> <li>Using Family Financing for leadership development</li> <li>Guidelines for family saving, lending, and borrowing</li> <li>And much more</li> </ul> "The idea of Perpetual Wealth has always fed my Soul Purpose. "Perpetual" meaning long-term legacy, and "Soul Purpose" meaning what I was put on earth to do/give. Those two go together in a way that drives my energies every day. This book gives you some concrete steps to take with your family to work on both legacy and your own sense of your gifts (and your family's gifts) to the world." - Garrett Gunderson New York Times bestselling author and Chief Wealth Architect of Wealth Factory

Business & Money

Butler, Kim D.H.

Finance

Prosperity Economics Movement

Seventeen years old is too young to experience the grief of burying her family, but Sara Scott clings to the hope that she won't be alone forever. Salvation has a name--Dougie. His continuous compliments and affection quickly wheedle Sara away from her former life and into Dougie's home. "Love" is patient and kind. As red tearstains fall down her swollen cheek, Sara's desperation for companionship blurs her reality. No one knows the Dougie that Sara does. He only acts out when she provokes him. Voluntarily and not, Sara accepts whatever Dougie does to her to prove her love is true. "Love" is forgiving, even if it leaves bruises. A police officer's duty to protect extends beyond the badge when he meets Sara. Unable to ignore what she can't see, his heart screams for her safety. Mentally, she's too far away to hear the voices that echo in her fading logic. Sara rejects his pleas and the warnings that Dougie's former victim left behind. "Love" always trusts and never fails. Although Sara has nothing to hide, when Dougie learns of the officer's interest in his possession, his jealousy drives him to stake her as his territory. Redemption is not for the dead. Sara may already be too late.

Slow Fade

Genre Fiction

BookBaby

How to Build-and Keep-Generational Wealth! 
How can a family build "safe and sure" wealth... that lasts for generations? That's the question answered by Perpetual Wealth. 
You'll discover how families can create wealth together to serve the good of all. The authors call it "Family Financing," and it's about much more than money! 
Among the many fascinating and insightful points, you'll learn: Why "typical" financial advice sabotages long-term wealth The "4 Cornerstones of Generational Wealth" that ensure an inheritance will be wisely used, not wasted Why life insurance is "better than a bank" for growing wealth 13 "rules" for raising financially responsible children Plus, how to invest in the future of your family... and leave a lasting legacy 
Perpetual Wealth also includes an engaging story of a fictional family that will show you examples and ideas for: Family retreats to learn and grow together Writing a family mission statement Using Family Financing for leadership development Guidelines for family saving, lending, and borrowing And much more 
"The idea of Perpetual Wealth has always fed my Soul Purpose. 'Perpetual' meaning long-term legacy, and 'Soul Purpose' meaning what I was put on earth to do/give. Those two go together in a way that drives my energies every day. This book gives you some concrete steps to take with your family to work on both legacy and your own sense of your gifts (and your family's gifts) to the world." —Garrett Gunderson, New York Times bestselling author and Chief Wealth Architect of Wealth Factory

Insurance

This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans… a story we need to own. We need to admit that many Scots were enthusiastic participants in slavery. 
Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and settlement in Jamaica, Britain’s richest colony and its major slave trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their captives. 
Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and reflects on the meaning of those years for both nations today.

Bought & Sold: Slavery, Scotland and Jamacia

History

Americas

Luath Press Ltd.

De tijd van herinnering

HET SPECTRUM

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