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  A Woman of Firsts - Margaret...

  Kimberly Heckler, Jean Sinzdak

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  The extraordinary story of Margaret O'Shaughnessy Heckler offers a rare view into the behind-the-scenes world of American politics from the 1960s through the 1980s. 
   
   
   
  The daughter of Irish immigrants, Margaret Heckler represented the American dream. She served as a congresswoman, a presidential cabinet secretary, and an ambassador—all groundbreaking achievements for a woman of her era. The fiery Irish Republican (R-MA) mastered the seemingly unbeatable game of being a woman in a man's world and a Republican in a Democratic state, becoming a champion for others against all odds. 
   
   
   
  Heckler was the only newly elected woman appointed to Congress in 1966, entering rooms where few women were invited before. Her landmark legislation, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, gave women the right to credit in their own names for the first time in American history. She took a lead in addressing the AIDS crisis and commissioned the Heckler Report to address the racial inequalities in health care. 
   
   
   
  A Woman of Firsts is a tribute to a woman who helped break the glass ceiling and fought to provide equality and justice for millions of Americans.

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  The Heathen

  Jack London

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  "The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It was first published in Everybody's Magazine in August 1910.
  In the story, two people, from different cultural and racial backgrounds, are the only survivors of a ship that encounters a hurricane in the Pacific, and they remain together.
  The narrator, a pearl buyer named Charley, is a cabin passenger on a schooner, the Petite Jeanne, sailing from Rangiroa to Tahiti with a Kanaka crew, at the end of the pearling season in the Paumotas. The boat, having eighty-five deck passengers, is overloaded. Several passengers die of smallpox; Charley and the other cabin passengers drink whisky, until it runs out, in the belief that it will kill the smallpox germs.
  The boat is in the direct path of a hurricane. "The second sea filled the Petite Jeanne's decks flush with the rails, and, as her stern sank down and her bow tossed skyward, all the miserable dunnage of life and luggage poured aft. It was a human torrent.... Out of all my experiences I could not have believed it possible for the wind to blow as it did.... It was a monstrous thing, and the most monstrous thing about it was that it increased and continued to increase."

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  Reverence - A priest's life of...

  Magdalen Smith

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  Part memoir, part reflection on vocation, Reverence charts the past and present life of an Anglican and female priest, one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England in the 1990s. Magdalen Smith grew up in a clergy family, married a cleric, then became one herself. Working in many different contexts, cathedral, outer estate, city and countryside, she draws from a depth of experience in ministry and spirituality and reflects on how the church has changed over the years. Describing the often quirky and profound experiences of human life where all is infused with the holy, the book communicates a deep love of enabling others to discover a sense of the divine for themselves.
  
   
  Reverence is a journey through one woman’s life, beginning in the 23-roomed vicarage where she grew up and ending in a place where her priestly calling is still believed to be relevant in a rapidly changing world. It takes familiar concepts of spirituality and through personal stories, reflections on art, culture and place, seeks to connect with the sense of vocation and an intuitive sense of the numinous that many people feel whether they describe themselves as religious or not.

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  The Power of Authors - A...

  Evan And Lois Swensen

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  DO YOU WANT TO •See how words—notes, emails, posts, or books—shape lives •Write with courage instead of hesitation •Keep family stories and memories alive •Turn everyday writing into lasting influence •Discover the strength of ordinary voices •Use social media to build up, not divide •Push past fear and self-doubt •Write with purpose, whether for one person or many •Join the tradition of voices stirring conscience and culture •Preserve truth, values, and lived experience •Speak with clarity when silence feels easier •Inspire kindness, hope, and courage through what you write If yes to any of these, The Power of Authors is for you. This book speaks first to writers and authors, but its reach is wider. A manuscript, a memoir, a letter, an email, even a social media post—all carry weight when written with intent. Words are not measured by length or platform but by the truth and courage they hold. This book will help you see your writing—whatever its form—as part of a tradition where words preserve memory, stir conscience, and spark change. After reading The Power of Authors, you will never view words and writing in the same way. You will be a changed and better person.

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  Foxes for Everybody -...

  Catherine Pierce

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  Meditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life 
  Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there’s no clocking out. Organized around the hours of the day, Foxes for Everybody gives voice to the marvels, fears, absurdities, and astonishments of parenthood. These essays offer twenty-four glimpses into how we experience time, our families, our planet, and all of those small moments that aren’t small at all. In memories and reflections that weave through tornadoes and jellyfish, cemeteries and carousels, mortality, mental health, and the exquisite gift of a perfect sentence, acclaimed writer Catherine Pierce reminds us that fear and joy can and do live side by side, and urges us to stay awake—even when, especially when, we’re at the brink of exhaustion—to the possibility of wonder.

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  Stop All the Clocks - More...

  Jef Crab, Margaret A. Harrell

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  The accidental result of a collaboration by Margaret A. Harrell and Jef Crab, Stop All the Clocks was conceived when Jef commented about Harrell’s An Underground PRINCIPIA: “My biggest concern is that I have no idea how many people will be able to grasp the depth of the principles you describe. It is amazing enough that you take a lifetime of experiences and connect them into a driving force that leads to the realization of one’s purpose. Even more amazing is that you include the most subtle levels of existence that play a role in these processes . . . Most breathtakingly, the reader can gain the insight that all of this is happening, not in one lifetime, whether human or universal, but in an eternal now. Amazing achievement.”—Jef Crab, An Underground PRINCIPIA review 
  Why not make that depth accessible? Tell more stories? Reveal tales that neither knew about the other? Draw on Jef's shamanic/Taoist background. Make the obstacle a Giant Opportunity?  
  “In Stop All the Clocks,  ... with uncanny and unrestrained insight the authors probe the nature of reality, the relation between body mind spirit, matter science light energy, insight illumination awakening, fragmentation self-realization death, compassion love and an intelligence that goes beyond reason thought space time and even not knowing. The book, a companion to Harrell's An Underground PRINCIPIA, reveals the possible path to becoming a being of pure light and energy. Stop All the Clocks is a masterpiece.”—Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Lifetime Beat Poet

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