Deena Kastor

Michelle Hamilton

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college, when her competitive method—run as hard as possible, for fear of losing—fostered a frustration and negativity and brought her to the brink of burnout. On the verge of quitting, she took a chance and moved to the high altitudes of Alamosa, Colorado, where legendary coach Joe Vigil had started the first professional distance-running team. There she encountered the idea that would transform her running career: the notion that changing her thinking—shaping her mind to be more encouraging, kind, and resilient—could make her faster than she’d ever imagined possible. Building a mind so strong would take years of effort and discipline, but it would propel Kastor to the pinnacle of running—to American records in every distance from the 5K to the marathon—and to the accomplishment of earning America’s first Olympic medal in the marathon in twenty years. Let Your Mind Run is a fascinating intimate look inside the mind of an elite athlete, a remarkable story of achievement, and an insightful primer on how the small steps of cultivating positivity can give anyone a competitive edge.

A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

Let Your Mind Run

The Go-between in Medieval Iberian Literature

Transformation and Desire

Throughout the storied history of Virginia, ghost stories, both real and fictional, were published to whet the appetite of the public. The trauma of the Civil War left literal and physical scars upon the land of Virginia and on its residents, but ghost stories also permeated during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Virginia's Haunted History uncovers historic paranormal tales as told through the newspapers of the time, with many of the stories and accounts reproduced here for the first time since their original publication.

Virginia's Haunted History

Emma McCordick, a reclusive computer science teacher from Arizona, has always preferred scaling the side of a mountain to social situations. Awkward but beautiful, Emma fills her days with volunteering at the local orphanage where she was raised and dealing with her college students' exam papers. But with one phone call, her sedate and isolated life shatters, pulling her into a world of espionage, intrigue and murder. In a place where your best friend can be your enemy, Emma is unsure whom to trust until she meets Jozef. He's a mercenary and a thief, and she's an assassin for the NSA, but they must join forces in order to save their lives. They are in a race against time, terrorists and betrayals that could either ignite the roaring passion ricocheting between them or tear them apart.

The Sleeping Assassin

Regna Darnell

Joshua Smith

Robert L. A. Hancock

"The introductory volume to the Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition, which examines Boas' stature as public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography and activism"--

Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1

Set in Europe in the early stages of World War II, spirited archaeology student Kate Bowen experiences within two weeks both the thrilling rush of love and the devastating grief of death. The love is Alex Wolfe, a military pilot fighting not only the Germans but also his past. The death is of those who are dear to Kate. But she soon learns the deaths are not an accident but an act of murder related to an incident from her childhood. With the help of smugglers, French Resistance fighters and, unexpectedly, Alex, Kate faces a war-torn country, submarine-infested waters and an unnamed killer to discover the truth. It’s a story of self-realization, of adventure, strength and, above all, love. It is a story that takes you through Scotland’s moors, London’s back alleys and France’s landmines in a harrowing adventure of one woman’s search for truth. But, can she face the truth once she discovers it?

Child of Chaos

Child of War (Child of Chaos Series, Book Two)

While the War Between The States raged, the country's spirits were restless... Civil War Ghosts takes a look inside real ghost stories reported at the time of the Civil War. Covering each year from 1860 - 1865, explore real newspaper articles that weren't afraid to write about paranormal activity happening throughout the country during a time of national upheaval. Civil War Ghosts is a unique supernatural look at America while the states battled each other.

Michelle Hamilton

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